Awards Won: A Match Cut Story

[Spinal]

Episode X


A SLIGHT HOPE


Gittes has vanished. In his absence, the sinister IRISH has risen to prominence and will not rest until every last Match Cut user has been destroyed.

With the support of number8, Administrator Ezee E leads a brave RESISTANCE. He is determined to find Boner M and gain his help in restoring peace and justice to the online discussion forum.

Ezee has sent his least occupied user on a secret mission to tally votes, in a desperate attempt to keep the yearly awards show afloat, lure Kurosawa Fan out of retirement and restore the site to past glory ...

[Spinal]

When it comes to its favorite movie of the year, Match Cut isn't always clear ...

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Oh, man have you seen La La Land? It's seriously the best! I thought Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling were talented before but they also sing and dance and stuff! And there's bright colors and fun songs, but it's not all happiness, you know. They have problems too, just like life! But when you love someone, man, you just gotta let 'em live their life. La La Land, man, you gotta see it!

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I prefer a movie that explores gender non-conformity, like Moonlight. There wasn't another movie this year that was as successful at appealing to my emotions. I like a film that is grounded and honest and real.

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You want real? Hell or High Water was gritty and tough and explored hard truths. Plus, I like a movie with some action and tension, you know? I just wanted to see if those criminals could get away with it or if they'd get caught by that old guy with the speech impediment.

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The winner is Arrival. I have already seen it. Time is non-linear. Surprising? Perhaps. But not as surprising as next year's win for The Boss Baby.

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THE WITCH!!! IT'S GOTTA BE THE WIIIIIIIIIITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!

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Today, we attempt to reconcile the various aspects of Match Cut's personality and offer you the best film achievements of 2016. There might be some twists along the way, who can say? Enjoy.

[Spinal]

OK, I'm going to start PM'ing results to people.

[Spinal]

Results for "minor" categories have been sent (basically everything expect Best Picture, Director, acting awards and screenplay awards). While we wait for results to be posted, here's the winners from last year's vote:

Best Picture - Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Director - George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Actor - Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Best Actress - Brie Larson, Room
Best Supporting Actor - (TIE) Benicio del Toro, Sicario and Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Best Supporting Actress - Kristen Stewart, Clouds of Sils Maria
Best Ensemble Cast - The Hateful Eight
Best Original Screenplay - Spotlight
Best Adapted Screenplay - Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Animated Feature - World of Tomorrow
Best Documentary Feature - The Look of Silence
Best Cinematography - Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Editing - Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Art Direction - Mad Max: Fury Road
Bet Costume Design - Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Hair and Makeup - Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Score - It Follows
Best Sound - Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Visual Effects - Mad Max: Fury Road

[Idioteque Stalker]

Crazy James McAvoy highlights how The Witch was totally robbed at the MC Awards.

Also, Kristin Stewart gave a fine performance in Clouds of Sils Maria but this whole "actress of her generation" thing is completely out of hand.

[baby doll]

BEST EDITING

The nominees are:

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Arrival - Joe Walker

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The Handmaiden - Kim Jae-bum and Kim Sang-beom

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La La Land - Tom Cross

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Manchester by the Sea - Jennifer Lame

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Moonlight - Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders

And the winner is...


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La La Land - Tom Cross

[Spinal]

Previous winners in the editing category:

2016 - La La Land (Tom Cross)
2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road (Margaret Sixel) *
2014 - The Grand Budapest Hotel (Barney Pilling)
2013 - Upstream Color (Shane Carruth and David Lowery)
2012 - Moonrise Kingdom (Andrew Weisblum)
2011 - The Tree of Life (Hank Corwin, Jay Rabinowitz, Daniel Rezende, Billy Weber, Mark Yoshikawa)
2010 - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss)
2009 - Inglourious Basterds (Sally Menke)
2008 - Speed Racer (Roger Barton, Zach Staenberg)
2007 - Zodiac (Angus Wall)

* Oscar winner

[Dukefrukem]

0 for 1.

[Ezee E]

Can we all at least agree that the final set piece with the "how it could've been" and maybe the audition are pretty damn amazing? Those pieces are partly why I think it's deserving.

[transmogrifier]

Can we all at least agree that the final set piece with the "how it could've been" and maybe the audition are pretty damn amazing? Those pieces are partly why I think it's deserving.

No, we cannot.

[baby doll]

Can't we all at least agree that Warren Beatty is now officially more bangable than Faye Dunaway?

[Winston*]

No, we cannot.

More impressive stuff in a Michel Gondry video.

[Irish]

BEST ART DIRECTION

The nominees are...

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Hail, Caesar!

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The Handmaiden

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Kubo and the Two Strings

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La La Land

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The Neon Demon

And the winner is...



The Neon Demon

[Irish]

BEST HAIR/MAKEUP

The nominees are...

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Green Room

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The Handmaiden

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Jackie

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The Neon Demon

And the winner is ...



The Neon Demon

[TGM]

Noice.

[Spinal]

Well, we're progressing slowly, so I will go ahead and release some more results. Presenters for ensemble and the supporting acting categories, you'll be getting a message shortly.

[Ezee E]

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“HEY, it’s me, Trent.”

“And me, Masonite.”

“Costumes are like… for Halloween. I’m a One Night Stand. Get the fuckin’ originality here.”

“Oh yeah, that worked in the Old School years man, you gotta think hard… like my lamp.”

“Dope dude, can I make a wish.”

“Dude, it’s 2017, of course you can.”

“RUBBING.”

“Oh, shoot, here come some nominations…”


HAIL, CAESAR!
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“HAIL, CAESAR, right man? So, so good man. Let me rub out one more…..”

“With my…”

The HANDmaiden

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“Of course you needed a hand man…. Me, after some of those scenes, I needed to straight…”

JACKie

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“Oh man, that one broke me off. LOOOOOOOOOK. What am I gonna doooooooo? I still have more room to spare than Night Stand. LOOOOOOOK hard enough at my…”

NEON DEMON
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“Oh, I don’t need to even name mine. When girl’s see me… Oh, you better believe they’re filled with…”

SILENCE
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[Ezee E]

THE WINNER IS:


HAIL, CAESAR!
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[Ezee E]

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY



Chung-Hoon Chung
The Handmaiden
“He chooses different methods of framing characters, with a specific eye as to who has the power in each scene. Usually drifting to a more steady camera, he prefers using pans to help convey surroundings and show where the attention should go next.” - Moviepass

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Stéphane Fontaine
Jackie
"We didn’t want the movie to look too gritty or too rough. It needed to be elegant.” - Fontaine
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Linus Sandgren
La La Land
“It was a technical puzzle,” said Sandgren. “We maintained the basic movement, but we were forced to end up behind the characters, instead of in front*of them. *To deal with the shadows, we’d split the long shot into different shots and mask the cut in a whip pan. For the audience, it still feels like one shot, which was important*to Damien.” - Indiewire
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Natasha Braier
The Neon Demon
Refn had Braier watch 10*films, including*“Rosemary’s Baby,” “Clockwork Orange,” “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,” and “Scorpio Rising.”
“These were not visual reference points for the film,” Braier said, highlighting that the common thread of each film is that the*filmmakers created their own universes. “The reason he showed us these films was letting us know we would be going all the way, no matter how over-the-top, in carrying the ideas of the film to their extreme and without fear of failure.” - Indiewire
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Rodrigo Prieto
Silence
“And this is a movie that’s very much about nature and these priests in Japan surrounded by the*foliage. And a big part of the movie is how that sounds, how that feels, the presence or absence of God in this natural environment.” - Prieto
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[Ezee E]

THE WINNER:

Natasha Braier
The Neon Demon
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[baby doll]

BEST SOUND

To present our next award are legendary Soviet filmmakers, Sergei Eisenstein, V.I. Pudovkin, and Grigori Alexandrov...

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Sound-recording is a two-edged invention, and it is most probable that its use will proceed along the line of least resistance, i.e., along the line of satisfying simple curiosity.

In the first place there will be commercial exploitation of the most saleable merchandise, TALKING FILMS. Those in which sound-recording will proceed on a naturalistic level, exactly corresponding with the movement on the screen, and providing a certain "illusion" of talking people, of audible objects, etc.

A first period of sensations does not injure the development of a new art, but it is the second period that is fearful in this case, a second period that will take the place of the fading virginity and purity of this first perception of new technical possibilities, and will assert an epoch of its automatic utilization for "highly cultured dramas" and other photographed performances of a theatrical sort.

To use sound in this way will destroy the culture of montage, for every ADHESION of sound to a visual montage piece increases its inertia as a montage piece, and increases the independence of its meaning-and this will undoubtedly be to the detriment of montage, operating in the first place not on the montage pieces, but on their JUXTAPOSITION.

ONLY A CONTRAPUNTAL USE of sound in relation to the visual montage piece will afford a new potentiality of montage development and perfection.

THE FIRST EXPERIMENTAL WORK WITH SOUND MUST BE DIRECTED ALONG THE LINE OF ITS DISTINCT NON-SYNCHRONIZATION WITH THE VISUAL IMAGES. And only such an attack will give the necessary palpability which will later lead to the creation of an ORCHESTRAL COUNTERPOINT of visual and aural images.

So let's see if the nominees use sound artistically. They are...

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Arrival

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Don't Breathe

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Hell or High Water

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La La Land

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Rouge One: A Star Wars Story

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Silence

And the winner is...


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Arrival

[transmogrifier]

I'm gonna take your guys' word on The Neon Demon. I have no interest in it.

[Dukefrukem]

I'm gonna take your guys' word on The Neon Demon. I have no interest in it.

It's way better than Only God Forgives , which I hated... if that helps you at all.

[Dukefrukem]

BEST ENSEMBLE

The nominees are...

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Everybody Wants Some!!

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Green Room

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Hell or High Water

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The Lobster

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Manchester by the Sea

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Moonlight

And the winner is...



Moonlight

[transmogrifier]

It's way better than Only God Forgives , which I hated... if that helps you at all.

I haven't seen that either.

[Grouchy]

I loved both Drive and the unjustly maligned Only God Forgives. I think I'm just a Refn fanboy.

[Peng]

The Neon Demon is one of my least favorite movies of 2016 but the technical awards here are well-deserved (even if I didn't vote for it).

[dreamdead]

I found The Neon Demon utterly empty, but Refn's technical work there can't be denied; I just wish he'd tie himself to a conventional script rather than something of his own, as he's been proving that his weakness structurally is in his scriptwork.

Also worth noting, though, is that Park's The Handmaiden is now on Amazon Prime for those who still haven't seen it. Well, well worth your time.

[Ezee E]

Yep. The Neon Demon is a technical masterpiece but too in love with it's aesthetics. Horribly paced, acted, and scripted... So it balances out to just being okay.

[TGM]

The Neon Demon is my second favorite film of the year, so I'm more than okay with its wins so far. Loved it!

[Spinal]

Looks like we're waiting on Sycophant for some of these. In the meantime, I'll send the Screenplay results on to Stay Puft.

