by Amos Semien
The Broadcast Film Critics Association named 12 Years a Slave the “Best Picture” of 2013 at the 19th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, which the BFCA presents. Director Steve McQueen’s film also claimed “Best Supporting Actress” for Lupita Nyong’o and “Best Adapted Screenplay” for John Ridley.
Gravity led the 19th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards with seven wins, including “Best Director” for Alfonso Cuarón and “Best Actress in An Action Movie” for Sandra Bullock. This is a record for the most Critics’ Choice Movie Award wins ever, previously held by Inception (2010) and Avatar (2009), which both had six wins.
American Hustle won four awards, including “Best Acting Ensemble” and “Best Actress in a Comedy” for Amy Adams. Dallas Buyers Club received two major acting awards, “Best Actor” to Matthew McConaughey and “Best Supporting Actor” to Jared Leto.
The winners of the 19th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards were announced at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony on Thursday, January 16, 2014 from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. The show was broadcast live on The CW Network. Aisha Tyler hosted the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony. Tyler currently serves as the new host of the critically acclaimed improv show, “Whose Line Is It Anyway?,” on The CW Network and is also currently a co-host of Emmy-nominated show “The Talk.”
WINNERS OF THE 2014 / 19th ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS (for the year in film 2013):
Best Picture – “12 Years a Slave”
Best Actor – Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Actress – Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”
Best Supporting Actor – Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Supporting Actress – Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”
Best Young Actor/Actress – Adele Exarchopoulos, “Blue Is The Warmest Color”
Best Acting Ensemble – “American Hustle”
Best Director – Alfonso Cuarón, “Gravity”
Best Original Screenplay – Spike Jonze, “Her”
Best Adapted Screenplay – John Ridley, “12 Years a Slave”
Best Cinematography – Emmanuel Lubezki, “Gravity”
Best Art Direction – Catherine Martin (Production Designer), Beverley Dunn (Set Decorator), “The Great Gatsby”
Best Editing – Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger, “Gravity”
Best Costume Design – Catherine Martin, “The Great Gatsby”
Best Hair & Makeup – “American Hustle”
Best Visual Effects – “Gravity”
Best Animated Feature – “Frozen”
Best Action Movie – “Lone Survivor”
Best Actor in an Action Movie – Mark Wahlberg, “Lone Survivor”
Best Actress in an Action Movie – Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”
Best Comedy – “American Hustle”
Best Actor in a Comedy – Leonardo DiCaprio, “Wolf of Wall Street”
Best Actress in a Comedy – Amy Adams, “American Hustle”
Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie – “Gravity”
Best Foreign Language Film – “Blue Is the Warmest Color”
Best Documentary Feature – “20 Feet From Stardom”
Best Song – “Let It Go” Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, “Frozen”
Best Score – Steven Price, “Gravity”
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Friday, January 10, 2014
Black Film Critics Name "12 Years a Slave" Best Picture of 2013
by Amos Semien
The Black Film Critics Circle named 12 Years a Slave the "Best Picture" of 2013. The film claimed six BRCC awards, including "Best Director" (Steve McQueen) and "Best Actor" (Chiwetel Ejiofor). Going against the 2013 awards pack, the BFCC named Brie Larson as "Best Actress" for Short Term 12.
The Black Film Critics Circle (BFCC) was founded in 2010 and is a membership organization comprised of film critics of color from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, magazines, radio, television and qualifying on-line publications.
2013 Black Film Critics Circle Awards:
Best Picture: "12 Years a Slave"
Best Director: Steve McQueen, "12 Years a Slave"
Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years a Slave"
Best Actress: Brie Larson, "Short Term 12"
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club"
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, "12 Years a Slave"
Best Adapted Screenplay: "12 Years a Slave"
Best Original Screenplay: "American Hustle"
Best Cinematography: "Gravity"
Best Animated Film: "Frozen"
Best Documentary: "20 Feet from Stardom"
Best Foreign Film: "Blue is the Warmest Color"
Best Ensemble: "12 Years a Slave"
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The Black Film Critics Circle named 12 Years a Slave the "Best Picture" of 2013. The film claimed six BRCC awards, including "Best Director" (Steve McQueen) and "Best Actor" (Chiwetel Ejiofor). Going against the 2013 awards pack, the BFCC named Brie Larson as "Best Actress" for Short Term 12.
The Black Film Critics Circle (BFCC) was founded in 2010 and is a membership organization comprised of film critics of color from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, magazines, radio, television and qualifying on-line publications.
2013 Black Film Critics Circle Awards:
Best Picture: "12 Years a Slave"
Best Director: Steve McQueen, "12 Years a Slave"
Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years a Slave"
Best Actress: Brie Larson, "Short Term 12"
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club"
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, "12 Years a Slave"
Best Adapted Screenplay: "12 Years a Slave"
Best Original Screenplay: "American Hustle"
Best Cinematography: "Gravity"
Best Animated Film: "Frozen"
Best Documentary: "20 Feet from Stardom"
Best Foreign Film: "Blue is the Warmest Color"
Best Ensemble: "12 Years a Slave"
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African-American Film Critics Crown "12 Years a Slave" Best of 2013
by Amos Semien
The African-American Film Critics Association named director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave the "Best Film" of 2013, with McQueen also receiving the "Best Director" prize. Many other critics organizations have named Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lupita Nyong'o of 12 Years a Slave best actor and best supporting actress, respectively. However, the AAFCA went with two of the cast members of Lee Daniels: The Butler as "Best Actor" (Forest Whitaker) and "Best Supporting Actor" (Oprah Winfrey). I've included the text of the press release with which the AAFCA announced its 2013 film awards at the bottom of this post.
The African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) is a group of African-American film critics that give various awards for excellence in film at the end of each year. The association was founded in 2003 by Gil L. Robertson IV and Shawn Edwards.
2013 African-American Film Critics Association Awards winners:
Best Actor Forest Whitaker, Lee Daniels: The Butler (TWC)
Best Actress Sandra Bullock, Gravity (Warner Bros.)
Best Supporting Actress Oprah Winfrey, Lee Daniels: The Butler (TWC)
Best Supporting Actor Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)
Best World Cinema Mother of George (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Breakout Performance Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
Best Director Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
Best Screenplay John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
Best Music Raphael Sadiq, Black Nativity (RCA Inspirational)
Best Independent Film Fruitvale Station (TWC)
Best Animation Frozen (Walt Disney Pictures)
Best Documentary American Promise (Rada Film Group)
The African-American Film Critics Association’s Top Ten Films of 2013 are as follows in order of distinction:
1. 12 Years a Slave
2. Lee Daniels: The Butler
3. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
4. American Hustle
5. Gravity
6. Fruitvale Station
7. Dallas Buyers Club
8. Saving Mr. Banks
9. Out of the Furnace
10. 42
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Press Release:
AFRICAN-AMERICAN FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION NAMES 12 YEARS A SLAVE AS TOP FILM OF 2013
Forest Whitaker, Sandra Bullock, Oprah Winfrey and Jared Leto Also Receive Wins from the Nation’s Premiere African American Critics Group
Los Angeles, CA (December 13, 2013) – The African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) has named 12 Years a Slave as the Best Picture of 2013. The Fox Searchlight film’s also earned Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Newcomer honors for Steve McQueen, John Ridley and Lupita Nyong’o. The organization, which represents the leading African-American film critics nationwide, will formally present its awards during a private ceremony on Friday, January 31, 2014 hosted by Orlando Jones at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood, CA.
In the acting categories, Forest Whitaker won Best Actor for his performance in Lee Daniels: The Butler and Sandra Bullock was named Best Actress for Gravity. Oprah Winfrey received Best Supporting Actress 2013 for her role in The Butler and Jared Leto earned Best Supporting Actor 2013 for his performance in Dallas Buyers Club.
Rounding out the 2013 AAFCA Award winners are Fruitvale Station, for Best Independent Film, Frozen Best Animated Feature; Mother of George, for Best World Cinema and American Promise, from Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson. Producer Raphael Saadiq won in the Best Music category for Black Nativity.
As previously announced, AAFCA’s Special Achievement honors will be awarded to AMPAS President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, TWC’s Bob and Harvey Weinstein, FOX SEARCHLIGHT’s Zola Mashariki and DGA’s President Paris Barclay. AAFCA’s Inaugural Roger Ebert Award will be given to Justin Chang of Variety. “The film industry reached an incredibly high benchmark in 2013 in terms of the level of performance and diversity on screen,” says AAFCA President and Founder, Gil Robertson. “From the dramatic and heartwarming performances given by Whitaker and Winfrey, to Jared Leto’s incredible transformation as a transgender, the performances this year represented some of the finest examples of the acting craft.”
The organization’s Top Ten list of films includes 12 Years a Slave, Lee Daniels: The Butler, Gravity, American Hustle and Mandela. “Hollywood did an excellent job in providing filmgoers with excellent examples of cinema that examine the core of the humanity. We hope this trend continues,” says AAFCA’s East Coast V.P. Daryle Lockhart, owner of Black Box Office.com.
About AAFCA
The African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) is the premiere organization of African-American film media professionals. Founded in 2003, AAFCA’s members represent a geographically diverse cross-section of media covering the cinematic arts. The organization honors excellence in cinema by creating awareness for films with universal appeal to black communities, while emphasizing film about the black experience and those produced written, directed and starring performers of African descent. The association actively reviews the quality and standard of black talent, content and media coverage. AAFCA also supports the development of future black film critics and filmmakers. AAFCA is based in Los Angeles.
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The African-American Film Critics Association named director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave the "Best Film" of 2013, with McQueen also receiving the "Best Director" prize. Many other critics organizations have named Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lupita Nyong'o of 12 Years a Slave best actor and best supporting actress, respectively. However, the AAFCA went with two of the cast members of Lee Daniels: The Butler as "Best Actor" (Forest Whitaker) and "Best Supporting Actor" (Oprah Winfrey). I've included the text of the press release with which the AAFCA announced its 2013 film awards at the bottom of this post.
The African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) is a group of African-American film critics that give various awards for excellence in film at the end of each year. The association was founded in 2003 by Gil L. Robertson IV and Shawn Edwards.
2013 African-American Film Critics Association Awards winners:
Best Actor Forest Whitaker, Lee Daniels: The Butler (TWC)
Best Actress Sandra Bullock, Gravity (Warner Bros.)
Best Supporting Actress Oprah Winfrey, Lee Daniels: The Butler (TWC)
Best Supporting Actor Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)
Best World Cinema Mother of George (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Breakout Performance Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
Best Director Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
Best Screenplay John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
Best Music Raphael Sadiq, Black Nativity (RCA Inspirational)
Best Independent Film Fruitvale Station (TWC)
Best Animation Frozen (Walt Disney Pictures)
Best Documentary American Promise (Rada Film Group)
The African-American Film Critics Association’s Top Ten Films of 2013 are as follows in order of distinction:
1. 12 Years a Slave
2. Lee Daniels: The Butler
3. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
4. American Hustle
5. Gravity
6. Fruitvale Station
7. Dallas Buyers Club
8. Saving Mr. Banks
9. Out of the Furnace
10. 42
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Press Release:
AFRICAN-AMERICAN FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION NAMES 12 YEARS A SLAVE AS TOP FILM OF 2013
Forest Whitaker, Sandra Bullock, Oprah Winfrey and Jared Leto Also Receive Wins from the Nation’s Premiere African American Critics Group
Los Angeles, CA (December 13, 2013) – The African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) has named 12 Years a Slave as the Best Picture of 2013. The Fox Searchlight film’s also earned Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Newcomer honors for Steve McQueen, John Ridley and Lupita Nyong’o. The organization, which represents the leading African-American film critics nationwide, will formally present its awards during a private ceremony on Friday, January 31, 2014 hosted by Orlando Jones at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood, CA.
In the acting categories, Forest Whitaker won Best Actor for his performance in Lee Daniels: The Butler and Sandra Bullock was named Best Actress for Gravity. Oprah Winfrey received Best Supporting Actress 2013 for her role in The Butler and Jared Leto earned Best Supporting Actor 2013 for his performance in Dallas Buyers Club.
Rounding out the 2013 AAFCA Award winners are Fruitvale Station, for Best Independent Film, Frozen Best Animated Feature; Mother of George, for Best World Cinema and American Promise, from Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson. Producer Raphael Saadiq won in the Best Music category for Black Nativity.
