If you’ve been reading Film Junk for a while now, you may be familiar with a fun little tradition that we have around here. Every year we like to give you guys an opportunity to have a say in picking some of the best movies of the year. Just to make it a little more interesting, we break up some of the year’s best films into a number of different categories and then let you decide on the winners. It makes for some interesting discussion and also gives a little bit of insight into the general consensus picks for the year.

This time around, we expanded each category to six choices and we also gave you the freedom to create write-in votes for Best and Worst Movie of the Year. The criteria for picking our nominees in each category was based partially on our own opinions while also keeping each category competitive. We also tried to stick mainly to movies that received a U.S. release this year and in particular ones that we felt were accessible to most people. The winners will be revealed as part of our year end podcast at the end of the month. Now go ahead and cast your votes for the 2013 Film Junk Reader’s Choice Awards!