Nominate! – 2017 Xixax Awards

Started by Jeremy Blackman, March 21, 2017, 03:19:37 PM

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Jeremy Blackman

The Basics

We're continuing with our simplified process:

  • In this thread, members suggest nominations in whatever fashion they choose.
  • Admins & mods will decide final nominees in an authoritarian yet benevolent fashion, largely drawing on this thread.
  • We'll post polls for each category, and that will be the final vote.

Let's get started! We'd like to get public nominations done in just a week or two, so don't delay!

Post your nominations here, in any format or quantity you'd like. Doesn't matter. You don't even need to read the rest of this post. Make several posts if you want; post what you can think of now, and come back for more later.


Further Guidance (optional to read)

Is there an underrated film you're especially passionate about, or an incredible performance that no one is discussing? We're especially interested in those unusual choices to fill out categories. If you'd rather keep it private, you can PM me nominations.

Just a few changes from last year. Best Trailer is gone (no interest). There are brand new, completely revamped acting categories! Should be self-explanatory. "Best Cast" is geared toward ensembles.

We were very happy with the TV categories — those remain intact. If you need to review how they work:

QuoteOur one-hour/half-hour division is meant to roughly divide dramas from comedies. (Longer shows can go in one-hour.) For "Best TV Performance," simply nominate an actor in a thing (not a specific scene or episode). For Best TV Episode, we do want to get more specific. If you're not sure if a TV show is eligible, ask here; but we're going by common sense rules, i.e. did it mostly air in 2016?

This will be our third year with "Most Disappointing Film." Remember, it's not Worst Film. What were you genuinely disappointed by in 2016? What was supposed to be good or great but just wasn't? This is for the heartbreakers. (For example, Tomorrowland won last year.)

Here are the categories. Suggest nominations for whatever you want — one, two, or all of them.


Best Film
Best Director

Best Female Performance
Best Male Performance
Best Cast
Best Minor Role Performance

Best Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Original Music
Best Debut Film
Best Documentary
Best Film Poster
Most Disappointing Film
Best Film of 2015 - Redux

Best One-Hour TV Show
Best Half-Hour TV Show
Best TV Performance
Best TV Episode



For movies released in 2016, consult this list!

The Lobster is not eligible. We did that last year.

polkablues

Zoe Kazan for Best Female Performance for The Monster.

He suggests, knowing full well no one has seen it.
My house, my rules, my coffee

Lottery

Best Director
The Witch
Arrival


Best Film
Arrival
The Witch
Silence

Best Screenplay
Arrival
The Witch

Best Female Performance
Arrival - Amy Adams

Best Male Performance
Moonlight - Mahershala Ali
Moonlight - Andre Holland

Best Cinematography
Moonlight

Best Original Music
The Witch

Best Debut Film
The Witch

Best Half-Hour TV Show
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable

What the heck, I swear I saw way more films last year. Guess not.

Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on March 21, 2017, 03:19:37 PM
The Lobster is not eligible. We did that last year.

Curses.

Best Film of 2015
The Losbter
World of Tomorrow

Yes

Best Female Performance
Greta Gerwig, 20th Century Women
Rebecca Hall, Christine

Best Male Performance
Craig Robinson, Morris From America

Best Cast
Everybody Wants Some!!

Best Minor Role Performance
Anna Faris, Keanu

Best Screenplay
Little Men

Best Cinematography
Cafe Society

Best Original Music
Maggie's Plan

Best Documentary
DePalma

Most Disappointing Film
Light Between Oceans

Best Film of 2015 - Redux
Carol

wilder

Best Film
The Love Witch
Manchester by the Sea
The Witch

Best Director
The Love Witch - Anna Biller
The Witch - Robert Eggers

Best Female Performance
Christine - Rebecca Hall
Elle - Isabelle Huppert
The Witch - Anya Taylor-Joy

Best Male Performance
Manchester by the Sea - Casey Affleck
Manchester by the Sea - Lucas Hedges
The Witch - Ralph Ineson

Best Minor Role Performance
Everybody Wants Some - Glen Powell

Best Screenplay
Christine
The Love Witch
Manchester by the Sea

Best Cinematography
The Love Witch
Silence
The Witch

Best Original Music
Nocturnal Animals
The Witch

Best Debut Film
The Witch

Best Documentary
O.J.: Made in America

Most Disappointing Film
American Honey

Best One Hour TV Show
"Horace and Pete"

Best Half-Hour TV Show
"The Girlfriend Experience"

Best TV Performance
Riz Ahmed - "The Night Of"
Laurie Metcalf - "Horace and Pete"
Riley Keough - "The Girlfriend Experience"

Best TV Episode
"Horace and Pete" - Episode 3

matt35mm

Best Film
The Love Witch
La La Land

Best Director
The Love Witch - Anna Biller
La La Land - Damien Chazelle
Nocturnal Animals - Tom Ford

Best Female Performance
The Love Witch - Samantha Robinson

Best Screenplay
The Love Witch - Anna Biller

Best Cinematography
The Love Witch

Best Debut Film
The Witch

Best Documentary
O.J.: Made in America

Best Film of 2015 - Redux
Carol
The Lobster

Best One-Hour TV Show
Horace and Pete

Best TV Performance
Laurie Metcalf - Horace and Pete

Best TV Episode
Horace and Pete - Episode 3

Jeremy Blackman


Sleepless

Best Film
I, Daniel Blake
Pete's Dragon
The Witch

Best Director
Ken Loach - I, Daniel Blake
David Lowery - Pete's Dragon
Robert Eggers - The Witch

Best Female Performance
Margot Robbie - Suicide Squad (Hardly "worthy acting," but inarguably the most iconic performance of the year)
Anya Taylor-Joy - The Witch

Best Male Performance
Dave Johns - I, Daniel Blake
Oakes Fegley - Pete's Dragon

Best Cast
Hail, Caesar!
Pete's Dragon
Suicide Squad

Best Minor Role Performance
Alden Ehrenreich - Hail, Caesar!

Best Screenplay
Pete's Dragon

Best Original Music
The Witch
Pete's Dragon
Trolls
Suicide Squad

Best Documentary
Oasis: Supersonic

Most Disappointing Film
Batman V Superman (I really wanted to like it)
Crouching tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny

Best Film of 2015 - Redux
Ex Machina

Best One-Hour TV Show
Bloodline
Les Revenants
Black Mirror
Better Call Saul
DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Best Half-Hour TV Show
The Ranch
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Schitt's Creek
Bob's Burgers

Best TV Performance
Norbert Leo Butz - Bloodline
Lena Headey - Game of Thrones
Rachel Bloom - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Dan Levy - Schitt's Creek
Rhea Seehorn - Better Call Saul

Best TV Episode
Babylon - The X-Files
Nosedive - Black Mirror
Shut Up and Dance - Black Mirror
The Winds of Winter - Game of Thrones
San Junipero - Black Mirror

And since we're not voting on best trailer this year, can we all just accept it as a given that it was this:

He held on. The dolphin and all the rest of its pod turned and swam out to sea, and still he held on. This is it, he thought. Then he remembered that they were air-breathers too. It was going to be all right.

Sleepless

^ Made a couple of edits in the TV categories.
He held on. The dolphin and all the rest of its pod turned and swam out to sea, and still he held on. This is it, he thought. Then he remembered that they were air-breathers too. It was going to be all right.

