Steve McQueen's moving historical drama 12 Years A Slave took Best Picture from NY and Boston, while LA did their own thing and went with a tie between Spike Jonze's Her (not surprising, really) and Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity. LA was wrought with indecision, actually, delivering ties for Best Director between Cuaron and Jonze; Best Actress for Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine and Adele Exarchopoulos for Blue is the Warmest Color; and another tie with James Franco winning for Spring Breakers and Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club. Blanchett would clean up by taking home the award from NY and Boston, as well. So much for any talk of her losing steam. Chiwetel Ejiofor was honored with Best Actor by NY and Boston, while LA showed Bruce Dern some love for Nebraska.
Lupita Nyong'o continues to look like the heavy favorite for Best Supporting Actress with LA and and NY adding to her tally, while Boston went with Nebraska's June Squibb. What you won't find is much mention of American Hustle or The Wolf of Wall Street, with the former only winning NY's Best Ensemble Film category and producer Megan Ellison taking LA's New Generation award. Boston clearly fell in love with Nicole Holofcener's Enough Said, approving of her screenplay while also giving the late James Gandolfini a posthumous Best Supporting Actor win. The Best Documentary category may be moving towards a showdown between The Act of Killing and Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell. While 'Stories' edged out 'Killing' in LA, it was the latter that came out victorious in Boston and NY.
The full list of winners for all three groups is below. The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association will reveal their awards tomorrow at 8am. Follow the announcements with Twitter #WAFCAAwards13
New York Film Critics Online
Best Picture: “12 Years a Slave”
Director: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”
Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years a Slave”
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”
Best Ensemble Cast: “American Hustle”
Breakthrough Performance: Adele Exarchopoulos, “Blue Is the Warmest Color”
Best Screenplay: Spike Jonze, “Her”
Best Debut Director: Ryan Coogler, “Fruitvale Station”
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, “Gravity”
Best Use of Music: “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Best Foreign Language Film: "Blue is the Warmest Color"
Best Documentary: "The Act of Killing"
Best Animated Feature: "The Wind Rises"
Boston Society of Film Critics
Best Picture: “12 Years a Slave”
Best Director: Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave”
Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years a Slave”
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”
Best Supporting Actor: James Gandolfini, “Enough Said”
Best Supporting Actress: June Squibb, “Nebraska”
Best Ensemble Cast: “Nebraska”
Best Screenplay: Nicole Holofcener, “Enough Said”
Best Documentary: “The Act of Killing”
Best Animated Film: “The Wind Rises”
Best Foreign Language Film: “Wadjda”
Best New Filmmaker: Ryan Coogler, “Fruitvale Station”
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, “Gravity”
Best Editing: Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill, “Rush”
Best Use of Music in a Film: “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Los Angeles Film Critics
Picture: “Gravity” and “Her” (tie)
Director: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”
Actor: Bruce Dern, “Nebraska”
Actress: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine,” and Adele Exarchopoulos, “Blue Is the Warmest Color” (tie)
Supporting actor: James Franco, “Spring Breakers,” and Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Supporting actress: Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”
Screenplay: Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, “Before Midnight”
Foreign-language film: “Blue Is the Warmest Color”
Documentary/nonfiction film: “Stories We Tell”
Animation: “Ernest & Celestine”
Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, “Gravity”
New Generation: Megan Ellison
Film editing: Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger, “Gravity”
Production design: K.K. Barrett, “Her”
Music score: T Bone Burnett, “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Douglas E. Edwards Independent/Experimental Film/Video Award: “Cabinets of Wonder: Films and a Performance by Charlotte Pryce”
Special citation: The creative team of “12 Years a Slave”
Legacy of Cinema Award: Criterion Collection
