Below are the individual ballots from each writer on the Movie Mezzanine staff. Hopefully you’ll find an eclectic batch of interesting films from these lists, which best describes this great year of film. And be sure to check out our list of the 50 best films of 2013, which is an aggregation of all of the lists you’ll find below. Enjoy!
Sam Fragoso, Founder & Editor-In-Chief
1.) Before Midnight
2.) Stories We Tell
3.) Her
4.) The Wolf of Wall Street
5.) The Wind Rises
6.) Inside Llewyn Davis
7.) Blue Jasmine
8.) Nebraska
9.) The Act of Killing
10.) The Kings of Summer
11.) 12 Years a Slave
12.) Mud
13.) Viola
14.) The Spectacular Now
15.) Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Tom Clift, Co-Founder
1.) The Past
2.) Side Effects
3.) All Is Lost
4.) Fill the Void
5.) Stranger by the Lake
6.) Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
7.) Gravity
8.) Pain & Gain
9.) Prisoners
10.) Much Ado About Nothing
11.) Fast & Furious 6
12.) Sightseers
13.) A Hijacking
14.) Mud
15.) Drinking Buddies
Andrew Johnson, Senior Editor
1.) The Act of Killing
2.) Spring Breakers
3.) After Tiller
4.) What Maisie Knew
5.) The World’s End
6.) Before Midnight
7.) The Past
8.) Fill the Void
9.) Stories We Tell
10.) Blue is the Warmest Color
11.) The Invader
12.) It’s A Disaster
13.) The Broken Circle Breakdown
14.) All Is Lost
15.) The Purge
Jake Cole, Assistant Editor
1.) Leviathan
2.) Museum Hours
3.) At Berkeley
4.) The World’s End
5.) Drug War
6.) Bastards
7.) Inside Llewyn Davis
8.) Her
9.) Like Someone in Love
10.) Spring Breakers
11.) To the Wonder
12.) The Wolf of Wall Street
13.) Computer Chess
14.) You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
15.) A Touch of Sin
Christopher Runyon, Assistant Editor
1.) Her
2.) The Wind Rises
3.) Short Term 12
4.) Wolf Children
5.) The Act of Killing
6.) Inside Llewyn Davis
7.) 12 Years a Slave
8.) Before Midnight
9.) Beyond the Hills
10.) The Wolf of Wall Street
11.) Spring Breakers
12.) Blue Jasmine
13.) Stoker
14.) Frances Ha
15.) The Spectacular Now
Jake Mulligan, Contributor
1.) Inside Llewyn Davis
2.) The Wolf of Wall Street
3.) Something In the Air
4.) The Wind Rises
5.) Drug War
6.) Spring Breakers
7.) The World’s End
8.) 12 Years a Slave
9.) The Past
10.) Frances Ha
11.) Before Midnight
12.) Like Someone In Love
13.) Pacific Rim
14.) To the Wonder
15.) The Bling Ring
Michał Oleszczyk, Contributor
1.) Much Ado About Nothing
2.) Upstream Color
3.) Everybody in the Family
4.) The Unspeakable Act
5.) This is the End
6.) A Hijacking
7.) Caesar Must Die
8.) The We and the I
9.) 20 Feet From Stardom
10.) Byzantium
11.) Turbo
12.) Imagine
13.) Captain Phillips
14.) To the Wonder
15.) 12 Years a Slave
Monica Castillo, Contributor
1.) Inside Llewyn Davis
2.) The Wolf of Wall Street
3.) Spring Breakers
4.) 12 Years a Slave
5.) The Spectacular Now
6.) Gimme the Loot
7.) Her
8.) Frances Ha
9.) Drug War
10.) Upstream Color
11.) Stories We Tell
12.) The Great Beauty
13.) Before Midnight
14.) Museum Hours
15.) 20 Feet From Stardom
Zeba Blay, Contributor
1.) 12 Years a Slave
2.) Before Midnight
3.) Behind the Candelabra
4.) The Wolf of Wall Street
5.) Fruitvale Station
6.) Prisoners
7.) Let the Fire Burn
8.) We Steal Secrets
9.) Upstream Color
10.) Mother of George
11.) Pacific Rim
12.) The Great Gatsby
13.) Newlyweeds
14.) Passion
15.) The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete
Steve Boone, Contributor
1.) Paradise: Love
2.) Blue is the Warmest Color
3.) Drug War
4.) No
5.) 12 Years a Slave
6.) Narco Cultura
7.) Before Midnight
8.) The Act of Killing
9.) Computer Chess
10.) Blackfish
11.) Lore
12.) Gravity
13.) The Grandmaster (Chinese Cut)
14.) Leviathan
15.) Like Someone in Love
Noah Gittell, Editorialist
1.) 12 Years a Slave
2.) Blue is the Warmest Color
