DENVER FILM CRITICS SOCIETY NOMINATIONS GIVE AWAY THEIR GAME... AGAIN!

Who would have thought it? Three years running now, and the Denver Film Critics Society has failed to cover its ass. Nominations appear to be ranked in order of preference yet again, save the Best Picture and Director categories... possibly. That might just be a coincidence. Should these be ranked indeed, they show up some alarming results, such as Lupita Nyong'o placing under Oprah Winfrey in Supporting Actress, The Wind Rises under Despicable Me 2 in Animated Film, and 'Ordinary Love' being nominated for Original Song - oh no wait, that would have happened anyway. Winners will be announced a week from today, on the 13th of January. We'll see if they match their apparent first place choices from today!

Best Picture

·          12 Years a Slave

·          American Hustle

·          Captain Phillips

·          Gravity

·          The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Director

·          Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)

·          Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips)

·          Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)

·          David O. Russell (American Hustle)

·          Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Best Actor

1.        Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

2.        Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)

3.        Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips)

4.        Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)

5.        Christian Bale (American Hustle)

Best Actress

1.        Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

2.        Sandra Bullock (Gravity)

3.        Brie Larson (Short Term 12)

4.        Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)

5.        Amy Adams (American Hustle)

Best Supporting Actor

1.        James Franco (Spring Breakers)

2.        Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)

3.        Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)

4.        Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

5.        Woody Harrelson (Out of the Furnace)

Best Supporting Actress

1.        Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)

2.        Octavia Spencer (Fruitvale Station)

3.        June Squibb (Nebraska)

4.        Oprah Winfrey (Lee Daniels’ The Butler)

5.        Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)

Best Original Screenplay

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

2.        Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said)

3.        Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)

4.        Woody Allen (Blue Jasmine)

5.        Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón (Gravity)

Best Adapted Screenplay

1.        John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)

2.        Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street)

3.        Billy Ray (Captain Phillips)

4.        Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (Philomena)

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

Best Score

1.        Hans Zimmer (12 Years a Slave)

2.        Steven Price (Gravity)

3.        Hans Zimmer (Man of Steel)

4.        Howard Shore (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug)

5.        Christophe Beck (Frozen)

Best Original Song

1.        ‘Let It Go’ (Frozen)

2.        ‘Young and Beautiful’ (The Great Gatsby)

3.        ‘Ordinary Love’ (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)

4.        ‘Atlas’ (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)

5.        ‘Please Mr. Kennedy’ (Inside Llewyn Davis)

Best Animated Film

1.        Frozen

2.        Despicable Me 2

3.        The Wind Rises

4.        Monsters University

5.        The Croods

Best Documentary

1.        Blackfish

2.        The Act of Killing

3.        20 Feet from Stardom

4.        Cutie and the Boxer

5.        Stories We Tell

Best Foreign Language Film

1.        The Great Beauty

2.        The Hunt

3.        The Grandmaster

4.        Blue Is the Warmest Colour

5.        The Broken Circle Breakdown

Best Comedy

1.        This Is the End

2.        The World’s End

3.        Don Jon

4.        Much Ado About Nothing

5.        The Way Way Back

Best Science Fiction / Horror Film

1.        The Conjuring

2.        Gravity

3.        Her

4.        Star Trek Into Darkness

5.        Man of Steel