The Abel Awards 2013

Best Film:

1. The Sceret Life of Walter Mitty
    Inspirational, quirky, heartfelt and filled with some great awkward humor, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a wonderful, dazzling, and adventurous spectacle that touches the heart of life and gives ambition to live life to the fullest wherever you are. A wonderful film that earns my vote for best film of the year. 

2. 12 Years a Slave
    12 Years a Slave is a hard and honest depiction at the life of a free man who is sold into slavery, and it comes as an emotional and hopeful journey. A masterful work of filmmaking and a great story.

3. Gravity
    Beautiful, breathtaking, and surprisingly heartfelt, Gravity is a masterful piece of filmmaking with sleek direction and awe-inspiring visual effects and cinematography.

4. Saving Mr. Banks
    Sweet, moving, and sentimental, Saving Mr. Banks is driven by fantastic performances and a story well weaved out of the true story to create a wonderful piece of cinema.

5. Captain Phillips
    Raw, emotional, and ever so intense, Captain Phillips provides a very human and real feeling to its premise, and the fear and stress is portrayed so genuinely. A wonderful work of film.

Other Nominees:
  • Her
  • Mud
  • Oblivion
  • Philomena
  • The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Audience Choice: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Animated Film:

1. Monsters University
    Perhaps overshadowed by Disney's most recent and Pixar's past achievement's, Monsters University is a fun, heartfelt, and loveable film that brings Pixar back on the map.

2. Frozen
    Though definitely not without its flaws, Frozen is visually dazzling, has some good music, and gives a deeper message of relationships and love than most Disney movies. All this makes for a good animated picture, even with its unnecessary characters, absent finale song, and a not so needed antagonist plot twist.

3. Despicable Me 2

Other Nominees
  • Epic
  • The Croods
Audience Choice: Frozen

Best Lead Actor:

1. Joaquin Phoenix - Her
    Joaquin Phoenix gives a wonderfully subtle and beautiful performance, capturing those little emotions so brilliantly while playing the lonely everyman searching for something more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCN8FAruse8
2. Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips
   Tom Hanks gives another brilliant role in a career full of them, and really plays off his character so well in this very real and raw film. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJMDdT24_98
3. Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club    This year was really a break out year for McConaughey, as he dives head on into dramatic roles and giving it his all.Other Nominees:
  • Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
  • Christian Bale - American Hustle
  • Bruce Dern - Nebraska
Audience Choice: Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips

Best Lead Actress:

1. Sandra Bullock - Gravity
   Sandra Bullock perhaps gives her career best performance, navigating a roller coaster of emotions in the thrilling Gravity. 
2. Emma Thompson - Saving Mr. Banks
    One of my favorite actresses of all time, if not my favorite, Emma Thompson continually gives brilliant and touching performances that draw you into the film.
3. Judi Dench - Philomena
   Judi Dench brilliantly plays the sweet old lady that has been through so much in life. 

Other Nominees
  • Meryl Streep - August: Osage County
  • Amy Adams - American Hustle
Audience Choice: Emma Thompson - Saving Mr. Banks

Best Supporting Actor:

1. Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
    An incredible and gut wrenching performance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXnwpVLuEyU
2. Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
3. Colin Farrell - Saving Mr. Banks

Other Nominees:
  • Jake Gyllenhaal - Prisoners
  • Jeremy Renner - American Hustle
  • Tom Hanks - Saving Mr. Banks
Audience Choice: 
Johnny Depp - The Lone Ranger
Benedict Cumberbatch - Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Supporting Actress:

1. Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave
2. Carey Mulligan - The Great Gatsby
3. Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle

Other Nominees:
  • Julia Roberts - August: Osage County
  • June Squibb - Nebraska
Audience Choice: Carey Mulligan - The Great Gatsby

Best Director:

1. Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity
2. Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
3. Ron Howard - Rush

Other Nominees:
  • David O. Russell - American Hustle
  • Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips
Audience Choice: Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity

Best Story/Screenplay

1. John Ridley - 12 Years a Slave
2. Kelly Marcel, Sue Smith - Saving Mr. Banks
3. Spike Jonze - Her
4. Steve Conrad - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
5. Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope - Philomena

