2009 Match-Cut Film Awards

[soitgoes...]

Handy all caps categories found below.

BEST PICTURE
BEST DIRECTOR
BEST ACTOR
BEST ACTRESS
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST EDITING
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
BEST SOUND EFFECTS
BEST ART DIRECTION
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST MAKEUP
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
BEST DOCUMENTARY
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

[Ezee E]

Diverse Match Cut Crowd leads to unpredictable 2009 Awards

2009 has mostly been considered a negative year for films. For Match Cut, there is no clear favorite amongst the bunch as opposed to the past few years in which it was quite obvious of who the winner would be.

Thus far, the only movie that has been liked by all groups of Match Cut is Inglorious Basterds, the Quentin Tarantino World War II picture that changes history. A Serious Man is another top contender, but may not have been seen by enough Match Cutters to get the Best Picture vote. Another widely liked, but underseen movie is Claire Denis' 35 Shots of Rum. Spike Jonze's Where The Wild Things Are had a very wide set of opinions, but was loved by quite a few.

Critical favorites like Up, Invictus, Precious: Based on the Book blah blah blah, and An Education have all been disliked by a good amount of Match Cutters. This opens the possibility to movies that came out earlier in the year like Two Lovers, 500 Days of Summer, and In The Loop sneaking in as nominees.

Time will tell if the underseen movies get watched by Match Cutters, as well as upcoming movies like Nine, The Lovely Bones, The Last Station, and Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon

With that... I'll predict the following five:

500 Days of Summer
Inglorious Basterds
A Serious Man
Two Lovers
Where the Wild Things Are

[B-side]

BEST PICTURE
Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino)
Antichrist (Trier)
A Serious Man (Coens)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Herzog)
BEST DIRECTOR
Lars von Trier - Antichrist
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
Joel & Ethan Coen - A Serious Man
Werner Herzog - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
BEST ACTOR
Nicolas Cage - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Michael Stuhlbarg - A Serious Man
Joaquin Phoenix - Two Lovers
Sam Rockwell - Moon
LluÃ*s Homar - Broken Embraces
BEST ACTRESS
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Antichrist
Rifka Lodeizen - Can Go Through Skin
Penélope Cruz - Broken Embraces
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
Brad Dourif - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Blanca Portillo - Broken Embraces
Diane Kruger - Inglourious Basterds
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
The White Ribbon
Broken Embraces
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
The White Ribbon
Broken Embraces
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Moon
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Anthony Dod Mantle - Antichrist
Lennert Hillege - Can Go Through Skin
Christian Berger - The White Ribbon
BEST EDITING
Esther Rots - Can Go Through Skin
Ã…sa Mossberg/Anders Refn - Antichrist
Joe Bini - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Antichrist
Star Trek
Coraline
BEST SOUND EFFECTS
Moon
Phantoms of Nabua
Antichrist
BEST ART DIRECTION
Antichrist
The White Ribbon
Broken Embraces
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon
The Little White Cloud That Cried
BEST MAKEUP
The Little White Cloud That Cried
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Broken Embraces
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Moon
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Ponyo on the Cliff
Coraline
Up

[soitgoes...]

BEST PICTURE
Tokyo Sonata
The White Ribbon
You, the Living
Inglourious Basterds
Still Walking

BEST DIRECTOR
Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon
Werner Herzog, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Roy Andersson, You, the Living
Hirokazu Koreeda, Still Walking
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

BEST ACTOR
Nicolas Cage, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers
Sam Rockwell, Moon
Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man
Ben Wishaw, Bright Star

BEST ACTRESS
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist
Ok-bin Kim, Thirst
Kyôko Koizumi, Tokyo Sonata
Abbie Cornish, Bright Star
Yolande Moreau, Séraphine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Jérémie Renier, Lorna's Silence
Peter Capaldi, In the Loop
Burghart Klaußner, The White Ribbon
Inowaki Kai, Tokyo Sonata

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Susanne Lothar, The White Ribbon
Kirin Kiki, Still Walking
Edith Scob, Summer Hours
Isabella Rossellini, Two Lovers
Penelope Cruz, Broken Embraces

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
The White Ribbon
Still Walking
Inglourious Basterds
Tokyo Sonata
Two Lovers

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon
A Serious Man
Moon
Still Walking

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Where the Wild Things Are
Coraline
Flame & Citron
The Informant!

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The White Ribbon
Antichrist
You, the Living
The Hurt Locker
Silent Light

BEST EDITING
Inglourious Basterds
You, the Living
The Hurt Locker
A Serious Man
Still Walking

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Star Trek
Antichrist
Avatar
2012

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
District 9
Public Enemies
Avatar

BEST ART DIRECTION
Where the Wild Things Are
Watchmen
Avatar
Bright Star
Séraphine

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The White Ribbon
Inglourious Basterds
Bright Star
Séraphine

BEST MAKEUP
Moon

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
You, the Living
Moon
Bright Star
Séraphine

BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Cove
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Food, Inc.

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Coraline
Ponyo
Sita Sings the Blues
Up
The Secret of Kells

[Ezee E]

When should these be due? Beginning of February?

[soitgoes...]

When should these be due? Beginning of February?
I think this was closed the week before the Oscars?

[Raiders]

January is going to be a blitz of film watching for me, so I will probably be holding off until the last minute for this.

[B-side]

Are we doing IMDb dates?

[Boner M]

BEST PICTURE
Import Export
The Limits of Control
A Serious Man
35 Shots of Rum
Tokyo Sonata

BEST DIRECTOR
Ulrich Seidl, Import Export
Christian Petzold, Jerichow
Jim Jarmusch, The Limits of Control
Claire Denis, 35 Shots of Rum
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Tokyo Sonata

BEST ACTOR
Alex Descas, 35 Shots of Rum
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer
Johannes Krisch, Revanche
Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers
Sam Rockwell, Moon

BEST ACTRESS
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist
Ok-bin Kim, Thirst
Catalina Saavedra, The Maid
Kristen Stewart, Adventureland
Tilda Swinton, Julia

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Fred Melamed, A Serious Man
Jeremy Renier, Lorna's Silence
Hilmi Sozer, Jerichow
Martin Starr, Adventureland
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Alycia Delmore, Humpday
Anna Faris, Observe and Report
Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
Edith Scob, Summer Hours

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Adventureland
35 Shots of Rum
In The Loop
Still Walking
The White Ribbon

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Adventureland
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
Two Lovers
The White Ribbon

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST EDITING
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
BEST SOUND EFFECTS
BEST ART DIRECTION
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST MAKEUP
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
BEST DOCUMENTARY
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

[Boner M]

btw, I can tally these up and count 'em down along with the top tens like last year. I've already decided on a presenter. I have no life.

[B-side]

Apparently we're not using IMDb dates...

[Raiders]

Apparently we're not using IMDb dates...

Despite the fact that it is a bit biased, we use US release dates for the awards. Mainly because it is our "Oscars."

[B-side]

Despite the fact that it is a bit biased, we use US release dates for the awards. Mainly because it is our "Oscars."

In that case, I'll be making some changes.

[NickGlass]

Didn't we have secret ballots that we PM'd last time? I like the suspense of that. Or maybe it's fine to just do that with the winners (since nominations can influence what another poster might want to see).

[Melville]

Are we counting Hunger as a 2009 release?

[B-side]

Didn't we have secret ballots that we PM'd last time? I like the suspense of that. Or maybe it's fine to just do that with the winners (since nominations can influence what another poster might want to see).

Yeah, definitely.

[NickGlass]

BEST PICTURE
The Limits of Control


Thanks to this junk, it's good to know our lists won't be too similar (the acting awards, however, look to have some overlap, damnit, I wanna be an original).

[Raiders]

Are we counting Hunger as a 2009 release?

We counted it as 2008 and multiple people voted for it last year, although considering it didn't win anything and multiple people have seen it since (as well as it technically not getting its US limited release until March '09), I would be all for counting it again this year.

[B-side]

I'm going to go ahead and pre-emptively declare that The White Ribbon deserves the ensemble cast award. Everything about that cast was perfect. They worked together perfectly.

[Ezee E]

I'm going to go ahead and pre-emptively declare that The White Ribbon deserves the ensemble cast award. Everything about that cast was perfect. They worked together perfectly.
FYC Ads are encouraged!

[Adam]

How do you guys work out questionable distinctions like whether Bad Lieutenant is an adapted/original screenplay or whether Peter Capaldi is a lead/supporting actor and whatnot?

[Raiders]

How do you guys work out questionable distinctions like whether Bad Lieutenant is an adapted/original screenplay or whether Peter Capaldi is a lead/supporting actor and whatnot?

I'll defer to the official tabulator(s), but I believe we let you vote for it where you like and then tally all votes in both categories and place it in the one where the most votes fall.

That's how I would recommend it be done anyway.

[B-side]

FYC Ads are encouraged!

Then consider that my FYC ad for The White Ribbon.

[NickGlass]

FYC for Best Actress (ever):

Tilda Swinton, Julia

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It's available on Netflix PlayNow. Tilda tears that film to shreds in the best possible way.

[Boner M]

FYC for Best Actress (ever):

Tilda Swinton, Julia.
Watching it tomorrow.

[Ezee E]

Don't care for the movie as a whole, but she'll be getting a nomination from me.

[balmakboor]

FYC for Best Actress (ever):

Tilda Swinton, Julia



It's available on Netflix PlayNow. Tilda tears that film to shreds in the best possible way.

Cool. Thanks. I'll fire it up soon.

I need to get busy if I'm going to participate in this thing. I've hardly seen anything other than Inglourious Basterds that's been mentioned here so far.

[Adam]

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Michael Jai White, Actor

[Mysterious Dude]

I hadn't heard of Julia until I saw it on Slant's best-of-the-year list. I will be watching it very soon. It looks like my kind of movie.


btw, I can tally these up and count 'em down along with the top tens like last year. I've already decided on a presenter. I have no life.
Can I make a suggestion? Last year, you had only one presenter for all the awards. Most award ceremonies have a different presenter for every award, and that's what Spinal did for the 2007 awards (my favorite post (http://www.match-cut.org/showthread.php?p=40215#post402 15)).

[ledfloyd]

BEST PICTURE
A Serious Man
Summer Hours
Adventureland
Two Lovers
35 Shots of Rum

BEST DIRECTOR
Joel & Ethan Coen
Quentin Tarantino
Kathryn Bigelow
Pete Docter
Wes Anderson

BEST ACTOR
Nicholas Cage (Bad Lieutenant)
Michael Stuhlberg (A Serious Man)
Joaquin Phoenix (Two Lovers)
Matt Damon (The Informant!)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)

BEST ACTRESS
Tilda Swinton (Julia)
Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist)
Penelope Cruz (Broken Embraces)
Hye-Ja Kim (Mother)
Maria Onetto (The Headless Woman)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Red West (Goodbye Solo)
Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds)
Bill Murray (The Limits of Control)
Jeremie Renier (Lorna's Silence)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Melanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds)
Paz de la Huerta (The Limits of Control)
Mati Diop (35 Rhums)
Gwyneth Paltrow (Two Lovers)
Alycia Delmore (Humpday)

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
In the Loop
The Limits of Control
Summer Hours
Inglourious Basterds
The Fantastic Mr. Fox

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
In the Loop
Summer Hours
Inglourious Basterds
Broken Embraces
A Serious Man

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Where the Wild Things Are
Bad Lieutenant
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Informant

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Limits of Control
Where the Wild Things Are
Up
Inglourious Basterds
35 Shots of Rum

BEST EDITING
Adventureland
Up
A Serious Man
Broken Embraces
The Hurt Locker

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Up
Where the Wild Things Are
Drag Me to Hell
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Inglourious Basterds

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
Up
The Hurt Locker
Drag Me to Hell
A Serious Man
Inglourious Basterds

BEST ART DIRECTION
Up
Where the Wild Things Are
Inglourious Basterds
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Summer Hours

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Where the Wild Things Are
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Inglourious Basterds
Bright Star

BEST MAKEUP
Drag Me to Hell

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Where the Wild Things Are
Up
Adventureland
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
35 Shots of Rum

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Petey's Song" The Fantastic Mr. Fox
"Other Father's Song" Coraline

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
The Cove
Food, Inc.

