Criticwire at Toronto: ‘The Master’ Tops Best Films/Performances Poll
Continuing its reign as the festival juggernaught of the second half of 2012, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” headlined nearly every category in Indiewire’s Criticwire Network poll of the best films and performances of this year’s edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Over 40 Criticwire members submitted their top picks in five different categories: best narrative film, best documentary, best lead performance, best supporting performance and most disappointing film, a final category that we brought back from our Cannes poll.
Apart from the overwhelming response to “The Master,” audience award winner “Silver Linings Playbook” and “The Place Beyond the Pines” also fared well for their performances and the films overall. In general, many of the films that made the top narrative list carried subsequent mentions for their casts.
The distinction between a lead performance and a supporting one is always a tricky one. Rather than clarify which performances qualified for each category, we left it to the individual voters to discern who belonged where. The resultant split spawned two significant double entries, with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jennifer Lawrence both appearing on enough lists to vault them onto both top ten lists.
Hoffman was one of a handful of actors with multiple TIFF 2012 titles on their resumes. Christopher Walken managed to make the best supporting performance list for two separate films: Martin McDonagh’s “Seven Psychopaths” and Yaron Zilberman’s debut feature “A Late Quartet.” While Bradley Cooper earned a majority of votes for his role in “Playbook,” he also merited mention for “The Place Beyond the Pines,” as did four other members of Derek Cianfrance’s ensemble.
Sarah Polley’s “Stories We Tell” proved to be the highlight of the documentary side, garnering more first-place votes than “The Master” did for narrative. However, the competition at the top was still close, with Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel’s “Leviathan” and Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Act of Killing” also receiving a strong collection of endorsements.
Not all top vote-getters were for Toronto premieres. Nearly eight months and a title change later, John Hawkes’ and Helen Hunt’s turns in “The Sessions” were given high marks, as they were in our end-of-Sundance poll. Three documentaries, including Rodney Ascher’s “The Shining” examination “Room 237,” also returned after landing top honors at Sundance. Meanwhile, Marion Cotillard (“Rust and Bone”), Mads Mikkelsen (“The Hunt”) and Jean-Louis Trintignant (“Amour”) are all back after being singled out at Cannes.
While we wanted a place to celebrate film, we also wanted to provide the “most disappointing” category to provide our critics with an opportunity to articulate films that either didn’t live up to their pedigree or the level of their fellow festival offerings. Much like another film by a celebrated director, “Cosmopolis,” finished as a top disappointment at Cannes, but managed to make many best overall lists in the process, Terrence Malick’s “To the Wonder” finished as the biggest disappointment, but received multiple votes in both categories, narrowly missing the top ten narratives.
Overall, 110 films out of the nearly 300 featured in the announced lineup merited mention on either of the top films lists. Even though certain films may have benefited from being must-see titles, there was still an impressive variety of titles singled out on these ballots, which are reproduced below.
Continue to the next page for the listed results of our poll. For more of our end-of-TIFF blowout, visit our festival guide and our roundup of all of Indiewire’s coverage.
[Note: Scores for individual categories were tabulated on a simple weighted scale, with a first-place vote earning five points, second place earning 4 points, and so on. Critics could list fewer than five for a particular category or abstain from one altogether.]
