AwardsWatch’s 50 Favorite Performances of 2013

THE LIST: AwardsWatch’s 50 Favorite Performances of 2013 1. Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine 2. Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street 3. Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color 4. Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave 5. Suzanne Clément, Laurence Anyways 6. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha 7. Juliette Binoche, Camille Claudel 1915 8. James Franco, Spring Breakers 9. Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt 10. Brie Larson, Short Term 12 11. Joaquin Phoenix, Her 12. Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis 13. Scarlett Johansson, Her 14. Léa Seydoux, Blue is the Warmest Color 15. Julie Delpy, Before Midnight 16. Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave 17. Amy Adams, American Hustle 18. Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle 19. Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club 20. Meryl Streep, August: Osage County 21. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Enough Said 22. Zhang Ziyi, The Grandmaster 23. Julia Roberts, August: Osage County 24. Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine 25. Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips 26. Daniel Brühl, Rush 27. Paulina García, Gloria 28. Toni Servillo, The Great Beauty 29. Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave 30. Matthew Goode, Stoker 31. Tye Sheridan, Mud 32. Emma Watson, The Bling Ring 33. Sandra Bullock, Gravity 35. Bruce Dern, Nebraska 35. Isidora Simijonovic, Clip 36. Anton Adasinsky, Faust 37. Shailene Woodley, The Spectacular Now 38. Ali Mosaffa, The Past 39. Robert Redford, All is Lost 40. Matthew McCoanughey, Mud 41. Sarah Paulson, 12 Years a Slave 43. Christian Bale, American Hustle 43. Kaitlyn Dever, Short Term 12 44. Kristen Scott-Thomas, Only God Forgives 45. Simon Pegg, The World’s End 48. Pilou Asbaek, A Hijacking 48. Emilie Dequenne, Our Children 48. Rachel McAdams, Passion 49. Bradley Cooper, American Hustle 50. Selena Gomez, Spring Breakers

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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