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Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


It's time again for the Cinema Discusso film awards, where the posters in CineD discuss and vote on the best in film from the previous year. Here are the current nominees, with winners underlined with a link to the relevant post once announced:

Best Picture
Beasts of No Nation
The Big Short
Chappie
Creed
Ex Machina
The Hateful Eight
It Follows
Mad Max: Fury Road
Sicario
Tangerine

Best Director
Cary Joji Fukunaga, Beasts of No Nation
Denis Villeneuve, Sicario
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight
Ryan Coogler, Creed

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Domhnall Gleeson, Ex Machina
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael B. Jordan, Creed
Samuel L. Jackson, The Hateful Eight
Tom Hanks, Bridge of Spies

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Benicia del Toro, Sicario
Idris Elba, Beasts of No Nation
Oscar Isaac, Ex Machina
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Walton Goggins, The Hateful Eight

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road
Emily Blunt, Sicario
Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Tangerine

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Jessica Chastain, Crimson Peak
Rooney Mara, Carol
Tessa Thompson, Creed
Yolandi Visser, Chappie

Best Vocal or Motion Capture Performance
Amy Poehler, Inside Out
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Anomalisa
Julia Pott, World of Tomorrow
Shalto Copley, Chappie
Tom Noonan, Anomalisa

Best Animation
Anomalisa
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep Movie
World of Tomorrow

Best Film Editing
Claudia Castello and Michael P. Shawver, Creed
Hank Corwin, The Big Short
Julio C. Perez IV, It Follows
Margaret Sixel, Mad Max: Fury Road
Stephen Mirrione, The Revenant

Best Makeup and Costuming
Crimson Peak
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Original Score
Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Sicario
Junkie XL, Mad Max: Fury Road
Ludwig Göransson, Creed
Rich Vreeland, It Follows

The Echoplex Award for Art Design
Beasts of No Nation
Chappie
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Documentary
Best of Enemies
Call Me Lucky
The Look of Silence
The Nightmare
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

The Moral High Horse Award: Most Reprehensible Film
Entourage
Get Hard
Jurassic World
Knock, Knock
The Ridiculous 6

The Not-Crash for Socially Forward Filmmaking
The Big Short
The Look of Silence
Mad Max: Fury Road
Magic Mike XXL
Tangerine

Best Food/Meal Scene
The Big Short, dinner with Wing Chau
Bone Tomahawk, cave butcher
The Gift, dinner at Gordo’s
The Hateful Eight, the stew
The Revenant, the buffalo

The Armond White Award for best film under 60% on Rotten Tomatoes
American Ultra (43%)
Blackhat (34%)
Chappie (31%)
In the Heart of the Sea (43%)
Terminator: Genisys (25%)

The Golden Winnebago: Best Trailer
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Comic-Con Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WWzgGyAH6Y

The Revenant | Official Teaser Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRfj1VCg16Y

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer (Official)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGbxmsDFVnE

Suicide Squad Comic-Con Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI3hecGO_04

Tangerine - Red Band Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALSwWTb88ZU

The Michael Bay Award for Best Noises or Lack Thereof (Sound Design)
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Ensemble Cast
The Big Short
Furious 7
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Spotlight

Best Action Choreography
Creed
Furious 7
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
Sicario

Best Adapted Screenplay
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, The Big Short
Cary Joji Fukunaga, Beasts of No Nation
Drew Goddard, The Martian
George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, and Nico Lathouris, Mad Mad: Fury Road
Mark L. Smith and Alejandro G. Ińárritu, The Revenant

Best Original Screenplay
Alex Garland, Ex Machina
Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight
Sean S. Baker and Chris Bergoch, Tangerine
Taylor Sheridan, Sicario
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, Spotlight

Best Visual Effects
Chappie
Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Cinematography
Cary Joji Fukunaga, Beasts of No Nation
Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant
John Seale, Mad Max: Fury Road
Robert Richardson, The Hateful Eight
Roger Deakins, Sicario

CineD MVP
Alicia Vikander
Domhnall Gleeson
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Oscar Isaac
Tom Hardy

Best Musical Direction
The Big Short
Creed
Mad Max: Fury Road
Magic Mike XXL
Straight Outta Compton

The awards are conducted in two rounds. In a first, three to seven nominations are submitted by each judge in each of the listed categories. Any movie with an initial theatrical or digital release in 2015 is eligible. Any trailer released in 2015 is eligible even if the movie doesn't release until 2016 or beyond. The five most mentioned nominees will be the finalists for the award in each category, with the exception of Best Picture which will have ten finalists. In the second round, one vote is submitted by each judge in each of the listed categories for one of the nominated films.

