Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2013

The 26th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 16, 2013. The awards honor the best in film for 2013. The nominations were announced on December 13, 2013.[1]

26th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Date	December 16, 2013
Site	Chicago, Illinois U.S.
Highlights
Best Film	12 Years a Slave
Most awards	12 Years a Slave (5)
Most nominations	12 Years a Slave (12)

Winners and nominees

The nominations for the 26th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards are as follows:[2][3]

Steve McQueen, Best Director winner

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Best Actor winner

Cate Blanchett, Best Actress winner

Jared Leto, Best Supporting Actor winner

Lupita Nyong'o, Best Supporting Actress winner

Awards

Best Film	Best Director
12 Years a Slave - Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas American Hustle - Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan Gordon Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron and David Heyman Her - Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay Inside Llewyn Davis - Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen	Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity Spike Jonze – Her David O. Russell – American Hustle
Best Actor	Best Actress
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave as Solomon Northup Bruce Dern – Nebraska as Woodrow "Woody" T. Grant Oscar Isaac – Inside Llewyn Davis as Llewyn Davis Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club as Ron Woodroof Robert Redford – All Is Lost as Our Man	Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine as Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis Sandra Bullock – Gravity as Dr. Ryan Stone Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Colour as Brie Larson – Short Term 12 as Grace Howard Meryl Streep – August: Osage County as Violet Weston
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club as Rayon Byonarkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips as Abduwali Muse Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave as Edwin Epps James Franco – Spring Breakers as Alien James Gandolfini – Enough Said as Albert	Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave as Patsey Scarlett Johansson – Her as Samantha Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle as Rosalyn Rosenfeld Léa Seydoux – Blue Is the Warmest Colour as Emma June Squibb – Nebraska as Kate Grant
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Her – Spike Jonze American Hustle – Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen Inside Llewyn Davis – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Nebraska – Bob Nelson	12 Years a Slave – John Ridley based on the book by Solomon Northup August: Osage County – Tracy Letts based on the play by John Wells Before Midnight – Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke based on characters created by Richard Linklater and Kin Krizan Philomena – Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope based on the book by Martin Sixsmith The Wolf of Wall Street – Terence Winter based on the memoir by Jordan Belfort
Best Animated Film	Best Foreign Language Film
The Wind Rises - Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki The Croods - Kirk DeMicco, Chris Sanders and Kristine Belson From Up on Poppy Hill - Goro Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki Frozen - Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho Monsters University - Dan Scanlon and Kori Rae	The Act of Killing (Indonesia) in Indonesian - Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer Blue Is the Warmest Colour (France) in French - Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche The Hunt (Denmark) in Danish - Directed by Thomas Vinterberg Wadjda (Saudi Arabia) in Arabic - Directed by Haifaa al-Mansour The Wind Rises (Japan) in Japanese - Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Best Documentary Film	Best Original Score
The Act of Killing - Joshua Oppenheimmer and Signe Byrge Sorensen 20 Feet from Stardom - Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers and Gil Friesen The Armstrong Lie - Alex Gibney, Frank Marshall and Matt Tolmach Blackfish - Gabriela Cowperthwaite and Manuel V. Oteyza Stories We Tell - Sarah Polley, Anita Lee & Silva Basmajian	Her – Arcade Fire 12 Years a Slave – Hans Zimmer Blancanieves – Alfonso de Vilallonga Gravity – Steven Price Spring Breakers – Cliff Martinez and Skrillex
Best Production Design	Best Editing
Gravity - Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard 12 Years a Slave - Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker The Great Gatsby - Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn Her - Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena Inside Llewyn Davis - Production Design: Deborah Jensen; Set Decoration: Bruce Lee Gross	Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger 12 Years a Slave – Joe Walker American Hustle – Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, and Crispin Struthers Upstream Color – Shane Carruth and David Lowery The Wolf of Wall Street – Thelma Schoonmaker
Best Cinematography
Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki 12 Years a Slave – Sean Bobbitt Her – Hoyte van Hoytema Inside Llewyn Davis – Bruno Delbonnel Prisoners – Roger Deakins
Most Promising Filmmaker	Most Promising Performer
Destin Daniel Cretton – Short Term 12 Lake Bell – In a World... Ryan Coogler – Fruitvale Station Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Don Jon Joshua Oppenheimer – The Act of Killing	Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Colour as Adele Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips as Abduwali Muse Chadwick Boseman – 42 as Jackie Robinson Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave as Patsey Tye Sheridan – Mud as Ellis

Awards breakdown

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
12	12 Years a Slave
7	Gravity
	Her
6	Inside Llewlyn Davis
5	American Hustle
4	Blue is the Warmest Colour
3	Nebraska
	The Act of Killing
2	August: Osage County
	Blue Jasmine
	Captain Phillips
	Dallas Buyers Club
	Spring Breakers
	Short Term 12
	The Wind Rises
	The Wolf of Wall Street

The following films received multiple wins:

Wins	Film
5	12 Years a Slave
3	Gravity
2	Her
	The Act of Killing

References

1. "'12 Years A Slave' Wins Five Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Including Best Picture". IndieWire. Archived from the original on 22 December 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
2. Sergio (December 13, 2013). "'12 Years A Slave' Leads In Chicago Film Critics Association Award Nominations". IndieWire. Archived from the original on December 13, 2013. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
3. "11 CFCA Nominations for "12 Years"". Chicago Film Critics Association. December 13, 2013. Archived from the original on December 13, 2013. Retrieved December 13, 2013.

External links

• Official website