LAFCA Winners

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Would you have guessed a week ago that 12 Years a Slave would get its only best picture recognition from Boston and the Internet crowd? That's not necessarily a bad thing -- it's the Slumdog Millionaire coalition -- but that's not the route to Oscar you'd expect "the Schindler's List of slavery" to be taking.

Actually, 12 Years has been justlosing many places -- according to Glenn Whipp, it and Nebraska barely missed the runoff at LA, and of course it only lost by a little in NY. Is there deliberate ganging up on it, or are there simply other films with slightly higher levels of support? (And what a widespread field -- Hustle in NY, Wolf finishing second in Boston, Inside Llewyn Davis in the mix just about everywhere)

The folks at the other sites, for whom all groups carry equal weight, think Chiwetel had a great weekend because he won the two online groups; for the rest of us, it's lucky he won Boston, as his only real claim to contention. Dern and Redford are making strong runs.

For Blanchett, managing the tie even in subtitle-lovin' LA is close to a win. I'm not sure about Exarchopuoulos' chances at riding this to an Oscar nod. I'd say her trek has become more difficult with the emergence of Amy Adams as possibility; if she were the only youngster in the pack, she'd have an easier time.

Leto is still running ahead, but not steamrolling the way Blanchett is.

Supporting actress looks like it could stay undecided right till the end.

Inside Llewyn Davis won (deservedly) every music award given out today, but will of course be ineligible for an Oscar nod. This is the rare year when you wish they still had the song score category (which they eliminated after Prince won).

Gravity overcame at least some critics' misgivings about its CGI to win cinematography, which should ease an already pretty direct path to the Oscars. But Inside llewyn Davis is a hell of a competitor -- shots like Llewyn hitchhiking in the fog are pretty stunning.
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I have a feeling Blanchett and Leto will sweep the awards season.

Other than this, it's anyones guess at this stage of the race
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They apparently really liked both Gravity and Her. Three ties though. Really?
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12 Years a Slave sure had a great morning.
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Bruce Dern won best actor. Ejiofor runner-up
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They just gave Best Director to Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity, with Spike Jonze as the runner up for Her. To me, that looks like Picture is going to Her.

So far, Gravity has won for Direction, Cinematography, and Film Editing, while Her has won for Production Design and been runner up for Direction and Music Score.
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flipp525 wrote:Can one of the mods add the last "A" in the thread title to "LAFCA"?
Fixed, but I thought this was something anyone could do by going back to their original message and editing the title there.
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Why is Sarah Polley's film slaughtering The Act of Killing at nearly every critic's awards? I haven't seen Stories We Tell, but The Act of Killing is one of the ten best films of the year documentary or narrative, so I'm not understanding. Anyone have any good insight on this?
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Can one of the mods add the last "A" in the thread title to "LAFCA"?
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LAFCA Winners

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BEST PICTURE (tie): Gravity and Her
BEST DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity (Runner-up: Spike Jonze, Her)
BEST ACTOR: Bruce Dern, Nebraska (Runner-up: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (tie): James Franco, Spring Breakers and Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
BEST ACTRESS (tie): Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine and Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Color
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave (Runner-up: June Squibb, Nebraska)
BEST SCREENPLAY: Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight (Runner-up: Spike Jonze, Her)
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM: Blue Is the Warmest Color Runner-up: The Great Beauty)
BEST DOCUMENTARY: Stories We Tell (Runner-up: The Act of Killing)
BEST ANIMATION: Ernest & Celestine (Runner-up: The Wind Rises)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity (Runner-up, Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis)
BEST EDITING: Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger, Gravity (Runner-up: Shane Carruth and David Lowery, Upstream Color)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: K.K. Barrett, Her (Runner-up: Jess Gonchor, Inside Llewyn Davis)
BEST MUSIC SCORE: T Bone Burnett, Inside Llewyn Davis (Runner-up: Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett, Her)

A special citation will be awarded to the creative team of 12 Years a Slave.

The winner for Douglas Edwards Independent/Experimental Film/Video Award: Cabinets Of Wonder: Films and a Performance by Charlotte Pryce
The New Generation prize goes to Megan Ellison.
Legacy of Cinema is being awarded to the Criterion Collection.
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