INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS NEAR CLEANS UP AT NSFC

I had a hunch that the NSFC would like Inside Llewyn Davis, which is currently being shunned by the guilds, but I didn't expect them to like it this much! Four awards and one second place for the Coen brothers' film, with American Hustle making a strong showing too. Between the wins for James Franco and Jennifer Lawrence, and the lack of documentaries, animations and non-English language features in their selections, this is surely one of the worst NSFC slates in recent times.

Best Picture

1.       Inside Llewyn Davis

2.        American Hustle

3.        12 Years a Slave

Best Director

1.       Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)

2.        Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)

3.        Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)

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)

Léa Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Colour)

Best Screenplay

1.       Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater (Before Midnight)

2.        Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)

3.        David O. Russell and Eric Singer (American Hustle)

Best Cinematography

1.       Bruno Delbonnel (Inside Llewyn Davis)

2.        Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity)

3.        Phedon Papamichael (Nebraska)

Best Non-Fiction Film

1.       The Act of Killing

 At Berkeley

3.        Leviathan

Best Foreign-Language Film

1.       Blue Is the Warmest Colour

2.        A Touch of Sin

3.        The Great Beauty

Best Experimental Film

       Leviathan

Best Film Still Awaiting American Distribution

       Hide Your Smiling Faces

       Stray Dogs

Film Heritage Award

       The British Film Institute for restorations of Alfred Hitchcock’s nine silent features

       The DVD American Treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive

       The Museum of Modern Art for its wide-ranging retrospective of the films of Allan Dwan

Too Much Johnson: the surviving reels of Orson Welles’ first professional film. Discovered by Cinemazero (Pordenone) and

Cineteca del Friuli; funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation; restored by the George Eastman House