2013 Muriel Winners for 2012 films!

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2013 Muriel Winners for 2012 films!

February 24, 2013 by wondersinthedark

by Sam Juliano

This was the first year I participated in the esteemed ‘Muriel Awards’ voting. Jaimie Grijalba also cast his maiden ballot in the venture run by Paul Clark and Steve Carlson and encompassing some distinguished cineastes who take their movies seriously. I was personally thrilled that my own #1 film The Turin Horse finished in the Top 5, and that The Deep Blue Sea’s Rachel Weisz was voted Best Actress. Here are the Top Ten and individual winners:

The Muriels Best Picture (Top 10):

Holy Motors [322 points / 28 votes]
Moonrise Kingdom [295.5 points / 27 votes]
The Master [272 points / 26 votes]
Zero Dark Thirty [174.5 points / 17 votes]
The Turin Horse [163 points / 15 votes]
The Deep Blue Sea [156/16]
Django Unchained [151/16]
Lincoln [150/15]
Looper [139/16]
Amour [118/10]

Director: Leos Carax, Holy Motors [142 points / 23 votes]
Female Lead: Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea [186 points / 28 votes]
Male Lead: Denis Lavant, Holy Motors [242 points / 35 votes]
Supporting Female: Amy Adams, The Master [146 points / 22 votes]
Supporting Male: Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master [187 points / 28 votes]
Cinematic Moment: Holy Motors – “entr’acte” [263 points / 22 votes]
Screenplay: Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom [154 points / 24 votes]
Ensemble: Moonrise Kingdom [197 points / 29 votes]
Cinematography: The Master (director of photography: Mihai Malamaire Jr.) [201 points / 31 votes]
Editing: Zero Dark Thirty (William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor) [148 points / 21 votes]
Music (Original, Adapted, Compiled): Moonrise Kingdom (score composed by Alexandre Desplat; march composed by Mark Mothersbaugh; additional music composed by Peter Jarvis; music supervisor Randall Poster) [169 points / 26 votes]
Body of Work in 2012: Matthew McConaughey, (actor – Killer Joe, Magic Mike,Bernie, The Paperboy) [213 points / 29 votes]
Cinematic Breakthrough: Quvenzhané Wallis (actor, Beasts of the Southern Wild)[80 points / 14 votes]
Special Award – Best Film of the 1970s: Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese) [208 points / 22 votes]
50th Anniversary Award for Best Film of 1962: Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)[170 points / 25 votes]
25th Anniversary Award for Best Film of 1987: Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)[133 points / 22 votes]
10th Anniversary Award for Best Film of 2002: Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson) [135 points / 22 votes]

Be sure to hit the Muriels Blog for more results.

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on February 24, 2013 at 9:03 pm | Reply mark s.

Well, there’s good ole Stanley winning a goddam award for his lousy Vietnam pic. Pure Pavlovianism.
Yes, Sam, it’s great to see ‘The Turin Horse’ ranked so high, and to see Matthew McConaughey get an award for his amazing body of work in 2012.
on February 24, 2013 at 9:08 pm | Reply Sam Juliano

Thanks Mark! I may like FULL METAL JACKET a bit more than you, but it does have some issues for sure. In 1987 I am always torn between HOPE AND GLORY, EMPIRE OF THE SUN and THE DEAD.
- on February 24, 2013 at 9:12 pm | Reply mark s.
  
  Ah, yes, ‘The Dead’ and Anjelica Huston. Wonderful work.
  Also love Frears’ ‘Sammie and Rosie Get Laid’.
- on February 24, 2013 at 9:21 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Yes I like that one quite a bit Mark!
on February 24, 2013 at 9:30 pm | Reply jaimegrijalba

I was glad to take part of this amazing project, one that I’ve been following for the past years (along with the Skandies) and I was so proud of every choice made here, even if they don’t reflect my own choices, and I was happy that I was asked to write about my favorite film of the year: Django Unchained.
on February 25, 2013 at 1:16 am | Reply Jon

Interesting about Holy Motors, which I thought was really uneven overall, but very surprised that Moonrise Kingdom did so well. Actually 5 of these would be on my top 10 as of right now. Glad to see The Deep Blue Sea do so well and Rachel Weisz whom I thought gave the best performance last year. What’s the deal with Denis Levant though!? Geez what a mannered and labored performance, which was just as uneven as the film itself. No no no.
on February 25, 2013 at 3:26 pm | Reply Frank Gallo

This group has taste!
on March 12, 2013 at 2:57 pm | Reply Pierre de Plume

Although I don’t agree with all these choices, the list is certainly more respectable than the one that AMPAS came up with. I’d rather see an ambitious though imperfect risk (e.g., The Master, Zero Dark Thirty) over a calculated crowd pleaser (e.g., Argo) any day of the week.

I’m curious — where did John Hawkes (The Sessions) end up in the ballotting?
- on March 12, 2013 at 11:18 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Pierre, I agree with you completely! The ambitious choice is always far preferable than the safe one!
  
  Hawkes finished ninth in the Muriels voting:
  
  http://www.opal-films.com/actor12.html
  - on March 13, 2013 at 4:26 pm Pierre de Plume
    
    Well, Sam, now that I see the rankings of the actors, it’s hard to quibble — although I haven’t seen Flight yet.