2013 in film

Evaluation of the year

Richard Brody of The New Yorker said, "The year 2013 has been an amazing one for movies, though maybe every year is an amazing year for movies if one is ready to be amazed by movies. It's also a particularly apt year to make a list of the best films. Making a list is not merely a numerical act but also a polemical one, and the best of this year's films are polemical in their assertion of the singularity of cinema, as well as of the art form's opposition to the disposable images of television. The 2013 crop comprises an unplanned, if not accidental, collective declaration of the essence of the cinema, an art of images and sounds that, at their best, don't exist to tell a story or to tantalize the audience (though they may well do so) but, rather, to reflect a crisis in the life of the filmmaker and the state of the artist's mind or, even, soul." He also stated, "The best movies this year are films of combative cinema, audacious inventions in vision. The specificity and originality of their moment-to-moment creation of images offers new ways for viewers to confront the notion of what "narrative" might be. Their revitalization of storytelling as experience restores to the cinema its primordial mode of redefining consciousness. It's significant that some of the filmmakers in the forefront of that charge are from the generation of the elders, innovators of the seventies. In the age of radical cinema sparked by digital technology, the rise of independent producers, and the ready ubiquity of the history of cinema (thanks to DVDs and streaming video), these older directors have experienced a glorious second youth. That artistic rejuvenation is also due to the stimulating ambiance of actual youth—a young generation of freethinking cinephiles, critics, and filmmakers who, thanks to the Internet, make their appreciation of these sublime extremes widely and quickly known, even when the mainstream of viewers and reviewers miss out."

Highest-grossing films

The top 10 films released in 2013 by worldwide gross are as follows:

Box office records

• Frozen and Iron Man 3 both grossed over $1.2 billion, making them among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time.
• Frozen became the second animated film after Toy Story 3 (2010) to gross $1 billion, and became the highest-grossing animated film at release.
• Iron Man 3 became the second film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to gross over $1 billion, after The Avengers.
• Despicable Me 2 became the highest-grossing non-Disney animated film worldwide, surpassing the 9-year record of Shrek 2 (2004). However it was surpassed by Minions in 2015. It also became the highest-grossing film ever distributed by Universal in its initial release, surpassing the initial gross of Jurassic Park (1993), which grossed $912 million in its initial release 20 years earlier.
• After being re-released in 3-D, Jurassic Park surpassed the $1 billion mark, and is currently the 47th highest-grossing film of all time. It also became the first film distributed by Universal to gross $1 billion.

Events

• 2nd AACTA International Awards
• 18th Critics' Choice Awards
• 19th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• 28th Independent Spirit Awards
• 33rd Golden Raspberry Awards
• 39th Saturn Awards
• 61st FAMAS Awards
• 63rd Berlin International Film Festival
• 66th British Academy Film Awards
• 70th Golden Globe Awards
• 70th Venice International Film Festival
• 85th Academy Awards
• 2013 Cannes Film Festival
• 2013 MTV Movie Awards
• 2013 Sundance Film Festival
• 2013 Toronto International Film Festival

Awards

Palme d'Or (66th Cannes Film Festival): :Blue Is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2), directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, France

Golden Lion (70th Venice International Film Festival): :Sacro GRA, directed by Gianfranco Rosi, Italy

Golden Bear (63rd Berlin International Film Festival): :Child's Pose (Poziția Copilului), directed by Călin Peter Netzer, Romania

2013 films

By country/region

• List of American films of 2013
• List of Argentine films of 2013
• List of Australian films of 2013
• List of Bangladeshi films of 2013
• List of Brazilian films of 2013
• List of British films of 2013
• List of Canadian films of 2013
• List of Chinese films of 2013
• List of French films of 2013
• List of Hong Kong films of 2013
• List of Italian films of 2013
• List of Indian films of 2013
  • List of Assamese films
  • List of Bengali films of 2013
  • List of Bollywood films of 2013
  • List of Gujarati films
  • List of Kannada films of 2013
  • List of Malayalam films of 2013
  • List of Marathi films of 2013
  • List of Odia films of 2013
  • List of Punjabi films of 2013
  • List of Tamil films of 2013
  • List of Telugu films of 2013
  • List of Tulu films
• List of Japanese films of 2013
• List of Mexican films of 2013
• List of Pakistani films of 2013
• List of Russian films of 2013
• List of South Korean films of 2013
• List of Spanish films of 2013
• List of Turkish films of 2013

By genre/medium

• List of action films of 2013
• List of animated feature films of 2013
• List of avant-garde films of 2013
• List of comedy films of 2013
• List of drama films of 2013
• List of horror films of 2013
• List of science fiction films of 2013
• List of thriller films of 2013
• List of western films of 2013

Deaths

Film debuts

• Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
• Tawfeek Barhom – Farewell Baghdad
• Stephanie Beatriz – Short Term 12
• Margot Bingham – Burning Blue
• Josh Brener – The Internship
• Deragh Campbell – I Used to Be Darker
• Kid Cudi – Goodbye World
• Amyra Dastur – Issaq
• Natalia de Molina – Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
• Ansel Elgort – Carrie
• Julian Dennison – Shopping
• Fortune Feimster – The Secret Lives of Dorks
• Mia Goth – Nymphomaniac
• Mckenna Grace – Goodbye World
• Kelvin Harrison Jr. – 12 Years a Slave
• Callie Hernandez – Machete Kills
• Kobna Holdbrook-Smith – The Double
• Manny Jacinto – John Apple Jack
• Jasmine Cephas Jones – Titus
• Elena Kampouris – Labor Day
• Charlotte Kirk – Fractured
• Eugenia Kuzmina – Quarantine L.A.
• Fish Liew – Doomsday Party
• Jack Lowden – U Want Me 2 Kill Him?
• Isabela Merced – The House That Jack Built
• RJ Mitte – House of Last Things
• Michelle Mylett – Antisocial
• Ayumu Nakajima – Zentai
• Tig Notaro – In a World...
• Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave
• Jenna Ortega – Iron Man 3
• Jake Picking – The Way, Way Back
• Dascha Polanco – Gimme Shelter
• Keith Powers – House Party: Tonight's the Night
• Margaret Qualley – Palo Alto
• Sushant Singh Rajput – Kai Po Che!
• Da'Vine Joy Randolph – Mother of George
• Angourie Rice – These Final Hours
• Ruby Rose – Around the Block
• Jessica Rothe – The Last Keepers
• Rosa Salazar – Epic
• Frederick Schmidt – Starred Up
• LaKeith Stanfield – Short Term 12
• Jimmy Tatro – Grown Ups 2
• Owen Teague – Contest
• William Tokarsky – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
• Jacob Tremblay – The Smurfs 2
• Tuvana Türkay – Eksik Sayfalar
• Sophie Turner – Another Me
• Samara Weaving – Mystery Road
• Maisie Williams – Heatstroke
• Tom Williamson – All Cheerleaders Die
• Jimmy O. Yang – The Internship
• Zendaya – Super Buddies

Notes

References

References

1. (9 December 2013). "The Best Movies of 2013".
2. "2013 Worldwide Box Office". [[IMDb]].