Irish actor Michael Fassbender (X-men First Class, Hunger) has again been honoured with two Best Actor awards this week for his performance in Steven McQueen’s ‘Shame’. Yesterday Fassbender was named Best Actor at the Capri Hollywood International Film Festival in Rome and today it was announced that Online Film Critics Society has honoured him with the accolade at their 15th Online Film Critics Society Awards.
Other winners at the Capri Hollywood Festival include Berenice Bejo who was given Capri's Best Actress honor for her work in ‘The Artist’. The film also took the ‘Movie of the Year Award’. Sir Ben Kinsley was honoured with Legend Award.
At the OFCS awards Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’ led the nominations taking home the prize for Best Director for Malick, Best Supporting actress for Jessica Chastain (The Help, Take Shelter) and craft awards such as Best Editing and Best Cinematography. The Best Actress Award went Tilda Swinton for her performance in Lynne Ramsay’s ‘We Need to Talk about Kevin’. The awards are voted for by OFCS members who consist of online film reviewers, journalists and scholars based in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Latin America. For a list of full winners click here
