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The Cinematic Holy Trinity: New York + Los Angeles + Chicago critics associations' awards

Well, Chicago Film Critics Association was the last critics association from the Holy Trinity (NYFCC, LAFCA and CFCA) to announce its winners, so it's time to analyse the critics choices and their impact in the Oscar race.


NEW YORK FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS
In the last 10 years, only United 93 (directed by Paul Greengrass) missed a Best Picture nomination, while LOTR: The Return of the King, No Country For Old Men, The Hurt Locker and The Artist won both NYFCC Award of Best Film and the Academy Award for Best Picture. This way, NYFCC prizes are major buzz generators and should not be ignored, so it seems American Hustle's Oscar hopes look nice, specially when it took home 3 awards from NY City - Best Film, Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Lawrence) and Best Screenplay.

Best Film
  • American Hustle

Best Director
  • Steve McQueen for 12 Years A Slave

Best Actor
  • Robert Redford for All Is Lost

Best Actress
  • Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine

Best Supporting Actor
  • Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress
  • Jennifer Lawrence for American Hustle

Best Foreign Language Film
  • Blue Is The Warmest Color

Best Animated Film
  • The Wind Rises

Best Screenplay
  • David O. Russell & Eric Singer, American Hustle

Special Award
  • Frederick Wiseman

Best Cinematography
  • Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis

Best First Film
  • Fruitvale Station

Best Non-fiction Film (Documentary)
  • Stories We Tell


LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION
Multiple ties, but some big surprises! Against most of the odds at the time, Her got its first "big" recognition by winning Best Picture (a prize Spike Jonze's work tied with Alfonso Cuarón's sci-fi epic and huge Oscar player Gravity), being LA the first city to declare its love for Jonze's melancholic movie. Another interesting tie was Blanchett & Exarchopoulos in the Best Actress category: what for Cate Blanchett is an important prize for a possible (and likely) future Oscar win, for the young French actress it means she can get an Oscar nomination, since LAFCA tend to award foreign-language performances and if Adèle Exarchopoulos missed this one, her Oscar hopes wouldn't be the same for sure. Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) also tied his Best Supporting Actor prize with James Franco for what will be a cult performance in Spring Breakers, leaving me "happy" for seeing Franco getting recognized for a major organization for what is the best performance of his career in a movie not made for the AMPAS taste. 12 Years a Slave didn't win something huge, but Lupita Nyong'o took home Best Supporting Actress, Ejiofor was a runner-up in Best Actor and the movie got a special citation during the awards ceremony. American Hustle ended completely snubed! LA brought surprises and shaked awards season in such a positive way!

Best Picture: Her and Gravity (tied)

Best Foreign-Language Film: Blue Is the Warmest Color
Runner-up: The Great Beauty

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine and Adèle Exarchopoulos for Blue Is the Warmest Color (tied)

Best Screenplay: Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight
Runner-up: Spike Jonze, Her

Best Actor: Bruce Dern for Nebraska
Runner-up: Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 Years a Slave

Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
Runner-up: Spike Jonze, Her

Best Documentary: Stories We Tell
Runner-up: The Act of Killing

Best Music Score: T Bone Burnett, Inside Llewyn Davis
Runner-up: Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett, Her

Best Animation: Ernest & Celestine
Runner-up: The Wind Rises

Best Supporting Actor: James Franco for Spring Breakers and Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club (tied)

Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity
Runner-up: Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Editing: Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger, Gravity
Runner-up: Shane Carruth and David Lowery, Upstream Color

Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o for 12 Years a Slave
Runner-up: June Squibb for Nebraska

Best Production Design: K.K. Barrett, Her
Runner-up: Jess Gonchor, Inside Llewyn Davis

