The American Film Institute has released its year-end list of its selections for 2013’s best films and TV series during a year in which TV far outshone film in terms of buzz and, arguably, quality. Although there are some glaring omissions (Homeland didn’t make the TV list, while neither Dallas Buyers Club nor Lee Daniels’ The Butler made the list of top films), here are the AFI’s picks, in alphabetical order:
TV
The Americans
Breaking Bad
Game of Thrones
The Good Wife
House of Cards
Mad Men
Masters of Sex
Orange Is the New Black
Scandal
Veep
FILM
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Fruitvale Station
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Saving Mr. Banks
The Wolf of Wall Street
The AFI is an influential group of Hollywood heavyweights with a mandate to “preserve the history of the motion picture, to honour the artists and their work and to educate the next generation of storytellers.”; The AFI’s annual list of the year’s best films and TV series is often seen as a predictor of nominations for both the Oscars and the Emmys.
