The evening was dedicated to two members of the Film Critics Society who sadly passed away in the last twelve months: Roger Ebert and Stanley Kauffmann. The Society hoped to recognise the preferences of the fallen critics as well as their own when voting was cast. The full list of winners and nominees is available below.
Blue is the Warmest Color has been routinely praised since it's release
Best Picture
1. Inside Llewyn Davis
2. American Hustle
3. 12 Years a Slave
Best Director
1. Joel and Ethan Coen - Inside Llewyn Davis
2. Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
3. Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
Best Foreign Language Film
1. Blue Is the Warmest Color
2. A Touch of Sin
3. The Great Beauty
Best Non-Fiction Film
1. The Act of Killing
1. At Berkeley
3. Leviathan
Best Screenplay
1. Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke - Before Midnight
2. Joel and Ethan Coen - Inside Llewyn Davis
3. Eric Singer and David O. Russell - American Hustle
Best Cinematography
1. Bruno Delbonnel - Inside Llewyn Davis
2. Emmanuel Lubezki - Gravity
3. Phedon Papamichael - Nebraska
Best Actor
1. Oscar Isaac - Inside Llewyn Davis
2. Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
3. Robert Redford - All Is Lost
Best Actress
1. Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
2. Adèle Exarchopoulos - Blue Is the Warmest Color
3. Julie Delpy - Before Midnight
Best Supporting Actor
1. James Franco - Spring Breakers
2. Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club
3. Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
Best Supporting Actress
1. Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle
2. Lupita Nyong’o - 12 Years a Slave
3. Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
3. Léa Seydoux - Blue Is the Warmest Color
Experimental Film Award
Leviathan - Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
Film Heritage Award
To the Museum of Modern Art, for its wide-ranging retrospective of the films of Allan Dwan.
Too Much Johnson: the surviving reels from Orson Welles’s first professional film. Discovered by Cinemazero (Pordenone) and Cineteca del Friuli; funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation; and restored by the George Eastman House.
British Film Institute for restorations of Alfred Hitchcock’s nine silent features.
To the DVD American Treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive
Best Film Still Awaiting US Distribution
Stray Dogs
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