2014 Critics' Choice Awards: 'American Hustle' + '12 Years A Slave' Lead W/ 13 Noms Each

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Oscar rivals "American Hustle" and "12 Years a Slave" each reaped a leading 13 bids for this year's Critics' Choice Awards. Both are among the 10 Best Picture contenders as are: "Gravity" (10 bids in all), "Captain Phillips" (6), "Her" (6), "Nebraska" (6),"The Wolf of Wall Street" (6), "Inside Llewyn Davis" (4), "Saving Mr. Banks" (4) and "Dallas Buyers Club" (3).

These precursor prizes, which will be handed out just hours after the Oscar nominations are announced on Jan. 16, are bestowed by the Broadcast Film Critics' Assn. (BFCA). In their 18-year-history, they have become an increasingly important stop on the road to the Oscars. With six nominees in the acting and directing races, they are sure to include most of the leading Academy Award contenders.

The group was savvy and added a slew of below-the-line categories several years back to reflect the wide range of categories at the Academy Awards. They began comedy categories as well, stealing some thunder from the rival Golden Globes which do the same. Thus, they could nominate a trio of talent who missed out on bids in the main acting races: Amy Adams ("American Hustle"), Leonardo DiCaprio ("Wolf of Wall Street") and Julia Louis-Dreyfus ( "Enough Said").

The BFCA also bestows also an Ensemble award like the Screen Actors Guild. While "August: Osage County" and "The Butler" didn't make the cut for Best Picture, they contend in this category as they do at SAG. Here as there, they face off against "American Hustle" and "12 Years a Slave" while "Nebraska" and "The Wolf of Wall Street" reaped bids from the BFCA.

In addition, these kudos include action and sci-fi/horror prizes akin to those at the MTV Movie Awards with the likes of box office stars Robert Downey, Jr. ("Iron Man 3") and Brad Pitt ("World War Z") among those nominees.

And they recognize younger actors and actresses which is where they slotted Oscar hopeful Adele Exarchopoulos for her performance in Foreign Language Film contender "Blue is the Warmest Color."

Even with all these categories to fill, there were still some surprising snubs: the lead performance by Joaquin Phoenix ("Her") and the featured turns of past Oscar champs Tom Hanks ("Saving Mr. Banks") and Octavia Spencer ("Fruitvale Station").

Oscar frontrunners Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford reaped bids. Blanchett's showcase "Blue Jasmine" also earned an Original Screenplay nod for helmer Woody Allen while Redford is the sole nominee for "All is Lost."

Among the 10 Best Picture nominees:

“12 Years a Slave” also contends for Director, Actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Supporting Actor (Michael Fassbender), Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyongo), Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Cinematography, Costume Design, Editing, Makeup and Score as well as Acting Ensemble.

“American Hustle” vies for Director, Actor (Christian Bale), Supporting Actor (Bradley Cooper), Supporting Actress (Jennifer Lawrence), Original Screenplay, Costume Design, Editing and Makeup as well as Acting Ensemble and three Comedy catetgories -- Picture, Actor and Actress (Amy Adams).

“Gravity” is also up for Director, Actress (Sandra Bullock), Art Direction, Cinematography, Editing, Score as well as Sci-Fi/Horror Movie and Action Movie Actress. Bullock picked up a third bid for her comedy performance in "The Heat."

"Captain Phillips" also contends for Director, Actor (Tom Hanks), Supporting Actor (Barkhad Abdi), Adapted Screenplay and Editing.

"Her" is also nominated for Director, Supporting Actress (Scarlett Johansson), Original Screenplay, Art Direction and Score.

"Nebraska" is in the running for Actor (Bruce Dern), Supporting Actress (June Squibb), Original Screenplay, Cinematography as well as Acting Ensemble.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" is also nominated for Director, Adapted Screenplay and Editing, as well as Acting Ensemble and Comedy Actor.

"Inside Llewyn Davis" is up for Original Screenplay, Cinematography and Song.

"Saving Mr. Banks" is up for Actress (Emma Thompson), Costume Design and Score.

"Dallas Buyers Club" contends for Actor (Matthew McConaughey) and Supporting Actor (Jared Leto).

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Nominees for the 19th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards were announced by the Broadcast Film Critics' Assn. on Monday. Leading with 13 bids apiece are "American Hustle" and "12 Years a Slave." (Read the full report on all contenders here.)

Winners will be revealed during the Jan. 16 kudocast that will air live on the CW. Aisha Tyler hosts the ceremony from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.

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

BEST ART DIRECTION
Andy Nicholson (Production Designer), Rosie Goodwin (Set Decorator) – Gravity
Catherine Martin (Production Designer), Beverley Dunn (Set Decorator) – The Great Gatsby
K.K. Barrett (Production Designer), Gene Serdena (Set Decorator) – Her
Dan Hennah (Production Designer), Ra Vincent (Set Decorator) – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Adam Stockhausen (Production Designer), Alice Baker (Set Decorator) – 12 Years a Slave

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

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Michael Wilkinson – American Hustle
Catherine Martin – The Great Gatsby
Bob Buck, Lesley Burkes-Harding, Ann Maskrey, Richard Taylor – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Daniel Orlandi – Saving Mr. Banks
Patricia Norris – 12 Years a Slave

BEST EDITING
Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers – American Hustle
Christopher Rouse – Captain Phillips
Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger – Gravity
Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill – Rush
Joe Walker – 12 Years a Slave
Thelma Schoonmaker – The Wolf of Wall Street

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

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

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 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 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
American Hustle
August: Osage County
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Nebraska
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

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

What do Critics' Choice Awards tell us about Oscars?

