Fantaverse Society of Film Critics Awards 2008 (Run-Offs)

Well it was inevitable that there were going to be ties in some categories, so here is the Run-Off ballot.

Best Director (vote for one)
Gus Van Sant – Milk
Andrew Stanton - Wall-E

Best Actor in a Leading Role (vote for one)
Leonardo DiCaprio - Revolutionary Road
Robert Downey Jr. - Iron Man

Best Actress in a Leading Role (vote for one)
Sally Hawkins- Happy-Go-Lucky
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (vote for one)
Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire
Aaron Eckhart- The Dark Knight
Tom Cruise- Tropic Thunder
Phillip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
Ralph Fiennes - In Bruges

Best Actress in a Supporting Role (vote for one)
Amy Adams – Doubt
Evan Rachel Wood- The Wrestler

Best Foreign Language Film (vote for up to two)
Waltz With Bashir
Under the Same Moon
Tell No One
Mongol


Best Cast (vote for one)
Frost/Nixon
Iron Man
Doubt
Slumdog millionaire

Breakthrough Performance (vote for up to three)
Lina Leandersson – Let the Right One In
Evan Rachel Wood- The Wrestler
Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Sally Hawkins- Happy-Go-Lucky
James Franco - Milk

Again you don't have to vote in each category, just the ones that apply to you. The deadline for submissions is 00:00 PST on Sunday. (If the deadline needs to be extended then that can be done).

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Spoiler:

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

Best Director
Andrew Stanton - Wall-E for the best animate movie in the year

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Leonardo DiCaprio - Revolutionary Road for his brilliant acting

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Phillip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt for being the abusive preist none done it better

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams – Doubt since the other one suck

Best Cast
Doubt for it most nominate cast in this year

Breakthrough Performance
Lina Leandersson – Let the Right One In for being the best foregin movie of this year
James Franco - Milk for being in awsome year with milk and pinapple express

Best Director (vote for one)
Gus Van Sant – Milk


Best Actor in a Leading Role (vote for one)
Leonardo DiCaprio - Revolutionary Road


Best Actress in a Leading Role (vote for one)
Sally Hawkins- Happy-Go-Lucky


Best Actor in a Supporting Role (vote for one)
Phillip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt


Best Actress in a Supporting Role (vote for one)
Amy Adams – Doubt


Best Foreign Language Film (vote for up to two)
Waltz With Bashir
Mongol

Best Cast (vote for one)
Frost/Nixon


Breakthrough Performance (vote for up to three)
Lina Leandersson – Let the Right One In
Sally Hawkins- Happy-Go-Lucky

Mongol shouldn't count should it? It was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film last year!

I'm only voting in five categories here.

Best Director:
Gus Van Sant

Best Supporting Actor:
Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams

Best Cast:
Doubt

Breakthrough Performance:
Taraji P Henson

Mongol was released in the US 6 June 2008 (limited), before that it appeared in various film festivals. I actually don't understand why it was nominated last year for Best Foreign Language Film.

I'll investigate, but my working theory is the much more rigorous nomination process for the Foreign Language films. They've got to win the nomination in their country first and then the country's National Film board submits it for Oscar consideration. A lot of the Foreign language films play domestically or, as you say, on the Festival circuit to slowly build buzz before getting domestic release. Anyway, I'll see if I can find the Academy's guidelines.

Here's what I found at the undisputable fountain of truth and knowledge we like to call Wikipedia, *lol*

(Regarding eligibility):

"Unlike other Academy Awards, the Foreign Language Film Award does not require films to be released in the United States in order to be eligible for competition. Films competing in the Foreign Language Film category must have been first released in the country submitting them during the eligibility period defined by the rules of the Academy, and must have been exhibited for at least seven consecutive days in a commercial movie theater.[1] The eligibility period for the Foreign Language Film category differs from that required for most other categories: the awards year defined for the Foreign Language Film category usually begins and ends before the ordinary awards year, which corresponds to an exact calendar year. For the 80th Academy Awards, for instance, the release deadline for the Foreign Language Film category has been set on September 30, 2007, whereas the qualifying run for most other categories extends till December 31, 2007.[4]

Although the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is commonly referred to simply as the Foreign Film Oscar in newspaper articles and on the Internet,[5] such a designation is misleading, since a film's nationality matters much less than its language. Although a film has to be "foreign" (i.e. non-American) in order to be nominated for the Award, it also has to be in a language other than English. Foreign films where the majority of the dialogue is in English cannot qualify for the Foreign Language Film Award, and the Academy has usually applied this requirement very seriously by disqualifying films containing too much English dialogue, the most recent case being that of the Israeli film The Band's Visit (2007).[6] Despite the basic importance of the "foreign language" requirement, a completely dialogueless film such as Le Bal (1983) was still able to get nominated in the Foreign Language Film category.[7]

Another disqualifying factor is a film's television or Internet transmission prior to its theatrical release, hence the Academy's rejection of the Dutch film Bluebird (2004).[8] A film may also be refused if its submitting country has exercised insufficient artistic control over it. Several films have been declared ineligible by the Academy for the latter reason, the most recent of which is Lust, Caution (2007), Taiwan's entry for the 80th Academy Awards.[9] The disqualifications, however, generally take place in the pre-nomination stage, with the exception of A Place in the World (1992), Uruguay's entry for the 65th Academy Awards, which was disqualified because of insufficient Uruguayan artistic control after having secured a nomination. It is the only film so far to have been declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot after having been nominated for the Foreign Language Film Award.

