JWD awards

Just.... tragically overdue. It's been a rough winter. 

Best Picture
12 Years a Slave
Inside Llewyn Davis
Gravity
Wolf of Wall Street
Nebraska
Upstream Color
All Is Lost
Spring Breakers
Leviathan
The Act of Killing

Notable Omissions: Fruitvale Station, Short Term 12, Dallas Buyers Club, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Bling Ring, Blue is the Warmest Color, Broken Circle Breakdown, Fill the Void, Grandmaster,  Laurence Anyways, the Great Beauty, Mud, Place Beyond the Pines, Post Tenebras Lux, Prisoners, Something in the Air, Spectacular Now, the Past
*sigh*

Best Genre Flick
Rush
Pacific Rim
Hunger Games
Iron Man 3
Metallica Through the Never
This is the End
The World's End
Stoker

Notable Omissions: We Are What We Are, Sighseers, Europa Report

Best Director
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
The Coen Brothers, Inside Llewyn Davis
Spike Jonze, Her
Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Shane Carruth, Upstream Color
Josh Oppenheimer, the Act of Killing

Best Actor
Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt
Leonardo DiCaprio, Wolf of Wall Street
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Robert Redford, All Is Lost

Notable Omissions: Dallas Buyers Club, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Fruitvale Station, Mandela

Best Actress
Amy Seimetz, Upstream Color
Judi Dench, Philomena
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Amy Acker, Much Ado About Nothing
Kathryn Hahn, Afternoon Delight
Sandra Bullock, Gravity

Notable Omissions: Blue Jasmine, Blue is the Warmest Color, the Past, Short Term 12, Invisible Woman, Concussion, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Spectacular Now, A Touch of Sin, Broken Circle Breakdown

Best Supporting Actor
Daniel Bruhl, Rush
James Franco, Spring Breakers
Dane DeHaan, Kill Your Darlings
Jonah Hill, Wolf of Wall Street
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave

Notable Omissions: Dallas Buyers Club, Mud, Prisoners, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Enough Said

Best Supporting Actress
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
June Squibb, Nebraska
Sarah Paulson, 12 Years a Slave
Amy Adams, Her
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle FOR LACK OF HAVING A FIFTH NAME. How about Jena Malone in Hunger Games? 

Notable Omissions: Blue Jasmine, Blue is the Warmest Color, Fruitvale Station

Best Original Screenplay
Inside Llewyn Davis
Her
Nebraska
Gravity
All is Lost

Notable omissions: The Past, Dallas Buyers Club, Mud, Prisoners, The Past

Best Adapted Screenplay
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
Philomena
Rush

Notable Omissions: Short Term 12, Before Midnight, The Spectacular Now, In a World, Blue is the Warmest Color

Best Foreign Language Film
The Hunt
The Act of Killing

Notable Omissions: Broken Circle Breakdown (which I SO want to see), The Great Beauty, Omar, The Past, Blue is the Warmest Color, The Grandmaster, A Touch of Sin, A Hijacking, White Lies

Best Documentary
The Act of Killing
Leviathan
Stories We Tell

Notable Omissions: The Square, Blackfish, 20 Feet from Stardom, At Berkeley, After Tiller, Sound City

Best Animated
Yeah.... no animated films this year. But The Wind Rises only just came out in theaters in SF this week.

Best Editing
Gravity
Rush
Captain Phillips
The World's End
All is Lost
Nebraska
Inside Llewyn Davis
Wolf of Wall Street
American Hustle
12 Years a Slave

Notable Omissions: Dallas Buyers Club, Short Term 12, Filth

Best Cinematography (that wasn't on tv this year, because damn.)
Inside Llewyn Davis
12 Years a Slave
Leviathan
Spring Breakers
All is Lost
Rush

Gravity... I love Emmanuel Lubezki's work. I really do. Sleepy Hollow, The New World and Children of Men make me want to be a cinematographer. And obviously Gravity is a stunning achievement. But I think more and more cinematography needs to be split into CGI heavy and traditional 'film' movies. indieWire thinks so, too.

Notable Omissions: Prisoners, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Grandmaster

Best Production Design
Her
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Wolf of Wall Street

Best Costume Design
The Great Gatsby
American Hustle
Inside Llewyn Davis
Stoker
Hunger Games

Notable Omissions: Laurence Anyways, Grandmaster, Invisible Woman, Oz

Best Score
Upstream Color
All Is Lost (I only JUST put two and two together and realized Alexander Ebert did Truth, which closed out last year's Oscar winner Curfew.)
Spring Breakers
12 Years a Slave
Stoker
Prince Avalanche
Rush
Nebraska

Notable Omissions: Ain't them Bodies Saints, Oblivion, Mud, How I Live Now, Les Salauds, Man of Steel, Prisoners

Best Song
Let It Go - Idina Menzel (Frozen) What? I'm a sucker for all things Idina Menzel
Young and Beautiful - Lana Del Rey (Great Gatsby). It was used poorly in the film, but I love the song.
A Little Party Never Killed Nobody - Fergie et al (Great Gatsby)
Last Mile Home - Kings of Leon (August Osage County)
Becomes the Color - Emily Wells (Stoker)
Cut Me Some Slack - Sirvana (Sound City)
I See Fire - Ed Sheeran (The Hobbit) 
Oblivion - M83 (Oblivion)

Please Mr. Kennedy deserves a special nod for Best Worst Song.

I don't entirely like this song, so it doesn't make the cut, but I found this a really interesting entry on the long list: The Courage to Believe - Q'orianka Kilcher (Free China Movie). Turns out she has a very lovely voice.
I also remember really liking Amen at the end of All Is Lost, but it didn't do as much for me on a second listen. Maybe I was just really excited about lyrics at the time?

Best Sound Editing
Gravity
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Pacific Rim
Rush
Upstream Color

Notable Omissions: Lone Survivor, Man of Steel

Best Sound Mixing
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
All Is Lost
Rush
Captain Phillips
Upstream Color

Notable Omissions: Lone Survivor, Man of Steel

Best Visual Effects
Gravity
Pacific Rim
Lone Ranger
The Hobbit
Iron Man 3

Best Makeup
American Hustle
Dallas Buyers Club
Hunger Games
Rush

Best Animated Short
Kali, the Little Vampire
The Missing Scarf 
Possessions
Feral 
Social Satan
The Deep End
The Event

Best Live Action Short
Avant Que de Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything)
The Voorman Problem
3020 Laguna St. In Exitum
Night, Peace
In Full Bloom
Time Capsule
The Worst
Inferno
Brightwood
Tough Guy

Best Poster
Enemy (Louise Bourgeois!)
Escape from Tomorrow
Grand Budapest Hotel
Filth
Great Gatsby
Hunger Games
John Dies At the End
Maleficent
Parkland
Trance
Walter Mitty
Spring Breakers (This one is good too)
You're Next
Much Ado About Nothing (3 versions)
Stoker
Wolverine
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (both versions)
Side Effects
The Kings of Summer
Upstream Color
Kiss of the Damned
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Thor

Best Trailer
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Wolf of Wall Street
Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Grand Budapest Hotel
Don Jon
Gravity
Man of Steel
American Hustle
Stoker
Upstream Color
Only God Forgives

Best Action Scene: Hong Kong Battle, Pacific Rim. (runner up: Gravity opening)

Movie you Wanted to Love but Just Couldn't: The Counselor (runner up: Elysium)

Best mix of fiction and reality: Prince Avalanche (runner up: Stories We Tell)

Worst opening scene: Captain Philips

Best opening scene: Gravity

Most WTF: The Counselor
(Runner Up: Computer Chess, A La Francaise)

Best Scene: Stoker (can see parts of it in the film.com top 25 films. Opens the cut.)

Creepiest scene: the hangings before the start of ...And Justice for All, Metallica Through the Never

Best Cameo: Captain America in Thor (runner up: both surprises towards the end of This is the End)

Best subversion of a horror trope: You're Next. I didn't like the film overall, but I loved that they gave Sharni Vinson a credible reason for being a final girl.

Best Hair: Christian Bale, American Hustle

Most Sam Rockwell performance: Sam Rockwell in The Way, Way Back

Best Ode to Capitalism: Alien, Spring Breakers

Best sidekick: Yukio, Wolverine

Best post-credits scene: Stories We Tell

Also, best Dad: Stories We Tell. I loved Michael Polley in Slings & Arrows, and now I love him more.

Most ridiculously, stupidly entertaining music cue: The Lone Ranger

2nd most ridiculously, stupidly entertaining music cue: Spring Breakers

Best villain reveal: The Mandarin, Iron Man 3

Most misused villain: Kahn, Star Trek. A great villainous performance in search of a better film. 

Best Birds: Leviathan

Best Cat: Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Pig: Upstream Color

Best sing-along: Don Jon

Best zombie romance: Warm Bodies

Best surprising goth rocker: Jessica Chastain, Mama. I haven't actually gotten around to seeing this one, but she looks awesome. 

Best trailer for a film not released in the US in 2013: Filth redband trailer

The best thing that happened in not-film: Farewell, Yolanda.