Other Nominees:
  • Alfonso Cuaron, Jonas Cuaron - Gravity
  • Billy Ray - Captain Phillips
  • Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Guillermo Del Toro - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
  • Jeff Nichols - Mud
  • Karl Gajdusek, Michael Arndt - Oblivion
Audience Choice: 
The Hobbit: The Desolation of SmaugSaving Mr. Banks

Best Soundtrack

1. Hans Zimmer - Man of Steel
2. M83 - Oblivion
  I'm Sending You Away - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpiuqMkuWL4
3. Will Butler, Owen Pallett - Her
4. Thomas Newman - Saving Mr. Banks
5. Hans Zimmer - 12 Years a Slave
5. Theodore Shapiro - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
5. Henry Jackman - Captain Phillips

Other Nominees:
  • Christophe Beck - Frozen
  • Steven Price - Gravity
  • Alexandre Desplat - Philomena
Audience Choice: 
Thomas Newman - Saving Mr. Banks
Howard Shore - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Best Cinematography

1. Emmanuel Lubezki - Gravity
2. Hoyte Van Hoytema - Her
3. Frank G. DeMarco, Peter Zuccarini - All Is Lost
4. Stuart Dryburgh - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
5. Roger Deakins - Prisoners

Other Nominees
  • Claudio Miranda - Oblivion
  • Sean Bobbitt - 12 Years a Slave
Audience Choice: 
Emmanuel Lubezki - Gravity
Andrew Lesnie - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug


Best Editing

1. Christopher Rouse - Captain Phillips
2. Alfonso Cuaron, Mark Sanger - Gravity
3. Joe Walker - 12 Years a Slave

Other Nominees
  • Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill - Rush
  • Joel Cox, Gary Roach - Prisoners
  • Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers - American Hustle
Audience Choice: 
Gravity
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Best Sound Editing/Design

1. Gravity
2. Oblivion
3. Captain Phillips

Other Nominees:
  • All Is Lost
  • The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Audience Choice: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Art Direction/Production Design

1. The Great Gatsby
2. Gravity
3. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
4. 12 Years a Slave
5. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Other Nominees:
  • Her
  • Oblivion
  • The Lone Ranger
  • American Hustle
Audience Choice: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Costumes

1. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
3. The Great Gatsby

Other Nominees
  • 12 Years a Slave
  • Oz: The Great and Powerful
Audience Choice: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Makeup/Hairstyling

1. The Lone Ranger
2. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
3. Dallas Buyers Club

Other Nominees:
  • Prisoners
  • Rush
  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
  • American Hustle
Audience Choice: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Visual/Special Effects

1. Gravity
2. Oblivion
3. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
4. Ender's Game
5. Pacific Rim

Other Nominees
  • Iron Man 3
  • Star Trek Into Darkness
  • Man of Steel
  • Thor: The Dark World
  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Audience Choice: 
Gravity
Ender's Game
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Original Song

1. "Step Out" by Jose Gonzalez - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2. "Young and Beautiful" by Lana Del Rey - The Great Gatsby
3. "The Moon Song" by Karen O - Her  
  • "Do You Want to Build a Snowman" - Frozen
  • "For the First Time in Forever" - Frozen
Audience Choice: "Happy" by Pharrell Williams - Despicable Me 2

Top Award Count 
Wins (Runner Ups, Top 3/5, Nominees, Honorable Mention)

12 Years a Slave 3 Wins (2,3,4,3)
Gravity 5 Wins (2,1,2,0)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 2 Wins (0,2,0,9)
Captain Phillips 1 Win (2,3,2,1)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 1 Win (1,2,3,6)
Her 1 Win (1,3,3,3)
Saving Mr. Banks 0 Wins (2,3,1,5)
Oblivion 0 Wins (3,0,4,3)
The Great Gatsby 1 Win (2,1,0,6)
Prisoners 0 Wins (0,1,4,8)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 0 Wins (1,1,3,6)
Rush 0 Wins (0,1,2,8)
Frozen 1 Win (0,0,3,3)
Philomena 0 Wins (0,2,2,2)
Mud 0 Wins (0,0,4,4)
Man of Steel 1 Win (0,0,1,5)

Audience Choice: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 9 Wins

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