(LEGEND: Film or Performance: Aggregate Score – (First-Place Votes) – Number of Mentions)
BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
1. The Master – 67 – (9) – 18
2. Silver Linings Playbook – 46 – (3) – 14
3. The Place Beyond the Pines – 35 – (4) – 8
4. Frances Ha – 32 – (1) – 11
5. Argo – 29 – (3) – 8
6. Spring Breakers– 26 – (0) – 10
7. Amour – 23 – (1) – 8
8. Tabu – 19 – (3) – 4
9. The Impossible – 18 – (3) – 4
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower – 17 – (2) – 6
Also Receiving First Place Votes: “To the Wonder,” “Berberian Sound Studio,” “Anna Karenina,” “Like Someone in Love,” “Dormant Beauty,” “Viola,” “The Fifth Season,” “The Last TIme I Saw Macao,” “Hannah Arendt,” “Student,” “Stories We Tell,” “Everyday,” “Post Tenebras Lux”
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Stories We Tell – 60 – (10) – 13
2. Leviathan – 54 – (7) – 13
3. The Act of Killing – 53 – (6) – 12
4. Room 237 – 39 – (1) – 10
5. The Gatekeepers – 32 – (2) – 9
6. The Central Park Five– 25 – (2) – 7
7. Bestiaire – 18 – (1) – 6
8. West of Memphis – 12 – (2) – 3
9. Free Angela and All Political Prisoners – 12 – (0) – 4
10. Three Sisters – 12 – (1) – 4
Also Receiving First Place Votes: “Venus and Serena,” “Storm Surfers 3D,” “The Last Time I Saw Macao,” “A World Not Ours,”
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. To the Wonder – 46 – (6) – 11
2. The Master – 31 – (4) – 8
3. At Any Price – 25 – (1) – 7
4. Passion – 24 – (1) – 6
5. A Liar’s Autobiography – 18 – (1) – 5
6. Hyde Park on Hudson – 17 – (2) – 5
7. Imogene – 17 – (1) – 7
8. Yellow – 16 – (2) – 4
9. The Place Beyond the Pines – 16 – (1) – 4
10. The Impossible – 15 – (3) – 3
Also Receiving First Place Votes: “Penance,” “Cloud Atlas,” “God Loves Caviar,” “Reincarnated,” “Frances Ha,” “Midnight’s Children,” “Ginger and Rosa,” “Looper,” “Mekong Hotel,” “Sightseers,” “Call Girl,” “Capital”
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, “The Master” – 109 – (18) – 24
2. Greta Gerwig, “Frances Ha” – 50 – (5) – 13
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman, “The Master” – 39 – (1) – 13
4. Elle Fanning, “Ginger and Rosa” – 27 – (4) – 7
5. Marion Cotillard, “Rust and Bone” – 24 – (2) – 8
6. John Hawkes, “The Sessions” – 20 – (1) – 6
7. Bradley Cooper, “Silver Linings Playbook” – 19 – (1) – 7
8. Mads Mikkelsen, “The Hunt” – 16 – (2) – 5
9. Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook” – 16 – (0) – 5
10. Jean-Louis Trintignant, “Amour” – 13 – (0) – 4
10. Alice Lowe, “Sightseers” – 13 – (2) – 3
Also Receiving First Place Votes: Michael Shannon, “The Iceman”; Ryan Gosling, “The Place Beyond the Pines”; Steve Oram, “Sightseers”; Toni Servillo, “Dormant Beauty”; Kristoffer Joner, “All That Matters is Past”; Shirley Henderson, “Everyday”
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Amy Adams, “The Master” – 46 – (4) – 14
2. James Franco, “Spring Breakers” – 36 – (3) – 10
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman, “The Master” – 28 – (5) – 6
4. Christopher Walken, “Seven Psychopaths” – 23 – (2) – 7
5. Nicole Kidman, “The Paperboy” – 20 – (3) – 5
6. Helen Hunt, “The Sessions” – 19 – (1) – 5
7. Jude Law, “Anna Karenina” – 18 – (2) – 4
8. Alan Arkin, “Argo” – 18 – (1) – 7
9. Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook” – 18 – (1) – 5
10. Christopher Walken, “A Late Quartet” – 15 – (3) – 3
Also Receiving First Place Votes: Ezra Miller, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”; Mickey Sumner, “Frances Ha”; Michael Peña, “End of Watch”; Dane DeHaan, “The Place Beyond the Pines”; Annette Bening, “Ginger and Rosa”; Noam Chomsky, “Far from Afghanistan”; Scoot McNairy, “Argo”; Arbaaz Khan, “Mumbai’s King”; Ashley Benson, “Spring Breakers”; Jim Broadbent, “Cloud Atlas”; The Cast of “The We and the I”; Jeanne Moreau, “Gebo and the Shadow”; Janet McTeer, “Hannah Arendt”; William H. Macy, “The Sessions”; John Simm, “Everyday”
For individual ballots, continue to the next page.
