With award season in full swing in Hollywood, the best films of 2013 were honored by the New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO) yesterday in Lincoln Center’s Furman Gallery. The organization, which is comprised of internet critics based in New York City, awarded the best movies during its fourteenth annual awards meeting.
The NYFCO awarded such acclaimed films as ’12 Years a Slave,’ which won three awards, including the close Best Picture race, and ‘Gravity’ was honored with Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón. The controversial romance drama, ‘Blue is the warmest Color,’ was awarded for Best Foreign Language Film. Other winners include film festival favorites ‘Her,’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ and ‘American Hustle.’
The 36-member organization voted on the following 15 categories:
FILM
‘12 Years a Slave’
DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuarón (‘Gravity’)
ACTOR
Chiwetel Ejiofor (‘12 Years a Slave’)
ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett (‘Blue Jasmine’)
SCREENPLAY
‘Her’ (Spike Jonze)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
‘Gravity’ (Emmanuel Lubezki)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jared Leto (‘Dallas Buyers Club’)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Lupita Nyong’o (‘12 Years a Slave’)
ENSEMBLE CAST
‘American Hustle’
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
‘Blue is the Warmest Color’
DOCUMENTARY
‘The Act of Killing’
ANIMATED FEATURE
‘The Wind Rises’
DEBUT AS DIRECTOR
Ryan Coogler (‘Fruitvale Station’)
USE OF MUSIC
‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ (T. Bone Burnett)
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Adèle Exarchopoulos (‘Blue is the Warmest Color’)
TOP ELEVEN PICTURES
‘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’
Written by: Karen Benardello
