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 Grandmaster – Philippe Le Sourd
Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki
Inside Llewyn Davis – Bruno Delbonnel
Prisoners – Roger Deakins
Rush – Anthony Dod Mantle

Best Film Editing
All Is Lost – Pete Beaudreau
Captain Phillips – Christopher Rouse
Dallas Buyers Club – Martin Pensa, Jean-Marc Vallée
Gravity – Alfonso Cuaron, Mark Sanger
The Wolf of Wall Street – Thelma Schoonmaker

Best Production Design*
The Conjuring – Julie Berghoff, Sophie Neudorfer, Geoffrey S. Grimsman
Elysium – Philip Ivey, Peter Lando, Don Macaulay
The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn, Ian Gracie
Her – K.K. Barrett, Gene Serdena, Austin Gorg
Pacific Rim – Andrew 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 Slave – Patricia Norris
American Hustle – Michael Wilkinson
Blue Jasmine – Suzy Benzinger
The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin
Inside Llewyn Davis – Mary Zophres

Best Original Score*
Gravity – Steven Price
Her – Arcade Fire
Man of Steel – Hans Zimmer
Out of the Furnace – Dickon Hinchliffe
The Wind Rises – Joe 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 Breakdown – Bjorn Eriksson
Inside Llewyn Davis – T-Bone Burnett
Nebraska – Mark 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 Love – Florence 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 Slave – Ryan Collins, Leslie Shatz, Kirk Francis
All Is Lost – Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor
Gravity – Niv Adiri, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro
Rush – Danny Hambrook, Stefan Korte, Martin Steyer
Spring Breakers – Aaron Glascock, Gregory H. Watkins, Alex Altman

Best Sound Editing
All Is Lost – Steve Boeddeker, Richard Hymns
The Conjuring – Joe Dzuban
Gravity – Glenn Freemantle
Lone Survivor – Wylie Stateman
Star Trek Into Darkness – Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood, Will Files

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

Best Makeup
Lee Daniels' The Butler – Matthew W. Mungle, Debra Denson, Candace Neal
Lone Survivor – Gregory Nicotero, Howard Berger
Rush – Mark Coulier, Fae Hammond