The 2013 Gutty Awards

We've come to the end of a great year for cinema. We've seen great films by old masters and hopeful newcomers alike, films that have made us laugh, cry, or both. We've gone everywhere from the Bathtub to revolutionary France to the middle of the Pacific, we've traversed the full spectrum of human emotion. These films, nineteen nominated in all for twelve categories, demonstrate the best of what this year had to offer. Though many films that I enjoyed are not mentioned here (Killer Joe, End of Watch, and The Avengers, to name a few), they are no less a part of what contributed to 2012 being one of the best years in film of the past decade.

Now, here are the nominees for the 2013 Gutty Awards:

Best Picture

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Cloud Atlas
The Master

Moonrise Kingdom

Lincoln

Best Director

Ben Affleck - Argo

Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master

Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty

Ang Lee - Life of Pi

Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Lead Actor

Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook

Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln

Richard Gere - Arbitrage

Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables

Joaquin Phoenix - The Master

Best Lead Actress

Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty

Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook

Quvenzhane Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild

Naomi Watts - The Impossible

Michelle Williams - Take This Waltz

Best Supporting Actor

Dwight Henry - Beasts of the Southern Wild

Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master

Matthew McConaughey - Magic Mike

Ezra Miller - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress

Doona Bae - Cloud Atlas

Ann Dowd - Compliance

Sally Field - Lincoln

Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables

Emma Watson - The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Best Ensemble Cast

Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Doona Bae, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, etc - Cloud Atlas

Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Jason Schwartzman, etc -  Moonrise Kingdom

Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Jackie Earle Haley. etc - Lincoln

Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Samantha Barks, Sacha Baron Cohen, etc - Les Miserables

Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DeNiro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, Anupam Kher, Julia Stiles, etc - Silver Linings Playbook

Best Original Screenplay

Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master

Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom

Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty

Nicholas Jarecki - Arbitrage

Rian Johnson - Looper

Best Adapted Screenplay

Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild

Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Tony Kushner - Lincoln

David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook

Chris Terrio - Argo

Best Cinematography

Roger Deakins - Skyfall

Grieg Fraser - Zero Dark Thirty

Mihai Milaimare, Jr. - The Master

Claudio Miranda - Life of Pi

Ben Richardson - Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Art Direction

Hugh Bateup, Uli Hanisch - Cloud Atlas

Rick Carter, Jim Erickson, Peter T. Frank - Lincoln

David Gropman - Life of Pi

Eve Stewart - Les Miserables

Adam Stockhausen - Moonrise Kingdom

Best Original Score

Mychael Danna - Life of Pi

Alexandre Desplat - Argo

Johnny Greenwood - The Master

Reinhold Heil, Johnny Kilmek, Tom Tykwer - Cloud Atlas

Dan Romer, Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild