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.
