Detroit Film Critics Choose "Her" as "Best Film" of 2013

by Amos Semien

The Detroit Film Critics Society was founded in Spring 2007 and currently consists of a group of 20 Michigan film critics (as December 2013) who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities within a 150-mile radius of the city including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Michigan.

American Hustle and Short Term 12 led the pack with five nominations apiece for the 2013 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards, in nominations announced December 9. 2013.  However, when the winners were announced Friday, December 13, 2013, Spike Jonze’s Her was named “Best Film.”

The Best of 2013 as picked by the Detroit Film Critics Society:

BEST FILM
WINNER: Her
Before Midnight
Gravity
Short Term 12
12 Years a Slave

BEST DIRECTOR
WINNER: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips
Spike Jonze, Her
David O. Russell, American Hustle
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ACTOR
WINNER: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
Robert Redford, All Is Lost

BEST ACTRESS
WINNER: Brie Larson, Short Term 12
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Julie Delpy, Before Midnight
Adele Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
James Franco, Spring Breakers
Matthew McConaughey, Mud
Stanley Tucci, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER: Scarlett Johansson, Her
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska

BEST ENSEMBLE
WINNER: American Hustle
August: Osage County
Blue Jasmine
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

BREAKTHROUGH
WINNER: Brie Larson, Short Term 12 (actress)
Lake Bell, In a World (actress, screenplay, director)
Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station (screenplay, director)
Destin Cretton, Short Term 12 (screenplay, director)
Michael B. Jordan, Fruitvale Station (actor)

BEST SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Spike Jonze, Her
Destin Cretton, Short Term 12
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight
Eric Singer and David O. Russell, American Hustle
Terence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST DOCUMENTARY
WINNER: Stories We Tell
The Act of Killing
Blackfish
The Square
The Unknown Known

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