{"id":5265,"date":"2014-01-14T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box1047.bluehost.com\/~sonicci2\/wordpress\/?p=5265"},"modified":"2015-08-22T13:23:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T13:23:53","slug":"2013-oscars-personal-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/2013-oscars-personal-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Oscars &#8211; Personal Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again. Unfortunately, I&#8217;m still missing a lot of movies on my &#8220;have watched&#8221; that could have an effect on these, but it will be updated as we go along. Keep in mind&#8211; this is me basically filling out my own, personal Oscar ballot in all the &#8220;major&#8221; categories. Other people are trying to pick the actual nominees; I&#8217;m just interested in sharing the films and people I would vote for, if I could.<\/p>\n<p>Viva La Resistance!<\/p>\n<p>Brian Skutle<br \/>\n<A href=\"http:\/\/www.sonic-cinema.com\">www.sonic-cinema.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Picture<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;Gravity&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Her&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Before Midnight&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Stories We Tell&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Stoker&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Blackfish&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;12 Years a Slave&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The Conjuring&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Director<\/u><\/b><br \/>\nAlfonso Cauron, &#8220;Gravity&#8221;<br \/>\nSpike Jonze, &#8220;Her&#8221;<br \/>\nSarah Polley, &#8220;Stories We Tell&#8221;<br \/>\nSteve McQueen, &#8220;12 Years a Slave&#8221;<br \/>\nChan-wook Park, &#8220;Stoker&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Honorable Mention:<\/i> Richard Linklater, &#8220;Before Midnight&#8221;; James Wan, &#8220;The Conjuring&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Insidious: Chapter 2&#8221;; Thomas Vinterberg, &#8220;The Hunt&#8221;; Ron Howard, &#8220;Rush&#8221;; Paul Greengrass, &#8220;Captain Phillips&#8221;; Woody Allen, &#8220;Blue Jasmine&#8221;; Frances Lawrence, &#8220;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&#8221;; Guillermo Del Toro, &#8220;Pacific Rim&#8221;; Peter Jackson, &#8220;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8221;; Ryan Coogler, &#8220;Fruitvale Station&#8221;; Ben Stiller, &#8220;The Secret Life of Walter Mitty&#8221;; David O. Russell, &#8220;American Hustle&#8221;; Rufus Chaffee, &#8220;The Muse&#8221;; David C. Snyder, &#8220;Swing Lowe Sweet Chariote&#8221;; Danny Boyle, &#8220;Trance&#8221;; Joss Whedon, &#8220;Much Ado About Nothing&#8221;; Noah Baumbach, &#8220;Frances Ha&#8221;; Fred Carpenter, &#8220;Send No Flowers&#8221;; James Ponsoldt, &#8220;The Spectacular Now&#8221;; Edgar Wright, &#8220;The World&#8217;s End&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Actor<\/u><\/b><br \/>\nJoaquin Phoenix, &#8220;Her&#8221;<br \/>\nChiwetel Ejiofor, &#8220;12 Years a Slave&#8221;<br \/>\nEthan Hawke, &#8220;Before Midnight&#8221;<br \/>\nTom Hanks, &#8220;Captain Phillips&#8221;<br \/>\nMads Mikkelsen, &#8220;The Hunt&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Honorable Mention:<\/i> Miles Teller, &#8220;The Spectacular Now&#8221;; Michael B. Jordan, &#8220;Fruitvale Station&#8221;; Christian Bale, &#8220;American Hustle&#8221;; Alexis Denisof, &#8220;Much Ado About Nothing&#8221;; Chris Hemsworth, &#8220;Rush&#8221;; Isaac Simons, &#8220;The Muse&#8221;; Forrest Whitaker, &#8220;Lee Daniels&#8217;s The Butler&#8221;; Simon Pegg, &#8220;The World&#8217;s End&#8221;; Ben Stiller, &#8220;The Secret Life of Walter Mitty&#8221;; Chadwick Boseman, &#8220;42&#8221;; Asa Butterfield, &#8220;Ender&#8217;s Game&#8221;; Joseph Gordon-Levitt, &#8220;Don Jon&#8221;; Patrick Wilson, &#8220;The Conjuring&#8221;; Josh Brolin, &#8220;Oldboy&#8221;; Nicholas Hoult, &#8220;Warm Bodies&#8221;; Martin