CRITICWIRE MEMBER BALLOTS
Erica Abeel, Huffington Post
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Anna Karenina
2. To the Wonder
3. A Late Quartet
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. The Gatekeepers
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. The Master
2. Seven Psychopaths
3. Ill Manors
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy
Thelma Adams, Yahoo! Movies
BEST NARRATIVE
1 Tabu
2. The Hunt
3. The Sapphires
4. Blancanieves
5. Frances Ha
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. The Master
2. Berberian Sound Studio
3. The Place Beyond the Pines
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt
2. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Smashed
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
4. Nina Hoss, Barbara
5. Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Amy Adams, The Master
2. Ana Moreira, Tabu
3. Angela Molina, Blancanievers
4. Ryan Gosling, The Place Beyond the Pines
5. Matthew MacFadyen, Anna Karenina
Kaleem Aftab, The Independent
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Argo
2. When I Saw You
3. All That Matters is Past
4. End of Watch
5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Venus and Serena
2. The Act of Killing
3. Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
4. Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp
5. The Lebanese Rocket Society
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. The Place Beyond the Pines
2. Reincarnated
3. Great Expectations
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Kristoffer Joner, All That Matters is Past
2. Ben Affleck, Argo
3. Ruba Blal, When I Saw You
4. Michael Pena, End of Watch
5. Elle Fanning, Ginger and Rosa
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Alan Arkin, Argo
2. John Goodman, Argo
3. Natalie Martinez, End of Watch
4. Maria Bonnevie, All That Matters is Past
5. Paul Rudd, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Ryland Aldrich, Twitch
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Master
2. Argo
3. The Place Beyond The Pines
4. Sightseers
5. Spring Breakers
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Storm Surfers 3D
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Call Girl
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2. Bradley Cooper, The Place Beyond The Pines
3. Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
4. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
5. Ben Affleck, Argo
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Scoot McNairy, Argo
2. Amy Adams, The Master
3. Christopher Walken, Seven Psychopaths
4. Adam Driver, Frances Ha
5. James Franco, Spring Breakers
Jason Anderson, The Grid
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Master
2. Tabu
3. No
4. Night Across the Street
5. Berberian Sound Studio
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Leviathan
2. Room 237
3. Bestiaire
4. The End of Time
5. Perret in France and Algeria
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. To the Wonder
2. Rust and Bone
3. Reality
4. Seven Psychopaths
5. Cloud Atlas
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour
3. James Franco, Spring Breakers
4. Lee Kang-Sheng, Walker
5. Gael Garcia Bernal, No
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Jude Law, Anna Karenina
2. Sarah Gadon, Antiviral
3. Ezra Miller, The Perks of Being a Wildflower
4. Lola Creton, Something in the Air
5. Imogen Poots, Greetings from Tim Buckley
Monika Bartyzel, Movies.com
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Place Beyond the Pines
2. Silver Linings Playbook
3. Ginger and Rosa
4. In the House
5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Stories We Tell
2. The Central Park Five
3. Shepard and Dark
4. Love, Marilyn
5. First Comes Love
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Yellow
2. Imogene
3. To the Wonder
4. Writers
5. The Suicide Shop
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Elle Fanning, Ginger and Rosa
2. Ryan Gosling, The Place Beyond the Pines
3. Logan Lerman, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
4. Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
5. Fabrice Luchini, In the House
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Janet McTeer, Hannah Arendt
2. Holly Hunter, Jackie
3. Dane DeHaan, The Place Beyond the Pines
Nicholas Bell, IONCINEMA.com
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Post Tenebras Lux
2. Barbara
3. Berberian Sound Studio
4. Amour
5. Beyond the Hills
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. God Loves Caviar
2. Hellbenders
3. Wasteland
4. Jackie
5. When I See You
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
2. Nina Hoss, Barbara
3. Margarete Tiesel, Paradise: Love
4. Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt
5. Suzanne Clement, Laurence Anyways
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy
2. James Franco, Spring Breakers
3. Christopher Walken, Seven Psychopaths
4. Alice Lowe, Sightseers
5. David Oyelowo, The Paperboy
Dwight Brown, NNPA Syndication
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Impossible
2. Middle of Nowhere
3. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
4. The Sessions
5. Silver Linings Playbook
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. The Central Park Five
2. Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
3. Venus and Serena
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Yellow
2. The Paperboy
3. The Master
4. Spring Breakers
5. End of Watch
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2. Rachel Mwanza, War Witch (Rebelle)
3. Riz Ahmed, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
4. Michael Shannon, The Iceman
