The Critics' Choice Nominations Are In, But Here Are the Bustle Choice Awards

The Nominees:

Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club — Because, well, he’s having a year.

Christian Bale – American Hustle

Bruce Dern – Nebraska

Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave

Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips

Robert Redford – All Is Lost

The Nominees:

Sandra Bullock – Gravity —If Gravity was Castaway, George Clooney was Wilson.

Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine

Judi Dench – Philomena

Brie Larson – Short Term 12

Meryl Streep – August: Osage County

Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks

The Nominees:

Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave, ooooof THIS. MOVIE.

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips

Daniel Bruhl – Rush

Bradley Cooper – American Hustle

James Gandolfini – Enough Said

Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

The Nominees:

Scarlett Johansson – Her — Let’s rustle some feathers here.

Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle

Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave

Julia Roberts – August: Osage County

June Squibb – Nebraska

Oprah Winfrey – Lee Daniels’ The Butler

The Nominees:

Tye Sheridan – Mud — One of the year’s most unexpected dramas that introduced us to some serious talent.

Asa Butterfield – Ender’s Game

Adele Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Color

Liam James – The Way Way Back

Sophie Nelisse – The Book Thief

The Nominees:

12 Years a Slave — Sorry every other movie this year.

American Hustle

August: Osage County

Lee Daniels’ The Butler

Nebraska

The Wolf of Wall Street

The Nominees:

Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity — HOW DID HE DIRECT A MOVIE IN SPACE? Jokes, jokes. But f’reals, a visual masterpiece.

Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips

Spike Jonze – Her

Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave

David O. Russell – American Hustle

Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

The Nominees:

Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis — And Best Original Mix Tape We Wish Every Boy or Girl in High School Ever Made US(In Our Dreams)

Eric Singer and David O. Russell – American Hustle

Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine

Spike Jonze – Her

Bob Nelson – Nebraska

The Nominees:

Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke – Before Midnight — OH PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEAAAAASE.

Tracy Letts – August: Osage County

Billy Ray – Captain Phillips

Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope – Philomena

John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave

Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street

The Nominees:

Michael Wilkinson – American Hustle more like BEST HAIR DESIGN AMIRIGHT?

Catherine Martin – The Great Gatsby

Bob Buck, Lesley Burkes-Harding, Ann Maskrey, Richard Taylor – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Daniel Orlandi – Saving Mr. Banks

The Nominees:

Despicable Me 2 —Because really, this movie was made for grown-ups

The Croods

Frozen

Monsters University

The Wind Rises

The Nominees:

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — DUHHHHHH, GET IT GIRL.

Iron Man 3

Lone Survivor

Rush

Star Trek into Darkness

The Nominees:

The Heat — Excuse the shit out of me! This movie nailed it.

American Hustle

Enough Said

This Is the End

The Way Way Back

The Nominees:

James Gandolfini – Enough Said - Gandolfini deserves a posthumous honor as a tribute to his work in this film and his entire career.

Christian Bale – American Hustle

Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street

Simon Pegg – The World’s End

The Nominees:

Greta Gerwig – Frances Ha— Because she all made us feel simultaneously better and worse about our collective 27-year-old-lives

Amy Adams – American Hustle

Sandra Bullock – The Heat

Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Enough Said

Melissa McCarthy – The Heat

The Nominees:

20 Feet from Stardom - We can’t EVEN with how amazing this movie is. CAN’T EVEN.

The Act of Killing

Blackfish

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