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Art Direction throughout the years:

2016 - The Neon Demon
2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road *
2014 - The Grand Budapest Hotel *
2013 - Her
2012 - Moonrise Kingdom
2011 - Hugo *
2010 - Inception
2009 - Where the Wild Things Are/Inglourious Basterds
2008 - Speed Racer
2007 - Zodiac

* Oscar winner

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Hair/Makeup throughout the years:

2016 - The Neon Demon
2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road *
2014 - Guardians of the Galaxy

Before 2014, the category was simply Best Makeup:

2013 - American Hustle/Behind the Candleabra
2012 - Holy Motors
2011 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
2010 - Black Swan
2009 - District 9
2008 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button *
2007 - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

* Oscar winner

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Costume Design throughout the years:

2016 - Hail, Caesar! (Mary Zophres)
2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road (Jenny Beavan) *
2014 - The Grand Budapest Hotel (Milena Canonero) *
2013 - American Hustle (Michael Wilkinson)
2012 - Moonrise Kingdom (Kasia Walicka Maimone)
2011 - Hugo (Sandy Powell)
2010 - True Grit (Mary Zophres)
2009 - Where the Wild Things Are (Casey Storm)
2008 - The Fall (Eiko Ishioka)
2007 - Atonement (Jacqueline Durran)

* Oscar winner

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Cinematography over the years:

2016 - The Neon Demon (Natasha Braier)
2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road (John Seale)
2014 - Birdman (Emmanuel Lubezki) */Under the Skin (Daniel Landin)
2013 - Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki) *
2012 - The Master (Mihai Malaimare Jr.)
2011 - The Tree of Life (Emmanuel Lubezki)
2010 - Enter the Void (Benoît Debie)
2009 - Bright Star (Greig Fraser)
2008 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Claudio Miranda)
2007 - No Country for Old Men (Roger Deakins)

* Oscar winner

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Sound over the years:

2016 - Arrival +
2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road *+
2014 - Interstellar
2013 - Gravity *+

Before this time, the category was called Best Sound Effects:

2012 - Zero Dark Thirty +
2011 - Drive
2010 - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
2009 - The Hurt Locker *+
2008 - Wall-E
2007 - No Country for Old Men

* Oscar winner for Best Sound Mixing
+ Oscar winner for Best Sound Editing

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Ensemble over the years:

2016 - Moonlight
2015 - The Hateful Eight
2014 - We Are the Best!
2013 - 12 Years a Slave
2012 - Moonrise Kingdom
2011 - A Separation
2010 - The Social Network
2009 - Inglourious Basterds *
2008 - Rachel Getting Married
2007 - Zodiac

* Screen Actors Guild winner for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

[Dukefrukem]

Spinal excellent work so far. Thanks for leading this.

[Ezee E]

Nice. I can take over a couple categories if needed.

[Spinal]

Nice. I can take over a couple categories if needed.

Cool, I will message you shortly.

[Sycophant]

Sorry. I'll get these out today. That said, if someone wants to take over the music ones, that'd be dandy.

[Spinal]

Nice. I can take over a couple categories if needed.

Hold on, Ezee! Disregard what I sent you. I'm going to give you the music ones instead. :)

[Ezee E]

I WON'T EVEN READ

[Spinal]

I WON'T EVEN READ

Integrity!

[Sycophant]

Ezee E > Price Waterhouse Cooper

[Dukefrukem]

I loled.

[Ezee E]

BEST SCORE

Jóhann Jóhannsson
Arrival
Born in Iceland
Co-Founded “Kitchen Motor”; a think tank, art organization, and music label
Previous Scores: Prisoners, Theory of Everything, Sicario
Next up: Blade Runner 2049
“I have the luxury of working in pre-production with Denis, and the primary inspiration for the score came from the concept art,” Jóhannsson told IndieWire. “One of the main themes was written during the first week of shooting when the helicopter approaches the alien shell [or ship] for the first time.”


Mica Levi
Jackie
Born in UK
Performed as a Violinist.
Previous Scores: Under the Skin is her only previous score
Next Up: Marjorie Prime
Levi likes what the use of music does for the film. "It elevates the surreal element, because music creates a layer of fantasy," she says.

Justin Hurwitz
La La Land
Born in California
Played in an Indie-Pop Band, Chester French, with Damien Chazelle at Harvard.
Previous Scores: Guy and Madeline on a Bench and Whiplash
Next Up: ???
"I have nothing against modern jazz. I just don't know it as well as I need to. I need to start getting more into what's been happening with jazz in the past 30 plus years.” - Hurwitz


Nicholas Britell
Moonlight
Raised in New York City
Graduated from Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division and Graduated from Harvard; Co-Produced Whiplash
Previous Scores: The Big Short, A Tale of Love and Darkness
Coming up: Battle of the Sexes and Ocean’s Eight
“One of the things that I focused on when I first saw the film was I was imagining how to get inside Little’s point of view. He doesn’t say much, he is quiet, but you know that there is a lot that he’s thinking and feeling. That idea of introspection and thinking internally felt right with these kinds of harmonies, and there’s a violin that’s doubling the melody on top.” - Nicholas Britell on Little’s Theme

Cliff Martinez
The Neon Demon
Born in The Bronx
Drummer for Red Hot Chili Peppers from 83-86
Previous Scores: Drive, Traffic, Sex Lies and Videotape
Coming Up: Rough Night and The Foreigner
“Not so much with this film. That definitely happens. I borrow from other composers just like everyone else does. And Nicolas, who usually has some points of reference for me, didn’t really recommend anything this time. I’m kind of proud that I wasn’t really listening to anything else while working on The Neon Demon.” - Cliff Martinez on inspiration

[Ezee E]

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[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Original Score over the years:

2016 - Moonlight (Nicholas Britell)
2015 - It Follows (Disasterpeace)
2014 - Under the Skin (Mica Levi)
2013 - Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
2012 - Cloud Atlas (Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, Tom Tykwer)
2011 - Drive (Cliff Martinez)
2010 - The Social Network (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross) *
2009 - Moon (Clint Mansell)
2008 - The Dark Knight (James Newton Howard, Hans Zimmer)
2007 - There Will Be Blood (Jonny Greenwood)

* Oscar winner

[Ezee E]

COuld've turned it into the Mica Levi award for Best Score

[Sycophant]

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 1:

Film. Cinema. Movies. The magic of sitting in a darkened room with friends or by yourself. The worlds and visions that unfold in the light and shadow on the silver screen or even on your television screen.

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 2:

Movies give us hope. Movies give us inspiration. Movies give us laughter and tears. Movies allow our minds to soar and our hearts to swell.

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 1:

But the movies we love would not be what they are if it weren't for visual effects.

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 2:

Here are just a few incredible examples of the visual effects in movies that made us think, made us love, and made us wonder this year.

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 1:

The nominees for Best Visual Effects are:

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Arrival

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Deepwater Horizon

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Doctor Strange

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The Jungle Book

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 2:

And the winner is...



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THE JUNGLE BOOK

[Sycophant]

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 1:

Movies. The magic of sitting in a darkened room with friends or by yourself. The worlds and visions that unfold in the light and shadow on the silver screen or even on television screens.

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 2:

Movies give us hope. Movies give us inspiration. Movies give us laughter and tears. Movies allow our minds to soar and our hearts to swell.

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 1:

But the movies we love would not be what they are if it weren't for documentary films.

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 2:

Here are just a few incredible examples of the documentary films that made us think, made us love, and made us wonder this year.

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 1:

The nominees for Best Documentary are:

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OJ: Made In America

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Weiner

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 2:

And the winner is...



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OJ: Made in America

[Sycophant]

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 1:

Movies. The magic of sitting in a darkened room with friends or by yourself. The worlds and visions that unfold in the light and shadow on the silver screen or even on television screens.

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 2:

Movies give us hope. Movies give us inspiration. Movies give us laughter and tears. Movies allow our minds to soar and our hearts to swell.

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 1:

But the movies we love would not be what they are if it weren't for animated movies?

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 2:

Here are just a few incredible examples of animated movies that made us think, made us love, and made us wonder this year.

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 1:

The nominees for Best Animated Feature are:

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Finding Dory

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Kubo and the Two Strings

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Moana

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The Red Turtle

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Sausage Party

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Zootopia

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ATTRACTIVE PERSON WHO IS IN MOVIES 2:

And the winner is...



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Kubo and the Two Strings

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Visual Effects over the years:

2016 - The Jungle Book *
2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road
2014 - Interstellar *
2013 - Gravity *
2012 - Life of Pi *
2011 - Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2010 - Inception *
2009 - Avatar *
2008 - Speed Racer
2007 - Zodiac

* Oscar winner

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Documentary over the years:

2016 - O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman) *
2015 - The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
2014 - Jodorowsky's Dune (Frank Pavich)
2013 - The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, Anonymous)
2012 - This is Not a Film (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi)
2011 - Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán)/Senna (Asif Kapadia)
2010 - Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
2009 - Food Inc. (Robert Kenner)/Anvil: The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi)
2008 - Dear Zachary (Kurt Kuenne)
2007 - The King of Kong (Seth Gordon)

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Animated Film over the years:

2016 – Kubo and the Two Strings (Travis Knight)
2015 – World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt)
2014 – The LEGO Movie (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller)/The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata)
2013 – Monsters University (Dan Scanlon)
2012 – It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)
2011 – Rango (Gore Verbinski) *
2010 – The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet)
2009 – Coraline (Henry Selick)
2008 – Wall-E (Andrew Stanton) *
2007 - Paprika (Satoshi Kon)

* Oscar winner

[Spinal]

OK, so currently we are waiting on ...

Best Original Song - Ezee
Best Original and Adapted Screenplay - Stay Puft
The acting categories and director - Lazlo

Let me know if you haven't received your PM. Thanks!

[Lazlo]

And now, please welcome, last year's winner of the Best Supporting Actress Matchie,

Kristen Stewart!

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Hey everyone, look at me smile! And look at these gifs of the nominees for

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Mahershala Ali - Moonlight
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Jeff Bridges - Hell or High Water
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Alden Ehrenreich - Hail, Caesar!
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Lucas Hedges - Manchester By the Sea
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Stephen Lang - Don't Breathe
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Daniel Radcliffe - Swiss Army Man
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They've called me with the winner. The Matchie goes to...

Mahershala Ali - Moonlight
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I'm so excited and honored. Thanks Match Cut!

[Idioteque Stalker]

Love the ensemble win for Moonlight. Also love the score win, although I voted for Jackie.

Of the five nominees for best editing, La La Land was the least deserving. That's the only award so far I'm disappointed by.

Really enjoyed seeing past winners. Love Rachel Getting Married for ensemble, Bright Star for cinematography, and Upstream Color for editing. Ensemble win for We are the Best! really sticks out (haven't seen it), as does Speed Racer still to this day.

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Supporting Actor over the years:

2016 - Mahershala Ali, Moonlight *
2015 - Benicio del Toro, Sicario/Tom Hardy, The Revenant
2014 - J.K. Simmons, Whiplash *
2013 - James Franco, Spring Breakers
2012 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
2011 - Brad Pitt, The Tree of Life
2010 - John Hawkes, Winter's Bone
2009 - Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds *
2008 - Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight *
2007 - Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men *

* Oscar winner

[Lazlo]

And now, please welcome last years winners for Best Supporting Actor,

Benicio del Toro and Tom Hardy!

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It's good to see you, Benicio. I can't believe we tied last year.

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Yeah, I thought we both did really strong work. It was hard for the Match Cutters to decide.

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Fuck you! I froze my ass off with crazy IñarrÃ*tu and that Oscar-grubbing Leonardo for months on end and you got to fly on private planes to Mexico!

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I see you're still harboring some of the maniacal rage that helped you craft that character. Perhaps I should draw upon the cool precision killing skills that I learned for Sicario.

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Nah, nope, sorry mate, it's time for us both to bail on this very thin, dumb bit.

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Thank God. Who knows if it played better than the original idea based around the both of us being difficult to understand in various roles and thus mumbling through each nominee's name, but thankfully we won't find out.

