Monday, February 26, 2007

Not The Oscars

You can call these The Notscars, if you want. Here are my awards for films of 2007, in some of the categories that were featured in the Academy's delusion-fest last night. I've left the acting selections well alone.

Visual Effects
Children of Men

Animated Feature
Cars

Costume Design
Tideland

Makeup
Hostel

Art Direction
Tideland

Music (Score)
Little Miss Sunshine

Music (Song)
Borat

Sound Editing
Cars

Foreign Language Film
Pan's Labyrinth

Film Editing
Dave Chappelle's Block Party

Cinematography
Nicola Pecorini, Tideland

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Terry Gilliam and Tony Grisoni, Tideland

Writing (Original Screenplay)
Rian Johnson, Brick

Directing
Terry Gilliam, Tideland

Best Picture
Tideland

- and even though the Academy refuses to honour stunt people -

Action Direction
Casino Royale

4 comments:

Mark Kardwell said...

Finally saw CARS last week. It was f##kin' tedious. Looked great, though.

Anonymous said...

But you have to admit Ellen Degeneres did a good job at hosting the event.

Anonymous said...

why do you like tideland so much? the cinematography is annoying. the acting is weird... everything is weird. in a weird sense. ?

Brendon said...

The cinematography is annoying? That's interesting. What annoyed you about it?

And, well... what's wrong with weird, anyway? I didn't think weird was either good or bad, necessarily.