# Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2013

The 7th Houston Film Critics Society Awards nominations were announced on the December 8, 2013. The 2013 awards were given out at a ceremony held at the Museum of Fine Arts on December 15, 2013. The awards are presented annually by the Houston Film Critics Society based in Houston, Texas.

## Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface.
| Best Picture | Best Foreign Language Film |
| 12 Years a Slave All Is Lost American Hustle Before Midnight Dallas Buyers Club Fruitvale Station Gravity Inside Llewyn Davis Nebraska Saving Mr. Banks | The Hunt • Danish Blue Is the Warmest Colour • French The Grandmaster • Hong Kong Wadjda • Saudi Arabian The Wind Rises • Japanese |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role |
| Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave Christian Bale – American Hustle Bruce Dern – Nebraska Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club Mads Mikkelsen – The Hunt Robert Redford – All Is Lost | Sandra Bullock – Gravity Judi Dench – Philomena Brie Larson – Short Term 12 Meryl Streep – August: Osage County Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role |
| Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave James Gandolfini – Enough Said Matthew McConaughey – Mud | Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle Octavia Spencer – Fruitvale Station June Squibb – Nebraska Oprah Winfrey – The Butler |
| Best Direction of a Motion Picture | Best Cinematography |
| Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity Joel and Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave Alexander Payne – Nebraska | Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki 12 Years a Slave – Sean Bobbitt All Is Lost – Frank G. DeMarco Inside Llewyn Davis – Bruno Delbonnel Prisoners – Roger A. Deakins |
| Best Animated Feature Film | Best Documentary Feature |
| Frozen The Croods Despicable Me 2 Monsters University The Wind Rises | 20 Feet from Stardom The Act of Killing Blackfish Inequality for All Stories We Tell |
| Best Original Score | Best Original Song |
| Gravity – Steven Price 12 Years a Slave – Hans Zimmer Her – Arcade Fire Man of Steel – Hans Zimmer Saving Mr. Banks – Thomas Newman | "Please Mr. Kennedy" by Ed Rush, George Cromarty, T Bone Burnett, Justin Timberlake and Joel and Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis "I See Fire" by Ed Sheeran – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug "Let It Go" by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez – Frozen "The Moon Song" by Karen O – Her "Young and Beautiful" by Lana Del Rey – The Great Gatsby |
| Best Screenplay | Worst Film |
| 12 Years a Slave – John Ridley American Hustle – David O. Russell and Eric Warren Singer Before Midnight – Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke Her – Spike Jonze Inside Llewyn Davis – Joel and Ethan Coen | Grown Ups 2 A Good Day to Die Hard The Lone Ranger Olympus Has Fallen Scary Movie 5 |

### Individual awards
#### Outstanding Cinematic Contribution

* Eric Harrison

#### Technical Achievement

* Gravity