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Up

[Watashi]

Guys... Laurent is a fucking lead. She is even pushed as a lead for the Academy.

[Melville]

We counted it as 2008 and multiple people voted for it last year, although considering it didn't win anything and multiple people have seen it since (as well as it technically not getting its US limited release until March '09), I would be all for counting it again this year.
Can we get a judge's (i.e. Boner's) decision on this? Actually, the same goes for The Class, which only had a one-week special engagement in 2008. I think a lot of the best films get the shaft in these awards because few people have seen them in time to vote. Not that it really matters, I guess.

[Watashi]

BEST PICTURE

Up
Inglourious Basterds
Two Lovers
Where the Wild Things Are
A Serious Man

BEST DIRECTOR

Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Michael Mann, Public Enemies
Pete Docter, Up
Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are
Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man

BEST ACTOR

Sam Rockwell, Moon
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man

BEST ACTRESS

Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
Tilda Swinton, Julia
Natalie Portman, Brothers
Abbie Cornish, Bright Star

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Jackie Earle Haley, Watchmen
Peter Calpadi, In the Loop
Michael Fassbender, Inglourious Basterds
James Gandolfini, Where the Wild Things Are

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Isabella Rossellini, Two Lovers
Bailee Madison, Brothers
Anna Farris, Observe and Report
Diane Kruger, Inglourious Basterds
Marion Cottilard, Public Enemies

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

Inglourious Basterds
In the Loop
A Serious Man
Summer Hours
Public Enemies

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers, Where the Wild Things Are
Armando Iannucci, In the Loop
Henry Selick, Coraline
Tom Ford, A Single Man
Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, Fantastic Mr. Fox

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
James Gray and Ric Menello, Two Lovers
Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, Up
Greg Mottola, Adventureland

BEST CINEMATOGRAHY

Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
Public Enemies
Where the Wild Things Are
A Single Man

BEST EDITING

The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Public Enemies
Where the Wild Things Are
Avatar

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
Watchmen
2012

BEST SOUND EFFECTS

2012
Star Trek
District 9
Avatar
The Hurt Locker

BEST ART DIRECTION

Where the Wild Things Are
A Single Man
Public Enemies
Inglourious Basterds
Avatar

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Public Enemies
Bright Star
A Single Man
Where the Wild Things Are
Inglourious Basterds

BEST MAKEUP

District 9
The Road
Star Trek

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Michael Giacchino, Up
Joe Hisaishi, Ponyo
Clint Mansell, Moon
Elliot Goldenthal, Public Enemies
Abel Korzeniowski, A Single Man

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Ma Belle Evangeline, The Princess and the Frog
Friends on the Other Side, The Princess and the Frog
Petey's Song, Fantastic Mr. Fox
All is Love, Where the Wild Things Are

BEST DOCUMENTARY

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Up
Coraline
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog

[Ezee E]

Love the Fish Tank nominations, but I don't think enough people will have seen it to warrant a nomination.

[baby doll]

Picture:
1. Adoration by Atom Egoyan
2. Tony Manero by Pablo LarraÃ*n
3. A Serious Man by Ethan and Joel Coen
4. Silent Light by Carlos Reygadas
5. You, the Living by Roy Andersson


Director:
1. Carlos Reygadas for Silent Light
2. Roy Andersson for You, the Living
3. Ethan and Joel Coen for A Serious Man

Actor:
1. Alfredo Castro for Tony Manero
2. Michael Stuhlbarg for A Serious Man
3. Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds

Actress:
1. Abbie Cornish for Bright Star
2. Charlotte Gainsbourg for Antichrist
3. Laura Smet for La Frontière de l'aube

Screenplay:
1. Adoration by Atom Egoyan
2. Tony Manero by Alfredo Castro, Matteo Iribarren, and Pablo LarraÃ*n
3. A Serious Man by Ethan and Joel Coen

Cinematography:
1. William Lubtchansky for La Frontière de l'aube
2. Alexis Zabe for Silent Light
3. Sergio Armstrong for Tony Manero

[Mysterious Dude]

Guys... Laurent is a fucking lead. She is even pushed as a lead for the Academy.

You curse too much.

[Ezee E]

Been kind of a weak year for Actress performances. I'm struggling to force five.

Looking forward to Broken Embraces whenever it comes out.

[baby doll]

Been kind of a weak year for Actress performances. I'm struggling to force five.

Looking forward to Broken Embraces whenever it comes out.In Hollywood, every year is a weak year for female performances, not to mention every kind of minority performances. I think Manohla Dargis was spot on when she described Hollywood as a bunch of white guys in baseball caps making deals with other white guys in baseball caps.

[Sycophant]

That was pretty much the arrangement back in the Golden Age of Hollywood, too, but there were lots of astounding female lead performances every year. The system as a whole was also arguably more sexist back then, at least on the surface. Dargis also pointed this out.

[NickGlass]

Been kind of a weak year for Actress performances. I'm struggling to force five.

Yeah, people say this every year, and they're somewhat right--but a lot of times people just aren't watching the right films. The Hollywood bigwigs that vote on the Oscars may have trouble with their Best Actress ballot, but I never do.

But if we're talking about women behind the camera/script, then, yes, women are always terribly underrepresented.


Looking forward to Broken Embraces whenever it comes out.

It's not good, but Cruz is fine.

[Mysterious Dude]

I always have trouble with best actress, but I think it's my own fault; I'm just not that interested in girly movies like An Education or The Young Victoria.

[baby doll]

I always have trouble with best actress, but I think it's my own fault; I'm just not that interested in girly movies like An Education or The Young Victoria.I can't speak for The Young Victoria (which I want to see about as much as the director's previous film, C.R.A.Z.Y.), but Mulligan's performance in An Education--to say nothing of the film itself--is by far the most overrated in many a moon. The girly movie you should see is Bright Star.

[balmakboor]

I don't know about you, but I keep getting A Serious Man and A Single Man mixed up in my head. Can't wait to see both of them.

[Mysterious Dude]

The girly movie you should see is Bright Star.

http://www.match-cut.org/showthread.php?p=221663#post22 1663

I guess I have seen one girly movie. :D

[Eleven]

BEST PICTURE
Fantastic Mr. Fox
In the Loop
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
Two Lovers

BEST DIRECTOR
Wes Anderson for Fantastic Mr. Fox
Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
Joel and Ethan Coen for A Serious Man
James Gray for Two Lovers
Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds

BEST ACTOR
Nicolas Cage in The Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call: New Orleans
Tom Hardy in Bronson
Joaquin Phoenix in Two Lovers
Souleymane Sy Savane in Goodbye Solo
Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man

BEST ACTRESS
Abbie Cornish in Bright Star
Arta Dobroshi in Lorna's Silence
Ok-vin Kim in Thirst
Melanie Laurent in Inglourious Basterds
Tilda Swinton in Julia

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Peter Capaldi in In the Loop
Jackie Earle Haley in Watchmen
Fred Melamed in A Serious Man
Martin Starr in Adventureland
Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard in Public Enemies
Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air
Isabella Rossellini in Two Lovers
Vinessa Shaw in Two Lovers
Maribel Verdu in Tetro

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Limits of Control
Summer Hours
Tokyo Sonata
The White Ribbon

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Jane Campion for Bright Star
Joel and Ethan Coen for A Serious Man
James Gray and Ric Menello for Two Lovers
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Max Mannix, and Sachiko Tanaka for Tokyo Sonata
Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach for Fantastic Mr. Fox
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, and Tony Roche for In the Loop
Scott Z. Burns for The Informant!
Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze for Where the Wild Things Are
Joe Penhall for The Road

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Javier Aguirresarobe for The Road
Joaquin Baca-Asay for Two Lovers
Roger Deakins for A Serious Man
Greg Fraser for Bright Star
Mihai Malaimare, Jr. for Tetro

BEST EDITING
Chris Innis and Bob Murawski for The Hurt Locker
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen for A Serious Man
Alexandre de Franceschi for Bright Star
Sally Menke for Inglourious Basterds
Walter Murch for Tetro

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
Avatar
Drag Me to Hell
The Hurt Locker
A Serious Man
Up

BEST ART DIRECTION
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Inglourious Basterds
Public Enemies
A Serious Man
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Bright Star
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Inglourious Basterds
The Limits of Control
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST MAKEUP
District 9
Drag Me to Hell
Star Trek

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Carter Burwell for A Serious Man
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis for The Road
Alexandre Desplat for Fantastic Mr. Fox
Michael Giacchino for Up
Marvin Hamlisch for The Informant!

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"All is Love," by Karen O and the Kids, from Where the Wild Things Are
"Fantastic Mr. Fox aka Petey's Song," by Jarvis Cocker, for Fantastic Mr. Fox
“Hideaway,� by Karen O and the Kids, for Where the Wild Things Are
“Other Father Song,� by They Might Be Giants, for Coraline
"Stu's Song," by Ed Helms, for The Hangover

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
The Beaches of Agnes
The Cove
Of Time and the City
Tyson

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Mary and Max
Ponyo
Up

[Sycophant]

BEST PICTURE
A Serious Man
Inglourious Basterds
Moon
Still Walking
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST DIRECTOR
A Serious Man - Joel & Ethan Coen
The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow
Where the Wild Things Are - Spike Jonze
Still Walking - Kore-eda Hirokazu

BEST ACTOR
Michael Stuhlbarg - A Serious Man
Sam Rockwell - Moon

BEST ACTRESS
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
A Serious Man - Joel & Ethan Coen
Observe and Report - Jody Hill

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST EDITING
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
BEST SOUND EFFECTS
BEST ART DIRECTION
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST MAKEUP
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
BEST DOCUMENTARY
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

I'mma gonna be making a lot of changes to this as I go on.

[Watashi]

Can we have a best comedy category or a best guilty pleasure category this year?

I need to make room for 2012, Antichrist, Precious, and G.I. Joe somewhere.

[Melville]

BEST PICTURE
Two Lovers
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Bright Star
Inglourious Basterds
Antichrist

BEST DIRECTOR
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Coen brothers, A Serious Man
James Grey, Two Lovers
Jane Campion, Bright Star
Herzog, Hurt Locker

BEST ACTOR
Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers
Souleymane Sy Savane, Goodbye Solo
Sam Rockwell, Moon
Nicolas Cage, Bad Lieutenant
Ben Whishaw, Bright Star

BEST ACTRESS
Abbie Cornish, Bright Star
Gwyneth Paltrow, Two Lovers
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Billy Crudup, Public Enemies
Jérémie Renier, Summer Hours
Fred Melamed, A Serious Man

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Evan Rachel Wood, Whatever Works
Marion Cotillard, Public Enemies

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Two Lovers
Summer Hours
A Serious Man
Public Enemies
The Hurt Locker

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
A Serious Man
Two Lovers
Inglourious Basterds
Whatever Works

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Bright Star

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Two Lovers
Bright Star
Public Enemies
The Hurt Locker
A Serious Man

BEST EDITING
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
Public Enemies
Antichrist

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
Public Enemies
Hurt Locker

BEST ART DIRECTION
Antichrist
Bright Star
A Serious Man
Moon

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Bright Star
Inglourious Basterds

BEST MAKEUP
Taxidermia
Moon

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Moon

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Cove

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

[Watashi]

I'm not counting Hunger or The Class for this year by the way. Both would make a lot of nominations, but I nominated them last year.

[Spinal]

2012, Antichrist, Precious, and G.I. Joe

:|

[ledfloyd]

FYC: Adventureland's editing really impressed me. It's Truffautesque, very unconventional for a comedy.

