Awards Season 2009

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It varies between scenes and extended sequences, but I'll throw mine out early then:

Col. Landa at the LaPadite Farm from Inglourious Basterds
The Goy’s Teeth from A Serious Man
The Gang Meets The Awesome Cameo from Zombieland
Ryan Meets Alex from Up in the Air
The Origin of Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen
Black Dynamite storms the island and The White House from Black Dynamite
Carl/Ellie’s Montage from Up
The Narada attacks the Kelvin from Star Trek
The Na’vi/Sky People Battle from Avatar
Tom Dances to Hall & Oates from 500 Days of Summer

I should add a scene from The Lovely Bones on there, but there are just too many too choose from.
 
Col. Landa at the LaPadite Farm from Inglourious Basterds

This is definitely tops for me as well.

And very high on my Top Scenes for the decade too. I'd like to save this stuff for the Year-end thread, whenever we get around to it, but I'll do the scenes now at least since you threw yours out there.

Others this year:
Ponyo causing the tsunami, running after Sosuke - Ponyo
Jake and Neytiri vs. Quaritch, in the shack following - Avatar
Final scene, Billie and The LANG! - Public Enemies
Fanny's first letter from Keats - Bright Star
"Almost There" - The Princess and the Frog
Dr. Manhattan Origin - Watchmen
Larry visits sexy neighbor - A Serious Man
Dillinger's death - Public Enemies
"Do fish have dreams?", aquarium - Bad Lieutenant

And I seriously couldn't pick a single scene out of Black Dynamite above the others, even if I wanted to. I was just laughing my ass off non-stop.

Also, I know why you picked that part from Up, but I think at least for the decade list we should specify, no montages, series of fragmented moments, etc. Ditto for the extended sequences like the Avatar battle.
 
Solid list, and I agree with the extended sequence thing. I'd probably put the Nigga Elk scene from Bad Lieutenant on mine if I had to sub one in.

God, I spent hours compiling a 100-film deep list on a Facebook note, I'll throw out the 25. I'm not sure of The Talking Cure or True Grit will be 2010 releases, but they'll stay on here until I hear otherwise:

1. Inception (Dir. Christopher Nolan)
+ Leo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Cillian Murphy
2. Shutter Island (Dir. Martin Scorsese)
+ Leo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams, Ben Kingsley
3. The Tree of Life (Dir. Terrence Malick)
+ Sean Penn, Brad Pitt
4. True Grit (Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)
+ Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin
5. Your Highness (Dir. David Gordon Green)
+ Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel
6. Kick-Ass (Dir. Matthew Vaughn)
+ Aaron Johnson, McLovin', Nicolas Cage
7. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (Dir. Woody Allen)
+ Naomi Watts, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Brolin, Antonio Banderas
8. Toy Story 3 (Dir. Lee Unkrich)
+ Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Michael Keaton
9. The Talking Cure (Dir. David Cronenberg)
+ Michael Fassbender, Christoph Waltz, Keira Knightley
10. Black Swan (Dir. Darren Aronofsky)
+ Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel
11. Paul (Dir. Greg Mottola)
+ Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jason Bateman
12. Iron Man 2 (Dir. Jon Favreau)
+ Robert Downey Jr., Mickey Rourke, Don Cheadle, Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson
13. The Ward (Dir. John Carpenter)
14. The Social Network (Dir. David Fincher)
+ Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Rashida Jones
15. Due Date (Dir. Todd Phillips)
+ Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifiankis, Michelle Monaghan, Jamie Foxx
16. Howl (Dir. Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman)
+ James Franco, Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker
17. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Dir. Edgar Wright)
+ Michael Cera, Anna Kendrick, Jason Schwartzman, Brandon Routh
18. The Other Guys (Dir. Adam McKay)
+ Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Sam Jackson, Michael Keaton
19. Red (Dir. Robert Schwentke)
+ Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker, John C. Reilly
20. The Rum Diary (Dir. Bruce Robinson)
+ Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Richard Jenkins
21. Tron Legacy (Dir. Joseph Kosinski)
+ Jeff Bridges, Michael Sheen
22. The Green Hornet (Dir. Michel Gondry)
+ Seth Rogen, Christoph Waltz, Cameron Diaz, Edward James Olmos
23. Solitary Man (Dir. Brian Koppelman & David Levien)
+ Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito, Susan Sarandon, Jesse Eisenberg
24. The Town (Dir. Ben Affleck)
+ Casey Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Chris Cooper
25. The Expendables (Dir. Sly Stallone)
+ Sly Stallone, Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Jet Li

This really deserves its own thread.
 
You little bastard. Now I know who does the big secret cameo in Zombieland. But you brought to my attention something I didn't realize before, that Michael Keaton will be gettin' nuts in Toy Story 3. So you somewhat redeemed yourself.

Also, a friend of mine who was lucky enough to attend this year's BNAT said Shutter Island was the tits.
 
It's cool. If anything, it makes me want to see it more. You know how much I love that guy.
 
