Friday, February 28, 2014

My Award nominees for 2013 year in film

Here there are, all in one place for your perusal. Leading the way with nine nominations apiece are 12 Years a Slave and Gravity. At a distant second is Before Midnight with six, followed by Short Term 12, Her, and Inside Llewyn Davis each with five. Winners go up tomorrow.

Best Picture
12 Years a Slave -- S. McQueen, B. Pitt, D. Gardner, B. Pohlad, A. Katagas, J. Kleiner, A. Milchan
Before Midnight -- R. Linklater, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Sara Woodhatch
Gravity -- Alfonso Cuaron, David Heyman
Short Term 12 -- Maren Olson, Ron Najer, Joshua Astrachan, Asher Goldstein
Stories We Tell -- Anita Lee

Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Spike Jonze – Her
Richard Linklater – Before Midnight
Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
Sarah Polley – Stories We Tell

Best Actor
Bruce Dern – Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Oscar Isaac – Inside Llewyn DavisMatthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Julie Delpy – Before Midnight
Greta Gerwig – Frances Ha
Brie Larson – Short Term 12

Best Supporting Actor
Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper – The Place Beyond the Pines
Chris Cooper – August: Osage County
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress
Kaitlyn Dever – Short Term 12
Melonie Diaz – Fruitvale Station
Scarlett Johansson – Her
Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave
Sarah Paulson – 12 Years a Slave

Best Ensemble
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Prisoners
Short Term 12
This Is The End

Best Original Screenplay
Before Midnight -- Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
Frances Ha -- Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig
Her -- Spike Jonze
Inside Llewyn Davis -- Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Wadjda -- Haifaa Al-Mansour

Best Adapted Screenplay
12 Years a Slave -- John Ridley
Captain Phillips -- Billy Ray
Philomena -- Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope
Short Term 12 -- Destin Daniel Cretton
The Wolf of Wall Street -- Terence Winter

Best Animated Feature
Epic -- Chris Wedge
Ernest & Celestine -- Benjamin Renner, Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar
Frozen -- Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck
Monsters University -- Dan Scanlon
The Wind Rises -- Hayao Miyazaki

Best Foreign Film
Ernest & Celestine -- Benjamin Renner, Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar
The Hunt -- Thomas Vinterberg

The Missing Picture -- Rithy Panh
Omar -- Hany Abu-Assad
Wadjda -- Haifaa Al-Mansour

Best Documentary
The Act of Killing -- Joshua Oppenheimer
Blackfish -- Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Cutie and the Boxer -- Zachary Heinzerling
The Square -- Jehane Noujaim
Stories We Tell -- Sarah Polley

Best Cinematography
The GrandmasterPhilippe Le Sourd
GravityEmmanuel Lubezki
Inside Llewyn DavisBruno Delbonnel
PrisonersRoger Deakins
RushAnthony Dod Mantle

Best Film Editing
All Is LostPete Beaudreau
Captain PhillipsChristopher Rouse
Dallas Buyers ClubMartin Pensa, Jean-Marc Vallée
GravityAlfonso Cuaron, Mark Sanger
The Wolf of Wall StreetThelma Schoonmaker

Best Production Design*
The ConjuringJulie Berghoff, Sophie Neudorfer, Geoffrey S. Grimsman
ElysiumPhilip Ivey, Peter Lando, Don Macaulay
The Great GatsbyCatherine Martin, Beverley Dunn, Ian Gracie
Her – K.K. Barrett, Gene Serdena, Austin Gorg
Pacific RimAndrew Neskoromny, Carol Spier, Peter Nicolakakos

*I waffled here. Originally picking the tangibly soggy water-logged shacks of Lake-town from The Hobbit, but the IKEA-inspired neo-chic futurism of Her just holds up better under the scrutiny of time in my mind.

Best Costume Design
12 Years a SlavePatricia Norris
American HustleMichael Wilkinson
Blue JasmineSuzy Benzinger
The Great GatsbyCatherine Martin
Inside Llewyn DavisMary Zophres

Best Original Score*
GravitySteven Price
HerArcade Fire
Man of SteelHans Zimmer
Out of the Furnace Dickon Hinchliffe
The Wind RisesJoe Hisaishi

*So yes, I updated this when I finally got the chance to hear Joe Hisaishi's beautiful work on The Wind Rises. I still kinda like Thomas Newman's spry Saving Mr. Banks compositions, but I don't feel too remorseful about ousting it for something better.

Best Adapted Score
The Broken Circle BreakdownBjorn Eriksson
Inside Llewyn DavisT-Bone Burnett
NebraskaMark Orton

Best Original Song
20 Feet from Stardom, Desperation Judith Hill
Frozen, Do You Want to Build a Snowman Kristen & Robert Lopez
Frozen, Let It Go Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez
The Great Gatsby, Over the LoveFlorence Welch, Stuart Hammond, Kid Harpoon, SBTRKT
Lee Daniels' The Butler, You and I Ain't Nothin' No More Lenny Kravitz

Best Sound Mixing
12 Years a SlaveRyan Collins, Leslie Shatz, Kirk Francis
All Is LostSteve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor
GravityNiv Adiri, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro
RushDanny Hambrook, Stefan Korte, Martin Steyer
Spring BreakersAaron Glascock, Gregory H. Watkins, Alex Altman

Best Sound Editing
All Is LostSteve Boeddeker, Richard Hymns
The ConjuringJoe Dzuban
GravityGlenn Freemantle
Lone SurvivorWylie Stateman
Star Trek Into DarknessBen Burtt, Matthew Wood, Will Files

Best Visual Effects
GravityTim Webber, Neil Corbould, David Shirk, Chris Lawrence
Pacific RimJohn Knoll, James E. Price, Laird McMurray, Hal T. Hickell
Man of SteelJohn D.J. Des Jardins, Allen Hall, Daniel Barrett, Rick Leary
Iron Man 3Christopher Townsend, Daniel Sudick, Aaron Gilman, Mark G. Soper
The Hobbit 2Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds

Best Makeup
Lee Daniels' The ButlerMatthew W. Mungle, Debra Denson, Candace Neal
Lone SurvivorGregory Nicotero, Howard Berger
RushMark Coulier, Fae Hammond