As previously announced, AAFCA’s Special Achievement honors will be awarded to AMPAS President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, TWC’s Bob and Harvey Weinstein, FOX SEARCHLIGHT’s Zola Mashariki and DGA’s President Paris Barclay. AAFCA’s Inaugural Roger Ebert Award will be given to Justin Chang of Variety. “The film industry reached an incredibly high benchmark in 2013 in terms of the level of performance and diversity on screen,” says AAFCA President and Founder, Gil Robertson. “From the dramatic and heartwarming performances given by Whitaker and Winfrey, to Jared Leto’s incredible transformation as a transgender, the performances this year represented some of the finest examples of the acting craft.”
The organization’s Top Ten list of films includes 12 Years a Slave, Lee Daniels: The Butler, Gravity, American Hustle and Mandela. “Hollywood did an excellent job in providing filmgoers with excellent examples of cinema that examine the core of the humanity. We hope this trend continues,” says AAFCA’s East Coast V.P. Daryle Lockhart, owner of Black Box Office.com.
About AAFCA
The African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) is the premiere organization of African-American film media professionals. Founded in 2003, AAFCA’s members represent a geographically diverse cross-section of media covering the cinematic arts. The organization honors excellence in cinema by creating awareness for films with universal appeal to black communities, while emphasizing film about the black experience and those produced written, directed and starring performers of African descent. The association actively reviews the quality and standard of black talent, content and media coverage. AAFCA also supports the development of future black film critics and filmmakers. AAFCA is based in Los Angeles.
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
2014 DGA Award Nominations: Cuaron, Greengrass, McQueen, Russell, Scorsese
by Amos Semien
The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is the entertainment labor union that represents film and television directors. The DGA gives out the Directors Guild of America Award each year to honor outstanding achievement.
The Directors Guild of America President announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2013 (also known as the 2014 DGA Awards) on Tuesday, January 07, 2014.
Alfonso Cuarón, Steve McQueen and David O. Russell were the expected nominations. From what I’ve read, people who follow film awards did not expect Paul Greengrass and Martin Scorsese to receive nominations, or at least not as much as they expected others such as brothers Joel and Ethan Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis), Alexander Payne (Nebraska) and Spike Jonze (Her).
Historically the DGA Awards are a good predictor of five directors who will receive Oscar nominations. However, last year, only two of DGA Award nominees received Oscar nominations, and the eventual best director Oscar winner, Ben Affleck, was not one of the two.
In the next week, nominees in the television, commercials, and documentary categories will be announced. The winners, including in the feature film category, will be named at the 66th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, January 25, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
66th Annual DGA Awards Full list of nominations below (with their teams and historical notes from the DGA):
ALFONSO CUARÓN
Gravity
(Warner Bros. Pictures)
Mr. Cuarón’s Directorial Team:
• Unit Production Manager: David Siegel (Arizona Unit)
• First Assistant Directors: Josh Robertson, Stephen Hagen (Arizona Unit)
• Second Assistant Director: Ben Howard
This is Mr. Cuarón’s first DGA Award nomination.
PAUL GREENGRASS
Captain Phillips
(Columbia Pictures)
Mr. Greengrass’s Directorial Team:
• Unit Production Managers: Todd Lewis, Gregory Goodman
• First Assistant Director: Chris Carreras
• Second Assistant Directors: Nick Shuttleworth, Mark S. Constance
This is Mr. Greengrass’s first DGA Award nomination.
STEVE McQUEEN
12 Years A Slave
(Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Mr. McQueen’s Directorial Team:
• Unit Production Manager: Anthony Katagas
• First Assistant Director: Doug Torres
• Second Assistant Director: James Roque Jr.
• Second Second Assistant Director: Sherman Shelton Jr.
• Additional Second Assistant Director: Nathan Parker
This is Mr. McQueen’s first DGA Award nomination.
DAVID O. RUSSELL
American Hustle
(Columbia Pictures)
Mr. Russell’s Directorial Team:
• Unit Production Managers: Shea Kammer, Mark Kamine
• First Assistant Director: Michele ‘Shelley’ Ziegler
• Second Assistant Director: Xanthus Valan
• Second Second Assistant Director: Jason Fesel
• Location Managers: David Velasco, Guy Efrat (New York Unit)
This is Mr. Russell’s second DGA Award nomination. He was previously nominated in this category for The Fighter in 2010.
MARTIN SCORSESE
The Wolf of Wall Street
(Paramount Pictures)
Mr. Scorsese’s Directorial Team:
• Unit Production Manager: Richard Baratta
• First Assistant Director: Adam Somner
• Second Assistant Director: Francisco Oritz
• Second Second Assistant Director: Jeremy Marks
• Additional Second Assistant Director: Scott Koche
• Location Manager: Nils Widboom
This is Mr. Scorsese’s eleventh DGA Award nomination. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film in 2006 for The Departed, and has also been nominated in that category for Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990), The Age of Innocence (1993), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004) and Hugo (2011).
Mr. Scorsese also won the DGA Award in 2010 for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Television for Boardwalk Empire and he was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for George Harrison: Living in the Material World in 2011. In 1999, Mr. Scorsese was presented with the Filmmaker Award at the inaugural DGA Honors Gala, and he was honored with the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003.
http://www.dga.org/
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The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is the entertainment labor union that represents film and television directors. The DGA gives out the Directors Guild of America Award each year to honor outstanding achievement.
The Directors Guild of America President announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2013 (also known as the 2014 DGA Awards) on Tuesday, January 07, 2014.
Alfonso Cuarón, Steve McQueen and David O. Russell were the expected nominations. From what I’ve read, people who follow film awards did not expect Paul Greengrass and Martin Scorsese to receive nominations, or at least not as much as they expected others such as brothers Joel and Ethan Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis), Alexander Payne (Nebraska) and Spike Jonze (Her).
Historically the DGA Awards are a good predictor of five directors who will receive Oscar nominations. However, last year, only two of DGA Award nominees received Oscar nominations, and the eventual best director Oscar winner, Ben Affleck, was not one of the two.
In the next week, nominees in the television, commercials, and documentary categories will be announced. The winners, including in the feature film category, will be named at the 66th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, January 25, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
66th Annual DGA Awards Full list of nominations below (with their teams and historical notes from the DGA):
ALFONSO CUARÓN
Gravity
(Warner Bros. Pictures)
Mr. Cuarón’s Directorial Team:
• Unit Production Manager: David Siegel (Arizona Unit)
• First Assistant Directors: Josh Robertson, Stephen Hagen (Arizona Unit)
• Second Assistant Director: Ben Howard
This is Mr. Cuarón’s first DGA Award nomination.
PAUL GREENGRASS
Captain Phillips
(Columbia Pictures)
Mr. Greengrass’s Directorial Team:
• Unit Production Managers: Todd Lewis, Gregory Goodman
• First Assistant Director: Chris Carreras
• Second Assistant Directors: Nick Shuttleworth, Mark S. Constance
This is Mr. Greengrass’s first DGA Award nomination.
STEVE McQUEEN
12 Years A Slave
(Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Mr. McQueen’s Directorial Team:
• Unit Production Manager: Anthony Katagas
• First Assistant Director: Doug Torres
• Second Assistant Director: James Roque Jr.
• Second Second Assistant Director: Sherman Shelton Jr.
• Additional Second Assistant Director: Nathan Parker
This is Mr. McQueen’s first DGA Award nomination.
DAVID O. RUSSELL
American Hustle
(Columbia Pictures)
Mr. Russell’s Directorial Team:
• Unit Production Managers: Shea Kammer, Mark Kamine
• First Assistant Director: Michele ‘Shelley’ Ziegler
• Second Assistant Director: Xanthus Valan
• Second Second Assistant Director: Jason Fesel
• Location Managers: David Velasco, Guy Efrat (New York Unit)
This is Mr. Russell’s second DGA Award nomination. He was previously nominated in this category for The Fighter in 2010.
MARTIN SCORSESE
The Wolf of Wall Street
(Paramount Pictures)
Mr. Scorsese’s Directorial Team:
• Unit Production Manager: Richard Baratta
• First Assistant Director: Adam Somner
• Second Assistant Director: Francisco Oritz
• Second Second Assistant Director: Jeremy Marks
• Additional Second Assistant Director: Scott Koche
• Location Manager: Nils Widboom
This is Mr. Scorsese’s eleventh DGA Award nomination. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film in 2006 for The Departed, and has also been nominated in that category for Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990), The Age of Innocence (1993), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004) and Hugo (2011).
Mr. Scorsese also won the DGA Award in 2010 for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Television for Boardwalk Empire and he was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for George Harrison: Living in the Material World in 2011. In 1999, Mr. Scorsese was presented with the Filmmaker Award at the inaugural DGA Honors Gala, and he was honored with the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003.
http://www.dga.org/
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Thursday, January 2, 2014
Phoenix Film Critics Name "12 Years a Slave" Best Picture of 2013
by Amos Semien
The Phoenix Film Critics Society announced the winners for it 2013 Annual Awards on Tuesday, December 17, 2013. Director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave was named "Best Picture" of 2013, continuing its domination of the 2014-14 movie awards season. Alfonso Cuaron continues his dominance winning "Best Director" awards for the film, Gravity. Gravity also dominated the Phoenix Film Critics Society 2013 Awards with five wins; Walt Disney Picture's smash animated film, Frozen, won three awards.
Phoenix Film Critics Society 2013 Awards:
BEST PICTURE:
"12 Years a Slave"
TOP TEN FILMS OF 2013 (in alphabetical order):
"12 Years a Slave"
"American Hustle"
"Captain Phillips"
"Dallas Buyers Club"
"Gravity"
"Mud"
"Nebraska"
"Philomena"
"Saving Mr. Banks"
"Short Term 12"
BEST DIRECTOR:
Alfonso Cuaron, "Gravity"
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:
Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club"
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:
Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine"
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club"
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave"
BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING:
"American Hustle"
BEST SCREENPLAY – ORIGINAL:
"Nebraska"
BEST SCREENPLAY – ADAPTATION:
"12 Years a Slave"
BEST LIVE ACTION FAMILY FILM (Rated G or PG):
"Oz, The Great and Powerful"
THE OVERLOOKED FILM OF THE YEAR
(TIE) "The Kings of Summer" and "The Spectacular Now"
BEST ANIMATED FILM:
"Frozen"
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
"Blue is the Warmest Color"
BEST DOCUMENTARY:
"20 Feet from Stardom"
BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
Let It Go, "Frozen"
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
"Frozen"
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
"Gravity"
BEST FILM EDITING:
"Gravity"
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
"Gravity"
BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
"The Great Gatsby"
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
"Gravity"
BEST STUNTS:
"Fast & Furious 6"
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE ON CAMERA:
Oscar Isaac, "Inside Llewyn Davis"
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE BEHIND THE CAMERA:
Lake Bell, "In a World..."
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A YOUTH IN A LEAD OR SUPPORTING ROLE – MALE:
Tye Sheridan, "Mud"
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A YOUTH IN A LEAD OR SUPPORTING ROLE – FEMALE:
Sophie Nelisse, "The Book Thief"
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The Phoenix Film Critics Society announced the winners for it 2013 Annual Awards on Tuesday, December 17, 2013. Director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave was named "Best Picture" of 2013, continuing its domination of the 2014-14 movie awards season. Alfonso Cuaron continues his dominance winning "Best Director" awards for the film, Gravity. Gravity also dominated the Phoenix Film Critics Society 2013 Awards with five wins; Walt Disney Picture's smash animated film, Frozen, won three awards.
Phoenix Film Critics Society 2013 Awards:
BEST PICTURE:
"12 Years a Slave"
TOP TEN FILMS OF 2013 (in alphabetical order):
"12 Years a Slave"
"American Hustle"
"Captain Phillips"
"Dallas Buyers Club"
"Gravity"
"Mud"
"Nebraska"
"Philomena"
"Saving Mr. Banks"
"Short Term 12"
BEST DIRECTOR:
Alfonso Cuaron, "Gravity"
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:
Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club"
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:
Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine"
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club"
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave"
BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING:
"American Hustle"
BEST SCREENPLAY – ORIGINAL:
"Nebraska"
BEST SCREENPLAY – ADAPTATION:
"12 Years a Slave"
BEST LIVE ACTION FAMILY FILM (Rated G or PG):
"Oz, The Great and Powerful"
THE OVERLOOKED FILM OF THE YEAR
(TIE) "The Kings of Summer" and "The Spectacular Now"
BEST ANIMATED FILM:
"Frozen"
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
"Blue is the Warmest Color"
BEST DOCUMENTARY:
"20 Feet from Stardom"
BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
Let It Go, "Frozen"
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
"Frozen"
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
"Gravity"
BEST FILM EDITING:
"Gravity"
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
"Gravity"
BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
"The Great Gatsby"
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
"Gravity"
BEST STUNTS:
"Fast & Furious 6"
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE ON CAMERA:
Oscar Isaac, "Inside Llewyn Davis"
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE BEHIND THE CAMERA:
Lake Bell, "In a World..."
