The Arthouse Converter Film 2013 Hall of Fame

This film list is based on the progress of such films such as 12 Years a Slave, The Butler and Fruitvale Station and the great tragedy of the modern world. The list is in chronological order.

1. Intolerance
2. Sunset Blvd
3. Bicycle Thieves
4. The Sound of Music
5. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
6. Dog Day Afternoon
7. The Deer Hunter
8. The Shining
9. The Fox and the Hound
10. Raiders of the Lost Ark
11. Boyz in the Hood
12. Reservoir Dogs
13. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
14. There Will Be Blood
15. Cloud Atlas

2013 Golden Globe Awards outcome

Best Foreign Language Film:
My pick: Blue is the Warmest Color
Golden Globes chose:  The Great Beauty
Both now good candidates for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Picture.

Best Screenplay (unanimous):
Spike Jonze, for his infamous in previous films, finally getting awarded for Her.

Best Picture-Musical or Comedy:
My pick: Her
Golden Globes pick: American Hustle
12 Years a Slave still the favorite
Best Picture-Drama: (unanimous)
12 Years a Slave

Best Director:
My biased 2011 pick: Steve McQueen
Golden Globes pick: Alfonso Cuaron
Both good candidates. The Academy Awards a bit more interesting now.

Best Actor-Drama/Comedy:
My pick: N/A.
Golden Globes pick: Matthew McConaughey probably because he led in Dallas Buyers Club and Mud.

Best Actress-Comedy:
My pick: N/A.
Golden Globes pick: Amy Adams

Best Actress: (unanimous)
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Best Supporting Actor: (unanimous)
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
My personal choice: Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave

Best Supporting Actress:
June Squibb, Nebraska
My personal choice: Lupita Nyong'o: 12 Years a Slave
Golden Globes pick: Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle, due to her Academy seniority.
This will be an interesting category indeed when the Academy Award appears.

Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis snubbed in 2013-4 DGA nominations

The nominees for Feature Film were:

• Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity
• Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips
• Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
• David O. Russell – American Hustle
• Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

Captain Phillips is a controversial pick, because of its portrayal of subject matter. 

Gravity's use of dialogue didn't work. 

American Hustle had great performances but cannot be compared to the auteurish work such as the Coen Bros' Llewyn Davis.

12 Years of Slave was done by an auteur but cannot be compared to a Rob Ager-ish project like Inside Llewyn Davis.

The Wolf of Wall Street was pretty darn good....

Movies I am looking forward to in 2014

February 7th: The Monuments Men
February 12th: RoboCop
March 21st:

• Divergent
• Muppets Most Wanted

March 28th: Cesar Chavez
April 18th: Transcendence directed by Wally Pfister
May 9th: Chef directed by Jon Favreau, starring Robert Downey Jr
May 16th: Godzilla directed by Monsters director Gareth Edwards starring Elizabeth Olsen
May 23rd: X-Men: Days of Future Past starring James MacAvoy and Michael Fassbender
May 30th: Maleficient
June 13th: How to Train Your Dragon 2
July 18th: Jupiter Ascending
August 1st: Guardians of the Galaxy
August 22nd: Sin City: A Dame to Kill For directed by Robert Rodriguez and 
October 3rd: Gone Girl directed by David Fincher
November 7th: Interstellar directed by Christopher Nolan
December 12th: Exodus directed by Ridley Scott
December 25th: Unbroken directed by Angelina Jolie, written by the Coen Bros

My memorable Christmas films

1. Eyes Wide Shut
2. A Christmas Carol
3. A Muppet Christmas Carol
4. Santa Claus is Coming To Town
5. A Charlie Brown Christmas
6. Frosty the Snowman
7. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
8. It's Christmas Time, Charlie Brown
9. The Santa Clause 2
10. Die Hard
11. The Magic Paintbrush
12. Home Alone 2: Lost in NY
13. Batman Returns
14. The Santa Clause
15. The Santa Clause 3

The Top 15 Worst Blockbusters of 2013

1. A Madea Christmas
2. Anchorman 2
3. A Good Time to Die Hard
4. Top Gun 3D
5. A Haunted House
6. Star Trek: Into Darkness/
7. The Man of Steel
8. Movie 43
9. Iron Man 3
10. GI Joe: Retaliation
11. Fast & The Furious 6
12. The Hangover Part III
13. RIPD
14. Thor: The Dark World
15. Planes

VGX I/2013 was a con in more than one sense of the word

VGX I/2013 was a lie.

• The Game of the Year was awarded half way in the middle of the show
• Those games and awards were barely talked about.
• They pretended to empathize and portray internet culture while horribly failing and making them look horrible.
• The guests were cheap. The set was cheap. Everything this year was cheap. They did not try. Especially Joel McHale. (I never liked Community anyway.)
• They instead heavily promoted future games

Another form of Con that VGX and the Video Game Awards have been trying to be for a while: a video game convention. They demonstrated future games at something that implied previous games of the year! How backwards (or not) is that?

They can hire booth babes.

They can charge people to go.

They can make some money and have people going.

Why don't they do that?

