Who are the Breakout stars of 2013?

Its hard to pick the best Acting nomination every year because there are so many great performances. However in order to honor every single actor I have compiled a list of the breakout stars of the year for Latinos Post. These were some of the most exceptional stars of the year and some that will become A-List stars in the future. Among these stars include Oscar Isaac, Lindsay Burge, Brie Larson and Dane Dehaan. Click Here to read the complete list.

12 years a Slave Wins Black Film Critics

Best Picture – “12 Years a Slave”
Best Director – Steve McQueen for “12 Years a Slave”
Best Actor – Chiwetel Ejiofor for “12 Years a Slave”
Best Actress – Brie Larson for “Short Term 12”
Best Supporting Actor – Jared Leto for “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Supporting Actress – Lupita Nyong’o for “12 Years a Slave”

Gravity Wins Utah Film Critics

Best Film

Gravity (Runner-Up: 12 Years a Slave)

Best Animated Feature

Frozen (Runners-Up: TIE: From Up on Poppy Hill, The Wind Rises)

12 Years a Slave Wins Nevada Film Critics

Best Film - 12 Years A Slave

Best Actor - Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Actress - Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

Best Supporting Actor - Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Supporting Actress - Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)

Nine Foreign Films Short Listed

Below is the shortlist for the Academy Awards which will then announce the nominees on Jan. 16

Belgium, The Broken Circle Breakdown, Felix van Groeningen
Bosnia and Herzegovina, An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, Danis Tanovic
Cambodia, The Missing Picture, Rithy Panh
Denmark, The Hunt, Thomas Vinterberg
Germany, Two Lives, Georg Maas
Hong Kong, The Grandmaster, Wong Kar-wai
Hungary, The Notebook, Janos Szasz
Italy, The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino
Palestine, Omar, Hany Abu-Assad

12 Years a Slave Wins EDA Awards

AWFJ EDA ‘BEST OF’ AWARDS

 Best Film
“12 Years a Slave”

Best Director (Female or Male)
 “12 Years a Slave” – Steve McQueen

Best Screenplay, Original“Her” – Spike Jonze

Best Screenplay, Adapted“12 Years a Slave” John Ridley –

Best Documentary“Stories We Tell” – Sarah Polley

Best Animated Film “The Wind Rises” – Hayao Miyazaki

12 Years a Slave Wins Florida Film Critics

Picture: 12 Years a Slave
Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, The Dallas Buyers Club
Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’O, 12 Years a Slave
Director: Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Adapted Screenplay: John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave
Original Screenplay: Spike Jonze, Her
Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity
Visual Effects: Gravity
Art Direction/Production Design: Damien Drew et.al. and Catherine Martin et.al., The Great Gatsby
Foreign Language: Blue is the Warmest Color
Animated: Frozen
Documentary: The Act of Killing
Breakout: Lupita Nyong’O, 12 Years a Slave
Golden Orange: Dana Keith

12 Years a Slave Leads London Film Critic Nominations

34th LONDON CRITICS’ CIRCLE FILM AWARDS NOMINATIONS

FILM OF THE YEAR
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Blue Jasmine
Frances Ha
Gravity
The Great Beauty
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

12 Years Wins Las Vega Film Critics

Best Picture
“12 Years a Slave”

Best Director
Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave”

Best Actor
Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”

Best Actress
Emma Thompson, “Saving Mr. Banks”

Best Supporting Actor
Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”

Best Supporting Actress
Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”

12 Years Wins the SouthEastern Film Critics

Best Picture 

1. 12 Years a Slave

2. Gravity
3. American Hustle
4. Her
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Nebraska
7. Dallas Buyers Club
8. Philomena
9. Captain Phillips
10. The Wolf of Wall Street

Her Wins The Austin Film Critics

Best Film: Her (Spike Jonze)
Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Best Actress: Brie Larson, Short Term 12
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Best Original Screenplay: Spike Jonze, Her
Best Adapted Screenplay: John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity
Best Score: Arcade Fire, Her
Best Foreign Language Film: Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche)

12 Years a Slave Wins the Phoenix Film Critics

BEST PICTURE

“12 Years a Slave”

 

