Friday, January 17, 2014

2013 Moving Image Awards

Every year I have a silly award show for the best movies of the previous year. It's kind of like the Oscars, but with better nominations/winners and (unfortunately) no celebrities in attendance. So without further ado, here are the nominees.

Best Picture
Bastards
Faust
Her
Leviathan
Like Someone in Love
Night Across the Street
Passion
A Touch of Sin
Viola
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!

Best Director
Claire Denis, Bastards
Abbas Kiarostami, Like Someone in Love
Brian De Palma, Passion
Alain Resnais, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!
Raul Ruiz, The Night Across the Street
Aleksandr Sokurov, Faust
Johnnie To, Drug War

Best Lead Performance, Female
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Julie Delpy, Before Midnight
Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
Tallie Medel, The Unspeakable Act
Elizabeth Moss, Top of the Lake
Zhang Ziyi, The Grandmaster

Best Lead Performance, Male
Matt Damon, Behind the Candelabra
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight
Sun Honglei, Drug War
Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
Joaquin Phoenix, Her

Best Supporting Performance, Female
Lola Creton, Bastards
Rooney Mara, Side Effects
Rachel McAdams, Passion
Jeanne Moreau, Gebo and the Shadow
Alba Rohrwacher, Dormant Beauty
Zhao Tao, A Touch of Sin

Best Supporting Performance, Male
Anton Adasinskiy, Faust
Mathieu Amalric, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!
James Franco, Spring Breakers
Nick Frost, The World's End
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Pain & Gain
Peter Mullan, Top of the Lake

Best Ensemble Performance
Bastards
Computer Chess
Drug War
Gebo and the Shadow
Viola
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!

Best Original Screenplay
Andrew Bujalski, Computer Chess
Jane Campion and Gerard Lee, Top of the Lake
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis
Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, and Richard Linklater, Before Midnight
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, The World's End
Jia Zhangke, A Touch of Sin

Best Adapted Screenplay
Olivier Assays, Something in the Air
Darezhan Omirbaev, Student
Brian De Palma, Passion
Matias Pineiro, Viola
Alain Resnais and Laurent Herbiet, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!
Aleksandr Sokurov and Marina Kreneva, Faust

Best Cinematography
Jose Luis Alcaine, Passion
Benoit Debie, Spring Breakers
Bruno Delbonnel, Faust
Agnes Godard, Bastards
Matthias Grunsky, Computer Chess
Katsumi Yanagijima, Like Someone in Love

Best Editing
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, Leviathan
Douglas Cise, Spring Breakers
Annette Dutertre, Bastards
Francois Gedigier, Passion
Bahman Kiarostami, Like Someone in Love
Frederick Wiseman, At Berkeley

Best Sound
Erik Aadahl, To the Wonder
Makar Akhpashev and Fonin Andrey, Faust
Illiya Biserov, Student
Martin Boissau, Bastards
Pedro Costa, Sweet Exorcist
Nobuyuji Kikuchi, Like Someone in Love
Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Ernst Karel, and Jacob Ribicoff, Leviathan

Best Design
K.K. Barrett, Her
Michael Bricker, Computer Chess
William Chang, The Grandmaster
Jack Fisk, To the Wonder
Jess Gonchor, Inside Llewyn Davis
Elena Zhukova, Faust

Best Original Score or Soundtrack
Jorge Arriagada, Night Across the Street
T. Bone Burnett, Inside Llewyn Davis
Pino Donaggio, Passion
Cliff Martinez and Skrillex, Spring Breakers
Tindersticks, Bastards
Alexander Zlamal, Faust

Best Appropriated Score or Soundtrack
Olivier Assayas, Something in the Air
Noah Baumbach, Frances Ha
Steven Price and Edgar Wright, The World's End

Best Music Video / Televised Musical Performance
"Beauty and the Beat" by Justin Bieber and Jon Cho
"Bound 2" by Nick Knight and Kanye West
"Suit & Tie" by David Fincher and Justin Timberlake



Film Availability
The Act of Killing - Available for streaming on Netflix, Amazon ($5), and iTunes ($5)
Bastards - Available for pre-order on iTunes (4/8)
Before Midnight - Available for streaming on Amazon ($15) and iTunes ($15)
Behind the Candelabra - Available for streaming on Amazon ($20) and iTunes ($20)
Computer Chess - Available for streaming on Netflix, Amazon ($5), and iTunes ($5)
Drug War - Available for streaming on Netflix, Amazon ($5), and iTunes ($5)
Frances Ha - Available for streaming on Netflix and iTunes ($5)
Her - In Theaters
In the Fog - Available for streaming on Netflix, Amazon ($0 for Prime, $5), and iTunes ($5)
Inside Llewyn Davis - In Theaters
Leviathan - Available for streaming on iTunes ($5)
The Lone Ranger - Available for streaming on Amazon ($6) and iTunes ($6)
Man of Tai Chi - Available for streaming on Netflix, Amazon ($5), and iTunes ($5)
Museum Hours - Available for streaming on iTunes ($5)
Night Across the Street - Available for streaming on iTunes ($5)
Pain & Gain - Available for streaming on Amazon ($15) and iTunes ($15)
Passion - Available for streaming on Netflix, Amazon ($5), and iTunes ($5)
Riddick - Available for streaming on Amazon ($6) and iTunes ($6)
Side Effects - Available for streaming on Netflix, Amazon ($4), and iTunes ($4)
Something in the Air - Available for streaming on Amazon ($0 for Prime, $5), and iTunes ($5)
Spring Breakers - Available for streaming on Amazon ($0 for Prime, $5) and iTunes ($5)
To the Wonder - Available for streaming on Netflix, Amazon ($5), and iTunes ($5)
Top of the Lake - Available for streaming on Netflix, Amazon ($20), and iTunes ($20)
The Unspeakable Act - Available for streaming on iTunes ($5)
The Wolf of Wall Street - In Theaters
The World's End - Available for streaming on Amazon ($6) and iTunes ($6)
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet - Available for streaming on Netflix and iTunes ($5)