Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2013

12th WAFCA Awards
Date	December 8, 2013 (2013-12-08)
Highlights
Best Film	12 Years a Slave
Best Director	Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity
Best Actor	Chiwetel Ejiofor
Best Actress	Cate Blanchett
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The 12th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 8, 2013.^[1]

Best Film

• 12 Years a Slave

• American Hustle
• Gravity
• Her
• Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Director

• Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity

• Spike Jonze – Her
• Baz Luhrmann – The Great Gatsby
• Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
• Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor

• Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave

• Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
• Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
• Joaquin Phoenix – Her
• Robert Redford – All Is Lost

Best Actress

• Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine

• Sandra Bullock – Gravity
• Judi Dench – Philomena
• Meryl Streep – August: Osage County
• Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks

Best Supporting Actor

• Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

• Daniel Brühl – Rush
• Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
• James Franco – Spring Breakers
• James Gandolfini – Enough Said

Best Supporting Actress

• Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave

• Scarlett Johansson – Her
• Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
• Octavia Spencer – Fruitvale Station
• June Squibb – Nebraska

Best Adapted Screenplay

• 12 Years a Slave – John Ridley

• Before Midnight – Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, and Richard Linklater
• Captain Phillips – Billy Ray
• The Spectacular Now – Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter
• The Wolf of Wall Street – Terence Winter

Best Original Screenplay

• Her – Spike Jonze

• American Hustle – Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
• Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen
• Enough Said – Nicole Holofcener
• Inside Llewyn Davis – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Best Ensemble

• 12 Years a Slave

• American Hustle
• August: Osage County
• Prisoners
• The Way, Way Back

Best Animated Film

• Frozen

• Turbo
• Despicable Me 2
• Monsters University
• The Wind Rises

Best Documentary Film

• Blackfish

• 20 Feet from Stardom
• The Act of Killing
• Leviathan
• Stories We Tell

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Broken Circle Breakdown • Belgium

• Blue Is the Warmest Colour • France
• The Hunt • Denmark
• The Past • France/Iran
• Wadjda • Saudi Arabia/Germany

Best Art Direction

• The Great Gatsby

• 12 Years a Slave
• Gravity
• Her
• Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Cinematography

• Gravity

• 12 Years a Slave
• The Great Gatsby
• Her
• Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Editing

• Gravity

• 12 Years a Slave
• Her
• Rush
• The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Score

• 12 Years a Slave – Hans Zimmer

• Frozen – Christophe Beck
• Gravity – Steven Price
• Her – Arcade Fire
• Saving Mr. Banks – Thomas Newman

Best Youth Performance

• Tye Sheridan – Mud

• Asa Butterfield – Ender's Game
• Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Colour
• Liam James – The Way Way Back
• Waad Mohammed – Wadjda

The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, D.C.

• The Butler

• The East
• Olympus Has Fallen
• Philomena
• White House Down

• The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association