American Hustle and 12 Years a Slave lead the Critics Choice Award Nominations

There are honestly no surprises here, American Hustle and 12 Years a Slave have the most nominations with 13 each.  I am honestly only counting 10 for Hustle, 9 if you want to stick with Oscar categories there are comedy categories there, or an Ensemble award.  Without the ensemble nomination Slave has 11 nominations, and will probably get the same number at Oscar time, although it is out competition for make-up/hairstyle.  Gravity remains the consistent throughout this award season with 10, but too has two nominations, which are not at Oscar.  Come on Critics enough of this Best Action Movie/performer etc business.

On the acting side a few people were dealt some blows, including Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jonah Hill for The Wolf of Wall Street.  They can still make an Oscar comeback, but it looks unlikely at this point. Tom Hanks is apparently not going to be nominated for playing Walt Disney (the man who has won the most Oscars).  Amy Adams did not get a nominations when there were six nominees, even with all the Hustle love, although good news Brie Larson did.  

Should we look out for Christian Bale in Best Actor him making the sixth spot is a surprise here, is a threat, and if so to who?  Best Actress is going to be the veteran winners club.  Will Gandolfini score a posthumous nomination?  Can Scarlett Johansson bump someone with just her voice?  I think the acting nominees are settling into place.

Smaller independent films like Fruitvale Station, and Mud were all but ignored as well.  Many have stated that Fruitvale would do what Beasts of the Southern Wild did, but Beasts had a bigger show at the Independent Spirit Awards and Critics Choice Awards.  Saving Mr. Banks finally showed up, and Dallas Buyer's Club also made the Best Picture race, will these line-up perfectly?  They never do.  

Last year The Master and Moonrise Kingdom both got nominations here, but failed to score Best Picture nomination, there were nine Best Picture nominees and Amour made the cut.  The year before Drive was nominated at the Critics Choice Awards, but only nine films were nominated at Oscar, so it was cut.  The year before that this group nominated The Town, while the Oscars went for The Kids are all Right.  Like it or not, these are the films with the best shot at nominations, there will be only nine Best Picture nominees, so if one does not make the cut it will probably be Dallas Buyer's Club.

(Source awardsdaily.com)

BEST PICTURE

American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Saving Mr. Banks
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale – American Hustle
Bruce Dern – Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford – All Is Lost

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Judi Dench – Philomena
Brie Larson – Short Term 12
Meryl Streep – August: Osage County
Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks

 BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
Daniel Bruhl – Rush
Bradley Cooper – American Hustle
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
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
Julia Roberts – August: Osage County
June Squibb – Nebraska
Oprah Winfrey – Lee Daniels’ The Butler

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Asa Butterfield – Ender’s Game
Adele Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Color
Liam James – The Way Way Back
Sophie Nelisse – The Book Thief
Tye Sheridan – Mud

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
American Hustle
August: Osage County
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Nebraska
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips
Spike Jonze – Her
Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell – American Hustle
Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Eric Singer and David O. Russell – American Hustle
Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine
Spike Jonze – Her
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis
Bob Nelson – Nebraska

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Tracy Letts – August: Osage County
Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke – Before Midnight
Billy Ray – Captain Phillips
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope – Philomena
John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave
Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Emmanuel Lubezki – Gravity
Bruno Delbonnel – Inside Llewyn Davis
Phedon Papamichael – Nebraska
Roger Deakins – Prisoners
Sean Bobbitt – 12 Years a Slave

BEST ART DIRECTION
Andy Nicholson (Production Designer), Rosie Goodwin (Set Decorator) – Gravity
Catherine Martin (Production Designer), Beverley Dunn (Set Decorator) – The Great Gatsby
K.K. Barrett (Production Designer), Gene Serdena (Set Decorator) – Her
Dan Hennah (Production Designer), Ra Vincent (Set Decorator) – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Adam Stockhausen (Production Designer), Alice Baker (Set Decorator) – 12 Years a Slave

BEST EDITING
Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers – American Hustle
Christopher Rouse – Captain Phillips
Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger – Gravity
Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill – Rush
Joe Walker – 12 Years a Slave
Thelma Schoonmaker – The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Michael Wilkinson – American Hustle
Catherine Martin – The Great Gatsby
Bob Buck, Lesley Burkes-Harding, Ann Maskrey, Richard Taylor – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Daniel Orlandi – Saving Mr. Banks
Patricia Norris – 12 Years a Slave

BEST MAKEUP
American Hustle
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Rush
12 Years a Slave

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
Star Trek into Darkness

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Monsters University
The Wind Rises

BEST ACTION MOVIE
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Iron Man 3
Lone Survivor
Rush
Star Trek into Darkness

BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Henry Cavill – Man of Steel
Robert Downey Jr. – Iron Man 3
Brad Pitt – World War Z
Mark Wahlberg – Lone Survivor

BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Evangeline Lilly – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Gwyneth Paltrow – Iron Man 3

BEST COMEDY
American Hustle
Enough Said
The Heat
This Is the End
The Way Way Back
The World’s End

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Christian Bale – American Hustle
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
James Gandolfini – Enough Said
Simon Pegg – The World’s End
Sam Rockwell – The Way Way Back

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Amy Adams – American Hustle
Sandra Bullock – The Heat
Greta Gerwig – Frances Ha
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Enough Said
Melissa McCarthy – The Heat

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
The Conjuring
Gravity
Star Trek into Darkness
World War Z

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Blue Is the Warmest Color
The Great Beauty
The Hunt
The Past
Wadjda

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Act of Killing
Blackfish
Stories We Tell
Tim’s Vermeer
20 Feet from Stardom

BEST SONG
Atlas – Coldplay – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Happy – Pharrell Williams – Despicable Me 2
Let It Go – Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez – Frozen
Ordinary Love – U2 – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Please Mr. Kennedy – Justin Timberlake/Oscar Isaac/Adam Driver – Inside Llewyn Davis
Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Rey – The Great Gatsby

BEST SCORE
Steven Price – Gravity
Arcade Fire – Her
Thomas Newman – Saving Mr. Banks
Hans Zimmer – 12 Years a Slave

NOMINEES BY PICTURE FOR
THE 19th ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS

12 Years a Slave – 13 Nominations

Best Picture

Best Actor / Chiwetel Ejiofor

Best Supporting Actor / Michael Fassbender

Best Supporting Actress / Lupita Nyong’o

Best Acting Ensemble

Best Director / Steve McQueen

Best Adapted Screenplay / John Ridley

Best Cinematography / Sean Bobbitt

Best Art Direction / Adam Stockhausen (Production Designer), Alice Baker (Set Decorator)

Best Editing / Joe Walker

Best Costume Design / Patricia Norris

Best Makeup

Best Score / Hans Zimmer

20 Feet from Stardom – 1 Nomination

Best Documentary

The Act of Killing – 1 Nomination

Best Documentary

All is Lost – 1 Nomination

Best Actor / Robert Redford

American Hustle – 13 Nominations

Best Picture

Best Actor / Christian Bale

Best Supporting Actor / Bradley Cooper

Best Supporting Actress / Jennifer Lawrence

Best Acting Ensemble

Best Director / David O. Russell

Best Original Screenplay / Eric Singer and David O. Russell

Best Editing / Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers

Best Costume Design / Michael Wilkinson

Best Makeup

Best Comedy

Best Actor in a Comedy / Christian Bale

Best Actress in a Comedy / Amy Adams

August: Osage County – 4 Nominations

Best Actress / Meryl Streep

Best Supporting Actress / Julia Roberts

Best Acting Ensemble

Best Adapted Screenplay / Tracy Letts

Before Midnight – 1 Nomination

Best Adapted Screenplay / Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke

Blackfish – 1 Nomination

Best Documentary

Blue is the Warmest Color – 2 Nominations

Best Young Actor/Actress / Adele Exarchopoulos

Best Foreign Language Film

Blue Jasmine – 2 Nominations

Best Actress / Cate Blanchett

Best Original Screenplay / Woody Allen

The Book Thief – 1 Nomination

Best Young Actor/Actress / Sophie Nelisse

Captain Phillips – 6 Nominations

Best Picture

Best Actor / Tom Hanks

Best Supporting Actor / Barkhad Abdi

Best Director / Paul Greengrass

Best Adapted Screenplay / Billy Ray

Best Editing / Christopher Rouse

The Conjuring – 1 Nomination

Best Sci-fi/Horror Movie

The Croods – 1 Nomination 
Best Animated Film

Dallas Buyers Club – 3 Nominations

Best Picture

Best Actor / Matthew McConaughey

Best Supporting Actor / Jared Leto

Despicable Me 2 – 2 Nominations

Best Animated Film

Best Song / Happy – Pharrell Williams

Ender’s Game – 1 Nomination

Best Young Actor/Actress / Asa Butterfield

Enough Said – 4 Nominations

Best Supporting Actor / James Gandolfini

Best Comedy

Best Actor in a Comedy / James Gandolfini

Best Actress in a Comedy / Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Frances Ha – 1 Nomination

Best Actress in a Comedy / Greta Gerwig

Frozen – 2 Nominations

Best Animated Film

Best Song / Let It Go – Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez

Gravity – 10 Nominations

Best Picture

Best Actress / Sandra Bullock

Best Director / Alfonso Cuarón

Best Cinematography / Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Art Direction / Andy Nicholson (Production Designer), Rosie Goodwin (Set Decorator)

