The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) announced the nominees for the 19th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards this morning. Unsurprising to many, critics actually do like some movies. The ceremony will take place live on Thursday, January 16, 2014 on The CW, hosted by Aisha Tyler. Both 12 Years a Slave and American Hustle both earned 13 nominations respectively. See how the rest of the nominees fared after the break.

Awards season is shaping up fairly nicely now that the Golden Globes and SAG Awards nominees have been announced. However, I am still surprised how much praise Nebraska, All is Lost, and Philomena are receiving. I would have expected more nods for Short Term 12 from critics along with The Spectacular Now as well. I am glad to see The Wolf of Wall Street and Her continuing their big runs as well as Enough Said and August: Osage County.

The categories are a bit wacky in the Critics’ Choice Awards, including such genres as horror and action. I am all for recognizing genres such as horror in the mainstream, but to be in the midst of awards season it’s a bit draining on followers of these awards and the people in Hollywood as well. It’s as if everyone wins a participation award. Sure we all love different genres, but do we have to recognize them all? Do we have to remember that Star Trek Into Darkness or The Heat came out this year?

And the nominees are…

BEST PICTURE

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

BEST ACTOR

• Christian Bale – American Hustle
• Bruce Dern – Nebraska
• Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
• Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips
• Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
• Robert Redford – All Is Lost

BEST ACTRESS

• Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
• Sandra Bullock – Gravity
• Judi Dench – Philomena
• Brie Larson – Short Term 12
• Meryl Streep – August: Osage County
• Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
• Daniel Bruhl – Rush
• Bradley Cooper – American Hustle
• Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
• James Gandolfini – Enough Said
• Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Scarlett Johansson – Her
• Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
• Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
• Julia Roberts – August: Osage County
• June Squibb – Nebraska
• Oprah Winfrey – Lee Daniels’ The Butler

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

• Asa Butterfield – Ender’s Game
• Adele Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Color
• Liam James – The Way Way Back
• Sophie Nelisse – The Book Thief
• Tye Sheridan – Mud

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

• American Hustle
• August: Osage County
• Lee Daniels’ The Butler
• Nebraska
• 12 Years a Slave
• The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST DIRECTOR

• Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
• Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips
• Spike Jonze – Her
• Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
• David O. Russell – American Hustle
• Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Eric Singer and David O. Russell – American Hustle
• Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine
• Spike Jonze – Her
• Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis
• Bob Nelson – Nebraska

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• Tracy Letts – August: Osage County
• Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke – Before Midnight
• Billy Ray – Captain Phillips
• Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope – Philomena
• John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave
• Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Emmanuel Lubezki – Gravity
• Bruno Delbonnel – Inside Llewyn Davis
• Phedon Papamichael – Nebraska
• Roger Deakins – Prisoners
• Sean Bobbitt – 12 Years a Slave

BEST ART DIRECTION

• Andy Nicholson (Production Designer), Rosie Goodwin (Set Decorator) – Gravity
• Catherine Martin (Production Designer), Beverley Dunn (Set Decorator) – The Great Gatsby
• K.K. Barrett (Production Designer), Gene Serdena (Set Decorator) – Her
• Dan Hennah (Production Designer), Ra Vincent and Simon Bright (Set Decorators) – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
• Adam Stockhausen (Production Designer), Alice Baker (Set Decorator) – 12 Years a Slave

BEST EDITING

• Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers – American Hustle
• Christopher Rouse – Captain Phillips
• Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger – Gravity
• Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill – Rush
• Joe Walker – 12 Years a Slave
• Thelma Schoonmaker – The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Michael Wilkinson – American Hustle
• Catherine Martin – The Great Gatsby
• Bob Buck, Ann Maskrey, Richard Taylor – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
• Daniel Orlandi – Saving Mr. Banks
• Patricia Norris – 12 Years a Slave

BEST MAKEUP

• American Hustle
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
• Lee Daniels’ The Butler
• Rush
• 12 Years a Slave

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• Gravity
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
• Iron Man 3
• Pacific Rim
• Star Trek into Darkness

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• The Croods
• Despicable Me 2
• Frozen
• Monsters University
• The Wind Rises

BEST ACTION MOVIE

• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
• Iron Man 3
• Lone Survivor
• Rush
• Star Trek into Darkness

BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE

• Henry Cavill – Man of Steel
• Robert Downey Jr. – Iron Man 3
• Brad Pitt – World War Z
• Mark Wahlberg – Lone Survivor

BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE

• Sandra Bullock – Gravity
• Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
• Evangeline Lilly – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
• Gwyneth Paltrow – Iron Man 3

BEST COMEDY

• American Hustle
• Enough Said
• The Heat
• This Is the End
• The Way Way Back
• The World’s End

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY

• Christian Bale – American Hustle
• Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
• James Gandolfini – Enough Said
• Simon Pegg – The World’s End
• Sam Rockwell – The Way Way Back

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY

• Amy Adams – American Hustle
• Sandra Bullock – The Heat
• Greta Gerwig – Frances Ha
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Enough Said
• Melissa McCarthy – The Heat

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE

• The Conjuring
• Gravity
• Star Trek into Darkness
• World War Z

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Blue Is the Warmest Color
• The Great Beauty
• The Hunt
• The Past
• Wadjda

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

• The Act of Killing
• Blackfish
• Stories We Tell
• Tim’s Vermeer
• 20 Feet from Stardom

BEST SONG

• Atlas – Coldplay – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
• Happy – Pharrell Williams – Despicable Me 2
• Let It Go – Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez – Frozen
• Ordinary Love – U2 – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
• Please Mr. Kennedy – Justin Timberlake/Oscar Isaac/Adam Driver – Inside Llewyn Davis
• Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Rey – The Great Gatsby

BEST SCORE

• Steven Price – Gravity
• Arcade Fire – Her
• Thomas Newman – Saving Mr. Banks
• Hans Zimmer – 12 Years a Slave

The 19th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards will take place on January 16, 2014 on The CW at 8 PM ET/PT.

Be sure to keep up with all of the updates on Awards season by following the tag, Movie Awards. Monday, December 16 the Critics’ Choice Awards nominees will be announced.
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Source: Critics’ Choice Awards