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Critics' Choice 2013 Winners & Nominees

The 18th Critics' Choice Awards (2013) took place on January 10, 2013. Argo won Best Picture and one more award. Silver Linings Playbook won the most, 4 of its 10 nominations. Every winner and nominee in all 28 categories is below.

All 28 categories Most wins
categories
28
nominations
147
films nominated
52
winners
28
Held on
Best Picture
Argo
Headline winners

Critics' Choice 2013: The Winners

Argo won Best Picture against 9 other nominees. Ben Affleck (Best Director), Daniel Day-Lewis (Best Actor) and Bradley Cooper (Best Actor in a Comedy Movie) took the main individual prizes.

Argo (2012) movie poster Best Picture

Best Picture

Argo

2012 · Drama · $232M worldwide

2 wins from 7 nominations at the 18th Critics' Choice Awards (2013)

  • Best Director

In November 1979, during the Iran hostage crisis, six Americans find refuge at the Canadian ambassador's residence in Tehran. Facing imminent discovery, CIA operative Tony Mendez devises a risky plan to extract them. He creates a believable cover story involving a fake science fiction film production to smuggle them out of the country, a perilous operation demanding both quick thinking and bravery.

About Argo
Scoreboard

Critics' Choice 2013: Which Films Won the Most

Silver Linings Playbook won 4 awards from 10 nominations. 17 films won at least once, while Moonrise Kingdom went home empty-handed from 5 nominations. Green is wins, blue is nominations.

  1. Silver Linings Playbook (2012) movie poster
    Silver Linings Playbook 4 / 10
    2012 · Drama, Comedy · 4 wins from 10 nominations
  2. Lincoln (2012) movie poster
    Lincoln 3 / 13
    2012 · Biography, Drama · 3 wins from 13 nominations
  3. Skyfall (2012) movie poster
    Skyfall 3 / 7
    2012 · Action, Adventure · 3 wins from 7 nominations
  4. Life of Pi (2012) movie poster
    Life of Pi 2 / 9
    2012 · Adventure, Drama · 2 wins from 9 nominations
  5. Argo (2012) movie poster
    Argo 2 / 7
    2012 · Drama · 2 wins from 7 nominations
  6. Zero Dark Thirty (2012) movie poster
    Zero Dark Thirty 2 / 5
    2012 · Action, Drama · 2 wins from 5 nominations
  7. Anna Karenina (2012) movie poster
    Anna Karenina 2 / 2
    2012 · Drama · 2 wins from 2 nominations
  8. Les Miserables (2012) movie poster
    Les Miserables 1 / 11
    2012 · Drama, Thriller · 1 win from 11 nominations
  9. The Master (2012) movie poster
    The Master 1 / 7
    2012 · Drama · 1 win from 7 nominations
  10. Looper (2012) movie poster
    Looper 1 / 5
    2012 · Action, Sci-Fi · 1 win from 5 nominations
Full results

All 28 Critics' Choice 2013 Categories: Winners & Nominees

28 categories and 147 nominations; Best Picture had the most nominees (10). The winner of each comes first, on a green row. Search for a film or a person, show only the winners, or jump straight to a category.

28 categories · 147 nominations

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Movie marathon

The Critics' Choice 2013 Best Picture Marathon

All 10 Best Picture nominees at the 18th Critics' Choice Awards (2013), back to back: 22 hours 10 minutes.

Total running time 22h 10m 22 hours 10 minutes All 10 films
Longest
Django Unchained 2h 45m
Shortest
Beasts of the Southern Wild 1h 33m
By genre

The Genres Behind the Critics' Choice 2013 Winners

Drama led with 105 nominations across 29 films and won 22. A film with several genres counts for each one.

  1. Drama 22 wins · 105 nominations · 21%
  2. Thriller 8 wins · 44 nominations · 18%
  3. Adventure 8 wins · 38 nominations · 21%
  4. Action 8 wins · 36 nominations · 22%
  5. Romance 6 wins · 34 nominations · 18%
  6. Comedy 5 wins · 34 nominations · 15%
  7. Crime 5 wins · 25 nominations · 20%
  8. History 5 wins · 21 nominations · 24%
  9. Biography 4 wins · 17 nominations · 24%
  10. Sci-Fi 3 wins · 15 nominations · 20%
2013 season

How the Rest of the 2013 Awards Season Voted

The other 12 ceremonies of 2013, with the winner of each top prize. Argo also won the top prize at 5 of them.

All 2013 awards
Earlier years

Previous Critics' Choice Ceremonies

The 6 ceremonies before this one, with the winner of each top prize. The Critics' Choice page has every year back to 1996.

Every Critics' Choice ceremony

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Critics' Choice 2013: Questions & Answers

The top prize, the film that won the most, the most-nominated film, the individual winners and the date of the 18th Critics' Choice Awards (2013), answered from the results on this page.

Who won Best Picture at the 18th Critics' Choice Awards (2013)?

Argo (2012) won Best Picture. The other nominees were Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, The Master, Moonrise Kingdom, Silver Linings Playbook and Zero Dark Thirty.

About Argo

Which film won the most awards at the 18th Critics' Choice Awards (2013)?

Silver Linings Playbook (2012) won the most: 4 awards from 10 nominations. Lincoln and Skyfall followed with 3 wins each.

Which film had the most nominations at the 18th Critics' Choice Awards (2013)?

Lincoln (2012) led with 13 nominations and won 3 of them.

Who won the acting and directing awards at the 18th Critics' Choice Awards (2013)?

Best Director: Ben Affleck for Argo. Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln. Best Actor in a Comedy Movie: Bradley Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook. Best Actor in an Action Movie: Daniel Craig for Skyfall. Best Actress: Jessica Chastain for Zero Dark Thirty. Best Actress in a Comedy Movie: Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook. Best Actress in an Action Movie: Jennifer Lawrence for The Hunger Games. Best Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master.

When was the 18th Critics' Choice Awards (2013)?

The 18th Critics' Choice Awards (2013) took place on January 10, 2013. The database has 28 categories and 147 nominations for it.