Best Editing / Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger

Best Visual Effects

Best Actress in An Action Movie / Sandra Bullock

Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie

Best Score / Steven Price

The Great Beauty – 1 Nomination

Best Foreign Language Film

The Great Gatsby – 3 Nominations

Best Art Direction / Catherine Martin (Production Designer), Beverley Dunn (Set Decorator)

Best Costume Design / Catherine Martin

Best Song / Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Rey

The Heat – 3 Nominations

Best Comedy

Best Actress in a Comedy / Sandra Bullock

Best Actress in a Comedy / Melissa McCarthy

Her – 6 Nominations

Best Picture

Best Supporting Actress / Scarlett Johansson

Best Director / Spike Jonze

Best Original Screenplay / Spike Jonze

Best Art Direction / K.K. Barrett (Production Designer), Gene Serdena (Set Decorator)

Best Score / Arcade Fire

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – 5 Nominations

Best Art Direction / Dan Hennah (Production Designer), Ra Vincent (Set Decorator)

Best Costume Design / Bob Buck, Lesley Burkes-Harding, Ann Maskrey, Richard Taylor

Best Makeup

Best Visual Effects

Best Actress in an Action Movie / Evangeline Lilly

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – 3 Nominations

Best Action Movie

Best Actress in an Action Movie / Jennifer Lawrence

Best Song / Atlas – Coldplay

The Hunt – 1 Nomination

Best Foreign Language Film

Inside Llewyn Davis – 4 Nominations

Best Picture

Best Original Screenplay / Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

Best Cinematography / Bruno Delbonnel

Best Song / Please Mr. Kennedy – Justin Timberlake/Oscar Isaac/Adam Driver

Iron Man 3 – 4 Nominations

Best Visual Effects

Best Action Movie

Best Actor in an Action Movie / Robert Downey Jr.

Best Actress in an Action Movie / Gwyneth Paltrow

Lee Daniels’ The Butler – 3 Nominations

Best Supporting Actress / Oprah Winfrey

Best Acting Ensemble

Best Makeup

Lone Survivor – 2 Nominations

Best Action Movie

Best Actor in an Action Movie / Mark Wahlberg

Man of Steel – 1 Nomination          

Best Actor in an Action Movie / Henry Cavill

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – 1 Nomination  

Best Song / Ordinary Love – U2

Monsters University – 1 Nomination

Best Animated Film

Mud – 1 Nomination

Best Young Actor/Actress / Tye Sheridan

Nebraska – 6 Nominations

Best Picture

Best Actor / Bruce Dern

Best Supporting Actress / June Squibb

Best Acting Ensemble

Best Original Screenplay / Bob Nelson

Best Cinematography / Phedon Papamichael

Pacific Rim – 1 Nomination

Best Visual Effects

The Past – 1 Nomination

Best Foreign Language Film

Philomena – 2 Nominations

Best Actress / Judi Dench

Best Adapted Screenplay / Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope

Prisoners – 1 Nomination

Best Cinematography / Roger Deakins 

Rush – 4 Nominations

Best Supporting Actor / Daniel Bruhl

Best Editing / Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill

Best Makeup

Best Action Movie

Saving Mr. Banks – 4 Nominations

Best Picture

Best Actress / Emma Thompson

Best Costume Design / Daniel Orlandi

Best Score / Thomas Newman

Short Term 12 – 1 Nomination

Best Actress / Brie Larson

Star Trek into Darkness – 3 Nominations

Best Visual Effects

Best Action Movie

Best Sci-fi/Horror Movie

Stories We Tell – 1 Nomination

Best Documentary

This Is The End – 1 Nomination

Best Comedy

Tim’s Vermeer – 1 Nomination

Best Documentary

Wadjda – 1 Nomination

Best Foreign Language Film

The Way Way Back – 3 Nominations

Best Young Actor/Actress / Liam James

Best Comedy

Best Actor in a Comedy / Sam Rockwell

The Wind Rises – 1 Nomination

Best Animated Film

The Wolf of Wall Street – 6 Nominations

Best Picture

Best Acting Ensemble                                       

Best Director / Martin Scorsese                    

Best Adapted Screenplay / Terence Winter

Best Editing / Thelma Schoonmaker

Best Actor in a Comedy / Leonardo DiCaprio

World War Z – 2 Nominations

Best Actor in an Action Movie / Brad Pitt

Best Sci-fi/Horror Movie

The World’s End – 2 Nominations

Best Comedy

Best Actor in a Comedy / Simon Pegg