Since the 2006 (79th) Academy Awards, submitted films no longer have to be in an official language of the submitting country.[10] This requirement had previously prevented countries from submitting films where the majority of the dialogue was spoken in a language that was non-native to the submitting country, and the Academy's executive director explicitly cited as a reason for the rule change the case of the Italian film Private (2004), which was disqualified simply because its main spoken languages were Arabic and Hebrew, neither of which are indigenous languages of Italy.[11] This rule change enabled a country like Canada to receive a nomination for a Hindi-language film, Water. Previously, Canada had been nominated for French-language films only, since films shot in Canada's other official language (English) were ineligible for consideration for the Foreign Language Film category. The rule change, however, did not affect the eligibility of non-English speaking American films, which are still disqualified from the Foreign Language Film category due to their nationality. Because of this, a Japanese-language film like Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) or a Mayan-language film like Apocalypto (2006) were unable to compete for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, even though they were both nominated for (and, in the case of Letters from Iwo Jima, won) the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, which does not have similar nationality restrictions.[12]

Although all films produced inside the United States are ineligible for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film regardless of the language of their dialogue track, those produced in U.S. overseas possessions are not. Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States, is therefore able to submit films to the Academy, and even received a nomination for Santiago, the Story of his New Life (1989). Since Puerto Ricans have had American citizenship since 1917, the overwhelming majority of the latter film’s cast and crew were thus American citizens. This resulted in a rather uncommon situation, whereby a film was nominated for the Foreign Language Film Award despite most of the people involved in its production being American."

IGNORE

What? Mongol opened in June 2008, therefore it should be eligible. Also under that rule, Let The Right One In (opened October 24th) and Waltz With Bashir (opened December 25th) are ineligible.

Damn foreign Films causing all these bloody problems!

If the Film was released in the US between January 1 2008 to midnight at the end of December 31 2008 it is valid anything else is not.

So The Orphanage is out and Mongol is back in.

correct

Best Director (vote for one)
Andrew Stanton - Wall-E

Best Actor in a Leading Role (vote for one)
Robert Downey Jr. - Iron Man

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (vote for one)
Aaron Eckhart- The Dark Knight

Best Foreign Language Film (vote for up to two)
Waltz With Bashir

Best Cast (vote for one)
Iron Man

Breakthrough Performance (vote for up to three)
Lina Leandersson – Let the Right One In

Best Actor
Robert Downey Jr.Iron Man

Best Supporting Actress
Evan Rachel Wood The Wrestler

Best Cast
Iron Man

Best Director (vote for one)
Andrew Stanton - Wall-E

Best Actor in a Leading Role (vote for one)
Robert Downey Jr. - Iron Man

Best Actress in a Leading Role (vote for one)
No answer


Best Actor in a Supporting Role (vote for one)
Tom Cruise- Tropic Thunder



Best Actress in a Supporting Role (vote for one)
Evan Rachel Wood- The Wrestler

Best Foreign Language Film (vote for up to two)
No answer


Best Cast (vote for one)
Iron Man

Breakthrough Performance (vote for up to three)
Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Evan FRachel Wood- The Wrestler

I added Evan Rachel Wood to my breakthrough list. Didn't read that we could vote for up to 3.

Best Director (vote for one)
Gus Van Sant – Milk

Best Actor in a Leading Role (vote for one)
Leonardo DiCaprio - Revolutionary Road

Best Actress in a Leading Role (vote for one)
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (vote for one)
Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actress in a Supporting Role (vote for one)
Amy Adams – Doubt

Best Cast (vote for one)
Doubt

Breakthrough Performance (vote for up to three)
Evan Rachel Wood- The Wrestler
Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Director
Andrew Stanton - Wall-E

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Robert Downey Jr. - Iron Man

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Sally Hawkins- Happy-Go-Lucky

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Aaron Eckhart- The Dark Knight

Best Cast
Iron Man

Breakthrough Performance
Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Edit: after re-checking the best cast votes Slumdog millionaire is added to the run off.

Best Director (vote for one)
Andrew Stanton - Wall-E

Best Actor in a Leading Role (vote for one)
Leonardo DiCaprio - Revolutionary Road

Best Actress in a Leading Role (vote for one)
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (vote for one)
Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire



Best Actress in a Supporting Role (vote for one)
Amy Adams – Doubt


Best Foreign Language Film (vote for up to two)

Mongol


Best Cast (vote for one)

Slumdog millionaire

Breakthrough Performance (vote for up to three)

Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Less than 12 hours left, for those who wish to vote.

Best Director (vote for one)
Gus Van Sant – Milk


Best Actor in a Leading Role (vote for one)
Leonardo DiCaprio - Revolutionary Road


Best Actress in a Leading Role (vote for one)
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (vote for one)
Phillip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt


Best Actress in a Supporting Role (vote for one)
Evan Rachel Wood- The Wrestler

Best Foreign Language Film (vote for up to two)
Waltz With Bashir
Under the Same Moon



Best Cast (vote for one)
Doubt


Breakthrough Performance (vote for up to three)
Evan Rachel Wood- The Wrestler
Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
James Franco - Milk

Ok, there's still a tie in the following categories:

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Cast

Do you guys want another run-off or shall I just post the nominees with the tied nominees included.