Friday, 3 January 2014

INDIEWIRE CRITICS POLL 2013 - 12 YEARS, LLEWYN DAVIS AND GRAVITY FARE BEST


The IndieWire Critics Poll 2013 was posted ages ago, but not here! So I've finally gotten around to it. With a Top 50 declared in each of 11 categories, there's a heck of a lot to wade through, though it also guarantees that there's something for almost everyone among the critics' picks.

Best Film

1.       12 Years a Slave
2.        Inside Llewyn Davis
3.        Before Midnight
4.        Her
5.        Gravity
6.        The Act of Killing
7.        Leviathan
8.        Blue Is the Warmest Colour
9.        Upstream Colour
10.     Frances Ha
11.     Spring Breakers
12.     Stories We Tell
13.     A Touch of Sin
14.     The Great Beauty
15.     American Hustle
16.     Short Term 12
17.     Nebraska
18.     Computer Chess
19.     All Is Lost
20.     Museum Hours
21.     The Wolf of Wall Street
22.     Like Someone in Love
23.     To the Wonder
24.     The World’s End
25.     Beyond the Hills
26.     Drug War
27.     Blue Jasmine
28.     Bastards
29.     The Wind Rises
30.     The Past
31.     At Berkeley
32.     Post Tenebras Lux
33.     The Grandmaster
34.     Fruitvale Station
35.     No
36.     Mud
37.     The Hunt
38.     Viola
39.     The Unspeakable Act
40.     You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
41.     Captain Phillips
42.     The Spectacular Now
43.     Something in the Air
44.     Stoker
45.     Dallas Buyers Club
46.     Wadjda
47.     Enough Said
48.     Laurence Anyways
49.     Only God Forgives
50.     Side Effects

Best Director
1.       Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)
2.        Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)
3.        Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)
4.        Spike Jonze (Her)
5.        Shane Carruth (Upstream Colour)
6.        David O. Russell (American Hustle)
7.        Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty)
8.        Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)
9.        Richard Linklater (Before Midnight)
10.     Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers)
11.     Abdellatif Kechiche (Blue Is the Warmest Colour)
12.     Jia Zhang Ke (A Touch of Sin)
13.     Andrew Bujalski (Computer Chess)
14.     Sarah Polley (Stories We Tell)
15.     Alexander Payne (Nebraska)
16.     Terrence Malick (To the Wonder)
17.     J.C. Chandor (All Is Lost)
18.     Claire Denis (Bastards)
19.     Johnnie To (Drug War)
20.     Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel (Leviathan)
21.     Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing)
22.     Alain Resnais (You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet)
23.     Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha)
24.     Cristian Mungiu (Beyond the Hills)
25.     Miyazaki Hayao (The Wind Rises)
26.     Abbas Kiarostami (Like Someone in Love)
27.     Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips)
28.     Destin Cretton (Short Term 12)
29.     Asghar Farhadi (The Past)
30.     Matías Piñeiro (Viola)
31.     Woody Allen (Blue Jasmine)
32.     Edgar Wright (The World’s End)
33.     Jem Cohen (Museum Hours)
34.     Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt)
35.     Jeff Nichols (Mud)
36.     Steven Soderbergh (Side Effects)
37.     Wong Kar Wai (The Grandmaster)
38.     Dan Sallitt (The Unspeakable Act)
39.     Raoul Ruiz (Night Across the Street)
40.     Olivier Assayas (Something in the Air)
41.     Carlos Reygadas (Post Tenebras Lux)
42.     Derek Cianfrance (The Place Beyond the Pines)
43.     Xavier Dolan (Laurence Anyways)
44.     Bruno Dumont (Camille Claudel 1915)
45.     Park Chan Wook (Stoker)
46.     Haifaa Al Mansour (Wadjda)
47.     Kleber Mendonça Filho (Neighbouring Sounds)
48.     Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station)
49.     Frederick Wiseman (At Berkeley)
50.     Nicolas Winding Refn (Only God Forgives)

