Kristen Stewart is an underdog this awards season. Yes, she’s already won a César Award—the French equivalent of an Oscar—for her performance in Clouds of Sils Maria, but the competition in the best supporting actress Oscar category this year is tough, and Clouds of Sils Maria opened, without much fanfare, months ago. But if the Kristen Stewart Oscar campaign was ever going to get started, it definitely did today, when Stewart won the best supporting actress prize from the New York Film Critics Circle.

The organization, one of the country’s most prestigious film critic’s groups and among the first to announce their annual awards, met Wednesday and announced their choices via Twitter throughout the day. Michael Keaton won the best actor prize for Spotlight, even though he and the rest of that film’s cast are being campaigned in the supporting categories by distributor Open Road, and Saoirse Ronan won best actress for her role in Brooklyn. The biggest overall winner, though, was Todd Haynes’s Carol, which won four prizes, including best film.

It’s early in the awards season, so calling anything a “surprise” might be a stretch, but the critics broke from conventional wisdom in several ways—awarding Mark Rylance the best supporting actor prize for his understated work in Bridge of Spies, naming Inside Out the best animated feature over presumed favorite Anomalisa, and naming Frederick Wiseman’s In Jackson Heights the best documentary, one day after it was left off the Academy’s shortlist for that category. But Stewart’s presence here may be the most welcome surprise of all, a reminder that, even when the crush of December awards hopefuls begin, strong work from any time of the year can still shine through.

A list of the New York Film Critics Circle winners is below, updated as categories are announced.

Best First Film: Son of Saul

Best Foreign Film: Timbuktu

Best Supporting Actress: Kristen Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria

Best Supporting Actor: Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies

Best Cinematography: Edward Lachman for Carol

Best Screenplay: Phyllis Nagy for Carol

Best Nonfiction Film: In Jackson Heights

Best Animated Film: * Inside Out*

Best Actress: Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn

Best Actor: Michael Keaton in Spotlight

Best Director: Todd Haynes for Carol

Best Picture: Carol