Chicago Critics Awards: 12 Years leads with 11 nominations
The nominations for the Chicago Film Critics Awards have been announced. Since 1990, the CFCAs have honored outstanding achievements in film. This year, 12 Years a Slave has been nominated for 11 awards. Gravity and Her were tied in second place with 7 nominations each. Winners will be announced the evening of December 16, 2013. The full list of nominees follows:
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95%
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92%
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96%
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95%
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92%
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
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71%
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87%
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89%
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88%
Best Animated Feature
- Eric Singer and David O. Russell for American Hustle
- Woody Allen for Blue Jasmine
- Spike Jonze for Her
- Joel and Ethan Coen for Inside Llewyn Davis
- Bob Nelson for Nebraska
Best Original Screenplay
- John Ridley for 12 Years a Slave
- Tracy Letts for August: Osage County
- Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke for Before Midnight
- Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope for Philomena
- Terrence Winter for The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Adapted Screenplay
- The Act of Killing
- Blue is the Warmest Color
- The Hunt
- Wadjda
- The Wind Rises
Best Foreign Language Film
- 20 Feet from Stardom
- The Act of Killing
- The Armstrong Lie
- Blackfish
- Stories We Tell
Best Documentary
- Sean Bobbitt for 12 Years a Slave
- Emmanuel Lubezki for Gravity
- Hoyte Van Hoytema for Her
- Bruno Delbonnel for Inside Llewyn Davis
- Roger Deakins for Prisoners
Best Cinematography
- Hans Zimmer for 12 Years a Slave
- Alfonso de Vilallongo for Blancanieves
- Steven Price for Gravity
- Arcade Fire for Her
- Cliff Martinez and Skrillex for Spring Breakers
Best Original Score
- 12 Years a Slave
- Gravity
- The Great Gatsby
- Her
- Inside Llewyn Davis
Best Art Direction/production Design
- Joe Walker for 12 Years a Slave
- Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers for American Hustle
- Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger for Gravity
- Shane Carruth and David Lowery for Upstream Color
- Thelma Schoonmaker for The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Editing
- Lake Bell for In a World
- Ryan Coogler for Fruitvale Station
- Destin Cretton for Short Term 12
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt for Don Jon
- Joshua Oppenheimer for The Act of Killing
Most Promising Filmmaker
- Barkhad Abdi for Captain Phillips
- Chadwick Boseman for 42
- Adèle Exarchopoulos for Blue is the Warmest Color
- Lupita Nyong’o for 12 Years a Slave
- Tye Sheridan for Mud