5. Helen Hunt, The Sessions
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Michael Peña, End of Watch
2. David Oyelowo, Middle of Nowhere
3. Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
4. Natalie Martinez, End of Watch
5. Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Tom Charity, CNN.com
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Master
2. Something in the Air
3. Spring Breakers
4. Frances Ha
5. Lines of Wellington
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. The Act of Killing
2. Room 237
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
3. Elle Fanning, Ginger & Rosa
4. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
5. Amy Acker, Much Ado About Nothing
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Mickey Sumner, Frances Ha
2. Michael Zegen, Frances Ha
3. Dolores Chaplin, Something in the Air
4. Michael Peña, End of Watch
5. John Goodman, Argo
Erik Childress, eFilmCritic
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2. The Master
3. Looper
4. Argo
5. Cloud Atlas
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. A Liar’s Autobiography
2. Passion
3. Rust & Bone
4. Byzantium
5. Anna Karenina
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2. Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
4. John Hawkes, The Sessions
5. Sam Rockwell, Seven Psychopaths
BEST SUPPORTING PEFORMANCE
1. Christopher Walken, Seven Psychopaths
2. Tom Holland, The Impossible
3. Amy Adams, The Master
4. Alan Arkin, Argo
5. Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Steve Dollar, The Wall Street Journal
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Tabu
2. Beyond the Hills
3. Sightseers
4. Ginger and Rosa
5. The We and the I
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. The Act of Killing
2. Room 237
3. Central Park Five
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Elle Fanning, GInger and Rosa
2. Caleb Landry, Antiviral
3. Alice Lowe, Sightseers
4. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
5. Aniello Arena, Reality
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Cast of We and the I
2. Soko, Augustine
3. Laura Linney, Hyde Park on Hudson
4. Mickey Sumner, Frances Ha
5. Antonio Mancino, Berberian Sound Studio
Edward Douglas, Comingsoon.net
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Impossible
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
3. Silver Linings Playbook
4. The Master
5. Looper
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. West of Memphis
2. The Central Park 5
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Passion
2. Byzantium
3. A Liar’s Autobiography
4. Imogene
5. Anna Karenina
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
2. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
3. Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt
4. Onata Aprile, What Maisie Knew
5. Naomi Watts, The Impossible
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Amy Adams, The Master
2. Tom Holland, The Impossible
3. Bruce Willis, Looper
4. Ezra Miller, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
5. Alan Arkin, Argo
Gregory Ellwood, Hitfix
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Impossible
2. Silver Linings Playbook
3. Frances Ha
4. Cloud Atlas
5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Stories We Tell
2. The Gatekeepers
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. To The Wonder
2. The Place Beyond the Pines
3. Much Ado About Nothing
4. Imogene
5. On the Road
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2. Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
3. Logan Lerman, Perks of Being a Wallflower
4. Michael Shannon, The Iceman
5. Naomi Watts, The Impossible
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Amy Adams, The Master
2. Ezra Miller, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
3. Pauline Collins, Quartet
4. Michael Peña, End of Watch
5. Emily Blunt, Looper
David Fear, Time Out New York
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Master
2. Something in the Air
3. Frances Ha
4. What Maisie Knew
5. Spring Breakers
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Bestiaire
2. Room 237
3. The Central Park Five
4. Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. At Any Price
2. Thanks for Sharing
3. Love, Marilyn
4. Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
5. Cloud Atlas
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2. Gael Garcia Bernal, No
3. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
4. Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
5. Onata Aprile, What Maisie Knew
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
2. James Franco, Spring Breakers
3. Sam Rockwell, Seven Psychopaths
4. Lola Creton, Something in the Air
5. Amy Adams, The Master
Marshall Fine, Hollywood and Fine
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Argo
2. Cloud Atlas
3. The Impossible
4. Rust & Bone
5. The Sessions
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. The Master
2. Passion
3. Yellow
4. At Any Price
5. Imogene
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Michael Shannon, The Iceman
2. John Hawkes, The Sessions
3. Sam Rockwell, Seven Psychopaths
4. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
5. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Smashed
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Christopher Walken, 7 Psychopaths and A Late Quartet
2. Alan Arkin, Argo
3. Helen Hunt, The Sessions
4. Logan Lerman, Writers
5. Chris Evans, The Iceman
Sam Fragoso, Duke and Movies
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Place Beyond the Pines
2. Silver Linings Playbook
3. Seven Psychopaths
4. The Master
5. The Paperboy
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. The Central Park Five
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Looper
2. To the Wonder
3. Reality
4. Frances Ha
5. Imogene
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Ryan Gosling, The Place Beyond the Pines
2. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour
3. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
4. Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
5. Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Helen Hunt, The Sessions
2. Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
3. Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy
4. Alan Arkin & John Goodman, Argo
5. James Franco, Spring Breakers
Jordan Hoffman, ScreenCrush.com
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Frances Ha
2. Spring Breakers
3. Looper
4. Sightseers
5. All That You Possess
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. The Act of Killing
2. Bad 25
3. The Gatekeepers
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Imogene
2. The Suicide Shop
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Amour
2. The Master
3. Cloud Atlas
4. Silver Linings Playbook
5. No
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Stories We Tell
2. The End of Time
3. Storm Surfers 3D
4. Bad 25
5. Bestiaire
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Hyde Park on Hudson
2. A Liar’s Autobiography
3. Laurence Anyways
4. Like Someone in Love
5. The Paperboy
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
3. Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
4. Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
5. Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
2. Amy Adams, The Master
3. Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
4. Michael Peña, End of Watch
5. Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Jake Jacobson, Westwood One Radio
BEST NARRATIVE
1.The Fifth Season
2. Amour
3. The Hunt
4. The Son Did It
5. Silver Linings Playbook
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Leviathan
2. The Act of Killing
3. The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
4. Lunarcy!
5. Casting By
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. The Impossible
2. Jayne Mansfield’s Car
3. A Liar’s Autobiography
4. To the Wonder
5. Cloud Atlas
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
3. Connor Jessup, Blackbird
4. Helen Hunt, The Sessions
5. Bobby Sommer, Museum Hours
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Christopher Walken, A Late Quartet
2. Amy Adams, The Master
3. Maggie Smith, Quartet
4. Sienna Miller, Yellow
5. John Goodman, Argo
Daniel Kasman, MUBI
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Viola
2. Dormant Beauty
3. Departure
4. Passion
5. Orpheus (Outtakes)
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Three Sisters
2. Leviathan
3. View from the Acropolis
4. Black TV
5. Perret in France and Algeria
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2. María Villar, Viola
3. Lee Kang-sheng, Walker
4. Nina Hoss, Barbara
5. Michael Lonsdale, Gebo and the Shadow
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Jeanne Moreau, Gebo and the Shadow
2. Agustina Muñoz / Elisa Carricajo/ Romina Paula / Gabi Saidón / Laura Paredes / Julia Martínez Rubio, Viola
3. Anthony Wong, Motorway
Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out Chicago
BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
1. The Master
… [significant margin]
2. Spring Breakers
3. Argo
4. Frances Ha
5. Silver Linings Playbook
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Leviathan
2. Stories We Tell
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Penance
2. At Any Price
3. To the Wonder
4. Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out (never finds a smoking gun)
5. Hyde Park on Hudson (not that my hopes for it were high—but even allowing for that, egad)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
3. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
4. Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
5. James Franco, Spring Breakers
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Amy Adams, The Master
2. Sam Rockwell, Seven Psychopaths
3. Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
4. Mickey Sumner, Frances Ha
5. Michael Polley, Stories We Tell (for his monologues)
Peter Keough, The Boston Phoenix
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Master
2. The Place Beyond the Pines
3. In the House
4. Seven Psychopaths
5. The Sessions
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Cloud Atlas
2. Byzantium
3. Hannah Arendt
4. Greetings from Tim Buckley
5. Frances Ha
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1.Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2.Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
3.Elle Fanning, Ginger and Rosa
4.Terence Stamp, Song for Marion
5.Helen Hunt, The Sessions
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Dane DeHaan, The Place Beyond the Pines
2. Ernst Umhauer, In the House
3. Christopher Walken, Seven Psychopaths
4. Amy Adams, The Master
5. Imogen Poots, A Late Quartet
Peter Knegt, Indiewire
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Stories We Tell
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. The Impossible
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Ezra Miller, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Chris Knight, National Post
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Argo
2. Silver Linings Playbook
3. Amour
4. The Hunt
5. Looper
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Stories We Tell
2. The Gatekeepers
3. London: The Modern Babylon