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A YOUTH IN A LEAD OR SUPPORTING ROLE – MALE:
Tye Sheridan, "Mud"
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A YOUTH IN A LEAD OR SUPPORTING ROLE – FEMALE:
Sophie Nelisse, "The Book Thief"
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Monday, December 30, 2013
Florida Film Critics Choose "12 Years a Slave"
by Amos Semien
12 Years a Slave is the Florida Film Critics Circle "Best Picture" of 2013. That honor is one of six won by the film including two notices for Lupita Nyong'o.
The Florida Film Critics Circle (FFCC) was founded in 1996 is comprised of writers from various state-based publications.
Complete list of 2013 FFCC Award winners:
Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave
Runner-up: American Hustle
Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Runner-up: Joaquin Phoenix – Her
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Runner-up: Judi Dench – Philomena
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club
Runner-up: Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
Runner-up: Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Best Director: Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
Runner-up: Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Best Adapted Screenplay: John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave
Runner-up: Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Original Screenplay: Spike Jonze – Her
Runner-up: David O. Russell & Eric Singer – American Hustle
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki – Gravity
Runner-up: Bruno Delbonnel – Inside Llewyn Davis
Best Visual Effects: Gravity
Runner-up: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Best Art Direction/Production Design: The Great Gatsby
Runner-up: American Hustle
Best Foreign Language: Blue is the Warmest Color
Runner-up: The Hunt
Best Animated Film: Frozen
Runner-up: The Wind Rises
Best Documentary: The Act of Killing
Runner-up: Blackfish
Pauline Kael Breakout Award: Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
Runner-up: Michael B. Jordan – Fruitvale Station
Golden Orange:
Dana Keith of the Miami Beach Cinematheque for his tireless championing of foreign, independent and alternative film in South Florida for more than 20 years.
END
12 Years a Slave is the Florida Film Critics Circle "Best Picture" of 2013. That honor is one of six won by the film including two notices for Lupita Nyong'o.
The Florida Film Critics Circle (FFCC) was founded in 1996 is comprised of writers from various state-based publications.
Complete list of 2013 FFCC Award winners:
Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave
Runner-up: American Hustle
Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Runner-up: Joaquin Phoenix – Her
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Runner-up: Judi Dench – Philomena
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club
Runner-up: Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
Runner-up: Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Best Director: Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
Runner-up: Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Best Adapted Screenplay: John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave
Runner-up: Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Original Screenplay: Spike Jonze – Her
Runner-up: David O. Russell & Eric Singer – American Hustle
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki – Gravity
Runner-up: Bruno Delbonnel – Inside Llewyn Davis
Best Visual Effects: Gravity
Runner-up: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Best Art Direction/Production Design: The Great Gatsby
Runner-up: American Hustle
Best Foreign Language: Blue is the Warmest Color
Runner-up: The Hunt
Best Animated Film: Frozen
Runner-up: The Wind Rises
Best Documentary: The Act of Killing
Runner-up: Blackfish
Pauline Kael Breakout Award: Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
Runner-up: Michael B. Jordan – Fruitvale Station
Golden Orange:
Dana Keith of the Miami Beach Cinematheque for his tireless championing of foreign, independent and alternative film in South Florida for more than 20 years.
END
Saturday, December 28, 2013
2014 Critics' Choice Movie Awards Nominations - Complete List
by Amos Semien
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing 250 television, radio and online critics. BFCA members are the primary source of information for today's film going public. The very first opinion a moviegoer hears about new releases at the multiplex or the art house usually comes from one of its members. The group presents the annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards.
The Broadcast Film Critics Association announced the nominations the 19th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards on Monday, December 16, 2013. Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave and David O. Russell's American Hustle dominated the nominations with 13 mentions each.
The winners will be announced live at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony on Thursday, January 16, 2014 from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. The show will be broadcast live on The CW Network at 8:00 PM ET/PT. Two hour pre-show coverage will also air in various local markets before the awards ceremony.
Aisha Tyler will host the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony. Tyler currently serves as the new host of the critically acclaimed improv show, “Whose Line Is It Anyway?,” on The CW Network and is also currently a co-host of Emmy-nominated show “The Talk.”
19th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards (2014) – Full list of nominations below:
BEST PICTURE
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Saving Mr. Banks
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale – American Hustle
Bruce Dern – Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford – All Is Lost
BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Judi Dench – Philomena
Brie Larson – Short Term 12
Meryl Streep – August: Osage County
Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
Daniel Bruhl – Rush
Bradley Cooper – American Hustle
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
James Gandolfini – Enough Said
Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Scarlett Johansson – Her
Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts – August: Osage County
June Squibb – Nebraska
Oprah Winfrey – Lee Daniels’ The Butler
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Asa Butterfield – Ender’s Game
Adele Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Color
Liam James – The Way Way Back
Sophie Nelisse – The Book Thief
Tye Sheridan – Mud
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
American Hustle
August: Osage County
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Nebraska
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips
Spike Jonze – Her
Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell – American Hustle
Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Eric Singer and David O. Russell – American Hustle
Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine
Spike Jonze – Her
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis
Bob Nelson – Nebraska
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Tracy Letts – August: Osage County
Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke – Before Midnight
Billy Ray – Captain Phillips
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope – Philomena
John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave
Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Emmanuel Lubezki – Gravity
Bruno Delbonnel – Inside Llewyn Davis
Phedon Papamichael – Nebraska
Roger Deakins – Prisoners
Sean Bobbitt – 12 Years a Slave
BEST ART DIRECTION
Andy Nicholson (Production Designer), Rosie Goodwin (Set Decorator) – Gravity
Catherine Martin (Production Designer), Beverley Dunn (Set Decorator) – The Great Gatsby
K.K. Barrett (Production Designer), Gene Serdena (Set Decorator) – Her
Dan Hennah (Production Designer), Ra Vincent (Set Decorator) – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Adam Stockhausen (Production Designer), Alice Baker (Set Decorator) – 12 Years a Slave
BEST EDITING
Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers – American Hustle
Christopher Rouse – Captain Phillips
Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger – Gravity
Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill – Rush
Joe Walker – 12 Years a Slave
Thelma Schoonmaker – The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Michael Wilkinson – American Hustle
Catherine Martin – The Great Gatsby
Bob Buck, Lesley Burkes-Harding, Ann Maskrey, Richard Taylor – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Daniel Orlandi – Saving Mr. Banks
Patricia Norris – 12 Years a Slave
BEST MAKEUP
American Hustle
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Rush
12 Years a Slave
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
Star Trek into Darkness
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Monsters University
The Wind Rises
BEST ACTION MOVIE
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Iron Man 3
Lone Survivor
Rush
Star Trek into Darkness
BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Henry Cavill – Man of Steel
Robert Downey Jr. – Iron Man 3
Brad Pitt – World War Z
Mark Wahlberg – Lone Survivor
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Evangeline Lilly – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Gwyneth Paltrow – Iron Man 3
BEST COMEDY
American Hustle
Enough Said
The Heat
This Is the End
The Way Way Back
The World’s End
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Christian Bale – American Hustle
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
James Gandolfini – Enough Said
Simon Pegg – The World’s End
Sam Rockwell – The Way Way Back
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Amy Adams – American Hustle
Sandra Bullock – The Heat
Greta Gerwig – Frances Ha
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Enough Said
Melissa McCarthy – The Heat
BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
The Conjuring
Gravity
Star Trek into Darkness
World War Z
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Blue Is the Warmest Color
The Great Beauty
The Hunt
The Past
Wadjda
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Act of Killing
Blackfish
Stories We Tell
Tim’s Vermeer
20 Feet from Stardom
BEST SONG
Atlas – Coldplay – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Happy – Pharrell Williams – Despicable Me 2
Let It Go – Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez – Frozen
Ordinary Love – U2 – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Please Mr. Kennedy – Justin Timberlake/Oscar Isaac/Adam Driver – Inside Llewyn Davis
Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Rey – The Great Gatsby
BEST SCORE
Steven Price – Gravity
Arcade Fire – Her
Thomas Newman – Saving Mr. Banks
Hans Zimmer – 12 Years a Slave
http://www.criticschoice.com/
END
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing 250 television, radio and online critics. BFCA members are the primary source of information for today's film going public. The very first opinion a moviegoer hears about new releases at the multiplex or the art house usually comes from one of its members. The group presents the annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards.
The Broadcast Film Critics Association announced the nominations the 19th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards on Monday, December 16, 2013. Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave and David O. Russell's American Hustle dominated the nominations with 13 mentions each.
The winners will be announced live at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony on Thursday, January 16, 2014 from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. The show will be broadcast live on The CW Network at 8:00 PM ET/PT. Two hour pre-show coverage will also air in various local markets before the awards ceremony.
Aisha Tyler will host the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony. Tyler currently serves as the new host of the critically acclaimed improv show, “Whose Line Is It Anyway?,” on The CW Network and is also currently a co-host of Emmy-nominated show “The Talk.”
19th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards (2014) – Full list of nominations below:
BEST PICTURE
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Saving Mr. Banks
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale – American Hustle
Bruce Dern – Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford – All Is Lost
BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Judi Dench – Philomena
Brie Larson – Short Term 12
Meryl Streep – August: Osage County
Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
Daniel Bruhl – Rush
Bradley Cooper – American Hustle
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
James Gandolfini – Enough Said
Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Scarlett Johansson – Her
Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts – August: Osage County
June Squibb – Nebraska
Oprah Winfrey – Lee Daniels’ The Butler
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Asa Butterfield – Ender’s Game
Adele Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Color
Liam James – The Way Way Back
Sophie Nelisse – The Book Thief
Tye Sheridan – Mud
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
American Hustle
August: Osage County
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Nebraska
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips
Spike Jonze – Her
Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell – American Hustle
Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Eric Singer and David O. Russell – American Hustle
Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine
Spike Jonze – Her
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis
Bob Nelson – Nebraska
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Tracy Letts – August: Osage County
Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke – Before Midnight
Billy Ray – Captain Phillips
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope – Philomena
John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave
Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Emmanuel Lubezki – Gravity
Bruno Delbonnel – Inside Llewyn Davis
Phedon Papamichael – Nebraska
Roger Deakins – Prisoners
Sean Bobbitt – 12 Years a Slave
BEST ART DIRECTION
Andy Nicholson (Production Designer), Rosie Goodwin (Set Decorator) – Gravity
Catherine Martin (Production Designer), Beverley Dunn (Set Decorator) – The Great Gatsby
K.K. Barrett (Production Designer), Gene Serdena (Set Decorator) – Her
Dan Hennah (Production Designer), Ra Vincent (Set Decorator) – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Adam Stockhausen (Production Designer), Alice Baker (Set Decorator) – 12 Years a Slave
BEST EDITING
Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers – American Hustle
Christopher Rouse – Captain Phillips
Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger – Gravity
Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill – Rush
Joe Walker – 12 Years a Slave
Thelma Schoonmaker – The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Michael Wilkinson – American Hustle
Catherine Martin – The Great Gatsby
Bob Buck, Lesley Burkes-Harding, Ann Maskrey, Richard Taylor – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Daniel Orlandi – Saving Mr. Banks
Patricia Norris – 12 Years a Slave
BEST MAKEUP
American Hustle
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Rush
12 Years a Slave
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
Star Trek into Darkness
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Monsters University
The Wind Rises
BEST ACTION MOVIE
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Iron Man 3
Lone Survivor
Rush
Star Trek into Darkness
BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Henry Cavill – Man of Steel
Robert Downey Jr. – Iron Man 3
Brad Pitt – World War Z
Mark Wahlberg – Lone Survivor
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Evangeline Lilly – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Gwyneth Paltrow – Iron Man 3
BEST COMEDY
American Hustle
Enough Said
The Heat
This Is the End
The Way Way Back
The World’s End
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Christian Bale – American Hustle
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
James Gandolfini – Enough Said
Simon Pegg – The World’s End
Sam Rockwell – The Way Way Back
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Amy Adams – American Hustle
Sandra Bullock – The Heat
Greta Gerwig – Frances Ha
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Enough Said
Melissa McCarthy – The Heat
BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
The Conjuring
Gravity
Star Trek into Darkness
World War Z
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Blue Is the Warmest Color
The Great Beauty
The Hunt
The Past
Wadjda
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Act of Killing
Blackfish
Stories We Tell
Tim’s Vermeer
20 Feet from Stardom
BEST SONG
Atlas – Coldplay – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Happy – Pharrell Williams – Despicable Me 2
Let It Go – Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez – Frozen
Ordinary Love – U2 – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Please Mr. Kennedy – Justin Timberlake/Oscar Isaac/Adam Driver – Inside Llewyn Davis
Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Rey – The Great Gatsby
BEST SCORE
Steven Price – Gravity
Arcade Fire – Her
Thomas Newman – Saving Mr. Banks
Hans Zimmer – 12 Years a Slave
http://www.criticschoice.com/
END
Friday, December 27, 2013
2014 London Critics' Circle Film Awards - Complete Nominations List
by Amos Semien
The London Film Critics’ Circle is part of a larger organization, The Critics’ Circle, which makes an annual award for Services to the Arts. This circle is comprised of the five sections: dance, drama, film, music, and visual arts.
