Match-Cut Awards - NOMINEES!

[Boner M]

Finally, it has arrived. YOUR VOTE COUNTS.

PM me your picks, plz.

BEST PICTURE
The Dark Knight
The Wrestler
Wall-E
Let The Right One In
Rachel Getting Married
Burn After Reading

BEST DIRECTOR
Tomas Alfredson - Let the Right One In
Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
Joel & Ethan Coen - Burn After Reading
Andy & Larry Wachowski - Speed Racer
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST ACTOR
Josh Brolin - W.
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
Michael Fassbender - Hunger
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon

BEST ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky
Michelle Williams - Wendy and Lucy
Juliette Binoche - Flight of the Red Balloon
Asia Argento - The Last Mistress

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bill Irwin - Rachel Getting Married
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Eddie Marsen - Happy-Go-Lucky
Brad Pitt - Burn After Reading
David Straithairn - My Blueberry Nights
Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Rosemarie DeWitt - Rachel Getting Married
Frances McDormand - Burn After Reading
Hanna Schygulla - The Edge of Heaven

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Rachel Getting Married
The Dark Knight
Burn After Reading
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Milk

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Burn After Reading
Rachel Getting Married
In Bruges
Wall-E
Synecdoche New York

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Let the Right One In
Wendy and Lucy
Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Speed Racer
The Last Mistress

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Let the Right One In
Speed Racer
Paranoid Park
Flight of the Red Balloon
The Fall
My Blueberry Nights

BEST EDITING
The Dark Knight
Cloverfield
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Speed Racer
Let the Right One In

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Cloverfield
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Speed Racer

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
Cloverfield
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Speed Racer
WALL-E

BEST ART DIRECTION
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Speed Racer
City of Ember
The Fall
The Dark Knight

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Fall
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
The Dark Knight
The Last Mistress
Milk
Speed Racer
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST MAKEUP
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Synecdoche, New York
Tropic Thunder
Let the Right One In

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Milk
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
WALL-E

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Jai Ho" - Slumdog Millionaire
"O... Saya" - Slumdog Millionaire
"The Wrestler" - The Wrestler
"Down to Earth” - WALL-E
"Little Person" - Synecdoche, New York
"Rock Me Sexy Jesus" - Hamlet 2

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Encounters at the End of the World
Man on Wire
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
My Winnipeg
Religulous

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Waltz with Bashir
Wall-E
Kung Fu Panda
Bolt
Horton Hears a Who!

[Ezee E]

Any possibility that we can PM you our vote instead? Like last year? Just for a little more mystery to it all?

[Boner M]

Any possibility that we can PM you our vote instead? Like last year? Just for a little more mystery to it all?

Duly noted & edited.

[chrisnu]

:pritch: Thank you for doing this!

[Spinal]

Deadline?

[eternity]

Do we just choose one or do we rank them 1-6?

[Boner M]

About a week/Choose one

[Ivan Drago]

6-7 nominees for Best Picture and Cinematography?

What is this, the Golden Globes?

[Winston*]

6-7 nominees for Best Picture and Cinematography?

What is this, the Golden Globes?
A site with a small userbase with diverse tastes in movies.

[Ivan Drago]

A site with a small userbase with diverse tastes in movies.

Was only kidding around. Regardless, this is true. There must've been a lot of ties.

[Boner M]

There was actually 8 nominees for Cinematography.

[Ivan Drago]

Oh will posters still be presenting awards?

[Boner M]

Oh will posters still be presenting awards?
That's the plan.

[ledfloyd]

too much dark knight. editing? really?

[Ivan Drago]

That's the plan.

Cool, cool. Check your PMs.

[Boner M]

too much dark knight. editing? really?
It actually got the most votes out of all the films in that category.

[ledfloyd]

answers sent.

[Spinal]

I like Speed Racer as much as the next guy, but screenplay? Seriously?

[Pop Trash]

Submitted my ballot.

[Ivan Drago]

I like Speed Racer as much as the next guy, but screenplay? Seriously?

