2013 WAFCA Award Winners

The 12th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 8, 2013.

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