Imaginary Cinema Awards 2013

There was no Avengers awesomeness this year (despite two of the team appearing in solo films) but it was still a pretty good year for fantasy and sci-fi movies. Here's the best of the best . . .

Best Movie: Gravity.
Runners-up: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Pacific Rim, Frozen, The World’s End, The Conjuring, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Monsters University, Elysium, Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Screenplay: The World’s End (Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright)
Worst Screenplay: Star Trek Into Darkness (Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof) – it’s a testament to the talent of the director and cast that this film still made my best of the year despite the script being a ludicrous “reimagining” of The Wrath of Khan.

Best Direction: Gravity (Alfonos Cuaron)

Best Actor: Benedict Cumberbatch (The Hobbit, Star Trek Into Darkness)
Runners-up: Tom Hiddlestone (Thor: The Dark World), Ben Kingsley (Iron Man 3), George Clooney (Gravity), Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The World’s End), Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Hunger Games)

Best Actress: Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Runners-up: Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games), Jena Malone (The Hunger Games), Lili Taylor (The Conjuring)

Best Music: The Hobbit: DOS (Howard Shore)
Runners-up: Oz: The Great and Powerful (Danny Elfman), Frozen, Monsters University

Best Visual Effects: Gravity
Runner-up: Pacific Rim, The Hobbit: DOS

Best Production Design: The Hobbit: DOS

Best 3D: Gravity, Jurassic Park 3D (TIE)

Disappointment of the Year: The Host (take a Stephenie Meyer book that’s actually good and make a worst movie than Twilight)
Runner-up: Oz: The Great and Powerful for taking a story that’s all about powerful women and focusing on a male character that’s actually a fraud

Hero of the Year: Katniss Everdeen

Villain of the Year: Superman in Man of Steel, for snapping necks and causing billions of dollars and thousands of lives in collateral damage