'Hustle', '12 Years' Win Big At Critics' Choice

'Hustle', '12 Years' Win Big At Critics' Choice

The critics have spoken, and 12 Years a Slave has been named Best Picture of the Year at the 19th Annual Critics' Choice Awards.


Slave
beat out American Hustle, Her, Gravity, Captain Phillips, Nebraska, The Wolf of Wall Street, Saving Mr. Banks, Inside Llewyn Davis and Dallas Buyers Club at a ceremony that came just hours after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named their nominations for this year's Oscars.

Getting off on a comedic foot, Anchorman 2 stars Christina Applegate and James Marsden presented the award for Best Actor in a Comedy Movie to Leonardo DiCaprio for The Wolf Of Wall Street, while Amy Adams was named Best Actress in a Comedy for American Hustle, which also won the award for Best Comedy Movie.

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DiCaprio was all smiles as he accepted his award and thanked everyone involved with making the movie. He ended on a laugh when he thanked his parents, saying, "I thank you and simultaneously apologize to you for everything I do in this movie."

Keeping the momentum rolling, Marlon Wayans presented the Action Movies category. As expected, Mark Wahlberg snagged the award for Best Actor in an Action Movie for Lone Survivor, which also won for Best Action Movie.

Meanwhile, Sandra Bullock won for Best Actress in an Action Movie, and, in her acceptance speech, she joked about how Gravity, when you think about it, really isn't an action film. A technical glitch interrupted her speech, causing her to drop one of the show's occasional F-bombs. But she smiled and finished the speech with gracious charm.

The show continued to reward the movies most people expected, with American Hustle winning Best Ensemble Cast, beating out 12 Years a Slave, August: Osage County, Lee Daniel's The Butler, Nebraska and The Wolf Of Wall Street.


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The controversial French film Blue Is the Warmest Color, which made headlines when some theaters refused to show it due to its supposedly graphic lesbian sex scenes, snagged the award for Best Foreign Film.

Oprah Winfrey took the stage to present the Joel Siegel Award to her Lee Daniels' The Butler co-star Forest Whitaker, who was recognized this year for his humanitarian efforts towards stopping violence through the Peace and Development Initiative, which Whitaker founded.

While the Best Animated Feature category went, as expected, to the mega-hit Disney film Frozen, the Critics' Choice Awards were unique among recent awards shows by nominating Pixar's Monsters University, which was snubbed by both the Golden Globes and the Oscars.


Blue Is the Warmest Color
scored its second win when Adele Exarchopoulos was awarded the prize for Best Young Actor or Actress, the award given to actors between 13 and 20 years old. The 20-year-old Exarchopolous just made the cutoff. While accepting the award, she joked about how she wasn't yet old enough to party or drink, but she was still having a good time.

The first shocker of the night came in the Best Supporting Actress Category, which Lupita Nyong'o won for her powerful performance in 12 Years a Slave, beating out Golden Globe winner Jennifer Lawrence in American Hustle. Nyong'o's emotional, truly excited acceptance speech served as one of the most moving moments of the night.

Cate Blanchett, coming off a spectacular win at the Golden Globes, was given another trophy for her performance in Blue Jasmine.

Check out the full list of winners below:

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 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 ENSEMBLE CAST


*American Hustle


August: Osage County

Lee Daniels’ The Butler

Nebraska

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 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 CINEMATOGRAPHY


*Emmanuel Lubezki – Gravity


Bruno Delbonnel – Inside Llewyn Davis

Phedon Papamichael – Nebraska

Roger Deakins – Prisoners

Sean Bobbitt – 12 Years a Slave


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 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 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 MAKEUP


*American Hustle


The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Lee Daniels’ The Butler

Rush

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 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


*Steven Price – Gravity

Arcade Fire – Her

Thomas Newman – Saving Mr. Banks

Hans Zimmer – 12 Years a Slave


JOEL SIEGEL AWARD


*Forest Whitaker


LOUIS XIII GENIUS AWARD


*Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater for trilogy Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight


HOLLYWOOD'S HOTTEST STAR


*Benedict Cumberbatch

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