Dallas-Fort Worth Critics Name "12 Years a Slave" Best Film of 2013

by Amos Semien

The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association named 12 Years a Slave the "Best Film" of 2013, one of three honors the film earned.  The critics group spread out the prizes with Gravity winning three honors and Dallas Buyers Club winning two for acting:  Matthew McConaughey (Best Actor) and Jared Leto (Best Supporting Actor).

The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association is also known as the DFW Film Critics Association.  The group describes itself as a not-for-profit, unincorporated voluntary organization of print, broadcast and internet film critics based in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area and greater North Texas who meet its membership criteria.  The DFW Film Critics Association currently consists of 29 broadcast, print, and online journalists from throughout North Texas.

The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association 20th Annual Critics’ Poll:

Top 10 Films of 2013:
1. 12 Years a Slave
2. Gravity
3. Nebraska
4. American Hustle
5. Dallas Buyers Club
6. Her
7. The Wolf of Wall Street
8. Inside Llewyn Davis
9. Captain Phillips
10. Mud

Best Actor 2013:
1. Matthew McConaughey for DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
2. Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 YEARS A SLAVE
3. Bruce Dern for NEBRASKA
4. Tom Hanks for CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
5. Leonardo DiCaprio for THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

Best Actress 2013:
1. Cate Blanchett for BLUE JASMINE
2. Sandra Bullock for GRAVITY
3. Judi Dench for PHILOMENA
4. Meryl Streep for AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
5. Emma Thompson for SAVING MR. BANKS

Best Supporting Actor 2013:
1. Jared Leto for DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
2. Michael Fassbender for 12 YEARS A SLAVE
3. Barkhad Abdi for CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
4. Daniel Bruhl for RUSH
5. Jonah Hill for THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

Best Supporting Actress 2013:
1. Lupita Nyong’o for 12 YEARS A SLAVE
2. June Squibb for NEBRASKA
3. Jennifer Lawrence for AMERICAN HUSTLE
4. Julia Roberts for AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
5. Sally Hawkins for BLUE JASMINE

Best Director 2013:
1. Alfonso Cuaron for GRAVITY
2. Steve McQueen for 12 YEARS A SLAVE
3. Alexander Payne for NEBRASKA
4. David O. Russell for AMERICAN HUSTLE
5. Martin Scorsese for THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

Best Foreign-Language Film 2013:
1. BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR
2. THE HUNT
3. THE GREAT BEAUTY
4. THE WIND RISES
5. THE GRANDMASTER

Best Documentary Film 2013:
1. TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM
2. THE ACT OF KILLING
3. STORIES WE TELL
4. BLACKFISH
5. THE GATEKEEPERS

Best Animated Film 2013:
1. FROZEN
2. DESPICABLE ME 2

Best Screenplay 2013:
1. John Ridley for 12 YEARS A SLAVE
2. TIE: Bob Nelson for NEBRASKA and Spike Jonze for HER

Best Cinematography 2013:
1. Emmanuel Lubezki for GRAVITY
2. Sean Bobbitt for 12 YEARS A SLAVE

Best Musical Score 2013:
Steven Price for GRAVITY

Russell Smith Award: FRUITVALE STATION
(The award is named for the late Dallas Morning News film critic. The honor is given annually to the best low-budget or cutting-edge independent film.)

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