Anyone who has posted at least one comment about a movie in CineD prior to this post is eligible as a judge. This thread can be used to remind people of the films, performances, and so on that deserve attention. Please try to avoid posts that are just a list of suggestions in every category, and instead narrow in on a particular film, performer, some other elements, or provide some commentary.

The third contest. The second contest.

Voting is Open

Votes are due end-of-day Sunday, February 14, 2016.

Votes can be submitted either by private messaging me, or emailing goonys2016@gmail.com. If you're going to email, include your user name in the email. All that's required to judge is to have any sort of presence in the CineD forum. You do not have to have submitted nominations to vote.

List your selection in each category. If you don't feel comfortable making a selection in a category, that's fine. Please do the categories in the same order I have them here to make compiling the votes easier.

Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Mar 4, 2016

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Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


The basic thinking was that there was literally no one on this forum who needed an opportunity to discuss Fury Road or who needed to be reminded how good it was. However, if people really want the opportunity to vote for it, say so here and it'll be let back in. The goal was to make things more interesting by allowing some question as to what would win, but if it's more interesting to have another opportunity to talk about an admittedly fantastic film, I'm open to allowing it in.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Alright, Mad Max is in. I've asked GonSmithe to change the thread title when he gets a chance.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


For my own part, I think the best film of the year is The Big Short. An adaptation of the book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, it breaks down the corruption and outright criminality of the 2007-2008 financial crisis into a story that's funny, illuminating, and infuriating.

Never letting the movie fall into the trap of just being a lecture, Director Adam McKay has created an inventive mix of narrative, direct explanation, and pop collage to maintain the energy of its illumination of the finance industry in the early 21st century. Partway between The Wolf of Wall Street and Natural Born Killers, this movie would be a standout even if it didn't also provide the valuable service of breaking down the incompetence and immorality of people who weren't only shielded from the consequences of their behavior, but rewarded for it.

For your consideration in the categories of:
Best Picture
Best Director: Adam McKay
Best Film Editing: Hank Corwin
The Not-Crash for Socially Forward Filmmaking
Best Food/Meal Scene: Dinner with Wing Chau
Best Ensemble Cast
Best Adapted Screenplay: Adam McKay and Charles Randolph
Best Musical Direction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgqG3ITMv1Q

Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Jan 11, 2016

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


The first release anywhere in the world must have been in 2015. Testament of Youth and Kingsman are 2014.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Agreed with Michael B. Jordan as best lead actor for Creed. He puts forward an interesting character for the lead of a sports movie in a really charming performance.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


CopywrightMMXI posted:

Kingsman was released in a festival in the UK in December 2014, and didn't see a real release until 2015. It's a little unfair to disqualify a movie just because a few hundred people saw a screening. It follows debuted in the festival scene in 2014 as well. Is it eligible?

I'd thought Kingsman had had a limited theatrical in 2014 in UK. If it was really just a festival than I'm fine with it being included. Same for It Follows.

But a limited theatrical release is enough. Hateful Eight and The Revenant are eligible this year if anyone wants to nominate them for things. Also, a theatrical release isn't necessary if you want to nominate something that was digital-only. Beasts of No Nation got a limited theatrical release, I think, but it would be welcome even if it hadn't, and there might be something good that didn't that I'm unaware of. But it should be movie-like, so no Making a Murderer in the documentary category.

On this subject, as before, 2015 trailers for 2016 movies are eligible. And if you're nominating a trailer, please post it. The award is for a particular trailer, not for the movie.

Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Jan 11, 2016

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Samuel Clemens posted:

Best Visual Effects (does 3D fall under this category as well?)

Sure. I'd nominate The Walk here as well, at least in part because of the 3D.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Eligibility for MVP isn't the sort of thing I can really police, though I'd prefer arguments on someone's behalf focus on films that are actually 2015.

Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Jan 12, 2016

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Proposition Joe posted:

Mad Max: Fury Road
The Golden Winnebago: Best Trailer

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Golden Winnebago: Best Trailer

Grizzled Patriarch posted:

High-Rise for The Golden Winnebago: Best Trailer

dreadnought posted:

The Hateful Eight
The Golden Winnebago: Best Trailer

Please post a link to or, even better, embed whatever trailer you're talking about. I know more than one of these had multiple trailers.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


The point of FYCs is to remind people of good movies, performances, whatevers to encourage people to nominate them.

Spatula City posted:

and Supporting Actress!
Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina

This feels like a lead performance to me personally, though I'm not going to police the distinction.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


If anything I'd push the cutoff lower, sorry, because as you say the point is to reward a film that was critically reviled.

I'm guessing/hoping Magic Mike XXL will be nominated in the Not-Crash category, at least.

Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Jan 14, 2016

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


For your consideration for The Golden Winnebago:

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Comic-Con Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WWzgGyAH6Y

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Alright, things have gotten slow, so time for nominations. Nominations are due end-of-day Saturday, February 6, 2016.

Nominations can be submitted either by private messaging me, or emailing goonys2016@gmail.com. If you're going to email, include your user name in the email. As I said in the OP, all that's required to nominate or judge is to have any sort of presence in the CineD forum.

Include up to seven, and ideally at least three, nominations in each of the categories listed in the first post in the thread. Please do the categories in the same order I have them there to make compiling the nominations easier.

Ideally for the trailer category you'd list the movie and the name of the trailer on Youtube. If it's just going to be the name of the movie then please post the trailer in the thread and I'll assume that's the one anyone who nominates the movie is talking about.

Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks to everyone for the great posts so far.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Just a reminder, any category where you'd name a person, except for MVP, should include the relevant movie, such as for the directing, acting, vocal/motion, etc. categories. Thanks!

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


If you don't have things you want to nominate for a category that's fine. You saw what you saw.

Proposition Joe posted:

Would it be kosher to post the nominations we sent?

I feel like more focused posts that are directed at a limited number of movies are more useful. My suggestion would be, look at your nominations and see if there's anything in there that haven't gotten much attention in this thread and try promoting those.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


I'll be putting together the nomination list tomorrow afternoon, so anyone else looking to submit entries should get them in. Thanks!

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Best Picture
Beasts of No Nation
The Big Short
Chappie
Creed
Ex Machina
The Hateful Eight
It Follows
Mad Max: Fury Road
Sicario
Tangerine

Best Director
Cary Joji Fukunaga, Beasts of No Nation
Denis Villeneuve, Sicario
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight
Ryan Coogler, Creed

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Domhnall Gleeson, Ex Machina
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael B. Jordan, Creed
Samuel L. Jackson, The Hateful Eight
Tom Hanks, Bridge of Spies

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Benicia del Toro, Sicario
Idris Elba, Beasts of No Nation
Oscar Isaac, Ex Machina
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Walton Goggins, The Hateful Eight

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road
Emily Blunt, Sicario
Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Tangerine

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Jessica Chastain, Crimson Peak
Rooney Mara, Carol
Tessa Thompson, Creed
Yolandi Visser, Chappie

Best Vocal or Motion Capture Performance
Amy Poehler, Inside Out
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Anomalisa
Julia Pott, World of Tomorrow
Shalto Copley, Chappie
Tom Noonan, Anomalisa

Best Animation
Anomalisa
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep Movie
World of Tomorrow

Best Film Editing
Claudia Castello and Michael P. Shawver, Creed
Hank Corwin, The Big Short
Julio C. Perez IV, It Follows
Margaret Sixel, Mad Max: Fury Road
Stephen Mirrione, The Revenant

Best Makeup and Costuming
Crimson Peak
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Original Score
Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Sicario
Junkie XL, Mad Max: Fury Road
Ludwig Göransson, Creed
Rich Vreeland, It Follows

The Echoplex Award for Art Design
Beasts of No Nation
Chappie
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Documentary
Best of Enemies
Call Me Lucky
The Look of Silence
The Nightmare
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

The Moral High Horse Award: Most Reprehensible Film
Entourage
Get Hard
Jurassic World
Knock, Knock
The Ridiculous 6

The Not-Crash for Socially Forward Filmmaking
The Big Short
The Look of Silence
Mad Max: Fury Road
Magic Mike XXL
Tangerine

Best Food/Meal Scene
The Big Short, dinner with Wing Chau
Bone Tomahawk, cave butcher
The Gift, dinner at Gordo’s
The Hateful Eight, the stew
The Revenant, the buffalo

The Armond White Award for best film under 60% on Rotten Tomatoes
American Ultra (43%)
Blackhat (34%)
Chappie (31%)
In the Heart of the Sea (43%)
Terminator: Genisys (25%)

The Golden Winnebago: Best Trailer
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Comic-Con Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WWzgGyAH6Y

The Revenant | Official Teaser Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRfj1VCg16Y

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer (Official)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGbxmsDFVnE

Suicide Squad Comic-Con Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI3hecGO_04

Tangerine - Red Band Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALSwWTb88ZU

The Michael Bay Award for Best Noises or Lack Thereof (Sound Design)
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Ensemble Cast
The Big Short
Furious 7
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Spotlight

Best Action Choreography
Creed
Furious 7
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
Sicario

Best Adapted Screenplay
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, The Big Short
Cary Joji Fukunaga, Beasts of No Nation
Drew Goddard, The Martian
George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, and Nico Lathouris, Mad Mad: Fury Road
Mark L. Smith and Alejandro G. Ińárritu, The Revenant

Best Original Screenplay
Alex Garland, Ex Machina
Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight
Sean S. Baker and Chris Bergoch, Tangerine
Taylor Sheridan, Sicario
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, Spotlight

Best Visual Effects
Chappie
Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Cinematography
Cary Joji Fukunaga, Beasts of No Nation
Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant
John Seale, Mad Max: Fury Road
Robert Richardson, The Hateful Eight
Roger Deakins, Sicario

CineD MVP
Alicia Vikander
Domhnall Gleeson
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Oscar Isaac
Tom Hardy

Best Musical Direction
The Big Short
Creed
Mad Max: Fury Road
Magic Mike XXL
Straight Outta Compton

Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Feb 7, 2016

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


I put actors and actresses in whichever of best or supporting they were nominated more in. There's not really a great solution to it.

Also, voting is open. I'd encourage people to give it a few days so that we might have some discussion about the nominees, but the process will be similar to nominating. Votes can be submitted either by private messaging me, or emailing goonys2016@gmail.com. If you're going to email, include your user name in the email. All that's required to judge is to have any sort of presence in the CineD forum. You do not have to have submitted nominations to vote.

List your selection in each category. If you don't feel comfortable making a selection in a category, that's fine. Please do the categories in the same order I have them here to make compiling the votes easier.

Votes are due end-of-day Sunday, February 14, 2016.

Further, if you'd like to present a category or two, let me know by posting here. Presenting can be as simple as posting the result, but people have generally taken the opportunity to write a paragraph or two, and some people go a little farther in putting together a video. It's an opportunity to say a little bit about the winner and/or the nominees. People have done some fun things in the past, but it doesn't have to be much. The winner will be provided to the presenter at least a week in advance, with the announcements spread out over the course of the week leading up to the Academy Awards, as we've done previous years. If you'd like to present and don't have private messages, you'll need to provide me with an email address as a way to send you the winner.

Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Feb 7, 2016

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Brie Larson was on the bubble, but didn't quite make it.

Literally everyone who submitted nominations nominated Mad Max: Fury Road for at least one thing. I'm not knocking any particular nomination, but it's definitely benefitting from having universally been seen. That said, in no category was it particularly dominating the competition. It's nominated for a lot, but all the categories seem to be up for grabs.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Beasts of No Nation isn't as depressing as you might fear given the subject matter. It's grim, but not really a tough watch. Shades of Full Metal Jacket. And seeing it will let you vote for Idris Elba as best supporting actor, which is what his performance deserves.

Tangerine is also on American Netflix for people who haven't seen it. Ex Machina is included for streaming with Amazon Prime. I highly recommend watching both before making your best leading actress selection.

Sadly, Sicario isn't streaming anywhere, but it's absolutely fantastic and worth seeing if you haven't. I won't be disappointed if Mad Max wins, but Sicario deserves it more.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Kull the Conqueror posted:

Why is Mad Max under Musical Direction? Doesn't it just have a score? I thought the category was referring to soundtrack curation.