3.) Her
4.) Nebraska
5.) White House Down
6.) Lee Daniels’ The Butler
7.) Inside Llewyn Davis
8.) Ginger & Rosa
9.) What Maisie Knew
10.) Thanks for Sharing
11.) American Hustle
12.) Gravity
13.) Before Midnight
14.) The Attack
15.) Captain Phillips
Odie Henderson, Contributor
1.) Gimme the Loot
2.) 12 Years a Slave
3.) No
4.) Before Midnight
5.) 20 Feet From Stardom
6.) Pacific Rim
7.) Fruitvale Station
8.) All Is Lost
9.) In a World…
10.) Inside Llewyn Davis
11.) This is the End
12.) The Wolf of Wall Street
13.) Lee Daniels’ The Butler
14.) Enough Said
15.) 42
Lauren Wilford, Contributor
1.) Her
2.) Upstream Color
3.) 12 Years a Slave
4.) Frances Ha
5.) The Conjuring
6.) Before Midnight
7.) About Time
8.) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
9.) Gravity
10.) Inside Llewyn Davis
Tina Hassannia, Contributor
1.) 12 Years a Slave
2.) Leviathan
3.) The Wolf of Wall Street
4.) Inside Llewyn Davis
5.) Her
6.) Spring Breakers
7.) The Unspeakable Act
8.) At Berkeley
9.) Museum Hours
10.) A Touch of Sin
11.) Bastards
12.) Like Someone in Love
13.) Before Midnight
14.) Computer Chess
15.) Frances Ha
Adriana Floridia, Newswire Editor
1.) Her
2.) Before Midnight
3.) Inside Llewyn Davis
4.) Spring Breakers
5.) Frozen
6.) The Wolf of Wall Street
7.) Short Term 12
8.) Nebraska
9.) The Dirties
10.) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
11.) Captain Phillips
12.) Mud
13.) Prisoners
14.) In a World…
15.) Frances Ha
Andrew Robinson, Web Designer/Columnist
1.) 12 Years a Slave
2.) Gravity
3.) The Spectacular Now
4.) The Wind Rises
5.) The Act of Killing
6.) Stoker
7.) Upstream Color
8.) Spring Breakers
9.) Closed Curtain
10.) Fruitvale Station
11.) The Hunt
12.) Frances Ha
13.) Drug War
14.) Only God Forgives
15.) Man of Steel
Alexander Huls, Contributor
1.) Her
2.) Before Midnight
3.) Inside Llewyn Davis
4.) 12 Years a Slave
5.) The Act of Killing
6.) Frances Ha
7.) Upstream Color
8.) Drug War
9.) The Wolf of Wall Street
10.) Leviathan
11.) Side Effects
12.) Like Someone in Love
13.) Spring Breakers
14.) Beyond the Hills
15.) Enough Said
Anna Tatarska, Contributor
1.) Sun Don’t Shine
2.) Post Tenebras Lux
3.) Stories We Tell
4.) The Hunt
5.) Dallas Buyers Club
6.) Spring Breakers
7.) Before Midnight
8.) Fill the Void
9.) Paradise: Love
10.) The Act of Killing
11.) Museum Hours
12.) Computer Chess
13.) Inside Llewyn Davis
14.) The Wolf of Wall Street
15.) Gravity
Brogan Morris, Reviewer
1.) All is Lost
2.) Something in the Air
3.) The Place Beyond the Pines
4.) Gravity
5.) To the Wonder
6.) What Richard Did
7.) Before Midnight
8.) Mud
9.) Only God Forgives
10.) No
11.) Spring Breakers
12.) Ernest & Celestine
13.) Simon Killer
14.) In the House
15.) The Counselor
Andrew Crump, Contributor
1.) Her
2.) The Wolf of Wall Street
3.) Inside Llewyn Davis
4.) The Great Beauty
5.) 12 Years a Slave
6.) Before Midnight
7.) The World’s End
8.) The Act of Killing
9.) Gimme the Loot
10.) Gravity
11.) Short Term 12
12.) Frances Ha
13.) V/H/S 2
14.) Narco Cultura
15.) Pacific Rim
Colin Biggs, Newswire Editor
1.) Prisoners
2.) American Hustle
3.) Her
4.) Inside Llewyn Davis
5.) The Wolf of Wall Street
6.) 12 Years a Slave
7.) Before Midnight
8.) The Counselor
9.) The Place Beyond the Pines
10.) The World’s End
11.) Mud
12.) Gravity
13.) Lone Survivor
14.) All Is Lost
15.) Dallas Buyers Club
Daniel Schindel, Reviewer
1.) Before Midnight
2.) Her
3.) Stories We Tell
4.) Inside Llewyn Davis
5.) The World’s End
6.) The Act of Killing
7.) Frances Ha
8.) Upstream Color
9.) This is Martin Bonner
10.) Closed Curtain
11.) First Cousin Once Removed
12.) Short Term 12
13.) The Wolf of Wall Street
14.) Neighboring Sounds
15.) 12 Years A Slave
James Blake Ewing, Columnist
1.) To the Wonder
2.) Like Someone in Love
3.) Upstream Color
