EWB's Film Awards

[Laice07]

With all this Award season madness(which ends at the Kodak theatre on March 5th), I think its about time we choose the best performers and films for our little board. Yes, I know we have this all the time, but I'm unoriginal, and bored, and I love films. You can choose up to 5 nominees(3 Being min!!) and rank them....

The ranking system goes like this:

1st Choice: 5 points

2nd Choice:3 points

3rd Choice: 2 points

(and number 4 and 5 are both one point)

So what are the categories? Well you sure won't find Best short Documentary, thats for sure!

The Categories:

Best Film

Best Director

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Visual Effects

Best Cinematography

Best Fight

Best Villain

Best Animated Film

Yep, 11 categories, and the nominations will be announced the final day of February! And the deadline for choosing the winner will be announced when the nominations are announced.

Here are my nominees:

Best Film

1.) Brokeback Mountain

2.) Good Night and Good Luck

3.) Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of The Sith

4.) Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

5.) King Kong

Best Director

1.) Ang Lee(Brokeback Mountain)

2.) George Clooney(Good Night and Good Luck)

3.) Peter Jackson(King Kong)

4.) Steven Spielberg(Munich)

5.) George Lucas (Star Wars Episode III)

Best Actor

1.) Phillip Seymour Hoffman(Capote)

2.) Heath Ledger(Brokeback Mountain)

3.) David Straitharn(Good Night and Good Luck)

4.) Ralph Fiennes(The Constant Gardener)

5.) Jeff Daniels(The Squid and The Whale)

Best Actress

1.) Reese Witherspoon(Walk The Line)

2.) Naomi Watts(King Kong)

3.) Felicity Huffman(Transamerica)

4.) Mario Bello(A History of Violence)

Best Supporting Actor

1.) William Hurt(A History of Violence)

2.) Jake Gyllenhaal(Brokeback Mountain)

3.) Mickey Rourke(Sin City)

4.) George Clooney(Good Night and Good Luck)

Best Supporting Actress

1.) Tild Swinton(Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe)

2.) Anne Hathaway(Brokeback Mountain)

3.) Michelle Williams(Brokeback Mountain)

4.) Catherine Keneer (The 40 Yr old Virgin)

5.) Rache Weiz(The Constant Gardener)

Best Visual Effects

1.) King Kong

2.) Star Wars Episode III

3.) Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Best Cinematography

1) The New world

2.) Munich

3.) The Constant Gardener

4.) King Kong

5.) Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Best Fight(Verbal or Physical)

1.) Anakin vs. Obiwan(Star Wars 3)

2.) Yoda vs. Emperor Palpatine/Dath Sideous(Star Wars 3)

3) King Kong vs. 3 T-Rex's (King Kong)

4.) The Battle for Narnia(The Chornicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe)

Best Villain

1.) Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sideous(Star Wars)

2.) The White Witch(Narnia)

3.) Darth Vader(Star Wars)

4.) Voldermort(Harry Potter)

Best Animated Film

1.) Wallace and Gromit

2.) Robots

3.) Corpse Bride

Edited February 7, 2006 by Laice06

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

For this year? Curses, that means I must put up the results of my "Film of the year" poll now I have competition!

[Laice07]

ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster, why do you think I made this in the first place Competition brings the best out of everyone...oh...and yes...I am also waiting for your list.

[ACCBiggz]

What is the criteria?

2005 films? Oscar season films, which include some late 2004 films? Only released in USA in 05?

Because as we saw elsewhere, some Uk'ers don't get the same films at the same time and vice-versa.

[Laice07]

March 2004 until Now(Right after last years Oscar Season, until now)

-This is also regarding North America's dates and films.

Edited February 6, 2006 by Laice06

[ROC]

Didn't we do this already with CSAMH? Oh well, whatever. My votes have changed by this point, anyway.

Best Film

1. Serenity

2. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Long Ass Movie Title

3. Brokeback Mountain

4. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Best Director

1. Joss Whedon

No one else because Whedon > *

Best Actor

1. Heath Ledger (The movie about the gay cowboys)

2. Nathan Fillion (Serenity)

3. Martin Freeman (H2G2)

Best Actress

1. Laura Linney (Exorcism of Emily Rose)

2. Zooey Deschanel (H2G2)

3. Summer Glau (Serenity)

4. Tilda Swinton (The Chronic...What...cles of Narnia: Sorry for the bad joke reference.)

Best Supporting Actor

1. Chiwetel Eijofor (Serenity)

2. Adam Baldwin (Serenity)

3. Sam Rockwell (H2G2)

4. Liam Neeson as Aslan (Chronic)

5. Bill Nighy (H2G2)

Damn, I wish I had more than five or else I'd be nominating half of the 40 Year Old Virgin cast.

