FCM 2006 Awards Winners

[Capo]

BEST FILM
Last Days

BEST DIRECTOR
David Cronenberg, for A History of Violence

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Robert Elswit, for Good Night, and Good Luck.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
George Clooney and Grant Heslov, for Good Night, and Good Luck.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer, for Batman Begins

BEST EDITING
Stephen Mirrione, for Good Night, and Good Luck.

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Philip Seymour Hoffman, for Capote

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Scarlett Johansson, for Match Point

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer, for Batman Begins

BEST FEATURE DIRECTORIAL DEBUT
Bennett Miller, for Capote

BEST CINEMATIC EXPERIMENT
Sin City

RETROSPECTIVE: BEST FILM OF 2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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Thanks to everyone who voted.

[Michael]

I kind of feel left out, considering I don't watch very many new films. The only film from 2005 that I saw was Last Days. Nothing else really interests me.

[Capo]

mikevronsky said:

The only film from 2005 that I saw was Last Days.

Then at least you saw the board's favourite film of last year.

I voted for the winner in only three categories: Best Editing, Best Experiment and the Retrospective Award.

No non-English films this year, and, for the most part, all have been mainstream efforts.

An interesting awards, not least of all due to my being happy with the winners.

[Michael]

2006 should be interesting, with Lynch's Inland Empire, and Herzog's Rescue Dawn.

[RNL]

I'm pretty happy with these, with the exception of Capote, though I understand why people liked it and I know it's a category with little choice.

I voted for six of the twelve winners: Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Original Screenplay, Best Male Performance and Best Experiment.

[Mike Sullivan]

Truth be told, I don't even know how Batman Begins was able to get a win for Best Score. That certainly wasn't the highpoint for me in the film. I thought with "Muncih" that John Williams gave us one of his most moving and disturbing scores ever, surpased only by his work on "Schindler's List".

[Pherdy]

yes, let's give John Williams another award ;D


funnily, out of all winners Last Days is the only films I haven't seen.


unlike Capo, I don't think this edition was a success. the winners being mainstream isn't really a problem, the winners being English language merely a letdown, but the awards orginzation was far from spotless. this feature started two years ago to much potential but hasn't really progressed.

maybe an evaluation is needed to make things clearer next year. and when things are evaluated, stick to it next time, because to my knowledge some of the changes proposed last year were neglected this time, or misinterpreted (like the PM voting vs. PM nominating, etc.).

this may sound critical but as one of the originaters of the former MovieFan Awards I want it to be a succesfull annual event.

with Good Night and Batman, the two better films of the Oscar-nominees were awarded by this board so that's a plus, given that this wasn't a strong year for smaller films (nor political films for that matter, unlike what the Oscars wanted to prove), but I hoped the less obvious titles would stand more chance. admitted, I couldn't find a lot of them to nominate either.

so far, 2006 isn't looking much worse or better. the one 'true' (that is, copyrighted ) 2006-film I've seen so far was Inside Man and that was, to put it simply, a lot of plain fun. let's hope for more, especially more poignant films.

[Mike Sullivan]

pherdy said:

yes, let's give John Williams another award ;D

I don't care how many awards he's gotten. If the work is truly great none of this matters.

I really didn't find any problems with the voting this year. was there some issue going about during the tallying that made the results sloppy?

[Capo]

I don't rate Williams. All his scores are the same, over-manipulative corny trash. Or are at least used in that way by Spielberg. Perhaps it isn't the music itself that irritates me.

[RNL]

Whatever about Spielberg as emotional pornographer, I think Williams deserves a lot of credit for Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park being as good as they are. I can't imagine those films without his scores.

[Boz]

We doing this again this year?

[RNL]

That's the idea. It needs to be ironed out properly beforehand, though.