LA Film Critics Pick HER And GRAVITY As Top Pictures Of 2013

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The Los Angeles Film Critics have a history of never ever predicting the Best Picture winner at the Oscars, at least in the past 20 years. But what they do generally do is help a critical darling along to a Best Picture nomination. Whether that’s good news or bad news for Gravity is yet to be seen, but something tells me that Her, the picture Gravity tied for the best this year, just got a big shot in the arm here.

In other news, Jared Leto, who tied James Franco for Best Supporting, actor continues to take the category by storm, along with Cate Blanchett, who was awarded Best Actress (here tied with Blue is the Warmest Colors‘ Adèle Exarchopoulos) and is now sweeping the early critics prizes.

Blanchett is locked and loaded to win the Best Actress prize come March, while Leto looks to be in at the very least for a nomination. The critics awards will continue and on Thursday, we get the Golden Globe nominations, followed by the BFCA Critcs’ Choice Award nominees on Dec. 16.

Now onto the full list of LA Film Critics Awards winners:

Best Picture: Gravity and Her (tie)
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity; runner-up: Spike Jonze, Her
Best Actor: Bruce Dern, Nebraska; runner-up: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine, and Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Color (tie)
Best Supporting Actor: James Franco, Spring Breakers, and Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club (tie)
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 Feature Animation: Ernest & Celestine; runner-up: The Wind Rises
Best Documentary: Stories We Tell; runner-up: The Act of Killing
Best Music Score: T Bone Burnett, Inside Llewyn Davis; runner-up: Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett, Her
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity; Runner-up, Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis
Best Editing: Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger, Gravity; Shane Carruth and David Lowery, Upstream Color
Best Production Design: K.K. Barrett, Her; Runner-up: Jess Gonchor, Inside Llewyn Davis
Douglas Edwards Independent/Experimental Film/Video Award:
Cabinets Of Wonder: Films and a Performance by Charlotte Pryce
The NEW GENERATION prize: Megan Ellison.