Best Supporting Actress

1. Anne Hathaway (Brokeback...I don't give a shit how shitty Princess Diaries was anymore.)

2. Catherine Keener (40 Year Old Virgin)

3. Elizabeth Banks (same movie.)

And I can't think of any more really solid ones...Michelle Williams wasn't grand enough in BB for me to care.

Best Visual Effects

1. Serenity (Dude...it was made on a mere $40 mill. That's an achievement in itself.)

2. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Same story, except change to Fitty mill)

3. Chronicles of Narnia

Best Cinematography

1. Serenity

2. Brokeback Mountain

I can't think of any serious ones where cinematography stood out, to be honest.

Best Fight

1. Ejiofor v. Fillion in the end of Serenity

2. Summer Glau v. everyone (Serenity)

3. The final battle in Narnia

Best Villain

1. Chiwetel Ejiofor as The Operative (Serenity) - Man, that mofucker can act.

2. Tilda Swinton as The White Witch (Narnia) - That bitch can act, too.

3. Cillian Murphy as Scarecrow (Batman Begins)

Best Animated Film

No votes here because I think Corpse Bride is far too overrated for its own good.

Best Documentary

1. Grizzly Man - Because Werner Herzog is gangsta like that.

So yeah, my noms suck, but they're just noms...

[Laice07]

There are no such things as Bad noms (Y)

Here is a list of eligible films!

Films for your consideration

I used the Academy's guidelines.

Screw the nominations rule, ROC sold me over. Just nominate with a max of five, and the ranking system is still the same. There, makes it easier for everyone.

EDIT: Sin City is not in the eligibility list...but you can add that film anyway

Edited February 6, 2006 by Laice06

[ROC]

There are no such things as Bad noms (Y)

Here is a list of eligible films!

Films for your consideration

I used the Academy's guidelines.

Screw the nominations rule, ROC sold me over. Just nominate with a max of five, and the ranking system is still the same. There, makes it easier for everyone.

[Pepsi]

Best Film

1) Crash

2) Brokeback Mountain

3) The Constant Gardener

4) Good Night, and Good Luck

5) Batman Begins

Best Director

1) Paul Haggis "Crash"

2) Ang Lee "Brokeback Mountain

3) Noah Baumbach "The Squid and the Whale"

4) Fernando Meirelles "The Constant Gardener"

5) Christopher Nolen "Batman Begins"

Best Actor

1) Ralph Fiennes "The Constant Gardener"

2) Heath Ledger "Brokeback Mountain"

3) Terrence Howard "Hustle & Flow"

4) Jeff Daniels "The Squid and the Whale"

5) Joaquin Phoenix "Walk the Line"

Best Actress

1) Maria Bello "A History of Violence"

2) Laura Linney "The Squid and the Whale"

3) Ziyi Zhang "Memoirs of a Geisha"

4) Keira Knightley "Pride & Prejudice"

Best Supporting Actor

1) Jake Gyllenhaal "Brokeback Mountain"

2) Don Cheadle "Crash"

3) Terrence Howard "Crash"

4) Matt Dillon "Crash"

5) Paul Giamatti "Cinderella Man"

Best Supporting Actress

1) Rachel Weisz "The Constant Gardener"

2) Amy Adams "Junebug"

3) Michelle Williams "Brokeback Mountain"

4) Thandie Newton "Crash"

5) Amanda Peet "Syriana"

Best Visual Effects

1) King Kong

2) Star Wars Episode III

3) War of the Worlds

4) Mirrormask

5) Sin City

Best Cinematography

1) Crash

2) The Constant Gardener

3) Brokeback Mountain

4) Good Night, and Good Luck

5) The New World

Best Fight

1) King Kong vs The T-Rex's

2) Obi-Wan vs Anakin

Best Villain

1) Emperor Palpatine "Star Wars Episode III"

2) The Aliens "War of the Worlds"

3) Lord Voldemort "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

4) Ed Harris "A History of Violence"

5) The Operative in "Serenity"

Best Animated Film

1) Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit

2) The Corpse Bride

Edited February 7, 2006 by Pepsi

[Chris the Human]

Best Film

a). Crash

b). Serenity

c). Sin City

d). Batman Begins

e). The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch , and The Wardrobe