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The Critics' Choice Awards are one of the best barometers for predicting the Oscars.

With many of the categories at these kudos having six slots, they have done well at foreseeing the eventual five Oscar nominees.

Over their 18-year, these awards bestowed by the Broadcast Film Critics Assn.have proven to be the most accurate precursor prizes to the Oscars predicting 12 Best Picture, 12 Best Actor, 10 Best Actress, 11 Supporting Actress and nine Supporting Actor winners.

Below, an analysis of this year's BFCA nominations in the top six categories, including handicapping the likelihood of their previewing the eventual roster at the Oscars.

BEST PICTURE
"American Hustle"
"Captain Phillips"
"Dallas Buyers Club"
"Gravity"
"Her"
"Inside Llewyn Davis"
"Nebraska"
"Saving Mr. Banks"
"12 Years a Slave"
"The Wolf of Wall Street"

The BFCA lineup includes our top nine Oscar frontrunners for Best Picture. The BFCA snubbed our 10th pic, "The Butler," in favor of "Dallas Buyers Club" which we have ranked 15th.

Last year, the BFCA foresaw eight of the the nine Best Picture nominees: "Argo," "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Django Unchained," "Les Miserables," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln," Silver Linings Playbook," "Zero Dark Thirty." They opted for "The Master" and "Moonrise Kingdom" over eventual Oscar contender "Amour." Both the BFCA and the Oscars went with "Argo."

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"

Cuaron has claimed the lion’s share of critics awards and he leads our Oscar predictions for Best Director. Four of the other BFCA nominees make our cut for the Oscar, with Jonze down in eighth place.

Last year, the BFCA presaged three of the Best Director Oscar nominees: Ang Lee (“Life of Pi”); David O. Russell (“Silver Linings Playbook”); Steven Spielberg (“Lincoln”). Snubbed Ben Affleck won the Critics' Choice award while Lee took home the Oscar.

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"

All but Bale rank in our top five contenders for Best Actor at the Oscars ; he is ranked seventh behind Leonardo DiCaprio ("The Wolf of Wall Street") who had to settle for a Comedy Actor bid from the BFCA.

Last year, the BFCA foresaw all five of the the eventual Best Actor nominees -- Bradley Cooper (“Silver Linings Playbook”), Daniel Day-Lewis (“Lincoln”), Hugh Jackman (“Les Miserables”), Joaquin Phoenix (“The Master”) and Denzel Washington (“Flight”) -- with Day-Lewis winning both awards.

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"

All but Larson make the cut for our final five in the Best Actress race at the Oscars. Larson ranks 10th on that list while our sixth place Amy Adams ("American Hustle") had to be content with a Comedy Actress bid at the BFCA.

Last year, the BFCA predicted the Best Actress lineup at the Oscars -- Jessica Chastain (“Zero Dark Thirty”), Jennifer Lawrence (“Silver Linings Playbook), Emmanuelle Riva (“Amour), Quvenzhane Wallis (“Beasts of the Southern Wild) and Naomi Watts (“The Impossible”) -- with Chastain winning over the critics but losing the Oscar to Lawrence.

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"

Absent from this list is Tom Hanks ("Saving Mr. Banks") who sits in third place on our list of Best Supporting Actor contenders at the Oscars. At this point, we don't foresee Oscar nominations for Bruhl (#7 on our list) and Gandolfini (#8).

Hanks should take heart from the fact that last year the BFCA foresaw four of the five Oscar nominees -- Alan Arkin (“Argo”), Robert De Niro (“Silver Linings Playbook”), Philip Seymour Hoffman (“The Master”) and Tommy Lee Jones (“Lincoln”) -- but nominated Javier Bardem ("Skyfall#") and Matthew McConaughey (“Magic Mike”) over eventual Oscar winner Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained"). The BFCA winner was Hoffman.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Scarlett Johansson, "Her"
Jennifer Lawrence, "American Hustle"
Lupita Nyongo, "12 Years a Slave"
Julia Roberts, "August: Osage County"
June Squibb, "Nebraska"
Oprah Winfrey, "The Butler"

All but Johannson figure in our top contenders for Best Supporting Actress nominees at the Oscars. While critics are gushing about her voice performance in "Her," she ranks only 10th on our list of likely Oscar nominees.

Last year, the BFCA got four of the eventual Oscar nomines -- Amy Adams (“The Master”); Sally Field (“Lincoln”); Anne Hathaway (“Les Miserables”); Helen Hunt (“The Sessions”) -- but went with Judi Dench (“Skyfall”) and Ann Dowd (“Compliance”) over eventual Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver ("Silver Linings Playbook"). Hathway won over both the BFCA and the academy.

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