The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) announced their 26th annual awards at a ceremony held on December 16, 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. 12 Years a Slave was the biggest winner of the night winning 5 awards including Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. The rest of the winners were completely reasonable and there are no surprises whatsoever.
Last year, only 2 CFCA winners won the Oscars, i.e. Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis and Best Foreign Language Film for Amour. Let's see what happens this year as they declared 12 Years a Slave their favorite and it's the strongest contender of this season.
Here is the complete list of winners:
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: Jared Leto--Dallas Buyers Club
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Lupita Nyong'o--12 Years A Slave
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Spike Jonze--Her
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: John Ridley--12 Years A Slave
BEST DOCUMENTARY: The Act of Killing
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM: The Act of Killing
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: The Wind Rises
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Her--Arcade Fire
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gravity--Emmanuel Lubezki
BEST EDITING: Gravity--Alfonso Cuaron & Mark Sanger
BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN: Gravity--Mark Scruton/Andy Nicolson
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER: Adele Exarchopoulos--Blue is the Warmest Color
MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER: Destin Cretton--Short Term 12
