The Year in Film: 2013

Best Picture
#1: Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
#2: The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
#3: Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche)
#4: Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
#5: Her (Spike Jonze)
#6: Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu)
#7: The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, and Anonymous)
#8: Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
#9: Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
#10: Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)

Honorable mentions: Upstream Color (Shane Carruth), 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen), Three Sisters (Wang Bing), The Broken Circle Breakdown (Felix Van Groeningen), No (Pablo Larra’n), Museum Hours (Jem Cohen), At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman), Blancanieves (Pablo Berger), The Past (Asghar Farhadi), Fill the Void (Rama Burshtein), Before Midnight (Richard Linklater), Let the Fire Burn (Jason Osder), Bastards (Claire Denis), This Is the End (Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen), Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (Sophie Huber), The Crash Reel (Lucy Walker), The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino), Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan), 56 Up (Michael Apted), Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (Mike Lerner & Maxim Pozdorovkin), The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai), To the Wonder (Terrence Malick), and Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami).

Best Director #1: Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity) #2: Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street) #3: Spike Jonze (Her) #4: Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha) #5: Abdellatif Kechiche (Blue Is the Warmest Color)

Best Actor #1: Joaquin Phoenix (Her) #2: Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis) #3: Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips) #4: Johan Heldenbergh (The Broken Circle Breakdown) #5: Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Best Actress #1: Veerle Baetens (The Broken Circle Breakdown) #2: Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha) #3: Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is the Warmest Color) #4: Suzanne Clément (Laurence Anyways) #5: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

Best Supporting Actor #1: Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave) #2: Valeriu Andriu?? (Beyond the Hills) #3: James Franco (Spring Breakers) #4: Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street) #5: Keith Stanfield (Short Term 12)

Best Supporting Actress #1: Léa Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Color) #2: Amy Adams (Her) #3: Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave) #4: Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle) #5: Ziyi Zhang (The Grandmaster)

Best Original Screenplay #1: Her (Spike Jonze) #2: Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig) #3: Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen) #4: Before Midnight (Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, and Richard Linklater) #5: The Broken Circle Breakdown (Felix Van Groeningen)

Best Adapted Screenplay #1: The Wolf of Wall Street (Terence Winter) #2: Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche and Ghalia Lacroix) #3: No (Pedro Peirano) #4: Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu) #5: 12 Years a Slave (John Ridley)

Best Cinematography #1: Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki) #2: 12 Years a Slave (Sean Bobbitt) #3: To the Wonder (Emmanuel Lubezki) #4: Inside Llewyn Davis (Bruno Delbonnel) #5: The Great Beauty (Luca Bigazzi)

Best Film Editing #1: Gravity #2: 12 Years a Slave #3: Her #4: Leviathan #5: The Grandmaster

Best Score #1: Spring Breakers (Cliff Martinez and Skrillex) #2: Rush (Hans Zimmer) #3: Only God Forgives (Cliff Martinez) #4: Oblivion (M83) #5: Bastards (Tindersticks)

Best Song #1: “Young and Beautiful” (The Great Gatsby) #2: “Over the Love” (The Great Gatsby) #3: “Oblivion” (Oblivion) #4: “Shudder to Think” (Dallas Buyers Club) #5: “Step Out” (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

Best Production Design #1: The Great Gatsby #2: Her #3: Gravity #4: The Great Beauty #5: The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Costume Design #1: The Great Gatsby #2: 12 Years a Slave #3: Her #4: Stoker #5: Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Makeup #1: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug #2: The Great Gatsby #3: A Touch of Sin #4: Antiviral #5: Warm Bodies

Best Sound #1: Her #2: Gravity #3: Inside Llewyn Davis #4: The Great Gatsby #5: The Grandmaster

Best Visual Effects #1: Gravity #2: Elysium #3: Pacific Rim #4: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug #5: The Grandmaster

Worst Film of the Year Scary MoVie (Malcolm D. Lee)Dishonorable Mentions:Pain & Gain (Michael Bay), R.I.P.D. (Robert Schwentke), Olympus Has Fallen (Antoine Fuqua), John Dies at the End (Don Coscarelli), Diana (Oliver Hirschbiegel), The Canyons (Paul Schrader), Jobs (Joshua Michael Stern), Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Tommy Wirkola), and Dealin’ With Idiots (Jeff Garlin)