The Washington D.C. Film Critics Association released their nominations tonight, and will vote on their winners Monday. 12 Years leads the field with 11 nods, followed by Spike Jonze's Her (which is having a strong critical showing so far) with 9. I'm getting a little worried about the complete lack of attention for Captain Phillips in a lot of these critics groups- is it in danger of being totally overshadowed, or will the industry awards come in and save it next week, when SAG and the Golden Globes announce?
Best Film
- American Hustle
- Her
- Gravity
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- 12 Years a Slave
Best Director
- Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)
- Spike Jonze (Her)
- Baz Luhrmann (The Great Gatsby)
- Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)
- Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Best Actor
- Leonardo Dicaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
- Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
- Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
- Joaquin Phoenix (Her)
- Robert Redford (All is Lost)
Best Actress
- Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
- Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
- Judi Dench (Philomena)
- Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)
- Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)
Best Supporting Actor
- Daniel Bruhl (Rush)
- Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
- James Franco (Spring Breakers)
- 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)
- Octavia Spencer (Fruitvale Station)
- June Squibb (Nebraska)
Best Acting Ensemble
- American Hustle
- August: Osage County
- Prisoners
- 12 Years a Slave
- The Way, Way Back
Best Youth Performance
- Asa Butterfield (Ender's Game)
- Adele Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Color)
- Liam James (The Way, Way Back)
- Waad Mohammed (Wadjda)
- Tye Sheridan (Mud)
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Before Midnight
- Captain Phillips
- The Spectacular Now
- 12 Years a Slave
- The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Original Screenplay
- American Hustle
- Blue Jasmine
- Enough Said
- Her
- Inside Llewyn Davis
Best Animated Feature
- The Croods
- Despicable Me 2
- Frozen
- Monsters University
- The Wind Rises
Best Documentary
- The Act of Killing
- Blackfish
- Leviathan
- Stories We Tell
- 20 Feet From Stardom
Best Foreign Language Film
- Blue is the Warmest Color
- The Broken Circle Breakdown
- The Hunt
- The Past
- Wadjda
Best Art Direction
- Gravity
- The Great Gatsby
- Her
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- 12 Years a Slave
Best Cinematography
- Gravity
- The Great Gatsby
- Her
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- 12 Years a Slave
Best Editing
- Gravity
- Her
- Rush
- 12 Years a Slave
- The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Original Score
- Frozen
- Her
- Gravity
- Saving Mr. Banks
- 12 Years a Slave
The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, D.C.
- Lee Daniels' The Butler
- The East
- Olympus Has Fallen
- Philomena
- White House Down
I love that award for best portrayal of Washington D.C., seeing as it was totally demolished in White House Down. Scarlett Johansson's voice performance in supporting is also a cool nomination, but there's no way that happens at any of the big awards. And it's interesting that American Hustle was nominated for Best Film but not Best Director (in favor of Baz Luhrmann!), while the opposite happened for Scorsese and The Wolf of Wall Street. There seems to be the beginning of a rivalry between those two films as they set out to compete against each other in a couple of weeks.
