Critics' Choice (BFCA) WINNERS (2013 films)

BEST PICTURE


American Hustle


Captain Phillips


Dallas Buyers Club


Gravity


Her


Inside Llewyn Davis


Nebraska


Saving Mr. Banks


12 Years a Slave


The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ACTOR


Christian Bale – American Hustle


Bruce Dern – Nebraska


Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave


Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips


Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club


Robert Redford – All Is Lost

BEST ACTRESS


Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine


Sandra Bullock – Gravity


Judi Dench – Philomena


Brie Larson – Short Term 12


Meryl Streep – August: Osage County


Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR


Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips


Daniel Bruhl – Rush


Bradley Cooper – American Hustle


Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave


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


Julia Roberts – August: Osage County


June Squibb – Nebraska


Oprah Winfrey – Lee Daniels’ The Butler

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS


Asa Butterfield – Ender’s Game


Adele Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Color


Liam James – The Way Way Back


Sophie Nelisse – The Book Thief


Tye Sheridan – Mud

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE


American Hustle


August: Osage County


Lee Daniels’ The Butler


Nebraska


12 Years a Slave


The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST DIRECTOR


Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity


Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips


Spike Jonze – Her


Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave


David O. Russell – American Hustle


Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY


Eric Singer and David O. Russell – American Hustle


Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine


Spike Jonze – Her


Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis


Bob Nelson – Nebraska

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY


Tracy Letts – August: Osage County


Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke – Before Midnight


Billy Ray – Captain Phillips


Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope – Philomena


John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave


Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY


Emmanuel Lubezki – Gravity


Bruno Delbonnel – Inside Llewyn Davis


Phedon Papamichael – Nebraska


Roger Deakins – Prisoners


Sean Bobbitt – 12 Years a Slave

BEST ART DIRECTION


Andy Nicholson (Production Designer), 

Rosie Goodwin (Set Decorator) – Gravity


Catherine Martin (Production Designer), 

Beverley Dunn (Set Decorator) – The Great Gatsby


K.K. Barrett (Production Designer), 

Gene Serdena (Set Decorator) – Her


Dan Hennah (Production Designer), Simon Bright (Set Decorator), 

Ra Vincent (Set Decorator) – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug


Adam Stockhausen (Production Designer), 

Alice Baker (Set Decorator) – 12 Years a Slave

BEST EDITING


Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers – American Hustle


Christopher Rouse – Captain Phillips


Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger – Gravity


Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill – Rush


Joe Walker – 12 Years a Slave


Thelma Schoonmaker – The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST COSTUME DESIGN


Michael Wilkinson – American Hustle


Catherine Martin – The Great Gatsby


Bob Buck, Ann Maskrey, Richard Taylor – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug


Daniel Orlandi – Saving Mr. Banks


Patricia Norris – 12 Years a Slave

BEST MAKEUP


American Hustle


The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug


Lee Daniels’ The Butler


Rush


12 Years a Slave

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS


Gravity


The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug


Iron Man 3


Pacific Rim


Star Trek into Darkness

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE


The Croods


Despicable Me 2


Frozen


Monsters University


The Wind Rises

BEST ACTION MOVIE


The Hunger Games: Catching Fire


Iron Man 3


Lone Survivor


Rush


Star Trek into Darkness

BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE


Henry Cavill – Man of Steel


Robert Downey Jr. – Iron Man 3


Brad Pitt – World War Z


Mark Wahlberg – Lone Survivor

BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE


Sandra Bullock – Gravity


Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire


Evangeline Lilly – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug


Gwyneth Paltrow – Iron Man 3

BEST COMEDY


American Hustle


Enough Said


The Heat


This Is the End


The Way Way Back


The World’s End

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY


Christian Bale – American Hustle


Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street


James Gandolfini – Enough Said


Simon Pegg – The World’s End


Sam Rockwell – The Way Way Back

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY


Amy Adams – American Hustle


Sandra Bullock – The Heat


Greta Gerwig – Frances Ha


Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Enough Said


Melissa McCarthy – The Heat

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE


The Conjuring


Gravity


Star Trek into Darkness


World War Z

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM


Blue Is the Warmest Color


The Great Beauty


The Hunt


The Past


Wadjda

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE


The Act of Killing


Blackfish


Stories We Tell


Tim’s Vermeer


20 Feet from Stardom

BEST SONG


Atlas – Coldplay – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire


Happy – Pharrell Williams – Despicable Me 2


Let It Go – Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez – Frozen


Ordinary Love – U2 – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom


Please Mr. Kennedy – Justin Timberlake/Oscar Isaac/Adam Driver – Inside Llewyn Davis


Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Rey – The Great Gatsby

BEST SCORE


Steven Price – Gravity


Arcade Fire – Her


Thomas Newman – Saving Mr. Banks


Hans Zimmer - 12 Years a Slave

Did You Know...

