INTERFERENCE Movie Awards 2007!!!

[lazarus]

Mods, please sticky this?

Okay, this is an opportunity for Interference to nominate and then vote for their favorites for this past year in film.

I am going to follow the Academy Awards official procedures, which basically means a lot of legwork on my end. What is required from you is a listing of your Top 5 choices in each category, ranked in order of preference, #1 being your favorite, and so on.

Through some bizarre mathematical equations, I will determine the nominees, and then we will vote on those.

I am cutting out some of the more technical and specialized categories, including Documentary, Animated Feature, and Foreign Film, as most would have trouble listing more than a few. Feel free to nominate any of these for Best Film.

If you have any questions (like "What is Art Direction, anyway?") just ask. Art Direction, by the way, is the design and dressing of the sets, which includes the wallpaper and paint on the walls, the look of the props, etc. If you're not sure if a film's screenplay is adapted or original, just ask.

Here are the list of Categories:

BEST PICTURE
BEST DIRECTOR
BEST ACTOR
BEST ACTRESS
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST EDITING
BEST ART DIRECTION
BEST COSTUMES
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS


Please post your list inside this thread when you have it completed.

 

[Lancemc]

What's the deadline?

I hope I can see The Diving Bell before it's too late.

 

[lazarus]

I'd say we should give it a couple weeks?

I'd want the whole thing done before the Oscars, after which it will be anticlimactic.

 

[Lancemc]

2 Weeks would be wonderful.

 

[Lancemc]

Some of these are going to be absurdly difficult to choose.

 

[lazarus]

We could open the thread to For Your Consideration ads, such as this one:

BENICIO DEL TORO -- THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE (Actor)


or this one...

WEI TANG -- LUST, CAUTION (Actress)

or

CARICE VAN HOUTEN -- BLACK BOOK (actress)

 

[Lancemc]

Here's a question.

I'm Not There.

Original or Adapted?

 

[lazarus]

DON CHEADLE -- TALK TO ME (actor)

ROBERT DOWNEY, JR -- ZODIAC (supporting actor)


okay, I'll stop now.

 

[lazarus]

Here's a question.

I'm Not There.

Original or Adapted?

Original. It's almost all fictional, anyway. A handful of Blanchett and Whishaw's lines are verbatim quotes, but that's it.

and that reminds me...

I'M NOT THERE (directing/cinematography/editing)

 

[LMP]

How about:

THE DARJEELING LIMITED (picture/director/supp. actor)

 

[Lancemc]

In our game, is Jonny Greenwood eligible?

 

[lazarus]

Yes to Greenwood.

And no Original Screenplay for Darjeeling?

 

[LMP]

Probably. I haven't made up my mind yet.

 

[Carek1230]

Good idea, this might be fun and see who comes closest to the real Oscar winners. I'll give my nominations some thought before posting them.

 

[got_edge]

and I got my eye out for the Oscar prediction thread.

 

[Pinball Wizard]

THE DARJEELING LIMITED (... supp. actor)

Nice choice, Lo Pan. I bet you're a fan of Coldplay's Green Eyes.

Even though it's a fairly obvious choice, I think this film should be considered for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography...

 

[Lancemc]

I have my list pretty much set. Just waiting to see if The Diving Bell shakes things up, and trying to settle on the order of my top 2 picks for Best Picture.

 

[LMP]

Nice choice, Lo Pan. I bet you're a fan of Coldplay's Green Eyes.

Indeed!

I actually have a friend getting DVD screeners from a friend of his in the Academy, so I may be able to cram some movies in after The Godfather in the coming week.

 

[LMP]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MCCdZmHk5Fk&feature=related

 

[lazarus]

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:

KNOCKED UP

LESLIE MANN -- Best Supporting Actress

JUDD APATOW -- Best Original Screenplay

 

[LMP]

SUNSHINE

CILLIAN MURPHY - Best Actor

ALWIN H. KUCHLER - Best Cinematography

DANNY BOYLE - Best Director

 

[LMP]

HOT FUZZ

SIMON PEGG, EDGAR WRIGHT - Best Original Screenplay

 

[LMP]

DEATH PROOF

KURT RUSSELL - Best Supporting Actor

QUENTIN TARANTINO - Best Original Screenplay

 

[lazarus]

HOT FUZZ

SIMON PEGG, EDGAR WRIGHT - Best Original Screenplay

and BEST EDITING.

