NEW YORK, Dec 4: The New York Film Critics Circle named ‘American Hustle,’ a film about 1970s con artists forced to work with the FBI, as best film of 2013 yesterday and gave its top acting prizes to Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett in the first major movie honors in the run-up to the Oscars. British director Steve McQueen won the best director prize for ’12 Years a Slave,’ the historical drama about a free black man sold into slavery and based on the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup. (agencies)
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