Best Lead Performance
1.       Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
2.        Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is the Warmest Colour)
3.        Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
4.        Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis)
5.        Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha)
6.        Brie Larson (Short Term 12)
7.        Robert Redford (All Is Lost)
8.        Joaquin Phoenix (Her)
9.        Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
10.     Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
11.     Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
12.     Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips)
13.     Julie Delpy (Before Midnight)
14.     Mads Mikkelsen (The Hunt)
15.     Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
16.     Amy Adams (American Hustle)
17.     Amy Seimetz (Upstream Colour)
18.     Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station)
19.     Toni Servillo (The Great Beauty)
20.     Christian Bale (American Hustle)
21.     Ethan Hawke (Before Midnight)
22.     Paul Eenhoorn (This Is Martin Bonner)
23.     Simon Pegg (The World’s End)
24.     Émilie Dequenne (Our Children)
25.     Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Enough Said)
26.     Hadas Yaron (Fill the Void)
27.     Tallie Medel (The Unspeakable Act)
28.     Judi Dench (Philomena)
29.     Barbara Sukowa (Hannah Arendt)
30.     Paulina García (Gloria)
31.     Shailene Woodley (The Spectacular Now)
32.     Cristina Flutur (Beyond the Hills)
33.     Miles Teller (The Spectacular Now)
34.     Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)
35.     Juliette Binoche (Camille Claudel 1915)
36.     Scarlett Johansson (Her)
37.     Elle Fanning (Ginger & Rosa)
38.     Margarete Tiesel (Paradise: Love)
39.     Suzanne Clément (Laurence Anyways)
40.     Cosmina Stratan (Beyond the Hills)
41.     Sun Hong Lei (Drug War)
42.     Olga Kurylenko (To the Wonder)
43.     Waad Mohammad (Wadjda)
44.     Melvil Poupaud (Laurence Anyways)
45.     Anwar Congo (The Act of Killing)
46.     Isaiah Washington (Blue Caprice)
47.     Luminita Gheorghiu (Child’s Pose)
48.     Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)
49.     Kathryn Hahn (Afternoon Delight)
50.     Forest Whitaker (Lee Daniels’ The Butler)

Best Supporting Performance
1.       Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)
2.        James Franco (Spring Breakers)
3.        Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
4.        Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
5.        Léa Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Colour)
6.        Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
7.        James Gandolfini (Enough Said)
8.        June Squibb (Nebraska)
9.        Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
10.     Scarlett Johansson (Her)
11.     Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
12.     Matthew McConaughey (Mud)
13.     Dwayne Johnson (Pain and Gain)
14.     Daniel Brühl (Rush)
15.     Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)
16.     John Goodman (Inside Llewyn Davis)
17.     Gaby Hoffman (Crystal Fairy)
18.     Zhao Tao (A Touch of Sin)
19.     Zhang Ziyi (The Grandmaster)
20.     Scarlett Johansson (Don Jon)
21.     Suzanne Clément (Laurence Anyways)
22.     Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
23.     Nick Frost (The World’s End)
24.     Keith Stanfield (Short Term 12)
25.     Danny McBride (This Is the End)
26.     Octavia Spencer (Fruitvale Station)
27.     Shailene Woodley (The Spectacular Now)
28.     Jake Gyllenhaal (Prisoners)
29.     Carey Mulligan (Inside Llewyn Davis)
30.     Yolonda Ross (Go for Sisters)
31.     Will Forte (Nebraska)
32.     Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
33.     Mickey Sumner (Frances Ha)
34.     Emma Watson (The Bling Ring)
35.     Ulysses (Inside Llewyn Davis)
36.     Oprah Winfrey (Lee Daniels’ The Butler)
37.     Kristin Scott Thomas (Only God Forgives)
38.     Gerald Peary (Computer Chess)
39.     Steve Coogan (Philomena)
40.     Sam Rockwell (The Way Way Back)
41.     Dane DeHaan (Kill Your Darlings)
42.     Jeremy Renner (American Hustle)
43.     Sarah Paulson (12 Years a Slave)
44.     Margo Martindale (August: Osage County)
45.     Ben Foster (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints)
46.     Andrew Dice Clay (Blue Jasmine)
47.     Myles Paige (Computer Chess)
48.     Rob Lowe (Behind the Candelabra)
49.     Gemma Arterton (Byzantium)
50.     George Clooney (Gravity)

Best Screenplay
1.       Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater (Before Midnight)
2.        Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)
3.        Spike Jonze (Her)
4.        John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)
5.        Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha)
6.        David O. Russell and Eric Singer (American Hustle)
7.        Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright (The World’s End)
8.        Andrew Bujalski (Computer Chess)
9.        Bob Nelson (Nebraska)
10.     Woody Allen (Blue Jasmine)
11.     Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said)
12.     Asghar Farhadi (The Past)
13.     Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street)
14.     Abdellatif Kechiche and Ghalia Lacroix (Blue Is the Warmest Colour)
15.     Destin Cretton (Short Term 12)
16.     Shane Carruth (Upstream Colour)
17.     Jem Cohen (Museum Hours)
18.     Jia Zhang Ke (A Touch of Sin)
19.     Matías Piñeiro (Viola)
20.     Dan Sallitt (The Unspeakable Act)
21.     Umberto Contarello and Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty)
22.     Abbas Kiarostami (Like Someone in Love)
23.     Cormac McCarthy (The Counsellor)
24.     Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (The Spectacular Now)
25.     Cristian Mungiu (Beyond the Hills)
26.     Scott Z. Burns (Side Effects)
27.     Derek Cianfrance, Ben Coccio and Darius Marder (The Place Beyond the Pines)
28.     Laurent Herbiet and Alain Resnais (You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet)
29.     Jeff Nichols (Mud)
30.     Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (Philomena)
31.     François Ozon (In the House)
32.     Pedro Peirano (No)
33.     J.C. Chandor (All Is Lost)
34.     Ryker Chan, Wai Ka Fai, Yau Nai Hoi and Yu Xi (Drug War)
35.     Olivier Assayas (Something in the Air)
36.     Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack (Dallas Buyers Club)
37.     Raoul Ruiz (Night Across the Street)
38.     Tobias Lindholm (A Hijacking)
39.     Pam Katz and Margarethe von Trotta (Hannah Arendt)
40.     Don Coscarelli (John Dies at the End)
41.     Tobias Lindholm and Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt)
42.     Sarah Polley (Stories We Tell)
43.     Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners)
44.     Lake Bell (In a World…)
45.     Alfonso Cuarón and Jonas Cuarón (Gravity)
46.     Neil LaBute (Some Velvet Morning)
47.     Tracy Letts (August: Osage County)
48.     Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty)
49.     Wentworth Miller (Stoker)
50.     Chad Hartigan (This Is Martin Bonner)

Best Cinematography
1.       Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity)
2.        Bruno Delbonnel (Inside Llewyn Davis)
3.        Sean Bobbitt (12 Years a Slave)
4.        Emmanuel Lubezki (To the Wonder)
5.        Benoît Debie (Spring Breakers)
6.        Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel (Leviathan)
7.        Hoyte van Hoytema (Her)
8.        Phedon Papamichael (Nebraska)
9.        Philippe Le Sourd (The Grandmaster)
10.     Luca Bigazzi (The Great Beauty)
11.     Shane Carruth (Upstream Colour)
12.     Roger Deakins (Prisoners)
13.     Bradford Young (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints)
14.     Matthias Grunsky (Computer Chess)
15.     Alexis Zabe (Post Tenebras Lux)
16.     Frank G. DeMarco and Peter Zuccarini (All Is Lost)
17.     Bradford Young (Mother of George)
18.     Agnès Godard (Bastards)
19.     Larry Smith (Only God Forgives)
20.     Chung Chung Hoon (Stoker)
21.     Rodrigo Prieto (The Wolf of Wall Street)
22.     Anthony Dod Mantle (Rush)
23.     Yanagijima Katsumi (Like Someone in Love)
24.     Bruno Delbonnel (Faust)
25.     Sam Levy (Frances Ha)
26.     Yu Lik Wai (A Touch of Sin)
27.     Adam Stone (Mud)
28.     Kiko de la Rica (Blancanieves)
29.     Stuart Dryburgh (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
30.     Eric Gautier (Something in the Air)
31.     Steven Soderbergh (Side Effects)
32.     Sofian El Fani (Blue Is the Warmest Colour)
33.     Sergio Armstrong (No)
34.     Iris Ng (Stories We Tell)
35.     Christopher Blauvelt and Harris Savides (The Blind Ring)
36.     Yves Bélanger (Laurence Anyways)
37.     Oleg Mutu (Beyond the Hills)
38.     Christos Voudouris (Before Midnight)
39.     Barry Ackroyd (Captain Phillips)
40.     Edward Lachman and Wolfgang Thaler (Paradise: Love)
41.     Anonymous, Carlos Arango de Montis and Lars Skree (The Act of Killing)
42.     Jem Cohen and Peter Roehsler (Museum Hours)
43.     Asaf Sudri (Fill the Void)
44.     Bill Pope (The World’s End)
45.     Sean Bobbitt (The Place Beyond the Pines)
46.     Bojan Bazelli (The Lone Ranger)
47.     Mahmoud Kalari (The Past)
48.     Linus Sandgren (American Hustle)
49.     John R. Leonetti (The Conjuring)
50.     Darius Khondji (The Immigrant)

