Michael Fassbender Picks Up "Best Actor" Award Partly For His Work In X-MEN: FIRST CLASS

Michael Fassbender Picks Up "Best Actor" Award Partly For His Work In X-MEN: FIRST CLASS

X-Men: First Class' Michael Fassbender has been awarded with the prestigious "Best Actor" award by The Los Angeles Film Critics in part for his take on Magneto in the critically acclaimed comic book movie. Read on for details.

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By JoshWilding - Dec 11, 2011 04:12 PM EST
Filed Under: X-Men
Source: Deadline

Deadline are covering the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards and reveal that Michael Fassbender has been presented with the "Best Actor" gong for his work in A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame and critically acclaimed comic book movie X-Men: First Class. Meanwhile, Man of Steel's Michael Shannon was selected as runner-up for Take Shelter. These awards are said to be an indication of how the Academy Awards will go, so whether Fassbender (or Shannon) will be nominated remains to be seen. However, you can guarantee that if one of them walks away with the award, it'll be mentioned in the trailers for either of the upcoming comic book movies they'll star in. Below are the rest of the results if you're interested.



BEST PICTURE, Winner: "The Descendants."

BEST PICTURE, Runner-Up: "The Tree of Life."

BEST ANIMATION, Winner: "Rango."

BEST ANIMATION, Runner-Up: "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn."

BEST DIRECTOR, Winner: Terrence Malick, "The Tree of Life."
Runner-Up: Martin Scorsese, "Hugo."

BEST ACTOR, Winner: Michael Fassbender, "A Dangerous Method," "Jane Eyre," "Shame," "X-Men: First Class."
Runner-Up: Michael Shannon, "Take Shelter."

BEST ACTRESS, Winner: Yun Jung-hee, "Poetry."
Runner-Up: Kirsten Dunst, "Melancholia."

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM, Winner: "City of Life and Death."
Runner-Up: "A Separation."

BEST INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL: "Spark of Being."

BEST DOCUMENTARY/NONFICTION, Winner: "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."
Runner- Up, "The Arbor."

BEST SCREENPLAY, Winner: Asghar Farhadi, "A Separation."
Runner-Up: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, "The Descendants."

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, Winner: Christopher Plummer, "Beginners."
Runner-Up: Patton Oswalt, "Young Adult."

BEST SUPPORTING. ACTRESS, Winner: Jessica Chastain, "Coriolanus," "The Debt," "The Help," "Take Shelter," "Texas Killing Fields," "Tree of Life"
Runner-Up: Janet McTeer, "Albert Nobbs."

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, Winner: Emmanuel Lubezki, "The Tree of Life."
Runner-Up: Cao Yu, "City of Life and Death."

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN, Winner: Dante Ferretti, "Hugo."
Runner-Up: Maria Djurkovic, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."

BEST MUSIC/SCORE, Winner: The Chemical Brothers, "Hanna."
Runner-Up: Cliff Martinez, "Drive."


By: TwitterButtons.com

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ChanchoMcGrady
ChanchoMcGrady - 12/11/2011, 4:54 PM
Michael Fassbender for the Academy Awards! His Magneto was amazing!
ChanchoMcGrady
ChanchoMcGrady - 12/11/2011, 4:55 PM
I never saw Descendants or Tree of Life, but I think it would be sweet if a comic book movie (like X-Men: First Class, Thor, or Captain America) would win best picture, or at the very least be runner up.
lnTylerWeTrust
lnTylerWeTrust - 12/11/2011, 5:03 PM
First Class was badass
Anthrax
Anthrax - 12/11/2011, 5:12 PM
well deserved
Howlett
Howlett - 12/11/2011, 5:20 PM
wow, first an Oscar for Heath Ledger on Joker, and now this? just wow
SeaSerpentine
SeaSerpentine - 12/11/2011, 5:20 PM
Magneto was my favorite character in the film, Sebastian Shaw being a close second.
DudeGuy
DudeGuy - 12/11/2011, 5:29 PM
this is actually the one CBM that I went to after smoking. The only thing I remember is when Beast was revealed for the first time coming out of some tunnel, my buddy asked me "What is that, Teen Wolf? lmao.
I know most of you wont find that funny but I thought it was great lol
Organa1978
Organa1978 - 12/11/2011, 5:30 PM
He totally deserves it!
I love Michael Fassbender...one of the best actors of his generation! And one of the sexiest men alive,for me.
I´m a Fassyaddict! ♥
RunDTC
RunDTC - 12/11/2011, 5:40 PM
Fassbender's a great actor. very much deserves the award
redleaf
redleaf - 12/11/2011, 5:49 PM
X-Men > Avengers
HULK2099
HULK2099 - 12/11/2011, 5:55 PM
give him oscar nom!
manymade1
manymade1 - 12/11/2011, 6:21 PM
Am I the only one not suprised at all by this? If anybody else would of played Magneto, this film would of gone down.
jackdawak
jackdawak - 12/11/2011, 6:38 PM
The way his accent suddenly changes during the last scene on the island deserved an award of its own accord...otherwise a fine job
TheAmazingSpidey63
TheAmazingSpidey63 - 12/11/2011, 6:39 PM
Hells yeah!! Great, great job, Fassbender. An amazing actor who gave us an amazing performance as Magneto. Well done, sir.