TOP TEN FILMS OF 2013 (in alphabetical order)

“12 Years a Slave”

“American Hustle”

“Captain Phillips”

“Dallas Buyers Club”

“Gravity”

“Mud”

“Nebraska”

“Philomena”

“Saving Mr. Banks”

“Short Term 12″

12 Years a Slave wins Chicago

BEST PICTURE 12 Years A Slave

BEST DIRECTOR Steve McQueen--12 Years A Slave

BEST ACTOR Chiwetel Ejiofor--12 Years A Slave

BEST ACTRESS Cate Blanchett--Blue Jasmine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Jared Leto--Dallas Buyers Club

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Luptia Nyong'o--12 Years A Slave

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Spike Jonze--Her

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY John Ridley--12 Years A Slave

BEST DOCUMENTARY The Act of Killing

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM The Act of Killing

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE The Wind Rises

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Her--Arcade Fire

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Gravity--Emmanuel Lubezki

BEST EDITING Gravity--Alfonso Cuaron & Mark Sanger

BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN Gravity--Mark Scruton/Andy Nicolson

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER Adele Exarchopoulos--Blue is the Warmest Color

MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER Destin Cretton--Short Term 12

Inside Llewyn Davis Wins Toronto Film Critics

Best Picture: Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity

Best Documentary Feature: The Act of Killing

Best Foreign-Language Film: A Touch of Sin

Best Animated Feature: The Wind Rises

Best Actor: Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

Best Screenplay: Spike Jonze, Her

Best First Feature: Neighboring Sounds

12 Years a Slave wins St. Louis Film Critics

Best Film:	"12 Years a Slave" (runner-up): "American Hustle"
Best Director:	Steve McQueen ("12 Years a Slave") (runner-up): Alfonso Cuaron ("Gravity")

12 Years a Slave and American Hustle Lead critics Choice Awards

BEST PICTURE
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Saving Mr. Banks
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale – American Hustle
Bruce Dern – Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford – All Is Lost

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Judi Dench – Philomena
Brie Larson – Short Term 12
Meryl Streep – August: Osage County
Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
Daniel Bruhl – Rush
Bradley Cooper – American Hustle
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
James Gandolfini – Enough Said
Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Scarlett Johansson – Her
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

12 Years a Slave Wins the Dallas Fort Worth Film Critics

Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave

Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Supporting Actor: Jared Leto

Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave

Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity

Cinematography: Gravity

Best Musical Score: Gravity

Animated: Frozen

Foreign Language: Blue is the Warmest Colour

Best Documentary: 20 Feet from Stardom

Best Screenplay: 12 years a Slave

Russell Smith Award: Fruitvale Station

12 Years a Slave Wins Online Film Critics

Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave
Best Animated Feature: The Wind Rises
Best Film Not in the English Language: Blue Is the Warmest Color
Best Documentary: The Act of Killing
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
Best Original Screenplay: Her
Best Adapted Screenplay: 12 Years a Slave
Best Editing: Gravity
Best Cinematography: Gravity

12 Years a Slave Wins Indiana Film Journalists

Best Film

Winner: “12 Years a Slave”
Runner-Up: “Her”

Other Finalists (listed alphabetically):

“All Is Lost”
“Before Midnight”
“Captain Phillips”
“Frances Ha”
“Mud”
“Prisoners”
“Spring Breakers”
“The Wolf of Wall Street”

12 Years a Slave Wins Kansa City Film Critics

Best Picture
12 Years a Slave

Best Director
Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)
Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)

Best Actor
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)

Best Supporting Actor
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)

12 Years Wins The San Francisco Film Critics

Best Picture

“12 Years a Slave”

Best Director
Alfonso Cuarón, “Gravity”

Best Original Screenplay
Eric Singer & David O. Russell, “American Hustle”

Best Adapted Screenplay
John Ridley, “12 Years a Slave”

Best Actor
Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years a Slave”

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”

12 Years a Slave wins the Houston Film Critics

BEST PICTURE:

12 Years A Slave, Fox SearchlightAll Is Lost, Lionsgate
American Hustle, Columbia
Before Midnight, Sony Pictures Classics
Dallas Buyers Club, Focus Features
Fruitvale Station, The Weinstein Co.
Gravity, Warner Bros.
Inside Llewyn Davis, CBS Films
Nebraska, Paramount Vantage
Saving Mr. Banks, Disney