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And the nominees for Best Supporting Actress are:

Viola Davis - Fences
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Lily Gladstone - Certain Women
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Naomie Harris - Moonlight
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Janelle Monáe - Moonlight
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Angeliki Papoulia - The Lobster
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Michelle Williams - Manchester By the Sea
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Tom is off messing around with his dog, so Benicio will actually present this solo.

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And the Matchie goes to...


Viola Davis for Fences!
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Thank you Match Cut, now bring forth my award!

[Stay Puft]

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Here are your nominees.
Also presented: excerpts of the nominated screenplays.

ARRIVAL

EXT. LARGE GRASSY FIELD - DAY
A large spaceship hovers over the field. A group of scientists stand around and gaze at it.
A car pulls up, and out steps a female scientist, tall and attractive, in her early thirties.

FEMALE SCIENTIST
I'm here.

RANDOM SCIENTIST
Hi.

THE HANDMAIDEN

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HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE

EXT. FOREST - DAY
A hunter walks through the forest, with a hunting rifle and other assorted gear slung over his shoulder.
Another hunter approaches.

HUNTER #1
Have you seen any wilderpeople around here?

HUNTER #2
Nope.

They keep searching.

MOONLIGHT

EXT. BEACH - NIGHT
Two young black boys are sitting together on the beach, under the light of the moon.

BOY #1
Have you ever smoked dope?

BOY#2
Once.

MOON
Hey kids knock it off I'm calling the cops.

SILENCE

INT. JAPANESE CASTLE - DAY
The Shogun glares menacingly at the Jesuit priest.

SHOGUN
...

PRIEST
...

SHOGUN
...

PRIEST
...

[This continues for 400 pages.]

And the winner is...
Moonlight

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Supporting Actress over the years:

2016 - Viola Davis, Fences *
2015 - Kristen Stewart, Clouds of Sils Maria
2014 - Patricia Arquette, Boyhood *
2013 - Scarlett Johannson, Her/Lupita N’yongo, 12 Years a Slave */Shailene Woodley, The Spectacular Now
2012 - Cécile De France, The Kid with a Bike
2011 - Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melancholia
2010 - Olivia Williams, The Ghost Writer
2009 - Gwyneth Paltrow, Two Lovers
2008 - Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona *
2007 - Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton *

* Oscar winner

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Adapted Screenplay over the years:

2016 - Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) *
2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris)
2014 - Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
2013 - Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke)
2012 - Killer Joe (Tracy Letts)
2011 - The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar, AgustÃ*n Almodóvar)
2010 - The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin) *
2009 - In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche)/The Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach)
2008 - Let the Right One In (John Ajvide Lindqvist)
2007 - No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen) *

* Oscar winner

[Spinal]

Let's just get this out of the way ...

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

The nominees ...


From La La Land ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM-ZPAF2Dpw

From Sing Street ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWTcmjnEGY

[Spinal]

From Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W95X207kQxU

From Hail, Caesar! ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVQ0JFzXMgY


And the winner is ...

"Drive It Like You Stole It", Sing Street

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Original Song over the years:

2016 - "Drive It Like You Stole It", Sing Street (Sing Street)
2015 - No award given, presumably because nothing from Fury Road was eligible
2014 - No award given
2013 - No award given
2012 - "Skyfall", Skyfall (Adele) */"Who Did That to You?", Django Unchained (John Legend)
2011 - "Immigrant Song", The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Karen O with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)/"Rango", Rango (Mariachi Sol de Mexico de Jose Hernandez)
2010 - "We Are Sex Bob-Omb", Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Sex Bob-Omb)
2009 - "All is Love", Where the Wild Things Are (Karen O and the Kids)
2008 - "The Wrestler", The Wrestler (Bruce Springsteen)
2007 - "Falling Slowly", Once (Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová) *

* Oscar winner

[Lazlo]

And now, please welcome last year's winner for Best Actress

Brie Larson!

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Hey everyone, I'm super jazzed to be back at the Match Cut Awards! And, yes, Jacob Tremblay is still following me around.

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So I'm going to teleport to Vietnam to get away from him.

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That's better. Here are the nominees for Best Actor:

Casey Affleck - Manchester By the Sea
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Colin Farrell - The Lobster
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John Goodman - 10 Cloverfield Lane
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Ryan Gosling - La La Land
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Denzel Washington - Fences
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And the winner is:


Colin Farrell for The Lobster!
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Holy shite, I'm just so fookin' giddy! Thanks!

[Idioteque Stalker]

Whoa!

[Spinal]

Gosling was nominated for The Nice Guys, btw. :)

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Actor over the years:

2016 - Colin Farrell, The Lobster
2015 - Leonardo Dicaprio, The Revenant *
2014 - Michael Keaton, Birdman
2013 - Leonardo Dicaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
2012 - Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
2011 - Ryan Gosling, Drive/Peyman Moaadi,A Separation/Jean Dujardin,The Artist *
2010 - Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine
2009 - Sam Rockwell, Moon
2008 - Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
2007 - Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood *

* Oscar winner

[Lazlo]

Gosling was nominated for The Nice Guys, btw. :)

Brie Larson is the new Faye Dunaway.

[Lazlo]

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[Spinal]

Ryan, I hate to tell you this, but in the end, nobody voted for you.

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[Ezee E]

Great presentations everyone!

[Lazlo]

Please welcome, last years winner of the Best Actor Matchie...

Leonardo DiCaprio

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YOOOOOOOOOO! What's up Match Cut?!!

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I'm still riding so high off my win last year. Did you see how hard I tried in The Revenant? Hot damn that was some all-caps ACTING!

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Yep, 2016 was just one big watergun fight for ol' Leo!

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But now winter storm Stella is here so I'll present this award from inside this comically large puffy jacket.