It's there because people nominated it for it. And, yes, I would highly encourage people to not vote for it in that category since it doesn't have any of what the category is intended to applaud.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


RandallODim posted:

Also, because it seems like no one has laid claim to it, I'd be willing to present for Best Ensemble, and also Moral High Horse if we're allowed more than one.

You're definitely allowed to do more than one, so those are yours.

It would be great if a few more people volunteered to present stuff. It doesn't take much to do one and you'll have your result a week in advance of when I'd ask you to post it. You can either pick an unclaimed category, or, if you'd prefer, you can volunteer to do one or two and I can pick categories where you voted for the winner so that you'll know you saw the winner and liked it.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


So I've decided not to worry about a schedule. If you're posting something, go ahead and do it when you're ready, though ideally we might get them out by the Academy Awards this Sunday just to be done with it.

On which subject, our first winner: World of Tomorrow for Best Animation.

Always a delight, Don Hertzfeldt moved to digital production with World of Tomorrow, keeping his hand-crafted (now with a tablet) stick figures and embedding them in a world that takes advantage of computer techniques. Hertzfeldt maintains his streamlined art style for this often dark tale of humanity's future, allowing him to produce imagery of grim subject matter rendered in a storybook style, for an effect that's both evocative and funny.

http://i.imgur.com/IbZobzp.gifv

With the crisp and abstract digital world of the future contrasting with the hand-drawn roughness of the humans travelling within it.

http://i.imgur.com/ErTVIGT.gifv

Hertzfeldt makes careful use of each frame, updating different layers on different frames to produce near-constant progression in the animation without requiring that every element be animated at a full 24 fps.

http://i.imgur.com/fgRq5k2.gifv

And with an appreciation for not just the rendering of his sci-fi plotline, but the basic pleasure of an animation of a stick figure child wiggling for the sheer joy of it.

http://i.imgur.com/UIcmUx7.gifv

It's only sixteen and a half minutes and it's available for streaming from Netflix, so there's no reason not to just go watch it.

Unfortunately, I haven't seen our winner for Best Vocal or Motion Capture Performance, Tom Noonan in Anomalisa. But from what I understand, he provides the voice for every character besides the two main ones, so clearly he was a major presence. If you've seen it and and enjoyed it, please feel free to say a kind word.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Great job everybody! Thanks again for doing those.

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Domhnall Gleeson, Ex Machina
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael B. Jordan, Creed
Samuel L. Jackson, The Hateful Eight
Tom Hanks, Bridge of Spies

Just a really great, relatively restrained leading-man performance without any dependence on the sort of absurd theatrics available to some of his competitors. Simply always where the film needs him to be.

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Benicia del Toro, Sicario
Idris Elba, Beasts of No Nation
Oscar Isaac, Ex Machina
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Walton Goggins, The Hateful Eight

Probably my favorite all-around performance of the year. He humanizes a monster, even at his most monstrous. Absolutely magnetic and the lynchpin of a story that only just quite isn't about him.

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road
Emily Blunt, Sicario
Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Tangerine

An impressively skillful translation of the weird ticks of a humanoid robot into the charming idiosyncrasies of the indie dreamgirl. There's been a lot of talk in this thread about Brie Larson not even being nominated for Room, which I doubt will be helped by the sexy robot winning, but Alicia Vikander absolutely deserves praise for this refreshingly novel take on a fairly cliched type of character.

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Jessica Chastain, Crimson Peak
Rooney Mara, Carol
Tessa Thompson, Creed
Yolandi Visser, Chappie

Yeah, she's great. Jennifer Jason Leigh's funny, charming dirtbag is a highlight of a movie already filled with great actors giving great performances.

