The Films of 2013. The 14th annual FiLM BiTCH Awards
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Best Picture |
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12 YEARS A SLAVE
Steve McQueen (Fox Searchlight) |
FRANCES HA
Noah Baumbach (IFC Films) |
NEBRASKA
Alexander Payne (Paramount) |
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Pablo Larraín (Sony Pictures Classics) |
SHORT TERM 12
Destin Cretton (Cinedigm) |
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Finalists: Before Midnight (Sony Pictures Classics), American Hustle (Columbia Pictures), Blue Jasmine (Sony Pictures Classics) |
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Best Director |
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Destin Cretton
SHORT TERM 12 |
Paul Greengrass
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS |
Harmony Korine
SPRING BREAKERS |
Pablo Larrain
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Steve McQueen
12 YEARS A SLAVE |
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| Finalists: Noah Baumbach for Frances Ha, Alexander Payne for Nebraska Semi-Finalists: David O. Russell for American Hustle, Sofia Coppola for The Bling Ring and Sebastian Lelio for including Paulina Garcia in literally every frame of Gloria, Spike Jonze for Her, and Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity |
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Best Original Screenplay
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Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linkater |
Woody Allen
BLUE JASMINE |
Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig
FRANCES HA |
Spike Jonze
HER |
Bob Nelson
NEBRASKA |
| He missed that plane... and stayed! Midnight smartly reconfigures itself as a study of longterm relationships - to repeat the ephemeral nature of the other films would have been fatal |  Fusing the Bernie Madoff scandal w/ Streetcar (should this be adapted?) proves quite fascinating and inspired. Great dialogue, interesting form and springboard for great acting |
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 He's been inching towards one man writer/director show and gets there with this a clever treatise on our modern dependencies and love as projection, illustion and reality |
Beautifully dry humor and character through-lines. Here's an appropriate to the material piece of trivia ... this is the first (produced) screenplay from a 57 year old writer |
| Finalists: Sarah Polley for Stories We Tell, Nicole Holofcener for Enough Said Semi-Finalists: Chad Hartigan for This is Martin Bonner, Sebastian Lelio & Gonzalo Mazra for Gloria, Eric Singer and David O. Russell for American Hustle, and Jane Adams and Joe Swanberg for All the Light in the Sky |
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Best Adapted Screenplay
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John Ridley
12 YEARS A SLAVE |
Abdellatif Kechice & Ghalia Lacroix
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR |
Pedro Peirano
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Destin Cretton
SHORT TERM 12 |
Scott Neustadter & Michael H Weber
THE SPECTACULAR NOW |
Soulfully pulled from the memoirs by Solomon Northup as told to David Wilson |
This talkative erotic French drama is based on a graphic novel by Julie Maroh | 
It's so fully cinematic (albeit with the look of old vhs) that it's shocking to learn it's based on a play by Antonio Skarmeta. |
Expanded from Cretton's short film of the same name (Keith Stanfield is in both as Mark and Marcus!) |
This team, who previous created the wonderful (500) Days of Summer delicately transfer the YA novel by Tim Tharp |
| Finalists: Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope for Philomena Semi-Finalists: Sofia Coppola for The Bling Ring, Billy Ray for Captain Phillips, Nancy Doyne & Carrol Cartwright for What Maisie Knew, Daniel Pennac for Ernest and Celestine |
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Best Animated Feature
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Ernest & Celestine
GKids (Qualifying Run) |
Frozen
Disney (November 27th) |
The Wind Rises
Studio Ghibli (Qualifying Run) |
Guaranteed to make you miss hand drawn animation, this imaginative, sweet and oddly funny story about unexpected friendships and living your own true life is an absolute charmer |
Disney returns to the Princess Musical with double the princesses, a touching instantly affecting song score, and actually rousing adventure for the boys. Formulaic, sure, but it also transcends |
Miyazaki's singular biopic of an aeronautical engineer who creates for beauty knowing his work is for destruction has a fascinating way with mixing terror into otherwise gorgeous images |
| Finalists: none Semi-Finalist: A Letter to Momo and The Croods |
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The Films of 2013. PICTURE | ACTING | VISUALS | AURALS | EXTRAS | SPECIAL | SCENES