Best of 2013

     Here’s my list of top films, performers and filmmakers for the year:

   FILMS

  1 Gravity

  2  Nebraska

  3  12 Years a Slave

  4  The Wolf of Wall Street

  5  Dallas Buyers Club

  6  Mud

  7  Fruitvale Station

  8  Inside Llewyn Davis

  9  Her

10  The Way Way Back

11  Parkland

12  The Great Gatsby

13  Philomena

14  Don Jon

15  Rush

16  Museum Hours

17  Prisoners

18  The Place Beyond the Pines

19  Enough Said

20  Saving Mr. Banks

  Directors

 1  Alfonso Cuaro, Gravity

 2  Alexander Payne, Nebraska

 3  Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave

 4  Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

 5  Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station

 Actors
 1 Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
 2  Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
 3  Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
 4  Christian Bale, American Hustle
 5  Bruce Dern, Nebraska
 
 Actresses
 1  Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
 2  Sandra Bullock, Gravity
 3  Emma Thompson,  Saving Mr. Banks
 4  Judi Dench, Philomena
 5  Rooney Mara, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints    


 Supporting Actors
 1 Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
 2 Matthew McConaughey, Mud
 3 Sam Rockwell, The Way Way Back
 4 Will Patton, Nebraska
 5 Ben Mendelsohn, The Place Beyond the Pines

 Supporting Actresses

 1 Lupita Nyong’o,  12 Years a Slave

 2 Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

 3 June Squibb, Nebraska

 4 Diane Lane, Man of Steel

 5 Allison Janney, The Way Way Back  

 Screenwriters
 1 Bob Nelson, Nebraska
 2 Terence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street
 3 Jeff Nichols, Mud
 4 Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis
 5 Craig Borton and Melisa Wallack, Dallas Buyers Club  

 Cinematography
 1 Phedon Papamichael, Nebraska
 2 Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity
 3 Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis
 4 Simon Duggan, The Great Gatsby
 5 Roger Deakins, Prisoners