2010 Match Cut Awards Ballot!

[Ezee E]

Best Animated Feature
The Illusionist
How to Train Your Dragon
Tangled
Toy Story 3

Best Song
"If I Rise" (from 127 Hours)
"Mother Knows Best" (from Tangled)
"We Are Sex Bob-Omb" (from Scott Pilgrim VS. The World)
"We Belong Together" (from Toy Story 3)

Best Documentary
Catfish
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Sweet Grass

Best Makeup
Alice in Wonderland
Black Swan
Shutter Island
Tron: Legacy

Best Costume Design
Black Swan
Inception
Shutter Island
Tron: Legacy
True Grit

Best Art Direction
Black Swan
Enter the Void
Inception
Shutter Island
Tron: Legacy

Best Sound
Black Swan
Inception
Scott Pilgrim VS. The World
Shutter Island
Tron: Legacy

Best Visual Effects
Black Swan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part I
Inception
Scott Pilgrim VS. The World
Tron: Legacy

Best Editing
Black Swan
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Inception
Scott Pilgrim VS. The World
The Social Network

Best Score
Black Swan (by Clint Mansell)
The Ghost Writer (by Alexandre Desplat)
Inception (by Hans Zimmer)
The Social Network (by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)
Tron: Legacy (By Daft Punk)

Best Cinematography
Black Swan (by Matthew Libatique)
Enter the Void (by Benoit Debie)
Greenberg (by Harris Savides)
Inception (by Wally Pfister)
Shutter Island (by Robert Richardson)
True Grit (by Roger Deakins)

Best Ensemble
Dogtooth
Inception
Scott Pilgrim VS. The World
The Social Network
True Grit

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Ghost Writer (by Robert Harris and Roman Polanski)
Scott Pilgrim VS. The World (by Michael Bacall and Edgar Wright)
The Social Network (by Aaron Sorkin)
Toy Story 3 (by John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich, and Andrew Stanton)
True Grit (by the Coen Brothers)

Best Original Screenplay
Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfranc, Cami Delavigne, and Joey Curtis)
Dogtooth (by Efthymis Filippou and Giorgos Lanthimos)
Everyone Else (by Maren Ade)
Greenberg (by Noah Baumbach)
Inception (by Christopher Nolan)

Best Supporting Actress
Marion Cotillard in Inception
Greta Gerwig in Greenberg
Barbara Hershey in Black Swan
Mila Kunis in Black Swan
Olivia Williams in The Ghost Writer

Best Supporting Actor
Neils Arestrup in A Prophet
Christian Bale in The Fighter
Pierce Brosnan in The Ghost Writer
Andrew Garfield in The Social Network
John Hawkes in Winter's Bone
Rhys Ifans in Greenberg

Best Actress
Hye-Ya Kim in Mother
Birgit Minichmayr in Everyone Else
Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Hailee Steinfeld in True Grit
Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges in True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network
Ryan Gosling in Blue Valentine
Tahar Rahim in A Prophet
Edgar Ramirez in Carlos
Ben Stiller in Greenberg

Best Director
Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
David Fincher for The Social Network
Giorgos Lanthimos for Dogtooth
Christopher Nolan for Inception
Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
Edgar Wright for Scott Pilgrim VS. The World

Best Picture
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Black Swan

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Blue Valentine

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Dogtooth

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Exit Through The Gift Shop

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Inception

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[Ezee E]

PM your ballot to me!

Results will be posted after the Oscars.

[soitgoes...]

Yay! It's like the Oscars with a smidge of world cinema!

[Spinal]

No Social Network for Best Picture? I love you, Match Cut.

[Spinal]

Looks like I need to check out Blue Valentine before voting.

And some other stuff. But especially that.

[Ezee E]

Random stuff:

-Carlos could've had a half-Black Swan/Inception showing. It nearly made the cut in Screenplay, Editing, Directing, and Costumes (?)

-Everyone Else also just missed the cut on Picture, Director, and Actor. A Prophet and Mother also had good showings in several categories.

-Despite killing it in the tech categories, Tron didn't have one Best Picture vote.

-Greta Gerwig split herself in votes. I made the executive decision to put her in Supporting Actress, otherwise she wouldn't have made it in either one.

-I think Exit Through the Gift Shop may be the first documentary to make it to the Best Picture stage for Match Cut.

-The lovers of The Illusionist pulled through on the final two days.

