The 2006 Xixax Awards [April Fools]

[Jeremy Blackman]

The results are in!

Important: Please do not send in your final ballot yet. We will start that final step of the process in a few days. Thanks to everyone who voted, and thanks to the admins for all their work! We did, however, have a pretty low turnout, even by Xixax nominations standards, so let's hope people really turn out for the final vote.

Note: We're no longer accepting ballots or corrections to ballots, since the results have been announced.


BEST FILM
Batman Begins
Crash
New World
King Kong
Kung Fu Hustle


BEST DIRECTOR
Ang Lee - "Brokeback Mountain"
Tim Burton - "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
Terrence Mallick - "New World"
Peter Jackson - "King Kong"
James Mangold - "Walk the Line"


BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Michelle Williams - "Brokeback Mountain"
Catherine Keener - "Capote"
Miranda July - "Me and You and Everyone We Know"
Q'Orianka Kilcher - "New World"
Keira Knightley - "Pride & Prejudice"


BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Steve Carell - "40 Year Old Virgin"
Matt Dillon - "Crash"
Jake Gyllenhall - "Jarhead"
Colin Farell - "New World"
Christian Bale- "New World"


BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Anne Hathaway - "Brokeback Mountain"
Rachel Weisz - "The Constant Gardener"
Patricia Clarkson - "Good Night and Good Luck"
Maria Bello - "A History of Violence"
Taryn Manning - "Hustle and Flow"

 
BEST SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE
Cillian Murphy - "Batman Begins"
Jake Gyllenhaal - "Brokeback Mountain"
William Hurt - "A History of Violence"
Ben Chaplin - "New World"
Christopher Plummer - "Syriana"


BEST SCREENPLAY
Hustle and Flow
Kung Fu Hustle
Match Point
New World
Walk the Line


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Batman Begins
Domino
King Kong
Sin City
Walk the Line


BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC
Corpse Bride
Munich
New World
Star Wars
War of the Worlds

 
BEST EDITING
Batman Begins
Domino
King Kong
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Star Wars

 
BEST SOUND
Batman Begins
Kung Fu Hustle
New World
Sin City
Star Wars


BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Fantastic Four
Harry Potter
Star Wars
Turtles Can Fly
War of the Worlds


BEST DEBUT FILM
40 Year Old Virgin
Junebug
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Pride & Prejudice
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

 
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Darwin's Nightmare
Grizzly Man
March of the Penguins
No Direction Home: The Bob Dylan Story
Street Fight

 
BEST DVD RELEASE
Bob Dylan - No Direction Home
I Heart Huckabees (Special Edition)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Network (Anniversary Edition)
Seinfeld Season 6

[ono]

Either this is "April Fools," or Xixax I never knew you.  How pathetic.  At least this reinforces how terrible a year 2005 was for films.

What's even sadder is I can't see how Crash won't win best picture.  If it was strong enough to get the nominations, all the other films will split the vote because of their mediocrity (no one recognizing The New World for what it is).

Tarnation was up for best documentary last year, BTW.  It sucked then, too.

[Jeremy Blackman]

Yeah, I wish it were an April Fools joke. Let's just say we were more than slightly disappointed by the turnout, evidenced in part by the absence of the PTA fanbase. (Where's PSH??) 

What's even sadder is I can't see how Crash won't win best picture.  If it was strong enough to get the nominations, all the other films will split the vote because of their mediocrity (no one recognizing The New World for what it is).

There's no way Crash will win best film. The backlash will reverse that, and I predict we will rally around The New World. Don't worry. (At least that's what we should do at this point.)

Tarnation was up for best documentary last year, BTW.  It sucked then, too.

Wow, I don't know how we missed that. (We were in a bit of a rush to finish counting today.) It has been replaced with the documentary that recieved the next highest number of votes.

[I Don't Believe in Beatles]

The results are in!

BEST FILM
Crash

BEST DIRECTOR
Tim Burton - "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Fantastic Four

BEST DVD RELEASE
Network (Anniversary Edition)

I'm most surprised by these.  Network didn't even come out in 2005!  What the hell indeed. 

[JG]

This...is an april fool's joke.  It's got to be. 

[ono]

This...is an april fool's joke. It's got to be.

That's what'cha get for abstaining. 

[hedwig]

Kaufman smiles.

[JG]

This...is an april fool's joke. It's got to be.

That's what'cha get for abstaining. 

i actually did send in a list yesterday.  and those movies...weren't on it. 

[Bethie]

And now is the time I am sorry for not voting.



Sorry.

[Pubrick]

And now is the time I am sorry for not voting.

me too.

[polkablues]

If everybody decides to not vote for the actual awards, can we strike the nominations from the record?  Just say, "No awards this year," and call it good?

[grand theft sparrow]

If this isn't a prolonged April Fool's joke, then I'm voting for Crash for best film.  That's right, I said it!  Let Xixax bear the mark of shame for what it has done, or sat idly by and let happen.

[JG]

my first thought is that we should call it off.  this isn't how Xixax should be remembered.  Can't we do an override vote or something and get the nominations wiped? 

[modage]

BEST SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE
Ben Chaplin - "New World"

this is worse than when kirsten dunst was nominated for eternal sunshine.  he was in the movie for like 5 seconds!

[life_boy]

The nameless, faceless masses rallied together in support of Batman Begins, King Kong, Star Wars and.......Darwin's Nightmare?