If it were nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars, the clip they'd show for it would EASILY be this:

"Is that a ninja?"
"More like a NON-ja!"

[balmakboor]

I kept looking for Milk in more categories. :cry:

[Ivan Drago]

I haven't seen ANY of the Best Actress nominees. I'll vote whenever I see at least one.

[balmakboor]

I haven't seen ANY of the Best Actress nominees. I'll vote whenever I see at least one.

I voted for the only one I have seen. Hawkins is great though.

[Ezee E]

Saw Dear Zachary because of the raves and the nomination.

:eek:

[Ivan Drago]

Saw Dear Zachary because of the raves and the nomination.

:eek:

Was it on MSNBC again? Shit.

[Ezee E]

Was it on MSNBC again? Shit.
I saw it on Instant Watch Netflix.

[chrisnu]

Saw Dear Zachary because of the raves and the nomination.

:eek:
Thanks for the heads-up; I will probably do just that.

[ledfloyd]

I kept looking for Milk in more categories. :cry:
i forgot to vote for it for editing.



I haven't seen ANY of the Best Actress nominees. I'll vote whenever I see at least one.
i think they are identical to my noms.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I saw it on Instant Watch Netflix.

Awesome. I'll be doing this before I vote.

[jesse]

Um, so I'll just put it this way: I find these nominations less interesting than the Oscars, even in terms of "oh, that sounds interesting, I might have to check it out."

I will not be voting, as I have seen like three of the nominees.

[dreamdead]

The Asian cult did not represent us well here this go-around. The lack of anything truly esoterically foreign (aka, not genre-based) makes me sad.

[Ezee E]

Um, so I'll just put it this way: I find these nominations less interesting than the Oscars, even in terms of "oh, that sounds interesting, I might have to check it out."

I will not be voting, as I have seen like three of the nominees.
What did you see Jesse?

[Ezee E]

Dark Knight - 13
Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 10
Speed Racer - 8
Wall-E, Let the Right One In, Burn After Reading, and Rachel Getting Married - 6
Milk and The Wrestler - 4
Slumdog Millionaire, Hellboy 2, Cloverfield, The Fall, Synecdoche, Ny, and The Last Mistress - 3

41 movies nominated overall.

[Dukefrukem]

so this thread is just for the noms? or do we PM you our final picks?

[Ezee E]

so this thread is just for the noms? or do we PM you our final picks?
well, you can discuss the noms if you so desire.

But yes, you PM Boner.

[lovejuice]

too much dark knight. editing? really?

indeed. the editing for that movie is horrendous. the biggest thing that puts me off.

[balmakboor]

Um, so I'll just put it this way: I find these nominations less interesting than the Oscars, even in terms of "oh, that sounds interesting, I might have to check it out."

I will not be voting, as I have seen like three of the nominees.

I love your avatar. What's that from?

[jesse]

What did you see Jesse? Err... these are what I could potentially vote for. So yes, I exaggerated a little.

Sean Penn - Milk
Juliette Binoche - Flight of the Red Balloon
Asia Argento - The Last Mistress
David Straithairn - My Blueberry Nights
Milk - Best Ensemble
The Last Mistress - Best Adapted Screenplay
Paranoid Park - Best Cinematography
Flight of the Red Balloon - Best Cinematography
My Blueberry Nights - Best Cinematography
The Last Mistress - Best Costume
Milk - Best Costume
"Jai Ho" - Slumdog Millionaire
"O... Saya" - Slumdog Millionaire

And the few other noms Milk and Last Mistress got.

[jesse]

I love your avatar. What's that from? It's a photograph I found a few years ago when I was really into really into following photography blogs. Here's the whole photo:

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll260/jataide/Misc/clarkbook.jpg?t=1236064670

[Boner M]

Um, so I'll just put it this way: I find these nominations less interesting than the Oscars, even in terms of "oh, that sounds interesting, I might have to check it out."
Ouch. Really? Even with Binoche, Argento, Schygulla, and the bizarre Speed Racer lovefest?

