People's Choice award Winner: Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave First runner-up: Stephen Frears Philomena Secondd runner-up: Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners Documentary Winner: Jehane Noujaim's The Square First runner-up: Alanis Obomsawin's Hi-Ho Mistahey!
What other films attracted complaints? 12 Years A Slave was runner-up, with 12 people complaining about a rape scene.
Furious Muslim critics complained that the Lego set's Asian and oriental figures were "deceitful and criminal" characters, like gun-runners, slave masters and terrorists.
The Steve McQueen slavery drama, "12 Years a Slave," a front-runner and very possibly the winner for best picture come Sunday — has been promoted by studio Fox Searchlight with the tag line "It's time".
All of which makes "12 Years A Slave" a front-runner here on Labor Day: THR awards expert Scott Feinberg already has the film grabbing nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor, Best Supporting Actor for Michael Fassbender and Best Supporting Actress for Lupita Nyong'o.
The films Gravity and 12 years a slave were the front-runners as they both secured the award for best film.
Unlike the replicants in Blade Runner, the techno-slaves of The Matrix or the robot in AI, Ghost's cyborg heroine does not seek to regain her "lost" humanity.
12 Years a Slave is considered the front-runner for best picture, and it has nine nominations in total, including McQueen for best director.
Michael Cieply's piece in the New York Times about the historical accuracy of presumed Best Picture front-runner "12 Years A Slave," a film that doesn't even arrive in theaters for another three weeks.
If its campaign was going to wobble it was here, but Steve McQueen's slave drama holds firm, and now emerges as the clear front-runner for the best picture Oscar.
