Academy Awards 2014 Nominations bets are high, again, for Gravity, after the 2013 space saga won two awards at Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2013.

While Gravity won the LAFCA Best Picture award (with 'Her') and Director Alfonso Cuarón took home the LAFCA Best Director Award and Best Editing Award, along with Mark Sanger. 

The movie emerged an overall winner at LAFCA with awards in four categories, the fourth being Best Cinematography for Emmanuel Lubezki. 

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney starrer space epic remained conspicuously absent from the Award winners' list at New York Film Critics Circle Awards, that concluded last week. 

American Hustle and Jenifer Lawrence were the crowned the Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress, thereby receiving a major boost for the upcoming awards season, specially the Academy Awards nominations.

The LAFCA win has put Gravity 2013 movie back in the race for Academy Awards 2014 nomination and trend has it that LAFCA awards are better predictors of Academy Awards than NYFCC.

Last year, LAFCA honored Amour as the Best Picture and Jenifer Lawrence as Best Actress, both of them went on to win awards at the 85^th Academy Awards.

The trend wasn't limited to just two of them but talking about the awards in the Big Five, LAFCA certainly predicted those two right.

Meanwhile, Blue is the Warmest Color is turning out to be the sure short Oscar winner in the Best Foreign Film category, what with most of the major critic awards honoring it with Best Foreign Film honor. 

The coming out-lesbian love story created a lot of buzz this year and received critical acclaim at major film festivals.

LAFCA also voted Adele Exarchopoulos as the Best Actress for her performance in Blue is the Warmest Color.