[Melville]

I'm not counting Hunger or The Class for this year by the way. Both would make a lot of nominations, but I nominated them last year.
Do it again.


Okay, here's a list of movies that I figure might be worth seeing before this award dealie happens:
Where the Wild Things Are
500 Days of Summer
Antichrist
The White Ribbon
Broken Embraces
Ponyo
You, the Living
Tokyo Sonata
Lorna's Silence
Import Export
35 Shots of Rum
An Education
Julia
Silent Light
Thirst
Up in the Air
Fantastic Mr. Fox
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
A Single Man
Avatar
Adventureland
The Limits of Control
Bad Lieutenant

Tell me which to prioritize.

Edited to include Bad Lieutenant.

[ledfloyd]

Been kind of a weak year for Actress performances. I'm struggling to force five.

Looking forward to Broken Embraces whenever it comes out.
i had no trouble coming up with five lead actress performances. for actors i could only come up with four i felt confident nominating. and one of those is borderline (efron).

[Spinal]

Guys... Laurent is a fucking lead. She is even pushed as a lead for the Academy.

And yet Waltz is supporting? Ooookay. If you say so.

[ledfloyd]

Do it again.


Okay, here's a list of movies that I figure might be worth seeing before this award dealie happens:
Where the Wild Things Are
500 Days of Summer
Antichrist
The White Ribbon
Broken Embraces
Ponyo
You, the Living
Tokyo Sonata
Lorna's Silence
Import Export
35 Shots of Rum
An Education
Julia
Silent Light
Thirst
Up in the Air
Fantastic Mr. Fox
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
A Single Man
Avatar
Adventureland
The Limits of Control

Tell me which to prioritize.
de-prioritize 500 days of summer.

prioritize limits, adventureland, tokyo sonata, where the wild things are and broken embraces. it's possible you'll disagree with me on all of these.

[Ezee E]

If you can see My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done. Do so.

[Spinal]

For your consideration:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/AstroBoy_MetroCity-thumb-550x311-13.jpg

Astro Boy for Best Animated Feature

[Eleven]

And yet Waltz is supporting? Ooookay. If you say so.

I guess it depends if we're considering lead and supporting according to screen time or position in the narrative. According to the first metric, Waltz probably has more screen time than anyone, but by the second, he's the antagonist to Shosanna's (and the Basterds') protagonist(s).

I say supporting, but I can see the arguments the other way.

[Spinal]

My ballot is too pathetic to post at this point. Got a lot of homework to do, but I am loading up my Netflix queue with some of the favorites here.

Going to see Fantastic Mr. Fox tonight.

[Winston*]

BEST PICTURE
Where the Wild Things Are
Inglourious Basterds
Coraline
The White Ribbon
Mary and Max
BEST DIRECTOR
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
Joen and Ethan Coen - A Serious Man
Henry Selick - Coraline
Michael Haneke - The White Ribbon
Spike Jonze - Where the Wild Things Are
BEST ACTOR
Sam Rockwell - Moon
Mads Mikkelsen - Flame and Citron
Michael Stuhlbarg - A Serious Man
BEST ACTRESS
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Antichrist
Arta Dobroshi - Lorna's Silence
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Peter Capaldi - In the Loop
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Dianne Kruger - Inglourious Basterds
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST EDITING
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
BEST SOUND EFFECTS
BEST ART DIRECTION
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST MAKEUP
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
BEST DOCUMENTARY
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

[eternity]

BEST PICTURE
-Adventureland
-Moon
-A Single Man
-Avatar
-The Box

BEST DIRECTOR
-Greg Motolla, Adventureland
-Duncan Jones, Moon
-Richard Kelly, The Box
-Rian Johnson, The Brothers Bloom
-Tom Ford, A Single Man

BEST ACTOR
-Sam Rockwell, Moon
-Robin Williams, World's Greatest Dad
-Colin Firth, A Single Man
-George Clooney, Up in the Air
-Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man

BEST ACTRESS
-Rachel Weisz, The Brothers Bloom
-Sasha Grey, The Girlfriend Experience
-Tilda Swinton, Julia
-Kristen Stewart, Adventureland
-Elle Fanning, Phoebe in Wonderland

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
-Martin Starr, Adventureland
-Peter Capaldi, In the Loop
-Fred Melamed, A Serious Man
-Daryl Sabana, World's Greatest Dad
-Jamie Foxx, The Soloist

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
-Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
-Julianne Moore, A Single Man
-Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
-Aubrey Plaza, Funny People
-Zoe Saldana, Avatar

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
-Adventureland
-A Single Man
-Watchmen
-Inglourious Basterds
-Funny People

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
-Adventureland, Greg Motolla
-A Serious Man, Joel and Ethan Coen
-Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino
-The Brothers Bloom, Rian Johnson
-Mary and Max, Adam Elliot

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
-The Box, Richard Kelly, based on Button, Button by Richard Matheson
-A Single Man, Tom Ford, based on the book by Christopher Isherwood
-The Soloist, Susannah Grant, based on the book by Steve Lopez
-The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson, based on the book by Roald Dahl
-Watchmen, David Hayter and Alex Tse, based on the book illustrated by Dave Gibbons

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
-Adventureland
-A Single Man
-Watchmen
-The Brothers Bloom
-Inglourious Basterds

BEST EDITING
-Avatar
-A Single Man
-Watchmen
-Paranormal Activity
-Moon

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
-Avatar
-Watchmen
-Paranormal Activity
-The Lovely Bones
-Where the Wild Things Are

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
-Avatar
-Paranormal Activity
-Watchmen
-Inglourious Basterds
-The Fantastic Mr. Fox

BEST ART DIRECTION
-Adventureland
-Moon
-A Single Man
-Watchmen
-Inglourious Basterds

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
-A Single Man
-Inglourious Basterds
-Watchmen
-The Lovely Bones
-Public Enemies

BEST MAKEUP
-A Single Man
-The Box
-Watchmen
-Inglourious Basterds
-Star Trek

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
-Moon
-The Box
-A Single Man
-Where the Wild Things Are
-The Lovely Bones

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
-All is Love, Where the Wild Things Are
-Stu's Song, The Hangover
-Possibility, The Twilight Saga: New Moon
-Through the Trees, Jennifer's Body
-Dove of Peace, Bruno

BEST DOCUMENTARY
-Food Inc.
-Capitalism: A Love Story
-Don't You Forget About Me
-The Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
-Mary and Max
-Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea
-Up
-Sita Sings the Blues
-Coraline

[Adam]

Paz de la Huerta's boobs, The Limits of Control

Dang! You stole my joke! I was gonna say Paz de la Huerta's butt, but still

[Eleven]

Dang! You stole my joke! I was gonna say Paz de la Huerta's butt, but still

Yeah, this is more literally supporting.

[ledfloyd]

Dang! You stole my joke! I was gonna say Paz de la Huerta's butt, but still
it wasn't a very good joke. he did you a favor. :P

[eternity]

it wasn't a very good joke. he did you a favor. :P

You were amused when I first told it to you, you jackass.

[ledfloyd]

You were amused when I first told it to you, you jackass.
no i wasn't i just said i had forgotten to nominate paz de la huerta.

[eternity]

no i wasn't i just said i had forgotten to nominate paz de la huerta.

you're a hooker.

[Watashi]

Led, you can't tell someone what to prioritize or de-prioritize when you nominate Zac Efron and not even for the movie he's gettin praise for.

[Watashi]

eternity, that might be the worst set of nominations I've ever seen.

[baby doll]

de-prioritize 500 days of summer.Yeah, it's watchable but not essential--about par with An Education, another competent, mildly engaging, wholly conventional movie that feels like a calling card for the director to get a studio gig.

I would prioritize Antichrist, Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea, Silent Light (does this count as an '09 release? I may have to revise my ballot), and You, the Living. And I would deprioritize An Education (you can thank me later), Import/Export, and Le Silence de Lorna.

[Ezee E]

BEST PICTURE
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Inglorious Basterds
Public Enemies
A Serious Man
Two Lovers

BEST DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow -- The Hurt Locker
Joel Coen -- A Serious Man
James Gray -- Two Lovers
Quentin Tarantino -- Inglorious Basterds

BEST ACTOR
Nicolas Cage -- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
George Clooney -- Up in the Air
Johnny Depp -- Public Enemies
Viggo Mortenson -- The Road
Jeremy Renner -- The Hurt Locker

BEST ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz -- Broken Embraces
Sasha Grey -- The Girlfriend Experiencet
Gwyneth Paltrow -- Two Lovers
Meryl Streep -- Julie & Julia
Tilda Swinton -- Julia

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Zack Galifinakis -- The Hangover
Jackie Earle Haley -- Watchmen
Jason Segal -- I Love You, Man
Kodi Smit-McPhee -- The Road
Christoph Waltz -- Inglorious Basterds

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Vera Farmiga -- Up in the Air
Diane Kruger -- Inglorious Basterds
Melanie Laurent -- Inglorious Basterds
Charlize Theron -- The Road
Rachel Weisz -- The Brothers Bloom

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Adoration
Inglorious Basterds
The Road
A Serious Man
Two Lovers

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Broken Embraces
500 Days of Summer
Inglorious Basterds
A Serious Man
The White Ribbon

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Coraline
Flame & Citron
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Road
Up in the Air

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
A Serious Man
Sin Nombre
Two Lovers
The White Ribbon

BEST EDITING
500 Days of Summer
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
A Serious Man

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar
District 9
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Terminator: Salvation
Thirst

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Public Enemies
The Road
Terminator: Salvation

BEST ART DIRECTION
Avatar
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Lovely Bones
Public Enemies
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
500 Days of Summer
Bright Star
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Public Enemies
The White Ribbon

BEST MAKEUP
District 9
The Road

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Angels & Demons
Coraline
The Lovely Bones
The Road
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Falling and Flying" - Crazy Heart
"I Don't Know" - Crazy Heart
"Rumpus" - Where the Wild Things Are
"Stu's Song" - The Hangover
"The Weary Kind" - Crazy Heart

BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Cove
Tyson

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Coraline
Up

[Melville]

Silent Light (does this count as an '09 release? I may have to revise my ballot)
Yeah, it was released in the U.S. on January 7. Unlike in the cases of Hunger and The Class, there doesn't seem to be any ambiguity there.

[Ezee E]

FYC:

http://www.cinestatic.com/infinitethought/uploaded_images/gfexp-728152.jpg
Sasha Grey - The Girlfriend Experience

An awful movie, but one that works while she's on screen.

Also, finding a screengrab for this movie is NSFW.

[baby doll]

Yeah, it was released in the U.S. on January 7. Unlike in the cases of Hunger and The Class, there doesn't seem to be any ambiguity there.According to Mike D'Angelo's site, it came out in New York on September 26th, 2008.

[Melville]

According to Mike D'Angelo's site, it came out in New York on September 26th, 2008.
That must be the date from the New York Film Festival. Both IMDb and this site (http://www.film-releases.com/film-release-schedule-2009.php?option=showall) have it as January 7.

EDIT: I'm assuming we're not considering festival showings to be U.S. releases.

[baby doll]

FYC:

Sasha Grey - The Girlfriend Experience

An awful movie, but one that works while she's on screen.

Also, finding a screengrab for this movie is NSFW.Really, dude? I thought she was empty and vacant, which is exactly what the role calls for, but is that what we're considering great acting? Show up and be yourself for the camera?

[Raiders]

Really, dude? I thought she was empty and vacant, which is exactly what the role calls for, but is that what we're considering great acting? Show up and be yourself for the camera?

How do you know that Sasha Grey is typically empty and vacant? Because she's a porn star?

[baby doll]

That must be the date from the New York Film Festival. Both IMDb and this site (http://www.film-releases.com/film-release-schedule-2009.php?option=showall) have it as January 7.Wouldn't that be a year late for the NYFF, since the film premiered at Cannes in 2007? Also, it's on the page titled "NYC Commercial Releases [2008]."

