Also garnering critical acclaim was "Beasts of the Southern Wild, " the feature-film debut of director Benh Zeitlin.
Beasts of the Southern Wild is nominated for several awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress.
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Earlier this year hotly-tipped Oscar contender Beasts of the Southern Wild won the grand jury prize for best drama.
Russell for Silver Linings Playbook, Steven Spielberg for Lincoln, and Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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Benh Zeitlin did a masterful job with Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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There are outside chances for David O Russell for Silver Lining Playbook, Michael Haneke for Amour and Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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The other nominees rounding out the category are Emmanuelle Riva for Amour, Quvenzhane Wallis for Beasts of the Southern Wild, and Naomi Watts for The Impossible.
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Dwight Henry collected a best supporting actor prize for Beasts of the Southern Wild, an independent film whose nine-year-old star, Quvenzhane Wallis, was Oscar-nominated earlier this week.
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However, a number of other high-profile awards contenders - among them Django Unchained, Les Miserables and Beasts of the Southern Wild - have been ruled ineligible for this year's prizes.
Other nominees in the PGA movie category were "Les Miserables, " "Zero Dark Thirty, " "Beasts of the Southern Wild, " "Django Unchained, " "Life of Pi, " "Moonrise Kingdom, " "Silver Linings Playbook, " and Skyfall.
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin's low-budget indie about a little girl from Louisiana whose pluck helps her survive a devastating Delta disaster, is unquestionably one of the former.
Great floods wash away the bonds of family, among other things, in "Beasts of the Southern Wild, " "Life of Pi, " "The Impossible" and "Moonrise Kingdom" (nominated for Best Original Screenplay).
Benh Zeitlin was presented the Sutherland Award - awarded to the most "original and imaginative feature debut" screened at the festival - for the critically acclaimed Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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As expected, nominees for Best Picture included Argo, Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, and Zero Dark Thirty, plus two surprises with the little seen Amour and Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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One notable performance bubbling under the top 10 was this summer's indie critical darling, Fox Searchlight's "Beasts of the Southern Wild, " which jumped from No. 21 to No. 16 after quadrupling the number of the theaters it was in.
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The film's producers said they had expected fellow Oscar best-picture nominee "Beasts of the Southern Wild" to win the top Spirit Award and that they have no expectations of winning the big prize at the Oscars, where Ben Affleck's CIA thriller "Argo" is the best-picture favorite.
Remove the indie "Beasts of the Southern Wild" from the list, by comparison a short subject at 93 minutes, and the average running time jumps to 141 long minutes, a length that sorely tests the ever-shortening patience of most viewers not to check their phones for texts.
The tastes of the directing branch skews indie, arty, and avant-garde, but from talking to voters, it seems as though the Affleck snub came about simply because a majority of nominators were so sure Affleck was in that they spent their votes on longshots, such as "Beasts of the Southern Wild's" Benh Zeitlin and "Amour's" Michael Haneke.
But let me tell you, no matter where you've come from or how far you traveled, we're just glad you're here today to watch what I consider to be one of the most powerful and important movies that has been put out this year -- or in a long time, quite frankly -- Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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