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Post by Capo on Mar 5, 2007 18:12:10 GMT
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.
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Post by Capo on Mar 18, 2007 19:17:12 GMT
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
How are you all progressing with yours?
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Post by Capo on Mar 18, 2007 19:23:48 GMT
Sound Design is proving tough for me. I've so many possible nominees.
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Post by svsg on Mar 21, 2007 3:47:23 GMT
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
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Post by ronnierocketago on Mar 22, 2007 22:42:15 GMT
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.
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Post by Capo on Mar 22, 2007 23:03:14 GMT
Visual composition of the frame.
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Post by ronnierocketago on Mar 22, 2007 23:04:32 GMT
What, best symbolic shots in a movie then?
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Post by svsg on Mar 22, 2007 23:06:53 GMT
Visual composition of the frame. You could have written that originally
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Post by Capo on Mar 22, 2007 23:30:44 GMT
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.
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Post by Capo on Mar 22, 2007 23:48:35 GMT
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?
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Post by ronnierocketago on Mar 22, 2007 23:55:26 GMT
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.
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Post by Capo on Mar 22, 2007 23:59:49 GMT
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?
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Post by svsg on Mar 23, 2007 0:09:55 GMT
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.
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Post by Capo on Mar 23, 2007 0:14:47 GMT
Shall I move him, then?
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Post by svsg on Mar 23, 2007 0:15:12 GMT
Yes.
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Post by Capo on Mar 23, 2007 0:16:57 GMT
Done. Are you voting more, svsg, or is that it? No problem, either way. (Though the more votes the merrier, I think.
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Post by svsg on Mar 23, 2007 0:24:09 GMT
I just want to vote for 2005. I'll do that soon. I don't seem to be confident voting for the other categories.
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Post by svsg on Mar 23, 2007 0:24:59 GMT
And btw, where are other members' votes, just the 3 of us till 22nd?
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Post by ronnierocketago on Mar 23, 2007 9:36:08 GMT
I think the rest will be laggers...
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Post by Capo on Mar 23, 2007 20:53:10 GMT
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.
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