4. The End of Time
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. To the Wonder
2. Emperor
3. The Master
4. After the Battle
5. Like Someone in Love
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt
2. Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
3. Michael Shannon, The Iceman
4. John Hawkes, The Sessions
5. Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. William H. Macy, The Sessions
2. Billy Connelly, Quartet
3. Helen Hunt, The Sessions
4. Alan Arkin, Argo
5. Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Eric Kohn, Indiewire
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Stories We Tell
2. Spring Breakers
3. Silver Linings Playbook
4. The Master
5. To the Wonder
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Stories We Tell
2. The Act of Killing
3. Leviathan
4. The Gatekeepers
5. Love, Marilyn
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Midnight’s Children
2. Hyde Park on Hudson
3. Quartet
4. Aftershock
5. Much Ado About Nothing
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
2. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
3. Mary Margaret O’Hara, Museum Hours
4. Toby Jones, Berberian Sound Studio
5. Heather Wahlquist, Yellow
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Jennifer Laurence, Silver Linings Playbook
2. James Franco, Spring Breakers
3. Christopher Walken, Seven Psychopaths
4. Mickey Sumner, Frances Ha
5. Amy Adams, The Master
Yorgos Krassakopoulos, Flix.gr
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Master
2. Amour
3. The Hunt
4. Pieta
5. Boy Eating the Bird’s Food
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Stories We Tell
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. God Loves Caviar
2. Passion
3. Yellow
4. Writers
5. Post Tenebras Lux
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
3. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour
4. Dennis Quaid At Any Price
Eric Lavallee, IONCINEMA.com
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Silver Linings Playbook
2. The Place Beyond the Pines
3. A Hijacking
4. Berberian Sound Studio
5. Blondie
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Leviathan
2. The Act of Killing
3. Three Sisters
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Blackbird
2. Jackie
3. Motorway
4. I Declare War
5. London – The Modern Babylon
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2. Pilou Asbæk, A Hijacking
3. Søren Malling, A Hijacking
4. James Franco, Spring Breakers
5. Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
2. Ryan Gosling, The Place Beyond the Pines
3. Ben Mendelsohn, The Place Beyond the Pines
4. Bruce Greenwood, The Place Beyond the Pines
5. Republican candidates in Janeane from Des Moines
Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Silver Linings Playbook
2. Anna Karenina
3. The Master
4. The Sessions
5. What Maisie Knew
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. West of Memphis
2. How to Make Money Selling Drugs
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. To the Wonder
2. Seven Psychopaths
3. Cloud Atlas
4. Hyde Park on Hudson
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2. John Hawkes, The Sessions
3. Jennifer Lawrence, The Silver Linings Playbook
4. Julianne Moore, What Maisie Knew
5. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Jude Law, Anna Karenina
2. Helena Bonham Carter, Great Expectations
3. Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
4. Amy Adams, The Master
5. Woody Harrelson, Seven Psychopaths
Jennifer Merin, About.com
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Everyday
2. Lore
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Stories We Tell
2. Rafea: Solar Mama
3. Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
4. How to Make Money Selling Drugs
5. The Waiting Room
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Reincarnated
2. No Place on Earth
3. Leviathan
4. Thank You for Sharing
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Shirley Henderson, Everyday
2. Saskia Rosendahl, Lore
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. John Simm, Everyday
2. Nick Holaschke, Lore
Noel Murray, The AV Club
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Master
2. Seven Psychopaths
3. Looper
4. Frances Ha
5. Much Ado About Nothing
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Room 237
2. Leviathan
3. The Act Of Killing
4. Stories We Tell
5. Bad 25
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Sightseers
2. At Any Price
3. A Liar’s Autobiography
4. Ginger & Rosa
5. Underground
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
2. Nermina Lukac, Eat Sleep Die
3. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
4. Toby Jones, Berberian Sound Studio
5. Amy Acker, Much Ado About Nothing
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
2. Jude Law, Anna Karenina
3. Sam Rockwell, Seven Psychpaths
4. Nathan Fillion, Much Ado About Nothing
5. Christopher Walken, Seven Psychopaths
Adam Nayman, The Grid
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Tabu
2. Viola
3. The Master
4. Barbara
5. Tower
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. The Act of Killing
2. Room 237
3. Leviathan
4. Bestiaire
5. The End of Time
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. To the Wonder
2. Post Tenebras Lux
3. Amour
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Steve Oram and Alice Lowe, Sightseers
3. The ensemble, Viola
4. Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. James Franco, Spring Breakers
2. Laura Soveral, Tabu
3. The Raccoon, Tower
[Special Award: The Iceman, for best facial hair (the award will be accepted by David Schwimmer on behalf of the entire cast).]
