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This probably just goes to show the level of my geekhood and the ease with which I can please myself, but every year since I got into film, I like to make up my own award nominations. I'll add everyone whom I thought was worthy of mentioning, whether they ever had a chance in hell of getting an Oscar nod or not. Sometimes I would use both the Oscar categories and the MTV Movie Award ones. Occassionally I would make up my own, just because I wanted to acknowledge my own favorites and not what everyone else generally liked. It really did make me feel better afterwards. I may just be one person, but dammit, some people need more recognition! Even if it only ends up being in my notebook. :mrgreen:

So hey, what are your picks? Feel free to edit as you see more 2004 releases. I know I will be.


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For ideas...

All films released theatrically (in North America, at least) in 2004

Academy Awards categories:

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Achievement in Directing
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Best Achievement in Art Direction
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Best Achievement in Sound
Best Achievement in Editing
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Best Achievement in Makeup
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures Original Song
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Best Short Film, Animated
Best Short Film, Live Action
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Best Documentary, Features
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Honorary Award
Award of Commendation
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Academy Award of Merit:
Scientific and Engineering Award
Technical Achievement Award
Gordon E. Sawyer Award

MTV Movie Awards categories:

Best Dance Sequence
Best Fight
Breakthrough Female Performance
Best Comedic Performance
Best Action Sequence
Breakthrough Male Performance
Best Kiss
Best Villain
Best On-Screen Team
Best Musical Sequence
Best Music Moment
Best Movie Song
Best New Filmmaker
Best Cameo
Best Line
Best Dressed
Best Dance Sequence
Lifetime Achievement (Given to people like Clint Howard, The Three Stooges, and Chewbacca, if that indicates the spirit in which it is awarded.)
Best Sandwich in a Movie (*shrugs* This one-time category was before my time. lol)
Most Desirable Male
Most Desirable Female

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I like movie lists. Thanks for obliging me. :cheers




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[Note: work in progress!]




Best Picture

King Arthur
Hero
The Passion of the Christ
The Aviator
Garden State
The Dreamers

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Clive Owen - King Arthur
Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator
Eric Bana - Troy
James Caveizel - The Passion of the Christ
Zack Braff - Garden State
Michael Pitt - The Dreamers

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Maggie Cheung - Hero
Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
Reese Witherspoon - Vanity Fair
Uma Thurman - Kill Bill Vol. 2
chick from The Dreamers

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Tony something - Hero
the emperor guy - Hero
Freddie Highmore - Finding Neverland
Gerard Butler - Phantom of the Opera
Peter O'Toole - Troy

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Cate Blanchett - The Aviator
Eileen Atkins - Vanity Fair
Liv Tyler - Jersey Girl

Best Achievement in Directing
Hero
pervy guy - The Dreamers

Best Writing, Screenplay (I don't really feel like reasearching and debating which are original works and which are based on previous material, so if you want to go ahead and mush these together, feel free to nominate at least ten - if not more, of course!)

The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Team America: World Police
Vanity Fair
Garden State
The Dreamers

Best Achievement in Cinematography

The Aviator

Best Achievement in Art Direction

Troy
Vanity Fair
Team America: World Police

Best Achievement in Costume Design

Troy
King Arthur
Phantom of the Opera
The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Vanity Fair

Best Achievement in Sound

King Arthur
The Aviator
The Passion of the Christ

Best Achievement in Editing

The Passion of the Christ
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

I, Robot
The Day After Tomorrow
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Achievement in Makeup

Phantom of the Opera
The Passion of the Christ

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures Original Song

"Learn To Be Lonely" - Phantom of the Opera
All the songs from Team America: World Police, but for now, let's just specify "America - Fuck Yeah!".
- Polar Express (I think there were two different songs on there, but I'll double check)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

Phantom of the Opera
Polar Express
Garden State

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

The Passion of the Christ
Hero




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Jeez, you sure did like Hero, huh *E*. I saw it this past Saturday. Interesting film, but I think the part with the arrows was so unbelievable it totally threw me off the story. Also, I'm not all that interested in art fighting which was most of the movie. It was visually pleasing. The use of silks was nice, but then again, used too much maybe?

I'm sooo not a movie critic. I just can't do this.

I think I'd have to put it at the top of my all-time film list, Eru. Perhaps I like LOTR or THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION more, but HERO was flawless. I can't think of a single aspect (performances, directorial decisions, or out-of-place hair strands) that wasn't astonishingly gorgeous and well-done. Had a very strong reaction to it upon my first viewing, and have only grown to find more and more about it that registers with me.

The action scenes aren't supposed to be realistic. Just pretty. But I totally feel you on any reservations you had about the gravity-defying fights because the few minutes of CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON I saw were ridiculous. Until I see that one in full, I can't compare these two other than on things I learn about it in basic photo galleries and plot summaries, but if anything, HERO rocks my world for it's beautiful color palette. It was so purty. And the music really spoke to me as well, which doesn't happen much (especially in foreign scores because they are just so different from anything I've usually heard before).

Still got more categories to stick HERO into. I've had a busy day and there were other things to think about - like taking my family out to our local club, the Opera House, and then to see PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, which just started playing at the cinema. *pats self on back* I did good today.

Silly billy - this involves no critiqueing, so don't worry about not being a movie critic. I sure am not. Just have aspirations to be. But you should see my reviews - they're all about movies with titles like KILLER CONDOM, or JESUS CHRIST VAMPIRE HUNTER, and I simply take the piss out of them for a few paragraphs. I could never make it onto the printed page.

You know what? One thing I can say about trying to pinpoint what you did or didn't like about a movie is this: the more you watch, the more epiphanies you have. There are a lot of movies that I remember for having opened my eyes to some aspect of filmmaking and not that they were the best I'd ever seen, just something clicked when I watched them. For example - QUILLS was the first time that I realized period costumes could still be excellent even if the lower classes were more predominant in the film (obviously, costumes are more pleasing to the eye when you got the richest materials available). After that, I was much less harsh on what I deemed "ugly" costumes, and started to appreciate them for what they were, rather than why they weren't pretty enough for me. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE was the first film that showed me black and white photography could be just as beautiful as color, and even add a lot to the story itself.

I still have a lot of trouble forming opinions on movies because the words just aren't there to describe what exactly I did or didn't like about it (and usually I'm just lukewarm - which is why I go for sarcasm cuz at least I can always keep that coming), but I think that the more you watch, the more you learn, and you start to see trends and learn what you like and what you find cliched and what you feel is irredeemable.

HERO had lots of silks so that the big ol' costumes would look great when the wind machine was turned on. :mrgreen: See? I get what you mean. (Or maybe I don't, but still, don't say you're not a movie critic - everyone's a critic, remember?)




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My list, I'll edit it more as I see more (going to see Finding Neverland and something else I've been putting off this weekend)

Academy Awards categories:

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Spanglish
Napolean Dynamite

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Jim Carrey - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Kurt Russel - Miracle

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Emmy Rossum - Phantom of the Opera

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
James Garner - The Notebook (some might call this a leading role, not sure)
Jason Lee - The Incredibles

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Cloris Leachman - Spanglish

Best Achievement in Directing
Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill vol. 2

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
The Life Aquatic

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban

MTV Movie Awards categories:

Best Fight
Spiderman vs. Doc Oc on the Skyscraper - Spiderman 2

Breakthrough Female Performance
Emmy Rossum - Phantom of the Opera

Best Villain
The Phantom

Best Cameo
Bruce Campbell - Spiderman 2

Best Sandwich in a Movie (*shrugs* This one-time category was before my time. lol)
The ones on the credits of Napoleon Dynamite

Most Desirable Male
I'll let the ladies decide...

Most Desirable Female
The list of my nominations for this category would be oh so long... so I'll just pick one...
Sarah Michelle Gellar - Scooby Doo 2 :mrgreen:

halplm wrote:

Best Cameo
Bruce Campbell - Spiderman 2

He had a cameo? Where?

