THE 2013 CRITICS TALLY - 12 YEARS A SLAVE WINS BEST PICTURE

Would you like to know how deep my obsession for this thing runs? Kk, here it is: each year, I make a comprehensive tally of all of the major critic organisations' choices for the best of 2013. I assign each of their picks a score, with the ultimate score for a win in any category or on any list being 10 points. From there, based on a value I assigned to each individual group, I multiply these scores by as much as 10, thus weighting the overall results in favour of the more influential (slash intelligent) groups. And the critic awards season has now reached its close, and the results are below:


Best Picture

12 Years a Slave (Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, Brad Pitt and Bill Pohlad)

American Hustle (Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon, Charles Roven, David O. Russell and Richard Suckle)

Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman)

Her (Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay)

Inside Llewyn Davis (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Scott Rudin)

Best Director

Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)

Spike Jonze (Her)

Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)

David O. Russell (American Hustle)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)

Bruce Dern (Nebraska)

Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis)

Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

Robert Redford (All Is Lost)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

Sandra Bullock (Gravity)

Judi Dench (Philomena)

Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is the Warmest Colour)

Brie Larson (Short Term 12)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)

Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)

James Franco (Spring Breakers)

James Gandolfini (Enough Said)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)

Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)

Scarlett Johansson (Her)
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)

June Squibb (Nebraska)

Best Original Screenplay

Spike Jonze (Her)

Woody Allen (Blue Jasmine)

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)

Bob Nelson (Nebraska)

David O. Russell and Eric Singer (American Hustle)

Best Adapted Screenplay

John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)

Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (Philomena)

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

Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (The Spectacular Now)
Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Best Cinematography

Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity)

Sean Bobbitt (12 Years a Slave)

Roger Deakins (Prisoners)
Bruno Delbonnel (Inside Llewyn Davis)

Phedon Papamichael (Nebraska)

Best Editing
Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (Gravity)
Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers (American Hustle)
Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill (Rush)
Thelma Schoonmaker (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Joe Walker (12 Years a Slave)

Best Production Design
K. K. Barrett (Her)
Jess Gonchor (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy (The Great Gatsby)
Andy Nicholson (Gravity)
Adam Stockhausen (12 Years a Slave)

Best Music

Hans Zimmer (12 Years a Slave)

T-Bone Burnett (Inside Llewyn Davis)

William Butler and Owen Pallett (Her)
Thomas Newman (Saving Mr. Banks)

Steven Price (Gravity)

Best Ensemble Cast

Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Louis C. K., Bradley Cooper, Paul Herman, Jack Huston, Jennifer Lawrence, Alessandro Nivola, Michael Pena, Jeremy Renner, Elisabeth Rohm and Shea Wigham (American Hustle)

Stephanie Beatriz, Alex Calloway, Kaitlyn Dever, Lydia du Veaux, John Gallagher, Kevin Hernandez, Brie Larson, Rami Malek, Diana-Maria Riva, Keith Stanfield, Frantz Turner and Melora Walters (Short Term 12)
Abigail Breslin, Chris Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette Lewis, Margo Martindale, Ewan McGregor, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Julia Roberts, Sam Shepard, Meryl Streep and Misty Upham (August: Osage County)
Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Garret Dillahunt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti, Scoot McNairy, Lupita Nyong'o, Adepero Oduye, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, Michael Kenneth Williams and Alfre Woodard (12 Years a Slave)
Bruce Dern, Missy Doty, Tim Driscoll, Will Forte, Rance Howard, Stacy Keach, Terry Kotrous, Angel McEwan, Bob Odenkirk, Devin Ratray, Melinda Simonsen, June Squibb and Mary Louise Wilson (Nebraska)

Best Animated Feature

Frozen (Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee)

The Croods (Kirk De Micco and Chris Sanders)

Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud)

Monsters University (Dan Scanlon)

The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)

Best Documentary

The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)

20 Feet from Stardom (Morgan Neville)

Blackfish (Gabriela Cowperthwaite)

Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel)

Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)

Best Foreign Language Film

Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche)

The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)

The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg)

The Past (Asghar Farhadi)
Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour)