The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the nominees for the 18th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. The winners will be announced live at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony on Thursday, January 11, 2013 from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. The show will broadcast live on The CW Network at 8:00 PM ET/PT.
“Lincoln” received a record-setting 13 nominations for the 18th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, beating out previous record holder “Black Swan,” which had 12 nominations in 2011. Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” garnered nods for Best Picture, Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, Best Supporting Actor for Tommy Lee Jones, Best Supporting Actress for Sally Field, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director for Steven Spielberg, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Best Score.
Following closely behind is “Les Misérables,” which received 11 nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor for Hugh Jackman, Best Supporting Actress for Anne Hathaway, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director for Tom Hooper, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Best Song for “Suddenly.”
David O. Russell’s “Silver Linings Playbook” also impressed with 10 nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor for Bradley Cooper, Best Actress for Jennifer Lawrence, Best Supporting Actor for Robert De Niro, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director for David O. Russell, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Comedy, Best Actor in a Comedy for Bradley Cooper and Best Actress in a Comedy Jennifer Lawrence.
“Life of Pi” earned 9 nominations, and “Argo,” “The Master” and “Skyfall” each garnered 7 nominations. Jennifer Lawrence leads the female nominees with nods for Best Actress, Best Actress in a Comedy and Best Acting Ensemble for “Silver Linings Playbook” as well as Best Actress in an Action Movie for “The Hunger Games.” Bradley Cooper leads the male nominees with nods for Best Actor, Best Actor in a Comedy and Best Acting Ensemble for “Silver Livings Playbook.” Judi Dench was nominated for both Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress in an Action Movie for “Skyfall” and nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis was nominated for Best Actress and Best Young Actress for “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” contributing to the film’s 3 nominations, including Best Picture.
“This has been a truly spectacular year in filmmaking and our voters had an embarrassment of riches to choose from,” says BFCA President Joey Berlin. “To recognize the remarkable achievements across every genre of filmmaking we have added several new categories this year, including often overlooked performances in Comedy and Action. And to add even more fun, we’re letting fans in on the voting in one special category.”
Complete List nominations for the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards:
BEST PICTURE
Argo
Beasts of the Southern
Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
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 Miserables
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
Miserables
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 Miserables
Lincoln
Moonrise Kingdom
Silver
Linings Playbook
BEST DIRECTOR
Ben Affleck,
Argo
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Tom Hooper,
Les Miserables
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 and
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 Miserables, 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 and Simon Bright, set
decorators
Les Miserables, 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 Miserables, 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 Miserables, Paco Delgado
Lincoln, Joanna
Johnston
BEST MAKEUP
Cloud Atlas
The Hobbit
Les
Miserables
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 and 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
and 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 and Alain Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer – Les Miserables
BEST SCORE
Argo, Alexandre
Desplat
Life of Pi, Mychael Danna
Lincoln, John
Williams
The Master, Jonny Greenwood
Moonrise Kingdom,
Alexandre Desplat
Movie fans can indeed vote on their favorite film franchise and watch as the winner is announced live on the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards on The CW on January 10th. This is the first fan-voted award in the history of the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. The nominees include: Batman, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, James Bond/007, Lord of the Rings, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Star Wars, Toy Story and Twilight. Voting begins today and fans can vote on The Official Critics’ Choice Movie Awards Site, The CW and many of the Internet’s most popular entertainment sites including CELEBUZZ, POPSUGAR, Entertainment Weekly, Rotten Tomatoes, Wonderwall, Summit Entertainment, Warner Bros., AreYouScreening, Awards Circuit, Screen It, Slug Mag, Lights Camera Jackson and Scene Stealers.
The Critics’ Choice Movie Awards are bestowed annually by the BFCA to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. The BFCA is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing more than 270 television, radio and online critics. BFCA members are the primary source of information for today’s film going public. Eligible films were released in 2012. The accounting firm of CMM, LLP tallied the written ballots.
Since its inception in 1995, the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards has been a star-studded bellwether event of the movie awards season. Historically, the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards are the most accurate predictor of the Academy Award nominations. Among the attendees at last year’s show were George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Charlize Theron, Bob Dylan, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg.
Final ballots for the 18th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards will be sent to BFCA members on January 7, 2013 with a deadline for returning final ballots on January 8, 2013.
The 18th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards will be produced by Bob Bain Productions and Berlin Entertainment. The BFCA and Berlin Entertainment are represented by Dan Black of Greenberg Traurig and Lance Klein of WME.
Key ballot and submission dates for 18th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards below:
January 7, 2013 – Final ballots sent to BFCA members
January 8, 2013 – Deadline for returning final ballots
January 10, 2013 – Winners revealed during live telecast on The CW
