2014 Critics Choice Awards

A lesser know award show, the Critics Choice Awards aired on the CW Thursday January 16th. The actors and filmmakers continue on their award season campaigns as they walk the red carpet. The results give hints to the outcome of the Academy just as the various Guild Awards do. This year the Writers Guild winners will not be announced until the day before the Oscars on March 1st. The Independent Spirit Awards always take place the night before the Oscars. The Directors Guild winners are announced January 25th. The BATFA Awards, the British Oscar equivalent, are Sunday February 16th.

While there are many additional categories in the Critics Choice Awards, the main awards seem to compare with the results of the Golden Globes and SAG Awards. The winners reiterate the frontrunner status of Lupita Nyong'o for 12 Years a Slave and Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club. Cate Blanchett seems to be the frontrunner for Blue Jasmine as well. 12 Years A Slave has the buzz to be in the lead for the Best Picture Oscar. Spike Jonze has a good shot at the Best Original Screenplay statue with wins at both the Critics Choice and Golden Globes.

Nominee and Winners List:
BEST PICTURE
WINNER 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 ACTOR
WINNER Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
Robert Redford, All Is Lost

BEST ACTRESS
WINNER 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
WINNER Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Daniel Brühl, Rush
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
James Gandolfini, Enough Said

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
Scarlett Johansson, Her
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska
Oprah Winfrey, Lee Daniels' The Butler

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
WINNER American Hustle
12 Years a Slave
August: Osage County
Lee Daniels' The Butler
Nebraska
The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
WINNER Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Color
Asa Butterfield, Ender's Game
Liam James, The Way Way Back
Sophie Nélisse, The Book Thief
Tye Sheridan, Mud

BEST DIRECTOR
WINNER Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips
Spike Jonze for Her
Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell for American Hustle
Martin Scorsese for The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WINNER Her, Spike Jonze
American Hustle, Eric Warren Singer, David O Russell
Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen
Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Nebraska, Bob Nelson

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
WINNER 12 Years a Slave, John Ridley
August: Osage County, Tracy Letts
Before Midnight, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
Captain Phillips, Billy Ray
Philomena, Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope
The Wolf of Wall Street, Terence Winter

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

BEST ACTION MOVIE
WINNER Lone Survivor
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Iron Man 3
Rush
Star Trek Into Darkness

BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
WINNER Mark Wahlberg, Lone Survivor
Henry Cavill, Man of Steel
Robert Downey Jr, Iron Man 3
Brad Pitt, World War Z

BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
WINNER 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 MOVIE

WINNER American Hustle
Enough Said
The Heat
This Is the End
The Way Way Back
The World's End

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
WINNER Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Christian Bale, American Hustle
James Gandolfini, Enough Said
Simon Pegg, The World's End
Sam Rockwell, The Way Way Back

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
WINNER 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
WINNER Gravity
The Conjuring
World War Z
Star Trek Into Darkness

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
WINNER Blue Is the Warmest Color
The Great Beauty
The Hunt
The Past
Wadjda

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
WINNER 20 Feet from Stardom
The Act of Killing
Blackfish
Stories We Tell
Tim's Vermeer

BEST SONG
WINNER Frozen, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez "Let It Go"
The Hunger Games, Catching Fire: Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion "Atlas"
Despicable Me 2, Pharrell Williams "Happy"
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Bono "Ordinary Love"
Inside Llewyn Davis, T-Bone Burnett, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Justin Timberlake, George Cromaty, Ed Rush, "Please Mr. Kennedy"
The Great Gatsby, Lana Del Rey "Young and Beautiful"

BEST SCORE
WINNER Gravity, Steven Price
12 Years a Slave, Hans Zimmer
Her, Arcade Fire
Saving Mr Banks, Thomas Newman

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

BEST ART DIRECTION
WINNER The Great Gatsby, Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn
Gravity, Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin
Her, KK Barrett, Gene Serdena
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Dan Hennah, Ra Vincent
12 Years a Slave, Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker

BEST EDITING
WINNER Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger
12 Years a Slave, Joe Walker
American Hustle, Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers
Captain Phillips, Christopher Rouse
The Wolf of Wall Street, Thelma Schoonmaker

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

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

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
WINNER Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
Star Trek Into Darkness