Presenting...the 2008 Golden Steve Awards.
2) Several of the works under scrutiny received international distribution before January 1, 2008. However, they were unavailable to American audiences and thus ineligible for Golden Steve consideration until now.
3) This list is in no way connected with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
Best Picture
The Edge of Heaven
Gomorrah
Happy-Go-Lucky
Let the Right One In
My Winnipeg
The Wrestler
Fatih Akin, The Edge of Heaven
Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In
Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler
Matteo Garrone, Gomorrah
Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Guy Maddin, My Winnipeg
Best Actor
Michael Fassbender, Hunger
Brendan Gleeson, In Bruges
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn, Milk
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Actress
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Maria Heiskanen, Everlasting Moments
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Kristin Scott Thomas, I've Loved You So Long
Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy
Best Supporting Actor
Michel Blanc, The Witnesses
Josh Brolin, Milk
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky
Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road
Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz, Vicki Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis
Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Ann Savage, My Winnipeg
Hanna Schygulla, The Edge of Heaven
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Screenplay--Adapted
The Class (Francois Begaudeau, Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet)
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
Everlasting Moments (Niklas Radstrom, Jan Troell, Agneta Ulfsater-Troell)
Frost/Nixon (Peter Morgan)
Gomorrah (Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Gianni Di Gregorio, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso, Roberto Saviano)
Let the Right One In (John Ajvide Lindqvist)
Best Screenplay--Original
The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
Milk (Dustin Lance Black)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, George Toles)
Synechdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
The Wrestler (Robert Siegel)
Best Animated Feature
Chicago 10 (Brett Morgen)
$9.99 (Tatia Rosenthal)
WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman)
Best Non-Fiction Film
Bigger, Stronger, Faster (Chris Bell)
Chris and Don: A Love Story (Tina Mascara and Guido Santi)
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kurt Kuenne)
Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
Trouble the Water (Carl Deal and Tia Lessin)
Up the Yangtze (Yung Chang)
Best Foreign Language Film
The Class (Laurent Cantet)
The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin)
Everlasting Moments (Jan Troell)
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
Revanche (Gotz Spielmann)
Best Original Song
"Little Person," Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, Jon Brion)
"Once in a Lifetime," Cadillac Records (Ian Dench, Amanda Ghost, Beyonce Knowles)
"Trouble the Water," Trouble the Water (Kimberly Rivers Roberts)
"Up to Our Nex," Rachel Getting Married (Robyn Hitchcock)
"The Wrestler," The Wrestler (Bruce Springsteen)
3 comments:
Does the person who correctly predicts your selections win a trip to Mexico? I would hope so; but I'll also settle for a trip to a bar where they know how to make a martini nice and dry.
Best Picture: My Winnipeg
Best Director: Guy Maddin
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger (you dirty bleeding heart)
Best Supporting Actress: Marissa Tomei
Best feel-like-you're-doing-something-by-sitting-on-your-ass-in-an-air-conditioned-movie-theater-while-you-get-ideologically-sodomized: Slumdog Millionaire
Actually, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Since I, too, am submitting predictions, you shouldn't get your hopes up. Second prize is a set of steak knives, which I suspect could be exchanged for a splash of gin. Anybody want to see third prize?
Truth at 24 agrees with all its dirty bleeding heart on your Slumdog swipe. And as long as we're handing out raspberries...
Most self-important, self-indulgent, self-defeating slam on the notion of transcendent auteur genius...the nominees are:
Be Kind, Rewind (Michel Gondry)
Burn After Reading (The Coen Brothers)
Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
What a cinematic disgrace on Sunday. A sartorial disgrace, too, for the most part.
Well, disgrace might be too harsh. Maybe I should just say that I just wasn't that into the Oscars and leave it at that. No, alas; I cannot let lying dogs lie, or wretchedly dying dogs (as in the case The Spirit of the Oscars—or the Human Spirit) die. So, I've devised an award ceremony of my own. In an effort to disrupt (everyone's, but primarily Mr. Lime's) fantasies, I'm consciously eliding the time usually allowed for anticipation. Below, then, are my categories, my nominees, and my winners. (Proviso: the nominational decisions were difficult, because at times field of possibilities was very, very sweeping, and at others, very, very narrow; also, I have no respect for arbitrary temporal boundaries, such as, e.g., the films' being from the last calendar year.)
Best Commentary On Global Capitalism:
- The Wrestler
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno
- Hostel, Part II
- Serbis
- Frozen River
Winner: Serbis
Most Acute Signifier of the Death of American Feminism:
- Sex and the City
- Shopaholic
- Bride Wars
- He's Just Not That Into You
Winner: Sex and the City (The other three are all splendid examples of run-of-the-mill-bad, patriarchal films; but on Sex and the City managed such a sublime display of pseudo-empowerment.)
Worst Franchising Decision That Will Most Likely Go Unpunished Because People Are Non-discerning:
- The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
- Forrest Gump 2 (I think the release title was "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button")
- Saw V
Winner: Forrest Gump 2 (Shame on you, David Fincher. You are so eminently talented and perceptive; what the fuck happened?)
Most Awful Fashion Selection For Oscar Night:
- Angelina Jolie (Earrings and ring borrowed from a crackerjack box in 1952)
- Nicole Kidman (Feather dress reminiscent of Bjork, except that NK is not bizarre and icelandic)
- Phillip Seymour Hoffman (looked like a a homeless man)
- Sophia Loren (Has her life been continuous, or has she died and been put back together by mad scientists who also designed her dress? It's very unclear.)
Winner: Angelina Jolie (I'm sorry, but you're one of the most attractive people on earth. No bloody excuse.)
Worst Actor of All Time (Lifetime Achievement Award):
- Keanu Reeves
- Paris Hilton
- Dennis Rodman
- Kirsten Dunst
Winner: Kirsten Dunst (Fuck her and everything she's ever done. Even as a child in Interview with the Vampire, where all she had to do was perform deceitful innocence, she sucked.)
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