Columbia Pictures
Following a round of duly impressive victories from the Gotham Awards institution on Monday night, we see the New York Film Critics Circle grant their top picks for 2013, honoring a few titles that are more closely in line with the ideologies of the Academy we all know and love. Although the public has yet to get a taste of David O. Russell’s super-heist period piece American Hustle, we can’t really express any shock over its triumph as the NYFCC’s Best Picture — it’s got all the right ingredients for the slot. Past winners of the award have gone to Oscar Best Picture winners or noteworthy contenders like Zero Dark Thirty, The Artist, The Social Network, The Hurt Locker, Milk, and No Country for Old Men.
Academy conversation pieces like Steve McQueen, Robert Redford, Jennifer Lawrence, and Cate Blanchett have also earned the Circle’s favor,
BEST PICTURE
American Hustle
BEST DIRECTOR
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
LEAD ACTOR
Robert Redford, All Is Lost
LEAD ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
SCREENPLAY
Eric Singer and David O. Russell, American Hustle
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Blue Is the Warmest Color (France)
ANIMATED FILM
The Wind Rises
FIRST FILM
Fruitvale Station
NON-FICTION FILM (DOCUMENTARY)
Stories We Tell
SPECIAL AWARD
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman