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 viewings.
Actress Support: Samantha Barks (Les Misérables)
Special Effects: Life of Pi
Actor Support: Dwight Henry (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Cast Ensemble: About Elly
Cinematography: Gökhan Tiryaki (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia)
Sound Design: Zero Dark Thirty
Picture Editing: Elena
Screenwriting Adapted: Tony Kushner (Lincoln)
Screenwriting Original: Asghar Farhadi (About Elly)
Score Composing: Alexandre Desplat (Moonrise Kingdom)
Actress Lead: Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone)
Actor Lead: Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)
Costume Design: Anna Karenina
Set Design: Cloud Atlas
Directing: Petra Costa (Elena)
Motion Picture: Elena (Petra Costa) Brazil