OstrichRidingCowboy

Best Film
Deadpool
Hell or High Water
Love and Friendship
Moonlight
Silence


Best Director
Deadpool
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Moonlight
The Nice Guys


Best Female Performance
Kate Beckinsale - Love and Friendship
Taraji P Henson - Hidden Figures
Janelle Monáe - Hidden Figures
Octavia Spencer - Hidden Figures
Naomie Harris - Moonlight

Best Male Performance
Ryan Reynolds - Deadpool
Taron Egerton - Eddie the Eagle
Ben Foster - Hell or High Water
Mahershala Ali - Moonlight
Andrew Garfield - Silence

Best Cast
10 Cloverfield Lane
Hail, Caesar!
Hell or High Water
Moonlight
Rogue One


Best Minor Role Performance
Marcia Warren - Absolutely Fabulous
Tom Bennett - Love and Friendship
Liam Neeson - Silence
Hugh Jackman - X-Men: Apocalypse

Best Screenplay
Deadpool
Hell or High Water
Love and Friendship
Moonlight

Best Cinematography

10 Cloverfield Lane
La La Land
The Magnificent Seven
Moonlight
Rogue One


Best Original Music
10 Cloverfield Lane
Hell or High Water
Moonlight


Best Debut Film
10 Cloverfield Lane

Best Documentary
HyperNormalisation

Most Disappointing Film
Kubo and the Two Strings
Suicide Squad


Best Film of 2015 - Redux
The Lobster

Best One-Hour TV Show
American Crime
Better Call Saul
Call the Midwife
Halt and Catch Fire
The Walking Dead


Best Half-Hour TV Show
Bob's Burgers
Drunk History
Veep


Best TV Performance
Alia Shawkat - Drunk History
Kerry Bishé - Halt and Catch Fire
Mackenzie Davis - Halt and Catch Fire
Toby Huss - Halt and Catch Fire
Melissa McBride - The Walking Dead

Best TV Episode
Better Call Saul - "Klick"
Halt and Catch Fire - "The Threshold"
Veep - "Kissing Your Sister"
The Walking Dead - "The Same Boat"
Since dreams are to align, not to change nor
to grow, whatever are the really for?


Alexandro


BEST FILM

Elle
The Witch
The Neon Demon
The Love Witch
Silence
The Assassin

BEST DIRECTOR

Paul Verhoeven - Elle
Robert Eggers - The Witch
Nicolas Winding Refn - The Neon Demon
Martin Scorsese - Silence
Hsiao-Hsien Hou - The Assassin
Anna Biller - The Love Witch

BEST ACTRESS LEADING ROLE

Samantha Robinson - The Love Witch
Anya Taylor Joy - The Witch
Isabelle Huppert - Elle
Viola Davis - Fences
Kristen Stewart - Cafe Society

BEST ACTOR LEADING ROLE

Willem Daffoe - Dog Eat Dog
Casey Affleck - Manchester by the Sea
Denzel Washington - Fences
Ethan Hawke - Born to be Blue
Ryan Gosling - The Nice Guys

BEST SCREENPLAY

Moonlight
Elle
The Nice Guys
The Witch
Dog Eat Dog

BEST CAST

Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Silence
Fences
The Witch

BEST MINOR ROLE PERFORMANCE

Michelle Williams - Manchester by the Sea
Liam Neeson - Silence
Issei Ogata - Silence
Danny de Vito - Weiner Dog

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Making a Murderer
OJ Made in America
Lo and Behold
Hypernormalisation

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC

Jackie

BEST SOUNDTRACK

The Neon Demon
Dog Eat Dog

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Assassin
Silence
The Neon Demon

WORST FILM

Toni fucking Erdmann


Axolotl

Best Film
Elle
Neon Demon
Manchester by the Sea
Paterson
Hypernormalization

Best Director
Paul Verhoeven

Best Minor Role Performance
Nellie the dog, Paterson

Best Documentary
Hypernormalization
Hypernormalization
Hypernormalization

Best One-Hour TV Show
Horace and Pete

Sleepless

He held on. The dolphin and all the rest of its pod turned and swam out to sea, and still he held on. This is it, he thought. Then he remembered that they were air-breathers too. It was going to be all right.

Jeremy Blackman

We're starting to put nominations together. If you have something, please try to post it very soon!