On the other hand, Scott Foundas' review in the Village Voice is dated January 6th, 2009, so you're probably right.

[NickGlass]

That must be the date from the New York Film Festival. Both IMDb and this site (http://www.film-releases.com/film-release-schedule-2009.php?option=showall) have it as January 7.

EDIT: I'm assuming we're not considering festival showings to be U.S. releases.

::sigh::

This is wrong, but I don't blame you because it's very frustrating. Silent Light premiered in NYC at the NYFF in September, yes, but it was September 2007. It then had a week-long run at MoMA in September 2008, which you would think makes it obviously eligible, but apparently it doesn't. It opened on January 7th at the Film Forum, though, and played for a while.

This is all so silly. I know all this because I missed it at the NYFF, then missed it at MoMA, and had to wait until it came to the Film Forum to see it.

Was it part of our awards last year?

[Melville]

Wouldn't that be a year late for the NYFF, since the film premiered at Cannes in 2007? Also, it's on the page titled "NYC Commercial Releases [2008]."
Oh, you're right, it played at NYFF in 2007. It even came out on DVD in Canada on September 2nd, 2008. But multiple sites show its commercial US release date as January 7, 2009. I just don't know anymore.

[baby doll]

::sigh::

This is wrong, but I don't blame you because it's very frustrating. Silent Light premiered in NYC at the NYFF in September, yes, but it was September 2007. It then had a week-long run at MoMA in September 2008, which you would think makes it obviously eligible, but apparently it doesn't. It opened on January 7th at the Film Forum, though, and played for a while.

This is all so silly. I know all this because I missed it at the NYFF, then missed it at MoMA, and had to wait until it came to the Film Forum to see it.

Was it part of our awards last year?But does being screened at MoMA count as a commercial run?

[baby doll]

How do you know that Sasha Grey is typically empty and vacant? Because she's a porn star?I'm familiar with all her films.

;)

[Melville]

But does being screened at MoMA count as a commercial run?
If festival screenings don't count, then it seems like gallery screenings shouldn't either. I don't know. Do any of these rules really make sense? Shouldn't the deciding factor be whether or not most of the voters have had a reasonable opportunity to see the film?

[baby doll]

If festival screenings don't count, then it seems like gallery screenings shouldn't either. I don't know. Do any of these rules really make sense? Shouldn't the deciding factor be whether or not most of the voters have had a reasonable opportunity to see the film?By voters, do you mean us at Match-Cut, or the Academy? Because I'm pretty sure Reygadas' film didn't have an expensive Oscar campaign, which means no DVD screeners for people in the loop. And besides, I doubt any of the people voting on the Academy Awards would bother to watch a subtitled movie about Mexican Mennonites anyway.

[Melville]

By voters, do you mean us at Match-Cut, or the Academy? Because I'm pretty sure Reygadas' film didn't have an expensive Oscar campaign, which means no DVD screeners for people in the loop. And besides, I doubt any of the people voting on the Academy Awards would bother to watch a subtitled movie about Mexican Mennonites anyway.
I mean us at Match-Cut. Nuts to the Academy.

[baby doll]

I mean us at Match-Cut. Nuts to the Academy.Oh, well I totally watched it on my computer way back in August of '08, since I figured correctly that it wasn't going to turn up in Busan with English subtitles anytime soon.

[baby doll]

Picture:
1. Adoration by Atom Egoyan
2. Tony Manero by Pablo LarraÃ*n
3. A Serious Man by Ethan and Joel Coen
4. Silent Light by Carlos Reygadas
5. You, the Living by Roy Andersson

Director:
1. Carlos Reygadas for Silent Light
2. Roy Andersson for You, the Living
3. Ethan and Joel Coen for A Serious Man

Actor:
1. Alfredo Castro for Tony Manero
2. Michael Stuhlbarg for A Serious Man
3. Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds

Actress:
1. Abbie Cornish for Bright Star
2. Charlotte Gainsbourg for Antichrist
3. Laura Smet for La Frontière de l'aube

Screenplay:
1. Adoration by Atom Egoyan
2. Tony Manero by Alfredo Castro, Matteo Iribarren, and Pablo LarraÃ*n
3. A Serious Man by Ethan and Joel Coen

Cinematography:
1. William Lubtchansky for La Frontière de l'aube
2. Alexis Zabe for Silent Light
3. Sergio Armstrong for Tony ManeroSo I've decided to count it anyway, just because it's awesome.

[ledfloyd]

Led, you can't tell someone what to prioritize or de-prioritize when you nominate Zac Efron and not even for the movie he's gettin praise for.
a. there were very few great male performances this year. and i haven't seen a few i think will eventually knock him off.
b. he was actually good.
c. i haven't seen the movie he's gettin praise for.

[Ivan Drago]

No, THESE are the worst nominations ever. Should change over the next couple months or so though.

BEST PICTURE

Avatar
The Box
Crank 2: High Voltage
Inglourious Basterds
Watchmen

BEST DIRECTOR

James Cameron, Avatar
Richard Kelly, The Box
Neveldine/Taylor, Crank 2
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Zack Snyder, Watchmen

BEST ACTOR

Matt Damon, The Informant!
Larry David, Whatever Works
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer
Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers
Jason Statham, Crank 2

BEST ACTRESS

Zooey Deschanel, (500) Days of Summer
Cameron Diaz, The Box
Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
Gwyneth Paltrow, Two Lovers
Kristen Stewart, Adventureland

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Jim Broadbent, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Zach Galifainakis, The Hangover
Jackie Earle Haley, Watchmen
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Patrick Wilson, Watchmen

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Marion Cotillard, Public Enemies
Diane Kruger, Inglourious Basterds
Zoe Saldana, Avatar
Emma Watson, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Evan Rachel Wood, Whatever Works

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

Crank 2: High Voltage
The Hangover
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Watchmen

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

(500) Days of Summer
Neveldine/Taylor, Crank 2
The Hangover
John Hamburg, I Love You, Man
James Gray, Two Lovers

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Box
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Informant!
Inglourious Basterds
Watchmen

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Inglourious Basterds
Public Enemies
Watchmen
Where The Wild Things Are

BEST EDITING

Avatar
Crank 2: High Voltage
District 9
Star Trek
Watchmen

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

2012
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
Where The Wild Things Are

BEST SOUND EFFECTS

2012
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
Watchmen

BEST SOUND EDITING

2012
Avatar
Crank 2: High Voltage
Star Trek
Watchmen

BEST ART DIRECTION

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Inglourious Basterds
Public Enemies
Star Trek
Watchmen

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Inglourious Basterds
Public Enemies
Star Trek
Where The Wild Things Are

BEST MAKEUP

The Box
District 9
Star Trek
Terminator: Salvation
Zombieland

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Box
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
New Moon
Star Trek
Watchmen

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Hearing Damage” by Thom Yorke – New Moon
“Desolation Row” by My Chemical Romance - Watchmen
“All Is Love” by Karen O – Where The Wild Things Are

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

A Christmas Carol
Monsters vs. Aliens
The Princess and the Frog
Up

[Boner M]

She is even pushed as a lead for the Academy.
Jamie Foxx nabbed a best supporting nod for Collateral. Match-cut is not the Academy, and thank god for that.

[Watashi]

If we're going to argue lead and supporting, I don't understand how anyone could put Peter Capaldi in for lead. Yeah, he steals the show, but he's definitely not the lead.

[Stay Puft]

Oh, it's that time of year again. I have a lot of catching up to do...

[soitgoes...]

If we're going to argue lead and supporting, I don't understand how anyone could put Peter Capaldi in for lead. Yeah, he steals the show, but he's definitely not the lead.
Maybe since he's been nominated as a lead for an actual award? Don't worry though, I doubt in two months he will be anywhere on my final ballot.

[Winston*]

Maybe since he's been nominated as a lead for an actual award? Don't worry though, I doubt in two months he will be anywhere on my final ballot.

Why not? He should be on everyone's ballot.

[soitgoes...]

Why not? He should be on everyone's ballot.To spite Wats, naturally.

Seriously though, as a lead no. There's too much competition with plenty more to see. If I move him to supporting then he may have a shot.

[Derek]

I'd hate to see people use common sense and good judgement when they can simply follow what other awards have already done.

[soitgoes...]

I'd hate to see people use common sense and good judgement when they can simply follow what other awards have already done.
I hate to see people keep criticizing when this thing isn't even final for 2 more months, and I filled out what I did at 4 o'clock last night.

[Ezee E]

Toughest category to decide on was Best Cinematography. There were about 15 movies that I wanted to choose from.

[Derek]

I hate to see people keep criticizing when this thing isn't even final for 2 more months, and I filled out what I did at 4 o'clock last night.

No, my point was that using other awards nominations as a reason why others are wrong for putting someone in the Supporting or Lead category is stupid. As far as I've heard, Harvey is pushing for Melanie Laurent as lead knowing full well she has no legitimate shot at getting a nomination because he's putting all his awards eggs in Nine's basket. So even though Laurent isn't a lead, it's absurd to nominate her in Supporting because Harvey doesn't want her there.

[Ezee E]

Regardless, Laurent has no chance at an Oscar nomination in either category.

[Derek]

Regardless, Laurent has no chance at an Oscar nomination in either category.

Not really my point though.

[soitgoes...]

No, my point was that using other awards nominations as a reason why others are wrong for putting someone in the Supporting or Lead category is stupid. As far as I've heard, Harvey is pushing for Melanie Laurent as lead knowing full well she has no legitimate shot at getting a nomination because he's putting all his awards eggs in Nine's basket. So even though Laurent isn't a lead, it's absurd to nominate her in Supporting because Harvey doesn't want her there.
The whole idea of policing this (so-and-so belongs in this category, this film is actually 2008 not 2009) is silly. Through the voting process, the majority will decide who belongs where and what's to be included. If 90% of the people who vote for Laurent see her as the lead, well then she's the lead. It would behoove the 10% who don't, to change their vote in order to support her (unless her performance isn't strong enough to break into the top 5 of that category). With me Capaldi will get moved if the support goes to the supporting category, and there isn't anyone better in the that category.

[Adam]

If Capaldi isn't nominated, which would be a shame, he should at least be allowed to present the best supporting actor award

"Good evening, my little chicks and cocks..."

[Sycophant]

I love you people.

[Melville]

The whole idea of policing this (so-and-so belongs in this category, this film is actually 2008 not 2009) is silly. Through the voting process, the majority will decide who belongs where and what's to be included.
I think it makes more sense to just decide beforehand on what's eligible. If it's decided that Hunger isn't eligible, say, then I won't waste a nomination on; and if it's decided that Hunger is eligible, then nobody will have a (legitimate) reason to not nominate it (unless, of course, they think it doesn't deserve a nomination). As for the acting stuff, I'm all for just ditching the supporting actor/actress categories and just having best performance categories; determining whether or not a role is "supporting" seems kind of arbitrary in many cases.

However, the whole idea is silly in the sense that the main benefit of this whole process is the laughs provided by the awards thread.

[soitgoes...]

I think it makes more sense to just decide beforehand on what's eligible. If it's decided that Hunger isn't eligible, say, then I won't waste a nomination on; and if it's decided that Hunger is eligible, then nobody will have a (legitimate) reason to not nominate it (unless, of course, they think it doesn't deserve a nomination).Hunger is a special case. It was included last year. I have no idea how it could now be a 2009 film according to IMDb. I voted for it last year, and it just seems wrong to do so again. I don't know.

[Watashi]

This is serious business, Melville.

This is not for laughs.

