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The Detroit Film Critics Society Announces 2013 Awards

Mike Tyrkus
Short Term 12

Brie Larson and Keith Stanfield in "Short Term 12." © 2013 - Cinedigm.

The Detroit Film Critics Society is pleased to announce the best of 2013 in ten categories. The society was founded in Spring 2007 and consists of a group of twenty Michigan film critics who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities within a 150-mile radius of the city including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Michigan.

Each critic submitted their top five picks in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, Breakthrough Performance, Best Screenplay, and Best Documentary. From these submissions, each entry was given a point value and the top five in each category have been placed on the final ballot. The final ballots were then given to each critic to rank in order. The results were once again tabulated and the winners were decided.

Taking three awards this year was Her (for Picture, Supporting Actress, and Screenplay). Both Short Term 12 (Actress and Breakthrough) and Dallas Buyers Club (Actor and Supporting Actor) garnered two awards each while Gravity (Director), American Hustle (Ensemble), and Stories We Tell (Documentary) all took one award a piece.

Leading with five nominations each this year were American Hustle and Short Term 12. Other top nominees with four nominations each were 12 Years a Slave, Her, and The Wolf of Wall Street. Receiving three nominations each were August: Osage County, Before Midnight, and Captain Phillips. Both Spike Jonze and David O. Russell were nominated twice this year for Best Director and Best Screenplay. Destin Cretton was also nominated twice in the Best Screenplay and Best Breakthrough categories. Brie Larson was nominated twice in the Best Actress and Best Breakthrough categories. Julie Delpy was nominated twice for Best Actress and Best Screenplay. Matthew McConaughey was also nominated twice for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.

 

The Best of 2013
as picked by the Detroit Film Critics Society
(nominees are listed in alphabetical order)

BEST FILM

BEST DIRECTOR

BEST ACTOR

BEST ACTRESS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

BEST ENSEMBLE

BREAKTHROUGH

BEST SCREENPLAY

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.
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