On its website, The Circle says that its aims are “to promote the art of criticism, to uphold its integrity in practice, to foster and safeguard members’ professional interests, to provide opportunities to meet, and to support the advancement of the arts.” Currently there are more than 400 members of the Circle, mostly from the UK, and the majority of them write regularly for national and regional newspapers and magazines. Membership is by invitation.
The following is the press release announcing the 34th edition of the film awards:
London Critics’ Circle Announces 2014 Film Awards Nominations
Gary Oldman to accept the Dilys Powell Award For Excellence In Film, while Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave leads the field with 9 nominations
The nominations for the 34th London Critics' Circle Film Awards were announced, with British director Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave topping members’ ballots with 9 nominations.
Gary Oldman will be accepting the Circle’s most prestigious award, the Dilys Powell Award For Excellence In Film at the London Critics' Circle Film Awards on Sunday, February 2, 2014. He comments: “I am truly honoured, and humbled to be named for this prestigious award, especially when one considers both who is doing the awarding and also the inspirational list of past recipients. I can’t wait to be there.”
The London Critics' Circle Film Awards are voted for by the UK’s longest standing and most prestigious critical organisation, which boasts 140 members who between them see every one of the hundreds of films released in the UK each year. The Circle's Film Section Chair, Jason Solomons comments: "The London critics have yet again voted for a brilliant mix of films that reflects London's position as a hub of world cinema culture, both in production and appreciation.
"All the nominated films and performances have found champions and crucial support from London critics as they journey around the world, from their debuts at festivals including Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin, Sundance, London and Edinburgh, where our critics show that their taste, knowledge, passion and influence remain vital and highly respected aspects of film culture. More than 200 different films were nominated on the ballots.
"I look forward to finding out our winners and send early congratulations to Gary Oldman, an icon of London cinema who has given us all pride and pleasure watching his outstanding, constantly surprising and thrilling screen career.”
12 Years A Slave leads the pack with nominations in the following categories: Film of the Year, Best Actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Best Director (Steve McQueen), Supporting Actor (Michael Fassbender), Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong'o), Screenwriter (John Ridley), British Actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender) and Technical Achievement (Sean Bobbitt, Cinematography). 12 Years A Slave will be released in the UK on 10 January 2014.
The next strongest showing at the nominations stage is for Stephen Frears’ Philomena, with nominations for British Film, Best Actress (Judi Dench), British Actor (Steve Coogan), British Actress (Judi Dench) and Screenwriter (Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope) bringing the picture’s total to five nominations.
Also receiving multiple nominations were Woody Allen’s BLUE JASMINE, Jon Baird's FILTH, Alfonso Cuarón’s GRAVITY and Martin Scorsese’s THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, with four nods each. Following hot on their heels, the following films all received three nominations each: David O. Russell’s American Hustle, Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips, Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha, Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty, the Coen Brother’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Alexander Payne’s Nebraska and Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant.
34th LONDON CRITICS' CIRCLE FILM AWARDS NOMINATIONS:
FILM OF THE YEAR
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Blue Jasmine
Frances Ha
Gravity
The Great Beauty
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Caesar Must Die
Gloria
The Great Beauty
A Hijacking
BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR
A Field in England
Filth
Philomena
Rush
The Selfish Giant
DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
The Act of Killing
Beware of Mr Baker
Leviathan
Stories We Tell
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Bruce Dern - Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
Michael Douglas - Behind the Candelabra
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips
ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
Judi Dench - Philomena
Adèle Exarchopoulos - Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Greta Gerwig - Frances Ha
SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
James Gandolfini - Enough Said
Tom Hanks - Saving Mr Banks
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club
SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Naomie Harris - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave
June Squibb - Nebraska
BRITISH ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Christian Bale - American Hustle / Out of the Furnace
Steve Coogan - Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa / The Look of Love / Philomena / What Maisie Knew
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Michael Fassbender - The Counsellor / 12 Years a Slave
James McAvoy - Filth / Trance / Welcome to the Punch
BRITISH ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Judi Dench - Philomena
Lindsay Duncan - About Time / Last Passenger / Le Week-end
Naomie Harris - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
Emma Thompson - Beautiful Creatures / Saving Mr Banks
YOUNG BRITISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Conner Chapman - The Selfish Giant
Saoirse Ronan - Byzantium / The Host / How I Live Now
Eloise Laurence - Broken
George MacKay - Breakfast With Jonny Wilkinson / For Those in Peril / How I Live Now / Sunshine on Leith
Shaun Thomas - The Selfish Giant
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
Paolo Sorrentino - The Great Beauty
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street
SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR
Ethan Coen & Joel Coen - Inside Llewyn Davis
Spike Jonze - Her
Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope - Philomena
John Ridley - 12 Years a Slave
Terence Winter - The Wolf of Wall Street
BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH FILMMAKER
Jon S Baird - Filth
Scott Graham - Shell
Marcus Markou - Papadopoulos & Sons
Rufus Norris - Broken
Paul Wright - For Those in Peril
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
American Hustle - Judy Becker, production design
Behind the Candelabra - Howard Cummings, production design
Filth - Mark Eckersley, editing
Frances Ha - Sam Levy, cinematography
Gravity - Tim Webber, visual effects
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Trish Summerville, costumes
Inside Llewyn Davis - T Bone Burnett, music
Stoker - Kurt Swanson & Bart Mueller, costumes
12 Years a Slave - Sean Bobbitt, cinematography
Upstream Colour - Johnny Marshall, sound design
DILYS POWELL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FILM: Gary Oldman
END
The London Film Critics’ Circle is part of a larger organization, The Critics’ Circle, which makes an annual award for Services to the Arts. This circle is comprised of the five sections: dance, drama, film, music, and visual arts.
On its website, The Circle says that its aims are “to promote the art of criticism, to uphold its integrity in practice, to foster and safeguard members’ professional interests, to provide opportunities to meet, and to support the advancement of the arts.” Currently there are more than 400 members of the Circle, mostly from the UK, and the majority of them write regularly for national and regional newspapers and magazines. Membership is by invitation.
London Critics’ Circle Announces 2014 Film Awards Nominations
Gary Oldman to accept the Dilys Powell Award For Excellence In Film, while Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave leads the field with 9 nominations
The nominations for the 34th London Critics' Circle Film Awards were announced, with British director Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave topping members’ ballots with 9 nominations.
Gary Oldman will be accepting the Circle’s most prestigious award, the Dilys Powell Award For Excellence In Film at the London Critics' Circle Film Awards on Sunday, February 2, 2014. He comments: “I am truly honoured, and humbled to be named for this prestigious award, especially when one considers both who is doing the awarding and also the inspirational list of past recipients. I can’t wait to be there.”
The London Critics' Circle Film Awards are voted for by the UK’s longest standing and most prestigious critical organisation, which boasts 140 members who between them see every one of the hundreds of films released in the UK each year. The Circle's Film Section Chair, Jason Solomons comments: "The London critics have yet again voted for a brilliant mix of films that reflects London's position as a hub of world cinema culture, both in production and appreciation.
"All the nominated films and performances have found champions and crucial support from London critics as they journey around the world, from their debuts at festivals including Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin, Sundance, London and Edinburgh, where our critics show that their taste, knowledge, passion and influence remain vital and highly respected aspects of film culture. More than 200 different films were nominated on the ballots.
"I look forward to finding out our winners and send early congratulations to Gary Oldman, an icon of London cinema who has given us all pride and pleasure watching his outstanding, constantly surprising and thrilling screen career.”
12 Years A Slave leads the pack with nominations in the following categories: Film of the Year, Best Actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Best Director (Steve McQueen), Supporting Actor (Michael Fassbender), Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong'o), Screenwriter (John Ridley), British Actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender) and Technical Achievement (Sean Bobbitt, Cinematography). 12 Years A Slave will be released in the UK on 10 January 2014.
The next strongest showing at the nominations stage is for Stephen Frears’ Philomena, with nominations for British Film, Best Actress (Judi Dench), British Actor (Steve Coogan), British Actress (Judi Dench) and Screenwriter (Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope) bringing the picture’s total to five nominations.
Also receiving multiple nominations were Woody Allen’s BLUE JASMINE, Jon Baird's FILTH, Alfonso Cuarón’s GRAVITY and Martin Scorsese’s THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, with four nods each. Following hot on their heels, the following films all received three nominations each: David O. Russell’s American Hustle, Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips, Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha, Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty, the Coen Brother’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Alexander Payne’s Nebraska and Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant.
34th LONDON CRITICS' CIRCLE FILM AWARDS NOMINATIONS:
FILM OF THE YEAR
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Blue Jasmine
Frances Ha
Gravity
The Great Beauty
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Caesar Must Die
Gloria
The Great Beauty
A Hijacking
BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR
A Field in England
Filth
Philomena
Rush
The Selfish Giant
DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
The Act of Killing
Beware of Mr Baker
Leviathan
Stories We Tell
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Bruce Dern - Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
Michael Douglas - Behind the Candelabra
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips
ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
Judi Dench - Philomena
Adèle Exarchopoulos - Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Greta Gerwig - Frances Ha
SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
James Gandolfini - Enough Said
Tom Hanks - Saving Mr Banks
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club
SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Naomie Harris - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave
June Squibb - Nebraska
BRITISH ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Christian Bale - American Hustle / Out of the Furnace
Steve Coogan - Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa / The Look of Love / Philomena / What Maisie Knew
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Michael Fassbender - The Counsellor / 12 Years a Slave
James McAvoy - Filth / Trance / Welcome to the Punch
BRITISH ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Judi Dench - Philomena
Lindsay Duncan - About Time / Last Passenger / Le Week-end
Naomie Harris - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
Emma Thompson - Beautiful Creatures / Saving Mr Banks
YOUNG BRITISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Conner Chapman - The Selfish Giant
Saoirse Ronan - Byzantium / The Host / How I Live Now
Eloise Laurence - Broken
George MacKay - Breakfast With Jonny Wilkinson / For Those in Peril / How I Live Now / Sunshine on Leith
Shaun Thomas - The Selfish Giant
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
Paolo Sorrentino - The Great Beauty
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street
SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR
Ethan Coen & Joel Coen - Inside Llewyn Davis
Spike Jonze - Her
Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope - Philomena
John Ridley - 12 Years a Slave
Terence Winter - The Wolf of Wall Street
BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH FILMMAKER
Jon S Baird - Filth
Scott Graham - Shell
Marcus Markou - Papadopoulos & Sons
Rufus Norris - Broken
Paul Wright - For Those in Peril
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
American Hustle - Judy Becker, production design
Behind the Candelabra - Howard Cummings, production design
Filth - Mark Eckersley, editing
Frances Ha - Sam Levy, cinematography
Gravity - Tim Webber, visual effects
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Trish Summerville, costumes
Inside Llewyn Davis - T Bone Burnett, music
Stoker - Kurt Swanson & Bart Mueller, costumes
12 Years a Slave - Sean Bobbitt, cinematography
Upstream Colour - Johnny Marshall, sound design
DILYS POWELL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FILM: Gary Oldman
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
"12 Years a Slave" Captures Las Vegas Film Critics Society
by Amos Semien
The Las Vegas Film Critics Society (LVFCS) awarded director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave as the "Best Picture" of 2013. McQueen also earned the "Best Director" prize. John Goodman received the William Holden Lifetime Achievement Award.
The LVFCS is a non-profit organization that describes itself as “progressive” and “dedicated to the advancement and preservation of film.” The LVFCS membership is comprised of “select” print, television and internet film critics in the Las Vegas area. The LVFCS presents its "Sierra" awards each year for the best in film, including The William Holden Lifetime Achievement Award, which is named for the late Academy Award winning actor.