Anyway, I've made an alternate jesse-friendly lineup you can vote from.

BEST PICTURE
The Duchess of Langeais
In the City of Sylvia
La France
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour

[jesse]

Ouch. Really? Even with Binoche, Argento, Schygulla, and the bizarre Speed Racer lovefest? Well, the Dark Knight/Speed Racer love is completely lost on me. And I was exaggerating, of course--I'm actually very much looking forward to Let the Right One In which got a number of nominations.


Anyway, I've made an alternate jesse-friendly lineup you can vote from.

BEST PICTURE
The Duchess of Langeais
In the City of Sylvia
La France
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour :lol: Now you're talking! There are four films there where I say "oh, that sounds interesting, I might have to check it out." Since I've only seen the Rivette film, I'll have to go with that.

[Boner M]

:lol: Now you're talking! There are four films there where I say "oh, that sounds interesting, I might have to check it out." Since I've only seen the Rivette film, I'll have to go with that.
Y'know, I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar is being released by Zeitgeist in May, along with another Garrel (Emergency Kisses). I've been meaning to see more Garrel after Regular Lovers rocked my world, and I hear the former is one of his very best.

Also, I wasn't that keen on Speed Racer for the most part, but the love for it is a welcome idiosyncrasy in my opinion (unlike The Dark Knight).

[NickGlass]

Ballot sent. Irritation level risen.

[megladon8]

I don't feel it'd be right for me to vote since I've seen so few of the nominees.

For example, I haven't seen any of the films from the Best Actor section.

I don't think "guess" votes or totally uninformed "I voted for this because I like the guy" votes would be much appreciated.

[Ezee E]

I don't feel it'd be right for me to vote since I've seen so few of the nominees.

For example, I haven't seen any of the films from the Best Actor section.

I don't think "guess" votes or totally uninformed "I voted for this because I like the guy" votes would be much appreciated.
I'd just vote for the categories that I'd feel strongly about then.

[megladon8]

I'd just vote for the categories that I'd feel strongly about then.


You can vote for some and not others?

*ponders*

[Ezee E]

You can vote for some and not others?

*ponders*
I wouldn't see a problem with it at all. I'm sure a few people haven't seen any of the documentaries, and probably left them blank.

[NickGlass]

I wouldn't see a problem with it at all. I'm sure a few people haven't seen any of the documentaries, and probably left them blank.

The only category I could not vote for was "Best Visual Effects."

EDIT: I mean "Best Art Direction" (which is odd, since this is somewhat important to me). I simply abstained from voting for "Best Visual Effects," even though I had seen a majority of the nominees.

[megladon8]

I'm regretting not picking up a copy of Man on Wire at HMV the other day. It was $12.

[balmakboor]

I'm regretting not picking up a copy of Man on Wire at HMV the other day. It was $12.

I dunno. I liked it, but I don't see myself ever watching it again.

[Boner M]

Any more ballots? There are currently no ties in the results, so I'd prefer to close it now....

[Kurosawa Fan]

Any more ballots? There are currently no ties in the results, so I'd prefer to close it now....

Sending mine now.

[Stay Puft]

Just sent mine, too.

[Ivan Drago]

I really wanted to see the films of the Best Actress nominees, but I went ahead and sent my ballot.

[Boner M]

Anyone else?

[Winston*]

Hang on.

EDIT: Sent. Only felt I'd seen enough of the nominees to vote in one of the acting categories.

[thefourthwall]

Can I still do this?

[B-side]

Can I still do this?

Yeah, I'd like to vote, too.

[Boner M]

I've counted 4thwall's votes and will count yours, B-Side.

[DavidSeven]

Ballot sent.

[B-side]

I've counted 4thwall's votes and will count yours, B-Side.

Cool. I'll send my votes momentarily.

[Boner M]

Any more?

btw, I'm pretty busy until Wednesday, so unless y'all wanna wait 'til then, I'll give the results over to someone else for presentation ideas.