TRENDS

Tim Burton prefers to cast blondes

(even sometimes having brunette actresses wear wigs)

Kim Basinger in "Batman"

Winona Ryder in "Edward Scissorhands"

Michelle Pfeiffer in "Batman Returns"

Patricia Arquette in "Ed Wood"

Lisa Marie in "Mars Attack"

Estella Warren in "Planet of the Apes"

Christina Ricci in "Sleepy Hollow"

Alison Lohman in "Big Fish"

Jayne Wisener in "Sweeney Todd"

Anne Hathaway in "Alice in Wonderland"

Michelle Pfeiffer in "Dark Shadows"

Did You Know...

... Warren Beatty turned down the role of 'Jack Horner' and Leonardo DiCaprio turned down the role of 'Dirk Diggler' in "Boogie Nights". The parts, of course, went to Burt Reynolds (who garnered a Best Supporting Golden Globe and Best Supporting Oscar nomination) and Mark Wahlberg, respectively. I wonder how that would have changed the film.

***Apparently Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, John Travolta, Matt Dillon, and Joaquin Phoenix were considered for roles.

Performance of the Day

Actor: MOS DEF

Film: "The Italian Job"

Character: Left Ear

Year: 2003

A lot of musicians try to make the leap to acting and most of the time it DOESN'T work, but in the case of Mos Def... he's got the talent. He holds his own amongst a great cast (Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Ed Norton, and Donald Sutherland to name a few) and stands out as a funny guy. This is a great performance and an exciting film... so check it out.

Quote of the Day

"It could of all been different, Mr. Walker. You should have let nature take it's course... but in the end, it will anyway. SO LET ME IN THE F***ING HOUSE!"

Mark Wahlberg as 'David', "Fear", 1996

Quote of the Day

Terry: No, I don't like you. I think you're a fake cop. The sound of your piss hitting the urinal, it sounds feminine. If you were in the wild, I would attack you, even if you weren't in my food chain. I would go out of my way to attack you. If I were a lion and you were a tuna, I would swim out in the middle of the ocean and freaking eat you and then I'd bang your tuna girlfriend.
Allen: OK, first off: a lion, swimming in the ocean. Lions don't like water. If you placed it near a river or some sort of fresh water source, that make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, 20 foot wave, I'm assuming off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full grown 800 pound tuna with his 20 or 30 friends, you lose that battle, you lose that battle 9 times out of 10. And guess what, you've wandered into our school of tuna and we now have a taste of lion. We've talked to ourselves. We've communicated and said 'You know what, lion tastes good, let's go get some more lion'. We've developed a system to establish a beach-head and aggressively hunt you and your family and we will corner your pride, your children, your offspring.

Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell as

'Terry' and 'Allen', "The Other Guys", 2010

Flick of the Day

Film: I HEART HUCKABEES

Director: David O. Russell

Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, Mark Wahlberg, Talia Shire, Naomi Watts, Jude Law, Lily Tomlin, Isabelle Huppert, Isla Fisher

Year: 2004

Synopsis: This independent film stars Jason Swartzman as a man in search of answers to some of the universe's puzzling questions. He seeks the help of a wacky couple (Hoffman and Tomlin) who are self-proclaimed 'existentialists'. The film follows a variety of strange characters, who all find themselves linked to each other in some odd way.

Talk about a great film. I highly recommend that you catch this if you can. Despite the rumors of a difficult director, this project came together beautifully. If anything, check it out to see the hilarious turn of Mark Wahlberg in a surprising role (this had a Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe nomination written all over it).

Quote of the Day

Dawn Campbell: Brad, do you love me?
Brad Stand: I think so.
Dawn Campbell: With the bonnet?
Brad Stand: Ehhh..

Naomi Watts and Jude Law as 'Dawn and Brad', "I Heart Huckabees", 2004