The 2011 award recipients were voted on Tuesday and revealed via Twitter.

The New York Film Critics Circle named Roadside Attractions’ Wall Street-set thriller Margin Call best first feature as it gathered on Tuesday to vote its best films of the year.

Announcing its picks via a Twitter feed, the account’s first tweet read, “We are convening now and will be tweeting as the voting progresses,” Tuesday morning.

Margin Call was the first winner, revealed at 10:10 a.m. ET. The film was directed by J.C. Chandor and starred Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci and Kevin Spacey.

Merle Streep was awarded the best actress prize for her portrayal of form Britain Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in The Iron Lady.

The best actor title was given to Brad Pitt for his roles in Moneyball and Tree of Life.

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Brad Pitt (actor, Moneyball): I’d have to give a list; I couldn’t give just one. But my favourites in rotation are One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Apocalypse Now, Dr. Strangelove, Dog Day Afternoon . . . and I really come back to Gene Hackman as “Popeye” Doyle in The French Connection. There’s just that obsessive quality about him. I love that. I love Hackman. That’s my list right now, man.

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Brad Pitt has declared himself a fan of Liverpool Football Club.

During an interview for his new film, Moneyball, Pitt said that he if he was not a Red he would be “disowned” by some friends.

“I have some friends who are very close to Liverpool, so if I went another way I might be disowned,” said the 47-year-old.

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Jolie says, despite settling down, she still has some of that edginess to her. “I’m still a bad girl,” she tells Simon. “I still have that side of me…it’s just in its place now…it belongs to Brad. Or…our adventures.”

Simon and “60 Minutes” cameras visited Jolie in Budapest, where she filmed some of the central scenes in her upcoming film, “In the Land of Blood and Honey.” She wrote and directed the film, a dark love story set during the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s.

Read more. Thanks Gabriella.

One of this year’s more tantalizing pieces of news has finally received a follow-up. We first reported in June that Terrence Malick‘s The Tree of Life would be getting expanded to an astounding six hours through reinstated footage, the majority of which “would mostly focus on the middle portion of the film where we follow Jack (Hunter McCracken) as he grows up in 1950s Texas under the guidance of Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain’s characters.” When you hear that your favorite film of the year is going to be inflated by about three and a half hours, you want to hear more. And we didn’t.

Until now, at least. AllThingsShining (via ThePlaylist) spoke to Billy Weber, one of five editors credited on The Tree of Life, and he told them that Malick is indeed “doing a longer cut of ‘Tree.’” It might not be the most herculean task, either, as they “had so many scenes that were cut out that it wouldn’t be that hard to put together a longer version.” Nearly three years of editing suddenly isn’t so bad, I guess.

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Helu visitors. I am in need of a German into English translation of a what I think is a good interview. I am alright in German but not fluent. So is any of you interested in helping me? It’s not too long so shouldn’t take too much of your time.

Email me at webmaster@simplybrad.com please. Thankoo.

EDIT: Help no longer needed. Thank you Sue!

Be sure to check my friend Yukko‘s BP website. She added some exclusive asian magazine covers featuring our Brad. If anyone could provide scans, that’d be lovely of course. Previews below. Full version at Brilliant Brad Pitt.

This part of the SimplyBrad.com network I am quite proud of actually, cause of me being a perfectionist when it comes to Brad, I want to be accurate and have honest information so BradPittPress.com is (as far as I know) the biggest press archive on all of Brad’s official interviews since he started doing them.

I am always looking for old or new interviews or transcripts to add. So if you are willing to transcribe a broadcasted interview for us all to enjoy and keep forever, please do so! I am working on a new design for this section, as everything, it will take some time but it will be worth it. Trust me.

For now, I’ve transcribed the latest Empire interview and thanks to Maria I added a great recent french interview by Jet Set magazine. Thank you and enjoy!

Be sure to visit the SB Forum for some more lovely videos of Brad, interviewed in Seoul. Thanks Danielle.