The nominees for Best Actress are:

Amy Adams - Arrival
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Kim Min-hee - The Handmaiden
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Sasha Lane - American Honey
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Natalie Portman - Jackie
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Emma Stone - La La Land
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Rachel Weisz - The Lobster
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The results just got texted to me on the iPhone 8 I've already got. Famous people are just better.

The winner is...


Emma Stone - La La Land
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[Lazlo]

Hey everyone, last year's winner for Best Director is here!

It's George Miller

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I've taken a brief vacation from the set of Happy Feet vs. Babe Beyond Thunderdome to present Best Director! The nominees are:

Damien Chazelle - La La Land
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Barry Jenkins - Moonlight
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Yorgos Lanthimos - The Lobster
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Park Chan-Wook - The Handmaiden
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Martin Scorsese - Silence
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Denis Villeneuve - Arrival
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Don't worry, Tom, I'm going to announce the winner now.

The Matchie goes to...



Yorgos Lanthimos - The Lobster
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ευχαριστώ Match Cut!

[Stay Puft]

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Here are your nominees.
Also presented: excerpts of the nominated screenplays.

HELL OR HIGH WATER

EXT. LONE DUSTY ROAD - DAY
A pickup truck sits on the side of the road. Inside, two brothers sit and stare pensively.
In the back seat are shotguns and ski masks.

BROTHER #1
I have economic anxiety.

BROTHER #2
One of these days I will not vote against my own interests. Maybe.

THE LOBSTER

INT. HOTEL - NIGHT
A giant lobster in a tuxedo enters the lobby, carrying luggage.
He approaches the check-in counter and rings the bell. A woman appears.

LOBSTER
Hello, I have a reservation. I hope I am not too late. I requested a late check-in.

WOMAN
And the name?

LOBSTER
Lobster.

WOMAN
One moment.

There is a long, awkward pause. A look of concern slowly appears on the woman's face.

WOMAN
I'm sorry. I cannot find your reservation.

LOBSTER
Oh no.

[Comedy ensues. The second half of the script is not as good.]

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

INT. MANCHESTER HOUSE - DAY
A scruffy white guy in his late-thirties shuffles his way across the living room.
He approaches the window, and looks out over the stunning view of the sea.

SCRUFFY WHITE GUY
I'm sad.

[This continues for 400 pages.]

SWISS ARMY MAN

EXT. FOREST - DAY
A man sits on a giant tree stump. Another man sits next to him.

MAN #1
We should start a fire. The sun will be going down soon. Do you have anything?

MAN#2
A knife.

MAN #1
What else?

MAN #2
A screwdriver.

MAN #1
Okay. What else?

MAN #2
A can opener.

MAN#1
Not really helpful at the moment. Anything else?

MAN #2
Scissors?

MAN #1
We need to start a fire.

MAN #2
Nail file?

MAN #1
Forget it.

MAN #2
I did my best.

And the winner is...
The Lobster

[Winston*]

2015 - Leonardo Dicaprio, The Revenant

What were we thinking with this one?

[Ivan Drago]

I love how despite all the backlash it's received on here, Emma Stone still won Best Actress for La La Land.

Also, I did not see The Lobster winning Best Director. I'm genuinely and pleasantly surprised.

[Spinal]

BEST PICTURE

And the nominees are ...

ARRIVAL

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LA LA LAND

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THE LOBSTER

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MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

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MOONLIGHT

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O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA

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And the winner is ...

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THE LOBSTER

[Spinal]

Best Picture: The Lobster
Best Director: Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster
Best Actor: Colin Ferrell, The Lobster
Best Actress: Emma Stone, La La Land
Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis, Fences
Best Ensemble: Moonlight
Best Original Screenplay: The Lobster
Best Adapted Screenplay: Moonlight
Best Cinematography: The Neon Demon
Best Art Direction: The Neon Demon
Best Costume Design: Hail, Caesar!
Best Hair/Makeup: The Neon Demon
Best Editing: La La Land
Best Visual Effects: The Jungle Book
Best Original Score: Moonlight
Best Original Song: "Drive It Like You Stole It", Sing Street
Best Sound: Arrival
Best Animated Film: Kubo and the Two Strings
Best Documentary: O.J. Made in America


I'll provide vote counts and supply the rest of the Match Cut Awards history posts tomorrow.

[Dead & Messed Up]

What an upset!

Great job, y'all, I wasn't posting, but I was reading those kooky presentations.

[Idioteque Stalker]

The Lobster feels like a sleeper even though everyone pretty much loved it. Wasn't my vote but I can dig it.

[Stay Puft]

I ended up voting for The Lobster and I'm still pretty shocked. Honestly didn't think it had a chance.

Quite pleased with the results, all around. Some nice and varied picks. Surprised Mad Max didn't win anything.

[Melville]

Kudos to Spinal and the presenters for putting this together. Fun thread, and I love The Lobster walking away with it.

[Peng]

I didn't love The Lobster but it unexpectedly winning a bunch is very niceee. I'm guessing Duke loving it just recently and his ballot breaking four ties are what pushes it over.

[transmogrifier]

Having not seen many of these films, I reserve the right to be dismissive and haughty about these results at some point in future.

[Dukefrukem]

I didn't love The Lobster but it unexpectedly winning a bunch is very niceee. I'm guessing Duke loving it just recently and his ballot breaking four ties are what pushes it over.

I feel so powerful! Finally a Matchie going my way! That makes up for all the Chris Nolan snubs.

[Dukefrukem]

Though for the record I did vote for Jenkins with Moonlight.

[Lazlo]

Nice work everyone! Thanks to Spinal for putting it all together.

Been meaning to rewatch The Lobster. This must be a sign.

[Rico]

I love the love for the Lobster.

[Ezee E]

Guess I should watch The Lobster.

[baby doll]

I ended up voting for The Lobster and I'm still pretty shocked. Honestly didn't think it had a chance.Ditto, though now that it did, I'm even more bummed about the Angeliki Papoulia snub.

