12 Years A Slave wins big with Washington DC Critics

After some perceived "backlash" against early-frontrunner 12 Years A Slave, the later critics awards seem to be coming back to bring it back to the front of the pack. After major wins yesterday with the Boston and Online New York Film Critics, the Washington DC critics gave the film their Best Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress, and Screenplay awards.

Surprisingly enough, despite the middling reviews, summer hit The Great Gatsby was nominated for a number of awards, including Leonardo DiCaprio's performance as the mysterious Gatsby.

Full list of winners after the jump.

Best Film:

• 12 Years A Slave *
• American Hustle
• Gravity
• Her
• Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Director:

• Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity *
• Spike Jonze, Her
• Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby
• Steve McQueen, 12 Years A Slave
• Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor:

• Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years A Slave *
• Leonardo DiCaprio, The Great Gatsby
• Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
• Jaoquin Phoenix, Her
• Robert Redford, All Is Lost

Best Actress: 

• Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine *
• Sandra Bullock, Gravity
• Judi Dench, Philomena
• Meryl Streep, August: Osage County
• Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks

Best Supporting Actor:

• Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club *
• Daniel Bruhl, Rush
• Michael Fassbender, 12 Years A Slave
• James Franco, Spring Breakers
• James Gandolfini, Enough Said

Best Supporting Actress:

• Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years A Slave *
• Scarlett Johansson, Her
• Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
• Octavia Spencer, Fruitvale Station
• June Squibb, Nebraska 

Best Youth Performance:

• Tye Sheridan, Mud *
• Asa Butterfield, Ender's Game
• Adele Exarchopolous, Blue is the Warmest Color
• Liam James, The Way Way Back
• Waad Mohammed, Wadjda

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• John Ridley, 12 Years A Slave *
• Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke & Richard Linklater, Before Midnight
• Billy Ray, Captain Phillips 
• Michael H. Weber & Scott Neustadter, The Spectacular Now 
• Terence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Original Screenplay:

• Spike Jonze, Her *
• Eric Warren Singer & David O. Russell, American Hustle
• Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine
• Nicole Holofcener, Enough Said
• Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Animated Feature: 

• Frozen *
• The Croods
• Despicable Me 2
• Monsters University
• The Wind Rises

Best Documentary 

• Blackfish *
• The Act of Killing
• Leviathan
• Stories We Tell
• 20 Feet from Stardom

Best Foreign Language Film:

• The Broken Circle Breakdown *
• Blue Is the Warmest Color
• The Hunt
• The Past
• Wadjda

Best Art Direction:

• The Great Gatsby *
• Gravity
• Her
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• 12 Years A Slave

Best Cinematography:

• Emmanuelle Lubezki, Gravity *
• Simon Duggan, The Great Gatsby
• Hoyte Van Hoytema, Her
• Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis
• Sean Bobbitt, 12 Years A Slave

Best Original Score:

• Hans Zimmer, 12 Years A Slave *
• Christophe Beck, Frozen
• Arcade Fire, Her
• Steven Price, Gravity
• Thomas Newman, Saving Mr. Banks

The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington DC:

• Lee Daniels' The Butler *
• The East
• Olympus Has Fallen
• Philomena 
• White House Down