Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2013: "Silver Linings Playbook" wins early Updated 8:26 p.m. Awards season continued to heat up with the 18th annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards on Thursday night, airing live from Los Angeles. The first award of the night -- best acting ensemble -- went to "Silver Linings Playbook," starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro. Quvenzhane Wallis, star of "Beasts of the Southern Wild" won the best young actor/actress honor. The 9-year-old actress, who scored a best actress Oscar nod earlier on Thursday, read her acceptance speech from her mobile phone. "Skyfall" dominated the action category, scoring best action film and best actor for Daniel Craig. The best actress in an action movie went to Jennifer Lawrence for "The Hunger Games." "This means so much," she said onstage, adding, "That movie -- it was such a powerful character." "Lincoln" leads the pack of nominees, with a record-breaking 13 nods, in such categories as best director for Steven Spielberg, as well as best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis and supporting actors Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones. It's also in the running for cinematography, adapted screenplay, costume design, makeup, editing, art direction, score and acting ensemble. Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2013 red carpet "Les Miserables" is close behind with 11 nominations, including best picture, actor for Hugh Jackman, supporting actress Anne Hathaway, acting ensemble and director Tom Hooper. "Silver Linings Playbook" went into the night with 10 nominations and "Life of Pi" had nine. "Argo," "Skyfall" and "The Master" each received seven. The films nominated for best picture are "Argo," "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Django Unchained," "Les Miserables," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln," "The Master," "Moonrise Kingdom," "Silver Linings Playbook" and "Zero Dark Thirty." Presenters include Nina Dobrev, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Melissa Leo, Eva Longoria, Cory Monteith, Rob Riggle, Emmy Rossum, Ian Somerhalder, Octavia Spencer and Paul Wesley. The Broadcast Film Critics Association's ceremony comes the day same as Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announces its Oscar nominees - and is sometimes a predictor of Oscar nominees and winners. Critics' Choice acting awards often mirror winners at the Academy Awards. Hosted by KTLA Los Angeles entertainment reporter Sam Rubin, the ceremony honors the finest in film achievement. The BFCA is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing more than 270 television, radio and online critics.