FCM 2007 Awards: Nominations.

[Capo]

Okay, this year we've decided to set a later date in order to cater for as many possible release dates in the UK. We've also decided to introduce some new awards.

Every member is allowed up to five nominations for each category. Please post nominations in this thread only. You may change your nominations as many times as you like, but please write in your modified post what the changes are. Closing date for all nominations is 25th March, when the final nominees will be announced. After that, I'll post instructions for the final process. We plan on announcing the winners on the 31st March.

They are as follows:

Best Film
Best Directing
Best Leading Male Performance
Best Supporting Male Performance
Best Leading Female Performance
Best Supporting Female Performance
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Mise-en-scène
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Sound Design
Best Production Design
Best Costume Design
Best Makeup
Best Visual Effects
Best Original Score
Worst Film
Best Film of 2005
Best Artistic Achievement *

* - This is a completely open and free category for which anybody can be nominated for anything, so long as the film is eligible. The other additions seem self-explanatory, but if you're in any doubt, feel free to ask.

Eligible films are those which appear to be 2006 on IMDb. I encourage everybody to see as many of these films as possible, especially those you feel are contenders for awards.

Feel free to ask any questions before or during nominating. Thanks, guys.

[Capo]

So, here are the first nominations in this year's awards. ;D

Here are three categories I doubt will change. I'm in the process of tweaking others:

BEST FILM
Children of Men
Inland Empire
Marie Antoinette
The Fountain
The Prestige

BEST DIRECTING
Alfonso Cuarón, for Children of Men
David Lynch, for Inland Empire
Sofia Coppola, for Marie Antoinette
Darren Aronofsky, for The Fountain
Christopher Nolan, for The Prestige

BEST FILM OF 2005
Caché
Good Night, and Good Luck.
The New World
King Kong
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

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How are you all progressing with yours?

[Capo]

Sound Design is proving tough for me. I've so many possible nominees.

[svsg]

Best Film
The Fountain
Prestige
Babel


Best Director
Darren Aronofsky - The fountain
Christopher Nolan - Prestige
Alejandro Gonzalez - Babel
Brian DePalma - Black Dahlia

Best Actor
Hugh Jackman - The fountain
Leonardo Di Caprio - The Departed
Sean Penn - All the king's men
Ben Affleck - Hollywoodland
Edward Norton - Painted Veil

Best Actress
Naomi Watts - Painted Veil
Rachel Weisz - The fountain

Best Cinematography
Prestige
Fountain
Painted Veil
Illusionist
The Descent

[ronnierocketago]

My list as its going along.

Best Film

CHILDREN OF MEN
UNITED 93
THE FOUNTAIN
THE DEPARTED
CASINO ROYALE

Best Directing

Alfonso Cuaron, CHILDREN OF MEN
Paul Greengrass, UNITED 93
Darren Aronofsky, THE FOUNTAIN
Martin Scorsees, THE DEPARTED
Christopher Nolan, THE PRESTIGE

Best Leading Male Performance

Leonardo DiCaprio, THE DEPARTED
Matt Damon, THE DEPARTED
Forest Whitaker, THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND
Josh Harnett, THE BLACK DAHLIA
Daniel Craig, CASINO ROYALE

Best Supporting Male Performance

Ben Affleck, HOLLYWOODLAND
Mark Whalberg, THE DEPARTED
Alan Arkin, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
Jackie Earle Haley, LITTLE CHILDREN
Michael Caine, CHILDREN OF MEN

Best Leading Female Performance

Helen Mirren, THE QUEEN
Rachel Weisz, THE FOUNTAIN
Kristen Dunst, MARIE ANTOINETTE
Ivana Baquero, PAN'S LABYRINTH
Naomi Watts - THE PAINTED VEIL

Best Supporting Female Performance

Eva Green, CASINO ROYALE
Mia Kirschner, THE BLACK DAHLIA
Sharon Stone, BOBBY
Claire-Hope Ashitey, CHILDREN OF MEN
Vera Farmiga, THE DEPARTED

Best Original Screenplay

Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor, CRANK
Sofia Coppola, for MARIE ANTOINETTE
David Lynch, for INLAND EMPIRE
Paul Greengrass, UNITED 93
Guillermo Del Toro, PAN'S LABYRINTH

Best Editing

Jay Rabinowitz, THE FOUNTAIN
Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson, Christopher Rouse, UNITED 93
Alfonso Cuarón, Alex Rodríguez, CHILDREN OF MEN
Lee Smith, THE PRESTIGE
Brian Berdan, CRANK

Best Adapted Screenplay

Darren Aronofsky, THE FOUNTAIN
Alfonso Cuarón; Timothy J. Sexton; David Arata; Mark Fergus; Hawk Ostby, CHILDREN OF MEN
Thomas Newman, THE GOOD GERMAN
Jonathan & Christopher Nolan, THE PRESTIGE
Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, & Paul Haggis, CASINO ROYALE

