The very minor Boston Online Film Critics Association (they aren't even Boston's main critics, that's the Boston Society of Film Critics, which votes tomorrow), nonetheless has the distinction of being the first group to honor 12 Years a Slave with their big prize:
- Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave
- Best Director: Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)
- Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
- Best Actress: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
- Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
- Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)
- Best Screenplay: Before Midnight
- Best Foreign Language Film: Blue is the Warmest Color
- Best Documentary: The Act of Killing
- Best Animated Film: The Wind Rises and Frozen (tie)
- Best Cinematography: Inside Llewyn Davis
- Best Editing: 12 Years a Slave
- Best Original Score: 12 Years a Slave
12 Years didn't just win, it nearly swept, winning every eligible category except Screenplay (even score, which was frankly a pretty lazy effort from Hans Zimmer, who to my ears appears to have ripped off his exact score from Inception). The Boston Online critics also provide a top ten, which gives us a couple of cool, outside-the-box choices in The Spectacular Now, Spring Breakers and The World's End:
- 12 Year a Slave
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Gravity
- Before Midnight
- The Spectacular Now
- Blue is the Warmest Color
- Spring Breakers
- The World's End
- Fruitvale Station