NEW GENERATION Prize
  • Megan Ellison

LEGACY OF CINEMA
  • The Criterion Collection

SPECIAL CITATION
  • 12 Years a Slave


CHICAGO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION
12 Years a Slave won it big in Chicago by taking home 5 prizes (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actress), closing the Holy Trinity. With one of the most interesting nominees lists of this awards season, CFCA nominations tend to be similar to Academy Awards', so let's just not having in consideration the winners but also the nominees. Let me call your attentions to the love around the Coen brothers, Her, 12 Years a Slave and some key nods for Blue Is The Warmest Color (Foreign Language Film, Actress, Supporting Actress and Promising Performer). While Blue was excluded from the AMPAS shortlist of possible Best Foreign Picture nominees, there's still hope for Adèle Exarchopoulos. Her keeps strong and may end with a big couple of Oscar nods (Scarlett Johansson nominated here and getting nominated by other critics organizations and taking home a couple of acting prizes, but it seems a Best Original Screenplay is assured and Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Score seem likely to happen). Inside Llewyn Davis is doing well, but I have my doubts about how will it do when the nominations announcement day comes... Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay seem solid, but will it get recognized in Cinematography or Original Song fields? Oscar Isaac is competing in a very competitive field and I don't see him taking a spot from estabilished actors and from Chiwetel Ejiofor (one of the most amazing performaces of the year, by far). 12 Years a Slave is just doing great everywhere.

Best Picture
  • American Hustle
  • Gravity
  • Her
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • 12 Years a Slave (WINNER)

Best Director
  • Joel Coen & Ethan Coen for Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity
  • Spike Jonze for Her
  • Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave (WINNER)
  • David O. Russell for American Hustle

Best Actor
  • Bruce Dern for Nebraska
  • Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 Years a Slave (WINNER)
  • Oscar Isaac for Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club
  • Robert Redford for All is Lost

Best Actress
  • Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine (WINNER)
  • Sandra Bullock for Gravity
  • Adèle Exarchopoulos for Blue is the Warmest Color
  • Brie Larson for Short Term 12
  • Meryl Streep for August: Osage County

Best Supporting Actor
  • Barkhad Abdi for Captain Phillips
  • Michael Fassbender for 12 Years a Slave
  • James Franco for Spring Breakers
  • James Gandolfini for Enough Said
  • Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club (WINNER)

Best Supporting Actress
  • Scarlett Johansson for Her
  • Jennifer Lawrence for American Hustle
  • Lupita Nyong'o for 12 Years a Slave (WINNER)
  • Léa Seydoux for Blue is the Warmest Color
  • June Squibb for Nebraska

Best Adapted Screenplay
  • August: Osage County
  • Before Midnight
  • Philomena
  • 12 Years a Slave (WINNER)
  • The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Original Screenplay
  • American Hustle
  • Blue Jasmine
  • Her (WINNER)
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Nebraska

Best Foreign Language Film
  • The Act of Killing (WINNER)
  • Blue is the Warmest Color
  • The Hunt
  • Wadjda
  • The Wind Rises

Best Documentary
  • The Act of Killing (WINNER)
  • The Armstrong Lie
  • Blackfish
  • Stories We Tell
  • 20 Feet from Stardom

Best Animated Feature
  • The Croods
  • From Up on Poppy Hill
  • Frozen
  • Monsters University
  • The Wind Rises (WINNER)

Best Cinematography
  • Gravity (WINNER)
  • Her
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Prisoners
  • 12 Years a Slave

Best Original Score
  • Blancanieves
  • Gravity
  • Her (WINNER)
  • Spring Breakers
  • 12 Years a Slave

Best Art Direction/Production Design
  • Gravity (WINNER)
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Her
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • 12 Years a Slave

Best Editing
  • American Hustle
  • Gravity (WINNER)
  • 12 Years a Slave
  • Upstream Color
  • The Wolf of Wall Street

Most Promising Filmmaker
  • Lake Bell for In A World
  • Ryan Coogler for Fruitvale Station
  • Destin Cretton for Short Term 12 (WINNER)
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt for Don Jon
  • Joshua Oppenheimer for The Act of Killing

Most Promising Performer
  • Barkhad Abdi for Captain Phillips
  • Chadwick Boseman for 42
  • Adèle Exarchopoulos for Blue is the Warmest Color (WINNER)
  • Lupita Nyong'o for 12 Years a Slave
  • Tye Sheridan for Mud

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