2013-01-08 09:19:20 - Streaming from the Barker Hangar, Santa Monica airport, CA for the 2013 Critics Choice Awards. Full nominees, predictions, video streams.

The Critics' Choice Movie Awards have been presented annually each year since 1995 by the Broadcast Film Critics Association for outstanding achievements in the cinema industry.

For nominees, predictions and live streaming, visit:

www.myworldevents.com/movie-awards/critics-choice.html

Event background:

Nominees for the 18th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards were announced on Tuesday, December 11, 2012.

The Critics' Choice Awards are bestowed annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Nominees are selected by written ballots in a week-long voting period, and are announced in December. The winners are revealed at the annual Critics' Choice Awards ceremony in January. The awards are currently broadcast live on the VH1 television network. The 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Awards were at the Santa

Monica Civic Auditorium, the 2010 event, renamed The Critics' Choice Movie Awards, was held at the refurbished historic Hollywood Palladium on January 15, 2010. Special awards are given out at the discretion of the BFCA Board of Directors.

The Broadcast Film Critics Association prides itself on its ability to anticipate Academy Award nominations: between 1997 and 2004, the Critics' Choice nominations predicted all but two of 35 Academy Award nominations for Best Picture. By comparison, the Golden Globe Awards were three times more likely to differ during the same period. However, the fact that the BFCA, which typically nominates nine or ten films for Best Film, chooses more than the five nominations of the Academy Awards and Golden Globes may account for some of this greater predictive power.

This year's nominations include:

BEST PICTURE
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
John Hawkes – The Sessions
Hugh Jackman – Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Denzel Washington – Flight

BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Quvenzhane Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts – The Impossible