The 2013 ArthouseConverter Video Game Hall of Fame

1961 SpaceWar!
1972 Pong
1974 Oregon Trail 
1988 Super Mario Bros 3
1990 Mega Man 3
1994

• Final Fantasy VI
• Policenauts

1996 Super Mario 64
1999 Shenmue

2001 

• Deus Ex 
• Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty

2002

• Metroid Prime
• ICO
• Shinobi

 2004 Ninja Gaiden
 2005 Shadow of the Colossus
2010

• Mass Effect 2
• Minecraft

2012 Retrograde
2013 Antichamber

My Predictions: 12 Years a Slave major winner for the 71st/2014 Golden Globe Awards

The Wind Rises was shafted for Best Animated Feature, although it could win for Best Foreign Language Film.
Best Animated Feature:
Does not matter
Best Foreign Language Film:
Blue is the Warmest Color will take that prize.

Best Screenplay:
Spike Jonze, for his infamous in previous films, finally getting awarded for Her.

Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave and Spike Jonze's Her are the top candidates for the Academy Awards, so I choose them as their respective winner for Best Picture category.
Steve McQueen would unanimously get the Best Director nod.
Best Picture-Drama:
12 Years a Slave
Best Picture-Musical or Comedy:
Her
Best Director:
Steve McQueen

Best Actor-Drama/Comedy:
Everyone wins, since they are such good candidates.

Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Best Supporting Actor:
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
My personal choice: Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave

Best Supporting Actress:
June Squibb, Nebraska
My personal choice: Lupita Nyong'o: 12 Years a Slave

Academy Award Updates 12/10/2013

Want to know the top leaders in the Oscar race? Check the leaders in bold.

Best Film, Director

1. Her, Spike Jonze, National Board of Review, LAFCS
2. 12 Years A Slave, Steve McQueen NYFCC, BFCS
3. Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron, BFCS, LAFCA
4. Fruitvale Station, Ryan Coogler, Many Breakthrough Director Awards
5. Inside Llewyn Davis, Gotham
6. Nebraska, BFCS
7. Wadjda, BFCS
8. Wolf of Wall Street, BFCS Runner Up
9. The Act of Killing, BFCS Runner Up

Best Animated Film
The Wind Rises, Almost Everything, LAFCA Runner Up
Ernest and Celestine, LAFCA
Frozen, BFCS Runner Up

Best Documentary
Act of Killing, Almost everything, LAFCA Runner Up
Stories We Tell, LAFCA
Black Fish, BFCS Runner Up

Best Foreign Language Film
Blue is the Warmest Color, Almost Everything
The Great Beauty (Italy), LAFCA Runner Up

Lists:
National Board of Review
Top 10 Films (in alphabetical order):

• 12 Years a Slave
• Fruitvale Station
• Gravity
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Lone Survivor
• Nebraska
• Prisoners
• Saving Mr. Banks
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• The Wolf of Wall Street

Top 5 Foreign Language Films (in alphabetical order):

• Beyond the Hills
• Gloria
• The Grandmaster
• A Hijacking
• The Hunt

Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order):

• Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
• Dallas Buyers Club
• In a World…
• Mother of George
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Mud
• The Place Beyond the Pines
• Short Term 12
• Sightseers
• The Spectacular Now

American Film Institute Top 10

• 12 Years a Slave
• American Hustle
• Captain Phillips
• Fruitvale Station
• Gravity
• Her
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Nebraska
• Saving Mr. Banks
• The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Screenplay:
Enough Said, BFCS
The Wolf of Wall Street, BFCS Runner Up
Richard Linklater, Before Midnight, LAFCS
Spike Jonze, Her, LAFCA Runner Up

Best Cinematography:
Emmanuel Lubezki – Gravity, BFCS, LAFCA

Phillipe le Sourd, The Grandmaster, BFCS Runner Up

Best Editing:
Rush, BFCS
Thelma Schoonmaker – The Wolf of Wall Street, BFCS Runner-up: 
Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger – Gravity, LAFCA
Shane Carruth and David Lowery – Upstream Color, LAFCA Runner-up

Best Actor

1. Bruce Dern, Nebraska, NBR, LAFCS
2. Michael B. Jordan, Gotham, NBR
3. Robert Redford, All is Lost, NYFC
4. Chiwetel Eijofor, BFCS, LAFCS Runner Up
5. Leonardo DiCaprio, BFCS Runner Up

Best Actress

1. Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine, NYFC, BFCS, LAFCS
2. Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Colour, NBR, LAFCS
3. Emma Thompson, Saving Ms. Banks, NBR
4. Brie Lawson, Short Term 12, Gotham
5. Judi Dench, Philomena, BFCS Runner Up

Best Supporting Actor

1. Jared Leto, NYFC, BFCS Runner Up, LAFCA
2. Will Forte, Nebraska, NBR
3. James Gandolfini, Enough Said, BFCS
4. James Franco, LAFCA
5. Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips, BFCS Runner Up

Best Supporting Actress

1. June Squibb, Nebraska, Gotham, BFCS, LAFCA
2. Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave, BFCS Runner Up, LAFCA
3. Jennifer Lawrence, NYFC
4. Octavia Spencer, NBR