Hustle, Slave lead Critics’ Choice nominations

AMERICAN HUSTLE AND 12 Years a Slave lead all films in nominations for the 19th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards to take place on January 16.

The two films each received 13 nominations, to 10 for Gravity and six each for Captain Phillips, Her, Nebraska and The Wolf of Wall Street.

The Hustle and Slave totals tied the record for nominations set by Lincoln last year.

With 10 best-picture nominees and six nominees in all four acting categories, as well as best director and a number of other categories, the nominations included most of the main Oscar competitors.

Sandra Bullock received three nominations for two performances, a comedy-actress nod for The Heat and best-actress and action-actress noms for Gravity. Jennifer Lawrence received an action-actress nomination for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and a supporting-actress nom for American Hustle, while Christian Bale and James Gandolfini were nominated for Hustle and Enough Said, respectively, in both the acting and comedy-acting categories.

Critically-lauded performers missing from the nominations include Oscar Isaac from Inside Llewyn Davis, Michael B. Jordan and Octavia Spencer from Fruitvale Station, Idris Elba from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Jonah Hill from The Wolf of Wall Street.

Adele Exarchopoulos from Blue Is the Warmest Color and Leonardo DiCaprio from The Wolf of Wall Street were both left out of the best actress and best actor categories, though they were nominated for Best Young Actor/Actress and Best Actor in a Comedy. Scarlett Johansson received a nomination for her voice-only supporting role in Her.