The 2006 Xixax Awards [Nominating]

[Jeremy Blackman]

It's time to vote for the 2006 Xixax Awards nominations!

Send your votes in through PM, following all the rules. The deadline is Friday March 31, ten days from today.


THE RULES:

you have to
1. vote privately:
. . . .If your username begins begins with A-F (or #), send your ballot to Jeremy Blackman
. . . .If your username begins begins with G-K, send your ballot to ©brad
. . . .If your username begins begins with L-P, send your ballot to modage
. . . .If your username begins begins with Q-Z, send your ballot to MacGuffin
2. copy the form provided below and paste it into your PM
3. only list the movie in each category, not the person who would win (unless it's an acting category)
4. specify the actor and movie (for the acting categories), like this: Actor - "Movie"
5. use the most common title with foreign films (ask if you're not sure)
6. use full titles ("Good Night and Good Luck" instead of "GNAGL")
7. (for the DVD category) specify the original theatrical release date if there are different versions or remakes
8. nominate titles in alphabetical order
9. title your PM "nominations" (please!)

you should
1. be honest
2. vote from personal opinion (not strategically or by consensus)

you can't
1. nominate more than 5 movies per category
2. send more than one ballot
3. vote from different memberships
4. write your nominations with caps lock on
5. nominate publicly
6. put "the" before anything
7. change your ballot after March 31

you can
1. nominate fewer than 5 per category (whatever you're comfortable with)
2. leave whole categories blank
3. nominate box sets in the Best DVD Release category



copy and paste....

BEST FILM
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BEST DIRECTOR
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BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
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BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
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BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE PERFORMANCE
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BEST SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE
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BEST SCREENPLAY
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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
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BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC
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BEST EDITING
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BEST SOUND
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BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
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BEST DEBUT FILM
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BEST DOCUMENTARY
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BEST DVD RELEASE
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[Jeremy Blackman]

A few notes.

Here's a full list of films eligible for this year's Oscars. Use this as a rough guideline if you're unsure about something. If you have any questions about eligibility or anything else, ask them here.

Our "performance" and "supporting performance" categories have caused quite a bit of confusion in the past. The Xixax Awards define these categories a little differently. Notice that we don't have a "leading" category. In other words, performances are performances, and "supporting" performances should really truly be supporting. A supporting performance in the Xixax Awards is usually smaller than a supporting performance in the Oscars.

I've put together a list of some of this year's popular titles with "performance" vs. "supporting performance" eligibility. If it's not listed here, we'll need some opinions to determine eligibility in the less obvious cases.

See the 2005 and 2004 nominations for more guidance.

[Jeremy Blackman]

Brokeback Mountain
performances: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal
supporting performances: everyone else

Capote
performances: PSH
supporting performances: everyone else

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
performances: Johnny Depp
supporting performances: everyone else

Crash
performances: the main ensemble cast. Cheadle, Bullock, Phillipe, Howard, Dillon, etc.
supporting performances: everyone else. Fichtner, Devine, Danza, Esposito, David, etc.

Downfall
performances: Bruno Ganz
supporting performances: everyone else

Harry Potter
performances: Radcliffe, Watson, Gleeson
supporting performances: everyone else

A History of Violence
performances: Viggo Mortensen
supporting performances: everyone else

Hustle & Flow
performances: Terrence Howard
supporting performances: everyone else

Jarhead
performances: Gyllenhaal
supporting performances: everyone else

Kontroll
performances: Csányi
supporting performances: everyone else

Kung Fu Hustle
performances: Stephen Chow
supporting performances: everyone else

Last Days
performances: Michael Pitt
supporting performances: everyone else

Me and You and Everyone We Know
performances: July, Hawkes
supporting performances: everyone else

Munich
performances: Eric Bana
supporting performances: everyone else

The New World
performances: Farrell, Kilcher, Bale
supporting performances: everyone else