2013 Sierra Award winners:
Best Picture
“12 Years a Slave”
Best Actor
Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Actress
Emma Thompson, “Saving Mr. Banks”
Best Supporting Actor
Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Supporting Actress
Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”
Best Director
Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave”
Best Screenplay
Spike Jonze, “Her”
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki, “Gravity”
Best Film Editing
Alfonso Cuaron & Mark Sanger, “Gravity”
Best Costume Design
Patricia Norris, “12 Years a Slave”
Best Art Direction
Andy Nicholson, “Gravity”
Best Visual Effects
“Gravity”
Best Foreign Film
“Blue is the Warmest Color”
Best Documentary
“Blackfish”
Best Animated Film
“Frozen”
Best Family Film
“Saving Mr. Banks”
Best Horror/Sci-Fi Film
“Pacific Rim”
Best Comedy Film
“This is the End”
Best Action Film
“Lone Survivor”
Best Score
Hans Zimmer, “12 Years a Slave”
Best Song
“Please Mr. Kennedy,” – “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Youth in Film
Tye Sheridan, “Mud”
Best DVD (Packaging, Design and Content):
“Breaking Bad – The Complete Series” (Blu-Ray)
LVFCS Top 10 Films of 2013
1. 12 Years a Slave
2. Dallas Buyers Club
3. Gravity
4. The Wolf of Wall Street
5. American Hustle
6. Inside Llewyn Davis
7. Saving Mr. Banks
8. Nebraska
9. Her
10. Lone Survivor
William Holden Lifetime Achievement Award: John Goodman
http://www.lvfcs.org/lvfcs/Home.html
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The Las Vegas Film Critics Society (LVFCS) awarded director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave as the "Best Picture" of 2013. McQueen also earned the "Best Director" prize. John Goodman received the William Holden Lifetime Achievement Award.
The LVFCS is a non-profit organization that describes itself as “progressive” and “dedicated to the advancement and preservation of film.” The LVFCS membership is comprised of “select” print, television and internet film critics in the Las Vegas area. The LVFCS presents its "Sierra" awards each year for the best in film, including The William Holden Lifetime Achievement Award, which is named for the late Academy Award winning actor.
2013 Sierra Award winners:
Best Picture
“12 Years a Slave”
Best Actor
Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Actress
Emma Thompson, “Saving Mr. Banks”
Best Supporting Actor
Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Supporting Actress
Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”
Best Director
Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave”
Best Screenplay
Spike Jonze, “Her”
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki, “Gravity”
Best Film Editing
Alfonso Cuaron & Mark Sanger, “Gravity”
Best Costume Design
Patricia Norris, “12 Years a Slave”
Best Art Direction
Andy Nicholson, “Gravity”
Best Visual Effects
“Gravity”
Best Foreign Film
“Blue is the Warmest Color”
Best Documentary
“Blackfish”
Best Animated Film
“Frozen”
Best Family Film
“Saving Mr. Banks”
Best Horror/Sci-Fi Film
“Pacific Rim”
Best Comedy Film
“This is the End”
Best Action Film
“Lone Survivor”
Best Score
Hans Zimmer, “12 Years a Slave”
Best Song
“Please Mr. Kennedy,” – “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Youth in Film
Tye Sheridan, “Mud”
Best DVD (Packaging, Design and Content):
“Breaking Bad – The Complete Series” (Blu-Ray)
LVFCS Top 10 Films of 2013
1. 12 Years a Slave
2. Dallas Buyers Club
3. Gravity
4. The Wolf of Wall Street
5. American Hustle
6. Inside Llewyn Davis
7. Saving Mr. Banks
8. Nebraska
9. Her
10. Lone Survivor
William Holden Lifetime Achievement Award: John Goodman
http://www.lvfcs.org/lvfcs/Home.html
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Monday, December 23, 2013
Kansas City Film Critics Choose "12 Years a Slave" 2013's Best Film
by Amos Semien
The Kansas City Film Critics Circle named director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave the "Best Film" of 2013. McQueen shared the "Robert Altman Award for Best Director" with Alfonso Cuaron (for the film Gravity). Cuaron has been a favorite of many critics groups this year.
Founded in 1967, The Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC) says that it is the "second oldest professional film critics" association in the United States" (behind the New York Film Critics Circle). The organization is composed of media film critics in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The KCFCC’s awards are named for the group’s founder, James Loutzenhiser, who died in November 2001.
On Sunday, December 15th, 2013, the Kansas City Film Critics Circle announced the winners of its 47th annual awards.
2013 Loutzenhiser Awards:
Best Film: 12 Years a Slave
Robert Altman Award for Best Director – Tie: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity & Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Best Original Screenplay: Spike Jonze, Her
Best Adapted Screenplay: John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave
Best Animated Film – Tie: Despicable Me 2 & Frozen
Best Foreign Film: Blue Is the Warmest Color (France)
Best Documentary: The Act of Killing
Vince Koehler Award for Best Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film: Her
http://www.kcfcc.org/
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The Kansas City Film Critics Circle named director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave the "Best Film" of 2013. McQueen shared the "Robert Altman Award for Best Director" with Alfonso Cuaron (for the film Gravity). Cuaron has been a favorite of many critics groups this year.
Founded in 1967, The Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC) says that it is the "second oldest professional film critics" association in the United States" (behind the New York Film Critics Circle). The organization is composed of media film critics in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The KCFCC’s awards are named for the group’s founder, James Loutzenhiser, who died in November 2001.
On Sunday, December 15th, 2013, the Kansas City Film Critics Circle announced the winners of its 47th annual awards.
2013 Loutzenhiser Awards:
Best Film: 12 Years a Slave
Robert Altman Award for Best Director – Tie: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity & Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Best Original Screenplay: Spike Jonze, Her
Best Adapted Screenplay: John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave
Best Animated Film – Tie: Despicable Me 2 & Frozen
Best Foreign Film: Blue Is the Warmest Color (France)
Best Documentary: The Act of Killing
Vince Koehler Award for Best Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film: Her
http://www.kcfcc.org/
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Saturday, December 21, 2013
Alliance of Women Film Journalists Chooses "12 Years a Slave"
by Amos Semien
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ) present the annual EDA Awards “in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the movies.”
The AWFJ named director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave the "Best Film" of 2013, for which McQueen also won "Best Director." On the "women only" side of the awards, Nicole Holofcener won for directing and writing her film, Enough Said.
2013 EDA Award Winners
[ Statement from the AWFJ: With sincerest appreciation for all the great work that’s been done in film this year, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 EDA Awards. Congrats to all!]
AWFJ EDA ‘BEST OF’ AWARDS
Best Film
•12 Years a Slave
Best Director (Female or Male)
•Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
Best Screenplay, Original
•Her – Spike Jonze
Best Screenplay, Adapted
•John Ridley - 12 Years a Slave
Best Documentary
•Stories We Tell – Sarah Polley
Best Animated Film
•The Wind Rises - Hayao Miyazaki
Best Actress
•Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
•Lupita Nyong’o - 12 Years a Slave
Best Actor
•Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
•Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club
Best Ensemble Cast
•American Hustle
Best Editing
•Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger
Best Cinematography
•Gravity - Emmanuel Lubezki
Best Film Music Or Score
•Inside Llewyn Davis – T-Bone Burnett
Best Non-English-Language Film
•The Hunt – Thomas Vinterberg – Denmark
EDA FEMALE FOCUS AWARDS – These awards honor WOMEN only.
Best Woman Director
•Nicole Holofcener - Enough Said
Best Woman Screenwriter
•Nicole Holofcener - Enough Said
Kick Ass Award For Best Female Action Star
•Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Best Animated Female
•Anna (Kristen Bell) in Frozen
Best Breakthrough Performance
•Lupita Nyong’o - 12 Years A Slave
Actress Defying Age and Ageism
•Sandra Bullock – Gravity
AWFJ EDA Female Icon Award – (Presented to an actress for the portrayal of the most positive female role model, or for a role in which she takes personal and/or career risks to plumb the female psyche and therefore gives us courage to plumb our own, and/or for putting forth the image of a woman who is heroic, accomplished, persistent, demands her rights and/or the rights of others.)
•Angelina Jolie for continued commitments to humanitarian causes, and for promoting awareness about breast cancer.
This Year’s Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Film Industry – (Presented only when warranted to a female who has had a banner-making, record-breaking, industry-changing achievement during any given year.)
•Haaifa Al-Mansour for challenging the limitations placed on women within her culture by making the film Wadjda.
EDA SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS
AWFJ Hall Of Shame Award
•The Counselor – Ridley Scott
Actress Most in Need Of A New Agent
•Cameron Diaz for The Counselor
Movie You Wanted To Love But Just Couldn’t Award
•The Counselor
Unforgettable Moment Award
•12 Years A Slave – Solomon Northrup hanging
Best Depiction Of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction Award
•Her - Scarlett Johansson and Joaquin Phoenix for their digital lovemaking.
Sequel or Remake That Shouldn’t Have Been Made Award (Tie)
•Carrie
•Oz, Great and Powerful
Most Egregious Age Difference Between The Leading Man and The Love Interest Award
•Last Vegas – Michael Douglas and Bre Blair
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The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ) present the annual EDA Awards “in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the movies.”
The AWFJ named director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave the "Best Film" of 2013, for which McQueen also won "Best Director." On the "women only" side of the awards, Nicole Holofcener won for directing and writing her film, Enough Said.
2013 EDA Award Winners
[ Statement from the AWFJ: With sincerest appreciation for all the great work that’s been done in film this year, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 EDA Awards. Congrats to all!]
AWFJ EDA ‘BEST OF’ AWARDS
Best Film
•12 Years a Slave
Best Director (Female or Male)
•Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
Best Screenplay, Original
•Her – Spike Jonze
Best Screenplay, Adapted
•John Ridley - 12 Years a Slave
Best Documentary
•Stories We Tell – Sarah Polley
Best Animated Film
•The Wind Rises - Hayao Miyazaki
Best Actress
•Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
•Lupita Nyong’o - 12 Years a Slave
Best Actor
•Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
•Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club
Best Ensemble Cast
•American Hustle
Best Editing
•Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger
Best Cinematography
•Gravity - Emmanuel Lubezki
Best Film Music Or Score
•Inside Llewyn Davis – T-Bone Burnett
Best Non-English-Language Film
•The Hunt – Thomas Vinterberg – Denmark
EDA FEMALE FOCUS AWARDS – These awards honor WOMEN only.
Best Woman Director
•Nicole Holofcener - Enough Said
Best Woman Screenwriter
•Nicole Holofcener - Enough Said
Kick Ass Award For Best Female Action Star
•Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Best Animated Female
•Anna (Kristen Bell) in Frozen
Best Breakthrough Performance
•Lupita Nyong’o - 12 Years A Slave
Actress Defying Age and Ageism
•Sandra Bullock – Gravity
AWFJ EDA Female Icon Award – (Presented to an actress for the portrayal of the most positive female role model, or for a role in which she takes personal and/or career risks to plumb the female psyche and therefore gives us courage to plumb our own, and/or for putting forth the image of a woman who is heroic, accomplished, persistent, demands her rights and/or the rights of others.)
•Angelina Jolie for continued commitments to humanitarian causes, and for promoting awareness about breast cancer.
This Year’s Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Film Industry – (Presented only when warranted to a female who has had a banner-making, record-breaking, industry-changing achievement during any given year.)
•Haaifa Al-Mansour for challenging the limitations placed on women within her culture by making the film Wadjda.
EDA SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS
AWFJ Hall Of Shame Award
•The Counselor – Ridley Scott
Actress Most in Need Of A New Agent
•Cameron Diaz for The Counselor
Movie You Wanted To Love But Just Couldn’t Award
•The Counselor
Unforgettable Moment Award
•12 Years A Slave – Solomon Northrup hanging
Best Depiction Of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction Award
•Her - Scarlett Johansson and Joaquin Phoenix for their digital lovemaking.
Sequel or Remake That Shouldn’t Have Been Made Award (Tie)
•Carrie
•Oz, Great and Powerful
Most Egregious Age Difference Between The Leading Man and The Love Interest Award
•Last Vegas – Michael Douglas and Bre Blair
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Friday, December 20, 2013
Dallas-Fort Worth Critics Name "12 Years a Slave" Best Film of 2013
by Amos Semien
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association named 12 Years a Slave the "Best Film" of 2013, one of three honors the film earned. The critics group spread out the prizes with Gravity winning three honors and Dallas Buyers Club winning two for acting: Matthew McConaughey (Best Actor) and Jared Leto (Best Supporting Actor).