Freeman, &#8220;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8221;; Jude Law, &#8220;Side Effects&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Actress<\/u><\/b><br \/>\nSandra Bullock, &#8220;Gravity&#8221;<br \/>\nJulie Delpy, &#8220;Before Midnight&#8221;<br \/>\nGreta Gerwig, &#8220;Frances Ha&#8221;<br \/>\nCate Blanchett, &#8220;Blue Jasmine&#8221;<br \/>\nAmy Adams, &#8220;American Hustle&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Honorable Mention:<\/i> Amy Acker, &#8220;Much Ado About Nothing&#8221;; Mia Wasikowska, &#8220;Stoker&#8221;; Shailene Woodley, &#8220;The Spectacular Now&#8221;; Naama Kates, &#8220;The 10 Commandments of Chloe&#8221;; Phillia Thomas, &#8220;Swing Lowe Sweet Chariote&#8221;; Vera Farmiga, &#8220;The Conjuring&#8221;; Jennifer Lawrence, &#8220;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&#8221;; Rooney Mara, &#8220;Side Effects&#8221; Sandra Bullock, &#8220;The Heat&#8221;; Sean Young, &#8220;Send No Flowers&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Supporting Actor<\/u><\/b><br \/>\nMatthew Goode, &#8220;Stoker&#8221;<br \/>\nBarkhad Abdi, &#8220;Captain Phillips&#8221;<br \/>\nNathan Fillion, &#8220;Much Ado About Nothing&#8221;<br \/>\nJames Franco, &#8220;Spring Breakers&#8221;<br \/>\nDaniel Br\u00c3\u00bchl, &#8220;Rush&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Honorable Mention:<\/i> Michael Fassbender, &#8220;12 Years a Slave&#8221;; Donald Sutherland, &#8220;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&#8221;; Bradley Cooper, &#8220;American Hustle&#8221;; Dwayne Johnson, &#8220;Pain &amp; Gain&#8221;; Nick Frost, &#8220;The World&#8217;s End&#8221;; Patton Oswalt, &#8220;The Secret Life of Walter Mitty&#8221;; Richard Armitage, &#8220;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8221;; Phillip Seymour Hoffman, &#8220;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&#8221;; Andrew Dice Clay, &#8220;Blue Jasmine&#8221;; Russ Camarda, &#8220;Send No Flowers&#8221;; Rob Corddry, &#8220;Warm Bodies&#8221;; Sean Penn, &#8220;The Secret Life of Walter Mitty&#8221;; Jonah Hill, &#8220;This is the End&#8221;; Ron Livingston, &#8220;The Conjuring&#8221;; Benedict Cumberbatch, &#8220;12 Years a Slave&#8221; &amp; &#8220;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8221;; Jeremy Renner, &#8220;American Hustle&#8221;; Harrison Ford, &#8220;Ender&#8217;s Game&#8221; &amp; &#8220;42&#8221;; Josh Hutcherson, &#8220;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&#8221;; Jim Carrey, &#8220;The Incredible Burt Wonderstone&#8221;; Paul Dano, &#8220;12 Years a Slave&#8221;; Woody Harrelson, &#8220;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Supporting Actress<\/u><\/b><br \/>\nScarlett Johansson, &#8220;Her&#8221;<br \/>\nLupita Nyong&#8217;o, &#8220;12 Years a Slave&#8221;<br \/>\nAnnika Wedderkopp, &#8220;The Hunt&#8221;<br \/>\nAmy Adams, &#8220;Her&#8221;<br \/>\nOctavia Spencer, &#8220;Fruitvale Station&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Honorable Mention:<\/i> Sally Hawkins, &#8220;Blue Jasmine&#8221;; Rinko Kikuchi, &#8220;Pacific Rim&#8221;; Melonie Diaz, &#8220;Fruitvale Station&#8221;; Jennifer Lawrence, &#8220;American Hustle&#8221;; Oprah Winfrey, &#8220;Lee Daniels&#8217;s The Butler&#8221;; Rosario Dawson, &#8220;Trance&#8221;; Lily Taylor, &#8220;The Conjuring&#8221;; Olivia Wilde, &#8220;Her&#8221;; Nicole Kidman, &#8220;Stoker&#8221;; Evangeline Lilly, &#8220;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8221;; Kristen Wiig, &#8220;The Secret Life of Walter Mitty&#8221;; Jena Malone, &#8220;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&#8221;; Catherine Zeta-Jones, &#8220;Side Effects&#8221;; Rooney Mara, &#8220;Her&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Original Screenplay<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;Her&#8221; (Spike Jonze)<br \/>\n&#8220;Stoker&#8221; (Wentworth Miller)<br \/>\n&#8220;Blue Jasmine&#8221; (Woody Allen)<br \/>\n&#8220;The Conjuring&#8221; (Chad &amp; Carey Hayes)<br \/>\n&#8220;The Hunt&#8221; (Tobias Lindholm &amp; Thomas Vinterberg)<\/p>\n<p><i>Honorable Mention:<\/i> &#8220;This is the End&#8221; (Seth Rogen &amp; Evan Goldberg); &#8220;Gravity&#8221; (Alfonso &amp; Jonas Cauron); &#8220;The 10 Commandments of Chloe&#8221; (Princeton Holt &amp; Naama Kates); &#8220;Frances Ha&#8221; (Noah Baumbach &amp; Greta Gerwig); &#8220;The Muse&#8221; (Rufus Chaffee); &#8220;Spring Breakers&#8221; (Harmonie Korine); &#8220;The World&#8217;s End&#8221; (Simon Pegg &amp; Edgar Wright); &#8220;Pacific Rim&#8221; (Travis Beacham &amp; Guillermo Del Toro); &#8220;Fruitvale Station&#8221; (Ryan Coogler); &#8220;Trance&#8221; (Joe Aherne &amp; John Hodge); &#8220;Send No Flowers&#8221; (Lee Kolinsky &amp; Michael Lovaglio); &#8220;American Hustle&#8221; (David O. Russell &amp; Eric Warren Singer); &#8220;Side Effects&#8221; (Scott Z. Burns); &#8220;The Synthetic Man&#8221; (John R. Hand)<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Adapted Screenplay<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;Before Midnight&#8221; (Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan)<br \/>\n&#8220;12 Years a Slave&#8221; (John Ridley)<br \/>\n&#8220;Much Ado About Nothing&#8221; (Joss Whedon)<br \/>\n&#8220;The Spectacular Now&#8221; (Scott Neustadter &amp; Michael H. Weber)<br \/>\n&#8220;The Secret Life of Walter Mitty&#8221; (Steven Conrad)<\/p>\n<p><i>Honorable Mention:<\/i> &#8220;Warm Bodies&#8221; (Jonathan Levine); &#8220;Swing Lowe Sweet Chariote&#8221; (David C. Snyder); &#8220;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8221; (Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Phillippa Boyens, Guillermo Del Toro); &#8220;Monsters University&#8221; (Dan Scanlon, Daniel Gerson, Robert L. Baird); &#8220;Man of Steel&#8221; (David S. Goyer &amp; Christopher Nolan); &#8220;Iron Man 3&#8221; (Shane Black and Drew Pearce); &#8220;Epic&#8221; (William Joyce, James V. Hart, Daniel Shere, Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember, Chris Wedge); &#8220;Oblivion&#8221; (Karl Gajousek, Michael DeBruyn); <\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Original Score<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;Gravity&#8221; (Steven Price)<br \/>\n&#8220;Stoker&#8221; (Clint Mansell &amp; Philip Glass)<br \/>\n&#8220;Her&#8221; (Arcade Fire)<br \/>\n&#8220;The Lone Ranger&#8221; (Hans Zimmer)<br \/>\n&#8220;Oblivion&#8221; (M83)<\/p>\n<p><i>Honorable Mention:<\/i> &#8220;The Conjuring&#8221; (Joseph Bishara); &#8220;Spring Breakers&#8221; (Skrillex &amp; Cliff Martinez); &#8220;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8221; (Howard Shore); &#8220;12 Years a Slave&#8221; (Hans Zimmer); &#8220;Pacific Rim&#8221; (Ramin Djawadi); &#8220;Jack the Giant Slayer&#8221; (John Ottman); &#8220;Man of Steel&#8221; (Hans Zimmer); &#8220;Star Trek Into Darkness&#8221; (Michael Giacchino); &#8220;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&#8221; (James Newton Howard); &#8220;The Croods&#8221; (Alan Silvestri); &#8220;Monsters University&#8221; (Randy Newman); &#8220;You&#8217;re Next&#8221; (Mads Heldtberg, Jasper Justice Lee, Kyle McKinnon); &#8220;Elysium&#8221; (Ryan Amon); &#8220;Rush&#8221; (Hans Zimmer); &#8220;Warm Bodies&#8221; (Marco Beltrami &amp; Buck Sanders); &#8220;Epic&#8221; (Danny Elfman)<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Original Song<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;The Moon Song&#8221; from &#8220;Her&#8221; (Karen O)<br \/>\n&#8220;Becomes the Color&#8221; from &#8220;Stoker&#8221; (Emily Wells)<br \/>\n&#8220;I See Fire&#8221; from &#8220;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8221; (Ed Sheeran)<br \/>\n&#8220;Oblivion&#8221; from &#8220;Oblivion&#8221; (Anthony Gonzalez &amp; Susanne Sundf\u00c3\u00b8r)<br \/>\n&#8220;How Lowe?