2018 Xixax Awards - Nominate!

Started by Jeremy Blackman, March 06, 2019, 11:56:46 AM

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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 soon, perhaps within a week, 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.

TV categories are the same as the last two years. 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 2018?

This will be our fourth year with "Most Disappointing Film." Remember, it's not Worst Film. What were you genuinely disappointed by in 2018? What was supposed to be good or great but just wasn't? What broke your heart?

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 2017 - Redux

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



For movies released in 2018, consult this list! (That should be mostly accurate, but we can stray when necessary.)

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.

Sleepless

Best Film/Best Director
BlacKkKlansman
Leave No Trace
The Other Side of The Wind
Paddington 2
Suspiria

Best Female Performance
Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Kindergarten Teacher
Laura Dern – The Tale
Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace
Zoe Kazan – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade

Best Male Performance
Hugh Grant – Paddington 2
John David Washington – BlacKkKlansman
John Huston – The Other Side of The Wind
Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born
Ben Foster – Leave No Trace

Best Cast
The Bread Factory
Suspiria
Paddington 2
The Other Side of The Wind
The Tale

Best Screenplay
The Tale
The Old Man and the Gun
Vice
Keep An Eye Out (Au Poste!)
Paddington 2

Best Cinematography
The Other Side of The Wind
A Star Is Born
Roma

Best Editing We don't have a category for this?
The Other Side of The Wind
Suspiria
The Tale

Best Original Music
The Old Man and the Gun
BlacKkKlansman
Teen Titans Go To The Movies
A Star Is Born

Best Debut Film
The Tale

Most Disappointing Film
Aquaman
The Favourite
Incredibles 2
Shoplifters
Burning

Best Film of 2017 - Redux
A Ghost Story

Best TV Episode
X-Files – Nothing Lasts Forever
The Haunting of Hill House – Two Storms
Picnic At Hanging Rock – Episode 2
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.

Alethia

Best Film: First Reformed, The Favourite, Cold War, Roma, Hereditary, The Old Man & The Gun, Private Life, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, You Were Never Really Here, Golden Exits

Director: Paul Schrader, Yorgos Lanthimos, David Lowery, Tamara Jenkins, Lynne Ramsay, Pawel Pawlikowski, Alex Ross Perry, Steven Spielberg, Lars von Trier

Actress: Toni Collette, Olivia Colman, Natalie Portman (Vox Lux), Juliette Binoche (Let the Sunshine In), Carey Mulligan (Wildlife), Catherine Hahn (Private Life)
Actor: Ethan Hawke, Matt Dillon, Robert Redford, Joaquin Phoenix (YWNRH), Tom Waits (Scruggs)
Cast: The Favourite, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Golden Exits, The Other Side of the Wind

Minor Role: Bruno Ganz, Molly Shannon, Arguably anyone in Buster Scruggs

Screenplay: First Reformed, Cold War, Private Life, Wildlife, Golden Exits, The Favourite, Buster Scruggs, The House That Jack Built

Cinematography: Cold War, Roma, The Favourite, First Reformed, Suspiria

Music: You Were Never Really Here, If Beale Street Could Talk, Ready Player One, The Favourite, Hereditary

Best Debut: Hereditary (obvs)

Best Doc: They'll Love Me When I'm Dead, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Conversations with a Killer: The Bundy Tapes, Three Identical Strangers

Best Poster: The House That Jack Built, Suspiria, Golden Exits, Cold War, The Other Side of the Wind, Buster Scruggs

Most Disappointing: hmmmmmmmm

2017 Redux: Phantom Thread, duh

Ain't watched enough TV to nominate the rest...

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.

putneyswipe

Best Film
Burning
The House that Jack Built
Shoplifters
The Favourite
Sorry to Bother You

Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron
Yorgos Lanthimos
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Lee Chang-Dong
Pawel Pawlikowski

Best Female Performance
Olivia Cooke, Thoroughbreds
Sakura Ando, Shoplifters
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Raffey Cassidy, Vox Lux
Emma Stone, The Favourite

Best Male Performance
Matt Dillon, The House that Jack Built
John David Washington, BlacKkKlansman
Lakeith Stanfield, Sorry to Bother You
Yoo Ah-In, Burning

Best Cast
The Favourite
Shoplifters

Best Minor Role
Brian Tyree Henry, If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Screenplay
First Reformed
The Favourite
Sorry to Bother You

Best Cinematography
Robbie Ryan, The Favourite
Cuaron, Roma
Lol Crawley, Vox Lux
Rob Hardy, Annihilation & Mission Impossible: Fallout

Best Original Music
You Were Never Really Here
Vox Lux
If Beale Street Could Talk
Sorry to Bother You
Burning