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association is also known as the DFW Film Critics Association. The group describes itself as a not-for-profit, unincorporated voluntary organization of print, broadcast and internet film critics based in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area and greater North Texas who meet its membership criteria. The DFW Film Critics Association currently consists of 29 broadcast, print, and online journalists from throughout North Texas.
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association 20th Annual Critics’ Poll:
Top 10 Films of 2013:
1. 12 Years a Slave
2. Gravity
3. Nebraska
4. American Hustle
5. Dallas Buyers Club
6. Her
7. The Wolf of Wall Street
8. Inside Llewyn Davis
9. Captain Phillips
10. Mud
Best Actor 2013:
1. Matthew McConaughey for DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
2. Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 YEARS A SLAVE
3. Bruce Dern for NEBRASKA
4. Tom Hanks for CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
5. Leonardo DiCaprio for THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Best Actress 2013:
1. Cate Blanchett for BLUE JASMINE
2. Sandra Bullock for GRAVITY
3. Judi Dench for PHILOMENA
4. Meryl Streep for AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
5. Emma Thompson for SAVING MR. BANKS
Best Supporting Actor 2013:
1. Jared Leto for DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
2. Michael Fassbender for 12 YEARS A SLAVE
3. Barkhad Abdi for CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
4. Daniel Bruhl for RUSH
5. Jonah Hill for THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Best Supporting Actress 2013:
1. Lupita Nyong’o for 12 YEARS A SLAVE
2. June Squibb for NEBRASKA
3. Jennifer Lawrence for AMERICAN HUSTLE
4. Julia Roberts for AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
5. Sally Hawkins for BLUE JASMINE
Best Director 2013:
1. Alfonso Cuaron for GRAVITY
2. Steve McQueen for 12 YEARS A SLAVE
3. Alexander Payne for NEBRASKA
4. David O. Russell for AMERICAN HUSTLE
5. Martin Scorsese for THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Best Foreign-Language Film 2013:
1. BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR
2. THE HUNT
3. THE GREAT BEAUTY
4. THE WIND RISES
5. THE GRANDMASTER
Best Documentary Film 2013:
1. TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM
2. THE ACT OF KILLING
3. STORIES WE TELL
4. BLACKFISH
5. THE GATEKEEPERS
Best Animated Film 2013:
1. FROZEN
2. DESPICABLE ME 2
Best Screenplay 2013:
1. John Ridley for 12 YEARS A SLAVE
2. TIE: Bob Nelson for NEBRASKA and Spike Jonze for HER
Best Cinematography 2013:
1. Emmanuel Lubezki for GRAVITY
2. Sean Bobbitt for 12 YEARS A SLAVE
Best Musical Score 2013:
Steven Price for GRAVITY
Russell Smith Award: FRUITVALE STATION
(The award is named for the late Dallas Morning News film critic. The honor is given annually to the best low-budget or cutting-edge independent film.)
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The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association named 12 Years a Slave the "Best Film" of 2013, one of three honors the film earned. The critics group spread out the prizes with Gravity winning three honors and Dallas Buyers Club winning two for acting: Matthew McConaughey (Best Actor) and Jared Leto (Best Supporting Actor).
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association is also known as the DFW Film Critics Association. The group describes itself as a not-for-profit, unincorporated voluntary organization of print, broadcast and internet film critics based in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area and greater North Texas who meet its membership criteria. The DFW Film Critics Association currently consists of 29 broadcast, print, and online journalists from throughout North Texas.
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association 20th Annual Critics’ Poll:
Top 10 Films of 2013:
1. 12 Years a Slave
2. Gravity
3. Nebraska
4. American Hustle
5. Dallas Buyers Club
6. Her
7. The Wolf of Wall Street
8. Inside Llewyn Davis
9. Captain Phillips
10. Mud
Best Actor 2013:
1. Matthew McConaughey for DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
2. Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 YEARS A SLAVE
3. Bruce Dern for NEBRASKA
4. Tom Hanks for CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
5. Leonardo DiCaprio for THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Best Actress 2013:
1. Cate Blanchett for BLUE JASMINE
2. Sandra Bullock for GRAVITY
3. Judi Dench for PHILOMENA
4. Meryl Streep for AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
5. Emma Thompson for SAVING MR. BANKS
Best Supporting Actor 2013:
1. Jared Leto for DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
2. Michael Fassbender for 12 YEARS A SLAVE
3. Barkhad Abdi for CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
4. Daniel Bruhl for RUSH
5. Jonah Hill for THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Best Supporting Actress 2013:
1. Lupita Nyong’o for 12 YEARS A SLAVE
2. June Squibb for NEBRASKA
3. Jennifer Lawrence for AMERICAN HUSTLE
4. Julia Roberts for AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
5. Sally Hawkins for BLUE JASMINE
Best Director 2013:
1. Alfonso Cuaron for GRAVITY
2. Steve McQueen for 12 YEARS A SLAVE
3. Alexander Payne for NEBRASKA
4. David O. Russell for AMERICAN HUSTLE
5. Martin Scorsese for THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Best Foreign-Language Film 2013:
1. BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR
2. THE HUNT
3. THE GREAT BEAUTY
4. THE WIND RISES
5. THE GRANDMASTER
Best Documentary Film 2013:
1. TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM
2. THE ACT OF KILLING
3. STORIES WE TELL
4. BLACKFISH
5. THE GATEKEEPERS
Best Animated Film 2013:
1. FROZEN
2. DESPICABLE ME 2
Best Screenplay 2013:
1. John Ridley for 12 YEARS A SLAVE
2. TIE: Bob Nelson for NEBRASKA and Spike Jonze for HER
Best Cinematography 2013:
1. Emmanuel Lubezki for GRAVITY
2. Sean Bobbitt for 12 YEARS A SLAVE
Best Musical Score 2013:
Steven Price for GRAVITY
Russell Smith Award: FRUITVALE STATION
(The award is named for the late Dallas Morning News film critic. The honor is given annually to the best low-budget or cutting-edge independent film.)
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
"12 Years a Slave" Best Film of 2013 Sez Chicago Film Critics
by Amos Semien
The film, 12 Years a Slave, owned the 2013 Chicago Film Critics Awards, winning the “Best Picture” award. This film is based on a true story: Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir of being a once-free black man from the North, kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South in the years leading up to Civil War.
The Chicago Film Critics Association gave the film five awards: Best Director to Steve McQueen, Best Actor to Chiwetel Ejiofor, Best Supporting Actress to newcomer Luptia Nyong'o, Adapted Screenplay to John Ridley, as well as Best Picture.
Director Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity was the runner-up with three awards: Best Cinematography to Emmanuel Lubezki, Best Art Direction/Production Design to Mark Scruton and Andy Nicholson and Best Editing to Cuaron and Mark Sanger.
The CFCA awards were announced at a ceremony held on Monday, December 16, 2013.
2013 Chicago Film Critics Awards winners:
BEST PICTURE
12 Years A Slave
BEST DIRECTOR
Steve McQueen--12 Years A Slave
BEST ACTOR
Chiwetel Ejiofor--12 Years A Slave
BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett--Blue Jasmine
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jared Leto--Dallas Buyers Club
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Lupita Nyong'o--12 Years A Slave
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Spike Jonze--Her
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
John Ridley--12 Years A Slave
BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Act of Killing
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
The Act of Killing
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Wind Rises
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Her--Arcade Fire
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Gravity--Emmanuel Lubezki
BEST EDITING
Gravity--Alfonso Cuaron & Mark Sanger
BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN
Gravity--Mark Scruton/Andy Nicolson
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Adele Exarchopoulos--Blue is the Warmest Color
MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER
Destin Cretton--Short Term 12
http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/
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The film, 12 Years a Slave, owned the 2013 Chicago Film Critics Awards, winning the “Best Picture” award. This film is based on a true story: Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir of being a once-free black man from the North, kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South in the years leading up to Civil War.
The Chicago Film Critics Association gave the film five awards: Best Director to Steve McQueen, Best Actor to Chiwetel Ejiofor, Best Supporting Actress to newcomer Luptia Nyong'o, Adapted Screenplay to John Ridley, as well as Best Picture.
Director Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity was the runner-up with three awards: Best Cinematography to Emmanuel Lubezki, Best Art Direction/Production Design to Mark Scruton and Andy Nicholson and Best Editing to Cuaron and Mark Sanger.
The CFCA awards were announced at a ceremony held on Monday, December 16, 2013.
2013 Chicago Film Critics Awards winners:
BEST PICTURE
12 Years A Slave
BEST DIRECTOR
Steve McQueen--12 Years A Slave
BEST ACTOR
Chiwetel Ejiofor--12 Years A Slave
BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett--Blue Jasmine
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jared Leto--Dallas Buyers Club
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Lupita Nyong'o--12 Years A Slave
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Spike Jonze--Her
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
John Ridley--12 Years A Slave
BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Act of Killing
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
The Act of Killing
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Wind Rises
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Her--Arcade Fire
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Gravity--Emmanuel Lubezki
BEST EDITING
Gravity--Alfonso Cuaron & Mark Sanger
BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN
Gravity--Mark Scruton/Andy Nicolson
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Adele Exarchopoulos--Blue is the Warmest Color
MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER
Destin Cretton--Short Term 12
http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/
END
"12 Years a Slave" 2013's Best Picture Sez Online Film Critics Society
by Amos Semien
The Online Film Critics Society announced the recipients of the 17th annual OFCS awards for excellence in film. Over 250 members voted in this year’s awards.
Director Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave was the standout with five wins. The film is based on Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir about his life after being kidnapped into slavery. It earned recognitions for “Best Picture,” “Best Actor” (Chiwetel Ejiofor), “Best Supporting Actor” (Michael Fassbender), “Best Supporting Actress” (Lupita Nyong’o), and “Best Adapted Screenplay” (John Ridley). McQueen lost “Best Director” to Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity.
The Online Film Critics Society 2013 Film Awards Winners:
Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave
Best Animated Feature: The Wind Rises
Best Film Not in the English Language: Blue Is the Warmest Color
Best Documentary: The Act of Killing
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
Best Original Screenplay: Her
Best Adapted Screenplay: 12 Years a Slave
Best Editing: Gravity
Best Cinematography: Gravity
Special Awards:
Best Sound Design and Best Visual Effects to Gravity
To Roger Ebert, for inspiring so many of our members
Top Ten films Without a U.S. Release:
Closed Curtain
Gloria
Like Father, Like Son
Our Sunhi
R100
The Rocket
Stranger By the Lake
We Are the Best!
Le Weekend
Why Don’t You Play in Hell?
http://www.ofcs.org/
END
The Online Film Critics Society announced the recipients of the 17th annual OFCS awards for excellence in film. Over 250 members voted in this year’s awards.
Director Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave was the standout with five wins. The film is based on Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir about his life after being kidnapped into slavery. It earned recognitions for “Best Picture,” “Best Actor” (Chiwetel Ejiofor), “Best Supporting Actor” (Michael Fassbender), “Best Supporting Actress” (Lupita Nyong’o), and “Best Adapted Screenplay” (John Ridley). McQueen lost “Best Director” to Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity.
The Online Film Critics Society 2013 Film Awards Winners:
Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave
Best Animated Feature: The Wind Rises
Best Film Not in the English Language: Blue Is the Warmest Color
Best Documentary: The Act of Killing
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
Best Original Screenplay: Her
Best Adapted Screenplay: 12 Years a Slave
Best Editing: Gravity
Best Cinematography: Gravity
Special Awards:
Best Sound Design and Best Visual Effects to Gravity
To Roger Ebert, for inspiring so many of our members
Top Ten films Without a U.S. Release:
Closed Curtain
Gloria
Like Father, Like Son
Our Sunhi
R100
The Rocket
Stranger By the Lake
We Are the Best!
Le Weekend
Why Don’t You Play in Hell?
http://www.ofcs.org/
END
Monday, December 16, 2013
Boston Online Film Critics Declare "12 Years a Slave" Best Pic of 2013
by Amos Semien
The Boston Online Film Critics Association named 12 Years a Slave "Best Picture" of 2013. That was one of six awards the critics group bestowed upon director Steve McQueen's film; that included notices for McQueen as "Best Director" and Chiwetel Ejiofor ("Best Actor") and Lupita Nyong' o ("Best Supporting Actress").
The Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA) was founded in May 2012. According to the group, BOFCA fosters a community of web-based film critics and provides them with a supportive group of colleagues and a professional platform for their voices to be heard. They collect and link to their reviews every week at a website that also features original content by members, including filmmaker interviews and spotlights on Boston’s vital repertory film scene.
