Best Perforamnces

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:


5.) Brad Pitt - Moneyball
4.) Jean Dujardin - The Artist
3.) George Clooney - The Descendants
2.) Joseph Gordon - Levitt - 50/50
1.) Michael Fassbender - Shame


Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: 

5.) Tie: Charlize Theron - Young Adult and Brit Marling - Another Earth
4.) Viola Davis - The Help
3.) Michelle Williams - My Week With Marilyn
2.) Elizabeth Olsen - Martha Marcy May Marlene 
1.) Kirstin Dunst - Melancholia


Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: 


5.) Patton Oswalt - Young Adult
4.) Brad Pitt - The Tree of Life
3.) Kenneth Branagh - My Week With Marilyn
2.) Christopher Plummer - Beginners
1.) Albert Brooks - Drive


Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role:


5.) Jessica Chastain - The Help/The Tree of Life (She had seven performances this year, take your pick because she's a wonder)
4.) Octavia Spencer - The Help
3.) Shailene Woodley - The Descendants 
2.) Berenice Bejo - The Artist
1.) Carey Mulligan - Shame


Best Overall Actor:
Tie!

Michael Fassbender - Shame, Jane Eyre, X-Men: First Class and A Dangerous Method (the last one I still need to see)

and

Ryan Gosling - Drive, Ides of March, and Stupid, Crazy, Love.


Best Overall Actress:

Jessica Chastain - The Debt, The Tree of Life and The Help


She also played roles in Take Shelter, Coriolanus, Texas Killing Fields and Wild Salome which I still need to see.