11th Annual Iowa Film Critics Association Awards

The Iowa Film Critics Association (IFCA) announced their awards on January 10th, 2014 with giving away the Best Picture award to none other than 12 Years a Slave, directed and co-produced by Steve McQueen who also won the Best Director award. The rest of the wins were traditional.

Last year, only 3 IFCA winners won the Oscar, i.e. Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Animated Film. Let's see what happens this year.

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 Actress: Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave

Best Documentary: 20 Feet from Stardom

Best Animated Film: Frozen

14th Annual Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle (VFCC) announced their awards on January 8th, 2014 with giving away the Best Film award to Steve McQueen‘s 12 Years a Slave. Best Director award went to Alfonso Cuarón for his exceptional work in Gravity.

Last year, only 1 VFCC winner won the Oscar, i.e. Best Documentary for Searching for Sugar Man. Let's see how it goes this year.

INTERNATIONAL AWARS

BEST FILM: 12 Years a Slave

BEST DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity

BEST ACTOR: Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis

BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

BEST SCREENPLAY: Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis

BEST FOREIGN FILM: The Hunt

BEST DOCUMENTARY: The Act of Killing

CANADIAN AWARDS

BEST CANADIAN FILM The Dirties

BEST ACTOR IN A CANADIAN FILM: Matt Johnson, The Dirties

BEST ACTRESS IN A CANADIAN FILM: Sophie Desmarais, Sarah Prefers to Run

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A CANADIAN FILM: Alexandre Landry, Gabrielle

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A CANADIAN FILM: Lise Roy, Tom at the Farm

BEST DIRECTOR OF A CANADIAN FILM: Jeff Barnaby, Rhymes for Young Ghouls

BEST CANADIAN DOCUMENTARY: My Prairie Home

BEST FIRST FILM BY A CANADIAN DIRECTOR: The Dirties

BEST BRITISH COLUMBIA FILM: Down River

IAN CADDELL AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT: Al Sens

AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT: Corinne Lea

8th Annual Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards

The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle (OFCC) announced their awards on January 6th, 2014 with giving away the Best Picture award to Her, written, directed and co-produced by Spike Jonze, whereas the Best Director award went to Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity.

Last year, 6 OFCC winners won the Oscars, i.e. Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Documentary and Best Foreign Language Film. Let's see what happens this year.

Best Picture: "Her"

Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, "Gravity"

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: Jennifer Lawrence, "American Hustle"

Best Original Screenplay: "Her"

Best Adapted Screenplay: "12 Years a Slave"

Best Foreign Language Film: "The Hunt"

Best Documentary: "The Act of Killing"

Best Animated Film: "Frozen"

Best Debut Feature: Ryan Coogler, "Fruitvale Station"

Body of Work Award: Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club," "Mud" and "The Wolf of Wall Street"

Best Guilty Pleasure: "Iron Man 3"

Not-So-Obviously Worst Film: "August: Osage County"

Obviously Worst Film: "Grown Ups 2"

10 Best Films

1. Her


2. American Hustle


3. 12 Years a Slave


4. Gravity


5. Inside Llewyn Davis


6. Captain Phillips


7. The Wolf of Wall Street


8. All is Lost


9. Dallas Buyers Club


10. Prisoners

8th Annual Excellent Dynamic Activism Awards

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) announced its 8th Excellent Dynamic Activism (EDA) awards 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.

Last year, only 6 EDA winners won the Oscars, i.e. Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Documentary and Best Cinematography award.

AWFJ EDA ‘BEST OF’ AWARDS

Best Film: 12 Years a Slave

Best Director (Female or Male): Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave

Best Screenplay, Original: Her – Spike Jonze

Best Screenplay, Adapted: John Ridley - 12 Years a Slave

Best Documentary: Stories We Tell – Sarah Polley

Best Animated Film: The Wind Rises - Hayao Miyazaki

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine

Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Lupita Nyong’o - 12 Years a Slave

Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Ensemble Cast: American Hustle

Best Editing: Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger

Best Cinematography: Gravity - Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Film Music Or Score: Inside Llewyn Davis – T-Bone Burnett

Best Non-English-Language Film: The Hunt – Thomas Vinterberg – Denmark

EDA FEMALE FOCUS AWARDS

Best Woman Director: Nicole Holofcener - Enough Said

Best Woman Screenwriter: Nicole Holofcener - Enough Said

Kick Ass Award For Best Female Action Star: Sandra Bullock – Gravity

Best Animated Female: Anna (Kristen Bell) in Frozen

Best Breakthrough Performance: Lupita Nyong’o - 12 Years A Slave

Actress Defying Age and Ageism: Sandra Bullock – Gravity

AWFJ EDA Female Icon Award (presented to an actress for the portrayal of the most positive female role model, or for a role in which she takes personal and/or career risks to plumb the female psyche and therefore gives us courage to plumb our own, and/or for putting forth the image of a woman who is heroic, accomplished, persistent, demands her rights and/or the rights of others.): Angelina Jolie for continued commitments to humanitarian causes, and for promoting awareness about breast cancer.

This Year’s Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Film Industry (presented only when warranted to a female who has had a banner-making, record-breaking, industry-changing achievement during any given year.): Haaifa Al-Mansour for challenging the limitations placed on women within her culture by making the film Wadjda.

