It's time to vote for the 2006 Xixax Awards nominations!
Send your votes in through PM, following all the rules. The deadline is Friday March 31, ten days from today.
THE RULES:
you have to
1. vote privately:
. . . .If your username begins begins with A-F (or #), send your ballot to Jeremy Blackman (http://xixax.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=21)
. . . .If your username begins begins with G-K, send your ballot to ©brad (http://xixax.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=60)
. . . .If your username begins begins with L-P, send your ballot to modage (http://xixax.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=394)
. . . .If your username begins begins with Q-Z, send your ballot to MacGuffin (http://xixax.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=9)
2. copy the form provided below and paste it into your PM
3. only list the movie in each category, not the person who would win (unless it's an acting category)
4. specify the actor and movie (for the acting categories), like this: Actor - "Movie"
5. use the most common title with foreign films (ask if you're not sure)
6. use full titles ("Good Night and Good Luck" instead of "GNAGL")
7. (for the DVD category) specify the original theatrical release date if there are different versions or remakes
8. nominate titles in alphabetical order
9. title your PM "nominations" (please!)
you should
1. be honest
2. vote from personal opinion (not strategically or by consensus)
you can't
1. nominate more than 5 movies per category
2. send more than one ballot
3. vote from different memberships
4. write your nominations with caps lock on
5. nominate publicly
6. put "the" before anything
7. change your ballot after March 31
you can
1. nominate fewer than 5 per category (whatever you're comfortable with)
2. leave whole categories blank
3. nominate box sets in the Best DVD Release category
copy and paste....
BEST FILM
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BEST DIRECTOR
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BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
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BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
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BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE PERFORMANCE
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BEST SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE
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BEST SCREENPLAY
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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
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BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC
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BEST EDITING
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BEST SOUND
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BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
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BEST DEBUT FILM
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BEST DOCUMENTARY
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BEST DVD RELEASE
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A few notes.
Here (http://www.oscars.org/78academyawards/reminder/reminder_list.html)'s a full list of films eligible for this year's Oscars. Use this as a rough guideline if you're unsure about something. If you have any questions about eligibility or anything else, ask them here.
Our "performance" and "supporting performance" categories have caused quite a bit of confusion in the past. The Xixax Awards define these categories a little differently. Notice that we don't have a "leading" category. In other words, performances are performances, and "supporting" performances should really truly be supporting. A supporting performance in the Xixax Awards is usually smaller than a supporting performance in the Oscars.
I've put together a list of some of this year's popular titles with "performance" vs. "supporting performance" eligibility. If it's not listed here, we'll need some opinions to determine eligibility in the less obvious cases.
See the 2005 (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=7152.msg172320#msg172320) and 2004 (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=5182.msg114097#msg114097) nominations for more guidance.
Brokeback Mountain
performances: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal
supporting performances: everyone else
Capote
performances: PSH
supporting performances: everyone else
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
performances: Johnny Depp
supporting performances: everyone else
Crash
performances: the main ensemble cast. Cheadle, Bullock, Phillipe, Howard, Dillon, etc.
supporting performances: everyone else. Fichtner, Devine, Danza, Esposito, David, etc.
Downfall
performances: Bruno Ganz
supporting performances: everyone else
Harry Potter
performances: Radcliffe, Watson, Gleeson
supporting performances: everyone else
A History of Violence
performances: Viggo Mortensen
supporting performances: everyone else
Hustle & Flow
performances: Terrence Howard
supporting performances: everyone else
Jarhead
performances: Gyllenhaal
supporting performances: everyone else
Kontroll
performances: Csányi
supporting performances: everyone else
Kung Fu Hustle
performances: Stephen Chow
supporting performances: everyone else
Last Days
performances: Michael Pitt
supporting performances: everyone else
Me and You and Everyone We Know
performances: July, Hawkes
supporting performances: everyone else
Munich
performances: Eric Bana
supporting performances: everyone else
The New World
performances: Farrell, Kilcher, Bale
supporting performances: everyone else
Palindromes
supporting performances: everyone
Red Eye
performances: McAdams, Murphy
supporting performances: everyone else
Save the Green Planet
performances: Ha-kyun Shin
supporting performances: everyone else
Sin City
performances: Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Nick Stahl, Bruce Willis
supporting performances: everyone else
Star Wars
performances: Christensen, Portman, McDiarmid, McGregor
supporting performances: everyone else
Syriana
performances: Clooney, Damon, Wright, Siddig
supporting performances: everyone else
Turtles Can Fly
performances: Ebrahim, Latif, Feysal
supporting performances: everyone else
So, what, Clooney/Gyllenhaal/etc. can't be voted as supporting?
Quote from: Derek237 on March 21, 2006, 02:19:43 PM
So, what, Clooney/Gyllenhaal/etc. can't be voted as supporting?
Right.
"Supporting Performance" is a much smaller (and you could say less important) category.
Rachel Weisz in Constant Gardener. Leading or Supporting? I feel like she rides the line.
Quote from: hacksparrow on March 22, 2006, 12:44:34 PM
Rachel Weisz in Constant Gardener. Leading or Supporting? I feel like she rides the line.
weisz is (leading) performance. in that film her and fiennes are leading and danny huston and bill nighy are supporting.
I've only been here a few months and haven't posted a whole lot yet. Is there any particular criteria for which Xixax members are eligible for participating in the vote?
Quote from: Split Infinitive on March 22, 2006, 05:01:25 PM
I've only been here a few months and haven't posted a whole lot yet. Is there any particular criteria for which Xixax members are eligible for participating in the vote?
