My own personal choices for the year. They reflect not just necessarily what I think is the best or essential cinema, but perhaps resonate with me or inspire, both at the time, and still today. Subject to alter choices based on viewing.
Special Honor for Career Excellence: Hayao Miyazaki
Special Honor for Female Filmmaking: Sarah Polley
Special Honor: World Cinema: Asghar Farhadi
Special Honor for LGBTQ Representation: Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Actor Lead: Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Actor Support: Daniel Brühl (Rush)
Special Effects: Gravity
Screenwriting Adapted: Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12)
Screenwriting Original: Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha)
Costume Design: The Great Gatsby
Set Design: The Great Gatsby
Picture Editing: Gravity
Cinematography: Shane Carruth (Upstream Color)
Cast Ensemble: The Wolf of Wall Street
Actress Lead: Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Color)
Actress Support: Léa Seydoux (Blue is the Warmest Color)
Directing:
Sound Design: Gravity
Song Composing: “The Moon Song” (Her)
Score Composing: Daniel Hart (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints)
Motion Picture: Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley) Canada
