The BPs Nominations!
BEST PICTURE
12 YEARS A SLAVE
GRAVITY
HER
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuaron, GRAVITY
Joel and Ethan Coen, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Martin Scorsese, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Spike Jonze, HER
Steve McQueen, 12 YEARS A SLAVE
BEST ACTOR
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 YEARS A SLAVE
Joaquin Phoenix, HER
Leonardo DiCaprio, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Oscar Isaac, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Tom Hanks, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
BEST ACTRESS
Amy Adams, AMERICAN HUSTLE
Amy Seimetz, UPSTREAM COLOR
Cate Blanchett, BLUE JASMINE
Greta Gerwig, FRANCES HA
Julie Delpy, BEFORE MIDNIGHT
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
Bradley Cooper, AMERICAN HUSTLE
James Franco, SPRING BREAKERS
Jonah Hill, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Michael Fassbender, 12 YEARS A SLAVE
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Emma Watson, THE BLING RING
Jennifer Lawrence, AMERICAN HUSTLE
June Squibb, NEBRASKA
Lupita Nyong’o, 12 YEARS A SLAVE
Sally Hawkins, BLUE JASMINE
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Eric Singer and David O. Russell, AMERICAN HUSTLE
Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, FRANCES HA
Spike Jonze, HER
Joel and Ethan Coen, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, THE WORLD’S END
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
John Ridley, 12 YEARS A SLAVE
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke, BEFORE MIDNIGHT
Billy Ray, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, PAIN & GAIN
Terrence Winter, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Sean Bobbitt, 12 YEARS A SLAVE
Emmanuel Lubezki, GRAVITY
Bruno Delbonnel, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Rodrigo Prieto, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Emmanuel Lubezki, TO THE WONDER
BEST EDITING
Christopher Rouse, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger, GRAVITY
Roderick Jaynes, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Thelma Schoonmaker, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Paul Machliss, THE WORLD’S END
BEST FOREIGN FILM
THE ACT OF KILLING (dir. Joshua Oppenheimer)
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (dir. Abdellatif Kechiche)
THE HUNT (dir. Thomas Vintergerg)
LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (dir. Abbas Kiarostami)
THE PAST (Asghar Farhadi)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (dir. Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn)
DESPICABLE ME 2 (dir. Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud)
FROZEN (dir. Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee)
MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (dir. Dan Scanlon)
THE WIND RISES (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
BEST DOCUMENTARY
THE ACT OF KILLING (dir. Joshua Oppenheimer)
BLACKFISH (dir. Gabriela Cowperthwaite)
ROOM 237 (dir. Rodney Ascher)
STORIES WE TELL (dir. Sarah Polley)
WE STEAL SECRETS (dir. Alex Gibney)
BEST CAMEO
F. Murray Abraham, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Matthew McConaughey, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Michael Cera, THIS IS THE END
Robert DeNiro, AMERICAN HUSTLE
Spike Jonze, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
BEST STUNTS
Spiro Razatos, Troy Robinson, and Olivier Schneider, FAST & FURIOUS 6
Bradley Allan, THE WORLD’S END
Jeff Habberstad, Markos Rounthwaite, and Eric Oram, IRON MAN 3
Woo-ping Yuen, THE GRANDMASTER
Kyle Gardiner, Allan Poppleton, Jon Valera, and Jonathan Eusebio, THE WOLVERINE
I know we cant all watch everything but if you had had the opportunity to see the Oscar nominated doc The Crash Reel, i’m sure it would have made your list. It’s wonderful.
In its stead, my vote would go for Stories We Tell.
Anyhoozles, i look forward to my invitation to the red carpet event.
I saw The Crash Reel. I agree that it was good but it’s not better than the ones on this list. Well, I didn’t see Stories We Tell but it’s not better than the others.
– David
Stories We Tell is phenomenal.
Very happy with how this list turned out.
Good Job Tyler!