By widening professional membership to writers working in new media, BOFCA aims to encourage more diverse opinions in the field. The Boston Online Film Critics Association has gathered together critics writing for publications that collectively receive over 15 million impressions/page views per month. BOFCA is present on social media year-round with members’ film articles and essays.
Full list of 2013 BOFCA winners:
BEST PICTURE: 12 YEARS A SLAVE
BEST DIRECTOR: Steve McQueen, 12 YEARS A SLAVE
BEST ACTOR: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 YEARS A SLAVE
BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, BLUE JASMINE
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jared Leto, DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 YEARS A SLAVE
BEST SCREENPLAY: BEFORE MIDNIGHT
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR
BEST DOCUMENTARY: THE ACT OF KILLING
BEST ANIMATED FILM: THE WIND RISES and FROZEN (tie)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
BEST EDITING: 12 YEARS A SLAVE
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: 12 YEARS A SLAVE
BEST ENSEMBLE: 12 YEARS A SLAVE
THE TEN BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR:
1. 12 YEARS A SLAVE
2. INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
3. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
4. GRAVITY
5. BEFORE MIDNIGHT
6. THE SPECTACULAR NOW
7. BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR
8. SPRING BREAKERS
9. THE WORLD’S END
10. FRUITVALE STATION
http://bofca.com/
END
The Boston Online Film Critics Association named 12 Years a Slave "Best Picture" of 2013. That was one of six awards the critics group bestowed upon director Steve McQueen's film; that included notices for McQueen as "Best Director" and Chiwetel Ejiofor ("Best Actor") and Lupita Nyong' o ("Best Supporting Actress").
The Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA) was founded in May 2012. According to the group, BOFCA fosters a community of web-based film critics and provides them with a supportive group of colleagues and a professional platform for their voices to be heard. They collect and link to their reviews every week at a website that also features original content by members, including filmmaker interviews and spotlights on Boston’s vital repertory film scene.
By widening professional membership to writers working in new media, BOFCA aims to encourage more diverse opinions in the field. The Boston Online Film Critics Association has gathered together critics writing for publications that collectively receive over 15 million impressions/page views per month. BOFCA is present on social media year-round with members’ film articles and essays.
Full list of 2013 BOFCA winners:
BEST PICTURE: 12 YEARS A SLAVE
BEST DIRECTOR: Steve McQueen, 12 YEARS A SLAVE
BEST ACTOR: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 YEARS A SLAVE
BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, BLUE JASMINE
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jared Leto, DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 YEARS A SLAVE
BEST SCREENPLAY: BEFORE MIDNIGHT
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR
BEST DOCUMENTARY: THE ACT OF KILLING
BEST ANIMATED FILM: THE WIND RISES and FROZEN (tie)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
BEST EDITING: 12 YEARS A SLAVE
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: 12 YEARS A SLAVE
BEST ENSEMBLE: 12 YEARS A SLAVE
THE TEN BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR:
1. 12 YEARS A SLAVE
2. INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
3. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
4. GRAVITY
5. BEFORE MIDNIGHT
6. THE SPECTACULAR NOW
7. BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR
8. SPRING BREAKERS
9. THE WORLD’S END
10. FRUITVALE STATION
http://bofca.com/
END
Sunday, December 15, 2013
"12 Years a Slave" Leads Chicago Film Critics Awards Nominations
by Amos Semien
The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization that hands out the Chicago Film Critics Awards, hold critics roundtables, and takes on industry and artists’ rights issues. The parent association was founded in 1990 by film critic Sue Kiner after the successful launch of the Chicago Film Critics Awards in 1989.
The nominations for the 2013 Chicago Film Critics Awards were recently announced. Director Steven McQueen's 12 Years a Slave led all contenders for the group’s annual awards with a stunning 11 nominations. The highly acclaimed drama is a harrowing adaptation of the memoir of a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War era Deep South. Tying for second place with seven nominations each are the films, Gravity and Her.
The Chicago Film Critics Association will announce its winners in a ceremony to be held on the evening of Monday, December 16, 2013.
2013 Chicago Film Critics Awards nominees:
BEST PICTURE
12 Years A Slave
American Hustle
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
BEST DIRECTOR
Joel & Ethan Coen--Inside Llewyn Davis
Alfonso Cuaron--Gravity
Spike Jonze--Her
Steve McQueen--12 Years A Slave
David O. Russell--American Hustle
BEST ACTOR
Bruce Dern--Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor--12 Years A Slave
Oscar Isaac--Inside Llewyn Davis
Matthew McConaughey--Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford--All Is Lost
BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett--Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock--Gravity
Adele Exarchopoulos--Blue is the Warmest Color
Brie Larson--Short Term 12
Meryl Streep--August: Osage County
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi--Captain Phillips
Michael Fassbender--12 Years A Slave
James Franco--Spring Breakers
James Gandolfini--Enough Said
Jared Leto--Dallas Buyers Club
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Scarlett Johansson--Her
Jennifer Lawrence--American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o--12 Years A Slave
Lea Seydoux--Blue is the Warmest Color
June Squibb--Nebraska
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle--Eric SInger & David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine--Woody Allen
Her--Spike Jonze
Inside Llewyn Davis--Joel & Ethan Coen
Nebraska--Bob Nelson
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
12 Years A Slave--John Ridley
August: Osage County--Tracey Letts
Before Midnight--Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke
Philomena--Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope
The Wolf of Wall Street--Terrence Winter
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
The Act of Killing
Blue is the Warmest Color
The Hunt
Wadjda
The Wind Rises
BEST DOCUMENTARY
20 Feet from Stardom
The Act of Killing
The Armstrong Lie
Blackfish
Stories We Tell
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Croods
From Up on Poppy Hill
Frozen
Monsters University
The Wind Rises
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
12 Years A Slave--Sean Bobbitt
Gravity--Emmanuel Lubezki
Her--Hoyte Van Hoytema
Inside Llewyn Davis--Bruno Delbonnel
Prisoners--Roger Deakins
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
12 Years A Slave--Hans Zimmer
Blancanieves--Alfonso de Vilallongo
Gravity--Steven Price
Her--Arcade Fire
Spring Breakers--Cliff Martinez and Skrillex
BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN
12 Years A Slave
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
BEST EDITING
12 Years A Slave--Joe Walker
American Hustle--Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy & Crispin Struthers
Gravity--Alfonso Cuaron & Mark Sanger
Upstream Color--Shane Carruth & David Lowery
The Wolf of Wall Street--Thelma Schoonmaker
MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER
Lake Bell--In A World
Ryan Coogler--Fruitvale Station
Destin Cretton--Short Term 12
Joseph Gordon-Levitt--Don Jon
Joshua Oppenheimer--The Act of Killing
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Barkhad Abdi--Captain Phillips
Chadwick Boseman--42
Adele Exarchopoulos--Blue is the Warmest Color
Lupita Nyong'o--12 Years A Slave
Tye Sheridan--Mud
http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/
END
The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization that hands out the Chicago Film Critics Awards, hold critics roundtables, and takes on industry and artists’ rights issues. The parent association was founded in 1990 by film critic Sue Kiner after the successful launch of the Chicago Film Critics Awards in 1989.
The nominations for the 2013 Chicago Film Critics Awards were recently announced. Director Steven McQueen's 12 Years a Slave led all contenders for the group’s annual awards with a stunning 11 nominations. The highly acclaimed drama is a harrowing adaptation of the memoir of a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War era Deep South. Tying for second place with seven nominations each are the films, Gravity and Her.
The Chicago Film Critics Association will announce its winners in a ceremony to be held on the evening of Monday, December 16, 2013.
2013 Chicago Film Critics Awards nominees:
BEST PICTURE
12 Years A Slave
American Hustle
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
BEST DIRECTOR
Joel & Ethan Coen--Inside Llewyn Davis
Alfonso Cuaron--Gravity
Spike Jonze--Her
Steve McQueen--12 Years A Slave
David O. Russell--American Hustle
BEST ACTOR
Bruce Dern--Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor--12 Years A Slave
Oscar Isaac--Inside Llewyn Davis
Matthew McConaughey--Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford--All Is Lost
BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett--Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock--Gravity
Adele Exarchopoulos--Blue is the Warmest Color
Brie Larson--Short Term 12
Meryl Streep--August: Osage County
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi--Captain Phillips
Michael Fassbender--12 Years A Slave
James Franco--Spring Breakers
James Gandolfini--Enough Said
Jared Leto--Dallas Buyers Club
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Scarlett Johansson--Her
Jennifer Lawrence--American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o--12 Years A Slave
Lea Seydoux--Blue is the Warmest Color
June Squibb--Nebraska
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle--Eric SInger & David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine--Woody Allen
Her--Spike Jonze
Inside Llewyn Davis--Joel & Ethan Coen
Nebraska--Bob Nelson
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
12 Years A Slave--John Ridley
August: Osage County--Tracey Letts
Before Midnight--Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke
Philomena--Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope
The Wolf of Wall Street--Terrence Winter
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
The Act of Killing
Blue is the Warmest Color
The Hunt
Wadjda
The Wind Rises
BEST DOCUMENTARY
20 Feet from Stardom
The Act of Killing
The Armstrong Lie
Blackfish
Stories We Tell
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Croods
From Up on Poppy Hill
Frozen
Monsters University
The Wind Rises
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
12 Years A Slave--Sean Bobbitt
Gravity--Emmanuel Lubezki
Her--Hoyte Van Hoytema
Inside Llewyn Davis--Bruno Delbonnel
Prisoners--Roger Deakins
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
12 Years A Slave--Hans Zimmer
Blancanieves--Alfonso de Vilallongo
Gravity--Steven Price
Her--Arcade Fire
Spring Breakers--Cliff Martinez and Skrillex
BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN
12 Years A Slave
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
BEST EDITING
12 Years A Slave--Joe Walker
American Hustle--Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy & Crispin Struthers
Gravity--Alfonso Cuaron & Mark Sanger
Upstream Color--Shane Carruth & David Lowery
The Wolf of Wall Street--Thelma Schoonmaker
MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER
Lake Bell--In A World
Ryan Coogler--Fruitvale Station
Destin Cretton--Short Term 12
Joseph Gordon-Levitt--Don Jon
Joshua Oppenheimer--The Act of Killing
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Barkhad Abdi--Captain Phillips
Chadwick Boseman--42
Adele Exarchopoulos--Blue is the Warmest Color
Lupita Nyong'o--12 Years A Slave
Tye Sheridan--Mud
http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/
END
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Washington DC Film Critics Choose "12 Years a Slave"
by Amos Semien
The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association named director 12 Years a Slave the "Best Film" of 2013. Steve McQueen's acclaimed film led all films with 11 nominations and ultimately won six, including "Best Actor" for Chiwetel Ejiofor and "Best Supporting Actress" for Lupita Nyong'o.
Founded in 2002, The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) is comprised of professional DC-based film critics with affiliations in television, radio, print and the internet. As of 2013, WAFCA has grown to include 58 dedicated members from the District, Maryland and Virginia.
THE 2013 WAFCA AWARD WINNERS:
Best Film:
12 Years a Slave
Best Director:
Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)
Best Actor:
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Best Supporting Actor:
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
Best Supporting Actress:
Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)
Best Acting Ensemble:
12 Years a Slave
Best Youth Performance:
Tye Sheridan (Mud)
Best Adapted Screenplay:
John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)
Best Original Screenplay:
Spike Jonze (Her)
Best Animated Feature:
Frozen
Best Documentary:
Blackfish
Best Foreign Language Film:
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Best Art Direction:
Production Designer: Catherine Martin, Set Decorator: Beverley Dunn (The Great Gatsby)
Best Cinematography:
Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, A.M.C. (Gravity)
Best Editing:
Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger (Gravity)
Best Original Score:
Hans Zimmer (12 Years a Slave)
The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC:
Lee Daniels' The Butler
http://www.wafca.com/index.htm
END
The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association named director 12 Years a Slave the "Best Film" of 2013. Steve McQueen's acclaimed film led all films with 11 nominations and ultimately won six, including "Best Actor" for Chiwetel Ejiofor and "Best Supporting Actress" for Lupita Nyong'o.
Founded in 2002, The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) is comprised of professional DC-based film critics with affiliations in television, radio, print and the internet. As of 2013, WAFCA has grown to include 58 dedicated members from the District, Maryland and Virginia.