Best Original Score or Soundtrack
1.       T-Bone Burnett (Inside Llewyn Davis)
2.        Cliff Martinez and Skrillex (Spring Breakers)
3.        Shane Carruth (Upstream Colour)
4.        Hans Zimmer (12 Years a Slave)
5.        William Butler and Owen Pallett (Her)
6.        Steven Price (Gravity)
7.        Stuart Staples (Bastards)
8.        Danny Elfman (American Hustle)
9.        Daniel Hart (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints)
10.     Christophe Beck (Frozen)
11.     Lele Marchitelli (The Great Beauty)
12.     Alex Ebert (All Is Lost)
13.     Clint Mansell (Stoker)
14.     Hisaishi Jô (The Wind Rises)
15.     Mark Orton (Nebraska)
16.     Hans Zimmer (Man of Steel)
17.     Bjorn Eriksson (The Broken Circle Breakdown)
18.     Randall Poster (The Wolf of Wall Street)
19.     Cliff Martinez (Only God Forgives)
20.     Chris Hrasky, Michael James, Munaf Rayani, Mark Smith and David Wingo (Prince Avalanche)
21.     James Cargill (Berberian Sound Studio)
22.     Anthony Gonzalez and Joseph Trapanese (Oblivion)
23.     Daniel Lopatin and Brian Reitzell (The Bling Ring)
24.     Michael Andrews (20 Feet from Stardom)
25.     Linda Cohen (I Used to Be Darker)
26.     Hanan Townshend (To the Wonder)
27.     Craig Armstrong (The Great Beauty)
28.     George Drakoulias (Frances Ha)
29.     Steven Price (The World’s End)
30.     David Wingo (Mud)
31.     Olivier Assayas (Something in the Air)
32.     Steven Ellison (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty)
33.     Ashley Long and Eduardo Noya Schreus (Laurence Anyways)
34.     Jill Meyers (Muscle Shoals)
35.     Griffin Boice and John Lowery (The Lords of Salem)
36.     Pino Donaggio (Passion)
37.     Thomas Newman (Saving Mr. Banks)
38.     Mike Patton (The Place Beyond the Pines)
39.     Andrew Bujalski (Computer Chess)
40.     Thomas Newman (Side Effects)
41.     Alfonso de Vilallonga (Blancanieves)
42.     Robin Coudert (Maniac)
43.     Mark Snow (You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet)
44.     Jóhann Jóhannsson (Prisoners)
45.     Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel (Leviathan)
46.     Nico Muhly (Kill Your Darlings)
47.     Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans (Simon Killer)
48.     William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes (Room 237)
49.     Nathaniel Méchaly and Shigeru Umebayashi (The Grandmaster)
50.     DJ Dolores (Neighbouring Sounds)

Best Ensemble
1.       12 Years a Slave
2.        American Hustle
3.        Inside Llewyn Davis
4.        Nebraska
5.        The World’s End
6.        Computer Chess
7.        Short Term 12
8.        Before Midnight
9.        August: Osage County
10.     Blue Jasmine
11.     The Wolf of Wall Street
12.     Viola
13.     Spring Breakers
14.     You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
15.     Her
16.     The Past
17.     This Is the End
18.     Blue Is the Warmest Colour
19.     Prisoners
20.     A Touch of Sin
21.     Mud
22.     Enough Said
23.     The Place Beyond the Pines
24.     The Spectacular Now
25.     It’s a Disaster
26.     Beyond the Hills
27.     Frances Ha
28.     Lee Daniels’ The Butler
29.     Something in the Air
30.     Bastards
31.     Much Ado About Nothing
32.     Drug War
33.     In a World…
34.     The Bling Ring
35.     Behind the Candelabra
36.     The We and the I
37.     Out of the Furnace
38.     Fruitvale Station
39.     Drinking Buddies
40.     Go for Sisters
41.     Captain Phillips
42.     Kill Your Darlings
43.     The Counsellor
44.     Stoker
45.     Caesar Must Die
46.     Leviathan
47.     Don Jon
48.     Saving Mr. Banks
49.     The Great Beauty
50.     Neighbouring Sounds