You're fine to vote.
Didn't see Good Night and Good Luck on the list of films. How would that one work? Strathairn be the only lead and the rest supporting?
Quote from: Derek237 on March 22, 2006, 07:56:05 PM
Didn't see Good Night and Good Luck on the list of films. How would that one work? Strathairn be the only lead and the rest supporting?
I would say Strathairn and Clooney are leads, everyone else supporting.
I'd just like to make a plea for
AMY ADAMS. I guess in the supporting category, although an argument could be made. Too many people see it as just a comic-relief performance, I don't think many people really appreciate the depth that she brings to it.
And while I'm at it, Alessandro Nivola for supporting dude.
edit: Please pretend the second part of this post was put in the correct thread. :doh:
I think Amy Adams is going to be in the lead category, not supporting, based on JB's examples so far. She's as big a part of that movie as anything else. I don't think people see her as just comic-relief... but maybe I'm wrong about that.
Alessandro Nivola is supporting, though.
I know it's a bit late but might I suggest something a friend of mine came up with a few years back?
The Jesus Quintana Award.
This goes to a notable actor or actress who plays a quirky, funny bit role or minor supporting character and steals the movie in as little time as possible. For example, the 1999 winner was Alfred Molina as Solomon Solomon in Magnolia. Philip Seymour Hoffman won it for Punch-Drunk Love in 2002. If my friend had thought it up in 1997, Casey Affleck might have won it for Good Will Hunting. You get the idea.
We never officially gave it to anyone this year, but I'm inclined to consider Andy Serkis, not as Kong but as the cook.
Just a suggestion.
Alfred Molina? Why not Henry Gibson as Thurston Howell, or shit even Luis Guzman is more memorable the Molina.
I guess I'm for it because I already feel passionately for these sample winners.
Quote from: Gamblour le flambeur on March 24, 2006, 12:37:26 PM
Alfred Molina? Why not Henry Gibson as Thurston Howell, or shit even Luis Guzman is more memorable the Molina.
Guzman was the runner-up that year. We gave it to Molina because Molina (actually
he would have won in 1997... if my friend thought of it sooner, it would probably have been called the Rahad Jackson award) is better known as a serious actor whereas Guzman was being Guzman, so Molina being funny was a better fit. Henry Gibson's part was both too serious (though definitely quirky and scene-stealing) and too important to the movie to qualify for the Jesus Quintana award.
polka, your campaign-a-tar is brilliant. i wish i had thought of it. :bravo:
Quote from: modage on March 24, 2006, 04:53:05 PM
polka, your campaign-a-tar is brilliant.
tell me about it. i'm voting imbruglia for everything.
I asked about Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession in the CAMPAIGN thread but got no answer; does it qualify in the doc category?
And Scarlett Johanssen in Match Point? Leading or Supporting?
huh, i have yet to receive a single nomination from the G-K folk.
come on peeps! only a couple days left!
Quote from: ©brad on March 28, 2006, 02:23:40 PM
huh, i have yet to receive a single nomination from the G-K folk.
come on peeps! only a couple days left!
If you or anyone else can answer my post above yours, you'll get one tonight.
so did anybody decide if amy adams will be leading or supporting actress?
Quote from: meatwad on March 28, 2006, 04:42:40 PM
so did anybody decide if amy adams will be leading or supporting actress?
I put her down for leading.
z qualifies as a doc. scarlett is leading in match point. amy adams is leading. camilla belle is leading.
everyone is leading unless they literally have no lines and aren't listed in the credits.
Quote from: Pubrick on March 29, 2006, 04:00:37 AM
everyone is leading unless they literally have no lines and aren't listed in the credits.
Or unless you're Randy Quaid.
Note: It's important that all nominations come in today or tomorrow. We'd like to get them counted as soon as we can. (Please no late ballots!)
i think i'm sitting the nomination round out.
That's stupid. Why? Why, if you had any interest whatsoever in the proceedings, would you abstain?
i just haven't really gotten aroudn to it, not sure what i would even nominate if i did...eh, i'll probably do it before the night's over. at least a couple of the main categories.
dont sit out. its important that everyone participates. even if you're only passionate about 2 categories, vote for those. if you only saw 3 good films last year only nominate 3 films. if you only saw 2 good performances only nominate those. you dont have to fill up your whole card with 5 nominees for every category if you feel you haven't seen enough. if you saw one good film last year, you should vote.
In The Realms of the Unreal has a 2004 release date but was shown in theatres here in 2005. Does it count?
if the major US release was 2005, which i believe it was, yes.
what about any of the controversial classics (network, dog day) would those qualify?
Quote from: squints on March 30, 2006, 08:52:39 PM
what about any of the controversial classics (network, dog day) would those qualify?
for best dvd? no, they were released this year 2006.
Quote from: modage on March 30, 2006, 08:59:45 PM
Quote from: squints on March 30, 2006, 08:52:39 PM
what about any of the controversial classics (network, dog day) would those qualify?
for best dvd? no, they were released this year 2006.
Oops.
what about downfall.[2004/5]?
Quote from: pyramid machine on March 30, 2006, 09:42:00 PM
what about downfall.[2004/5]?
how bout reading the third post of the thread?
Quote from: Cinephile on March 30, 2006, 09:44:30 PM
Quote from: pyramid machine on March 30, 2006, 09:42:00 PM
what about downfall.[2004/5]?
how bout reading the third post of the thread?
:nono:
i want someone to tell me so i dont have to..... :yabbse-tongue: