Los Angeles Film Critics Awards: Major ties observed in Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor categories

On Sunday three major ties have been announced by the venerable Los Angeles Film Critics Association in three of the most important categories. For the Best Picture race Gravity tied with Her, in the best supporting actor genre James Franco (Spring Breakers) tied with Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) and for the Best Actress trophy Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) found an equivalent in Adele Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Color).

On the other fronts some distinguished film personalities were honoured by LAFCA like Bruce Dern was given the title of Best Actor for his characterisation of Woody Grant in Nebraska and Lupita Nyong’o bagged the Best Supporting Actress for 12 Years a Slave. Gravity topped the winners’ list with major wins like Best Director, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography, apart from the Best Picture. Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell won the award for the Best Documentary. Quite surprisingly David O. Russell’s American Hustle was seen nowhere in the show following its award for the Best Picture at the New York Film Critics Circle. Among others, Sundance festival’s blockbuster and recent Gotham Awards-winner Fruitvale Station and Robert Redford’s All Is Lost also went unrecognised at the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards. Here is the complete list of the winners:

• Best Picture (TIE): Gravity and Her

• Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity

• Best Actor: Bruce Dern, Nebraska

• Best Actress (TIE): Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine and Adele Exarchopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Color

• Best Supporting Actor (TIE): James Franco, Spring Breakers and Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

• Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave

• Best Screenplay: Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight

• Best Documentary/Nonfiction Film: Stories We Tell

• Best Foreign Language Film: Blue Is the Warmest Color

• Best Music/Score: T Bone Burnett, Inside Llewyn Davis

• Best Animation: Ernest & Celestine

• Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity

• Best Editing: Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger, Gravity

• Best Production Design: K.K. Barrett, Her

• Douglas Edwards Independent/Experimental Film/Video Award: Cabinets Of Wonder: Films and a Performance by Charlotte Pryce

• New Generation Prize: Megan Ellison

• Legacy of Cinema: Criterion Collection

• A Special Citation: The creative team behind 12 Years a Slave