New York critics pick 'Zero Dark Thirty' as best film

The New York Film Critics Circle today picked action thriller "Zero Dark Thirty" as best film and gave its top acting honours to Daniel Day-Lewis and Rachel Weisz in the first major movie awards leading up to Hollywood's Oscars.

US filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow won best director for "Zero Dark Thirty," based on the decade-long US operation to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden, and billed as a cinematic look at "the greatest manhunt in history."

The organization announced the awards via Twitter.