Courtney Hunt's film "Frozen River" won the award for best feature, and its star Melissa Leo, above, won the "breakthrough actor" award.
Ronald Bronstein won the breakthrough actor award for "Daddy Longlegs".
The film won the Breakthrough Audience Award at the AFI Fest 2012.
British actor Jack O'Connell won the Breakthrough performance award for his work in Starred Up and Unbroken.
Felicity Jones, a young British actress, won best breakthrough for her performance in "Like Crazy," a trans-Atlantic love story, and Dee Rees won the breakthrough director award for "Pariah," a coming-of-age drama.
Bastille, the London pop/rock quartet, whose single Pompeii became an international hit, won the Breakthrough prize.
Kevin Asch won the breakthrough director award for "Holy Rollers," which was based on a real-life story of Hasidic drug traffickers.
Lance Hammer, the director of "Ballast," won the "breakthrough director" prize, and "Trouble the Water," directed and produced by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, won the award for best documentary.
One of the night's big winners was the British group Coldplay, whose mesmerizing video for "The Scientist," shot entirely in reverse, won the breakthrough video award.
BBC Two's Olympic spoof Twenty Twelve won the best comedy/entertainment award and Channel 4's Adam Hills won the breakthrough award for his nightly Paralympics show, The Last Leg, which gave an alternative view of the day's events.
