The Critics’ Choice Award Nominations

The nominations for the 19th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards were announced this morning.  Typically seen an accurate bellwether for where the Oscar may sway, the awards are voted on by members of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the largest film critics organization in the country. Its membership features nearly 300 television, radio and online critics.  This year, 12 Years a Slave and American Hustle tied with 13 nominations each, a recurring theme of this years awards season so far, as the same two films co-lead the nomination tally at last week’s Golden Globe nomination announcement, while Gravity scored 10 nominations.

Aside from honoring the usual list of acting, writing and technical mentions, the Critics’ Choice also (now for the second year in a row) bestowes prizes for the best in genre pictures, including Best Action Film, Comedy Film, and Sci-Fi/Horror Film.

Also of note, the BFCA acknowledged Scarlett Johansson vocal work in Spike Jonze’s Her.  The actress received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her performance as Samantha, the voice of the Siri-like operating system that Joaquin Phoenix’s character falls for in the film.  While it seems apparent that this will likeliest be the closet that Johansson gets to an Oscar nomination for her work, it remains on the most critically lauded turns of the season and one of the very few non-traditional performances to ever get a smidgeon of traction in awards season history.

The awards will be televised on the CW network on January 16, 2014 with talk-show host Aisha Tyler serving as emcee.

THE 2013 NOMINEES ARE:

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 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 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 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