MC Awards 2017 - The Ballot

[Spinal]

Here are your nominees for the 2017 MC Awards. After posting these nominees, I am going to turn you over to dreamdead for instructions on what to do with your ballots and when they need to be completed. Don't PM them to me, as I will not be counting votes for the final awards.

[moderator edit] PM dreamdead (post #21 in this thread) with your votes for the below nominees. [/moderator edit]


BEST PICTURE
Blade Runner 2049
Call Me By Your Name
The Florida Project
Get Out
Lady Bird
mother!
Phantom Thread

BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Darren Aronofsky, mother!
Sean Baker, The Florida Project
James Gray, The Lost City of Z
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049

BEST ACTOR
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Hugh Jackman, Logan
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Robert Pattinson, Good Time

BEST ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread
Jennifer Lawrence, mother!
Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Barry Keoghan, The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Ray Romano, The Big Sick
Patrick Stewart, Logan
Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me By Your Name

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Ana de Armas, Blade Runner 2049
Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Bria Vinaite, The Florida Project

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
The Big Sick
Blade Runner 2049
Detroit
The Florida Project
Get Out
Lady Bird

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch, The Florida Project
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick
Jordan Peele, Get Out

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, Blade Runner 2049
Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green, Logan
James Gray, The Lost City of Z
James Ivory, Call Me By Your Name
Rian Johnson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049
Darius Khondji, The Lost City of Z
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Call Me By Your Name
Hoyte Van Hoytema, Dunkirk
Alexis Zabe, The Florida Project

BEST ART DIRECTION
Blade Runner 2049
The Lost City of Z
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Renée April, Blade Runner 2049
Mark Bridges, Phantom Thread
Sonia Grande, The Lost City of Z
Michael Kaplan, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Mayes C. Rubeo, Thor: Ragnarok

BEST HAIR/MAKEUP
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
It
Logan
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

BEST EDITING
Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss, Baby Driver
Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie, Good Time
Lee Smith, Dunkirk
Joe Walker, Blade Runner 2049
Andrew Weisblum, mother!

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water
Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread
Daniel Hart, A Ghost Story
Oneohtrix Point Never, Good Time
Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer, Blade Runner 2049
Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Captain Underpants Theme Song" performed by Weird Al Yankovic and Ed Helms, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
"Mystery of Love" performed by Sufjan Stevens, Call Me By Your Name
"The Pure and the Damned" performed by Oneohtrix Point Never with Iggy Pop, Good Time
"Remember Me" performed by Miguel and Natalia Lafourcade, Coco
"Visions of Gideon" performed by Sufjan Stevens, Call Me By Your Name

BEST SOUND
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
mother!
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Coco
The LEGO Batman Movie
Your Name

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Faces Places
LA 92
Oklahoma City
Wormwood

[Ezee E]

Good Time is the only movie in big categories that I haven't seen.

[Spinal]

Kind of a weird circumstance where Dafoe, Vinaite, and Prince are all nominated in supporting categories for The Florida Project, but that's how the votes rolled out. I guess that makes Caleb Landry Jones the lead!

[Stay Puft]

The kids are the leads. Who was nominating Prince for supporting? :confused:

[TGM]

No Greatest Showman songs nominated. *sigh* I am disappoint. -_-

[Spinal]

The kids are the leads. Who was nominating Prince for supporting? :confused:

In truth, they are probably all leads, including Dafoe.

[Ezee E]

Ha. I nominated them all for supporting and never thought of a "lead" in this.

Whose story is it anyway? The Motel itself?

[Dead & Messed Up]

Ha. I nominated them all for supporting and never thought of a "lead" in this.

Whose story is it anyway? The Motel itself?

In a way, the setting of The Florida Project is like a character unto itself.

[baby doll]

I felt like Prince was definitely the lead.

[Stay Puft]

Prince is clearly the lead. The movie revolves around Moonee.

What is this, the Oscars.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Number of nominations:

Blade Runner 2049 - 13

Sigh.

[Spinal]

Well, this is embarrassing. Someone voted twice and I didn't catch it. I apologize for the delay, but I need to time to recalculate the tallies.

[Ezee E]

Well, this is embarrassing. Someone voted twice and I didn't catch it. I apologize for the delay, but I need to time to recalculate the tallies.

DRAMATIC CHANGE OF EVENTS! I kind of hope this changes EVERYTHING.

[Pop Trash]

Well, this is embarrassing. Someone voted twice and I didn't catch it. I apologize for the delay, but I need to time to recalculate the tallies.

THE LAST JEDI NOMINATED FOR ALL AWARDS! IT'S A ST. PATRICK'S DAY MIRACLE I TELL YA!