Best Cinematography
Vilmos Zsigmond, THE BLACK DAHLIA
Dion Beebe, MIAMI VICE
Emmanuel Lubezki, CHILDREN OF MEN
Wally Pfister, THE PRESTIGE
Guillermo Navarro, PAN'S LABYRINTH

Best Sound Design

LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA
THE FOUNTAIN
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST
CASINO ROYALE
MIAMI VICE

Best Production Design

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST
CHILDREN OF MEN
THE FOUNTAIN
THE BLACK DAHLIA

Best Costume Design

Milena Canonero, MARIE ANTOINETTE
Jenny Beavan, THE BLACK DAHLIA
Joan Bergin, THE PRESTIGE
Jany Temime, CHILDREN OF MEN
Penny Rose, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST

Best Makeup

MARIE ANTOINETTE
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST
APOCALYPTO
PAN'S LABYRINTH
THE QUEEN

Best Visual Effects

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST
THE FOUNTAIN
SUPERMAN RETURNS
UNITED 93
CASINO ROYALE

Best Original Score

THE FOUNTAIN
BABEL
THE PRESTIGE
THE ILLUSIONIST
CHILDREN OF MEN

Best Mise-en-scène

CHILDREN OF MEN
THE BLACK DAHLIA
THE FOUNTAIN
THE DEPARTED
THE PRESTIGE

Worst Film

EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
BASIC INSTINCT 2
BLOODRAYNE
THE DA VINCI CODE
THE WICKER MAN(fucking remake!)

Best Film of 2005

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN: DIRECTOR'S CUT
SIN CITY
BATMAN BEGINS
JARHEAD

Best Artistic Achievement

-THE FOUNTAIN: An ambitious philosophical story of emotions and humanity in the grandest of the sci-fi literary tradition. If CHILDREN OF MEN is a better-made film overall, THE FOUNTAIN is the inspirational heroin shot that wannabe-filmmakers will use to inspire them to reach for the stars.

-A SCANNER DARKLY: Hollywood usually takes literary sci-fi hero Phillip K. Dick's stories and use them as excuses for action movies. Richard Linklater, using his WAKING LIFE retroscoping CGI animation style, is able to give one of Dick's great books into a pretty cool movie.

-CRANK: Save for Jason Bourne and James Bond, Hollywood action has been horribly bland and uninteresting. Certainly CRANK joins the junk ranks, but one has to love the frantic coke-influenced editing action narrative. Plus, he beat Bay and Tony Scott at their own bullshit game...and spend $130 million less!

-MARIE ANTOINETTE: Its funny how film buffs bitch and complain about the lack of experimentation with filmmakers, yet Sofia Coppola attempted to bring a historical girl home to a modern audience (w/ help of a 70s/80s poprock soundtrack) and she got decapitated by the press. Even the French booed this movie. A pity since Sofia proves that like her dad once was, she is a creative force to reckon with. She'll be back.

[Capo]

Visual composition of the frame.

[ronnierocketago]

What, best symbolic shots in a movie then?

[svsg]

admin said:

Visual composition of the frame.

You could have written that originally

[Capo]

Actually, it's been open to so much debate over the years, that we put it in there to see what might come up; we didn't want to narrow it down into an explanatory, restricting category, but use the correct term and let the members follow their hearts.

To me, for instance, it isn't simply visual composition (what goes where) but how information is placed and presented within-the-frame in order to evoke a credible, fictional, filmic, hermetic world.

The Wikipedia page is by no means comprehensive, but always useful.

[Capo]

Affleck has been nominated for supporting actor in Hollywoodland by RRA, but for lead actor by svsg in the same role. As I've not seen it, how big a role is it?

[ronnierocketago]

Well, I thoght of Affleck as a looming, but dead, presence in the background of HOLLYWOODLAND's tapestry.

But again, I could see why svsg would list him as Lead.

Lets clear this up.

[Capo]

Well, I don't think he'll be in final nominations, but the truth is, he has two votes now, but we need to decide on the category he's in with a chance for. Anybody else seen it?

[svsg]

I always had a problem with the term "supporting actor" (for example al pacino was "supporting actor" in godfather nomination because he was a nobody that time, but IMO he was as main a character as brando). In Hollywoodland, Affleck plays the superman role. He and Adrian brody are the main actors. But if he has a better chance to get nominated, then I am ok to shift him into "supporting role", but I would prefer not to.

[Capo]

Shall I move him, then?

[svsg]

Yes.

[Capo]

Done.

Are you voting more, svsg, or is that it? No problem, either way. (Though the more votes the merrier, I think.

[svsg]

I just want to vote for 2005. I'll do that soon. I don't seem to be confident voting for the other categories.

[svsg]

And btw, where are other members' votes, just the 3 of us till 22nd?

[ronnierocketago]

I think the rest will be laggers...

[Capo]

I feel the need to point out something for everyone here: we intend "Best Visual Effects" to encompass both those created in production, and post-production; IMDb distinguishes a difference, for instance, between Visual Effects as those made in post-production (after filming), and Special Effects as those during production. Since these are often difficult to distinguish when watching the actual film, we decided to bring both under one category.