CineD MVP
Alicia Vikander
Domhnall Gleeson
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Oscar Isaac
Tom Hardy

Everybody loves Oscar Isaac so I don't think I really have to say much here. He so regularly gives incredibly fun performances that they had to break the fundamental logic of the story in The Force Awakens just so that they could keep him in the franchise.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Best Original Score
Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Sicario
Junkie XL, Mad Max: Fury Road
Ludwig Göransson, Creed
Rich Vreeland, It Follows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B0M1lVuFo4

Best Musical Direction
The Big Short
Creed
Mad Max: Fury Road
Magic Mike XXL
Straight Outta Compton

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

The Golden Winnebago: Best Trailer
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Comic-Con Trailer
The Revenant | Official Teaser Trailer
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer (Official)
Suicide Squad Comic-Con Trailer
Tangerine - Red Band Trailer

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

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


I'll stand by the supporting actor/actress wins, but, yeah, the lead categories were brutalized by the limitations of what movies people saw (e.g., Room).

edit: Which matches the actual patterns of the voting. The votes for the best lead categories was very spread out, while the supporting performers both heavily dominated their categories, particularly Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Feb 28, 2016

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Best Adapted Screenplay
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, The Big Short
Cary Joji Fukunaga, Beasts of No Nation
Drew Goddard, The Martian
George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, and Nico Lathouris, Mad Mad: Fury Road
Mark L. Smith and Alejandro G. Ińárritu, The Revenant

Hell yes. Translating Michael Lewis's non-fiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine to the screen was no easy task. The financial crisis of 2007-2008 is complex and the all details matter, and a lot of the work of getting that detail on the screen was performed by the screenplay.

Best Original Screenplay
Alex Garland, Ex Machina
Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight
Sean S. Baker and Chris Bergoch, Tangerine
Taylor Sheridan, Sicario
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, Spotlight

In a year where the strongest movies were adaptations, some movie still had to win best original screenplay, and that movie is Ex Machina.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Best Food/Meal Scene
The Big Short, dinner with Wing Chau
Bone Tomahawk, cave butcher
The Gift, dinner at Gordo’s
The Hateful Eight, the stew
The Revenant, the buffalo

Best Cinematography
Cary Joji Fukunaga, Beasts of No Nation
Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant
John Seale, Mad Max: Fury Road
Robert Richardson, The Hateful Eight
Roger Deakins, Sicario







A video I enjoyed by forums poster Death By The Blues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nrjHF7wPbs

Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Feb 29, 2016

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


http://i.imgur.com/UMnmS6b.gifv
How do you solve a problem like Mad Max: Fury Road?

It swept the technical (i.e., real) awards at the Oscars. Everyone who nominated for the Cinebytes this year nominated it for something. Everyone who voted for the Cinebytes this year voted for it for something. Everyone saw it, everyone loved it. It's so good I tried to ban it from these awards. But ultimately it's fair to recognize that it's really loving awesome.

These are the many Cinebyte awards won by Mad Max: Fury Road:

Best Picture
Beasts of No Nation
The Big Short
Chappie
Creed
Ex Machina
The Hateful Eight
It Follows
Mad Max: Fury Road
Sicario
Tangerine

Best Director
Cary Joji Fukunaga, Beasts of No Nation
Denis Villeneuve, Sicario
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight
Ryan Coogler, Creed

Best Film Editing
Claudia Castello and Michael P. Shawver, Creed
Hank Corwin, The Big Short
Julio C. Perez IV, It Follows
Margaret Sixel, Mad Max: Fury Road
Stephen Mirrione, The Revenant

Best Makeup and Costuming
Crimson Peak
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Echoplex Award for Art Design
Beasts of No Nation
Chappie
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Michael Bay Award for Best Noises or Lack Thereof (Sound Design)
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Action Choreography
Creed
Furious 7
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
Sicario

Best Visual Effects
Chappie
Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Feb 29, 2016

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


CopywrightMMXI posted:

Out of curiosity, what was the runner up for best picture?

Sicario was one vote behind.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


I Before E posted:

I know the Armond White hasn't been presented yet but is there anything else that hasn't been posted?

Nope, that's it.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Congrats to the indestructible robot gangster number one, which did indeed win in a walk.

And that's it, folks. Thank you to everyone who participated.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Vegetable posted:

Lol at The Hateful Eight having a better ensemble than Spotlight

Ah, yeah, the category doesn't have the best name. The award is really for the best ensemble performance, so if you have a great cast but a bunch of them don't really deliver that isn't good enough.

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Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


A little over a dozen voters, not particularly strong participation this year. So sort of a mix of the two: garbage tower unwashed snobs, like in Ballard's High-Rise.

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