Okay, cool. I found out about it months beforehand and still loved the shit out of that scene. It's pitch-perfect.
 
Check out the PGA nominees:

Picture:
Avatar
District 9
(!!!)
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Precious

Star Trek (!!!)
Up
Up in the Air


Animated Film:
9
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
Up
 
^^^ This.

Who gives a fuck about producers. These people are fools.

(except for when they awarded The Aviator over Million Dollar Baby)
 
I guess, though I'll be VERY surprised if either Star Trek or D9 make it in.

It's more about "successful" productions (usually financially) than any kind of artistic accomplishment. Which is why you don't see A Serious Man on there. A film that sadly hasn't even cracked $10 million in the U.S.

Anti-semites.
 
I'd be surprised, too, but I'd rather those two make it over Precious and Invictus, that's for sure.

Focus really dropped the ball on rolling out A Serious Man. It only played in my local indie theater for about 2 weeks in Tallahassee, and about 3 in Orlando, then disappeared. It's a hard movie to market, I guess, but just say it's a Coens movie and put it out on 2000 screens.
 
I asked for my money back at the end of "A Serious Man". When the woman at the counter asked why I was displeased with the movie, I told her it was false advertising. There was absolutely no magic in the film. She asked why I thought there was going to be magic and I said "jew magic, of course."
 
I'd be surprised, too, but I'd rather those two make it over Precious and Invictus, that's for sure.

Focus really dropped the ball on rolling out A Serious Man. It only played in my local indie theater for about 2 weeks in Tallahassee, and about 3 in Orlando, then disappeared. It's a hard movie to market, I guess, but just say it's a Coens movie and put it out on 2000 screens.


Yeah, "from the makers of The Big Lebowski, O' Brother Where Art Thou, and No Country For Old Men" should be all they needed to say to get asses in the seats. Should have been a wide release.
 
Exactly. It's not like their films have ever done gangbusters, but $10 mil is pathetic. No amount of jew magic could make that acceptable.

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‘Avatar,’ ‘Star Trek’ lead the way with MPSE

MOTION PICTURE SOUND EDITORS

Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Music, Dialogue and ADR Animation in a Feature Film
“9”
“Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs”
“Coraline”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“Monsters vs. Aliens”
“The Princess and the Frog”
“Up”

Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR in a Foreign Feature Film
“An Education”
“The Baader Meinhof Complex”
“Coco Before Chanel”
“District 9”
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
“Red Cliff”

Best Sound Editing: Music in a Feature Film
“2012”
“(500) Days of Summer”
“An Education”
“Avatar”
“The Informant!”
“It’s Complicated”
“Sherlock Holmes”
“Star Trek”

Best Sound Editing: Music in a Musical Feature Film
“Crazy Heart”
“Every Little Step”
“Nine”
“Michael Jackson’s This Is It”

Best Sound Editing: Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film
“(500) Days of Summer”
“A Serious Man”
“Avatar”
“G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglorious Basterds”
“Star Trek”
“The Stoning of Soraya M.”

Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film
“2012”
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglorious Basterds”
“Push”
“Star Trek”
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
“Watchmen”


I just put my personal picks in bold. Though hopefully the actual winners aren't too far off that.
 
I'd be rooting for Mr. Fox over Up in this case as well, seeing how Anderson went about recording the voices in natural environments and working some of those elements into the animation.

Sound design is an area I'd like to learn about more in-depth, and I never feel qualified enough to make solid enough judgments on how they're employed in a film. All I can say is that it was one of the elements of Thirst that floored me.
 
I'd be rooting for Mr. Fox over Up in this case as well, seeing how Anderson went about recording the voices in natural environments and working some of those elements into the animation.

Sound design is an area I'd like to learn about more in-depth, and I never feel qualified enough to make solid enough judgments on how they're employed in a film. All I can say is that it was one of the elements of Thirst that floored me.

If I were judging the animated films purely on ADR and voice-work then yeah, I'd be inclined to agree with you. Pixar really does just have the most talented people in the field working for them though it seems, and it's the one area I'll continue to give them consistent credit.

Thirst had lovely sound work, I agree, but again this is one area where I have to bow down to one of the year's favorites. The Hurt Locker totally walks away with the whole package this time around. Really impressed by the film's blend of realism and subjective expressive sound work. Good shit. I'm still waiting to see Avatar a second time though, since that seems to be the favorite in most technical fields including sound editing.
 
Oh, absolutely.

Hard to disagree with that. I'm surprised to not see District 9 on any list.
 
the only thing that is wide open is what the 10 nominees will be.

If I had to handicap the winner?

here is my run down.

1. The Hurt Locker

2. Avatar

3. Inglourious Basterds

4. Up in the Air


the other 6 nominees? :hmm:

my guesses?

Up

Precious

Invictus

A Serious Man

An Education


well that's 9

number 10 could be District 9, or Mr. Fox, or Blind Side

with this year 10 nominees are too many,
7 might have been a better number.
 
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