Fantaverse Society of Film Critics Awards 2008

I'm in.

It's time people. Your chance to nominate the best & worst movies of 2008!

I will be handling the Best Awards categories, while Buscemi will take control of the Worst Awards categories.

So as soon as you have finalised your list please either PM or e-mail me at:

Spoiler:

You will be voting on the following awards (Send To Me):

Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Actress in a Supporting
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Cast
Best Screenplay
Breakthrough Performance

(Send to Buscemi)
Worst Picture
Worst Actor
Worst Actress
Worst Supporting Actor
Worst Supporting Actress
Worst Director
Worst Screenplay
Worst Screen Teaming
Worst Film To Make Over $100 Million At The US Box Office
Worst Sequel or Remake
Worst Adaptation

1st round of voting: everyone nominates a maximum of 5 in each category.

I hope people only send in nominations on films they have actually seen, and not based on a film's reputation. I don't want this to turn into anything like the Oscars, otherwise why do it?

I will only be posting on what I have seen, I'm sure the field will be very different to the Academy's. Same goes for the worst too. Don't just nominate Uwe Boll based on reputation, only if you have actually seen his turds.

Don't just nominate Uwe Boll based on reputation, only if you have actually seen his turds.

Exactly

Okay, I've drafted mine up, but until I've seen Revolutionary Road tonight and Slumdog when it is released in a couple of weeks, I'm gonna hold back. Interesting additions I noticed when doing it though, and I did struggle in a couple of categories as I didn't realise, despite probably seeing 25-30 movies in the cinema last year, that some categories were not very well represented.

I will, more than likely, not send a list until the very end of the first voting period -- giving me time to see Slumdog, Frost/Nixon, Revolutionary Road, and others first. I'm not assuming that they will be on my lists, but they are simply more 2008 films that I have the opportunity to give consideration to.

I'd like to add my votes, if possible?

no problem, 6.

I'll send mine in later this week if possible. I still haven't seen The Wrestler and Slumdog, but i will watch them sometime in the next couple of days.

LOL nevemrind, I'll send it in real soon!!

I don't think there is a limit on how many people vote, I think Shaan just wanted enough in the first place to make it a decent spectrum of nominations.

Exactly right Surfer.

Barca: That totally cool, the deadline for nomination is 5th of Feb, so you have plenty of time.

The following people I have received nominations from:
Keyser
Trans
Geezer
Shryke
JackO

Schedule
Jan 22nd – Feb 5th – 1st round of voting
Nominees Announced Feb 8th
Feb 8th – Feb 16th – 2nd round of voting
Awards Show Feb 20th

I just have a quick question, and I probably should have asked before. In regards to the nominating process, does each film or person we nominate for a category only count once? Because that's how I did it, I didn't rank them 1-5, assuming each had an equal vote. If each got more votes based on where in the category we rank them, I would have to re-do my list.

For Example, is it like this:

Best Picture:
The Dark Knight (5)
The Wrestler (4)
Tropic Thunder (3)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2)
Cloverfield (1)

or, how I did mine:

Best Picture:
The Dark Knight (1)
The Wrestler (1)
Tropic Thunder (1)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1)
Cloverfield (1)

It would work either way, that's why I ask. Just need a clarification.

Good question geezer. I didn't order my list but can easily do it if needed.

They each only count once, so the way you did it was just fine.

Is it too late to sign up to vote?
Just came across it today.

It won't be too late until February 5th. Welcome aboard!

Nope its not too late, Jas, just send me your nominations by Feb 5th.

should we keep Best Picture nominees and Best Foreign Language nominees exclusive from each other?

I need more entries for the Worst series. I've only gotten one so far and it wasn't even complete.

i'm just posting this here to get organized--and to put my ideas out there, so we can brainstorm a bit on this.. it's not final--i'll be updating this up to the deadline.... i went ahead and separated my Best Foreign Language noms from my Best Picture noms--but i haven't heard a consensus concerning this

TENTATIVE

Best Picture
Burn After Reading
Iron Man
Role Models
Step Brothers
The Dark Knight

Best Director
Andrew Stanton (Wall-E)
Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight)
Joel and Ethan Coen (Burn After Reading)
Jon Favreau (Iron Man)
Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In)

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Daniel Craig (Quantum of Solace)
Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones and the Whatever)
Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man)
Tim Roth (Funny Games)

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Frances McDormand (Burn After Reading)
Georgie Henley (Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian)
Naomi Watts (Funny Games)
Tina Fey (Baby Mama)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight)
Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight)
Michael Caine (The Dark Knight)
Michael Kelly (Changeling)
Richard Jenkins (Burn After Reading)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Gwyneth Paltrow (Iron Man)
Karen Allen (Indiana Jones and the Whatever)
Mary Steenburgen (Step Brothers)

Best Foreign Language Film
Let the Right One In

Best Cast
Be Kind Rewind
Iron Man
Role Models
Step Brothers
The Dark Knight

Best Screenplay
Be Kind Rewind
Burn After Reading
Let the Right One In
The Dark Knight
WALL-E

Breakthrough Performance
Bobb'e J. Thompson (Role Models)
Danny McBride (The Foot-Fist Way)
David Bruckner (Segment 1 of The Signal)
Jay Baruchel (Tropic Thunder)
The Lone Penguin (Encounters at the End of the World)

TENTATIVE

You really consider Heath Ledger to be in a leading role? I don't see how.

This list is VERY tenative. I still haven't seen a number of the big films (though I may see The Reader tomorrow and Benjamin Button on Monday).

Best Picture
Wall-E
Man On Wire
Under The Same Moon
Milk
Gran Torino

Best Director
Sergei Bodrov, Mongol
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino
Andrew Stanton, Wall-E
Gus Van Sant, Milk

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Greg Kinnear, Flash Of Genius
Sean Penn, Milk
Wall-E, Wall-E

Best Actress in a Leading Role
EVE, Wall-E
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Meryl Streep, Mamma Mia!

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
James Franco, Milk
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Viola Davis, Doubt (she needed more scenes in this one)
Sophie Okenedo, The Secret Life Of Bees

Best Foreign Language Film
JCVD (France/Belgium/Germany)
Mongol (Russia/Mongolia)
Roman de Gare (France)
Tell No One (France)
Under The Same Moon (Mexico/USA)

Best Cast
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E

Best Screenplay
The Dark Knight
Gran Torino
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E

Breakthrough Performance
Adrian Alonso, Under The Same Moon
EVE, Wall-E
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E, Wall-E
(if Wall-E and EVE aren't eligible, then include Asa Butterworth, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas and Bill Milner, Son Of Rambow)