B Ruby Rich, UC Santa Cruz
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Hannah Arendt
2. Ginger and Rosa
3. Mekong Hotel
4. Cloud Atlas
5. Something in the Air
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. The Stories We Tell
2. The Act of Killing
3. The Gatekeepers
4. State 194
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Capital
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Elle Fanning, Ginger and Rosa
2. Barbara Sukowa, Hannah Arendt
3. Garrett Hedlund, On the Road
4. The entire cast of Cloud Atlas
Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Master
2. The Place Beyond the Pines
3. Frances Ha
4. Argo
5. The Sessions
BEST DOCUMENTARY (or non-narrative?)
1. Leviathan
2. 9.79*
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. To the Wonder I like it more than most, but still…
2. At Any Price
3. Midnight’s Children
4. Looper
5. What Maisie Knew
(BYZANTIUM gets a fat D–, but I was expecting nothing)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
2. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
3. John Hawkes, The Sessions
4. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
5. Tom Holland, The Impossible
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Christopher Walken, A Late Quartet
2. Helen Hunt, The Sessions
3. Doona Bae, Cloud Atlas
4. Philip Seymour Hoffman, A Late Quartet
5. Bryan Cranston, Argo
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Last Time I Saw Macao
2. Museum Hours
3. Night Across the Street
4. Like Someone in Love
5. The Master
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. The Last Time I Saw Macao
2. Museum Hours
3. Far from Afghanistan
4. Leviathan
5. A Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Ginger and Rosa
2. The Master
3. Like Someone in Love
4. Leviathan
5. Love, Marilyn
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
2. Slavoj Zizek, A Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
3. The fishing boat, Leviathan
4. Bobby Sommer, Museum Hours
5. Mary Margaret O’Hara, Museum Hours
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Noam Chomsky, Far from Afghanistan
2. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Far from Afghanistan
3. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Museum Hours
4. Annette Benning, Ginger and Rosa
5. Timothy Spall, Ginger and Rosa
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Berberian Sound Studio
2. Sightseers
3. Spring Breakers
4. The Bay
5. Kon-Tiki
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Stories We Tell
2. Room 237
3. Leviathan
4. The Gatekeepers
5. Casting By
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. The Master
2. Passion
3. Anna Karenina
4. Argo
5. The Lords of Salem
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE (apparently, few performances impressed me that much)
1. Alice Lowe, Sightseers
2. Steve Oram, Sightseers
3. Toby Jones, Berberian Sound Studio
4. Onata Aprile, What Maisie Knew
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. James Franco, Spring Breakers
2. Steve Coogan, What Maisie Knew
3. Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
4. Amy Adams, The Master
Michael Sicinski, The Academic Hack
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Student
2. Frances Ha
3. When Night Falls
4. Like Someone in Love
5. Barbara
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Leviathan
2. Bestiaire
3. Three Sisters
4. Room 237
5. Perret in France and Algeria
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Penance
2. Everyday
3. Pieta
4. Clip
5. The Crimes of Mike Recket
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
2. James Franco, Spring Breakers
3. Lee Kang-Sheng, Walker
4. Ruscen Vidinliev, The Color of the Chameleon
5. Margarete Tiesel, Paradise: Love
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Ashley Benson, Spring Breakers
2. Peter Kazungu, Paradise: Love
3. Noomi Rapace, Passion
4. Andre Gregory, Far from Afghanistan
5. Ronald Zehrfeld, Barbara
Jordan Smith, IONCINEMA.com
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Place Beyond The Pines
2. Silver Linings Playbook
3. Frances Ha
4. Spring Breakers
5. The Fifth Season
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. The Act Of Killing
2. Room 237
3. Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story
4. Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God
5. The Central Park Five
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. The Iceman
2. At Any Price
3. Penance
4. Imogene