[Boner M]

This is not for laughs.
http://reelsofrhyme.files.wordpress.c om/2008/12/44243841.jpg

[Pop Trash]

BEST PICTURE
Where the Wild Things Are
Inglourious Basterds
Adventureland
Two Lovers
Goodbye Solo

BEST DIRECTOR
Quentin Tarantino, IB
Spike Jonze, Wild Things
James Gray, Two Lovers
Sam Raimi, Drag Me to Hell
Greg Mottola, Adventureland

BEST ACTOR
Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers
Max Records, Wild Things
Nicolas Cage, Bad Lieutenant: POCNO
Souleymane Sy Savane, Goodbye Solo
Joseph Gordon Levitt, 500 Days of Summer

BEST ACTRESS
Abbie Cornish, Bright Star
Kristen Stewart, Adventureland
Gweneth Paltrow, Two Lovers
Melanie Laurent, IB
Maya Rudolph, Away We Go

[Boner M]

Kristen Stewart in Adventureland > Zooey in Summer

[Pop Trash]

Kristen Stewart in Adventureland > Zooey in Summer

Hmmm you're right. Added.

[Ezee E]

Kristen Stewart in Adventureland > Zooey in Summer
Definitely not.

[Adam]

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Alycia Delmore, Humpday

This is such a good call; hope she makes your cut after you've seen more stuff. The way she says "Do you wanna have a drink with me?" in that movie has become this absurd running joke between a friend and I, for some reason

[Derek]

Kristen Stewart in Adventureland > Zooey in Summer

Absolutely. It's not even close IMO.

[Lazlo]

BEST PICTURE
"Avatar"
"Bright Star"
"Inglourious Basterds"
"Where the Wild Things Are"
"Up"

BEST DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow – “The Hurt Locker”
James Cameron – “Avatar”
Jane Campion – “Bright Star”
Spike Jonze – “Where the Wild Things Are”
Quentin Tarantino - “Inglourious Basterds”

BEST ACTOR
Matt Damon – “The Informant!”
Jeremy Renner – “The Hurt Locker”
Sam Rockwell – “Moon”
Souleymane Sy Savane – “Goodbye Solo”
Ben Wishaw – “Bright Star”

BEST ACTRESS
Abbie Cornish – “Bright Star”
Carey Mulligan – “An Education”
Maya Rudolph – “Away We Go”
Meryl Streep – “Julie and Julia”
Rachel Weisz – “The Brothers Bloom”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Anthony Mackie – “The Hurt Locker”
Alfred Molina – “An Education”
Jason Segel – “I Love You, Man”
Stanley Tucci – “Julie and Julia”
Christoph Waltz - “Inglourious Basterds”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Emily Blunt – “Sunshine Cleaning”
Vera Farmiga – “Up in the Air”
Anna Kendrick – “Up in the Air”
Rinko Kikuchi – “The Brothers Bloom”
Vinessa Shaw – “Two Lovers”

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
“Adventureland”
“Away We Go”
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Star Trek”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“Adventureland” (Greg Mottola)
“Away We Go” (Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida)
“The Brothers Bloom” (Rian Johnson)
“Inglourious Basterds” (Quentin Tarantino)
“Up” (Bob Peterson and Pete Docter; story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Thomas McCarthy)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“Bright Star” (Jane Campion; biography by Andrew Motion)
“An Education” (Nick Hornby; memoir by Lynn Barber)
“Fantastic Mr. Fox” (Wes Anderson and Dave Eggers; novel by Roald Dahl)
“The Informant!” (Scott Z. Burns; book by Kurt Eichenwald)
“Where the Wild Things Are” (Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers; book by Maurice Sendek)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Bright Star” (Grieg Fraser)
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” (Bruno Delbonnel)
“Inglourious Basterds” (Robert Richardson)
“Star Trek” (Dan Mindel)
“Where the Wild Things Are” (Lance Acord)

BEST EDITING
“Avatar” (James Cameron, John Refoua, Stephen Rivkin)
“District 9” (Julian Clarke)
“The Hurt Locker” (Chris Innis and Bob Murawski)
“Inglourious Basterds” (Sally Menke)
“Star Trek” (Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
“2012” (Volker Engel, John Kilshaw, Chris Strause, Greg Strause, Mark Weigart)
“Avatar” (John Bruno, Steven Quale, Jonathan Rothbart, Eric Saindon, R. Christopher White, Guy Williams)
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” (Tim Burke, John Moffat, Chris Shaw)
“Star Trek” (Roger Guyett)
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” (Scott Farrar and Richard Kidd)

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
“Avatar” (Christopher Boyes, Addison Teague, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle)
“The Hurt Locker” (Paul N. J. Ottosson)
“Star Trek” (Alan Rankin and Mark P. Stoeckinger)
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” (Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn)
“Up” (Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Michael Silvers)

BEST ART DIRECTION
“Angels and Demons” (Allan Cameron)
“Avatar” (Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg)
“Inglourious Basterds” (David Wasco)
“Star Trek” (Scott Chambliss)
“Where the Wild Things Are” (K.K. Barrett)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
“Bright Star” (Janet Patterson)
“Inglourious Basterds” (Anna B. Sheppard)
“Julie and Julia” (Ann Roth)
“Watchmen” (Michael Wilkinson)
“Where the Wild Things Are” (Casey Storm)

BEST MAKEUP
“District 9” (Leon von Solms)
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” (Nick Dudman)
“Inglourious Basterds” (Heba Thorisdottir)
“Sin Nombre” (Alfredo Garcia and Carla Tinoco)
“Terminator Salvation” (Kimberly Greene and Mike Smithson)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
“Bright Star” (Mark Bradshaw)
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” (Nicholas Hooper)
“Star Trek” (Michael Giacchino)
“Up” (Michael Giacchino)
“Where the Wild Things Are” (Karen O and Carter Burwell)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

BEST DOCUMENTARY
“Kobe Doin’ Work”
“Michael Jackson’s ‘This is It’”
“Tyson”

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
“Coraline”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“Monsters vs. Aliens”
“Ponyo”
“Up”

[B-side]

Switched Waltz to supporting actor. Not that he'll need my nomination.

[Melville]

For Your Consideration:
http://www.more.com/images/photo/image/30/97/photo/3097/original/Campion.BrightStar2.jpg
Bright Star for Best Picture, Director, Cinematography, and Actress

It's the most perfect evocation of the feeling of romantic love that I've seen on film. It's stunningly beautiful. And I haven't seen it discussed on here at all.

[B-side]

Been looking forward to that one. Lot of folks I trust on film -- yourself included, Melly -- have praised it endlessly.

[Ezee E]

Technically it was great. But I found it to be such a bore.

[Melville]

Technically it was great. But I found it to be such a bore.
From that I can only conclude that you have no love in your soul.j/kBut seriously wtf. A bore? How can a film so fraught with palpable emotion be a bore? It seems inconceivable.Unless you do, in fact, have no love in your soul...

[ledfloyd]

i wish it would play around here and/or leak.

[Bosco B Thug]

I'll admit to just letting Bright Star pass on by when it was in a very near theater, and I am kicking myself in the Cornish now for doing so.

Stupid mild Cannes buzz.

[Melville]

Despite my questioning of the state of E's soul, I would actually expect a lot of people to dislike the film. It embraces a Romantic view of love that many people might find overblown, trivial, or pacified.

[NickGlass]

For Your Consideration:
Bright Star

Bright Star for Best Picture, Director, Cinematography, and Actress


Ben Whishaw gets no respect.

[Melville]

Ben Whishaw gets no respect.
Hey, I nominated him for best actor—it just seems less likely that other people will. I thought his voice was perfect for the role. His reading of the poem over the credits was brilliantly forlorn and romantic.

[NickGlass]

Hey, I nominated him for best actor—it just seems less likely that other people will.His reading of the poem over the credits was brilliantly forlorn and romantic.

Why? Because he's doesn't play a hyper-masculine man? I believe he's as good as, if not better than, Ms. Cornish.


His reading of the poem over the credits was brilliantly forlorn and romantic.

This was possibly my favorite part of the film (since the images were still resonating in my mind, as well).

[Melville]

Why? Because he's doesn't play a hyper-masculine man? I believe he's as good as, if not better than, Ms. Cornish.
No, because he's given less to do. I don't think he's required to have the same range of emotion as Cornish, though I could be misremembering.


This was possibly my favorite part of the film.
Mine too.:pritch:

[Ivan Drago]

Added Avatar to:

- Best Picture (removed Star Trek)
- Best Director (removed JJ Abrams)
- Best Supporting Actress (removed Vinessa Shaw, Two Lovers)
- Best Editing (removed Taken)
- Best Visual Effects (removed The Box)
- Best Sound Effects (removed Crank 2)
- Best Sound Editing (removed Paranormal Activity)

[Mysterious Dude]

FYC for Best Actress (ever):

Tilda Swinton, Julia

It's available on Netflix PlayNow. Tilda tears that film to shreds in the best possible way.
I was loving this movie until
the second kidnapping?!

The last half-hour seemed like a different movie.

[Spinal]

BEST PICTURE
Antichrist
Inglourious Basterds
Moon
A Serious Man
Tokyo Sonata

BEST DIRECTOR
Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Lars von Trier, Antichrist

BEST ACTOR
Willem Dafoe, Antichrist
Sam Rockwell, Moon
Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man

BEST ACTRESS
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
A Serious Man
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Antichrist
Inglourious Basterds
Moon
A Serious Man

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Antichrist

BEST EDITING
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
BEST SOUND EFFECTS
BEST ART DIRECTION
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST MAKEUP
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
BEST DOCUMENTARY

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Astro Boy
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Ponyo

[Ezee E]

Edited my results.

Avatar for Visual Effects and Art Direction.

[Mysterious Dude]

BEST PICTURE
Bright Star
The White Ribbon
In the Loop
Moon
A Serious Man

BEST DIRECTOR
Jane Campion, Bright Star
Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are
Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon
Neill Blomkamp, District 9
Joel & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man

BEST ACTOR
Sam Rockwell, Moon
Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man
Ben Whishaw, Bright Star
Souleymane Sy Savane, Goodbye Solo
Viggo Mortensen, The Road

BEST ACTRESS
Catalina Saavedra, The Maid
Tilda Swinton, Julia
Abbie Cornish, Bright Star
Mélanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
Arta Dobroshi, Lorna’s Silence

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Peter Capaldi, In the Loop
Michael Fassbender, Inglourious Basterds
Paul Schneider, Bright Star
Fred Melamed, A Serious Man

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mariana Loyola, The Maid
Sari Lennick, A Serious Man
Catherine Keener, Where the Wild Things Are
Kate del Castillo, Julia
Melanie Lynskey, The Informant!

