Here’s the funny thing about the BAFTA Awards, aka the British Oscars. They’re all about Hollywood. Go figure. Four of the five Best Film nominees are American movies. Their British hit movies are ones distributed by American companies, usually The Weinstein Company. Shouldn’t they pay everyone to come to London to get the awards? Anyway, they snubbed Robert Redford’s brilliant performance in “All is Lost” and Meryl Streep’s knockout turn in “August: Osage County.” Humbug! They liked “Gravity” because it was in English, I guess.

BEST FILM
12 YEARS A SLAVE Anthony Katagas, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen
AMERICAN HUSTLE Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca
GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman
PHILOMENA Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman, Jonás Cuarón
MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM Justin Chadwick, Anant Singh, David M. Thompson, William Nicholson
PHILOMENA Stephen Frears, Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward, Jeff Pope
RUSH Ron Howard, Andrew Eaton, Peter Morgan
SAVING MR. BANKS John Lee Hancock, Alison Owen, Ian Collie, Philip Steuer, Kelly Marcel, Sue Smith
THE SELFISH GIANT: Clio Barnard, Tracy O’Riordan

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
COLIN CARBERRY (Writer), GLENN PATTERSON (Writer) Good Vibrations
KELLY MARCEL (Writer) Saving Mr. Banks
KIERAN EVANS (Director/Writer) Kelly + Victor
PAUL WRIGHT (Director/Writer), POLLY STOKES (Producer) For Those in Peril
SCOTT GRAHAM (Director/Writer) Shell

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
THE ACT OF KILLING Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR Abdellatif Kechiche, Brahim Chioua, Vincent Maraval
THE GREAT BEAUTY Paolo Sorrentino, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima
METRO MANILA Sean Ellis, Mathilde Charpentier
WADJDA Haifaa Al-Mansour, Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul

DOCUMENTARY
THE ACT OF KILLING Joshua Oppenheimer
THE ARMSTRONG LIE Alex Gibney
BLACKFISH Gabriela Cowperthwaite
TIM’S VERMEER Teller, Penn Jillette, Farley Ziegler
WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS Alex Gibney
ANIMATED FILM
DESPICABLE ME 2 Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
FROZEN Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
MONSTERS UNIVERSITY Dan Scanlon

DIRECTOR
12 YEARS A SLAVE Steve McQueen
AMERICAN HUSTLE David O. Russell
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Paul Greengrass
GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Martin Scorsese

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
AMERICAN HUSTLE Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell
BLUE JASMINE Woody Allen
GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
NEBRASKA Bob Nelson

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
12 YEARS A SLAVE John Ridley
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Richard LaGravenese
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Billy Ray
PHILOMENA Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Terence Winter

LEADING ACTOR
BRUCE DERN Nebraska
CHIWETEL EJIOFOR 12 Years a Slave
CHRISTIAN BALE American Hustle
LEONARDO DICAPRIO The Wolf of Wall Street
TOM HANKS Captain Phillips

LEADING ACTRESS
AMY ADAMS American Hustle
CATE BLANCHETT Blue Jasmine
EMMA THOMPSON Saving Mr. Banks
JUDI DENCH Philomena
SANDRA BULLOCK Gravity

SUPPORTING ACTOR
BARKHAD ABDI Captain Phillips
BRADLEY COOPER American Hustle
DANIEL BRÜHL Rush
MATT DAMON Behind the Candelabra
MICHAEL FASSBENDER 12 Years a Slave

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
JENNIFER LAWRENCE American Hustle
JULIA ROBERTS August: Osage County
LUPITA NYONG’O 12 Years a Slave
OPRAH WINFREY The Butler
SALLY HAWKINS Blue Jasmine

ORIGINAL MUSIC
12 YEARS A SLAVE Hans Zimmer
THE BOOK THIEF John Williams
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Henry Jackman
GRAVITY Steven Price
SAVING MR. BANKS Thomas Newman

CINEMATOGRAPHY
12 YEARS A SLAVE Sean Bobbitt
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Barry Ackroyd
GRAVITY Emmanuel Lubezki
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Bruno Delbonnel
NEBRASKA Phedon Papamichael

EDITING
12 YEARS A SLAVE Joe Walker
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Christopher Rouse
GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger
RUSH Dan Hanley, Mike Hill
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Thelma Schoonmaker

PRODUCTION DESIGN
12 YEARS A SLAVE Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker
AMERICAN HUSTLE Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Howard Cummings
GRAVITY Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woodlard
THE GREAT GATSBY Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn

COSTUME DESIGN
AMERICAN HUSTLE Michael Wilkinson
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Ellen Mirojnick
THE GREAT GATSBY Catherine Martin
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN Michael O’Connor
SAVING MR. BANKS Daniel Orlandi

MAKE UP & HAIR
AMERICAN HUSTLE Evelyne Noraz, Lori McCoy-Bell
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Kate Biscoe, Marie Larkin
THE BUTLER Debra Denson, Beverly Jo Pryor, Candace Neal
THE GREAT GATSBY Maurizio Silvi, Kerry Warn
THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater

SOUND
ALL IS LOST Richard Hymns, Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor, Micah Bloomberg, Gillian Arthur
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro, Oliver Tarney
GRAVITY Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, Chris Munro
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Peter F. Kurland, Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff
RUSH Danny Hambrook, Martin Steyer, Stefan Korte, Markus Stemler, Frank Kruse

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
GRAVITY Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny
THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds
IRON MAN 3 Bryan Grill, Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Dan Sudick
PACIFIC RIM Hal Hickel, John Knoll, Lindy De Quattro, Nigel Sumner
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton, Patrick Tubach, Roger Guyett

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
EVERYTHING I CAN SEE FROM HERE Bjorn-Erik Aschim, Friederike Nicolaus, Sam Taylor
I AM TOM MOODY Ainslie Henderson
SLEEPING WITH THE FISHES James Walker, Sarah Woolner, Yousif Al-Khalifa

BRITISH SHORT FILM
ISLAND QUEEN Ben Mallaby, Nat Luurtsema
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES Megan Rubens, Michael Pearce, Selina Lim
ORBIT EVER AFTER Chee-Lan Chan, Jamie Stone, Len Rowles
ROOM 8 James W. Griffiths, Sophie Venner
SEA VIEW Anna Duffield, Jane Linfoot

If you add the DGA nominees to the SAG Best Ensemble nominees, you probably have the Oscar nominees for Best Picture. Today the DGA tapped Martin Scorsese, Paul Greengrass, David O. Russell, Alfonso Cuaron, and Steve McQueen for respectively, “Wolf,” “Capt. Phillips,” “American Hustle,” “Gravity,” and “12 Years a Slave.”

Two of those– “Hustle” and “12 Years”– are overlaps. The other SAG nominees are “August: Osage County” and “The Butler” and “Dallas Buyers Club.”

That means Best Picture nominees should be “Wolf of Wall Street,” “American Hustle,” “August: Osage County,” “Captain Phillips,” “Gravity,” “12 Years a Slave,” and “The Butler.” “Dallas Buyers Club” has not been much a box office hit; I think only its actors will make it into their categories.

So that means there are three other spots. Who will take them? “Blue Jasmine” definitely gets one. “Nebraska” is the other.  The 10th spot could go to  “Philomena” or “Her.” Each is strong. “Inside Llewyn Davis” still has an outside shot.

Most underappreciated films of the year: “Lone Survivor” and “Rush.”

British director Steve McQueen was heckled last night at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards while he was collecting his prize for “12 Years a Slave.” Contrarian CityArts critic Armond White yelled out “F…k you!” while the director was giving his speech.

The dinner was held at the Edison Hotel Ballroom, formerly the Supper Club on West 47th St., and was hosted by critic Josh Rothkopf. In the audience were newcomers and stalwarts including veterans like Rex Reed and Kathleen Carroll, Joe Morgenstern and David Denby. Each critic is introduced by name from their table, with commensurate applause from the audience.

The heckling is beginning to be a yearly habit for White, a 6 foot 4 inch man with an imposing voice. Last year the contrarian critic yelled “F…k you!” at Michael Moore when he made what White thought were derogatory comments about the Catholic Church during his best documentary presentation to David France for “How to Survive a Plague,” about the AIDS crisis.

Last month White told me at the Fox Searchlight Christmas party that he thought “12 Years a Slave,” was “torture porn,” and that the 1975 melodrama, “Mandingo,” directed by Richard Fleischer, was a much better film about slavery.

So during the reception Monday evening, before the awards ceremony began, I jokingly asked Armond what he was going to say to Steve McQueen if he ran into him.

“I’m going to tell him I liked ‘American Hustle,’” he cracked.

The New York Film Critics Circle Awards are not televised and they tend to be pretty loose and wacky but they were uncharacteristically restrained this year, that is until McQueen took the stage.

