As I reported last week when the nominations were officially
revealed (HERE), the Chicago Film Critic
Association Awards were announced tonight
and 12 Years A Slave won five awards
including Best Picture.

Among the other awards announced, Steve McQueen was honored with the Best Director Award, Chiwetel
Ejiofor for Best Actor, Lupita Nyong’o for Best
Supporting actress and John Ridley
for Best Adapted Screenplay.

For the record, Cate
Blanchett was awarded Best Actress for her role in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto won Best Supporting
Actor for his turn in Dallas Buyers
Club and Spike Jonze for Best Original Screenplay for Her.

Here is the complete list of winners:

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