2012 MURIELS: BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

And the winner is not...



...Cecile de France, who placed third in the Muriels' voting with her spare and intense performance as a woman who takes in a troubled boy after he is rejected by his father in the Dardennes' masterful The Kid with a Bike.

And the winner is also not... the woman you might have guessed-- that toothy gamine was the second place Muriel finisher.

No, the real winner-- a surprise to some, but not to me, really-- is...

Well, you'll just have to visit the official Muriels site to find out. And be sure to click over and find out who else got a vote (Go, #7-- now, there's a surprise!) and how the votes broke down.

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