New York Film Critics Online Names ’12 Years’ Best Picture!

New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO) held its fourteenth annual awards meeting on December 8, 2013 in Lincoln Center’s Furman Gallery. Founded in 2000, NYFCO is our country’s most prestigious group of internet critics. Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave won three awards, including an extremely close Best Picture race with the Coen Brothers Inside Llewyn Davis; Best Actor went to Chiwetel Ejiofor and Best Supporting Actress to Lupita Nyong’o. Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity picked up two awards, with Cuarón winning Best Director and Emmanuelle Lubezki picking up Best Cinematography. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color also won two awards: Best Foreign Language Film and Breakthrough Performance for its star, Adèle Exarchopoulos.

Others include Spike Jonze, receiving honors in the Best Screenplay category for Her, while the all-star cast of David O. Russell’s American Hustle won for Best Ensemble. The Wind Rises, the final feature from Hayao Miyazaki, won Best Animated Feature and Inside Llewyn Davis was recognized in the Best Use of Music category. Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing was named Best Documentary.

These are the awards selected by the 36-member organization in fifteen categories.

BEST FILM
12 Years a Slave

BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuarón(Gravity)

BEST ACTOR
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

BEST SCREENPLAY
Her (Spike Jonze)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
American Hustle

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Blue is the Warmest Color

BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Act of Killing

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Wind Rises

BEST DEBUT AS DIRECTOR
Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station)

BEST USE OF MUSIC
Inside Llewyn Davis (T. Bone Burnett)

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Color)

TOP ELEVEN PICTURES (alphabetical order)
12 Years a Slave
Before Midnight
Blue is the Warmest Color
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Philomena
Prisoners
The Wolf of Wall Street