Boston, Los Angeles and New York Online Critics Announce Their Winners

Today three critics groups announce their batch of selections for the best of film in 2013 with Boston, Los Angeles and New York’s second critics group all chipping in before the end of the day. The National Board of Review and NYFCC made separate stands going for Her and American Hustle respectively, as well as different winners in every major acting category, so it shall be interesting to see if any of these three groups start some kind of consensus going forward.

12 Years A Slave and Nebraska are all finishing strong today with lots of attention in acting and screenplay categories with Gravity and Her wrapping up the technical nods. One of today’s big surprises was witnessing unheralded candidates like James Franco and James Gandolfini being named best supporting actor by LAFCA and BSFC. Another pleasant surprise being Linklater, Delpy and Hawke’s Best Screenplay win for Before Midnight.

Thus far there has been a lot of diversity in the three groups’ choices; hasn’t been a clear consensus among critics with the exceptions of Cate Blanchett for Best Actress and 12 Years A Slave taking the top prize from Boston and New York. A lot of wealth was available to spread around with Adèle Exarchopoulos getting a few mentions for her breakout performance and The Wolf of Wall Street, Enough Said, Her, 12 Years and Gravity all receiving wins.

Los Angeles had more than a few ties today, concluding their selections with a Best Film tie between Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity and Spike Jonze’s Her. That puts 3 best film wins for 12 Years A Slave, 2 for Her and 1 for American Hustle.

View the full list of today’s winners below.

Boston Society of Film Critics:

• BEST FILM – 12 Years a Slave (Runner Up – The Wolf of Wall Street)
• BEST FOREIGN FILM – Wadjda
• BEST DIRECTOR – Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave (Runner Up Martin Scorsese for The Wolf of Wall Street)
• BEST ACTOR – Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 Years a Slave
• BEST ACTRESS – Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – James Gandolfini for Enough Said (*TIE* Barkhad Abdi for Captain Phillips and Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club)
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – June Squibb for Nebraska (Runner Up – Lupita Nyong’o for 12 Years a Slave)
• BEST ENSEMBLE CAST – Nebraska
• BEST SCREENPLAY – Nicole Holofcener for Enough Said (Runner Up – Terence Winter for The Wolf of Wall Street)
• BEST DOCUMENTARY – The Act of Killing (Runner(s) Up – Blackfish, Leviathan, At Berkeley, Crash Reel, 20 Ft from Stardom)
• BEST ANIMATED FEATURE – The Wind Rises (Runner Up – Frozen)
• BEST NEW FILMMAKER – Ryan Coogler for Fruitvale Station (Runner Up – Josh Oppenheimer for The Act of Killing)
• BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – Emmanuel Lubeski for Gravity (Runner Up – The Grandmaster)
• BEST EDITING – Daniel P. Hanley & Mike Hill for Rush (Runner Up – The Wolf of Wall Street)
• BEST MUSIC – Inside Llewyn Davis (Runner Up – Nebraska)

Los Angeles Film Critics Association:

• BEST PICTURE – *TIE* Gravity and Her
• Best FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM – Blue Is the Warmest (Runner Up – The Great Beauty)
• BEST ACTRESS – *TIE* Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine and Adèle Exarchopoulos for Blue Is the Warmest Color
• BEST SCREENPLAY – Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke for Before Midnight (Runner Up – Spike Jonze for Her)
• BEST ACTOR – Bruce Dern for Nebraska (Runner Up – Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 Years a Slave)
• BEST DIRECTOR – Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity (Runner Up – Spike Jonze for Her)
• BEST DOCUMENTARY – Stories We Tell (Runner Up – The Act of Killing)
• BEST MUSIC SCORE – T Bone Burnett for Inside Llewyn Davis (Runner Up – Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett for Her)
• BEST ANIMATION – Ernest & Celestine (Runner Up – The Wind Rises)
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – *TIE *Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club, James Franco for Spring Breakers
• BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – Emmanuel Lubezki for Gravity (Runner Up – Bruno Delbonnel for Inside Llewyn Davis)
• BEST EDITING – Gravity (Runner Up – Upstream Color)
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – Lupita Nyong’o for 12 Years a Slave (Runner Up – June Squibb for Nebraska)
• BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – Her (Runner Up – Inside Llewyn Davis)
• NEW GENERATION – Megan Ellison

New York Film Critics Online:

• Best Picture – 12 Years A Slave
• Best Documentary – The Act Of Killing
• Best Foreign Language Film – Blue Is The Warmest Color
• Best Animated Feature – The Wind Rises
• Best Ensemble Cast – American Hustle
• Best Actor – Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 Years A Slave
• Best Actress – Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine
• Best Director – Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity
• Best Debut Director – Ryan Coogler for Fruitvale Station
• Best Use Of Music – Inside Llewyn Davis
• Best Cinematography – Emmanuel Lubezki for Gravity
• Best Screenplay (original OR adapted) – Spike Jonze  for Her
• Best Supporting Actor – Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club
• Best Supporting Actress -Lupita Nyong’o for 12 Years A Slave
• Best Breakthrough Performance – Adele Exarchopoulos for Blue Is The Warmest Color