Critics societies roundup 7

Also known as 'the stragglers'. Or 'the organizations that can't be bothered to design a logo' (we're looking at you, Iowa and Oklahoma!). But still, critics organizations they are, so we will round them up and present their choices, for this last roundup before this week's Oscar nominations. Georgia picked their winners a few days after announcing their nominees, while Iowa and Oklahoma picked theirs straight off the bat (with the former also giving their runners-up).

Most love went to 12 Years a Slave with these groups (Iowa in particular went gaga over it), though Her actually won Best Picture for two of them. Oklahoma is the state where the wealth is spread the most (when it comes to critics awards, anyway). It is also the state which features such classy categories as Obviously Worst Film, though we had to chuckle at Not-So-Obviously Worst Film. August: Osage County won something!

IOWA FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION

BEST PICTURE
12 Years A Slave
Finalists:
Nebraska
American Hustle

BEST DIRECTOR
Steve McQueen, 12 Years A Slave
Finalists:
David O. Russell, American Hustle
Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity

BEST ACTOR
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years A Slave
Finalists:
Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
Bruce Dern, Nebraska

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Finalists:
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Sandra Bullock, Gravity

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years A Slave
Finalists:
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years A Slave
Finalists:
June Squibb, Nebraska
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Frozen
Finalists:
The Wind Rises
Despicable Me 2

BEST DOCUMENTARY
20 Feet From Stardom
Finalists:
Blackfish
Stories We Tell

OKLAHOMA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE

BEST FILM
Her

TOP 10 FILMS
1. Her
2. American Hustle
3. 12 Years a Slave
4. Gravity
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Captain Philips
7. The Wolf of Wall Street
8. All Is Lost
9. Dallas Buyers Club
10. Prisoners

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 ANIMATED FILM
Frozen

BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Act of Killing

BEST FIRST FEATURE
Fruitvale Station

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Hunt

BEST BODY OF WORK
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club, Mud, The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST GUILTY PLEASURE
Iron Man 3

THE NOT-SO-OBVIOUSLY WORST FILM
August: Osage County

THE OBVIOUSLY WORST FILM
Grown Ups 2

GEORGIA FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION

BEST PICTURE
Her

BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity

BEST ACTOR
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years A Slave

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years A Slave

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years A Slave

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Her

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Short Term 12

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Gravity

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Gravity

BEST SCORE
Her

BEST SONG
Please Mr. Kennedy, Inside Llewyn Davis

BEST ENSEMBLE
Hustle

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURE
No

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Brie Larson

BEST ANIMATED PICTURE
Frozen

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Stories we Tell

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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.

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