The 2008 Xixax Awards

[MacGuffin]

Campaigning can be done in this thread.

If I want to vote for the Blade Runner 5-Disc Blu-Ray set, how do I specify that on the nomination? Are we to specify disc quantity and format (Standard, Blu-Ray or HD)?

If the HD or Blu-Ray release is different than a standard one in terms of content, then specify. In this case, specify which release: Blade Runner Ultimate Edition (with suitcase), or just the 5 Disc, just Final Cut, etc.

Just double-checking that the songs from Once do qualify as Original Music.

Yes, they do.

[grand theft sparrow]

Anyone having as much trouble as I am thinking of 5 debut films of note to nominate?  I can only think of three, one of which I haven't even seen.

[Pozer]

Campaigning can be done in this thread.

For your consideration:

Robert Downey Jr.
Best Supporting Actor - Zodiac

&

Kelly Macdonald 
Best Supporting Actress - No Country For Old Men

[Fernando]

So Casey Affleck is leading in TAoJJbtCRF? (haha), it's a shame because DDL is a lock on leading (and rightly so), I guess this and other obvious categories will have the runner up nod....anyway:

Casey Affleck for either supporting or leading (runner up), whatever is decided.

[Jeremy Blackman]

Affleck is definitely leading, along with Pitt. All the others would be supporting.

Remember our general leading/supporting guideline.

"Supporting" under our system is truly supporting. These are characters whose names you might not remember. They occupy much less screen time than the leads, and they're definitely not the focus of the film. Affleck and Pitt, for example, are the focus of that film, so it would be absurd to call either of them supporting.

Note also that the word "leading" doesn't appear in any of our categories:

Best Female Performance
Best Male Performance
Best Supporting Female Performance
Best Supporting Male Performance

We wanted to get away from the idea of a single lead actor, because the leading vs. supporting paradigm certainly can't describe all (or even most) films.

The result is that the top two acting categories are a bit crowded, and we struggle to find supporting nominations (perhaps because we don't think about supporting performances like we should), but it's all for the greater good.

Please ask all other eligibility questions here.

[Jeremy Blackman]

THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES...
performances - Affleck, Pitt

OCEAN'S ELEVEN
performances - Pitt, Clooney, Pacino

THERE WILL BE BLOOD
performances - DDL

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
performances - Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
performances - Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson

MICHAEL CLAYTON
performances - George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton

28 WEEKS LATER
supporting - Robert Carlyle

WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY
performances - John C. Reilly

THE LIVES OF OTHERS
performances - Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Martina Gedeck

THE DARJEELING LIMITED
performances - Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman

BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD
performances - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney

3:10 TO YUMA
performances - Russell Crowe, Christian Bale

[MacGuffin]

For Your Consideration:

Bruce Greenwood - Supporting Actor - "I'm Not There"


Best Debut Film:

[picolas]

Away From Her and Kong were debuts. now for the consideration part of this post:

don't forget how awesome the score for Assassination was.

and how secretly mindblowing the visual effects in Zodiac were.

and if you're thinking about voting for best trailer, Don't! think of The Invasion.

sorry if that was too much consideration.

EDIT: Carlyle is now considered supporting for 28 Weeks Later.

[Gamblour.]

Please support Casey Affleck in Assassination of Jesse James for Runner-Up.

Whatever critic said Rocket Science was "this year's little movie that could" called it wroooong. I guess I should see it.

[grand theft sparrow]

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION



Peter O'Toole for Supporting Male Performance (or Runner-Up) in Ratatouille.

Unless, of course, animated performances are ineligible.

[Gold Trumpet]

Can I consider Alexander Revisited eligible for Best Film consideration if I voted?

[xerxes]

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION



Ryan Gosling - Lars and the Real Girl

[Sunrise]

For your consideration as Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editing:

[ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ]

If there was an award for Best Closing Credits, The Diving Bell & The Butterfly would win.

[Gamblour.]

Michael Clayton's were also good.