Palindromes
supporting performances: everyone

Red Eye
performances: McAdams, Murphy
supporting performances: everyone else

Save the Green Planet
performances: Ha-kyun Shin
supporting performances: everyone else

Sin City
performances: Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Nick Stahl, Bruce Willis
supporting performances: everyone else

Star Wars
performances: Christensen, Portman, McDiarmid, McGregor
supporting performances: everyone else

Syriana
performances: Clooney, Damon, Wright, Siddig
supporting performances: everyone else

Turtles Can Fly
performances: Ebrahim, Latif, Feysal
supporting performances: everyone else

[Derek237]

So, what, Clooney/Gyllenhaal/etc. can't be voted as supporting?

[Jeremy Blackman]

So, what, Clooney/Gyllenhaal/etc. can't be voted as supporting?

Right.

"Supporting Performance" is a much smaller (and you could say less important) category.

[grand theft sparrow]

Rachel Weisz in Constant Gardener.  Leading or Supporting?  I feel like she rides the line.

[modage]

Rachel Weisz in Constant Gardener.  Leading or Supporting?  I feel like she rides the line.

weisz is (leading) performance.  in that film her and fiennes are leading and danny huston and bill nighy are supporting.

[Split Infinitive]

I've only been here a few months and haven't posted a whole lot yet.  Is there any particular criteria for which Xixax members are eligible for participating in the vote?

[MacGuffin]

I've only been here a few months and haven't posted a whole lot yet.  Is there any particular criteria for which Xixax members are eligible for participating in the vote?

You're fine to vote.

[Derek237]

Didn't see Good Night and Good Luck on the list of films. How would that one work? Strathairn be the only lead and the rest supporting?

[polkablues]

Didn't see Good Night and Good Luck on the list of films. How would that one work? Strathairn be the only lead and the rest supporting?

I would say Strathairn and Clooney are leads, everyone else supporting.

I'd just like to make a plea for AMY ADAMS.  I guess in the supporting category, although an argument could be made.  Too many people see it as just a comic-relief performance, I don't think many people really appreciate the depth that she brings to it.

And while I'm at it, Alessandro Nivola for supporting dude.



edit: Please pretend the second part of this post was put in the correct thread.   

[matt35mm]

I think Amy Adams is going to be in the lead category, not supporting, based on JB's examples so far.  She's as big a part of that movie as anything else.  I don't think people see her as just comic-relief... but maybe I'm wrong about that.

Alessandro Nivola is supporting, though.

[grand theft sparrow]

I know it's a bit late but might I suggest something a friend of mine came up with a few years back?

The Jesus Quintana Award.

This goes to a notable actor or actress who plays a quirky, funny bit role or minor supporting character and steals the movie in as little time as possible.  For example, the 1999 winner was Alfred Molina as Solomon Solomon in Magnolia.  Philip Seymour Hoffman won it for Punch-Drunk Love in 2002.  If my friend had thought it up in 1997, Casey Affleck might have won it for Good Will Hunting.  You get the idea. 

We never officially gave it to anyone this year, but I'm inclined to consider Andy Serkis, not as Kong but as the cook.

Just a suggestion.

[Gamblour.]

Alfred Molina? Why not Henry Gibson as Thurston Howell, or shit even Luis Guzman is more memorable the Molina.

I guess I'm for it because I already feel passionately for these sample winners.

[grand theft sparrow]

Alfred Molina? Why not Henry Gibson as Thurston Howell, or shit even Luis Guzman is more memorable the Molina.

Guzman was the runner-up that year.  We gave it to Molina because Molina (actually he would have won in 1997... if my friend thought of it sooner, it would probably have been called the Rahad Jackson award) is better known as a serious actor whereas Guzman was being Guzman, so Molina being funny was a better fit.   Henry Gibson's part was both too serious (though definitely quirky and scene-stealing) and too important to the movie to qualify for the Jesus Quintana award.