VILLAGE VOICE FILM POLL PICK INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS AS BEST FILM OF 2013

The Village Voice occupy an in-between space among critic organisations: not quite one of the crowd of Oscar-baiting critic groups, not quite a highbrow institution a la Cahiers du Cinema or Sight & Sound. And so their end-of-year lists tend to look either like smarter, more imaginative critic groups awards choices, or more limited versions of Cahiers' or Sight & Sound's lists. One curiosity here is that Stories We Tell beats Leviathan in votes in the Documentary category, yet not in the Picture category, despite being kind of less of a documentary than Leviathan. Interesting, just. For more details on the voting breakdown, head over to my buddies at Awards Daily.

Best Film

1.        Inside Llewyn Davis

2.        Her

3.        12 Years a Slave

4.        Before Midnight

5.        The Act of Killing

6.        Leviathan

7.        Upstream Colour

8.        Gravity

9.        Frances Ha

10.     Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Best Director

1.        Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)

2.        Spike Jonze (Her)

3.        Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)

4.        Shane Carruth (Upstream Colour)

5.        Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Best Actor

1.        Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis)

2.        Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)

3.        Joaquin Phoenix (Her)

4.        Robert Redford (All Is Lost)

5.        Bruce Dern (Nebraska)

Best Actress

1.        Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is the Warmest Colour)

2.        Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

3.        Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha)

4.        Brie Larson (Short Term 12)

5.        Julie Delpy (Before Midnight)

Best Supporting Actor

1.        James Franco (Spring Breakers)

2.        Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)

3.        James Gandolfini (Enough Said)

4.        Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

5.        Andrew Dice Clay (Blue Jasmine)

Best Supporting Actress

1.        Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)

2.        Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)

3.        Léa Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Colour)

4.        Scarlett Johansson (Her)

5.        June Squibb (Nebraska)

Best Screenplay

1.        Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater (Before Midnight)

2.        Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)

 Spike Jonze (Her)

Best Animated Feature

1.        The Wind Rises

2.        Frozen

3.        Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

Best Documentary

1.        The Act of Killing

2.        Stories We Tell

3.        Leviathan

4.        At Berkeley

5.        Let the Fire Burn

Best First Feature

1.        Fruitvale Station

2.        Wadjda

3.        Sun Don’t Shine

Best Undistributed Film

1.        Stray Dogs

2.        What Now? Remind Me

3.        The Strange Little Cat

Worst Film

1.        Only God Forgives

2.        A Good Day to Die Hard

3.        Pain & Gain

Movie Everyone’s Wrong About

1.        American Hustle

2.        12 Years a Slave

 Nebraska