HOUSTON FILM CRITICS SOCIETY GIVE 4 TO 12 YEARS, 4 TO GRAVITY

The top two awards were split at the Houston Film Critics Society (as has occurred a few times already this year), between the two most popular films: 12 Years a Slave, which won Best  Picture, and Gravity, which won director. Both won three additional awards, including Sandra Bullock's first critic win of the season in a Best Actress lineup that did not include Oscar favourite Cate Blanchett. Nominations and winners were announced simultaneously.

Best Picture

      12 Years a Slave

·          All Is Lost

·          American Hustle

·          Before Midnight

·          Dallas Buyers Club

·          Fruitvale Station

·          Gravity

·          Inside Llewyn Davis

·          Nebraska

·          Saving Mr. Banks

Best Director

      Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)

·          Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)

·          Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips)

·          Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)

·          Alexander Payne (Nebraska)

Best Actor

      Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)

·          Christian Bale (American Hustle)

·          Bruce Dern (Nebraska)

·          Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

·          Mads Mikkelsen (The Hunt)

·          Robert Redford (All Is Lost)

Best Actress

      Sandra Bullock (Gravity)

·          Judi Dench (Philomena)

·          Brie Larson (Short Term 12)

·          Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

·          Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)

Best Supporting Actor

      Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

·          Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)

·          Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)

·          James Gandolfini (Enough Said)

·          Matthew McConaughey (Mud)

Best Supporting Actress

      Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)

·          Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)

·          Octavia Spencer (Fruitvale Station)

·          June Squibb (Nebraska)

·          Oprah Winfrey (Lee Daniels’ The Butler)

Best Screenplay

      John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)

·          Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)

·          Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater (Before Midnight)

·          Spike Jonze (Her)

·          David O. Russell and Eric Singer (American Hustle)

Best Cinematography

      Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity)

·          Sean Bobbitt (12 Years a Slave)

·          Roger Deakins (Prisoners)

·          Bruno Delbonnel (Inside Llewyn Davis)

·          Frank G. DeMarco and Peter Zuccarini (All Is Lost)

Best Original Score

      Steven Price (Gravity)

·          Arcade Fire (Her)

·          Thomas Newman (Saving Mr. Banks)

·          Hans Zimmer (12 Years a Slave)

·          Hans Zimmer (Man of Steel)

Best Original Song

T-Bone Burnett, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac and Justin Timberlake – ‘Please Mr. Kennedy’ (Inside Llewyn Davis)

·          Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez – ‘Let It Go’ (Frozen)

·          Lana del Rey and Rick Nowels – ‘Young and Beautiful’ (The Great Gatsby)

·          Karen Orzolek – ‘The Moon Song’ (Her)

·          Ed Sheeran – ‘I See Fire’ (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug)

Best Animated Film

      Frozen

·          The Croods

·          Despicable Me 2

·          Monsters University

·          The Wind Rises

Best Documentary

      20 Feet from Stardom

·          The Act of Killing

·          Blackfish

·          Inequality for All

·          Stories We Tell

Best Foreign Language Film

      The Hunt

·          Blue Is the Warmest Colour

·          The Grandmaster

·          Wadjda

·          The Wind Rises