Winners and nominees
Best Actor
Oscar Isaac – Inside Llewyn Davis
- Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
- Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips
- Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
- Joaquin Phoenix – Her
Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor is a British actor.
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical period-drama film based on an adaptation of the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery. Northup was put to work on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before being released. The first scholarly edition of Northup's memoir, co-edited in 1968 by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon, carefully retraced and validated the account and concluded it to be accurate. Other characters in the film were also real people, including Edwin and Mary Epps, and Patsey.
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. Hanks is known for his comedic and dramatic roles in such films as Splash (1984), Big (1988), Turner & Hooch (1989), A League of Their Own (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Forrest Gump (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), You've Got Mail (1998), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), Cloud Atlas (2012), Captain Phillips (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), and Sully (2016). He has also starred in the Robert Langdon films, and voices Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series. He is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is widely regarded as an American cultural icon.
Best Actress
- Sandra Bullock – Gravity
- Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Colour
- Brie Larson – Short Term 12
- Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks
Sandra Annette Bullock is an American actress, producer, and philanthropist. She was the highest paid actress in the world in 2010 and 2014. In 2015, Bullock was chosen as People's Most Beautiful Woman and was included in Time's 100 most influential people in the world in 2010. Bullock is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Gravity is a 2013 science fiction thriller film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who also co-wrote, co-edited and produced the film. It stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as American astronauts who are stranded in space after the mid-orbit destruction of their Space Shuttle, and their attempt to return to Earth.
Adèle Exarchopoulos is a French actress. She is best known for her leading role as Adèle in Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), for which she earned international attention and critical acclaim; at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, she became the youngest person in the history of the festival to be awarded the Palme d'Or. For her performance in Blue Is the Warmest Colour, she also won the César Award for Most Promising Actress and the Trophée Chopard Award for Female Revelation of the Year, among dozens of other accolades.
Best Animated Film
Best Cinematography
To the Wonder – Emmanuel Lubezki
- Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki
- The Great Gatsby – Simon Duggan
- Inside Llewyn Davis – Bruno Delbonnel
- Prisoners – Roger Deakins
Emmanuel Lubezki Morgenstern, A.S.C., A.M.C. is a Mexican cinematographer. He sometimes goes by the nickname Chivo, which means "goat" in Spanish. Lubezki has worked with many acclaimed directors, including Mike Nichols, Tim Burton, Michael Mann, Joel and Ethan Coen, and frequent collaborators Terrence Malick, Alfonso Cuarón, and Alejandro González Iñárritu.
The Great Gatsby is a 2013 romantic drama film based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. The film was co-written and directed by Baz Luhrmann and stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the eponymous Jay Gatsby, with Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher and Elizabeth Debicki. Jay-Z served as executive producer. Production began in 2011 and took place in Australia, with a $105 million net production budget. The film follows the life and times of millionaire Jay Gatsby (DiCaprio) and his neighbor Nick Carraway (Maguire), who recounts his encounter with Gatsby at the height of the Roaring Twenties on Long Island.
Simon Duggan is a New Zealand-born Australian cinematographer.
Best Director
- Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis
- Destin Daniel Cretton – Short Term 12
- Spike Jonze – Her
- Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, collectively referred to as the Coen brothers , are American filmmakers. Their films span many genres and styles, which they frequently subvert or parody. Their most acclaimed works include Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), No Country for Old Men (2007), True Grit (2010), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018).
Inside Llewyn Davis is a 2013 French-American musical comedy-drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in 1961, the film follows one week in the life of Llewyn Davis, played by Oscar Isaac in his breakthrough role, a folk singer struggling to achieve musical success while keeping his life in order. The supporting cast stars Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, F. Murray Abraham, and Justin Timberlake.
Destin Daniel Cretton is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor. He is best known for his collaborations with Brie Larson, in the films Short Term 12 (2013), The Glass Castle (2017), and Just Mercy (2019).
Best Documentary
20 Feet from Stardom is a 2013 American documentary film directed by documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville and was produced by Gil Friesen, a music industry executive whose curiosity to know more about the lives of background singers inspired the making of the film.
Blackfish is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite. It concerns Tilikum, an orca held by SeaWorld and the controversy over captive killer whales. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2013, and was picked up by Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films for wider release. It was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary.
Let the Fire Burn is a 2013 documentary film about the events leading up to and surrounding a 1985 stand-off between the black liberation group MOVE and the Philadelphia Police Department. The film is directed and produced by Jason Osder and was released by Zeitgeist Films in October 2013.
Best Editing
Captain Phillips – Christopher Rouse
- 12 Years a Slave – Joe Walker
- Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
- Her – Eric Zumbrunnen and Jeff Buchanan
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Alan Edward Bell
Best Ensemble Performance
Best Film
Best Foreign Language Film
- Blue Is the Warmest Colour • Belgium / France / Spain
- The Broken Circle Breakdown • Belgium / Netherlands
- The Hunt • Denmark / Sweden
- No • Chile / France / Mexico / United States
Best Production Design
Best Score
- 12 Years a Slave – Hans Zimmer
- The Broken Circle Breakdown – Bjorn Eriksson
- Gravity – Steven Price
- Rush – Hans Zimmer
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Before Midnight – Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke
