Xixax Film Forum

It's almost time for the 2006 Xixax Awards! We want your advice on exactly when to start. The Oscars are awarded in two weeks. We could start nominating now and finish that first phase before the Academy Awards ceremony. But since we're not trying to beat the Oscars this year, it wouldn't much matter if we start nominating a few days after the awards. Does the majority of Xixax need more time to get caught up on 2005 movies? Let us know.

I need more time. 

We should wait....I definetely need more time and some key movies like Good night, and Brokeback haven't even been released here yet (mexico).

And it's hard to keep up when all the movies come up on the same two weeks...

It'd be nice to hold off until a few of the end-of-the-year Oscar-bait movies are on DVD.

Before the nominations process gets under way, we should decide between leading performances and supporting performances.  I don't know how we should do this...maybe we ask about some performances that we have questions about and one of the admins makes a decision on it (I recall Jeremy Blackman doing something to this effect last year), and this page can be the master list where our questions can be answered.  If that's cool here's some performances I have questions about.

Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain) - leading or supporting actor
Maria Bello (A History of Violence) - leading or supporting actress
Jeff Daniels (The Squid and the Whale) - leading or supporting actor
Laura Linney (The Squid and the Whale) - leading or supporting actress
George Clooney (Syriana) - leading or supporting actor
Scarlett Johansson  (Match Point) - leading or supporting actress
Q'Orianka Kilcher (The New World) - leading or supporting actress

i actually think everyone of those would be supporting.  :shock:

not as an admin but just as a person, i feel...

Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain) - leading
Maria Bello (A History of Violence) - supporting actress
Jeff Daniels (The Squid and the Whale) - leading
Laura Linney (The Squid and the Whale) - leading
George Clooney (Syriana) - leading
Scarlett Johansson  (Match Point) - leading
Q'Orianka Kilcher (The New World) - leading

i feel strongly about gyllenhaal and clooney.

Quote from: modage on March 02, 2006, 10:11:09 AM
not as an admin but just as a person, i feel...

Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain) - leading
Maria Bello (A History of Violence) - supporting actress
Jeff Daniels (The Squid and the Whale) - leading
Laura Linney (The Squid and the Whale) - leading
George Clooney (Syriana) - leading
Scarlett Johansson  (Match Point) - leading
Q'Orianka Kilcher (The New World) - leading

i feel strongly labout gyllenhaal and clooney.

well atleast you can't say i dont want brokeback or ledger to win the oscar because i'm a homophobe.  :yabbse-grin:

Of course not.  How could you be a homophobe when...

Quote from: modage on March 02, 2006, 10:11:09 AM
i feel strongly about gyllenhaal and clooney.

that was the joke.

Oh.

I don't sleep much.  I apologize.

Nominating will open March 21 and close March 31. So get your lists ready!

Clear instructions will be posted at that time.

We really should have done this before the Oscars. I hope people don't feel the need to over-compensate Brokeback Mountain now. But then again, it's still probably not up to the popularity of Eternal Sunshine or Punch Drunk Love, who swept previous Xixax Awards. Kirsten Dunst? Best Supporting Actress nominee? Puh-leeze.

Quote from: Derek237 on March 10, 2006, 08:32:50 AM
We really should have done this before the Oscars. I hope people don't feel the need to over-compensate Brokeback Mountain now. But then again, it's still probably not up to the popularity of Eternal Sunshine or Punch Drunk Love, who swept previous Xixax Awards. Kirsten Dunst? Best Supporting Actress nominee? Puh-leeze.

you know, we did ask everyone when they'd like to have the xixax awards. you should've spoken up then.

I voted, I felt that was enough.  :saywhat:

I'm looking forward to this year's awards.  I don't remember anything that will definitely sweep everyone's opinion here, unlike the years that belonged to ESotSM, PDL and LiT.

I think we'll see some good competition.

I wish Saraband would apply this year...

Reminder... Nominations open Tuesday.

That's right, Tuesday!

Tuesday?

Thanks

Good. Just in time for everyone to pick up Capote on DVD.  :yabbse-thumbup:

and The Squid And The Whale (available now)!

Quote from: modage on March 20, 2006, 07:39:18 AM
and The Squid And The Whale (available now tomorrow)!

If anyone wants to campaign/advocate/debate nominations, please use this thread... (signatures and avatars are also encouraged)...

Don't forget, good people: it's been a wonderful year for young thespians.

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Ashton Homles - A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
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Avaz Latif - TURTLES CAN FLY
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Q'Orianka Kilcher - THE NEW WORLD
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Miles Thompson & Brandon Ratcliff - ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW

<<< all 6 of you, you know what to do.

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dominion: a prequel to the exorcist


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the constant gardener

I second everything about Amy Adams.

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession.  It premiered on the festival circuit in 2004 but was first exhibited to the public at large in 2005 on IFC.  Does it count?

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Obey the campaign-a-tar...

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New addition: Evan Rachel Wood in Pretty Persuasion.

nice. you should throw a gaghan in there.
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I guess the Clooney covers that.

i'd like to also remind everyone of Cillian Murphy's performance in Batman Begins.

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"Would you like to see my mask?"

Quote from: Hedwig on March 25, 2006, 01:20:05 AM
nice. you should throw a gaghan in there.

Good call.  Done.

Quote from: Hedwig on March 25, 2006, 01:20:05 AM
i'd like to also remind everyone of Cillian Murphy's performance in Batman Begins.

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yes. this was better than red eye.

I'd just like to remind everyone what a stellar package the I (https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greatergoodsa.com%2Fimages%2Fheart_icon.gif&hash=dd9f567d35e0ffc6fcf5726c646304e772665e69) Huckabees 2-disc DVD was. Right down to the insert.

Jeffrey Wright in Broken Flowers
and
Barry Pepper in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

for best supporting actor

Jeffrey Wright in Saraband too.

Saraband came out in 2003, so even if it didn't qualify for 2003 somehow, it'd most likely fall into 2004.

Syriana somehow came out Saraband.

Some campaigns I'd like to make:

Good Night and Good Luck for everything. David Straithairn should be nominated for all 4 acting categories because he breaks all boundries of leading and supporting as well as gender. But seriously, the movie got nominated but shut out of almost all of the major awards this year. I hope it wins something from the xixaxers, at this point even winning editing would be fine.

A History of Violence for everything. Viggo, Maria, Will, Eddie, Davey, etc.

Capote for everything, of course, but particularly Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I mention this only on the basis that Hoffman has kicked so much ass that people may simply forget to include him. Also the supporting performances of Catherine Keener and Robert Blake, I mean, Clifton Collins Jr.

The Upside of Anger for Best Female Performance, Joan Allen. So fucking obvious, dudes.

Wedding Crashers for best original music. Remember when the Academy Awards would sometimes throw in a "best comedic score" category? Actually, I can only think of one year when they did that, but nonetheless, I thought Wedding Crashers had a cool, jazzy, upbeat score that should be recognized. Yeah, John Williams music is great and epic and all, but there's nothing wrong with the music here.

The Family Stone for best female performance, Sarah Jessica Parker, and best supporting female performance, Diane Keaton. Parker did a wonderful job as, well, sort of a bitch. But somehow she made the role empathetic, and truly believable as a person who desperately wants to be liked, and respectable, but somehow manages to do everything wrong. I thought it was a very under appreciated performance, especially considering that I hate everything else she has done. And Diane Keaton is great as always as the eccentric mom character. She was just..real. I could point her out and say, yeah, I know people like that. And of course, if you've seen it, you know it all takes a dramatic turn, and because of how great she plays the character, it really pays off well.Generally, not the greatest movie, but 2 wonderful performances. Rachael McAdams was great, too, but Keaton was the more commanding role.

thats it.

Saraband received its actual U.S. release in 2005. It will figure prominently in my voting choices, as will Heath Ledger (among the film's other performances) in Brokeback Mountain. I vacillate between which was more difficult/great: Hoffman's self-effacing, spot-on embodiment of Capote, or Ledger's virtual self-obliteration as Ennis del Mar, a performance which to me stands alongside Holly Hunter's in The Piano or Samantha Morton's in Sweet and Lowdown for its astounding ability to express so much under the harsh weight of all that verbal and physical repression. Hoffman still had all those words with which to create his character, while Ledger was denied all but the barest verbiage and had to create his character physically, without a set-in-stone true-life model. I think of Ledger's Ennis as every bit as "real" as Hoffman's Capote. It puts one into the position of King Solomon to have to choose between the two, of course, but I will be voting for Ledger all the way.

It's simply too bad for David Straithairn that Hoffman did Capote the same year he did Murrow. Both great clonings, but it's clear to me which was more of an achievement. But also, while I don't think it would be possible to "overrate" either performance, I do find the "authenticity" obsession that comes along with their well-deserved acclaim to be a little along the lines of people swooning over the period accuracy of a Merchant-Ivory film. To me, personifying a well-known figure is neither as difficult nor as impressive inherently as many seem to think. It's a hell of a lot of work, but I don't think it's a more or less special kind of work than acting fictional characters--merely different.

I also think that everyone who found Cache/Hidden to be remarkable in the extreme needs to keep it in mind when it comes time to vote. Don't forget 2046, either--especially Doyle's cinematography and Raben's music--or any of the women of Broken Flowers (Lange, Conroy, even Stone) whose great (if temporally miniature) performances seem perfect for the "supporting" category.

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K. Knight (easy to forget because of the movie)

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Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd for Supporting Male Performance

Quote from: godardian on March 27, 2006, 11:31:23 PM
Saraband received its actual U.S. release in 2005.

Well fuck.

Please... someone vote Palindromes for Best Film... to make me feel better, if nothing else.

Haha, for once JB and I agree on something.

Palindromes was the best film of 2005, though that wasn't saying much considering how weak 2005 was.  Weakest year in a very long time.  But that's neither here nor there.

I'd like to remind everyone of The Squid and the Whale, Me and You and Everyone We Know, and in the documentary category, Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.  All performances in the former two were excellent as well.

And in the category of DVD release... Naked by Mike Leigh.

Quote from: onomabracadabra on March 30, 2006, 05:43:53 PM

And in the category of DVD release... Naked by Mike Leigh.

:yabbse-thumbup:!!!!!

Palindromes does deserve nods, too.... I won't give away where/what my voting preference was for it, but it doesn't HAVE to be in best picture; it had other elements going for it.

Remember Downfall for best film and best actor 

i liked last days' cinematography. it was neat.

Quote from: bonanzataz on March 30, 2006, 07:14:41 PM
i liked last days' cinematography. it was neat.

I think it was neat, too.

Also, nobody forget that Saraband had its US release in 2005, which means it's eligible for a BEST PICTURE nomination among all the other categories, including BEST PICTURE.

Quote from: onomabracadabra on March 30, 2006, 05:43:53 PM
And in the category of DVD release... Naked by Mike Leigh.

NOOOOOOOO!!!  I sent in my ballot already and I forgot to include the best film I saw in all of 2005!

Quote from: hacksparrow on March 31, 2006, 07:41:21 AM
NOOOOOOOO!!!  I sent in my ballot already and I forgot to include the best film I saw in all of 2005!

Just send a correction today.

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Best Actor, yo.

Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on March 31, 2006, 12:50:32 PM

Quote from: hacksparrow on March 31, 2006, 07:41:21 AM
NOOOOOOOO!!!  I sent in my ballot already and I forgot to include the best film I saw in all of 2005!

Just send a correction today.

All this time, I was thinking that we couldn't make changes after we sent it in, as opposed to the deadline.

correct away. just make it snappy.