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
In the Loop
The White Ribbon
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
The Hurt Locker

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
In the Loop
A Serious Man
Inglourious Basterds
The Hurt Locker
Moon

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Where the Wild Things Are
The Road
The Informant!
Watchmen
The Baader Meinhof Complex

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Bright Star
Where the Wild Things Are
Il Divo
The Baader Meinhof Complex
The White Ribbon

BEST EDITING
District 9
Inglourious Basterds
The Hurt Locker
A Serious Man
The Baader Meinhof Complex

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
Watchmen
Sherlock Holmes

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
Sherlock Holmes

BEST ART DIRECTION
Bright Star
The Road
A Serious Man
Star Trek
Sherlock Holmes

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Bright Star
Chéri
Star Trek
Sherlock Holmes
The White Ribbon

BEST MAKEUP
The Road
Watchmen
Star Trek
Sherlock Holmes
Moon

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Where the Wild Things Are
District 9
Star Trek
Sherlock Holmes
Bright Star

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Hideaway," Where the Wild Things Are
"All Is Love," Where the Wild Things Are

BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Cove

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Coraline

[Adam]

Gah, I like my nominations a lot less now that I've removed the apparently illegible Fish Tank

Biggish films that popped up on critics' lists that I still want to see

Bright Star, The Maid, Public Enemies, A Serious Man, Sita Sings The Blues, Still Walking, Summer Hours, The Sun, Tetro, 35 Shots of Rum, Up in the Air

Biggish films that popped up on critics' lists that I don't really want to see

(500) Days of Summer, The Blind Side, Crazy Heart, Goodbye Solo, The Headless Woman, Invictus, Julie & Julia, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Nine, Police Adjective, Ponyo, Precious, A Single Man, Sugar, Tulpan, The Young Victoria

Also, I haven't watched a single 2009 documentary, somehow

Anyway, here are my nominations as of today

BEST PICTURE
Humpday
Inglourious Basterds
Revanche
A Serious Man
You, the Living

BEST DIRECTOR
Roy Andersson, You, the Living
The Coens, A Serious Man
James Gray, Two Lovers
Götz Spielmann, Revanche
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

BEST ACTOR
Nicolas Cage, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Johannes Krisch, Revanche
Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers
Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man
Michael Jai White, Black Dynamite

BEST ACTRESS
Abbie Cornish, Bright Star
Arta Dobroshi, Lorna's Silence
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Tilda Swinton, Julia

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Daniel Brühl, Inglourious Basterds
Peter Capaldi, In the Loop
Michael Fassbender, Inglourious Basterds
Tom Waits, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anna Chlumsky, In the Loop
Alycia Delmore, Humpday
Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
Vinessa Shaw, Two Lovers
Ursula Strauss, Revanche

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
In the Loop
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
The White Ribbon
You, the Living

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Inglourious Basterds
Revanche
A Serious Man
The White Ribbon
You, the Living

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
In The Loop
The Informant!
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Antichrist
Revanche
Where the Wild Things Are
The White Ribbon
You, the Living

BEST EDITING
Black Dynamite
Broken Embraces
Inglourious Basterds
Lorna's Silence
You, the Living

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar
District 9
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Thirst
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Where the Wild Things Are
You, the Living

BEST ART DIRECTION
Antichrist
An Education
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The White Ribbon
You, the Living

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Bright Star
Broken Embraces
An Education
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST MAKEUP
Bright Star
An Education
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Thirst
You, the Living

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Coraline
The Limits of Control
Up
Where the Wild Things Are
You, the Living

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Other Father's Song" Coraline
"Petey's Song" Fantastic Mr Fox
"All Is Love" Where the Wild Things Are

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
Up

[baby doll]

Biggish films that popped up on critics' lists that I don't really want to see

(500) Days of Summer, The Blind Side, Crazy Heart, Goodbye Solo, The Headless Woman, Invictus, Julie & Julia, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Nine, Police Adjective, Ponyo, Precious, A Single Man, Sugar, Tulpan, The Young VictoriaWhy the hell not? I haven't seen the first two, but Martel is plainly one of the most exciting filmmakers on the planet right now, and Porumboiu's 12:08 East of Bucharest is the only Romanian film I've seen that I can work up any real enthusiasm over (especially in the second half when it suddenly stops being standard festival bait). And I have seen Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea and Tulpan, so I can say without qualification that they kick major ass all over the place. Nine, sure, that's almost certainly total garbage, but why these films?

[Adam]

Why the hell not? I haven't seen the first two, but Martel is plainly one of the most exciting filmmakers on the planet right now, and Porumboiu's 12:08 East of Bucharest is the only Romanian film I've seen that I can work up any real enthusiasm over (especially in the second half when it suddenly stops being standard festival bait). And I have seen Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea and Tulpan, so I can say without qualification that they kick major ass all over the place. Nine, sure, that's almost certainly total garbage, but why these films?

Oh, I dunno. Usually what happens is, early on, I hear one or two things I don't like about a film and then I sorta just lose interest. It's not tremendously fair, but I'll more than likely see most of those movies eventually, anyway. More specifically on the films you highlighted: I'm not familiar with Martel or Porumboiu, Tulpan sounded blah and I'm pretty sure I out-and-out dislike Miyazaki

[soitgoes...]

I'm pretty sure I out-and-out dislike Miyazaki
Wah?

[Adam]

I've only seen Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. In general, I appreciate the sentiment behind both of those movies and I totally respect the level of ambition there, in what are ostensibly films for children. He just goes too preachy and on-the-nose for my taste. I feel like I'm better than his films, basically

I'm not crazy about the actual animation, either, but that's just sacrilege, so I'll shut up now

[ledfloyd]

goodbye solo is worth seeing as well. i have no desire to see invictus, crazy heart, the messenger, the last station, the lovely bones, the messenger, precious, julie and julia, or the blind side. i'm torn on nine and a single man. i'll probably see the latter but not the former. i wish i hadn't seen 500 days of summer.

[baby doll]

Tulpan sounded blahI suppose if I went to movies based solely on plot descriptions... well, I'd never see another movie again. But luckily, movies aren't their plots, and this one in particular.

[Adam]

I meant that it sounded blah based off the (mostly positive) reviews I've read, not the plot descriptions I've read

[soitgoes...]

I've only seen Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. In general, I appreciate the sentiment behind both of those movies and I totally respect the level of ambition there, in what are ostensibly films for children. He just goes too preachy and on-the-nose for my taste. I feel like I'm better than his films, basicallyI can sort of see where you're coming from. His environmental messages in his films can come off as being too apparent. I don't think that this is a negative, because after all children do make up a large part of his audience. To dismiss his films as being too preachy is to dismiss just about every animated film ever made. Clouded, hidden messages aren't animation's strong points, and they shouldn't be. A film's morals need to be made readily available for its target audience.

But there is still quite a bit of stuff going on in his films that aren't shoved down our throats. That is why his films appeal to all age groups. The thing that works for me over anything else is his strong use of female characters. In a world, both real and cinematic, saturated with everything male, it is so refreshing to have someone continually make a product with the female in mind. And not just a blubbering, helpless female, but one that is strong and able to figure things out for herself.

I'll ignore the animation part of your post. :)

[Spinal]

I'm not crazy about the actual animation, either, but that's just sacrilege, so I'll shut up now

Not at all. I find I generally like his films all right, but I will never understand the reverence for his style of animation.

[baby doll]

I meant that it sounded blah based off the (mostly positive) reviews I've read, not the plot descriptions I've readHow much did the reviews say about the film's long take style?

[Adam]

"Other Father Song" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-viaCIl4rQ) for BEST ORIGINAL SONG

http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss47/adamstone20/other-father-song-coraline.jpg

[NickGlass]

Love the Fish Tank nominations, but I don't think enough people will have seen it to warrant a nomination.

Is this even eligible? I know it's not at the Oscars. I'd like to know since, er, I'd probably include it a few places.

Andrea Arnold was so drunk at the Q & A I attended last night, following a screening. It was brilliant. She even squinted harshly whenever she thought "this question/answer is bullshit."

[baby doll]

Andrea Arnold was so drunk at the Q & A I attended last night, following a screening. It was brilliant. She even squinted harshly whenever she thought "this question/answer is bullshit."Imagine her and Lynne Ramsay on a bender. Female Scottish Auteurs Gone Wild.

[Ezee E]

Is this even eligible? I know it's not at the Oscars. I'd like to know since, er, I'd probably include it a few places.

Andrea Arnold was so drunk at the Q & A I attended last night, following a screening. It was brilliant. She even squinted harshly whenever she thought "this question/answer is bullshit."
I'll venture to say it won't have a chance because I think only four of us have seen it.

[Fezzik]

So, can I send in my noms via PM?

[NickGlass]

Imagine her and Lynne Ramsay on a bender. Female Scottish Auteurs Gone Wild.

You have no idea how much I want to be along on that ride.

[Ezee E]

Is this even eligible? I know it's not at the Oscars. I'd like to know since, er, I'd probably include it a few places.

Andrea Arnold was so drunk at the Q & A I attended last night, following a screening. It was brilliant. She even squinted harshly whenever she thought "this question/answer is bullshit."
Ha. What type of questions were those?

And I was just refreshed at the ending in that it didn't free the horse, thereby, freeing herself. I figured that HAD to happen within the first sighting of the horse.

The preview that just came out is so horrible that I don't want to even post it to Match Cut because I fear it'll scare people away.

[Adam]

BEST PICTURE
Fish Tank
Humpday
Inglourious Basterds
Revanche
You, the Living


Hey, I just realized that two of my top five films from 2009 were directed by women. At least as of 1/14/10. What a crazy, mixed-up world this has become

[ledfloyd]

Hey, I just realized that two of my top five films from 2009 were directed by women. At least as of 1/14/10. What a crazy, mixed-up world this has become
quite the year for female directors. this needs to become the norm.

[Stay Puft]

I was under the impression Fish Tank was not getting a commercial release until this year (actually this month, IIRC). What makes it eligible? We're going by US commercial dates for these awards, right?

[Ezee E]

Broken Embraces for Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay

[ledfloyd]

FYC for Best Actress (ever):

Tilda Swinton, Julia

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.cinematical.com/media/2009/05/julia-tilda-swinton-2.jpg
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01395/julia1_1395352c.jpg
http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/090506-julia-review-hmed-3p.hmedium.jpg

It's available on Netflix PlayNow. Tilda tears that film to shreds in the best possible way.
yes. performance of the year by a fair margin.

[Henry Gale]

BEST PICTURE
Inglourious Basterds
Moon
A Serious Man
Up
Where The Wild Things Are

BEST DIRECTOR
Joel & Ethan Coen / A Serious Man
John Hillcoat / The Road
Duncan Jones / Moon
Spike Jonze / Where The Wild Things Are
Quentin Tarantino / Inglourious Basterds

BEST ACTOR
Viggo Mortensen / The Road
Joaquin Phoenix / Two Lovers
Jeremy Renner / The Hurt Locker
Sam Rockwell / Moon
Michael Stuhlbarg / A Serious Man

BEST ACTRESS
Charlotte Gainsbourg / Antichrist
Ok-bin Kim / Thirst
Mélanie Laurent / Inglourious Basterds
Carey Mulligan / An Education
Saoirse Ronan / The Lovely Bones

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Eric Bana / Funny People
Jim Broadbent / Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Woody Harrelson / The Messenger
Tom Waits / The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Christoph Waltz / Inglourious Basterds

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Leslie Mann / Funny People
Samantha Morton / The Messenger
Isabella Rossellini / Two Lovers
Vinessa Shaw / Two Lovers
Charlize Theron / The Road

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Funny People
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
Two Lovers
Where The Wild Things Are

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Greg Motolla / Adventureland
Quentin Tarantino / Inglourious Basterds
Nathan Parker / Moon
Joel & Ethan Coen / A Serious Man
Bob Peterson & Pete Docter / Up

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Spike Jonze & Dave Eggers / Where The Wild Things Are
Richard Kelly / The Box
Park Chan-Wook / Thirst
Joe Penhall / The Road
Henry Selick / Coraline

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Pete Kozachik / Coraline
Robert Richardson / Inglourious Basterds
Andrew Lesnie / The Lovely Bones
Javier Aguirresarobe / The Road
Lance Acord / Where The Wild Things Are

BEST EDITING
Inglourious Basterds
Moon
Star Trek
Up In The Air
Where The Wild Things Are

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
Watchmen
Where The Wild Things Are

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up
Watchmen

BEST ART DIRECTION
Avatar
Coraline
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Where The Wild Things Are
Watchmen

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Box
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Inglourious Basterds
The Lovely Bones
Where The Wild Things Are

BEST MAKEUP
District 9
Drag Me To Hell
The Imaginarium of Docter Parnassus
Moon
The Road

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Win Butler & Régine Chassagne / The Box
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis / The Road
Clint Mansell / Moon
Michael Giacchino / Up
Karen O & Carter Burwell / Where The Wild Things Are

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Hearing Damage (Thom Yorke) / New Moon
Hideaway (Karen O & The Kids) / Where The Wild Things Are
Other Father Song / Coraline
Roslyn (Bon Iver & St. Vincent) / New Moon
Rumpus (Karen O & The Kids) / Where The Wild Things Are

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Anvil! The Story of Anvil

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Coraline
Up

[Fezzik]

BEST PICTURE
Adventureland
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Up

BEST DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Neill Blomkamp, District 9
James Cameron, Avatar
Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

BEST ACTOR
Sharlto Copley, District 9
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
Sam Rockwell, Moon

BEST ACTRESS
Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
Marion Cotillard, Nine
Zoe Saldana, Avatar
Kristen Stewart, Adventureland

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jim Broadbent, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Zack Galifianakis, The Hangover
Jackie Earle Haley, Watchmen
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
Marion Cotillard, Public Enemies
Mo'nique, Precious
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Adventureland
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Inglourious Basterds

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Adventureland
Inglourious Basterds
Up

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Fantastic Mr. Fox
A Single Man
Where the Wild Things are

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
A Single Man
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST EDITING
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
Watchmen

BEST ART DIRECTION
Avatar
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Watchmen
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Inglourious Basterds
Public Enemies
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST MAKEUP
District 9
Watchmen
Zombieland

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Coraline
Sherlock Holmes
Up
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"All is Love," Where the Wild Things Are
"Friends on the Other Side," The Princess and the Frog
"Other Father Song," Coraline
"The Weary Kind," Crazy Heart

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
Up


-----


There are a couple of movies I really want to see before the 31st so I can round out these choices, but as of now, thats all I got.

