Oprah Winfrey wants everyone to know: she is okay not getting an Oscar nomination for her extraordinary performance in “The Butler.”

“Really,” she told me last night at the Critics Choice Awards. “I’m ok. Don’t worry. I’m fine with it.”

She meant it, too. Oprah sat between Forest Whitaker and Harvey Weinstein, at the same table with Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, and Chris Cooper. She was in fine form, toasting Whitaker from the stage for his charitable work. Forest won the Joel Siegel Award, named for our great friend and movie critic who passed away much too young in 2007 from cancer.

Oprah, who runs a cable network– OWN– and has lots of projects will keep acting if the parts are there. When he overheard me asking about her future acting, Harvey Weinstein jumped right in. “We’re doing the Richard Pryor story,” he said. Lee Daniels is directing. Oprah’s ear perked up.  She spent the two hours of Critics Choice taking pictures with fans and enjoying the night.

Meanwhile, at the opening of the Sundance Film Festival, Robert Redford let the distributors of his film “All is Lost” really have it for not getting him or the film any Oscar nominations– or box office. He lambasted Roadside Attractions for conducting no campaign or spending any money.

I must agree with Redford. I call that company Roadkill. I knew it in Cannes when they went out of their way to insult the press and diss the movie’s producers. “All is Lost” is going to be remembered as a little masterpiece. Redford’s performance is a work of art. Roadkill did NOTHING for it. It was out of their league.

If Harvey Weinstein or Fox Searchlight had had “All is Lost,” we’d be talking today about Redford getting Best Actor. Shame on Roadkill. This should be a lesson to filmmakers in the future. It’s not always about the money. A couple of great little films died this season because their distributors were wholly inadequate.

I do NOT mean CBS Films, which did a great job on “Inside Llewyn Davis.” They did everything they could to make the Coen brothers film an Oscar nominee. Oscar Isaac was outstanding in it, so was everyone else. I think it will win some Indie Spirit Awards, too.

PS Maybe the Academy will let Redford present Best Picture this year as a consolation.

The Broadcast Critics Association handed out the 19th annual Critics Choice Awards tonight in a two hour ceremony broadcast live on the CW Network. Unlike the Golden Globes or National Board of Review, the Critics Choice is voted on by a huge national group of professional film critics and entertainment press from around the country. Critics Choice has proven to be a bellwether of the Academy Awards, which announced Oscar nominations earlier in the day.

Big surprise was Lupita Nyong’o as Best Supporting Actress in 12 Years a Slave. Jennifer Lawrence had won the Golden Globe. Matthew McConaughey’s win for Best Actor in The Dallas Buyers Club was also unexpected. The Academy may feel more passionate about Bruce Dern, who’s 77, has never won an Oscar, and does brilliant work in “Nebraska.”

The awards, given out in the Barker Hangar at Santa Monica airport, were star studded. Everyone who could be there was including Oprah Winfrey, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, and Martin Scorsese.

WINNERS OF THE 19th ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE MOVIE 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 Cuarón, “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 Cuarón 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”

Meryl Streep earned her 18th Oscar nomination today, for lead actress in “August: Osage County.” She’s only won three times, however, for “Kramer vs.Kramer” (1979-Supporting), “Sophie’s Choice (1982-Lead), and “The Iron Lady” (2011–lead). She has not won “at least half as many times as she’s been nominated” as someone on CNN said today.

One of her wins and many of her nominations, including this one, have been with Harvey Weinstein. And this one will not be the last. Next Christmas, Streep co-stars with Jeff Bridges in “The Giver,” based on the best seller. It’s a TWC movie again. A nomination is never a cinch, but it’s a good bet.

This week she and Harvey are talking about their next film after that, called “The Senator’s Wife.” That should come in 2016. But also this Christmas, Streep is featured in the movie version of “Into the Woods.”

Is she really that good? In a word, yes. She is virtually flawless when it comes to approaching roles. This doesn’t mean that other actresses in her age group aren’t as good. Glenn Close and Susan Sarandon are her equals in many ways. Jessica Lange is always a knockout. But Streep has something particular that gives her an edge. She is to her age group what Jane Fonda was to hers, Cate Blanchett is to the next one.

Not only that: she’s a real person, an absolute pleasure.