EDA SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS

AWFJ Hall Of Shame Award: The Counselor – Ridley Scott

Actress Most in Need Of A New Agent: Cameron Diaz for The Counselor

Movie You Wanted To Love But Just Couldn’t Award: The Counselor

Unforgettable Moment Award: 12 Years A Slave – Solomon Northrup hanging

Best Depiction Of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction Award: Her - Scarlett Johansson and Joaquin Phoenix for their digital lovemaking.

Sequel or Remake That Shouldn’t Have Been Made Award (Tie): Carrie and Oz, Great and Powerful

Most Egregious Age Difference Between The Leading Man and The Love Interest Award: Last Vegas – Michael Douglas and Bre Blair

48th Annual National Society of Film Critics Awards

The National Society of Film Critics (NSFC) announced their awards on January 4th, 2014 with giving away the Best Picture award to Inside Llewyn Davis, directed and co-produced by Coen Brothers, who also won the Best Director award.

Last year, only ONE NSFC winner won the Oscar, i.e. Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis. Let's see how it goes this year.

Here is the complete list of winners:

Best Picture: Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Director: Coen Brothers

Best Actor: Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis)

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

Best Supporting Actor: James Franco (Spring Breakers)

Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)

Best Screenplay: Richard Linklaterm Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy (Before Midnight)

Best Cinematography: Bruno Delbonnel (Inside Llewyn Davis)

Best Non-Fiction Film: The Act of Killing

Best Foreign Language Film: Blue Is the Warmest Color

Film Heritage

1. To the Museum of Modern Art, for its wide-ranging retrospective of the films of Allan Dwan.


2. Too Much Johnson: the surviving reels from Orson Welles’s first professional film. Discovered by Cinemazero (Pordenone) and Cineteca del Friuli; funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation; and restored by the George Eastman House.


3. British Film Institute for restorations of Alfred Hitchcock's nine silent features.


4. To the DVD American Treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive.

12th Annual Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards

The Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA) announced their awards on January 2nd, 2014 with giving away the Best Film award to Gravity, co-written, directed and co-produced by Alfonso Cuarón who also won the Best Director award.

Last year, only 4 COFCA winners won the Oscars, i.e. Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. Let's see how it goes this year.

Here is the complete list of winners along with runners-up:

Best Film:

1. Gravity


2. Her


3. American Hustle


4. Frances Ha


5. The Wolf of Wall Street


6. 12 Years a Slave


7. Inside Llewyn Davis


8. Before Midnight


9. Upstream Color


10. Nebraska

Best Director:

• Alfonso Cuarón - (Gravity)


• Runner-Up: Spike Jonze - (Her)

Best Actor:

• Chiwetel Ejiofor - (12 Years a Slave)


• Runner-Up: Matthew McConaughey - (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Actress:

• Adèle Exarchopoulos - (Blue is the Warmest Color (La vie d’Adèle))


• Runner-Up: Brie Larson - (Short Term 12)

Best Supporting Actor:

• James Franco - (Spring Breakers)


• Runner-Up: Jared Leto - (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Supporting Actress:

• Jennifer Lawrence - (American Hustle)


• Runner-Up: Lupita Nyong’o - (12 Years a Slave)

Best Ensemble:

• American Hustle


• Runner-Up: The Wolf of Wall Street

Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work):

• Matthew McConaughey - (Dallas Buyers Club, Mud, and The Wolf of Wall Street)


• Runner-Up: Jennifer Lawrence - (American Hustle and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)

Breakthrough Film Artist:

• Adèle Exarchopoulos - (Blue is the Warmest Color (La vie d’Adèle)) - (for acting)


• Runner-Up: Brie Larson - (Don Jon, Short Term 12, and The Spectacular Now) - (for acting)

Best Cinematography:

• Emmanuel Lubezki - (Gravity)


• Runner-Up: Hoyte Van Hoytema - (Her)

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• Terence Winter - (The Wolf of Wall Street)


• Runner-Up: John Ridley - (12 Years a Slave)

Best Original Screenplay:

• Spike Jonze - (Her)


• Runner-Up: Destin Daniel Cretton - (Short Term 12)

Best Score:

• Arcade Fire - (Her)


• Runner-Up: Steven Price - (Gravity)

Best Documentary:

• The Act of Killing


• Runner-Up: Stories We Tell

Best Foreign Language Film:

• The Wind Rises (Kaze tachinu)


• Runner-Up: Blue is the Warmest Color (La vie d’Adèle)

Best Animated Film:

• The Wind Rises (Kaze tachinu)


• Runner-Up: Frozen

Best Overlooked Film:

• Short Term 12


• Runner-Up: Mud

9th Annual North Texas Film Critics Association Awards

The North Texas Film Critics Association (NTFCA) announced their awards with giving away the Best Picture award to Gravity,  co-written, directed and co-produced by Alfonso Cuarón who also won the Best Director award.

Last year, only 4 NTFCA winners won the Oscars, i.e. Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Cinematography. Let's see how it goes this year.

BEST PICTURE: Gravity

BEST DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón/Gravity

BEST ACTOR: Chiwetel Ejiofer/12 Years a Slave

BEST ACTRESS: Sandra Bullock/Gravity

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jared Leto/Dallas Buyers Club

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jennifer Lawrence/American Hustle

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emmanuel Lubezki/Gravity

BEST ANIMATED: Frozen

BEST DOCUMENTARY: 20 Feet From Stardom

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM (TIE): The Grandmaster and Blue is the Warmest Color