[Barty]

BEST PICTURE

Inglorious Basterds
Up
Watchmen
Avatar
The Lovely Bones

BEST DIRECTOR

Quentin Tarantino - Inglorious Basterds
James Cameron - Avatar
Peter Jackson - The Lovely Bones
Michael Mann - Public Enemies
John Hillcoat - The Road

BEST ACTOR

Robert Downey Jr. - Sherlock Holmes
Matt Damon - The Informant
Viggo Mortensen - The Road
George Clooney - Up in the Air
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker

BEST ACTRESS

Mélanie Laurent - Inglourious Basterds
Zoe Saldana - Avatar
Sasoire Ronan - The Lovely Bones
Meryl Streep - It's Complicated
Carry Mulligan - An Education

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christoph Waltz - Inglorious Basterds
Billy Crudup - Watchmen
Michael Fassbender - Inglorious Basterds
Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
Jude Law - Sherlock Holmes

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
Dianne Kruger - Inglorious Basterds
Mo'nique - Precious
Marion Cotillard - Public Enemies

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

Watchmen
Inglorious Basterds
The Lovely Bones
Star Trek
Public Enemies

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Inglorious Basterds
Up
Knowing
500 Days of Summer
A Serious Man

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Watchmen
Up in the Air
The Lovely Bones
The Road
A Christmas Carol

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Inglorious Basterds
Avatar
The Lovely Bones
The Road
A Christmas Carol

BEST EDITING

Inglorious Basterds
Watchmen
Avatar
The Lovely Bones
Public Enemies

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Avatar
The Lovely Bones
Star Trek
District 9
2012


BEST SOUND EFFECTS

Avatar
Watchmen
Inglorious Basterds
Star Trek
District 9

BEST ART DIRECTION

Avatar
Inglorious Basterds
The Lovely Bones
The Road
Watchmen

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Watchmen
Inglorious Basterds
The Lovely Bones
Public Enemies
Sherlock Holmes

BEST MAKEUP

The Lovely Bones
District 9
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Avatar
The Lovely Bones
Angels & Demons
Star Trek
Twilight: New Moon

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

BEST DOCUMENTARY

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Up
Coraline
A Christmas Carol

[Ivan Drago]

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Watchmen

BEST EDITING
Watchmen

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Twilight: New Moon


Yay! I'm not insane! :pritch:

[Eleven]

Yay! I'm not insane! :pritch:

Wait, since Barty agrees with you, you're not crazy? :P

[Ezee E]

Nominated Lovely Bones for Best Art Direction.

[Ivan Drago]

Wait, since Barty agrees with you, you're not crazy? :P

Since we agree on movies, I'm not crazy. ;)

[B-side]

I like the New Moon soundtrack quite a bit.

[Raiders]

Did we get a final due date? I am going to lobby for not the end of this week but at least the end of next week.

[Ivan Drago]

I like the New Moon soundtrack quite a bit.

Now I'm 100% sure I'm not insane. :pritch: That and Slumdog Millionaire had two of the best soundtracks of the decade.

[B-side]

Now I'm 100% sure I'm not insane. :pritch: That and Slumdog Millionaire had two of the best soundtracks of the decade.

I've only heard the most popular song off the Slumdog soundtrack. Fun stuff.

[Watashi]

Pretty sure Barty isn't nominating the New Moon soundtrack.

[Ivan Drago]

Pretty sure Barty isn't nominating the New Moon soundtrack.

I know. Both the score and soundtrack are good.

[Henry Gale]

The Thom Yorke, Bon Iver & St. Vincent, Grizzly Bear, Lykke Li and Killers songs from New Moon are all incredible. I put in the first two of those in my Best Original Song because it can be argued they were written for it.

Not sure what else there even was year aside from that, Wild Things and some animated stuff for '09.

[balmakboor]

Yay! I'm not insane! :pritch:

He nominated The Lovely Bones in almost every category. You may want to rethink that.

[Ezee E]

Stanley Tucci's role in The Lovely Bones is kind of baffling. He's suppose to be an outdoor man, but doesn't really look it at all, and his mannerisms and awful mustache seem like something out of SNL.

Seems like he just got nominated because it was a role that should've been good, and Stanley Tucci is good in everything. I almost nominated him for Julie & Julia.

[Watashi]

Yeah, Barty is well alone on his Lovely Bones love. He also loved The Reader last year.

[Ezee E]

Yeah, Barty is well alone on his Lovely Bones love. He also loved The Reader last year.
Have you seen it?

It's like a great movie wrapped in lots of horrible stuff.

[Qrazy]

I've only heard the most popular song off the Slumdog soundtrack. Fun stuff.

Fun to vomit onto perhaps.

[Watashi]

Have you seen it?

It's like a great movie wrapped in lots of horrible stuff.
It has nice visuals, but the tone is all over the place and some of the performances are dreadful.

To say it was one of the 5 best movies last year boggles my mind.

[Winston*]

What's the most popular song on the Slumdog soundtrack? Jai Ho or the M.I.A. song?

[Qrazy]

What's the most popular song on the Slumdog soundtrack? Jai Ho or the M.I.A. song?

I was assuming he meant Jai Ho. I don't think of Paper Planes as Slumdog specific.

[Ezee E]

It has nice visuals, but the tone is all over the place and some of the performances are dreadful.

To say it was one of the 5 best movies last year boggles my mind.
Too bad Barty didn't talk about movies. I'd much rather hear his thoughts on The Lovely Bones than another silly post in his Political thread.

[thefourthwall]

To be edited...
BEST PICTURE

Bright Star

Where the Wild Things Are

Up

Thirst
BEST DIRECTOR

Campion
BEST ACTOR
BEST ACTRESS

Ok-bin Kim, Thirst

Abbie Cornish, Bright Star
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Paul Schneider, Bright Star
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

Star Trek
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST EDITING
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Box--a guy's face was half gone--srsly
BEST SOUND EFFECTS
BEST ART DIRECTION

Bright Star

Where the Wild Things Are

The Box
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST MAKEUP
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
BEST DOCUMENTARY
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Up

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Coraline

The Princess and the Frog

[Stay Puft]

Did we get a final due date?

I'd like to get some info on this, too.

I know in previous years, we have wanted to get everything tabulated and presented before the Oscars roll around. That's March 7th this year. I imagine we're going to want to wrap this up within three weeks.

[Stay Puft]

BEST PICTURE

24 City
Bright Star
Summer Hours
Tokyo Sonata
The White Ribbon

BEST DIRECTOR

Werner Herzog, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Hitoshi Matsumoto, Big Man Japan
Albert Serra, Birdsong
Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Tokyo Sonata

BEST ACTOR

Hitoshi Matsumoto, Big Man Japan
Ben Whishaw, Bright Star
Souleymane Sy Savane, Goodbye Solo
Sam Rockwell, Moon
Teruyuki Kagawa, Tokyo Sonata

BEST ACTRESS

Abbie Cornish, Bright Star
Tilda Swinton, Julia
Arta Dobroshi, Lorna's Silence
Ok-bin Kim, Thirst
Kyôko Koizumi, Tokyo Sonata

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Paul Schneider, Bright Star
Keith David, Coraline
Red West, Goodbye Solo
Peter Capaldi, In the Loop
Bill Murray, The Limits of Control

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Liping Lü, 24 City
Edith Scob, Summer Hours
Sari Lennick, A Serious Man
Vinessa Shaw, Two Lovers
Susanne Lothar, The White Ribbon

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

In the Loop
A Serious Man
Still Walking
Summer Hours
The White Ribbon

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Zhang Ke Jia and Yongming Zhai, 24 City
Bahareh Azimi and Ramin Bahrani, Goodbye Solo
Ethan and Joel Coen, A Serious Man
Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours
Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Jane Campion, Bright Star
Henry Selick, Coraline
Armando Iannucci, et al, In the Loop
Tony Burgess, Pontypool
Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, A Town Called Panic

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Yu Wang and Nelson Yu Lik-wai, 24 City
Christopher Doyle, The Limits of Control
Peter Zeitlinger, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Eric Gautier, Summer Hours
Akiko Ashizawa, Tokyo Sonata

BEST EDITING

Jing Lei Kong and Xudong Lin, 24 City
Àngel MartÃ*n and Albert Serra, Birdsong
Marie-Hélène Dozo, Lorna's Silence
Ethan and Joel Coen, A Serious Man
Koichi Takahashi, Tokyo Sonata

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Big Man Japan
Moon
Public Enemies
A Serious Man
Two Lovers

BEST SOUND EFFECTS

Bright Star
Public Enemies
A Serious Man
A Town Called Panic
The White Ribbon

BEST ART DIRECTION

Big Man Japan
Birdsong
Moon
Public Enemies
Summer Hours

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Bright Star
The Limits of Control
Moon
Public Enemies
The White Ribbon

BEST MAKEUP

Big Man Japan
Bright Star
Moon
Public Enemies
Tokyo Sonata

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Yoshihiro Hanno and Giong Lim, 24 City
Clint Mansell, Moon
Ernst Reijseger, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Carter Burwell, A Serious Man
Hans Zimmer, Sherlock Holmes

BEST DOCUMENTARY

24 City

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Coraline
A Town Called Panic

That's what I have so far. I'm disappointed with myself for not seeing more documentary films last year.

[Ezee E]

I figured this would be ending tonight as well. I'm not sure who's putting the nominations together.

[Raiders]

Did we ever get a deadline? I would like to submit a ballot, but I'm trying to watch as much as I can.

[NickGlass]

Yeah, when's the deadline? I have a nearly completed ballot. Don't tally without me!

[Ezee E]

Unless I hear otherwise, I can tally these up by the end of the week.

I know Boner has an idea of who will present the winners, top ten, etc. So I'll either PM him the winners or see if he'll just tally up the winners, and have it all presented just before the Oscars.

[Stay Puft]

We still have to vote, though. These are just the nominations. I don't remember how we did that, I think maybe top five for each category. The final noms are posted in another thread and we PM our votes. I think that was it, ya?

[Ezee E]

We still have to vote, though. These are just the nominations. I don't remember how we did that, I think maybe top five for each category. The final noms are posted in another thread and we PM our votes. I think that was it, ya?
Yeah. I'll wait to hear from Boner if he's going to do it all or not, since he hasn't closed the other thread yet.

