The 2008 Xixax Awards

Started by MacGuffin, March 01, 2008, 12:23:24 AM

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MacGuffin




WELCOME TO THE 2008 XIXAX AWARDS!

It's time to nominate!

Send your votes in through PM, following all the rules. The deadline is Saturday March 15th, two weeks from today.

Remember: Any trailer released in 2007 is eligible for Best Trailer even if the film has not yet been released.  You should also try to specify Teaser or Trailer if there were several different versions released. 

Note: Grindhouse is considered one film (i.e. Planet Terror and Death Proof together).

Due to the popularity of There Will Be Blood, we will have a runner-up designation for certain awards.


THE RULES:

YOU HAVE TO
1. vote privately:
. . . .If your username begins begins with A-F (or #), send your ballot to MacGuffin
. . . .If your username begins begins with G-K, send your ballot to Ravi
. . . .If your username begins begins with L-P, send your ballot to picolas
. . . .If your username begins begins with Q-Z, send your ballot to ©MBBrad
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 ("There Will Be Blood" instead of "TWBB")
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. change your ballot after March 15

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
4. campaign


Here is a reminder list of eligible films from 2007:

http://www.oscars.org/80academyawards/reminder/reminder_html.html


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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 ANIMATED FEATURE
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BEST DVD RELEASE
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BEST TRAILER
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"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


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Kal

yay!

we all know who's winning... dont we?


polkablues

Quote from: kal on March 01, 2008, 12:53:16 AM
yay!

we all know who's winning... dont we?


We do.

But hey, Best Supporting Female Performance is still wide open.
My house, my rules, my coffee

Gamblour.

Not since Tilda Swinton won it, you know how we ape the Academy.
WWPTAD?

grand theft sparrow

Best DVD Release.

Does the Kubrick box count as one or should we limit it to each individual film?

MacGuffin

Quote from: hacksparrow on March 01, 2008, 09:27:09 AM
Best DVD Release.

Does the Kubrick box count as one or should we limit it to each individual film?

Either. You can vote for the box set, but since they were also individually released, you may vote for an individual flim.
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


Skeleton FilmWorks

Alexandro

grindhouse shouldn't be one film. in most countrys inthe world death proof and planet terror were separated films. probably no one cares because probably no one is planning on giving one of those a nom for best pic separately...but maybe i do.

xerxes

Okay, so the annual who is supporting and who is leading questions...

I need clarification on...

-Atonement
-Zodiac
-Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone
-Michael Cera in Juno
-Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton

I'm assuming that Javier Bardem is leading.

JG

casey affleck should be leading man for assasination, right? also, lets lay down the law on the burnett movies..

ponceludon

Yeah, as a newcomer to this site, what are the actual criteria for what constitutes a supporting role? Is it amount of time on screen or relative importance to the film? Where do y'all draw the line?

w/o horse

Exiled was on Apple's trailer site starting in July and I saw it at a Sunset strip theater a couple months after that.  Exiled is 2007, right?

Edited with further evidence, from imdb.com's release dates:

USA 13 April 2007 (Wisconsin Film Festival)
USA 23 April 2007 (Newport Beach film festival)
USA 23 June 2007 (New York Asian Film Festival)
USA 31 August 2007 (New York City, New York)


I lived 10 minutes from Newport in April.  I wish I'd known.  But Exiled is 2007 clearly, right, even if some Australia guy comes in and says

Australia 20 October 2006.
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Kal

Quote from: w/o horse on March 01, 2008, 06:31:32 PM
Exiled was on Apple's trailer site starting in July and I saw it at a Sunset strip theater a couple months after that.  Exiled is 2007, right?

Edited with further evidence, from imdb.com's release dates:

USA 13 April 2007 (Wisconsin Film Festival)
USA 23 April 2007 (Newport Beach film festival)
USA 23 June 2007 (New York Asian Film Festival)
USA 31 August 2007 (New York City, New York)


I lived 10 minutes from Newport in April.  I wish I'd known.  But Exiled is 2007 clearly, right, even if some Australia guy comes in and says

Australia 20 October 2006.

Not sure how that is relevant... you think lots of people will vote for it?

It has 2006 as release year anyways...

w/o horse

Kal I really don't appreciate your flippant response.  Please take the time to click the release dates link at imdb.com.

Italy 6 September 2006 (Venice Film Festival)
Canada 14 September 2006 (Toronto Film Festival)
Hong Kong 8 October 2006 (Hong Kong Asian Film Festival)
Hong Kong 19 October 2006 
Singapore 19 October 2006 
Australia 20 October 2006 
Greece 20 February 2007 (DVD premiere)
Argentina 9 March 2007 (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
USA 13 April 2007 (Wisconsin Film Festival)
USA 23 April 2007 (Newport Beach film festival)
Netherlands 31 May 2007 
UK 15 June 2007 
France 20 June 2007 (Cognac Film Festival)
USA 23 June 2007 (New York Asian Film Festival)
France 30 June 2007 (La Rochelle Film Festival)
Czech Republic 2 July 2007 (Karlovy Vary Film Festival)
France 7 July 2007 (Paris Cinéma)
France 11 July 2007 
New Zealand 20 July 2007 (New Zealand International Film Festival)
Belgium 22 August 2007 
USA 31 August 2007 (New York City, New York)
Hungary 4 October 2007 
Argentina 17 November 2007 (San Luis Cine International Festival)


What's it look more like to you?  And as far as the number of people voting for it goes, well, that can't be helped, but I sure would like everyone who was thinking of maybe voting for it to be maybe to be able to vote for it.
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Chest Rockwell

Quote from: ponceludon on March 01, 2008, 02:28:22 PM
Yeah, as a newcomer to this site, what are the actual criteria for what constitutes a supporting role? Is it amount of time on screen or relative importance to the film? Where do y'all draw the line?

Taken from last year's nominating thread, which took it from 2006's thread:
Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on March 21, 2006, 01:31:33 PM
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.

If you're not sure about a particular performance, you should just ask about it specifically.

polkablues

Quote from: xerxes on March 01, 2008, 02:02:39 PM
Okay, so the annual who is supporting and who is leading questions...

I need clarification on...

-Atonement
-Zodiac
-Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone
-Michael Cera in Juno
-Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton

I'm assuming that Javier Bardem is leading.


Here's my guess, based on past awards (someone please correct if I'm way off):

Atonement - Knightley, McAvoy, and Ronan leading, everyone else supporting.
Zodiac - Gyllenhall, Ruffalo, Downey Jr leading, everyone else supporting.
Amy Ryan, Tom Wilkinson, and Javier Bardem would all be leading, but Michael Cera would be supporting.  I would say for Juno, the only leading performance would be Ellen Page; everyone else in the movie would fall under supporting.
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