The 12th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 8, 2013.
Winners and nominees
Best Film
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Best Director
Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity
Spike Jonze – Her
Baz Luhrmann – The Great Gatsby
Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Actor
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
Joaquin Phoenix – Her
Robert Redford – All Is Lost
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Judi Dench – Philomena
Meryl Streep – August: Osage County
Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks
Best Supporting Actor
Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club
Daniel Brühl – Rush
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
James Franco – Spring Breakers
James Gandolfini – Enough Said
Best Supporting Actress
Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave
Scarlett Johansson – Her
Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Octavia Spencer – Fruitvale Station
June Squibb – Nebraska
Best Adapted Screenplay
12 Years a Slave – John Ridley
Before Midnight – Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, and Richard Linklater
Captain Phillips – Billy Ray
The Spectacular Now – Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter
The Wolf of Wall Street – Terence Winter
Best Original Screenplay
Her – Spike Jonze
American Hustle – Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen
Enough Said – Nicole Holofcener
Inside Llewyn Davis – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Best Ensemble
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
August: Osage County
Prisoners
The Way Way Back
Best Animated Film
Frozen
Turbo
Despicable Me 2
Monsters University
The Wind Rises
Best Documentary Film
Blackfish
20 Feet from Stardom
The Act of Killing
Leviathan
Stories We Tell
Best Foreign Language Film
The Broken Circle Breakdown • Belgium
Blue Is the Warmest Color • France
The Hunt • Denmark
The Past • France/Iran
Wadjda • Saudi Arabia/Germany
Best Art Direction
The Great Gatsby
12 Years a Slave
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Best Cinematography
Gravity
12 Years a Slave
The Great Gatsby
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Best Editing
Gravity
12 Years a Slave
Her
Rush
The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Score
12 Years a Slave – Hans Zimmer
Frozen – Christophe Beck
Gravity – Steven Price
Her – Arcade Fire
Saving Mr. Banks – Thomas Newman
Best Youth Performance
Tye Sheridan – Mud
Asa Butterfield – Ender's Game
Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Color
Liam James – The Way Way Back
Waad Mohammed – Wadjda
The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, D.C.
The Butler
The East
Olympus Has Fallen
Philomena
White House Down