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Actress over the years:

2016 - Emma Stone, La La Land *
2015 - Brie Larson, Room *
2014 - Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
2013 - Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color
2012 - Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty/Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
2011 - Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
2010 - Natalie Portman, Black Swan *
2009 - Mélanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
2008 - Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
2007 - Julie Christie, Away From Her/Christina Ricci, Black Snake Moan

* Oscar winner

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Director over the years:

2016 - Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster
2015 - George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
2014 - Jonathan Glazer, Under the Skin/Richard Linklater, Boyhood
2013 - Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis
2012 - Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom/Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
2011 - Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
2010 - Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
2009 - Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
2008 - Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In
2007 - Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men *

* Oscar winner

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Original Screenplay over the years:

2016 - The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou)
2015 - Spotlight (Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy) *
2014 - Birdman (Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo) *
2013 - Her (Spike Jonze) *
2012 - Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola)
2011 - A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
2010 - Inception (Christopher Nolan)
2009 - Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
2008 - Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)
2007 - Ratatouille (Brad Bird)

* Oscar winner

[Spinal]

Match Cut winners for Best Picture over the years:

2016 - The Lobster
2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road
2014 - Under the Skin
2013 - Inside Llewyn Davis/The Act of Killing
2012 - Zero Dark Thirty
2011 - The Tree of Life
2010 - Black Swan
2009 - Inglourious Basterds
2008 - The Dark Knight
2007 - No Country for Old Men*

* Oscar winner

[Spinal]

Here are your final vote tallies:

BEST PICTURE
Arrival 2
La La Land 1
The Lobster 6
Manchester by the Sea 3
Moonlight 3
O.J.: Made in America 3

BEST DIRECTOR
Damien Chazelle, La La Land 2
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight 5
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster 6
Park Chan-wook, The Handmaiden 2
Martin Scorsese, Silence 3
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival 0

BEST ACTOR
Casey Affleck, Manchester By the Sea 6
Colin Ferrell, The Lobster 7
John Goodman, 10 Cloverfield Lane 0
Ryan Gosling, The Nice Guys 0
Denzel Washington, Fences 4

BEST ACTRESS
Amy Adams, Arrival 3
Kim Min-hee, The Handmaiden 2
Sasha Lane, American Honey 1
Natalie Portman, Jackie 4
Emma Stone, La La Land 5
Rachel Weisz, The Lobster 2

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight 10
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water 0
Alden Ehrenreich, Hail, Caesar! 4
Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea 0
Stephen Lang, Don't Breathe 1
Daniel Radcliffe, Swiss Army Man 2

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Viola Davis, Fences 5
Lily Gladstone, Certain Women 2
Naomie Harris, Moonlight 1
Janelle Monáe, Moonlight 1
Angeliki Papoulia, The Lobster 4
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea 4

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Everybody Wants Some!! 2
Green Room 2
Hell or High Water 1
The Lobster 4
Manchester by the Sea 1
Moonlight 6

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Hell or High Water 1
The Lobster 12
Manchester by the Sea 4
Swiss Army Man 1

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Arrival 2
The Handmaiden 3
Hunt for the Wilderpeople 1
Moonlight 6
Silence 5

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Handmaiden 3
Jackie 3
La La Land 3
The Neon Demon 4
Silence 3

BEST ART DIRECTION
Hail, Caesar! 2
The Handmaiden 2
Kubo and the Two Strings 2
La La Land 3
The Neon Demon 7

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Hail, Caesar! 5
The Handmaiden 4
Jackie 4
The Neon Demon 1
Silence 1

BEST HAIR/MAKEUP
Green Room 3
The Handmaiden 1
Jackie 3
The Neon Demon 8

BEST EDITING
Arrival 2
The Handmaiden 3
La La Land 6
Manchester by the Sea 1
Moonlight 3

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Arrival 4
Deepwater Horizon 0
Doctor Strange 3
The Jungle Book 5
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Arrival 3
Jackie 3
La La Land 3
Moonlight 4
The Neon Demon 2

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Audition (The Fools Who Dream)", La La Land 4
"Drive It Like You Stole It", Sing Street 7
"Finest Girl (Bin Laden Song)", Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping 2
"No Dames", Hail, Caesar! 1

BEST SOUND
Arrival 7
Don't Breathe 3
Hell or High Water 2
La La Land 0
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 3
Silence 2

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Finding Dory 0
Kubo and the Two Strings 9
Moana 0
The Red Turtle 0
Sausage Party 0
Zootopia 3

BEST DOCUMENTARY
O.J.: Made in America 11
Weiner 1

[Idioteque Stalker]

Damn Kubo!

Score and actress were super tight, but I guess it was cinematography that once had a five way tie.

[Spinal]

So, yes, Duke, with the final ballot, managed to cast decisive votes for Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Costume Design. Perhaps more impressively, he managed to AVOID creating new ties.

And as you can see, The Lobster managed to win fairly handily and yet still be a surprise when it was announced.

[TGM]

I was pretty meh on The Lobster, so I'm similarly pretty meh on its wins here.

Like Ivan, I too am pleased by Emma Stone's win, despite the backlash on this forum.

All in all, I'll echo the sentiments on the nice work from everyone presenting the awards. *thumbs up*

[Dukefrukem]

Yeh very awesome. THanks again to Spinal for organizing it.

Here's to 2017 and beyond. 2016 was the first growth in movie watching MC has had in a while.

[Spinal]

Things I learned while sifting through the Match Cut Awards history:

1) Shane Carruth is the only person to receive a Matchie for editing for a film that he also directed (Upstream Color). He is also one of two people to win a Matchie for Best Original Score for a film that he also directed. The other is Tom Tykwer (Cloud Atlas).

2) Match Cut has only agreed with the Oscars once in regards to Best Editing. That film was Mad Max: Fury Road. Match Cut has also only agreed with the Oscars once in regards to Best Original Score (The Social Network). Match Cut had never agreed with the Oscars on Best Documentary Feature until this year (O.J.: Made in America).

