Sure, everyone’s a critic, but not everybody gets to actually vote for which movies are nominated for the Critics Choice Awards. That perk is left for the pros. And those very critics have officially spoken, announcing the nominations for the 18th Annual Critics Choice Movie Awards.
Steven Spielberg’s presidential biopic Lincoln leads the nods, with a whopping 13 nominations, the most any film has ever received in the show’s history. Not only did the historical drama and Spielberg himself earn nods for Best Picture and Best Director, respectively, but so did leading man and current Best Actor frontrunner, the transformative Daniel Day Lewis, as well as Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones. The entire Lincoln cast is also up for Best Acting Ensemble.
Not far behind is Tom Hooper’s adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical Les Misérables, which earned 11 nominations and will compete against Lincoln in the categories of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Hugh Jackman), Best Supporting Actress (Anne Hathaway), and Best Acting Ensemble.
But don’t get concerned that the Broadcast Film Critics Association is too stodgy a bunch with choices like Lincoln and Les Misérables. They also rewarded the far edgier Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell’s mental illness romantic comedy, with an impressive 10 nominations. In fact, Silver Linings Playbook‘s being one of the few comedies nominated is what helped propel it; both its leads Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence are nominated in the Best Actor and Best Actress categories, and for Best Actor in a Comedy and Best Actress in a Comedy, as well.
So where does this put Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, the tense action drama about the hunt and capture of Osama bin Laden, which has been dominant in the early stages of the Oscar race thus far? While the film earned five Critics Choice Awards nominations, it was still trumped by Argo, The Master, and Skyfall (which earned seven nods each). With the exception of powerful leading lady Jessica Chastain, the huge ensemble cast was surprisingly left off of the Best Acting Ensemble list. While Bigelow won both Best Director and Best Picture for The Hurt Locker in 2009, if Lincoln keeps up its momentum towards a victory, it could decide the fate of both films at the Oscars. Over the past decade, seven of the ten films to win Best Picture at the Critics Choice Awards have gone on to win the Academy Award.
The Critics Choice Awards will air live on The CW on Friday, January 10. Check out the full list of nominees here:
BEST PICTURE
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
John Hawkes – The Sessions
Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Denzel Washington – Flight
BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts – The Impossible
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin – Argo
Javier Bardem – Skyfall
Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
Matthew McConaughey – Magic Mike
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams – The Master
Judi Dench – Skyfall
Ann Dowd – Compliance
Sally Field – Lincoln
Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
Helen Hunt – The Sessions
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Elle Fanning – Ginger & Rosa
Kara Hayward – Moonrise Kingdom
Tom Holland – The Impossible
Logan Lerman – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Suraj Sharma – Life of Pi
Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Argo
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Misérables
Lincoln
Moonrise Kingdom
Silver Linings Playbook
BEST DIRECTOR
Ben Affleck – Argo
Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
Tom Hooper – Les Misérables
Ang Lee – Life of Pi
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg – Lincoln
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
John Gatins – Flight
Rian Johnson – Looper
Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola – Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal – Zero Dark Thirty
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Chris Terrio – Argo
David Magee – Life of Pi
Tony Kushner – Lincoln
Stephen Chbosky – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Les Misérables – Danny Cohen
Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda
Lincoln – Janusz Kaminski
The Master – Mihai Malaimare Jr.
Skyfall – Roger Deakins
BEST ART DIRECTION
Anna Karenina – Sarah Greenwood/Production Designer; Katie Spencer/Set Decorator
The Hobbit – Dan Hennah/Production Designer; Ra Vincent & Simon Bright/Set Decorators
Les Misérables – Eve Stewart/Production Designer; Anna Lynch-Robinson/Set Decorator
Life of Pi – David Gropman/Production Designer; Anna Pinnock/Set Decorator
Lincoln – Rick Carter/Production Designer; Jim Erickson/Set Decorator
BEST EDITING
Argo – William Goldenberg
Les Misérables – Melanie Ann Oliver and Chris Dickens
Life of Pi – Tim Squyres
Lincoln – Michael Kahn
Zero Dark Thirty – William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran
Cloud Atlas – Kym Barrett and Pierre-Yves Gayraud
The Hobbit – Bob Buck, Ann Maskrey and Richard Taylor
Les Misérables – Paco Delgado
Lincoln – Joanna Johnston
BEST MAKEUP
Cloud Atlas
The Hobbit
Les Misérables
Lincoln
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Avengers
Cloud Atlas
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit
Life of Pi
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Brave
Frankenweenie
Madagascar 3
ParaNorman
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck-It Ralph
BEST ACTION MOVIE
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
Looper
Skyfall
BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Christian Bale – The Dark Knight Rises
Daniel Craig – Skyfall
Robert Downey Jr. – The Avengers
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Looper
Jake Gyllenhaal – End of Watch
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Emily Blunt – Looper
Gina Carano – Haywire
Judi Dench – Skyfall
Anne Hathaway – The Dark Knight Rises
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games
BEST COMEDY
Bernie
Silver Linings Playbook
Ted
This Is 40
21 Jump Street
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Jack Black – Bernie
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Paul Rudd – This Is 40
Channing Tatum – 21 Jump Street
Mark Wahlberg – Ted
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Mila Kunis – Ted
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Shirley MacLaine – Bernie
Leslie Mann – This Is 40
Rebel Wilson – Pitch Perfect
BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
The Cabin in the Woods
Looper
Prometheus
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Amour
The Intouchables
A Royal Affair
Rust and Bone
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Bully
The Central Park Five
The Imposter
The Queen of Versailles
Searching for Sugar Man
West of Memphis
BEST SONG
“For You” – performed by Keith Urban/written by Monty Powell & Keith Urban – Act of Valor
“Learn Me Right” – performed by Birdy with Mumford & Sons/written by Mumford & Sons – Brave
“Skyfall” – performed by Adele/written by Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth – Skyfall
“Still Alive” – performed by Paul Williams/written by Paul Williams – Paul Williams Still Alive
“Suddenly” – performed by Hugh Jackman/written by Claude-Michel Schonberg & Alain Boublil & Herbert Kretzmer – Les Misérables
BEST SCORE
Argo – Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi – Mychael Danna
Lincoln – John Williams
The Master – Jonny Greenwood
Moonrise Kingdom – Alexandre Desplat
[Photo credit: 20th Century Fox]
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