US National Society of Film Critics announces awards

Oscar Isaac in Inside Llewyn Davis

The Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis was the big winner in the US National Society of Film Critics awards, which were announced on Saturday.

The film about the tribulations of a folk musician in Sixities New York picked up the honours for best director, best film, best cinematography for Bruno Delbonnel and best actor for Oscar Isaac. Cate Blanchett was named best actress for Blue Jasmine, while Blue Is The Warmest Colour continued its dominance in awards season foreign language categories Year 2013.

Also adding to its slew of awards season prizes was Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act Of Killing, which was named best documentary.

The full results are below.

Best Picture

1. Inside Llewyn Davis 2. American Hustle 3.= 12 Years a Slave 3.= Her

Best Director

1. Joel and Ethan Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)
2. Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)
3. Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave)

Best Foreign Language Film

1. Blue Is The Warmest Colour

Best Non-Fiction Film

1.= The Act Of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
1.= At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman)
3. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel)

Best Screenplay

1. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke)
2. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
3. American Hustle (Eric Singer and David O. Russell)

Best Cinematography

1. Inside Llewyn Davis (Bruno Delbonnel)
2. Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)
3. Nebraska (Phedon Papamichael)

Best Actor

1. Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis)
2. Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave)
3. Robert Redford (All Is Lost)

Best Actress

1. Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
2. Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is The Warmest Colour)
3. Julie Delpy (Before Midnight)

Best Supporting Actor

1. James Franco (Spring Breakers)
2. Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
3. Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)

Best Supporting Actress

1. Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
2. Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years A Slave)
3.= Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
3.= Léa Seydoux (Blue Is The Warmest Colour)

Experimental Film

Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel)

Film Heritage Award

Museum of Modern Art, for its wide-ranging retrospective of the films of Allan Dwan.
“Too Much Johnson”: the surviving reels from Orson Welles’s first professional film. Discovered by Cinemazero (Pordenone) and Cineteca del Friuli; funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation; and restored by the George Eastman House.
British Film Institute for restorations of Alfred Hitchcock’s nine silent features.
DVD “American Treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive.”

Best Film Still Awaiting American Distribution

Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
Hide Your Smiling Faces (Daniel Patrick Carbone)