Brad Pitt won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his work in Moneyball and in Terrence Malick's Tree Of Life, in which he plays an authoritarian father. Merie Wallace/Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation hide caption
Movies
Michelle Williams stars in My Week With Marilyn. Laurence Cendrowicz/The Weinstein Company hide caption
Ken Russell (1927-2011) accepts a BAFTA in 1969 for creative contribution to television. Central Press/Getty Images hide caption
Bonello's film portrays life in a Paris brothel, defined by the distress and hopelessness of the women who work there. IFC Films hide caption
Orphan Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield and his vivacious new friend Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz) marvel at the magic of the motion picture in Hugo. Jaap Buitendijk/Paramount Pictures hide caption
Jason Segel (left) and Walter (voiced by Peter Linz) try to reunite the original Muppets in the new family comedy The Muppets. Disney hide caption
A Yankee At Court: In My Week with Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) is on location in England with her then-husband, the celebrated playwright Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott), to film The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier. Laurence Cendrowicz/The Weinstein Co. hide caption
'Dangerous' minds? Psychoanalyst Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) applies the talking cure to Sabina (Keira Knightley) a young woman diagnosed with what was then called hysteria. Sony Pictures Classics hide caption
A silent-era superstar when we meet him, George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) struggles to keep up after Hollywood falls in love with sound. The Weinstein Co. hide caption
Mission (Not Quite) Accomplished: Arthur, Santa's hapless second son, rides to the rescue when one kid slips through the North Pole's system on Christmas Eve. Aardman Animations/Sony Pictures hide caption