Best Director

a). Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain

b). Paul Haggis, Crash

c). Stephen Spielberg, Munich

d). Joss Whedon, Serenity

e). Robert Rodriguez, Sin City

Best Actor

a). Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Capote

b). Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain

c). Ryan Reynolds, The Amityville Horror

d). Nathan Fillion, Serenity

e). Clive Owen, Sin City

Best Actress

a). Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line

b). Tilda Swinton, The Chronicles of Narnia

c). Mario Bello, A History of Violence

Best Supporting Actor

a). Matt Dillon, Crash

b). Jake Gyllenhal, Brokeback Mountain

c). Mickey Rourke, Sin City

d). George Clooney, Goodnight and Good Luck

e). Chiwetel Eijofor, Serenity

Best Supporting Actress

a). Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain

b). Summer Glau, Serenity

c). Zooey Deschanel, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

d). Thandie Newton, Crash

e). Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener

Best Visual Effects

a). Sin City

b). King Kong

c). The Chronicles of Narnia

d). Serenity

e). Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith

Best Cinematography

a). Crash

b). King Kong

c). Munich

d). Batman Begins

Best Fight

a). Mickey Rourke vs. The World in Sin City

b). Ejiofor v. Fillion in the end of Serenity

c). Summer Glau vs. everyone in Serenity

d). King Kong vs. T-Rex in Kong Kong

e). Obi Wan vs. Anakin Skywalker in Episode 3

Best Villain

a). The Operative in Serenity

b). The White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia

c). Scarecrow in Batman Begins

d). Elijah Wood in Sin City

e). Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Best Animated Film

a). The Corpse Bride

b). The Curse of the Wererabbit

c). Robots

[Laice07]

Its funny how I put Tilda in the Best supporting actress category while everone else puts her in the Best Actress category, the funny thing is that this type of stuff happens all the time.....category confusion...and thats why Mario Bello wasn't nominated(or Laura Linney) because the academy split them up, some putting them in one category while others put them in the other one. The funny thing is no one is really wrong, but it killed Scarlett Johannson's chances in Lost in Translation, when members of the academy were split putting her on both actress categories and unfortunentley there wasn't enough for one, so she was snubbed.

Therefore, if there are more votes for Tilda Swinton in the Best Actress category then the Best Supporting Actress, she will be placed in the Best Actress category. If she has enough votes to move on to both categories she will be placed in the category with the higher placed number of votes. This goes for any actor.

(Personally I wouldn't mind seeing her in the Best Actress category )

[Chris the Human]

Looking at it again, I probably should have had her as a Best Supporting Actress. She really doesn't have enough screen time to justify a best actress nod.

[Laice07]

One more thing, when the nominations are announced should I:

1.) Have a poll with each category, where members choose one of the nominees

2.) Post the nominations, and have a secret ballot(members PM me with their choices, and then I announce them one by one in a thread)

3.) Post all the nominees and have the members post their choices in the thread

[Pepsi]

One more thing, when the nominations are announced should I:

1.) Have a poll with each category, where members choose one of the nominees

2.) Post the nominations, and have a secret ballot(members PM me with their choices, and then I announce them one by one in a thread)

3.) Post all the nominees and have the members post their choices in the thread

[Docpepper]

Best Film

1.) Crash

2.) The Devils Rejects

3.) The 40 year old virgin

4.) The Cinderella man

5.) Hostage

Best Director

1.) Peter Jackson(King Kong)

2.) Steven Spielberg(Munich)

3.) George Lucas (Star Wars Episode III)

4.) Ang Lee(Brokeback Mountain)

5.) George Clooney(Good Night and Good Luck)

Best Actor

1.) Steve Carell(40 year old virgin)

2.) Russell Crowe.(Cinderella man)

3.) Christian Bale (Batman Begins)

4.) Jake Gyllenhaal(jar head)

5.) Bruce Willis(Hostage)

Best Actress

1.) Reese Witherspoon(Walk The Line)

2.) Catherine Keener(40 year old virgin)

3.) Mario Bello(A History of Violence)

4.) Naomi Watts(King Kong)

Best Supporting Actor

1.)Jake Gyllenhaal(Brokeback Mountain)

2.) Mickey Rourke(Sin City)

3.) Benicio Del Toro(sin City)

4.) William Hurt(A History of Violence)

Best Supporting Actress

1.) Tild Swinton(Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe)

2.) Michelle Williams(Brokeback Mountain)

3.) Rache Weiz(The Constant Gardener)

4.) Alexis Bledel(sin City)

5.) Jaime King(Sin City)

Best Visual Effects

1.) Sin City

2.) King Kong

3.) Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Best Cinematography

1) Crash

2.) King Kong

3.) Sin City

4.) King Kong

5.) Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Best Fight(Verbal or Physical)

1.) King Kong vs. 3 T-Rex's (King Kong)

2.) Anakin vs. Obiwan(Star Wars 3)

3) Yoda vs. Emperor Palpatine/Dath Sideous(Star Wars 3)

4.) The Battle for Narnia(The Chornicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe)

Best Villain

1.) The White Witch(Narnia)

2.) Darth Vader(Star Wars)

3.) Voldermort(Harry Potter)

4.) Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sideous(Star Wars)

Best Animated Film

1.) Corpse Bride

2.) Robots

3.) Wallace and Gromit