Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2013 Explained

The 26th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 16, 2013. The awards honor the best in film for 2013. The nominations were announced on December 13, 2013.^[1]

Number:	26
Award:	Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Date:	December 16, 2013
Site:	Chicago, Illinois U.S.
Best Film:	12 Years a Slave
Most Wins:	12 Years a Slave (5)
Most Nominations:	12 Years a Slave (12)

Winners and nominees

The nominations for the 26th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards are as follows:^[2] ^[3]

Awards

Best Film	Best Director
*12 Years a Slave* - Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas American Hustle - Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan Gordon Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron and David Heyman Her - Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay Inside Llewyn Davis - Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen	Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity Spike Jonze – Her David O. Russell – American Hustle
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave* as Solomon Northup** Bruce Dern – Nebraska as Woodrow "Woody" T. Grant Oscar Isaac – Inside Llewyn Davis as Llewyn Davis Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club as Ron Woodroof Robert Redford – All Is Lost as Our Man	*Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine* as Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis** Sandra Bullock – Gravity as Dr. Ryan Stone Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Colour as Brie Larson – Short Term 12 as Grace Howard Meryl Streep – August: Osage County as Violet Weston
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club* as Rayon** Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips as Abduwali Muse Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave as Edwin Epps James Franco – Spring Breakers as Alien James Gandolfini – Enough Said as Albert	*Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave* as Patsey** Scarlett Johansson – Her as Samantha Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle as Rosalyn Rosenfeld Léa Seydoux – Blue Is the Warmest Colour as Emma June Squibb – Nebraska as Kate Grant
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Her – Spike Jonze American Hustle – Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen Inside Llewyn Davis – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Nebraska – Bob Nelson	12 Years a Slave – John Ridley based on the book by Solomon Northup August: Osage County – Tracy Letts based on the play by John Wells Before Midnight – Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke based on characters created by Richard Linklater and Kin Krizan Philomena – Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope based on the book by Martin Sixsmith The Wolf of Wall Street – Terence Winter based on the memoir by Jordan Belfort
Best Animated Film	Best Foreign Language Film
*The Wind Rises* - Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki The Croods - Kirk DeMicco, Chris Sanders and Kristine Belson From Up on Poppy Hill - Goro Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki Frozen - Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho Monsters University - Dan Scanlon and Kori Rae	*The Act of Killing* (Indonesia) in Indonesian - Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer Blue Is the Warmest Colour (France) in French - Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche The Hunt (Denmark) in Danish - Directed by Thomas Vinterberg Wadjda (Saudi Arabia) in Arabic - Directed by Haifaa al-Mansour The Wind Rises (Japan) in Japanese - Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Best Documentary Film	Best Original Score
*The Act of Killing* - Joshua Oppenheimmer and Signe Byrge Sorensen 20 Feet from Stardom - Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers and Gil Friesen The Armstrong Lie - Alex Gibney, Frank Marshall and Matt Tolmach Blackfish - Gabriela Cowperthwaite and Manuel V. Oteyza Stories We Tell - Sarah Polley, Anita Lee & Silva Basmajian	Her – Arcade Fire 12 Years a Slave – Hans Zimmer Blancanieves – Alfonso de Vilallonga Gravity – Steven Price Spring Breakers – Cliff Martinez and Skrillex
Best Production Design	Best Editing
*Gravity* - Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard 12 Years a Slave - Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker The Great Gatsby - Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn Her - Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena Inside Llewyn Davis - Production Design: Deborah Jensen; Set Decoration: Susan Bode	Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger 12 Years a Slave – Joe Walker American Hustle – Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, and Crispin Struthers Upstream Color – Shane Carruth and David Lowery The Wolf of Wall Street – Thelma Schoonmaker
Best Cinematography
Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki 12 Years a Slave – Sean Bobbitt Her – Hoyte van Hoytema Inside Llewyn Davis – Bruno Delbonnel Prisoners – Roger Deakins
Most Promising Filmmaker	Most Promising Performer
Destin Daniel Cretton – Short Term 12 Lake Bell – In a World... Ryan Coogler – Fruitvale Station Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Don Jon Joshua Oppenheimer – The Act of Killing	*Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Colour* as Adele** Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips as Abduwali Muse Chadwick Boseman – 42 as Jackie Robinson Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave as Patsey Tye Sheridan – Mud as Ellis

Awards breakdown

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
12	12 Years a Slave
7	Gravity
7	Her
6	Inside Llewlyn Davis
5	American Hustle
4	Blue is the Warmest Colour
3	Nebraska
3	The Act of Killing
2	August: Osage County
	Blue Jasmine
	Captain Phillips
	Dallas Buyers Club
	Spring Breakers
	Short Term 12
	The Wind Rises
	The Wolf of Wall Street

The following films received multiple wins:

Wins	Film
5	12 Years a Slave
3	Gravity
2	Her
2	The Act of Killing

Notes and References

Web site: ‘12 Years A Slave’ Wins Five Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Including Best Picture. IndieWire. 17 December 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131222133331/http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/12-years-a-slave-wins-five-chicago-film-critics-association-awards-including-best-picture. 22 December 2013. dead.
Web site: '12 Years A Slave' Leads In Chicago Film Critics Association Award Nominations. Sergio. December 13, 2013. IndieWire. December 13, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131213171139/http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/2-years-a-slave-leads-in-chicago-film-critics-association-award-nominations. December 13, 2013. dead.
Web site: 11 CFCA Nominations for "12 Years". December 13, 2013. Chicago Film Critics Association. https://web.archive.org/web/20131213164817/http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/component/content/article/1-latest-news/117-11-cfca-nominations-for-q12-yearsq. December 13, 2013. dead. December 13, 2013.