[dreamdead]

BEST PICTURE
Bright Star
Where the Wild Things Are
Summer Hours
Public Enemies
Inglourious Basterds

BEST DIRECTOR
Jane Campion, Bright Star
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours
Michael Mann, Public Enemies
Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are

BEST ACTOR
Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer
Algenis Perez Soto, Sugar

BEST ACTRESS
Abbie Cornish, Bright Star
Ok-bin Kim, Thirst

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Paul Schneider, Bright Star
Jérémie Renier, Summer Hours
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Frank Langella, The Box
Jackie Earle Haley, Watchmen

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Edith Scob, Summer Hours
Vinessa Shaw, Two Lovers
Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
Catherine Keener, Where the Wild Things Are

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Summer Hours
Two Lovers
Inglourious Basterds

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Where the Wild Things Are
Bright Star
Public Enemies
Sugar

BEST EDITING
Summer Hours

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Box
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
BEST ART DIRECTION
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST MAKEUP
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Summer Hours
Coraline

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox

[Ezee E]

Boner's busy at the moment. So finalize your lists people. This will close Tuesday night @ 11:59 MST!.

[Ezee E]

I've already started on this. So if you make changes, please tell me what you are adding/subtracting. Thanks.

[Ezee E]

There's some VERY close races here. I'll keep it open for the week.

[soitgoes...]

Best Picture: out Bad Lieutenant/in Still Walking

Best Director: out Olivier Assayas/in Hirokazu Koreeda

Best Supporting Actress: out Leonie Benesch/in Kirin Kiki

Best Ensemble: out Summer Hours/ in Still Walking

Original Screenplay: out You, the Living/in Still Walking

Added Still Walking to an open slot in Best Editing

I would love to give it a cinematography nod, but damned if I can remove the five I've already got there.

[Kurosawa Fan]

It's now open until Friday? I should have no problem getting a ballot finished by then. Doubt I'll have one done by tomorrow night, as I'm in school pretty much all day tomorrow.

[Ezee E]

It's now open until Friday? I should have no problem getting a ballot finished by then. Doubt I'll have one done by tomorrow night, as I'm in school pretty much all day tomorrow.
Yeah. I'll just wait until end of the day Saturday since a lot of people are trying to get in some movies and there's several ties and close races in categories.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Looks like I'm going to see Crazy Heart next Tuesday. You wouldn't want to hold things off until Wednesday evening, would you? Just say no. I'm sick of asking for extensions on these deadlines.

[Ezee E]

Looks like I'm going to see Crazy Heart next Tuesday. You wouldn't want to hold things off until Wednesday evening, would you? Just say no. I'm sick of asking for extensions on these deadlines.
I'll say no, just because I predict you'll only add to the Best Song category if anything. And Bridges isn't getting nominated here.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I'll say no, just because I predict you'll only add to the Best Song category if anything. And Bridges isn't getting nominated here.

Okay, no problem. I'll have a ballot by Friday.

[kopello]

BEST PICTURE
Inglourious Basterds
Two Lovers
Adventureland
Tokyo Sonata
The White Ribbon

BEST DIRECTOR

Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Michael Mann, Public Enemies
Werner Herzog, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon
James Cameron, Avatar

BEST ACTOR

Sam Rockwell, Moon
Nic Cage, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man
Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers
Souleymane Sy Savane, Goodbye Solo

BEST ACTRESS

Tilda Swinton, Julia
Zooey Deschanel, 500 Days of Summer
Maria Onetto, The Headless Woman
Hye-ja Kim, Mother
Juliette Binoche, Summer Hours

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Martin Starr, Adventureland
Christian Bale, Public Enemies
Zach Galifianakis, The Hangover
Josh Leonard, Humpday

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Kristen Stewart, Adventureland
Gwyneth Paltrow, Two Lovers
Evan Rachel Wood, Whatever Works
Catherine Keener, Where the Wild Things Are
Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

Inglourious Basterds
Public Enemies
Gomorrah
The Hangover
Summer Hours

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
Moon

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

In the Loop
Coraline

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Adventureland
The Limits of Control
Public Enemies
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Antichrist

BEST EDITING
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Avatar
District 9
The Box
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

BEST SOUND EFFECTS

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Coraline
Ponyo
Mary and Max
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Up


I was confused on who to put where for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, so if I need to change something just let me know.

[Ezee E]

Kopello. Welcome. Your ballot alone has changed five categories.

[eternity]

For Your Last Minute Consideration:

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Martin Starr - Best Supporting Actor

[Melville]

Made the following changes:

Director: removed McQueen, added Herzog
Supporting actor: added Billy Crudup, Jeremie Renier, and Fred Melamed
Supporting Actress: added Marion Cotillard
Ensemble: removed The Class, added A Serious Man
Original Screenplay: added Whatever Works
Cinematography: removed Hunger, added Two Lovers
Editing: removed Hunger
Sound Effects: added The Hurt Locker
Visual Effects: added Where the Wild Things Are
Art Direction: removed Hunger, added A Serious Man and Moon
Makeup: added Taxidermia and Moon
Original Score: added Moon

[NickGlass]

Argh, I've been busy, and I'm going on vacation, so my life (err, I mean list) is incomplete:

BEST PICTURE
$9.99
35 Shots of Rum
Lorna’s Silence
Summer Hours
Sugar

BEST DIRECTOR
Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours

Claire Denis, 35 Shots of Rum

Talia Rosenthal, $9.99

BEST ACTOR

Colin Firth, A Single Man
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer
Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers
Michael Stulbarg, A Serious Man

BEST ACTRESS
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist
Catalina Saavedra, The Maid
Tilda Swinton, Julia

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael Fassbender, Inglourious Basterds
Jason Schwartzman, The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Jeremy Renier, Lorna's Silence
Vlad Ivanov, Police, Adjective

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Edith Scob, Summer Hours
Mimi Kennedy, In the Loop

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

Home
In the Loop
Summer Hours

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Sugar
Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach, The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Etgar Keret and Talia Rosenthal, $9.99

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Bright Star
Broken Embraces
Revanche
A Single Man

BEST EDITING

The Hurt Locker

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

BEST SOUND EFFECTS

BEST ART DIRECTION

The Fantastic Mr. Fox

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Bright Star

BEST MAKEUP

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Fantastic Mr. Fox
A Single Man

BEST ORIGINAL SONG



BEST DOCUMENTARY

The Beaches of Agnes
The Guest of Cindy Sherman
Of Time and the City
Our City Dreams
Tyson

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Coraline
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Up
(I’ve seen more, but only care to acknowledge these three, even if I contemplated leaving Up off)

[Kurosawa Fan]

BEST PICTURE
Goodbye Solo
Moon
Tokyo Sonata
Two Lovers
A Serious Man

BEST DIRECTOR
Ramin Bahrani - Goodbye Solo
Duncan Jones - Moon
The Coens - A Serious Man
Spike Jonze - Where the Wild Things Are
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

BEST ACTOR
Michael Stuhlberg - A Serious Man
Souleymane Sy Savane - Goodbye Solo
Sam Rockwell - Moon
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker
Charles Berling - Summer Hours

BEST ACTRESS
Kyoko Koizumi - Tokyo Sonata
Melanie Laurent - Inglourious Basterds
Kristen Stewart - Adventureland
Paulina Gaitan - Sin Nombre
Gwyneth Paltrow - Two Lovers

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Red Smith - Goodbye Solo
Leonard Proxauf - The White Ribbon
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Road
Martin Starr - Adventureland

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
Vinessa Shaw - Two Lovers
Maria-Victoria Dragus - The White Ribbon
Diane Kruger - Inglourious Basterds
Juliette Binoche - Summer Hours

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Two Lovers
The Hurt Locker
The White Ribbon
Summer Hours
A Serious Man

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Goodbye Solo
Moon
A Serious Man
Two Lovers
Sugar

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Tokyo Sonata
Where the Wild Things Are
The Road
Coraline

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Road
Two Lovers
Where the Wild Things Are
The White Ribbon
A Serious Man

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Where the Wild Things Are
Avatar
District 9
Watchmen

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

[Raiders]

BEST PICTURE
TWO LOVERS
A SERIOUS MAN
CORALINE
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
TOKYO SONATA

BEST DIRECTOR
James Gray, "TWO LOVERS"
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, "TOKYO SONATA"
Quentin Tarantino, "INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS"
Kathryn Bigelow, "THE HURT LOCKER"
James Cameron, "AVATAR"

BEST ACTOR
Joaquin Phoenix, "TWO LOVERS"
Michael Stuhlberg, "A SERIOUS MAN"
Sam Rockwell, "MOON"
Jeremy Renner, "THE HURT LOCKER"
Jesse Eisenberg, "ADVENTURELAND"

BEST ACTRESS
Kyoko Koizumi, "TOKYO SONATA"
Kristen Stewart, "ADVENTURELAND"
Zoe Saldana, "AVATAR"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz, "INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS"
Red West, "GOODBYE SOLO"
Fred Melamed, "A SERIOUS MAN"
Frank Langella, "THE BOX"
Martin Starr, "ADVENTURELAND"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Melanie Laurent, "INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS"
Vinessa Shaw, "TWO LOVERS"
Diane Kruger, "INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS"
Susanne Lothar, "THE WHITE RIBBON"

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
TWO LOVERS
A SERIOUS MAN
ADVENTURELAND
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
CORALINE
TOKYO SONATA
GOMORRAH
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
A SERIOUS MAN
TWO LOVERS
THE WHITE RIBBON
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

BEST EDITING
A SERIOUS MAN
GOMORRAH
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
THE HURT LOCKER

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
AVATAR
DISTRICT 9
THE HURT LOCKER

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
CORALINE
MOON
A SERIOUS MAN

BEST ANIMATED FILM
CORALINE
PONYO

[Watashi]

I remember the days when Raiders used to defend Up.

What the hell, Phil?

[B-side]

I've just been editing my OP. I hope that's OK.

[Raiders]

I remember the days when Raiders used to defend Up.

What the hell, Phil?

No, you don't. I have always been mixed on it. I defended the short, Partly Cloudy, but I have never been very positive on Up. I think I even admitted in the thread that my initial review was more positive than my reflection on the film.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I made a small edit to mine, though I don't think that's a problem at this point. I hope you haven't tallied mine already.

[Watashi]

No, you don't. I have always been mixed on it. I defended the short, Partly Cloudy, but I have never been very positive on Up. I think I even admitted in the thread that my initial review was more positive than my reflection on the film.
I will kill your dog.

[Watashi]

I will kill your dog.
Actually I'm re-reading the Up thread now. Most of the first reactions were overwhelmingly positive and then it slowly went for the worse once Spinal posted his review. I was vicious in that thread. It was awesome.

[Ezee E]

I've just been editing my OP. I hope that's OK.
I've tallied yours, so I don't know what the differences are.

Nick, Raiders, and K-Fan are all good.

[Ezee E]

Actually I'm re-reading the Up thread now. Most of the first reactions were overwhelmingly positive and then it slowly went for the worse once Spinal posted his review. I was vicious in that thread. It was awesome.
I don't know if vicious would be the right word.

[Spinal]

I was vicious emotionally unhinged in that thread. It was awesome awkward.

This is how I remember it.

[Watashi]

Just be glad that crazy Wats only comes out once a year unlike say... crazy Barty which is every day.

[Ezee E]

Just be glad that crazy Wats only comes out once a year unlike say... crazy Barty which is every day.
Heh. At this point, Barty is like a cartoon character, and sticks to just one thread.

When will Crazy Wats 2010 appear? We're taking odds.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Can we get crazy Wats to stick to one thread? Preferably one that I don't frequent?

[B-side]

I've tallied yours, so I don't know what the differences are.

Nick, Raiders, and K-Fan are all good.

Can I see what of mine you tallied so I can tell you what to add?

[Ezee E]

Can I see what of mine you tallied so I can tell you what to add?
I have no idea, I just started from the beginning and worked my way to the end without looking at the users.

[B-side]

I have no idea, I just started from the beginning and worked my way to the end without looking at the users.

Hmm. Oh well. My additions will be in the final ballot anyway.

[Ezee E]

Ballot will be posted tonight.

Match Cut really likes three movies in general, but there'll be some good surprises I think.