Thursday, February 16, 2012

2011 Award Winners and Nominees

So here are our 2011 Nominations, in order of preference and Winners.

To all the Winners, we humbly ask that you accept our applause because we can't afford actual awards.

Best Picture:
SF: Warrior, The Deep Blue Sea, True Grit
50 Eggs: Source Code, The Ides of March, We Need To Talk About Kevin
DonkeyB: The Deep Blue Sea, We Need To Talk About Kevin, Senna
Winner: The Deep Blue Sea (Despite the lack of sharks)

Best Director:
SF: Tomas Alfredson (Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy), Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin), George Clooney (The Ides of March)
50 Eggs: George Clooney (The Ides of March), Joe Cornish (Attack the Block), Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin)
DonkeyB: Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea), Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin), George Clooney (The Ides of March)
Winner: TIE: Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin) & George Clooney (The Ides of March)

Best Actor in a Leading Role:
SF: Tom Hardy (Warrior), Dominic Cooper (The Devil's Double), Brendan Glesson (The Guard)
50 Eggs: Ryan Gosling (The Ides of March), Ezra Miller (We Need To Talk About Kevin), James Franco (127 Hours)
DonkeyB: Dominic Cooper (The Devil's Double), Gary Oldman (Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy), Ryan Gosling (The Ides of March)
Winner: Dominic Cooper (The Devil's Double)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:
SF: Benedict Cumberbatch (Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy), Jamie Bell (The Eagle), Andy Serkis (Rise of the Planet of the Apes),
50 Eggs: Andrew Garfield (Never Let Me Go), Ryan Gosling (Crazy Stupid Love), George Clooney (The Ides of March)
DonkeyB: Andy Serkis (Tintin & Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Moneyball), Kenneth Branagh (My Week with Marilyn)
Winner: Andy Serkis (Rise of the Planet of the Apes)

Best Actress in a Leading Role:
SF: Rachel Weisz (The Deep Blue Sea), Tilda Swinton (We Need To Talk About Kevin), Viola Davies (The Help)
50 Eggs: Tilda Swinton (We Need To Talk About Kevin), Natalie Portman (Black Swan), Abbie Cornish (Sucker Punch)
DonkeyB: Rachel Weisz (The Deep Blue Sea), Tilda Swinton (We Need To Talk About Kevin), Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
Winner: Tilda Swinton (We Need To Talk About Kevin)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:
SF: Jessica Chastain (The Help), Haylee Atwell (Captain American), Octavian Williams (The Help),
50 Eggs: Jennifer Anniston (Horrible Bosses), Natalie Portman (Your Highness), Emma Watson (Harry Potter 7 Part 2),
DonkeyB: Jessica Chastain (The Help), Octavia Spencer (The Help), Alison Janey (The Help) because she's amazing.
Winner: The Help- It was a good ensemble cast so would be unfair to choose one over any other so we've decided they all get a joint award.

Best Animated Film:
SF: Tintin, Tangled, Arrietty
50 Eggs: Tangled, Tintin, Rango
DonkeyB: Tintin
Winner: Tintin

Best Cinematography:
SF: True Grit, Another Earth, Midnight in Paris
50 Eggs: Immortals, 127 Hours, Black Swan
DonkeyB: True Grit, Tree of Life, We Need To Talk About Kevin
Winner: True Grit

Best Documentary Feature:

SF: Senna, The Greatest Movie ever Sold, Turtle the Incredible Journey
50 Eggs: Senna, And er…, Senna?
DonkeyB: Senna
Winner: Senna

Best Original Score:
SF: Daft Punk (Tron Legacy), Atli Orvarsson (The Eagle), Alan Silvestri (Captain America)
50 Eggs: Daft Punk (Tron Legacy), Alan Silvestri (Captain America), Michael Giacchino (Super 8)
DonkeyB: Michael Giacchino (Super 8), Antonio pinto (Senna)
Winner: Daft Punk (Tron Legacy)

Best Visual Effects:
SF: Tron Legacy, Thor, Real Steel
50 Eggs: Immortals, Real Steal, Sucker Punch
DonkeyB: Tron Legacy, Super 8, Troll Hunter
Winner: TIE: Real Steel & Tron Legacy

Best Adapted Screenplay:
SF: We Need To Talk About Kevin, Moneyball, The Help
50 Eggs: We Need To Talk About Kevin, Money Ball, Limitless
DonkeyB: The Ides of March, Moneyball, The Deep Blue Sea
Winner: TIE (DonkeyB loves ties) We Need To Talk About Kevin & Moneyball

Best Original Screenplay:
SF: The Guard, Devil's Double, Attack the Block
50 eggs: Source Code, The Ides of March, 127 Hours*
DonkeyB: The Guard, Attack the Block, The Devil’s Double
Winner: The Guard
*Some of the choices may not be original material so this category is subject to change

**** Now some fun awards****

Most divisive film:
X-men: First Class
Tangled
Real Steel
Winner: Tangled

Worst Film:
SF: Tree of life, Drive, Green Lantern
50 Eggs: Hugo, Tree of Life, Drive
DonkeyB: Immortals, Immortals, Immortals
Winner: Tree of Life (DonkeyB still insists worst film should be Immortals)

Worst actor:
SF: Ryan Reynolds (Green Lantern), Shia LeBouf (Transformers 3: The Dark of the Moon), Nicholas Cage (Season of the Witch)
50 Eggs: The London kids in Hereafter, Jason Mamoa (Conan)
DonkeyB: Mickey Rourke (Immortal), Sasha Baron-Cohen (Hugo), The Rock (Fast 5) out acted by a car, Special mention goes to Hugh Jackman (Real Steel) out shone by a robot.
Winner: We would like to invite all nine nominees into the appropriate circle of hell for their respective crimes against cinema and our sensibilities.

Worst actress:
SF: Rachel Nichols and Rose McGowan (Conan), Jennifer Aniston (Just Go with It), Carrey Mulligan (Drive)
50 Eggs: Carrey Mulligan (Drive), no contest.
DonkeyB: Mandy Moore (Tangled), Jennifer Aniston (Horrible bosses), January Jones (X-men: First Class)
Winner: TIE Carey Mulligan & Jennifer Aniston

Most awful contribution to cinema in 2011:
SF: The Dinosaurs in Tree of life
50 Eggs: The ‘chemistry’ between Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan in Drive
DonkeyB: 3D
Winner: 3D - it wasn’t close, 3D is the worst thing ever, nothing else could compete.

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