Best Debut Film
A Quiet Place
Thoroughbreds
Blindspotting

Most Disappointing Film
Hereditary
Widows
You Were Never Really Here

Best Half-Hour TV Show
Atlanta, Robbin Season

Best TV Episode
Atlanta, Alligator Man

Best TV Performance
Any of the Atlanta main cast

Sleepless

Best TV Show
Better Call Saul
The Haunting of Hill House

Best TV Performance
Rhea Seehorn - Better Call Saul
Bob Odenkirk - Better Call Saul
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 - The Favourite, Into the Spiderverse, Isle of Dogs, A Simple Favor, Sorry to Bother You
Best Director - BlacKkKlansman, The Favourite, Isle of Dogs, A Simple Favor, Unsane

Best Female Performance
The Favourite - Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz
Into the Spiderverse - Kathryn Hahn
Sorry to Bother You - Tessa Thompson

Best Male Performance
BlacKkKlansman - John David Washington
The Favourite - Nick Hoult, James Smith
Sorry to Bother You - Lakeith Stanfield
Unsane - Joshua Leonard

Best Cast - The Favourite, A Simple Favor, Sorry to Bother You, Unsane, Widows

Best Minor Role Performance
Black Panther - Letitia Wright
The Girl in the Spider's Web - Lakeith Stanfield
A Simple Favor - Jean Smart

Best Screenplay - The Favourite, Into the Spiderverse, A Simple Favor, Sorry to Bother You, Widows
Best Cinematography - Annihilation, BlacKkKlansman, The Favourite, Game Night, Isle of Dogs
Best Original Music - The Favourite, Game Night, Isle of Dogs, Sorry to Bother You, A Star is Born
Best Debut Film - Sorry to Bother You
Best Documentary - Drunk History - "Drunk Mystery"
Most Disappointing Film - Incredibles 2, The Old Man and the Gun
Best Film of 2017 - Redux - mother!

Best One-Hour TV Show - Call the Midwife, Good Girls, Legion
Best Half-Hour TV Show - Bob's Burgers
Best TV Performance -
Legion - Jemaine Clement, Aubrey Plaza
Good Girls - Christina Hendricks, Retta, Mae Whitman
Best TV Episode
Bob's Burgers - "Tweentrepreneurs", "I Bob Your Pardon"
Good Girls - "Mo Money, Mo Problems", "A View from the Top"
Legion - "Chapter 13"
Since dreams are to align, not to change nor
to grow, whatever are the really for?

Alethia


Sleepless

Quote from: eward on March 13, 2019, 06:21:28 AM
Quote from: OstrichRidingCowboy on March 12, 2019, 04:17:06 PM

Most Disappointing Film - The Incredables 2, The Old Man and the Gun


Bold.

It's not an epic. It's not even a zeitgeisty (and his best yet) A Ghost Story. But to say you're disappointed? For shame.

Additional Best TV show: Picnic At Hanging Rock
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

Preferably we should wrap up nominations in the next couple days.

Yes

BEST FILM:
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again
Avengers: Infinity War
First Reformed
Burning
The Miseducation of Cameron Post

DIRECTOR:
Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Steven Soderbergh, Unsane
Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
Chang-dong Lee, Burning

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:
Claire Foy, Unsane
Elizabeth Debicki, Widows
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
Sakura Ando, Shoplifters

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:
Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Paul Giamatti, Private Life
Josh Hamilton, Eighth Grade
Ryan Gosling, First Man

BEST CAST:
A Star Is Born
Golden Exits
Creed 2
Paddington 2
Black Panther

BEST MINOR PERFORMANCE:
Zoe Kazan, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Sam Rockwell, Vice
Brian Tyree Henry, If Beale Street Could Talk
Jack Black, Dont Worry he Won't Get Far on Foot
Dolly Wells, Can You Ever Forgive Me

BEST SCREENPLAY:
First Reformed
The Favourite
Burning

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Roma
Cold War
Unsane

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC:
Suspiria
Golden Exits
First Man

BEST DEBUT FILM:
Eighth Grade
Hereditary
A Star is Born

BEST DOCUMENTARY:
Shirkers

MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM:
Isle of Dogs
Bad Times at the El Royals
Tully
Halloween
The Sisters Bros
The Land of Steady Habits


Yes


Robyn

BEST FILM
Burning
Isle of Dogs
Suspiria
Climax

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Olivia Colman - The Favorite
Regina Hall - Support the Girls
Helena Howard - Madeline's Madeline

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Yoo Ah-In - Burning

BEST CAST
Shoplifters

MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM:
Mandy
Sorry To Bother You

BEST TV EPISODE
The Haunting of Hill House - Two Storms

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Roma... sigh.
Climax


Robyn

Poster: Mandy, You Were Never Really Here, Under the Silver Lake, Suspiria
Minor role: Bruno Ganz