One place where it couldn't secure a win was in the Best Director category, with Steve McQueen earning the honor for 12 Years A Slave. Robert Redford received a significant bump, winning Best Actor for his mostly wordless turn in All is Lost, while likely Oscar favorite Cate Blanchett won for Blue Jasmine. The Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis secured a single victory in the Best Cinematography category, a far cry from the Best Feature win it earned at the Gotham Awards yesterday. One thing of note is the serious groundswell of support for Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises, with critics groups perhaps giving the legendary director the send off he deserves.
So does mean we should begin updating the Prognosticator 2000? Eh, probably not. It's still too soon to start drawing any conclusions, but things will get real interesting when the National Board of Review weighs in tomorrow. Full list of winners below:
Best Film:
"American Hustle"
Best Director:
Steve McQueen, "12 Years a Slave"
Best Screenplay:
Eric Singer & David O. Russell, "American Hustle"
Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine"
Best Actor:
Robert Redford, "All Is Lost"
Best Supporting Actress:
Jennifer Lawrence, "American Hustle"
Best Supporting Actor:
Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club"
Best Cinematography:
Bruno Delbonnel, "Inside Llewyn Davis"
Best Non-fiction Film:
"Stories We Tell," directed by Sarah Polley
Best Foreign Language Film:
"Blue is the Warmest Color," directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
Best Animated Feature:
"The Wind Rises," directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Best First Feature:
"Fruitvale Station," directed by Ryan Coogler
