Oscar favourites mingle with little-known movies on the reader-voted shortlist for the Guardian Film Awards
Its Oscar prospects may be looking shakier following Gravity's triumphant haul at Sunday's Baftas, but 12 Years a Slave does dominate the shortlist for the Guardian Film Awards. Steve McQueen's slavery drama has converted every one of its longlist mentions into a place among the final five in each category, meaning it's in the running for best film, best director, best scene, best line of dialogue and biggest game-changer. It also scores two nominations in the best supporting actor group - for Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong'o.
The Guardian Film Awards, currently in their inaugural year, differ from traditional awards ceremonies both in criteria and eligibility. The best director and best film categories are open to fact, fiction and foreign language, while the best actor and best supporting actor categories follow Guardian style in referring to both genders by the term, and so are open to men and women.
This year, Cate Blanchett and Adèle Exarchopoulos join Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leonardo DiCaprio and Bruce Dern in the race for best actor, while documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer is up for best director alongside Steve McQueen, Spike Jonze, Alexander Payne and Paulo Sorrentino.
Oppenheimer's film, The Act of Killing, is also in contention for best film and biggest game-changer - a category which seeks to celebrate innovation in cinema, whether it be technical, creative or financial. It's up against Gravity, Spike Jonze's Her, 12 Years a Slave, The Act of Killing, and Ben Wheatley's A Field in England.
The shortlist was entirely voted for by Guardian readers who chose their favourites from a longlist of 10. The top reader vote also becomes the casting vote in the final round, joining judges including the Guardian's Alan Rusbridger and Peter Bradshaw, the documentary maker Adam Curtis and host of the BBC's Film 2014, Claudia Winkleman.
The shortlist in full
Best film
• 12 Years a Slave
• Gravity
• The Great Beauty
• The Act of Killing
• Blue is the Warmest Colour
Best actor
• Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
• Bruce Dern, Nebraska
• Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
• Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
• Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Colour
Best supporting actor
• Matt Damon, Behind the Candelabra
• Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
• Jared Leto, The Dallas Buyers Club
• Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
• June Squibb, Nebraska
Best director
• Spike Jonze, Her
• Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing
• Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
• Paulo Sorrentino, The Great Beauty
• Alexander Payne, Nebraska
Best scene
• Alan Partridge lip-synching to Roachford in the car in Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
• The opening scene of Gravity
• The first party in The Great Beauty
• Patsy returning with the soap in 12 Years a Slave
• The struggle back to the car while overdosing in The Wolf of Wall Street
Best line of dialogue
She was the Picasso of passive-aggressive karate.
Irving (Christian Bale) in American Hustle
Something to eat and some rest; your children will soon enough be forgotten.
Mistress Ford (Liza J Bennett) in 12 Years a Slave
Anxiety, nightmares and a nervous breakdown, there's only so many traumas a person can withstand until they take to the streets and start screaming.
Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) in Blue Jasmine
I think if Jesus was here now he'd tip you out of that fucking wheelchair and you wouldn't get up and walk.
Martin (Steve Coogan) in Philomena
What a story; everything but a fire in the orphanage.
Liberace (Michael Douglas) in Behind the Candelabra
Best film festival
• Cannes
• Sundance
• London
• Sheffield Doc/Fest
• Toronto
Best marketing campaign
• Philomena
• Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
• Anchorman: The Legend Continues
• Blue is the Warmest Colour
• World War Z
Biggest game-changer
• The Act of Killing
• Gravity
• Her
• 12 Years a Slave
• A Field in England
Best cinema
Free readers' vote.
So-bad-it's-good film
Free readers' vote.
Lifetime achievement
Judges' vote.
• More information on this year's Guardian Film Awards
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/18/guardian-film-awards-shortlist-news
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