New York Film Critics Live Stream: Are '12 Years A Slave,' 'Gravity,' 'The Wolf of Wall Street' and 'American Hustle' Front-Runners?

On Dec. 3, the New York Film Critics Circle will announce the first critics' awards of the year.

The NYFCC are important Oscar precursors because many of the films that are awarded end up getting nominated for the Academy Awards. The society was established in 1935 and includes critics from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, magazines and online general interest publications. Among the critics who vote are Thelma Adams from Yahoo movies, Richard Corliss from Time, David Edelstein from New York Magazine, Eric Kohn from IndieWire, and Peter Travers from Rolling Stone.  

Among the awards that will be handed out this year are Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actress.

Recent winners include "Zero Dark Thirty," which won the Best Picture award and Best Director for filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow. The Best Actor award went to Daniel Day-Lewis for "Lincoln"; Best Actress went to Rachel Weisz for "The Deep Blue Sea"; while the Best Supporting Actress Award went to Sally Field for "Lincoln." Matthew McConaughey received the Best Supporting Actor award for "Magic Mike" and "Bernie."

The awards are usuaully good predictors of the Oscars but they can also sway away. Last year, Weisz, McConaughey and Bigelow were not nominated at the Osars for their respective categories.

This year a number of films are front-runners including "12 Years A Slave," "Gravity," "American Hustle" and "The Wolf of Wall Street."

The critics will begin to announce the awards at noon and will post them on Twitter as they are announced.

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