[Spinal]

OK, the corrected nominations have been posted. Thanks for your patience.

[Spinal]

Nominations:

Blade Runner 2049 - 12
The Florida Project - 8
Call Me By Your Name - 7
Phantom Thread - 7
Dunkirk - 6
Star Wars: The Last Jedi - 6
Lady Bird - 5
The Lost City of Z - 5
mother! - 5
The Shape of Water - 5
The Big Sick - 4
Get Out - 4
Good Time - 4
Logan - 4

[Watashi]

Well, this is embarrassing. Someone voted twice and I didn't catch it. I apologize for the delay, but I need to time to recalculate the tallies.

Haha. My bad.

[Spinal]

Haha. My bad.

*shakes fist*

[ledfloyd]

I guess I need to see The Florida Project and mother! before voting.

Glad to see Daniel Hart got recognized for A Ghost Story. It’s a fantastic score and he’s a cool guy.

[DavidSeven]

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Director group this year definitely leans heavily on cold technical achievement. I think what Gerwig and Peele accomplished in managing tone, pace, performance and fully realizing their own very specific worlds was more impressive in most cases.

[dreamdead]

How about we make the deadline next Tuesday (6th), at 11:59 PST? It's our spring break, so I should be able to put things together efficiently then.

PM your ballots with your choice of the winner by March 6th.

[Spinal]

Director group this year definitely leans heavily on cold technical achievement. I think what Gerwig and Peele accomplished in managing tone, pace, performance and fully realizing their own very specific worlds was more impressive in most cases.

You should have voted! You might have changed something.

[TGM]

Would've also liked to see a much stronger turnout for Detroit and A Ghost Story. At least Logan got a little bit of love, though.

[baby doll]

Would've also liked to see a much stronger turnout for Detroit and A Ghost Story.Even though I liked this considerably more than Ain't Them Bodies Saints, the praise some folks have heaped on it strikes me as excessive, as if people were confusing audacity with achievement. The fundamental problem with the film is that Lowery confuses a lack of specificity with universalism, which just makes its Eurocentrism all the more galling: It's not simply a film about these specific white, middle-class, cisgendered, able-bodied heterosexuals in a monogamous relationship, but one in which humanity writ large is made synonymous with white, middle-class, cisgendered, able-bodied heterosexuals in monogamous relationships. (Tellingly, when the ghost goes "back to the beginning," it's only to the beginning of European colonization. Apparently the human condition doesn't include Native Americans.) But worse than that, it's a film without any characters. Granted, I'm as sick to death of seeing Casey Affleck's fucking face as the next guy (sexual harassment settlements aside, his mopey-equals-serious-Method-acting schtick was already tired long before he made Manchester by the Sea), but simply throwing a sheet over him (or more likely his body double) for most of the film's duration isn't a real solution; you have to replace him with someone good. Also, I can't stand indie mope rock.

[Ezee E]

Got an idea for after these awards, and tying in directors.

Simplify the awards but do the "Best of Spielberg"
Best Male Performance
Female Performance
Score
so on and so on...

Thoughts???

[Mysterious Dude]

It's not simply a film about these specific white, middle-class, cisgendered, able-bodied heterosexuals in a monogamous relationship, but one in which humanity writ large is made synonymous with white, middle-class, cisgendered, able-bodied heterosexuals in monogamous relationships.
I seem to recall a section of the movie involving a Hispanic single mom and her two non-white kids.

[Dukefrukem]

I sucked at watching movies last year.

[baby doll]

I seem to recall a section of the movie involving a Hispanic single mom and her two non-white kids.My objection wasn't about the absence of non-white people per se, or even their relatively marginal status in the plot, but the film's pretensions to universalism, which depends on viewers being habituated to seeing white people as the norm against which everyone else is measured as "different." If the central couple had been Mexican or black and gay, it's unlikely that American reviewers would've accepted it as a universal story, but because the characters are white and heterosexual, people accept it as such.

[dreamdead]

I've started compiling the ballots and there's some tight races... more, please!

PM me your ballots.

[dreamdead]

Tonight's the deadline to vote for the winners. PM your results, if you haven't yet... :)

[Dukefrukem]

OMG. I suck. Will try to get to this at work today. Don't close them. I have my votes!

[Dukefrukem]

Yes! Give me 10 min.

[Henry Gale]

I gotta say, this year not only had so much exceptional and diversely crafted stuff that I felt like I was eliminating nominees before my final choices that could've easily won any other years, with everything being wildly different and worthy in their own ways.

Which is one way of saying: I look forward to being happy with whatever actually wins!

[Spinal]

We didn't even nominate the Oscar's choice for Best Picture, Best Director or any of the acting categories. I doubt that's ever happened before.