Tonight the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) announced the winners of the 2014 Critics Choice Awards, a show that isn’t necessarily influential as to how the Oscars will turn out, but has been rather predictive over the last few years and a couple of curve balls were thrown tonight, perhaps suggesting what’s in store for the Oscars and making this weekend’s 2014 Screen Actors Guild Awards that much more interesting.
To begin, 12 Years a Slave took home top honors, winning Best Picture as well as Best Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong’o) and Best Adapted Screenplay (John Ridley), but perhaps most interesting was Chiwetel Ejiofor watching Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) accepting Best Actor. Oh, and yes, I have already updated my Best Actor Oscar predictions as a result.
The film also played backseat in the Best Director category as Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) followed up his Golden Globe win with a Critics Choice Award. Gravity also took home bevy of craft awards as well as Best Sci-Fi Film and Best Actress in a Sci-Fi/Horror for Sandra Bullock.
American Hustle won Best Comedy, Best Acting Ensemble and Best Actress in a Comedy (Amy Adams), but if we’re to look at the Critics Choice Awards as an indicator for Oscar, it isn’t exactly helping Hustle‘s cause.
McConaughey’s co-star, Jared Leto, also followed up his Golden Globe win with a Critics Choice win in Best Supporting Actor and I was happy to see Spike Jonze take home the award for Best Original Screenplay for Her.
I’ve included the full list of nominees and winners below, with the winners marked in bold red text and I’ve already updated the Oscar Overture with tonight’s Best Picture winner.
Next up are the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday followed by the Producers Guild Awards on Sunday, which means a complete Oscar predictions update on Monday just may be in order. For the complete calendar of awards events on the horizon click here and be sure to be here Saturday as I (no Laremy this time) will be live blogging the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Now for those Critics Choice winners…
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 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)