Best Documentary
1.       The Act of Killing
2.        Stories We Tell
3.        Leviathan
4.        At Berkeley
5.        Blackfish
6.        20 Feet from Stardom
7.        Let the Fire Burn
8.        Room 237
9.        Cutie and the Boxer
10.     After Tiller
11.     The Square
12.     Tim’s Vermeer
13.     The Missing Picture
14.     We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
15.     The Crash Reel
16.     These Birds Walk
17.     First Cousin Once Removed
18.     The Unknown Known
19.     Narco Cultura
20.     The Gatekeepers
21.     Dirty Wars
22.     Muscle Shoals
23.     56 Up
24.     The Square
25.     A Band Called Death
26.     Our Nixon
27.     The Last of the Unjust
28.     God Loves Uganda
29.     The Punk Singer
30.     Three Sisters
31.     Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
32.     Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
33.     The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
34.     Lenny Cooke
35.     The Last Time I Saw Macao
36.     Call Me Kuchu
37.     Sound City
38.     The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
39.     Shepard & Dark
40.     American Promise
41.     The Armstrong Lie
42.     Inequality for All
43.     Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
44.     More Than Honey
45.     Caesar Must Die
46.     Informant
47.     Caucus
48.     Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
49.     Mademoiselle C
50.     Bending Steel

Best Undistributed Film
1.       Stray Dogs
2.        Closed Curtain
3.        Nobody’s Daugher Hae Won
4.        The Strange Little Cat
5.        What Now? Remind Me
6.        Abuse of Weakness
7.        A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
8.        Tom at the Farm
9.        Vic+Flo Saw a Bear
10.     Our Sun Hi
11.     Leones
12.     It Felt Like Love
13.     Jealousy
14.     Story of My Death
15.     Blind Detective
16.     We Always Lie to Strangers
17.     Mistaken for Strangers
18.     Hide Your Smiling Faces
19.     Harmony Lessons
20.     Doomsdays
21.     Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
22.     Bending Steel
23.     The Fifth Season
24.     The Dance of Reality
25.     ‘Til Madness Do Us Part
26.     The Bounceback
27.     See You Next Tuesday
28.     A Letter to Nelson Mandela
29.     Remote Area Medical
30.     Butter on the Latch
31.     Soldier Joan
32.     Redemption
33.     Coast of Death
34.     We Gotta Get Out of This Place
35.     Club Sandwich
36.     Bluebird
37.     Heli
38.     Oxyana
39.     Don’t Leave Me
40.     Trust Me
41.     Grand Central
42.     Bad Hair
43.     Standing Aside, Watching
44.     Floating Skyscrapers
45.     Burning Bush
46.     Gold
47.     The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas
48.     Dusty Stacks of Mom
49.     Tip Top
50.     Moebius

Best First Feature
1.       Fruitvale Station
2.        Wadjda
3.        In a World…
4.        Blue Caprice
5.        The Act of Killing
6.        Don Jon
7.        Sun Don’t Shine
8.        Fill the Void
9.        This Is the End
10.     Gimme the Loot
11.     Kill Your Darlings
12.     Let the Fire Burn
13.     An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
14.     Room 237
15.     The Kings of Summer
16.     Escape from Tomorrow
17.     Cutie and the Boxer
18.     I Killed My Mother
19.     Concussion
20.     The Way Way Back
21.     Man of Tai Chi
22.     Neighbouring Sounds
23.     These Birds Walk
24.     Tim’s Vermeer
25.     Afternoon Delight
26.     Newlyweeds
27.     Nana
28.     Augustine
29.     Memories Look at Me
30.     Una Noche
31.     Call Me Kuchu
32.     Sound City
33.     This Is Martin Bonner
34.     After Tiller
35.     Antiviral
36.     The Wall
37.     A Teacher
38.     Zero Charisma
39.     The History of Future Folk
40.     The Strange Little Cat
41.     Narco Cultura
42.     Electrick Children
43.     Our Nixon
44.     The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
45.     The To-Do List
46.     The Punk Singer
47.     Muscle Shoals
48.     A Hijacking
49.     Dead Man’s Burden
50.     S#x Acts

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