The Hollywood newcomer Lupita Nyong’o has been dazzling on the red carpet lately. She is the toast of town this award season, winning both SAG and Critics Choice awards for Best Supporting Actress role. She is also nominated for an Oscar for her outstanding performance as Patsey in 12 Years of Slavery. The 31 year old Kenyan actress graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts before she obtained her masters degree in acting from Yale School of Drama. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Here is the rest of 2014 Critics Choice Awards:
Best picture: “12 Years a Slave”
Best actor: Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best actress: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”
Best supporting actor: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best supporting actress: Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”
Best young actor/actress: Adele Exarchopoulos, “Blue Is the Warmest Color”
Best acting ensemble: “American Hustle”
Best director: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”
Best original screenplay: Spike Jonze, “Her”
Best adapted screenplay: John Ridley, “12 Years a Slave”
Best cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, “Gravity”
Best art direction: Catherine Martin (production designer), Beverley Dunn (set decorator), “The Great Gatsby”
Best editing: Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger, “Gravity”
Best costume design: Catherine Martin, “The Great Gatsby”
Best hair & makeup: “American Hustle”
Best visual effects: “Gravity”
Best animated feature: “Frozen”
Best action movie: “Lone Survivor”
Best actor in an action movie: Mark Wahlberg, “Lone Survivor”
Best actress in an action movie: Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”
Best comedy: “American Hustle”
Best actor in a comedy: Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Best actress in a comedy: Amy Adams, “American Hustle”
Best sci-fi/horror movie: “Gravity”
Best foreign language film: “Blue Is the Warmest Color”
Best documentary feature: “20 Feet From Stardom”
Best song: “Let It Go” Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, “Frozen”
Best score: Steven Price, “Gravity”
You can read more at criticschoice.com
Lupita Nyong’o Among 2014 Critics Choice Awards Winners