San Francisco Film Critics Circle nominations announced

The San Francisco Film Critics Circle has announced their nominees for their annual movie awards, and 12 Years a Slave leads with nine nominations. Their awards are one of the ones that the Cosmos use to calculate our Best Director nominees.

The nominees include:

Best Picture
"American Hustle"
"Gravity"
"Nebraska"
"12 Years a Slave"
"The Wolf of Wall Street"

Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron, "Gravity"
Spike Jonze, "Her"
Steve McQueen, "12 Years a Slave"
David O. Russell, "American Hustle"
Martin Scorsese, "The Wolf of Wall Street"

Best Actor
Bruce Dern, "Nebraska"
Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years a Slave"
Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club"
Robert Redford, "All is Lost"

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine"
Sandra Bullock, "Gravity"
Judi Dench, "Philomena"
Adèle Exarchopoulos, "Blue is the Warmest Color"
Brie Larson, "Short Term 12"
Meryl Streep, "August: Osage County"

Best Supporting Actor
Barkhad Abdi, "Captain Phillips"
Michael Fassbender, "12 Years a Slave"
Harrison Ford, "42"
Will Forte, "Nebraska"
James Franco, "Spring Breakers"
Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club"

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Lawrence, "American Hustle"
Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave"
Lea Seydoux, "Blue is the Warmest Color"
Octavia Spencer, "Fruitvale Station"
June Squibb, "Nebraska"

Best Adapted Screenplay
"Before Midnight"
"Philomena"
"The Spectacular Now"
"12 Years a Slave"
"The Wolf of Wall Street"

Best Original Screenplay
"American Hustle"
"Gravity"
"Her"
"Inside Llewyn Davis"
"Nebraska"

Best Foreign Language Film
"Blue is the Warmest Color"
"A Hijacking"
"The Hunt"
"The Past"
"Wadjda"

Best Documentary
"The Act of Killing"
"The Armstrong Lie"
"Blackfish"
"Stories We Tell"
"20 Feet from Stardom"

Best Animated Feature
"The Croods"
"Despicable Me 2"
"Frozen"
"Monsters University"
"The Wind Rises"

Best Cinematography
"Gravity"
"Her"
"Inside Llewyn Davis"
"Nebraska"
"12 Years a Slave"

Best Art Direction/Production Design
"American Hustle"
"Gravity"
"Her"
"Inside Llewyn Davis"
"12 Years a Slave"

Best Editing
"All is Lost"
"American Hustle"
"Captain Phillips"
"Gravity"
"12 Years a Slave"
"The Wolf of Wall Street"