Best of the Year in Film…So Far

So we’ve reached the halfway point of the year and my goodness has it flown by. It seems like just yesterday that I was headed to Sundance to check out some indie films and now we are right in the middle of the blockbuster season. This has been an incredibly diverse year in movies so far, and yet nothing has particularly jumped out in my mind as being amazing. At this point last year, we’d already gotten The Avengers and Magic Mike. While nothing has quite captured my imagination, there have been some pretty good movies. Let’s take a gander!

Films that Have Been Released
1. Stories We Tell
2. No
3. Man of Steel
4. Much Ado About Nothing
5. At Any Price
6. Evil Dead
7. Star Trek Into Darkness
8. Snitch
9. Iron Man 3
10. Oblivion

Best Director: Sarah Polley, Stories We Tell
Best Actor: Alden Ehrenreich, Beautiful Creatures
Best Actress: Amy Acker, Much Ado About Nothing
Best Supporting Actor: Dwyane Johnson, Pain & Gain
Best Supporting Actress: Nicole Kidman, Stoker
Best Original Screenplay: At Any Price
Best Adapted Screenplay: No
Best Cinematography: No
Best Production Design: The Great Gatsby
Best Costume Design: The Great Gatsby
Best Film Editing: Stories We Tell
Best Makeup: Evil Dead
Best Sound Design: Upstream Color
Best Visual Effects: Oblivion
Best Original Score: Oblivion
Best Animated Feature: Monsters University
Best Foreign Language Film: No
Best Documentary: Stories We Tell
Best Ensemble: This is the End

Includes Sundance and SXSW films
1. Kill Your Darlings
2. Stories We Tell
3. kink
4. Man of Steel
5. Much Ado About Nothing
6. At Any Price
7. Evil Dead
8. Star Trek Into Darkness
9. Pit Stop
10. Snitch

Best Director: Sarah Polley, Stories We Tell
Best Actor: tie, Alden Ehrenreich, Beautiful Creatures and Bill Heck, Pit Stop
Best Actress: Amy Acker, Much Ado About Nothing
Best Supporting Actor: Michael C. Hall, Kill Your Darlings
Best Supporting Actress: Melanie Diaz, Fruitvale Station
Best Original Screenplay: Kill Your Darlings
Best Adapted Screenplay: No
Best Cinematography: Bradford Young, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Best Production Design: The Great Gatsby
Best Costume Design: The Great Gatsby
Best Film Editing: kink
Best Makeup: Evil Dead
Best Sound Design: Upstream Color
Best Visual Effects: Oblivion
Best Original Score: Oblivion
Best Animated Feature: Monsters University
Best Foreign Language Film: No
Best Documentary: kink
Best Ensemble: Kill Your Darlings