Stay EPIC, my friends!
marvel72
marvel72 - 12/11/2011, 6:39 PM
he was good in x-men first class the only decent performance in the movie.

the avengers > x-men,fantastic four & watchmen(maybe watchmen best dc film so far)
jackdawak
jackdawak - 12/11/2011, 6:43 PM
McAvoy was my favorite character though only cuz; 1) did an amazing job 2) i never knew Xavier can be so effing bada$$...they took his powers to a new level of awesome
Jolt17
Jolt17 - 12/11/2011, 6:48 PM
Well, no surprise there. But Michael Shannon as the runner-up? My hopes for Man of Steel are getting higher.
squirt
squirt - 12/11/2011, 7:20 PM
love to see him as james bond
AlexRival
AlexRival - 12/11/2011, 8:49 PM
My goodness Yossarian you're an asshole.
checkmate3010
checkmate3010 - 12/11/2011, 9:30 PM
First Class haters can take one up their asses. Keep living in your bubble of denial, [frick]tards. Just because something you expected to suck didn't suck, you call it over-rated. LOL. I expected it to be shit too, and it totally proved me wrong.

Best CBM of 2011.
MercMatt
MercMatt - 12/11/2011, 9:32 PM
Fassbender, for the win! The guy knows his trade, very well.
PoPcornDude
PoPcornDude - 12/11/2011, 9:43 PM
my new favorite:
Michael Fassbendmeover !!!
LMFAO !!!
RidiculousFanBoyDemands
RidiculousFanBoyDemands - 12/11/2011, 10:33 PM
The dude was great in First Class, buuuut, if he is to get nominated it will be for Shame. I loved him in First Class, and he was the perfect choice for Magneto, but is is no way shape of form Oscar Worthy. His performance in First Class wasn't transcendent. If you want to see this guy really act check out Shame, the dude completely owns that movie.
RidiculousFanBoyDemands
RidiculousFanBoyDemands - 12/11/2011, 10:35 PM
If he wasn't in Shame, he would not have even been nominated for this award, let alone won. X-Men first class was the best CBM of the summer though hands down, and I actually liked it better than X-Men 1.2&3, mostly because of him and Mcavoy.
serum1fourteen
serum1fourteen - 12/11/2011, 10:41 PM
Good For Him!.. The acting in that movie between him and James McAvoy(as Prof. X) went perfect together(IMO). (Def.) looking forward to the sequel. I hope they bring in Cyclops and have that "Cyclops and Havoc" brother type teamwork between the two of them(which would make great fight scenes in my opinion) or have thier relationship/story connection follow the The X-Tinction Agenda somehow(say maybe 10 years down the road and they have Prof X. gradually become balder while introducing Sharon Xavier and her story backround as the result of that but not a perm. character). What do you yall think of this idea? I think it would be brilliant also considering the fact that Cyclops is considered to be Prof X.'s first recruit from the original line-up.
Ceejay
Ceejay - 12/11/2011, 11:44 PM
Told you people about 'Tree of Life', watch that film steal the best special effects Oscar next year and pick up a whole bunch of others in the ceremony too!
Vital
Vital - 12/12/2011, 1:59 AM
I haven't heard or seen half of the movies that are nominated lol. I am not a fan of boring movies :P
pro346
pro346 - 12/12/2011, 2:05 AM
@yossarian are there any movies you actually like? agree first class was a little over rated but still good.
NeoBaggins
NeoBaggins - 12/12/2011, 2:21 AM
Peace was never an option.
Kyatollah
Kyatollah - 12/14/2011, 1:35 PM
@THERAPIST: MARK IT ZERO!!!
Seriously though, good for Michael. He did a damn good job as Magneto. (Plus, the Irish accent shows up earlier than the beach. Rewatch the Argentina scene. Either way, he still did the best in the film, with the hardest job. He had to be menacing in four languages, 3 in the same scene!)
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