Played "Snooty Usher" apparently.




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Yeah, he was the guy that wouldn't let Peter in to see MJ's play, it was very close to the beginning.

Not as dynamic as his cameo in the first film, where he was the wrestling announcer (I think)... but it was a better fit for him I think.

*E*, I can't believe King Arthur is one of your top films and Phantom isn't. I found King Arthur to be at best a very mediocre action film, and Troy, which we watched the week before, superior in every way.

It would be a bit pointless for me to do a list. I've not seen that many films this year and Phantom would totally dominate.

Lol! No, no, its there. I just haven't added it yet. I really should get around to that before anyone panics. See, I was trying to add my picks by film first, and then I got distracted, and then I just started adding what came to mind as I got to each category.

Phantom is most DEFINITELY there. Were HERO not released in this year, it'd be my winner, no doubt. Just a preview (cuz I never really shared my feelings on the movie yet) - I was overwhelmed during most of it's running length, but I got a little punchy when Phantom or Christine weren't onscreen (no offense to the others, they just weren't as powerful as the leads). However, I was able to see it again on Wednesday and Thursday night, and now I love everything about it. The non-Phantom or Christine people are very funny or well-acted, so I wasn't shifting around during their scenes at all the last two times.

Phantom: #2 film of the year, not far behind HERO, and will only get better over time. :cheers




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*breathes sigh of relief* :mrgreen:

By the way, I really liked Hero too. Not quite as much as Crouching Tiger, but probably my 2nd fave film of this year behind Phantom. Now I just need to see House of Flying Daggers.

Best Picture

Sideways
Eternal State of the Sunshine Mind
Vera Drake
Before Sunset
2046
The Incredibles
Spiderman 2
Kill Bill 2
The Aviator

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Jamie Foxx - Ray
Paul Giamatti – Sideways
Jim Carrey – Eternal State of the Sunshine Mind
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator
Ethan Hawke – Before Sunset
Javier Bardem – The Sea Inside

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Imelda Staunton – Vera Drake
Kate Winslet – Eternal State of the Sunshine Mind
Uma Thurman - Kill Bill Vol. 2
Hilary Swank – Million Dollar Baby
Julie Delphy – Before Sunset

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Jamie Foxx – Collaterial
Thomas Hayden Church - Sideways
David Carradine - Kill Bill 2

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Cate Blanchett - The Aviator
Natalie Portman – Closer
Jodie Foster – A Very Long Engagement

Best Achievement in Directing

Alexander Payne – Sideways
Michael Gondry – Eternal State of the Sunshine Mind
Martin Scorcese – The Aviator
Wong Kai Wai – 2046
Mike Leigh – Vera Drake
Sam Raimi – Spiderman 2
Quentin Tarrantino - Kill Bill 2

Best Writing, Screenplay (I don't really feel like reasearching and debating which are original works and which are based on previous material, so if you want to go ahead and mush these together, feel free to nominate at least ten - if not more, of course!)

Sideways
Eternal State of the Sunshine Mind
Vera Drake
Before Sunset
The Incredibles
The Sea Inside
Kill Bill 2

Best Achievement in Cinematography

Collaterial
The Aviator
A Very Long Engagement
2046
Eternal State of the Sunshine Mind
Vera Drake

Best Achievement in Art Direction

The Aviator
A Very Long Engagement
2046
Eternal State of the Sunshine Mind
Vera Drake

Best Achievement in Costume Design

The Aviator
A Very Long Engagement
2046
Spiderman 2

Best Achievement in Sound

The Aviator
A Very Long Engagement
Collaterial
The Incredibles
Spiderman 2

Best Achievement in Editing

Collaterial
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A Very Long engagement

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

The Aviator
A Very Long Engagement
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Spiderman 2

Best Achievement in Makeup

A Very Long Engagement
Spiderman 2
The Aviator

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

Ray
Sideways
Eternal State of the Sunshine Mind
The Incredibles
Kill Bill 2

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

The Sea Inside
The Return
2046