BEST DIRECTOR:
Joel & Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis
Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen, 12 Years A Slave
Alexander Payne, Nebraska

San Francisco Film Critics Love Wolf of Wall Street and 12 Years-Nominees

The San Francisco Film Critics have announced their nominees with 12 Years a Slave, The Wolf of Wall Street and American Hustle topping the nominees  

12 Years a Slave wins the African American Film Critics

12 Years a Slave win the African American Film Critics. The film also took home best director and best screenplay. The film also won the Best Breakout award for Lupita Nyong'o. 

Her Wins Detroit film critics

The Detroit Film Critics have given the Best Picture award to Spike Jonze's Her. The film also went home with the Best Screenplay award as well as the Best Supporting Actress award. 

12 years Leads the AWFJ Awards

12 Yeas a Slave leads the Alliance Women Female Journalism awards. Check out the Nominees Below. 

AWFJ BEST OF AWARDS

BEST FILM

12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska

BEST DIRECTOR (Female or Male)

Joel and Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis
Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Spike Jonze – Her
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne – Nebraska
David O. Russell – American Hustle

BEST SCREENPLAY, ORIGINAL

American Hustle – David O. Russell
Enough Said – Nicole Holofcener
Her – Spike Jonze
Inside Llewyn Davis – Joel and Ethan Cohen
Nebraska – Bob Nelson

BEST SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED

Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope – Philomena
Daniel Cretton – Short Term 12
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber – The Spectacular Now
Billy Ray – Captain Phillips
John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave

BEST DOCUMENTARY

The Act of Killing – Joshua Oppenheimer
After Tiller – Martha Shane and Lana Wilson
20 Feet From Stardom – Morgan Neville
Blackfish – Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Stories We Tell – Sarah Polley

BEST ANIMATED FILM

The Croods – Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders
Despicable Me 2 – Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud
Frozen – Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck
The Wind Rises – Hayao Miyazaki

BEST ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Judi Dench – Philomena
Brie Larson – Short Term 12
Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine
Scarlett Johanson – Her
Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
Oprah Winfrey – Lee Daniels’ The Butler

BEST ACTOR

Bruce Dern – Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Oscar Isaac – Inside Llewyn Davis
Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
Joachin Phoenix – Her
Robert Redford – All is Lost

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
Bobby Cannavale – Blue Jasmine
Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
Will Forte – Nebraska

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

12 Years A Slave
American Hustle
August: Osage County
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Nebraska

BEST EDITING

12 Years a Slave – Joe Walker
American Hustle – Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers
Captain Phillips – Christopher Rouse
Gravity – Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger
Rush – Anthony Dodd Mantle

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

12 Years A Slave – Sean Bobbit
All is Lost – Frank G. DeMarco and Peter Zuccarini
Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki
Nebraska – Phedon Papamichael
Prisoners – Roger Deakins

BEST MUSIC OR SCORE

12 Years A Slave – Hans Zimmer
Gravity – Steve Price
Inside Llewyn Davis – T-Bone Burnett
Her – Arcade Fire
Nebraska – Mark Orton

BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM

Blue Is The Warmest Color – Abdellatif Kechiche – France
The Grandmaster – Wong Kar-Wai – Hong Kong
The Hunt – Thomas Vinterberg – Denmark
The Past – Asghar Farhadi – Iran
Wadjda – Haifaa Al-Mansour – Saudi Arabia

EDA FEMALE FOCUS AWARDS
These awards honor WOMEN only.

