Sure, everyone's a critic, but not everybody gets to actually vote for which movies are nominated for the Critics Choice Awards. That perk is left for the pros. And those very critics have officially spoken, announcing the nominations for the 18th Annual Critics Choice Movie Awards.
Steven Spielberg's presidential biopic Lincoln leads the nods, with a whopping 13 nominations, the most any film has ever received in the show's history. Not only did the historical drama and Spielberg himself earn nods for Best Picture and Best Director, respectively, but so did leading man and current Best Actor frontrunner, the transformative Daniel Day Lewis, as well as Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones. The entire Lincoln cast is also up for Best Acting Ensemble.
Not far behind is Tom Hooper's adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical Les Misérables, which earned 11 nominations and will compete against Lincoln in the categories of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Hugh Jackman), Best Supporting Actress (Anne Hathaway), and Best Acting Ensemble.
But don't get concerned that the Broadcast Film Critics Association is too stodgy a bunch with choices likeLincoln and Les Misérables. They also rewarded the far edgier Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell's mental illness romantic comedy, with an impressive 10 nominations. In fact, Silver Linings Playbook's being one of the few comedies nominated is what helped propel it; both its leads Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence are nominated in the Best Actor and Best Actress categories, and for Best Actor in a Comedy and Best Actress in a Comedy, as well.
So where does this put Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty, the tense action drama about the hunt and capture of Osama bin Laden, which has been dominant in the early stages of the Oscar race thus far? While the film earned five Critics Choice Awards nominations, it was still trumped by Argo, The Master, andSkyfall (which earned seven nods each). With the exception of powerful leading lady Jessica Chastain, the huge ensemble cast was surprisingly left off of the Best Acting Ensemble list. While Bigelow won both Best Director and Best Picture for The Hurt Locker in 2009, if Lincoln keeps up its momentum towards a victory, it could decide the fate of both films at the Oscars. Over the past decade, seven of the ten films to win Best Picture at the Critics Choice Awards have gone on to win the Academy Award.
The Critics Choice Awards will air live on The CW on Friday, January 10. Check out the full list of nominees here:
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