Author Archives: Marya E. Gates
Movie Quote of the Day – Born to Dance, 1936 (dir. Roy Del Ruth)
Nora Paige: Oh, are you married?
Jenny Saks: Yes, we were partners in a marathon dance. About the 28th day business dropped off, so the management offered a cash prize to the couple who would get married during the contest. Well, gee, dancing with the same guy for 672 hours, naturally I thought I was in love, but I was just tired.
The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Name “12 Years A Slave” Best of 2013
Best Film:
12 Years a SlaveBest Director:
Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)Best Actor:
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)Best Supporting Actor:
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)Best Supporting Actress:
Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)Best Acting Ensemble:
12 Years a SlaveBest Youth Performance:
Tye Sheridan (Mud)Best Adapted Screenplay:
John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)Best Original Screenplay:
Spike Jonze (Her)Best Animated Feature:
FrozenBest Documentary:
BlackfishBest Foreign Language Film:
The Broken Circle BreakdownBest Art Direction:
Production Designer: Catherine Martin, Set Decorator: Beverley Dunn (The Great Gatsby)Best Cinematography:
Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, A.M.C. (Gravity)Best Editing:
Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger (Gravity)Best Original Score:
Hans Zimmer (12 Years a Slave)The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC:
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Movie Quote of the Day – Two Weeks in Another Town, 1962 (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
Jack Andrus: What’s your name?
Veronica: Veronica.
Jack Andrus: Veronica what?
Veronica: Veronica Whats the difference?
“Gravity” and “Her” Tie As Best Film of 2013 By L.A. Film Critics
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Blue is the Warmest Color
Runner-up: The Great BeautyBEST PICTURE (tie): Gravity and Her
BEST ACTRESS (tie): Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine and Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Color
BEST SCREENPLAY: Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight
Runner-up: Spike Jonze, HerBEST ACTOR: Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Runner-up: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a SlaveBEST DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
Runner-up: Spike Jonze, HerBEST DOCUMENTARY, Stories We Tell
Runner-up: The Act of KillingDouglas Edwards Independent/Experimental Film/Video Award:Cabinets Of Wonder: Films and a Performance by Charlotte Pryce
BEST MUSIC SCORE, T Bone Burnett, Inside Llewyn Davis
Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett, HerBEST ANIMATION, Ernest & Celestine
Runner-up: The Wind RisesBEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, Winner (tie): James Franco, Spring Breakers, and Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity
Runner-up, Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn DavisBEST EDITING: Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger, Gravity
Runner-up: Shane Carruth and David Lowery, Upstream ColorBEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Runner-up: June Squibb, NebraskaBEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: K.K. Barrett, HER
Runner-up: Jess Gonchor, Inside Llewyn Davis
Movie Quote of the Day – Blind Date, 1987 (dir. Blake Edwards)
Walter Davis: Nadia I’m taking you home!
Nadia Gates: To Baton Rouge?
Walter Davis: I’m taking you to your friend’s house! Now where do they live?
Movie Quote of the Day – The Magnificent Seven, 1960 (dir. John Sturges)
Calvera: What I don’t understand is why a man like you took the job in the first place, hmm? Why, huh?
Chris: I wonder myself.
Calvera: No, come on, come on, tell me why.
Vin: It’s like a fellow I once knew in El Paso. One day, he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him that same question, “Why?”
Calvera: And?
Vin: He said, “It seemed to be a good idea at the time.”
Movie Quote of the Day – Since You Went Away, 1944 (dir. John Cromwell)
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Tim!
Lt. Tony Willett: Awww, does it always have to be Tim?
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Oh, Tony!
Lt. Tony Willett: Yes. The eternal also-ran.
Movie Quote of the Day – We’re Not Married!, 1952 (dir. Edmund Goulding)
Ramona Gladwyn: Say one thing about our marriage. If there’s such a thing as an un-jackpot, I’ve hit it!
“Her” Named Best Film of the Year by National Board of Review
Best Film: HER
Best Director: Spike Jonze, HER
Best Actor: Bruce Dern, NEBRASKA
Best Actress: Emma Thompson, SAVING MR. BANKS
Best Supporting Actor: Will Forte, NEBRASKA
Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, FRUITVALE STATION
Best Original Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Best Adapted Screenplay: Terence Winter, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Best Animated Feature: THE WIND RISES
Breakthrough Performance: Michael B. Jordan, FRUITVALE STATION
Breakthrough Performance: Adele Exarchopoulos, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR
Best Directorial Debut: Ryan Coogler, FRUITVALE STATION
Best Foreign Language Film: THE PAST
Best Documentary: STORIES WE TELL
William K. Everson Film History Award: George Stevens, Jr.
Best Ensemble: PRISONERS
Spotlight Award: Career Collaboration of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: WADJDA
Creative Innovation in Filmmaking Award: GRAVITYTop 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 STREETTop 5 Foreign Language Films
(In Alphabetical Order)BEYOND THE HILLS
GLORIA
THE GRANDMASTER
A HIJACKING
THE HUNTTop 5 Documentaries
(In Alphabetical Order)20 FEET FROM STARDOM
THE ACT OF KILLING
AFTER TILLER
CASTING BY
THE SQUARETop 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
Movie Quote of the Day – Spring Parade, 1940 (dir. Henry Koster)
Ilonka Tolnay: Do you own this place?
Headwaiter: No, I don’t.
Ilonka Tolnay: Well, when I buy, I like to buy from the owner, not the help.
Headwaiter: But, please, the owner here does not take orders at the table.
Ilonka Tolnay: Probably because he’s ashamed of his prices.
Corporal Harry Marten: Please, this is Vienna. Everything’s a little higher.
Ilonka Tolnay: Asparagus is asparagus, even in Vienna.
the diary of a film history fanatic 