Critics Societies Roundup 2

A few more critics organizations have cast their vote, so time for round-up two. The first one is the Washington DC Film Critics Association, which in fact already announced their nominations and winners last week, but we shamefully overlooked them. And then yesterday we had the San Francisco Film Critics Circle (which continued the Curious Case of Bradley Cooper), and the Chicago Film Critics Association, which used to be the bastion of the great Roger Ebert. Alas, no more.
Now the Indiana Film Journalists Association also released, well, something yesterday, but we are not quite sure what it is. Is it a longlist? Is it their nominees? Is it every film that played somewhere in Indiana this year? Whatever it is, the fact that they didn’t shy away from naming performers in two different categories makes us hold off on taking these serious for probably the rest of the season.

UPDATE: San Francisco winners have now been bolded below.

UPDATE 2: Chicago winners now also bolded.

WASHINGTON DC FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION (winners in bold)

BEST FILM
American Hustle
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
12 Years a Slave

BEST DIRECTOR
Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón
Her – Spike Jonze
The Great Gatsby – Baz Luhrmann
12 Years a Slave – Steve McQueen
The Wolf of Wall Street – Martin Scorsese

BEST ACTOR
The Wolf of Wall Street – Leonardo DiCaprio
12 Years a Slave – Chiwetel Ejiofor
Dallas Buyers Club – Matthew McConaughey
Her – Joaquin Phoenix
All is Lost – Robert Redford

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

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Rush – Daniel Brühl
12 Years a Slave – Michael Fassbender
Spring Breakers – James Franco
Enough Said – James Gandolfini
Dallas Buyers Club – Jared Leto

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Her – Scarlett Johansson
American Hustle – Jennifer Lawrence
12 Years a Slave – Lupita Nyong’o
Fruitvale Station – Octavia Spencer
Nebraska – June Squibb

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
American Hustle
August: Osage County
Prisoners
12 Years a Slave
The Way – Way Back

BEST YOUTH PERFORMANCE
Ender’s Game – Asa Butterfield
Blue Is the Warmest Color – Adéle Exarchopoulos
The Way, Way Back – Liam James
Wadjda – Waad Mohammed
Mud – Tye Sheridan

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Before Midnight
Captain Phillips
The Spectacular Now
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Enough Said
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis

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

BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Act of Killing
Blackfish
Leviathan
Stories We Tell
20 Feet from Stardom

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Blue Is the Warmest Color
The Broken Circle Breakdown
The Hunt
The Past
Wadjda

BEST ART DIRECTION
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
12 Years a Slave

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
12 Years a Slave

BEST EDITING
Gravity
Her
Rush
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Frozen
Her
Gravity
Saving Mr. Banks
12 Years a Slave

THE JOE BARBER AWARD FOR BEST PORTRAYAL OF WASHINGTON, DC
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
The East
Olympus Has Fallen
Philomena
White House Down

CHICAGO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION

BEST PICTURE
12 Years A Slave
American Hustle
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis

BEST DIRECTOR
Joel & Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis
Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Spike Jonze – Her
Steve McQueen – 12 Years A Slave
David O. Russell – American Hustle

BEST ACTOR
Bruce Dern – Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years A Slave
Oscar Isaac – Inside Llewyn Davis
Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford – All Is Lost

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Adele Exarchopoulos – Blue is the Warmest Color
Brie Larson – Short Term 12
Meryl Streep – August: Osage County

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years A Slave
James Franco – Spring Breakers
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
Lea Seydoux – Blue is the Warmest Color
June Squibb – Nebraska

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
12 Years A Slave

August: Osage County
Before Midnight
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Act of Killing
Blue is the Warmest Color
The Hunt
Wadjda
The Wind Rises

BEST DOCUMENTARY
20 Feet from Stardom
The Act of Killing
The Armstrong Lie
Blackfish
Stories We Tell

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Croods
From Up on Poppy Hill
Frozen
Monsters University
The Wind Rises

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
12 Years A Slave
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Prisoners

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
12 Years A Slave
Blancanieves
Gravity
Her
Spring Breakers

BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN
12 Years A Slave
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis

BEST EDITING
12 Years A Slave
American Hustle
Gravity
Upstream Color
The Wolf of Wall Street

MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER
Lake Bell – In A World
Ryan Coogler – Fruitvale Station
Destin Cretton – Short Term 12
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Don Jon
Joshua Oppenheimer – The Act of Killing

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
Chadwick Boseman – 42
Adele Exarchopoulos – Blue is the Warmest Color
Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years A Slave
Tye Sheridan – Mud

• Author
• Recent Posts

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

Latest posts by Erik Anderson (see all)

• 2025 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (November) - November 21, 2024
• 2025 Oscars: Eligibility Lists for Animated Feature, Documentary Feature and International Feature Film for the 97th Academy Awards - November 21, 2024
• Nava Mau, Sean Wang Among 2024 BAFTA Breakthroughs Championing New ‘Must-Watch’ Creatives - November 21, 2024