4.) Museum Hours
5.) Something in the Air
6.) From Up on Poppy Hill
7.) This is Martin Bonner
8.) Wolf Children
9.) Frances Ha
10.) Before Midnight
11.) Mud
12.) 12 Years a Slave
13.) Drug War
14.) Much Ado About Nothing
15.) Stories We Tell
Joshua Brunsting, Contributor
1.) An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
2.) At Berkeley
3.) Blue is the Warmest Color
4.) Spring Breakers
5.) Before Midnight
6.) Like Someone in Love
7.) Leviathan
8.) Beyond the Hills
9.) Laurence Anyways
10.) Viola
11.) Inside Llewyn Davis
12.) All Is Lost
13.) Our Children
14.) The Wind Rises
15.) The Canyons
Jesse Knight, Contributor
1.) Stories We Tell
2.) Inside Llewyn Davis
3.) Short Term 12
4.) The Great Beauty
5.) Museum Hours
6.) The Look of Love
7.) Exit Elena
8.) Wrong
9.) American Mary
10.) Before Midnight
11.) The Punk Singer
12.) Beyond the Hills
13.) The Bling Ring
14.) Stoker
15.) Blue is the Warmest Color
Katina Vangopoulos, Editorialist
1.) Gravity
2.) Prisoners
3.) Captain Phillips
4.) Iron Man 3
5.) Thor: The Dark World
6.) Elysium
7.) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
8.) This Is The End
9.) Star Trek: Into Darkness
10.) The World’s End
11.) Man of Steel
12.) The Wolverine
13.) World War Z
14.) The Great Gatsby
15.) Now You See Me
Charles Nash, Reviewer
1.) Before Midnight
2.) Blue is the Warmest Color
3.) 12 Years a Slave
4.) The Wolf of Wall Street
5.) Spring Breakers
6.) Her
7.) Fruitvale Station
8.) Short Term 12
9.) The Spectacular Now
10.) The Bling Ring
11.) The Act of Killing
12.) Inside Llewyn Davis
13.) Passion
14.) Only God Forgives
15.) Berberian Sound Studio
Kevin Ketchum, Reviewer
1.) Her
2.) 12 Years a Slave
3.) The Act of Killing
4.) Inside Llewyn Davis
5.) Before Midnight
6.) To the Wonder
7.) Gravity
8.) The Wind Rises
9.) The Grandmaster (Chinese Cut)
10.) The Wolf of Wall Street
11.) Frances Ha
12.) Captain Phillips
13.) Mud
14.) The World’s End
15.) Man of Steel
Kristen Sales, Columnist
1.) Before Midnight
2.) Frances Ha
3.) Blue is the Warmest Color
4.) Her
5.) The Act of Killing
6.) Leviathan
7.) Post Tenebras Lux
8.) Call Me Kuchu
9.) Computer Chess
10.) Spring Breakers
11.) Paradise: Love
12.) The Bling Ring
13.) Blancanieves
14.) Short Term 12
15.) Gimme the Loot
Matt Hughes, Essayist
1.) Norte, the End of History
2.) Spring Breakers
3.) To the Wonder
4.) Before Midnight
5. ) Tchoupitoulas
6.) Computer Chess
7.) Leviathan
8.) Frances Ha
9.) Museum Hours
10.) Bestiaire
11.) Breathing Earth
12.) Nebraska
13.) Crystal Fairy
14.) Small Road
15.) I Am Breathing
Nick Usen, Contributor
1.) The Wolf of Wall Street
2.) Her
3.) Inside Llewyn Davis
4.) Spring Breakers
5.) 12 Years a Slave
6.) Museum Hours
7.) Viola
8.) The Counselor
9.) Leviathan
10.) The World’s End
11.) Drug War
12.) At Berkeley
13.) Oldboy
14.) Bastards
15.) White Reindeer
Ryan McNeil, Contributor
1.) Before Midnight
2.) The Broken Circle Breakdown
3.) Nebraska
4.) 12 Years a Slave
5.) Her
6.) Stories We Tell
7.) Gravity
8.) Frozen
9.) Fruitvale Station
10.) Valentine Road
11.) Pacific Rim
12.) The Grandmaster (Chinese cut)
13.) The Wolf of Wall Street
14.) American Hustle
15.) Stoker
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2 thoughts on “Individual ‘Best Movies of 2013’ Ballots”
1.) Gravity
2.) The Wind Rises
3.) Her
4.) Blue is the Warmest Color
5.) The Wolf of Wall Street
6.) 12 Years A Slave
7.) Mud
8.) Captain Philips
9.) Only Lovers Left Alive
10.) Frozen
11.) Inside Llewyn Davis
12.) Nebraska
13.) Frances Ha
14.) American Hustle
15.) Dallas Buyers Club
Right now, “The Wolf of Wall Street” is my favorite film but there’s still some 2013 releases I’m eager to see like “Upstream Color”, “Her” (which I’ll see on Sunday), “The Past”, “Like Father, Like Son”, “Labor Day”, and several others.