Sunday, December 8, 2013

Cate Blanchett Continues Oscar March with 3 More Critics' Prizes! Plus 12 Years A Slave, Her, and Gravity All Build Momentum



The Los Angeles, Boston, and Online New York critics all announced their respective "Bests" list today. Though all they all spread the wealth around a number of nominees, one person in particular was a winner in each of these races, and that would be Blue Jasmine's Cate Blanchett. Her Oscar win is looking very much like a sealed deal now. This would be her second win but her first in Best Actress (she won a Supporting Actress award for her performance in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator).

Her built on its NBR love by winning the LAFCA's Best Picture award, along with Gravity in one of the many ties that took place in their voting period. 12 Years A Slave built some much needed momentum after losing at the Gothams and the NYFCC by picking up the Boston and Online New York Film critics top prizes. This isn't a year like The Artist or The Social Network, where one film dominates the race; there are a lot of top tier contenders which make the races very exciting.

 Click below to see the full list of winners and runner ups.

Boston Film Critics 


  • Best Cinematography: Emmanuelle Lubezki, Gravity (runner-up: The Grandmaster)
  • Best Editing: Rush (runner-up: The Wolf of Wall Street)
  • Best Use of Music in a Film: Inside Llewyn Davis (runner-up: Nebraska)
  • Best New Filmmaker: Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station (runner-up: Josh Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing
  • Best Animated Film- The Wind Rises (runner-up: Frozen)
  • Best Foreign Film- Wadjda
  • Best Documentary- The Act of Killing (runner-up: Blackfish)
  • Best Screenplay- Nicole Holofcener, Enough Said (runner-up: The Wolf of Wall Street)
  • Best Ensemble Cast- Nebraska 
  • Best Supporting Actress- June Squibb, Nebraska (runner-up: Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years A Slave)
  • Best Supporting Actor- James Gandolfini, Enough Said (runner-up: tie between Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips and Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club)
  • Best Actress- Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine (runner-up: Judi Dench, Philomena)
  • Best Actor- Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years A Slave (runner-up: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street)
  • Best Director- Steve McQueen, 12 Years A Slave (runner-up: Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street)
  • Best Picture- 12 Years A Slave (runner-up: The Wolf of Wall Street)
Los Angeles Film Critics

  • Best Production Design: K.K. Barrett, Her (runner-up: Jess Gonchor, Inside Llewyn Davis)
  • Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years A Slave (runner up: June Squibb, Nebraska)
  • Best Editing: Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger, Gravity (runner-up: Shane Carruth and David Lowery, Upstream Color)
  • Best Cinematography: Emmanuelle Lubezki, Gravity (runner-up: Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Best Supporting Actor: TIE between James Franco, Spring Breakers and Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
  • Best Animation: The Wind Rises (runner-up: Ernest & Celestine)
  • Best Music Score: T Bone Burnett, Inside Llewyn Davis (runner-up: Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett, Her)
  • Best Documentary: Stories We Tell (runner-up: The Act of Killing)
  • Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity (runner-up: Spike Jonze, Her)
  • Best Actor: Bruce Dern, Nebraska (runner-up: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years A Slave)
  • Best Screenplay: Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight (runner-up: Spike Jonze, Her)
  • Best Actress: Another tie! between Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine and Adele Exarchopolous, Blue is the Warmest Color
  • Best Picture: Yet ANOTHER tie! between Gravity and Her
  • Best Foreign Language Film: Blue is the Warmest Color (runner-up: The Great Beauty)
New York Film Critics Online 

  • Breakthrough Performance- Adele Exarchopolous, Blue is the Warmest Color
  • Best Supporting Actress- Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years A Slave
  • Best Supporting Actor- Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
  • Best Screenplay- Spike Jonze, Her
  • Best Cinematography- Emmanuelle Lubezki, Gravity 
  • Best Use of Music- Inside Llewyn Davis 
  • Best Debut Director- Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station
  • Best Director- Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
  • Best Actress- Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
  • Best Actor- Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years A Slave
  • Ensemble Cast- American Hustle 
  • Best Picture- 12 Years A Slave
  • Best Foreign Language Film: Blue is the Warmest Color
  • Best Documentary: The Act of Killing 
  • Best Animated Feature: The Wind Rises

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