THE 2013 WAFCA AWARD WINNERS:
Best Film:
12 Years a Slave
Best Director:
Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)
Best Actor:
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Best Supporting Actor:
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
Best Supporting Actress:
Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)
Best Acting Ensemble:
12 Years a Slave
Best Youth Performance:
Tye Sheridan (Mud)
Best Adapted Screenplay:
John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)
Best Original Screenplay:
Spike Jonze (Her)
Best Animated Feature:
Frozen
Best Documentary:
Blackfish
Best Foreign Language Film:
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Best Art Direction:
Production Designer: Catherine Martin, Set Decorator: Beverley Dunn (The Great Gatsby)
Best Cinematography:
Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, A.M.C. (Gravity)
Best Editing:
Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger (Gravity)
Best Original Score:
Hans Zimmer (12 Years a Slave)
The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC:
Lee Daniels' The Butler
http://www.wafca.com/index.htm
END
"12 Years a Slave" Leads Washington DC Critics Awards Nominations
by Amos Semien
The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) recently announced the winners and nominees of their annual film awards. I'll post the nominations first.
The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) recently announced the winners and nominees of their annual film awards. I'll post the nominations first.
The 2013 WAFCA AWARD NOMINEES:
Best Film:
American Hustle
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
12 Years a Slave
Best Director:
Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)
Spike Jonze (Her)
Baz Luhrmann (The Great Gatsby)
Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)
Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
Joaquin Phoenix (Her)
Robert Redford (All Is Lost)
Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Judi Dench (Philomena)
Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)
Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)
Best Supporting Actor:
Daniel Brühl (Rush)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
James Franco (Spring Breakers)
James Gandolfini (Enough Said)
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
Best Supporting Actress:
Scarlett Johansson (Her)
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)
Octavia Spencer (Fruitvale Station)
June Squibb (Nebraska)
Best Acting Ensemble:
American Hustle
August: Osage County
Prisoners
12 Years a Slave
The Way, Way Back
Best Youth Performance:
Asa Butterfield (Ender's Game)
Adéle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is the Warmest Color)
Liam James (The Way, Way Back)
Waad Mohammed (Wadjda)
Tye Sheridan (Mud)
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke & Richard Linklater (Before Midnight)
Billy Ray (Captain Phillips)
Michael H. Weber & Scott Neustadter (The Spectacular Now)
John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)
Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Best Original Screenplay:
Eric Warren Singer & David O. Russell (American Hustle)
Woody Allen (Blue Jasmine)
Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said)
Spike Jonze (Her)
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Best Animated Feature:
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Monsters University
The Wind Rises
Best Documentary:
The Act of Killing
Blackfish
Leviathan
Stories We Tell
20 Feet from Stardom
Best Foreign Language Film:
Blue Is the Warmest Color
The Broken Circle Breakdown
The Hunt
The Past
Wadjda
Best Art Direction:
Production Designer: Andy Nicholson, Set Decorator: Rosie Goodwin (Gravity)
Production Designer: Catherine Martin, Set Decorator: Beverley Dunn (The Great Gatsby)
Production Designer: K.K. Barrett, Set Decorator: Gene Serdena (Her)
Production Designer: Jess Gonchor, Set Decorator: Susan Bode Tyson (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen, Set Decorator: Alice Baker (12 Years a Slave)
Best Cinematography:
Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, A.M.C. (Gravity)
Simon Duggan, ACS (The Great Gatsby)
Hoyte Van Hoytema, F.S.F., N.S.C. (Her)
Bruno Delbonnel, AFC, ASC (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Sean Bobbitt, BSC (12 Years a Slave)
Best Editing:
Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger (Gravity)
Eric Zumbrunnen, A.C.E., Jeff Buchanan (Her)
Dan Hanley, A.C.E., Mike Hill, A.C.E. (Rush)
Joe Walker (12 Years a Slave)
Thelma Schoonmaker, A.C.E. (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Best Original Score:
Christophe Beck (Frozen)
Arcade Fire (Her)
Steven Price (Gravity)
Thomas Newman (Saving Mr. Banks)
Hans Zimmer (12 Years a Slave)
The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC:
Lee Daniels' The Butler
The East
Olympus Has Fallen
Philomena
White House Down
http://www.wafca.com/index.htm
END
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Boston Film Critics Choose "12 Years a Slave" as Best Picture of 2013
by Amos Semien
The Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) named 12 Years a Slave the "Best Picture" of 2013, one of two best picture awards the film received from film critics societies over this past weekend. 12 Years a Slave also earned BSFC Awards for "Best Director" (Steve McQueen) and "Best Actor" (Chiwetel Ejiofor) The society chose Hiyao Miyazaki's final film, The Wind Rises, "Best Animated Film."
The Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) was formed in 1981. The group claims that its mission is to make “Boston's unique critical perspective heard on a national and international level by awarding commendations to the best of the year's films and filmmakers and local film theaters and film societies that offer outstanding film programming.” One of the society’s members, Wesley Morris, won 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
2013 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Winners:
Best Picture - 12 Years a Slave
Best Actor - Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 Years a Slave
Best Actress - Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine
Best Supporting Actor - James Gandolfini for Enough Said
Best Supporting Actress - June Squibb for Nebraska
Best Director - Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave
Best Screenplay - Nicole Holofcener for Enough Said
Best Cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki for Gravity
Best Documentary - The Act of Killing
Best Foreign-Language Film - Wadjda
Best Animated Film - The Wind Rises
Best Film Editing (awarded in memory of Karen Schmeer) - Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill for Rush
Best New Filmmaker (awarded in memory of David Brudnoy) - Ryan Coogler for Fruitvale Station
Best Ensemble Cast - Nebraska
Best Use of Music in a Film - Inside: Llewyn Davis
BSFC 2013 Awards, Commendations and Rediscoveries
Best Film Series:
“The Complete Alfred Hitchcock” at Harvard Film Archive
“A Burt Lancaster Centennial Tribute” at Harvard Film Archive and the Brattle Theatre
“Action, Action, Action: A Raoul Walsh Retrospective” at Harvard Film Archive
“The Films of Pierre Etaix” at the Museum of Fine Arts
“Chris Marker: Guillaume-en-Egypte” at Harvard Film Archive and the List Visual Arts Center at M.I.T.
Best Rediscoveries:
Journey to Italy at the Brattle Theatre
Yo-yo at the Museum of Fine Arts
Cattle Annie and Little Britchesat the Brattle Theatre
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains at Coolidge Corner Theatre
Daughters of the Dust at Harvard Film Archive
Commendations:
Coolidge @fter Midnight – The midnight movies series at the Coolidge Corner Theatre
http://www.bostonfilmcritics.org/
END
The Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) named 12 Years a Slave the "Best Picture" of 2013, one of two best picture awards the film received from film critics societies over this past weekend. 12 Years a Slave also earned BSFC Awards for "Best Director" (Steve McQueen) and "Best Actor" (Chiwetel Ejiofor) The society chose Hiyao Miyazaki's final film, The Wind Rises, "Best Animated Film."
The Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) was formed in 1981. The group claims that its mission is to make “Boston's unique critical perspective heard on a national and international level by awarding commendations to the best of the year's films and filmmakers and local film theaters and film societies that offer outstanding film programming.” One of the society’s members, Wesley Morris, won 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
2013 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Winners:
Best Picture - 12 Years a Slave
Best Actor - Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 Years a Slave
Best Actress - Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine
Best Supporting Actor - James Gandolfini for Enough Said
Best Supporting Actress - June Squibb for Nebraska
Best Director - Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave
Best Screenplay - Nicole Holofcener for Enough Said
Best Cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki for Gravity
Best Documentary - The Act of Killing
Best Foreign-Language Film - Wadjda
Best Animated Film - The Wind Rises
Best Film Editing (awarded in memory of Karen Schmeer) - Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill for Rush
Best New Filmmaker (awarded in memory of David Brudnoy) - Ryan Coogler for Fruitvale Station
Best Ensemble Cast - Nebraska
Best Use of Music in a Film - Inside: Llewyn Davis
BSFC 2013 Awards, Commendations and Rediscoveries
Best Film Series:
“The Complete Alfred Hitchcock” at Harvard Film Archive
“A Burt Lancaster Centennial Tribute” at Harvard Film Archive and the Brattle Theatre
“Action, Action, Action: A Raoul Walsh Retrospective” at Harvard Film Archive
“The Films of Pierre Etaix” at the Museum of Fine Arts
“Chris Marker: Guillaume-en-Egypte” at Harvard Film Archive and the List Visual Arts Center at M.I.T.
Best Rediscoveries:
Journey to Italy at the Brattle Theatre
Yo-yo at the Museum of Fine Arts
Cattle Annie and Little Britchesat the Brattle Theatre
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains at Coolidge Corner Theatre
Daughters of the Dust at Harvard Film Archive
Commendations:
Coolidge @fter Midnight – The midnight movies series at the Coolidge Corner Theatre
http://www.bostonfilmcritics.org/
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013
"American Hustle" Tops 2013 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
by Amos Semien
American Hustle, the new film from director David O. Russell, is "Best Picture" of 2013, according to the New York Film Critics Circle. The film won three awards, including honors for the screenplay (written by Russell and Eric Singer) and supporting actress for Jennifer Lawrence. Lawrence won the best actress Oscar earlier this year for her performance in Russell's Silver Linings Playbook. Steve McQueen won directing honors for 12 Years a Slave. Robert Redford won "Best Actor" for his much talked about performance in the film, All is Lost. Cate Blanchett continues the tradition of actress honored for their work in Woody Allen film, winning "Best Actress" for Blue Jasmine.
Founded in 1935, the New York Film Critics Circle is, according to their website, “an organization of film reviewers from New York-based publications that exists to honor excellence in U.S. and world cinema.” Members are critics from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, magazines, and online general-interest publications (that meet certain qualifications). Every year in December, Circle members meet in New York to vote on awards for the year's films. The Circle also puts on an awards presentation, which will be held in January 2014 to honor 2013 winners.
The Circle was the first film critics organization that I encountered as a budding, young movie lover. The Circle's awards have been predictors of the Oscar nominations. However, The Circle sees it awards “as a principled alternative to the Oscars, honoring esthetic merit in a forum that is immune to commercial and political pressures,” according to their website.
Here's the complete list of the 2013 Awards:
Best Picture - American Hustle
Best Director - Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave
Best Screenplay - Eric Singer & David O. Russell for American Hustle
Best Actress - Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine
Best Actor - Robert Redford for All Is Lost
Best Supporting Actress - Jennifer Lawrence for American Hustle
Best Supporting Actor - Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club
Best Cinematographer - Bruno Delbonnel for Inside Llewyn Davis
Best Animated Film - The Wind Rises
Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary) - Stories We Tell
Best Foreign Film - Blue is the Warmest Color
Best First Film - Ryan Coogler for Fruitvale Station
Special Award: Frederick Wiseman
http://www.nyfcc.com/
American Hustle, the new film from director David O. Russell, is "Best Picture" of 2013, according to the New York Film Critics Circle. The film won three awards, including honors for the screenplay (written by Russell and Eric Singer) and supporting actress for Jennifer Lawrence. Lawrence won the best actress Oscar earlier this year for her performance in Russell's Silver Linings Playbook. Steve McQueen won directing honors for 12 Years a Slave. Robert Redford won "Best Actor" for his much talked about performance in the film, All is Lost. Cate Blanchett continues the tradition of actress honored for their work in Woody Allen film, winning "Best Actress" for Blue Jasmine.
Founded in 1935, the New York Film Critics Circle is, according to their website, “an organization of film reviewers from New York-based publications that exists to honor excellence in U.S. and world cinema.” Members are critics from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, magazines, and online general-interest publications (that meet certain qualifications). Every year in December, Circle members meet in New York to vote on awards for the year's films. The Circle also puts on an awards presentation, which will be held in January 2014 to honor 2013 winners.
The Circle was the first film critics organization that I encountered as a budding, young movie lover. The Circle's awards have been predictors of the Oscar nominations. However, The Circle sees it awards “as a principled alternative to the Oscars, honoring esthetic merit in a forum that is immune to commercial and political pressures,” according to their website.
Here's the complete list of the 2013 Awards:
Best Picture - American Hustle
Best Director - Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave
Best Screenplay - Eric Singer & David O. Russell for American Hustle
Best Actress - Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine
Best Actor - Robert Redford for All Is Lost
Best Supporting Actress - Jennifer Lawrence for American Hustle
Best Supporting Actor - Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club
Best Cinematographer - Bruno Delbonnel for Inside Llewyn Davis
Best Animated Film - The Wind Rises
Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary) - Stories We Tell
Best Foreign Film - Blue is the Warmest Color
Best First Film - Ryan Coogler for Fruitvale Station
Special Award: Frederick Wiseman
http://www.nyfcc.com/
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