Checking in with the Critics Choice Scores

I thought I’d take a look at the BFCA to see how they’re stacking up the Oscar contenders so far. Some have opened, some haven’t. But so far, here is how it’s looking.

Boyhood 96/100
Whiplash 93/100
Birdman 91/100
Theory of Everything 91/100
Gone Girl 90/100
The Imitation Game 90/100
Foxcatcher 88/100
Nightcrawler 88/100
The Grand Budapest Hotel 87/100
Interstellar 81/100
Get On Up 80/100
The Good Lie 80/100
The Homesman 79/100

We’ll check back in as time goes by and more scores are added and more movies are released. But the BFCA isn’t the be all, end all, it’s kind of a good barometer of how they will vote. On the other hand, Nine once led the Critics Choice nominations with a 79 score overall.

Al Robinson tallied the scores from Best Picture years past, but the only ones that really matter are from 2009 on because they had more than five – really we should only be looking at 2011, 2012 and 2013 but for inclusion’s sake:

2009
The Hurt Locker-93
Avatar-89
The Blind Side-85
District 9-87
An Education-95
Inglorious Basterds-91
Precious-89
A Serious Man-86
Up in the Air-97
2010
The King’s Speech-97
127 Hours-90
Black Swan-89
The Fighter-89
Inception-94
The Kids Are All Right-85
The Social Network-95
Toy Story-97
True Grit-91
Winter’s Bone-85
2011
The Artist-91
The Descendants-92
The Help-89
Hugo-87
Midnight in Paris-85
Moneyball-91
The Tree of Life-78
War Horse- 80
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close-78
2012
Argo-94
Amour-87
Beasts of the Southern Wild-85
Django Unchained-88
Les Miserables-87
Life of Pi-86
Lincoln-88
Silver Linings Playbook-90
Zero Dark Thirty- 92
2013
12 Years a Slave-94
American Hustle-91
Captain Phillips-90
Dallas Buyers Club-88
Gravity-93
Nebraska-87
Her-87
Philomena-89
The Wolf of Wall Street- 85