SPRAWLING ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS NOMINATIONS

I'd be inclined to cheer at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists' nominations for 2013, but the number of inaccuracies in their choices, credits and spelling (corrected, in that case) in said nominations turned me right off them. They were never going to have much of an effect on the Oscar race, no, but these are hardly game-changers. Winners on their way on the 16th of December, four days from now.

AWFJ Best Of Awards

Best Film

·          12 Years a Slave

·          American Hustle

·          Gravity

·          Her

·          Inside Llewyn Davis

·          Nebraska

Best Director (Female or Male)

·          Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)

·          Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)

·          Spike Jonze (Her)

·          Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)

·          Alexander Payne (Nebraska)

·          David O. Russell (American Hustle)

Best Actor

·          Bruce Dern (Nebraska)

·          Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)

·          Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis)

·          Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

·          Joaquin Phoenix (Her)

·          Robert Redford (All Is Lost)

Best Actress

·          Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

·          Sandra Bullock (Gravity)

·          Judi Dench (Philomena)

·          Brie Larson (Short Term 12)

·          Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)

Best Supporting Actor

·          Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)

·          Bobby Cannavale (Blue Jasmine)

·          Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)

·          Will Forte (Nebraska)

·          Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Supporting Actress

·          Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)

·          Scarlett Johansson (Her)

·          Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)

·          Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)

·          Oprah Winfrey (Lee Daniels’ The Butler)

Best Screenplay, Original

·          Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)

·          Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said)

·          Spike Jonze (Her)

·          Bob Nelson (Nebraska)

·          David O. Russell (American Hustle)

Best Screenplay, Adapted

·          Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (Philomena)

·          Destin Cretton (Short Term 12)

·          Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (The Spectacular Now)

·          Billy Ray (Captain Phillips)

·          John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)

Best Cinematography

·          Sean Bobbitt (12 Years a Slave)

·          Roger Deakins (Prisoners)

·          Frank G. DeMarco and Peter Zuccarini (All Is Lost)

·          Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity)

·          Phedon Papamichael (Nebraska)

Best Editing

·          Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers (American Hustle)

·          Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (Gravity)

·          Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill (Rush)

·          Christopher Rouse (Captain Phillips)

·          Joe Walker (12 Years a Slave)

Best Music or Score

·          Arcade Fire (Her)

·          T-Bone Burnett (Inside Llewyn Davis)

·          Mark Orton (Nebraska)

·          Steven Price (Gravity)

·          Hans Zimmer (12 Years a Slave)

Best Ensemble Cast

·          12 Years a Slave

·          American Hustle

·          August: Osage County

·          Lee Daniels’ The Butler

·          Nebraska

Best Animated Film

·          The Croods (Kirk De Micco and Chris Sanders)

·          Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud)

·          Frozen (Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee)

·          The Wind Rises (Miyazaki Hayao)

Best Documentary

·          20 Feet from Stardom (Morgan Neville)

·          The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)

·          After Tiller (Martha Shane and Lana Wilson)

·          Blackfish (Gabriela Cowperthwaite)

·          Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)

Best Non-English Language Film

·          Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche) – France

·          The Grandmaster (Wong Kar Wai) – Hong Kong

·          The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg) – Denmark

·          The Past (Asghar Farhadi) – Iran

·          Wadjda (Haifaa Al Mansour) – Saudi Arabia

EDA Female Focus Awards

Best Woman Director

·          Lake Bell (In a World…)

·          Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Blackfish)

·          Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said)

·          Jennifer Lee (Frozen)

·          Sarah Polley (Stories We Tell)

Best Woman Screenwriter

·          Lake Bell (In a World…)

·          Julie Delpy (Before Midnight)

·          Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said)

·          Jennifer Lee (Frozen)

·          Sarah Polley (Stories We Tell)

Best Breakthrough Performance

·          Brie Larson (Short Term 12)

·          Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)

·          Shailene Woodley (The Spectacular Now)

Kick Ass Award for Best Female Action Star

·          Sandra Bullock (Gravity)

·          Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)

·          Chloë Moretz (Kick-Ass 2)

Best Animated Female

·          Kristen Bell – ‘Anna’ (Frozen)

·          Idina Menzel – ‘Elsa’ (Frozen)

·          Emma Stone – ‘Eep’ (The Croods)

Actress Defying Age and Ageism

·          Sandra Bullock (Gravity)

·          Judi Dench (Philomena)

·          Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry

·          Haifaa Al Mansour for challenging the limitations placed on women within her culture

·          Cheryl Boone Isaacs for becoming President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

·          Jehane Noujaim for risking life and limb to document the Egyptian revolution in ‘The Square’

AWFJ Female Icon Award

·          Sandra Bullock for the strong, capable and very positive female image presented in ‘Gravity’

·          Angelina Jolie for continued commitments to humanitarian causes, and for promoting awareness about breast cancer

·          Jennifer Lawrence for ‘American Hustle’ and ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’, and for handling her high degree of celebrity extremely well

EDA Special Mention Awards

Best Depiction of Nudity, Sexuality or Seduction

·          Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Colour)

·          Scarlett Johansson and Joaquin Phoenix (Her)

·          Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley (The Spectacular Now)

Unforgettable Moment Award

·          ‘George Clooney reappears’ (Gravity)

·          ‘Patsey pleads for soap’ (12 Years a Slave)

·          ‘Phone sex sequences’ (Her)

·          ‘Solomon hanging’ (12 Years a Slave)

·          ‘“That’s not my air compressor”’ (Nebraska)

Sequel or Remake that Shouldn’t Have Been Made

·          Carrie

·          Grown Ups 2

·          The Hangover Part III

·          Kick-Ass 2

·          Oz the Great and Powerful

Movie You Wanted to Love but Just Couldn’t

·          All Is Lost

·          Blue Is the Warmest Colour

·          The Counsellor

AWFJ Hall of Shame Awards

·          The Counsellor (Ridley Scott)

·          Grown Ups 2 (Dennis Dugan)

·      Movie 43 (Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Dundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner and Jonathan van Tulleken)

Actress Most in Need of a New Agent

·          Cameron Diaz (The Counsellor)

·          Ashley Benson, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens and Rachel Korine (Spring Breakers)

·          Melissa McCarthy (The Heat / Identity Thief)

Most Egregious Age Difference between the Leading Man and the Love Interest

·          Kristen Bell and David Lambert (The Lifeguard)

·          Bree Blair and Michael Douglas (Last Vegas)

·          Abigail Breslin and Dermot Mulroney (August: Osage County)

·          Tom Cruise and Olga Kurylenko / Andrea Riseborough (Oblivion)

·          Ralph Fiennes and Felicity Jones (The Invisible Woman)