 

[lazarus]

DEATH PROOF

KURT RUSSELL - Best Supporting Actor

QUENTIN TARANTINO - Best Original Screenplay

...and BEST EDITING!!!

 

[LMP]

Alrighty.

 

[lazarus]

Alright, I'm going to get the ball rolling here.

My official ballot:


BEST PICTURE
1. I'm Not There
2. No Country For Old Men
3. There Will Be Blood
4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
5. Zodiac

DIRECTOR
1. Todd Haynes,--I'm Not There
2. Paul Thomas Anderson--There Will Be Blood
3. Joel & Ethan Coen--No Country For Old Men
4. David Fincher--Zodiac

ACTOR
1. Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
2. Benicio Del Toro--Things We Lost in the Fire
3. Viggo Mortensen--Eastern Promises
4. Tommy Lee Jones--In the Valley of Elah
5. Ulrich Muhe--The Lives of Others

ACTRESS
1. Carice Van Houten--Black Book
2. Tang We--Lust, Caution
3. Angelina Jolie--A Mighty Heart
4. Ellen Page--Juno
5. Keira Knightley--Atonement

SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Javier Bardem--No Country for Old Men
2. Brad Pitt--The Assassination of Jesse James...
3. Robert Downey, Jr.--Zodiac
4. Hal Holbrook--Into the Wild
5. Paul Dano--There Will Be Blood

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Amy Ryan--Gone Baby Gone
2. Cate Blanchett--I'm Not There
3. Leslie Mann--Knocked Up
4. Kelly MacDonald--No Country for Old Men
5. Tilda Swindon--Michael Clayton

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. The Lives of Others--Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
2. Judd Apatow--Knocked Up
3. Brad Bird--Ratatouille
4. Stephen Knight--Eastern Promises
5. Wes Anderson/Jason Schwartzman/Roman Coppola--The Darjeeling Limited

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1. Joel & Ethan Coen--No Country For Old Men
2. Paul Thomas Anderson--There Will Be Blood
3. Francis Coppola--Youth Without Youth
4. Christopher Hampton--Atonement
5. Sean Penn--Into the Wild

CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. Roger Deakins--The Assasination of Jesse James...
2. Robert Elswit--There Will Be Blood
3. Ed Lachman--I'm Not There
4. Rodrigo Prieto--Lust, Caution
5. Harris Savides--Zodiac

EDITING
1. Roderick Jaynes--No Country For Old Men
2. Jay Rabinowitz--I'm Not There
3. Sally Menke--Death Proof
4. Dylan Tichenor--There Will Be Blood
5. Chris Dickens--Hot Fuzz

ART DIRECTION
1. Jack Fisk--There Will Be Blood
2. Mark Friedberg--The Darjeeling Limited
3. Patricia Norris--The Assassination of Jesse James
4. Mark Friedberg--Across the Universe
5. Dante Ferretti--Sweeney Todd

SCORE
1. Jonny Greenwood--There Will Be Blood
2. Michael Giacchino--Ratatouille
3. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis--The Assassination of Jesse James...
4. Dario Marianelli--Atonement
5. Osvaldo Golijov--Youth Without Youth

COSTUMES
1. Patricia Norris--The Assassination of Jesse James...
2. Lai Pan--Lust, Caution
3. Colleen Atwood--Sweeney Todd
4. Albert Wolsky--Across the Universe
5. Jacquenline Durran--Atonement

 

[lazarus]

(you can just put the film titles down if you don't know the names of the tech people!)

 

[Lancemc]

Still waiting to see Diving Bell and maybe Michael Clayton if I get the chance before I submit my final list.

And The Lives of Others was surely a 2006 film...

 

[lazarus]

When the hell did you see it? End-of-the-year foreign releases are barely seen by anyone.

If I'm not mistaken, it was submitted for foreign language but wasn't actually released here until 2007.

From IMDB:

Opening Weekend
$213,589 (USA) (11 February 2007) (9 Screens)
£223,586 (UK) (15 April 2007) (64 Screens)
€814,337 (Germany) (26 March 2006) (159 Screens)
€316,698 (Italy) (8 April 2007) (111 Screens)
€123,316 (Netherlands) (4 March 2007) (22 Screens)



Bite me.