5th Annual Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards

The Indiana Film Journalists Association (IFJA) announced their 5th annual awards on December 19th, 2013 with giving away the Best Film award to 12 Years a Slave, directed and co-produced by Steve McQueen who also won the Best Director award. Her was the runner-up in both of the categories aforementioned. It's great to see Her getting much love from the critics.

I've got no problem with the winners and IFJA's choices this year except including Spring Breakers in the final list of top films and GRAVITY IS NOT EVEN IN THE LIST!!! Also, not making Jared Leto even a runner-up in Best Supporting Actor category. I have no idea what's wrong with IFJA. But... it's nice to see Frances Ha finally making it to some of the best film lists.

Last year, 3 IFJA winners won the Oscars, i.e. Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, Best Supporting Actress for Anne Hathaway and Best Documentary for Searching for Sugar Man. Additionally, 5 of the runner-ups won the Oscars in the end. That means IFJA's really close to predicting the real winners. Let's see how it goes at the Oscars this year.

Here is the complete list of winners along with runner-ups:

BEST FILM:

• Winner: 12 YEARS A SLAVE


• Runner-Up: HER

Other Finalists (listed alphabetically):

• ALL IS LOST


• BEFORE MIDNIGHT


• CAPTAIN PHILLIPS


• FRANCES HA


• MUD


• PRISONERS


• SPRING BREAKERS


• THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:

• Winner: FROZEN


• Runner-up: THE WIND RISES

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

• Winner: BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR


• Runner-Up: THE GRANDMASTER

BEST DOCUMENTARY:

• Winner: THE ACT OF KILLING


• Runner-Up: STORIES WE TELL

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

• Winner: Spike Jonze – HER


• Runner-Up: Peter Morgan – RUSH

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

• Winner: Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy – BEFORE MIDNIGHT


• Runner-Up: John Ridley – 12 YEARS A SLAVE

BEST DIRECTOR:

• Winner: Steve McQueen – 12 YEARS A SLAVE


• Runner-Up: Spike Jonze – HER

BEST ACTRESS:

• Winner: Adele Exarchopoulos – BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR


• Runner-Up: Brie Larson – SHORT TERM 12

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

• Winner: Jennifer Lawrence – AMERICAN HUSTLE


• Runner-Up: June Squibb – NEBRASKA

BEST ACTOR:

• Winner: Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 YEARS A SLAVE


• Runner-Up: Matthew McConaughey – DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

• Winner: Barkhad Abdi – CAPTAIN PHILLIPS


• Runner-Up: Jeremy Renner – AMERICAN HUSTLE

BEST MUSICAL SCORE:

• Winner: Hans Zimmer – 12 YEARS A SLAVE


• Runner-Up: Hans Zimmer – RUSH

ORIGINAL VISION AWARD: 

• Winner: HER


• Runner-Up: GRAVITY

THE HOOSIER AWARD: MEDORA – Andrew Cohn and Davy Rothbart, directors