5. I Declare War
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2. Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
3. Bill Murray, Hyde Park on Hudson
4. Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
5. Toby Jones, Berberian Sound Studio
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
2. James Franco, Spring Breakers
3. Amy Adams, The Master
4. Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy
5. Lee Jung-hyun, Juvenile Offender
Nigel M. Smith, Indiewire
BEST NARRATIVE
1. The Place Beyond the Pines
2. Frances Ha
3. Spring Breakers
4. The Sessions
5. Amour
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. The Impossible
2. Byzantium
3. Arthur Newman
4. The Lords of Salem
5. Seven Psychopaths
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
2. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Looper
3. Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
4. Jean-Louis Trintigniant, Amour
5. Rachel McAdams, Passion
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy
2. Helen Hunt, The Sessions
3. James Franco, Spring Breakers
4. Ryan Gosling, The Place Beyond the Pines
5. Emily Blunt, Looper
Anne Thompson, Thompson on Hollywood
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Silver Linings Playbook
2. Barbara
3. Argo
4. Amour
5. The Master
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. The Gatekeepers
2. The Stories We Tell
3. Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
4. West of Memphis
5. Love, Marilyn
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Hyde Park on Hudson
2. To the Wonder
3. Passion
4. At Any Price
5. The Paperboy
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. John Hawkes, The Sessions
2. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
3. Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
4. Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
5. Helen Hunt, The Sessions
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Jim Broadbent, Cloud Atlas
2. Jude Law, Anna Karenina
3. Emily Blunt, Looper
4. Alan Arkin, Argo
5. Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Kim Voynar, Movie City News
BEST NARRATIVE
1. To the Wonder
2. Ginger and Rosa
3. Rust and Bone
4. At Any Price
5. Pieta
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. The Act of Killing
2. The Gatekeepers
3. No Place on Earth
4. Fidai
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Frances Ha
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Elle Fanning, Ginger and Rosa
2. Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
3. Javier Bardem, To the Wonder
4. Garrett Hedlund, On the Road
5. Cho Min Soo, Pieta
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Annette Bening, Ginger and Rosa
2. Oliver Platt, Ginger and Rosa
3. Christina Hendricks, Ginger and Rosa
4.Zac Efron, At Any Price
5. Kim Dickens, At Any Price
David Walsh, World Socialist Web Site
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Dormant Beauty
2. When Night Falls
3. Capital
4. The We and the I
5. Juvenile Offender
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. A World Not Ours
2. Far From Afghanistan
3. Fidai
4. Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out
5. Three Sisters
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Toni Servillo, Dormant Beauty
2. Nai An, When Night Falls
3. Gad Elmaleh, Capital
4. Abhay Deol, Shanghai
5. Barbara Sukowa, Hannah Arendt
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. Arbaaz Khan, Mumbai’s King
2. Anaclara Ferreyra Palfy, 3
3. Nada Shouhayib, Detroit Unleaded
4. Iva Mugalela, Virgin Margarida
5. Ernesto Alterio, Clandestine Childhood
Blake Williams, Ioncinema.com
BEST NARRATIVE
1. Like Someone in Love
2. Beyond the Hills
3. To the Wonder
4. Amour
5. Spring Breakers
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Leviathan
2. Room 237
3. Bestiaire
4. differently, Molussia
5. The Last Time I Saw Macao
MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM
1. Mekong Hotel
2. The Place Beyond the Pines
3. Something in the Air
4. Post Tenebras Lux
5. The Master
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
1. Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2. Cristina Flutur, Beyond the Hills
3. Derek Bogart, Tower
4. Isabelle Huppert, In Another Country
5. Soko, Augustine
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
1. James Franco, Spring Breakers
2. Valeriu Andriuta, Beyond the Hills
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
4. Vincent Lindon, Augustine
5. Laura Dern, The Master
