2013: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Her (dir: Spike Jonze)

2. Like Someone in Love (dir: Abbas Kiarostami; US release date)

3. The Act of Killing (dir: Joshua Oppenheimer; US release date)

4. Inside Llewyn Davis (dir: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)

5. A Touch of Sin (dir: Jia Zhangke)

6. Spring Breakers (dir: Harmony Korine; US release date)

7. The Wolf of Wall Street (dir: Martin Scorsese)

8. Frances Ha (dir: Noah Baumbach; US release date)

9. Stories We Tell (dir: Sarah Polley; US release date)

10. Before Midnight (dir: Richard Linklater)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): 12 Years a Slave (dir: Steve McQueen), Behind the Candelabra (dir: Steven Soderbergh), The Bling Ring (dir: Sofia Coppola), Gravity (dir: Alfonso Cuaron), The Great Beauty (dir: Paolo Sorrentino), Laurence Anyways (dir: Xavier Dolan), Nebraska (dir: Alexander Payne), No (dir: Pablo Lorrain), The Past (dir: Asghar Farhadi), Stranger by the Lake (dir: Alain Guiraudie), Tracks (dir: John Curran), Upstream Color (dir: Shane Carruth), The World's End (dir: Edgar Wright), and You're Next (dir: Adam Wingard; US release date)

Best Film of the Year: Her
Director: Spike Jonze Producers: Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay
US Distributor: Warner Brothers

Best Director:
Abbas Kiarostami, Like Someone in Love
2. Spike Jonze, Her
3. Jia Zhangke, A Touch of Sin
4. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis
5. Harmony Korine, Spring Breakers

Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
2. Joaquin Phoenix, Her
3. Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
4. Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
5. Simon Pegg, The World's End

Best Actress:
Elle Fanning, Ginger & Rosa
2. Suzanne Clement, Laurence Anyways
3. Julie Delpy, Before Midnight
4. Adele Exarchpoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color
5. Sandra Bullock, Gravity

Best Supporting Actor:
James Franco, Spring Breakers
2. Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
3. Valeriu Andriutã, Beyond the Hills
4. Dwayne Johnson, Pain & Gain
5. Lakeith Stanfield, Short Term 12

Best Supporting Actress:
Léa Seydoux, Blue Is the Warmest Color
2. Olga Kurylenko, To the Wonder
3. Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
4. Pauline Burlet, The Past
5. Amy Adams, Her

Best Original Screenplay:
Her – Spike Jonze
2. Frances Ha – Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig
3. Inside Llewyn Davis – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
4. Before Midnight – Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater
5. Like Someone in Love — Abbas Kiarostami

Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Wolf of Wall Street — Terence Winter
2. Blue Is the Warmest Color — Abdellatif Kechiche and Ghalia Lacroix
3. Short Term 12 — Destin Daniel Crettin
4. 12 Years a Slave – John Ridley
5. Behind the Candelabra – Richard LaGravense

Best Cinematography:
Spring Breakers — Benoît Debie
2. Tracks — Mandy Walker
3. A Touch of Sin — Yu Likwai
4. No – Sergio Armstrong
5. Prisoners – Roger Deakins

Best Original Score:
Rush – Hans Zimmer
2. Oblivion – M83
3. Only God Forgives – Cliff Martinez
4. Spring Breakers – Cliff Martinez and Skrillex
5. 12 Years a Slave – Hans Zimmer

Best Film Editing:
Gravity — Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
2. Upstream Color – Shane Carruth and David Lowery
3. Spring Breakers — Douglas Crise
4. A Touch of Sin — Matthieu Laclau and Xudong Lin
5. Her — Jeff Buchanan and Eric Zumbrunnen

Best Production Design
Her – K.K. Barrett and Gene Serdena
2. The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin and Beverly Dunn
3. The Conjuring — Julie Berghoff and Sophie Neudorfter
4. Stoker — Therese DePrez and Leslie Morales
5. 12 Years a Slave — Adam Stockhausen and Alice Baker

Best Costume Design
 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Trish Summerville
2. Behind the Candelabra — Ellen Mirojnick
3. Stoker — Bart Mueller and Kurt Swanson
4. 12 Years a Slave — Patricia Norris
5. Rush — Julian Day

Best Visual Effects
Gravity
2. Pacific Rim
3. The Grandmaster

Best Sound
Lone Survivor
2. The Grandmaster
3. Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Makeup
Laurence Anyways
2. American Hustle
3. The Great Beauty

Best Documentary Feature:
The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer
2. Stories We Tell — Sarah Polley
3. Let the Fire Burn — Jason Osder 

Best Animated Feature:
Consuming Spirits — Christopher Sullivan
2. Ernest & Celestine — Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar, and Benjamin Renner
3. Frozen — Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee

Best Limited Series:
Top of the Lake — Jane Campion, Gerard Lee, and Philippa Campbell
2. The White Queen — Emma Frost, Colin Teague, James Kent, Jamie Payne, and Gina Cronk
3. American Horror Story: Coven — Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Dante Di Loreto, Tim Minear, Jennifer Salt, and Bradley Buecker

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Inside Llewyn Davis

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen; in alphabetical order) F. Murray Abraham, Robin Bartlett, Adam Driver (pictured), John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, Oscar Isaac (pictured), Carey Mulligan, Ethan Phillips, Jeanine Serralles and Justin Timberlake (pictured)

Best First Feature: Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing

RECAP

W I N S :

Her — 3,
The Act of Killing — 2, Gravity — 2, Spring Breakers — 2, Wolf of Wall Street — 2, Blue Is the Warmest Color — 1, Consuming Spirits — 1, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — 1, Inside Llewyn Davis — 1, Laurence Anyways — 1, Like Someone in Love — 1, Lone Survivor — 1, Rush — 1, Top of the Lake — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Her — 7,
Inside Llewyn Davis — 6, Spring Breakers — 6, 12 Years a Slave — 5, A Touch of Sin — 4, Wolf of Wall Street — 4, The Act of Killing — 3, Before Midnight — 3, Blue Is the Warmest Color — 3, Gravity – 3, Like Someone in Love — 3, Behind the Candelabra — 2, Frances Ha — 2, The Grandmaster — 2, Laurence Anyways — 2, Rush — 2, Short Term 12 — 2, Stoker — 2, The Stories We Tell — 2

the year-end project:
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s