2012 Xixax Awards: FINAL VOTE!

[MacGuffin]

It's time to vote for the 2012 Xixax Awards! This is the final vote!

Send your votes in through PM, following all the rules. The deadline is Friday, March 16.

Any questions? Ask them here.

THE RULES:

you have to
1. vote privately:
. . . .If your username begins begins with A-F (or #), send your ballot to Jeremy Blackman
. . . .If your username begins begins with G-K, send your ballot to modage
. . . .If your username begins begins with L-P, send your ballot to picolas
. . . .If your username begins begins with Q-Z, send your ballot to MacGuffin
2. copy the form below and paste it into your PM
3. delete all titles except your vote, elimination-style
4. title your PM "final vote" (please!)

you should
1. be honest
2. vote from personal opinion (not strategically or by consensus)

you can't
1. send more than one ballot
2. vote from multiple times or from different usernames
3. type out your ballot (you have to copy & paste!)
4. add anything to the ballot
5. change the order of the categories
6. share your votes publicly (yet)
7. change your ballot after the deadline

you can
1. vote for some categories or all categories
2. vote any time between now and March 16




COPY AND PASTE, DELETING ALL TITLES BUT YOUR VOTE...



BEST FILM
Drive
Melancholia
Midnight In Paris
Shame
The Tree of Life

BEST DIRECTOR
Drive
Melancholia
Submarine
The Skin I Live In
The Tree of Life

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Kirsten Dunst - Melancholia
Charlotte Gainsbroug - Melancholia
Rooney Mara - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Elizabeth Olsen - Martha Marcy May Marlene
Kristen Wiig - Bridesmaids

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Michael Fassbender - Shame
Ryan Gosling - Drive
Hunter McCracken - The Tree of Life
Andy Serkis - Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Owen Wilson - Midnight in Paris

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Berenice Bejo - The Artist
Jessica Chastain - The Help
Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids
Carey Mulligan - Shame
Shailene Woodley - The Descendants

BEST SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE
Albert Brooks - Drive
Bryan Cranston - Drive
Patton Oswalt - Young Adult
Christopher Plummer - Beginners
Corey Stoll - Midnight in Paris

BEST SCREENPLAY
Drive
Melancholia
Midnight In Paris
Moneyball
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Drive
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Hugo
Melancholia
The Tree of Life

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC
Contagion
Drive
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Hanna
Submarine

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
Hugo
Melancholia
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The Tree of Life

BEST DEBUT FILM
Attack the Block
Bellflower
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Submarine
Tyrannosaur

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Life in a Day
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Project Nim
Tabloid

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Rango

BEST TRAILER






BEST FILM POSTER
Drive
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Hobo with a Shotgun
Shame
The Tree of Life

BEST TV SHOW
Boardwalk Empire
Breaking Bad
Community
Game of Thrones
Louie

WORST FILM
Cars 2
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Green Hornet
Jack and Jill
Sucker Punch

BEST FILM OF 2010 (REDUX)
Black Swan
Enter the Void
Inception
Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
The Social Network

[Fernando]

guess not a lot of ppl saw we need to talk about kevin, because that at the very least should have had Tilda Swinton for best female performance. 

also surprised by the lack of love for tinker tailor..

other than the above, its all good.

[modage]

'Kevin' missed it by a hair. Get out the vote, y'all!

[Fernando]

what happened to the DVD category? not enough votes?

I actually didnt put a single one because I havent bought one in ages.

[Sleepless]

Not a bad list considering there's been a number of divisive films this year, although there's a number of categories where I know who I'm going to vote for simply as a matter of elimination. Oh, and Kristen Fucking Wigg? Seriously?

[Jeremy Blackman]

what happened to the DVD category? not enough votes?

I actually didnt put a single one because I havent bought one in ages.

Mostly lack of votes. Only 2 DVDs got more than 1 vote, and one of those actually won last year. So yes... the DVD category is a dead category right now. Which is fine.

Something similar happened in the Animated Feature category. The two films up for voting got 7-8 votes each. Nothing else got more than 1 vote. Which is also fine.

But the voting turnout was healthy in the other categories... even Poster and Trailer.

[polkablues]

Maybe if Criterion steps up their game, the category will be back next year.

Oh, and Kristen Fucking Wigg? Seriously?

I kind of got the sense from that category that people were just racking their brains trying to remember five movies from last year with a female lead.

[Reel]

This was the Shame poster I nominated for. I guess it got banned so not a lot of people got to see it:

[squints]

 
Ok, I didn't vote this year because there's a painful amount of films I've yet to see. I've only seen Drive, Melancholia and Tree of Life. I also specifically didn't vote because I love this place's taste and now i have a list of films i must see before March 16th:

Midnight in Paris - Still playing in a small theater in the shitty part of town, I'll see this Monday.

All out on dvd,blu-ray, instant video so i have no excuse:
The Skin I Live In - Same as above
Submarine
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Moneyball
Hugo

Young Adult - Not out till March 13th
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Not out on video till March 20th
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Not out til March 20th, but it is still playing in a couple theaters.
Tyrannosaur - Not out on video till April 10th
Shame - Not out til April 17th
The Fartist - On dvd....?
Should i just DL these?

[matt35mm]

Midnight in Paris is also out on instant video via iTunes (so you can rent it for $4 or $5). Might be better than going to a small theater in the shitty part of town...

[MacGuffin]

Have you voted yet?

[malkovich]

No 'A Separation' for best screenplay?

*sighs*

Not enough people saw it, I guess.

[Pubrick]

Oh, they saw it. They just didn't read the subtitles.

[I am Schmi]

I'm with you malkovich, I put it down, was surprised not to see it here actually. My votes will be in by the end of the day today.

[polkablues]

To: Everyone

If you haven't voted, hurry up!  Polls close at the end of the day.