BEST WOMAN DIRECTOR

Lake Bell – In A World
Gabriele Cowperthwaite – Blackfish
Nicole Holofcener – Enough Said
Jennifer Lee – Frozen
Sarah Polley – Stories We Tell

BEST WOMAN SCREENWRITER

Lake Bell – In A World
Julie Delpy – Before Midnight
Nicole Holofcener – Enough Said
Jennifer Lee – Frozen
Sarah Polley – Stories We Tell

KICK ASS AWARD FOR BEST FEMALE ACTION STAR

Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Chloe Grace Moretz – Kick Ass 2

BEST ANIMATED FEMALE

Anna (Kristen Bell) in Frozen
Eep (Emma Stone) in The Croods
Elsa (Idina Menzel) in Frozen

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

Brie Larson, Short Term 12
Lupita Nyong’o 12 Years A Slave
Shailene Woodley, The Spectacular Now

ACTRESS DEFYIG AGE AND AGISM

Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Judi Dench – Philomena
Meryl Streep – August: Osage County

AWFJ FEMALE ICON AWARD

(Presented to an actress for the portrayal of the most positive female role model, or for a role in which she takes personal and/or career risks to plumb the female psyche and therefore gives us courage to plumb our own, and/or for putting forth the image of a woman who is heroic, accomplished, persistent, demands her rights and/or the rights of others.)

Sandra Bullock for the strong, capable and very positive female image presented in ‘Gravity’

Angelina Jolie for continued commitments to humanitarian causes, and for promoting awareness about breast cancer.

Jennifer Lawrence for ‘American Hustle’ and ‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire,’ and for handling her high degree of celebrity extremely well.

THIS YEAR’S OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT By A Woman In The Film Industry

(Presented only when warranted to a female who has had a banner-making, record-breaking, industry-changing achievement during any given year — such as Kathryn Bigelow’s Best Director Oscar win, or for an actress having multiple outstanding films released during one year.)

Haaifa Al-Mansour for challenging the limitations placed on women within her culture.

Cheryl Boone Isaac for becoming President of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Jahane Noujaim for risking life and limb to document the Egyptian revolution in ‘The Square’

EDA SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS

AWFJ HALL OF SHAME AWARD

The Counselor – Ridley Scott
Grown Ups 2 – Dennis Dugan
Movie 43 – Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Dundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gun, Brett Ratner, Jonathan van Tulleken, Bob Odenkirk

ACTRESS MOST IN NEED OF A NEW AGENT

Cameron Diaz, The Counselor
Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgins, Ashley Benson, Rachle Korine – Spring Breakers
Melissa McCarthy – Identity Thief, The Heat

MOVE YOU WANTED TO LOVE but Just Couldn’t Award

All is Lost
Blue Is The Warmest Color
The Counselor

UNFORGETTABLE MOMENT AWARD

Gravity – George Clooney reappears
12 Years A Slave – Patsy pleads for soap
Her – Phone sex sequences
Nebraska – “That’s not my air compressor”
12 Years A Slave – Solomon hanging

BEST DEPICTION OF NUDITY, SEXUALITY, OR SEDUCTION AWARD

Blue Is The Warmest Color Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos
Her Scarlett Johansson and Joaquin Phoenix
The Spectacular Now – Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller

SEQUEL OR REMAKE THAT SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN MADE AWARD

Carrie
Grown Ups 2
The Hangover
Kick Ass
Oz, Great and Powerful

MOST EGREGIOUS AGE DIFFERENCE Between The Leading Man and The Love Interest Award

August: Osage County – Dermot Mulroney and Abigail Breslin
The Invisible Women – Ralph Feinnes and Felicity Jones
Last Vegas – Michael Douglas and Bree Blair
The Lifeguard – Kristen Bell and David Lambert
Oblivion – Tom Cruise and Andrea Reisborough/Olga Kurylenko

Her Wins San Diego Film Critics

Best Film: "Her"

Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón, "Gravity"

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine"

Best Actor: Oscar Isaac, "Inside Llewyn Davis"

Best Supporting Actress: Shailene Woodley, "The Spectacular Now"

Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club"

Best Original Screenplay: Spike Jonze, "Her"

Best Adapted Screenplay: Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, "Before Midnight"

Best Foreign Language Film: "Drug War"

Best Documentary: "The Act of Killing"

Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, "To the Wonder"

Best Animated Film: "The Wind Rises"

Best Editing: Christopher Rouse, "Captain Phillips"

Best Production Design: Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy, "The Great Gatsby"

Best Score: Arcade Fire, "Her"

Best Ensemble Performance: "American Hustle"

Kyle Counts Award: Destin Cretton

For Complete List of Nominees Click Here