After a some taste-testing elsewhere by some more regional critics, it’s back to the grind with another Best Picture win for “12 Years a Slave,” this time from the Phoenix Film Critics Society. The film won three awards, as did Disney’s “Frozen,” but Alfonso Cuarón’s “Gravity” was a more dominant figure winning four, including Best Director.
Phoenix critics award '12 Years a Slave,' 'Gravity,' 'Frozen'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:12 am · December 17th, 2013
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Toronto critics go their own way, name 'Inside Llewyn Davis' the year's Best Picture
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:24 pm · December 16th, 2013
“Inside Llewyn Davis” won Best Picture and Best Actor from the Toronto Film Critics Association, splitting from the herd and handing the Coen Bros. musical its first top critics award in the process.
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'12 Years a Slave' dominates Chicago film critics awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:36 pm · December 16th, 2013
Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave” kept up its regional precursor dominance tonight winning the Best Picture prize from the Chicago Film Critics Association. The group’s acting winners filled out accordingly with nary a surprise to be found.
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Jay Z, Coldplay and U2 make the Oscar eligibility cut for Best Original Song
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:04 pm · December 16th, 2013
On the heels of our piece detailing the unfortunate ineligibility of “Please Mr. Kennedy” from “Inside Llewyn Davis,” the Academy has announced 75 original songs in competition for the Best Original Song Oscar at the 86th annual Academy Awards.
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How 'Please Mr. Kennedy' was born and why it's not eligible for Oscar consideration
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:04 pm · December 16th, 2013
With nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Broadcast Film Critics Association in the span of a week, not to mention being a stand-out track on the year’s prestige “musical,” produced by recent Academy Award winner T Bone Burnett with pop superstar Justin Timberlake on the mic, you would think “Please Mr. Kennedy” from the Coen brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis” was on a collision course with Oscar. But due to stricter AMPAS rules, the tune will not be on the list of songs eligible to compete in the Best Original Song category at this year’s Academy Awards. That’s no skin off Burnett’s back.
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Kristopher Tapley's top 10 films of 2013
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:30 am · December 16th, 2013
HitFix Editor-at-Large Kristopher Tapley runs down his top 10 films including “Out of the Furnace,” “Spring Breakers,” “The Place Beyond the Pines” and “Gravity.”
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'Philomena' and 'Before Midnight' top Women Film Critics Circle awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:04 am · December 16th, 2013
After a colorful list of nominations last week (check them out here if you missed them), the Women Film Critics Circle has deemed “Philomena” the best film of 2013…about women. The film picked up two other awards as well (the only other two for which it was nominated, in fact, making it a sweeper). “Before Midnight” also scored a hat trick.
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'12 Years a Slave' wins seven from St. Louis film critics
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:58 am · December 16th, 2013
You didn’t think “12 Years a Slave” was done winning awards today, did you? Another group, the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association, has singled it out as the year’s best after the film dominated the group’s list of nominations last week. Steve McQueen’s drama picked up seven awards in total.
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Indiana film critics board the '12 Years' bandwagon
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:33 am · December 16th, 2013
The Indiana Film Journalists Association has hopped onto the runaway “12 Years a Slave” train, ticking the film off for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Musical Score awards today. But they provided a little more intrigue in other acting categories, giving prizes to Adèle Exarchopoulos and Barkhad Abdi, and a runner-up tip of the cap to “American Hustle” star Jeremy Renner (his first mention of the season).
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'12 Years a Slave' leads Southeastern film critics winners
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:13 am · December 16th, 2013
The Southeastern Film Critics Association went for “12 Years a Slave” in a big way, handing it prizes for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay in addition to Best Picture.
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'American Hustle' and '12 Years a Slave' lead Critics' Choice Movie Awards nominations
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:47 am · December 16th, 2013
“American Hustle” and “12 Years a Slave” led the way with this year’s Critics’ Choice Movie Awards nominations with 13 apiece. David O. Russell’s Abscam comedy had the added benefit of padding in the comedy categories, however, a luxury “12 Years a Slave” couldn’t boast.
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'12 Years a Slave' tops with San Francisco critics, but 'Gravity' wins four
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:12 pm · December 15th, 2013
Alfonso Cuarón’s “Gravity” was a big favorite with the San Francisco Film Critics Circle this year, picking up four awards from the group including Best Director. But it was “12 Years a Slave” that the group named Best Picture of the year. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Cate Blanchet took top acting honors, while James Franco nabbed his second prize of the critics circuit. “American Hustle” won two awards, for Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Lawrence) and Best Original Screenplay.
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'12 Years a Slave' wins four from Houston film critics
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:10 pm · December 15th, 2013
Also handing out awards today was the Houston Film Critics Society. The group also went with “12 Years a Slave,” bringing the film’s Best Picture tally up to six, for those keeping score at home. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Sandra Bullock picked up top acting honors, while Jared Leto and Lupita Nyong’o maintained their impressive dominance in the supporting ranks.
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'12 Years a Slave' wins big with Kansas City film critics
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:34 pm · December 15th, 2013
The Kansas City Film Critics Circle has tapped Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave” as the year’s best, falling in line with a number of regional critics as of late.
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'American Hustle,' 'Bad Grandpa' and 'The Lone Ranger' among Oscar makeup and hairstyling finalists
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:08 pm · December 14th, 2013
The Academy has announced this year’s bake-off finalists for the Best Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar, and the big omissions appear to be Ron Howard’s “Rush” and Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.” But the Jackass boys have cause for celebration!
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'One year from now,' will we be talking about 'Interstellar' in the Oscar race?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:17 am · December 14th, 2013
The teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s first foray into filmmaking with the “Dark Knight” trilogy firmly in his rear view mirror landed today, and it’s certainly a tease. But it also has something heavy on its mind. Will we be talking about it in Oscar terms this time next year?
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Oscar Talk: 'Hustle,' 'Wall Street,' precursors and the 10 best films of 2013
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:00 am · December 13th, 2013
In the latest installment of Oscar Talk, Kris and Anne discuss the final films to screen of the season, the end-of-year precursor circuit that includes critics groups, the HFPA and SAG and their own kudos list: the top 10 films of 2013.
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'12 Years a Slave' leads with 11 Chicago Film Critics Association nominations
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:49 am · December 13th, 2013
I was hit with a pang of sadness this morning when it occurred to me that the Chicago Film Critics Association’s list of nominees this year are the organization’s first since the passing of legendary Chicago critic Roger Ebert. What might he thought of this year’s crop of movies, and this group’s nominations, which were led by “12 Years a Slave?”
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