&#8221; from &#8220;Swing Lowe Sweet Chariote&#8221; (C Ridenhour &amp; DC Snyder)<\/p>\n<p><i>Honorable Mention:<\/i> &#8220;Young and Beautiful&#8221; from &#8220;The Great Gatsby&#8221; (Lana Del Rey &amp; Rick Howels); &#8220;F*#% You Like a Porn Star&#8221; from &#8220;The Muse&#8221; (Jeff Allison &amp; Issac Simons); &#8220;My Lord Sunshine&#8221; from &#8220;12 Years a Slave&#8221; (Nicholas Britell); &#8220;Atlas&#8221; from &#8220;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&#8221; (Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Chris Martin)<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Animated Feature<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;The Croods&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Epic&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Monsters University&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Documentary Feature<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;Stories We Tell&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Blackfish&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;56-Up&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Salinger&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Inequality for All&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Foreign-Language Film<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;The Hunt&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The Silence&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Visual Effects<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;Gravity&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Pacific Rim&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Jack the Giant Slayer&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Ender&#8217;s Game&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Sound Mixing<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;Gravity&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Pacific Rim&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Rush&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The Conjuring&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Sound Effects Editing<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;Gravity&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Rush&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Pacific Rim&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The Conjuring&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Cinematography<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;Gravity&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The Conjuring&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;12 Years a Slave&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Pacific Rim&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Her&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Film Editing<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;Gravity&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Pacific Rim&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Her&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Rush&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Spring Breakers&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Production Design<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;Rush&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;12 Years a Slave&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The Great Gatsby&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;American Hustle&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Costume Design<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;American Hustle&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The Great Gatsby&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;12 Years a Slave&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Best Makeup and Hairstyling<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;American Hustle&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Warm Bodies&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;12 Years a Slave&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again. Unfortunately, I&#8217;m still missing a lot of movies on my &#8220;have watched&#8221; that could have an effect on these, but it will be updated as we go along. Keep in mind&#8211; this is me basically filling out my own, personal Oscar ballot in all the &#8220;major&#8221; categories. 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