“Her” and “Gravity” Tie at LAFCA

Ties abound as the 2013 awards race continues.  Yesterdays announcement of the 39th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association award winners likely clouded  the heady road to the Oscars even more, as many categories resulted in a tie.  The top honors went to two films in a tie, and two disparate films as that.  Alfonso Cuarón’s lush lost in space epic Gravity tied with Spike Jonze’s melancholic, future-set love story Her for best film honors, resulting in a list that paid equal attention to films big and small.  This marks the first big victory for Gravity this season and second major win for Her, which surprisingly won top honors at the National Board of Review just last week, marking itself a potential spoiler for further Oscar conversations. 

THE 2013 WINNERS:

BEST PICTURE: (tie) Gravity, Her

BEST DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity; runner-up: Spike Jonze, Her

BEST ACTOR: Bruce Dern, Nebraska; runner-up: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

BEST ACTRESS: (tie) Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine; Adéle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: (tie) James Franco, Spring Breakers; Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave; runner-up: June Squibb, Nebraska

BEST SCREENPLAY: Before Midnight– written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke; runner-up: Her– written by Spike Jonze

BEST ANIMATION: Ernest & Celestine; runner-up: The Wind Rises

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Stories We Tell; runner-up: The Act of Killing

BEST FOREIGN FILM: Blue is the Warmest Color (France); runner-up: The Great Beauty (Italy)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gravity– Emmanuel Lubezki; runner-up: Inside Llewyn Davis– Bruno Delbonnel

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: Her– K.K. Barrett; runner-up: Inside Llewyn Davis– Jess Gonchor

BEST EDITING: Gravity– Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger; runner-up: Upstream Color– Shane Carruth and David Lowery

BEST MUSIC SCORE: Inside Llewyn Davis– T Bone Burnett; runner-up: Her– Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett

SPECIAL CITATION: The creative team of 12 Years a Slave

THE DOUGLAS EDWARDS EXPERIMENTAL/INDEPENDENT FILM/VIDEO AWARD: Cabinets of Wonder: Films and a Performance by Charlotte Pryce

LEGACY OF CINEMA AWARD: The Criterion Collection

NEW GENERATION AWARD: Megan Ellison