-Social Network also had a quick kick in the final two days, barely making it into Director, Ensemble, and nearly making it to several other categories.

-Scott Pilgrim also killed it, but didn't have much support in the Best Picture.

-Four other actresses were lined up in Best Actress for sixth place. A last minute vote for Hailee kicked her up. The Dogtooth actress also split herself, but didn't make the cut even if you combined her votes.

-I almost thought of cutting Best Song completely, but the last two days of voting got a few songs more then two votes.

-Legend of the Guardians nearly made it in over The Illusionist.

-Enter the Void seemed to have 3-4 votes in every single category.

[Spinal]

-The lovers of The Illusionist pulled through on the final two days.

Now everybody see it!

[Spinal]

13 nominations for Black Swan, but not one for Screenplay. Heh.

[Ivan Drago]

Hey E, unless there's a problem, can I submit another vote before the due date? I ask because I just found out Blue Valentine is coming to my town this weekend and afraid I'll regret the votes I just PM'd to you after I see it.

[Ezee E]

Hey E, unless there's a problem, can I submit another vote before the due date? I ask because I just found out Blue Valentine is coming to my town this weekend and afraid I'll regret the votes I just PM'd to you after I see it.

Yeah, just tell me what you changed compared to the old ballot and I'll adjust.

[Boner M]

What did Barbara Hershey do to get a Black Swan nod, aside from looking weathered and matronly?

[Spinal]

I actually don't have a ton of catching up to do.

Sweetgrass
Carlos
A Prophet
Mother
Blue Valentine
Greenberg

Doubt I will watch Ghost Writer and definitely not watching Harry Potter.

[Ezee E]

Chloe Moretz was also somewhat close to a double nomination for Let Me In and Kick-Ass.

Let Me In had a rush of votes this past weekend. The DVD has really kicked in. Sadly it got 0 noms.

[Ezee E]

I encourage everyone to listen to the scores all the way through before blindly voting for Daft Punk just because it's Daft Punk.

[Boner M]

Rhys Ifans for Greenberg is my favorite acting nomination. Wondrously subtle work.

[Spinal]

People didn't vote for Black Swan in Score because of the Swan Lake theme, did they? Please tell me they didn't.

[B-side]

Chloe Moretz was also somewhat close to a double nomination for Let Me In and Kick-Ass.

:frustrated:

[B-side]

Rhys Ifans for Greenberg is my favorite acting nomination. Wondrously subtle work.

He was on my ballot.

Love me, Boner. LOVE MEEEEE

[Bosco B Thug]

What did Barbara Hershey do to get a Black Swan nod, aside from looking weathered and matronly?

Not to gang up on Black Swan, but I've been wondering the same thing but about Mila Kunis. Oh, she goes from nice girl to mean girl, what a dual performance!

She was fine, of course, and added an integral dramatic component to the film - I loved her/her character in the film. But I'm just saying... after all the awards recognition she got, I thought it was perfectly rational she didn't get an Oscar nod.

[Boner M]

Kunis was actually my favorite performance in the film.

[Spinal]

Kunis was actually my favorite performance in the film.

Mine too.

[Ezee E]

:frustrated:

Nothing to scratch your head about since it didn't make the cut.

Kick-Ass had a chance at screenplay, costumes, and art direction too.

[Ezee E]

People didn't vote for Black Swan in Score because of the Swan Lake theme, did they? Please tell me they didn't.

Yeah, another reason I encourage everyone to listen to the scores again. Although it's hard to judge. Do you vote based on how it works within the movie or on its own? It's definitely the least interesting on its own. I need to see the movie again to see how it works within the movie.

Still doubt it even gets close to what Reznor or Desplat did, and I'm a huge Black Swan supporter.

[Bosco B Thug]

Kunis was actually my favorite performance in the film.

I actually loved her character and her performance as well, and hell, I may even agree with you and Spinal (notice I didn't nominate anyone from Black Swan...), but am I wrong to say she's not asked to stretch her range much? Nor does she have much screen time, like Hershey. Or maybe I need to re-watch the film.

At least Hershey has big crying scenes. Anyone who knows acting care to argue that crying scenes/scenes of duress aren't the way to rank a performance?

[B-side]

Nothing to scratch your head about since it didn't make the cut.

Kick-Ass had a chance at screenplay, costumes, and art direction too.

Astonishing. Can't wrap my head around any praise for that film.