3) This year, Mary Zophres became the first two-time Matchie winner for Best Costume Design for her work on Hail, Caesar! She won previously for True Grit.

4) Only two men have ever won the Matchie for Best Costume Design: Michael Wilkinson (American Hustle) and Casey Storm (Where the Wild Things Are). Likewise, only two women have ever won for Best Editing: Margaret Sixel (Mad Max: Fury Road) and Sally Menke (Inglourious Basterds).

5) Emmanuel Lubezki has won three Matchies for Best Cinematography (Birdman, Gravity, The Tree of Life). To my knowledge, no one else has won more Matchies in a single category.

6) This year, Natasha Braier (The Neon Demon) became the first woman to win the Matchie for Best Cinematography.

7) The only animated film to win the Matchie for Best Sound was Wall-E.

8) Two foreign language films have won the Matchie for Best Ensemble. They are A Separation and We Are the Best!

9) Match Cut has agreed with the Oscars most in the category of Best Visual Effects, a total of 6 times.

10) The only two-time winner for Best Documentary Feature is Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence).

11) Laika won its second award for Best Animated Film this year (Kubo and Two Strings, Coraline). Others with two wins ... Pixar (Wall-E, Monsters University), Don Hertzfeldt (World of Tomorrow, It's Such a Beautiful Day). Studio Ghibli has only one win (The Tale of the Princess Kaguya).

12) Six of the winners for Best Adapted Screenplay come from books, two are from plays, two are from previous movies in their respective series, and one is from a television program.

13) Karen O is the only performer to appear on two of the Match Cut winners for Best Original Song, "All is Love" and "Immigrant Song", which somehow won despite being a cover.

14) Ryan Gosling and Leonardo Dicaprio have both won Best Actor twice. So far, there have been no repeat winners for Best Actress.

15) Match Cut has not agreed with the Oscar for Best Director since the Matchie was given to the Coen brothers for No Country for Old Men, about a decade ago. Only one woman has won the award, Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty).

16) If my counting is correct, the record for the most Matchie awards is four, and it is held by two people: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. They have two wins in the best director category, one for original screenplay and one for adapted screenplay.

17) 100% of the winners for Best Original Screenplay were written or co-written by the person who also directed the film.

18) Rataouille is the only animated film to win Best Original Screenplay. Despite this, it actually lost the award for Best Animated Film.

19) The Act of Killing is the only documentary to win a Best Picture Matchie. No animated films have taken the award. No foreign language films have taken the award either, unless you were to count The Act of Killing, which you probably shouldn't.

20) Match Cut has not agreed with the Oscars since No Country for Old Men on Best Picture.

[Ezee E]

Fascinating stuff there! I liked looking up random info on my categories too. I had no idea that Cliff Martinez was once part of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

We like ourselves some Chivo! Looks like he's kind of taking a break though, doing some work on Inarritu's VR short is all he has lined up right now.

[Ezee E]

Speaking of which:

Next for:

Yorgos Lanthimos - The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, and Alicia Silverstone
Likely to premiere at Cannes or Labor Day-ish Film Festivals
A teenager's attempts to bring a brilliant surgeon into his dysfunctional family takes an unexpected turn.

Emma Stone, La La Land
Battle of the Sexes with Steve Carell, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs
Likely to premiere at Toronto Film Festival

Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Starring in Robert Rodriguez's Alita: Battle Angel (written by James Cameron) - $200 mill budget
In the twenty-sixth century, a female cyborg is rescued from the scrap heap by a scientist.
Stars Eiza Gonzalez, Jennifer Connelly, Michelle Rodriguez, and Christoph Waltz
Premieres in 2018, Mahershala will likely have been casted, filmed, and premiered before this comes out.

Viola Davis, Fences
While uncasted, she looks to be flirting with a Harriet Tubman role and Steve McQueen's Widows.

Barry Jenkins - Moonlight
While not announced or casted, he looks to be pushing his next movie to be about the Underground Railroad or an adaptation of the graphic novel, A Contract With God.

Natasha Breier - The Neon Demon - Cinematography
She is currently filming American Express with Nash Edgerton (Matrix Stuntman) with Charlize Theron. It's an action movie thats likely to be released next year.

Austin Gorg - Art Direction: The Neon Demon
Also Art Director of La La Land, he will be working on David Wain's A Futile & Stupid Gesture, about the rise and fall of National Lampoon. This will have different actors portraying Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Jon Belushi, and Christopher Guest

More to come...

[Grouchy]

an adaptation of the graphic novel, A Contract With God
AWESOME.

[Ezee E]

Match Cut winners for Best Picture over the years:

2016 - The Lobster
2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road
2014 - Under the Skin
2013 - Inside Llewyn Davis/The Act of Killing
2012 - Zero Dark Thirty
2011 - The Tree of Life
2010 - Black Swan
2009 - Inglourious Basterds
2008 - The Dark Knight
2007 - No Country for Old Men*

* Oscar winner

10 years later... Wow.

I figure Dark Knight wouldn't stand a chance if we voted again. Black Swan too. The others, probably.

[transmogrifier]

Only 3 of that list are better than 70/100 films. Barely acceptable, Match Cut.

[Spinal]

I would only take real issue with Black Swan and The Dark Knight. The rest are pretty solid, in my opinion.

[Ivan Drago]

Nice...7/10 of those were my favorite movies of their respective years.

[Lazlo]

I'd been thinking over the last week about maybe doing a 10-years-later awards, to see how things had shaken out over the decade. Could do one each summer a bit after we've done the new ones. Sound interesting?

[Spinal]

I'd been thinking over the last week about maybe doing a 10-years-later awards, to see how things had shaken out over the decade. Could do one each summer a bit after we've done the new ones. Sound interesting?

Do it!

[Lazlo]

Do it!

I will!