Chicago Film Critics Association Nominations

Best Film:

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

Best Director:

• Joel & Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis
• Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
• Spike Jonze, Her
• Steve McQueen, 12 Years A Slave
• David O. Russell, American Hustle

Best Actor:

• Bruce Dern, Nebraska 
• Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years A Slave
• Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
• Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
• Robert Redford, All Is Lost

Best Actress:

• Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
• Sandra Bullock, Gravity
• Adele Exarchopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Color
• Brie Larson, Short Term 12
• Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

Best Supporting Actor:

• Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
• Michael Fassbender, 12 Years A Slave
• James Franco, Spring Breakers
• 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
• Lea Seydoux, Blue Is the Warmest Color
• June Squibb, Nebraska 

Best Original Screenplay:

• Eric Singer & David O. Russell, American Hustle
• Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine
• Spike Jonze, Her
• Joel & Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis
• Bob Nelson, Nebraska

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• John Ridley, 12 Years A Slave
• Tracey Letts, August: Osage County
• Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy, Before Midnight
• Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope, Philomena
• Terrence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Foreign Language Film:

• Blue Is the Warmest Color
• The Act of Killing
• The Hunt
• Wadjda
• The Wind Rises

Best Documentary:

• 20 Feet From Stardom
• The Act of Killing
• The Armstrong Lie
• Blackfish
• Stories We Tell

Best Animated Feature:

• The Croods
• From Up on Poppy Hill
• Frozen
• Monsters University
• The Wind Rises

Best Cinematography:

• Sean Bobbitt, 12 Years A Slave
• Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity
• Hoyte Van Hoytema, Her
• Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis
• Roger Deakins, Prisoners 

Best Original Score:

• Hans Zimmer, 12 Years A Slave
• Alfonso de Vilallongo, Blancanieves
• Steven Price, Gravity
• Arcade Fire, Her
• Cliff Martinez & Skrillex, Spring Breakers

Best Art Direction/Production Design:

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

Best Editing:

• Joe Walker, 12 Years A Slave
• Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy & Crispin Struthers, American Hustle 
• Alfonso Cuaron & Mark Sanger, Gravity
• Shane Carruth & David Lowery, Upstream Colo
• Thelma Schoonmaker, The Wolf of Wall Street

Most Promising Filmmaker:

• Lake Bell, In A World 
• Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station
• Destin Cretton, Short Term 12
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Don Jon
• Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing

Most Promising Performer:

• Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
• Chadwick Boseman, 42
• Adele Exarchopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Color
• Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years A Slave
• Tye Sheridan, Mud