On December 15th, 2013, the Kansas City Film Critics Circle announced the winners of its 47th annual awards –

Best Film: 12 Years a Slave

Robert Altman Award for Best Director – Tie: 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

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 Animated Film – Tie: Despicable Me 2 & Frozen

Best Foreign Film: Blue Is the Warmest Color (France)

Best Documentary: The Act of Killing

Vince Koehler Award for Best Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film: Her

Features and media appearances by some of KCFCC’s members:

Dan Lybarger interviews actor Stuart Greer, who appears in Homefront with Jason Statham, at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Loey Lockerby was quoted in an article on film critics’ organizations at The Dissolve.

Features and media appearances by some of KCFCC’s members:

Jon Niccum reports on efforts to help Kansas City’s independent movie houses convert to digital projection.

Michael A. Smith interviews Edward James Olmos at Media Mikes.

Jack Poessiger discusses the new local documentary Gangland Wire at KC Confidential.

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