The Oscars are over but I still have a few things to say about the 2013 film year, one of the most diverse slates of films we’ve been given. I did one quick perusal of the year and decided what I would have done had I been given an Oscar ballot way back in December. The categories are listed in order of preference, with my favorites of the year listed first. Sidenote: These were also my Awards Circuit staff awards votes. For the most part 😉
Best Picture: My list is posted here.
Best Director
- James Wan, The Conjuring
- Sarah Polley, Stories We Tell
- Martin Scorcese, The Wolf of Wall Street
- Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
- Spike Jonze, Her
Best Actor
- Alden Ehrenreich, Beautiful Creatures
- Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
- Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
- Michael B. Jordan, Fruitvale Station
- Leonardo DiCaprio, The Great Gatsby
Best Actress
- Adele Exarchopolous, Blue is the Warmest Color
- Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
- Brie Larsen, Short Term 12
- Shailene Woodley, The Spectacular Now
- Amy Acker, Much Ado About Nothing
Supporting Actor
- Dwayne Johnson, Pain and Gain
- Keith Stanfield, Short Term 12
- Ben Foster, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
- Michael C Hall, Kill Your Darlings
- Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Supporting Actress
- Oprah Winfrey, Lee Daniels’ The Butler
- Elizabeth Debicki, The Great Gatsby
- Emma Watson, The Bling Ring
- Margot Robbie, The Wolf of Wall Street
- Melanie Diaz, Fruitvale Station
Original Screenplay
- Kill Your Darlings
- This is The End
- Her
- The Conjuring
- Stories We Tell
Adapted Screenplay
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Lee Daniels’ The Butler
- Short Term 12
- Frozen
- Beautiful Creatures
Film Editing
- Stories We Tell
- Upstream Color
- Captain Phillips
- The Conjuring
- The Wolf of Wall Street
Production Design
- The Great Gatsby
- Her
- Stoker
- The Conjuring
- Kill Your Darlings
Cinematography
- The Conjuring
- Upstream Color
- 12 Years a Slave
- Gravity
- Her
Costume Design
- The Great Gatsby
- Bling Ring
- American Hustle
- Mother of George
- Pacific Rim
Make Up
- Evil Dead
- Lone Survivor
- Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Visual Effects
- Gravity
- Her
- Oblivion
- Lone Survivor
- The Conjuring
Score
- Oblivion
- Frozen
- The Conjuring
- Star Trek Into Darkness
- Spring Breakers
Sound Design
- The Conjuring
- 12 Years a Slave
- Upstream Color
- Lone Survivor
- Oblivion
Yes I am aware this isn’t an Oscar category, however these are my votes for the best sound of the year.
Animated Feature
- Frozen
- Monsters University
- The Croods
- Ernest and Celestine
Foreign Language
- Child’s Pose
- Of Horses and Men
- The Past
- The Great Beauty
- Ernest and Celestine
Documentary
- Stories We Tell
- American Promise
- Unhung Hero
- A River Changes Course
- After Tiler
Original Song
- A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got) – The Great Gatsby
- For the First Time in Forever (Reprise) – Frozen
- Young and Beautiful – The Great Gatsby
- In the Middle of the Night – Lee Daniels’ The Butler
- So You Know What It’s Like – Short Term 12