The Online Film Critics Society, one of the largest film critics organizations in the world, have declared The Tree of Life not only Best Picture, but winner of four other awards (the most confusing of which is Best Editing, an award the film certainly shouldn’t have won considering how plodding it tends to be). While a lot of the choices were pretty standard at the top of the ballot, their selection of winners in the screenwriting categories are most noteworthy. Midnight in Paris hasn’t been winning many prizes, but Woody Allen’s film won the award for Original Screenplay while Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy claimed Best Adapted Screenplay a surprise, but welcome selection. The group isn’t too prescient for picking winners (Supporting Actor is the best with four of five winners taking the Oscar), but Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress and Original Screenplay winners frequently go on to Oscar nominations, which seems fairly on target at this point, though Chastain may not make it in the race for this particular performance.

In addition to the nominees and/or winners listed below, this year, we’re giving you a quick background on each individual precursor including founding year, first awards year and a glimpse at how many predictions the group has gotten right in the last five years. This data can be found below.

Award Tallies

(5) The Tree of Life

The Awards

Best Picture

The Tree of Life

Best Animated Feature

Rango

Best Director

Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life

Best Actor

Michael Fassbender – Shame

Best Actress

Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin

Best Supporting Actor

Christopher Plummer – Beginners

Best Supporting Actress

Jessica Chastain – The Tree of Life

Best Original Screenplay

Midnight in Paris

Best Adapted Screenplay

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best Editing

The Tree of Life

Best Cinematography

The Tree of Life

Best Film Not in the English Language

A Separation

Best Documentary

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Online Film Critics Society Data

Year Founded: 1997
First Awards: 1997 (15)

Precursor Accuracy

KEY:

• Winner won the corresponding Oscar
• Winner was nominated for the corresponding Oscar
• Winner was not nominated for a corresponding Oscar
• Total (2010-2009-2008-2007-2006)

Picture: 2 (0-1-0-1-0) W / 3 (1-1-0-1-0) N / 2 (0-0-1-0-1) I
Animated Feature: 4 (1-1-1-1-0) W / 4 (1-1-1-1-0) N / 1 (0-0-0-0-1) I
Director: 3 (0-1-0-1-1) W / 4 (1-1-0-1-1) N / 1 (0-0-1-0-0) I
Actor: 3 (1-0-0-1-1) W / 5 (1-1-1-1-1) N / 0 (0-0-0-0-0) I
Actress: 2 (1-0-0-0-1) W / 3 (1-0-0-1-1) N / 2 (0-1-1-0-0) I
Supporting Actor: 4 (1-1-1-1-0) W / 5 (1-1-1-1-1) N / 0 (0-0-0-0-0) I
Supporting Actress: 1 (0-1-0-0-0) W / 5 (1-1-1-1-1) N / 0 (0-0-0-0-0) I
Original Screenplay: 1 (0-0-0-1-0) W / 5 (1-1-1-1-1) N / 0 (0-0-0-0-0) I
Adapted Screenplay: 2 (1-0-0-1-0) W / 3 (1-0-0-1-1) N / 2 (0-1-1-0-0) I
Editing: 2 (0-1-1-0-0) W / 4 (0-1-1-1-1) N / 1 (1-0-0-0-0) I
Cinematography: 0 (0-0-0-0-0) W / 5 (1-1-1-1-1) N / 0 (0-0-0-0-0) I
Foreign Language Film: 0 (0-0-0-0-0) W / 2 (0-1-0-0-1) N / 3 (1-0-1-1-0) I
Documentary Feature: 2 (0-0-1-0-1) W / 3 (1-0-1-0-1) N / 2 (0-1-0-1-0) I