First legendary American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist Harry Belafonte, presented McQueen with his award. Belafonte received a  thunderous standing ovation. In the most elegant and moving speech of the evening, which lasted 9 minutes, he spoke of the negative images of blacks depicted in films like “The Birth of a Nation” and “Tarzan.”

In his tribute to McQueen, Belafonte said, “A lot is going on in Hollywood, a lot to be cynical about,” Belafonte said, “but at this moment, I think what is redeeming, what is transforming, is the fact that the genius of an artist who’s of African descent, but he’s not from America,” made a film about slavery that “sets the stage, that answers the charge made by ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ that we’re not a people who are rapists, abusers, absent of intelligence, absent of soul and art and desire. In this film, ‘12 Years a Slave, Steve steps in and shows us in a nobler way the depth and the power of cinema.”

 “Now, I can say, in my 87th year of life that I am joyed and overjoyed to have lived long enough to have seen Steve McQueen step into our space and for the first time in the history of cinema, give us a work, this film, giving us the depths of who we are as a people, (that) touches the depths of what America is as a country and gives us the sense of our understanding more deeply of what our past has been, how glorious our future will be and could me.”

Belafonte turned to McQueen, “We look forward to great anticipation what you do in the future. But if you never did anything else, many in your tribe – many in the world – that you have found the genius to show us the way the future should be are forever eternally grateful to say we are of African descent.”

White obviously didn’t agree with Belafonte.

 When McQueen took the stage he hissed,  “Fuck you!”

 Someone else yelled out, “Quiet!”

“Thank you, Harry. Thank you so much!” McQueen said, and then paid tribute to his “12 Years a Slave” star Chiwetel Ejiofor, who he said was “the only actor I could think of to play the role” of Solomon Northup. “He possesses the inherent sense of grace and dignity, Chiwetel, which this man (Belafonte) personifies.” He added that he was “honored to share” the award filmmakers who “shaped” him as a “filmmaker,” mentioning Ingmar Bergman, John Ford and Woody Allen, who have all been honored with New York Film Critics Circle Awards.

At the mention of these famous directors, White yelped, “Pulease!”

McQueen either didn’t hear the taunts or else he pretended he didn’t. He continued his speech and thanked critics who helped his film by their reviews and articles. “Because it has taken will power for some people to see this film” and “also to confront their past and our collective future.”

 Armond hurled more abuses at the director.

Writer/director Peter Bogdanovich then came out to present the last award for best picture to “American Hustle” and director/writer David O. Russell, co-writer Eric Singer, and producers Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, Jonathan Martin and Bradley Cooper.

 He said of Russell, “He makes movies about people and, god, I love people who make movies about people,” Bogdanovich said. “There’s nothing more interesting than this, what happens to people and ‘American Hustle’ is a perfect example of a movie about people that are interesting and fully dimensional.”

 “Yeah!” Armond yelled out from the back of the theater.

 “And the great thing about it is that it is brilliant acted and it’s brilliantly directed,” Bogdanovich added. “And the last three films of David’s that I’ve seen were all brilliantly acted. The whole ensemble is superb and that means the guy that’s watching over them is pretty damn good.”

But Belafonte was a hard act to follow and all Russell said was, “Harry Belafonte’s knocked my lights out.”

  After the awards ceremony I asked Redford for his final thoughts on the evening.

  “Very uplifting. I think primarily to hear all my colleagues talk about their love of their work and acknowledging each other. I think that and the fact that I was honored by the New York critics, those two things together, made my evening.”

Oscar Isaac said the evening’s highlight was Belafonte’s speech, “hearing him talk, so beautifully and movingly, that was pretty amazing.”

Armond White’s heckling didn’t put a damper on McQueen’s evening.

He told me the highlight of the evening was his win as best director and Belafonte’s speech. “I’m speechless right now because of Harry’s speech. I can’t even think.”

 I remarked he sounded hoarse. “I was imitating Harry,” McQueen laughed. Other big names collecting or presenting prizes included Best Actress Cate Blanchett, Supporting Actor Jared Leto, Documentary film winner Sarah Polley, Ethan Hawke, the gang from “Fruitvale Station”– Octavia Spencer, Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz and director Ryan Coogler, plus Sally Hawkins, Mark Ruffalo, Glenn Close, and Bradley Cooper– who accepted for Best Supporting Actress Jennifer Lawrence, still being held hostage by the “Hunger Games” producers. Matthew McConaughey was supposed to present to his “Dallas Buyers Club” co-star Leto but was a no-show.