Academy Award Updates 12/10/2013

Want to know the top leaders in the Oscar race? Check the leaders in bold.

Best Film, Director

1. Her, Spike Jonze, National Board of Review, LAFCS
2. 12 Years A Slave, Steve McQueen NYFCC, BFCS
3. Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron, BFCS, LAFCA
4. Fruitvale Station, Ryan Coogler, Many Breakthrough Director Awards
5. Inside Llewyn Davis, Gotham
6. Nebraska, BFCS
7. Wadjda, BFCS
8. Wolf of Wall Street, BFCS Runner Up
9. The Act of Killing, BFCS Runner Up

Best Animated Film
The Wind Rises, Almost Everything, LAFCA Runner Up
Ernest and Celestine, LAFCA
Frozen, BFCS Runner Up

Best Documentary
Act of Killing, Almost everything, LAFCA Runner Up
Stories We Tell, LAFCA
Black Fish, BFCS Runner Up

Best Foreign Language Film
Blue is the Warmest Color, Almost Everything
The Great Beauty (Italy), LAFCA Runner Up

Lists:
National Board of Review
Top 10 Films (in alphabetical order):

• 12 Years a Slave
• Fruitvale Station
• Gravity
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Lone Survivor
• Nebraska
• Prisoners
• Saving Mr. Banks
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• The Wolf of Wall Street

Top 5 Foreign Language Films (in alphabetical order):

• Beyond the Hills
• Gloria
• The Grandmaster
• A Hijacking
• The Hunt

Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order):

• Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
• Dallas Buyers Club
• In a World…
• Mother of George
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Mud
• The Place Beyond the Pines
• Short Term 12
• Sightseers
• The Spectacular Now

American Film Institute Top 10

• 12 Years a Slave
• American Hustle
• Captain Phillips
• Fruitvale Station
• Gravity
• Her
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Nebraska
• Saving Mr. Banks
• The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Screenplay:
Enough Said, BFCS
The Wolf of Wall Street, BFCS Runner Up
Richard Linklater, Before Midnight, LAFCS
Spike Jonze, Her, LAFCA Runner Up

Best Cinematography:
Emmanuel Lubezki – Gravity, BFCS, LAFCA

Phillipe le Sourd, The Grandmaster, BFCS Runner Up

Best Editing:
Rush, BFCS
Thelma Schoonmaker – The Wolf of Wall Street, BFCS Runner-up: 
Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger – Gravity, LAFCA
Shane Carruth and David Lowery – Upstream Color, LAFCA Runner-up

Best Actor

1. Bruce Dern, Nebraska, NBR, LAFCS
2. Michael B. Jordan, Gotham, NBR
3. Robert Redford, All is Lost, NYFC
4. Chiwetel Eijofor, BFCS, LAFCS Runner Up
5. Leonardo DiCaprio, BFCS Runner Up

Best Actress

1. Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine, NYFC, BFCS, LAFCS
2. Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Colour, NBR, LAFCS
3. Emma Thompson, Saving Ms. Banks, NBR
4. Brie Lawson, Short Term 12, Gotham
5. Judi Dench, Philomena, BFCS Runner Up

Best Supporting Actor

1. Jared Leto, NYFC, BFCS Runner Up, LAFCA
2. Will Forte, Nebraska, NBR
3. James Gandolfini, Enough Said, BFCS
4. James Franco, LAFCA
5. Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips, BFCS Runner Up

Best Supporting Actress

1. June Squibb, Nebraska, Gotham, BFCS, LAFCA
2. Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave, BFCS Runner Up, LAFCA
3. Jennifer Lawrence, NYFC
4. Octavia Spencer, NBR