Critic Choice Award nominations: 12 Years a Slave and American Hustle dominance continues

The 12 Years a Slave and American Hustle trains keep on rolling after the two films shared the lead at this year’s Critic Choice Awards.

Both were nominated for thirteen accolades each including Best Picture as well as a handful of nods in various other categories.

Sci-fi spectacle Gravity was shortly behind with ten mentions while there were six nominations each for Captain Phillips, Her, Nebraska and The Wolf of Wall Street.

The rest of the Best Picture lineup was completed by Dallas Buyers Club, Inside Llewyn Davies and Saving Mr Banks.

With ten best-picture nominees and six nominees in all four acting categories, as well as best director and a number of other categories, the nominations included most of the main Oscar competitors.

Amongst the standout acting nominations included Sandra Bullock who received three nominations for two performances, a comedy-actress nod for The Heat and best-actress and action-actress noms for Gravity.

Jennifer Lawrence received an action-actress nomination for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and a supporting-actress nom for Hustle, while Christian Bale and the late James Gandolfini were nominated for Hustle and Enough Said, respectively, in both the acting and comedy-acting categories.

There was also a surprise nomination for Scarlett Johansson as she was recognised for her voice work in Spike Jonze’s Her.

The 19th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards will take place on January 16th, about 10 hours after Oscar nominations are announced.

The full list of nominations are below (with my predictions highlighted).

BEST PICTURE
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Saving Mr. Banks
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 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
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
August: Osage County
The Butler
Nebraska
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
John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave
Tracy Letts – August: Osage County
Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke – Before Midnight
Billy Ray – Captain Phillips
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope – Philomena
Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street

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

BEST ART DIRECTION
12 Years a Slave
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

BEST EDITING
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Rush
The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Saving Mr. Banks

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

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

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