I fell for it big time, especially with Kevin’s younger brother who has Downs who was incredibly vocal about his feelings, just beautiful. Keep up the good work with the podcast, I love it more than avocados.
Nice, respectable list. Cool to see Amy Seimetz get some much deserved attention for Upstream Color, and really loving the Best Cameo category (win will almost certainly go to McConaughey there, although F. Murray Abraham was also great).
I didn’t really like Gravity or Wolf of Wall Street that much, but if movies I don’t like are going to get a lot of awards attention, at least they are made by directors I love.
This is such an excellent list!
Solid list! I like that you singled out great work in otherwise not-quite-awards-worthy films– Emma Watson in The Bling Ring and Lubezski’s work in To the Wonder. Amy Seimetz is also amazing and I personally would nominate that movie for editing, cinematography and, wait, did you forget about music?
Some other personal picks…
Side Effects for a number of things
Quite a few of the performances in Mud
Short Term 12 for cinematography
The Bling Ring for cinematography
Like Someone in Love for cinematography
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints for cinematography and for title that most resembles that of a swing revival band.
And the cameo and stunts category are neat, would love to see more “alternative” categories.
Were foreign films Ineligible for best picture?
They were not. A few people nominated films like THE GREAT BEAUTY and BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR in the Best Picture category, but not enough for it to make a difference.
I don’t know about other nominators, but for me personally, most foreign films register as a 2012 release. I look at world-wide theatrical release date. The only consideration I gave for foreign films that premiered in 2012 was for the “Best Foreign Film,” as long as it premiered in the US in 2013. Because of that, I included THE ACT OF KILLING on my foreign film ballot, but not documentaries. A little quirky, I know.
Can I ask how and why five nominations per category was chosen? Was there any temptation to allow for ten best picture contenders, like the Oscars or Golden Globes (well sort of)? Is it to do with the (I’m presuming) small voting body?
Also, thoughts on just doing a “best actor/s” category, rather than dividing into male and female actors? It seems like something that would be the ideal in an ideal world, though I guess it could end up marginalising female performances due to a lack of roles.
I would love to do a single lead actor and a single supporting actor category but, as you said, roles for women being as scarce as they are, it would be disappointingly uneven.
– David
Also, women obviously just aren’t as good at acting as men, so it would be unfair.
-Tyler
Nice list. Can’t help but think you missed a trick in not including the music categories and the chance for Tyler to perform a medley of you original song nominees on your next show. Happy to collate the results if you want to do a listeners awards. Maybe more closely mirror the
oscars like this with listeners nominating up to 10 Choices for Best Pic and up to 5 for all other categories:-
Picture
Director
Actor
Actress
Supporting Actor
Supporting Actress
Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay
Animated Feature
Documentary Feature
Foreign Language Film
Production Design
Cinematography
Costume Design
Editing
Makeup and Hairstyling
Original Score
Original Song
Sound (Mixing and Editing)
Visual Effects
Possible add-ons/alternatives
Vocal Performance (i.e performances in animated films, digital characters, Narration etc.)
Ensemble Cast
Title Design
Youth Performance (under 18 or under 21)
Stunts
Cameo
Comedy Picture
Worst film that made lots of money (100 million dollars or top 20 at US box office)
Movie qualification could be based on an IMDB year of 2012 (to make it easy for listeners) or LA release dates to again more closely mirror the Oscars.
Great List! I’m excited to see who wins.
The only movie I think I would have liked to see more of was Stoker, specifically for Best Director for Park Chan-Wook, Best Supporting Actress Nicole Kidman, and Best Cinematography.
A peak behind the curtain: All three main actors in Stoker were on my list submitted for nominations.
– David
Would have loved to see Brie Larson in lead actress for SHORT TERM 12. I think even that film’s detractors can admit she’s powerful in the role. A real actress to watch.
Still, the Emma Watson nod makes all my minor quibbles with the list null and void. Excellent choice!