Memorable Scenes - The Film Experience

The Films of 2018. The 19th annual FiLM BiTCH Awards

and the nominees are...

Best Musical Scene in a Musical (or Performance Heavy Picture)

The First Concert Joanna Kulig & cast Cold War	"Eat Me Alive" Elle Fanning & Alex Sharp How to Talk to Girls at Parties	Royal Doulton Music Hall / Cover is Not the Book Emily Blunt & Lin-Manuel Miranda Mary Poppins Returns	"La Vie En Rose" Lady Gaga A Star is Born	"Shallow" Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper A Star is Born
It's crucial for the film's trajectory and dramatic / evolving callbacks that the first concert is jawdroppingly pure and breathtaking. Success.	A manic expressive wild and wacky collision of teenage rage, scattershot emotion, punk fever, sexual climax, and silly sci-fi	This two part number, the centerpiece of the sequel's most vivid and successful section is imaginatively rendered and joyfully performed.	This number, purposefully a bit scrappy and silly but smashingly performed, gives the big Hollywood movie a DIY charm to kick off the swoony romance	A seismic cinematic moment: Art blooming, a romantic leap of faith, destiny seized. It's the star's birth but as explosive as a supernova.

Finalists: "Always Remember Us This Way" and "Maybe It's Time" from A Star is Born, "Rock Around the Clock" from Cold War, "Nowhere to Go But Up" from Mary Poppins Returns Semi Finalists: "Waterloo" and "Mamma Mia!" and "Fernando" from Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Note: If a musical number opens or closes a film it is part of the opening or ending category.

Best Musical Scene in a Non-Musical

"Too Late to Turn Back Now" Laura Harrier and John David Washington BLACKkKLANSMAN	Traditional Irish Song Emma Thompson THE CHILDREN ACT	Court Dance Rachel Weisz & Nicholas Hoult THE FAVOURITE	"Rain on the Roof"* Hugh Grant and Cast PADDINGTON 2	"I've Never Been to Me" Joaquin Phoenix and YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE
Spirits are high and black joy is visible on the dance floor following a thrilling speech.	The charity dinner. It's all unravelling for this no nonsense high court judge.	The Favourite just keeps surprising, as in this delightfully anachronistic collision. But Queen Anne aint having it	The pleasure of this pink winking group number cannot be undersold. Too bad the film thinks its a credits sidebar!	The year's most surprising and most unnervingly gentle scene within such violent context.
Runners Up
Finalists: father and son dance We the Animals, 'dance with me, son' from Wildlife, rehearsal/mangling Suspiria, "when a cowboy trades his spurs for wings" from Ballad of Buster Scruggs Semi Finalists: african dance from Burning, "N*a Shit" from Sorry to Bother You, Tapdancing to Meatloaf in Book Club** Note: * If a musical number opens or closes a film it is part of the opening or ending category. We made an exception for Paddington 2 because it's kind of a post-ending ending and annoyingly not given full due with the credits rolling. But it would have made a smashing true ending to the movie!

Best Action Sequence

First Encounter with The Ghost ANT MAN AND THE WASP	Final battle AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR	Jack-Jack vs Raccoon INCREDIBLES 2	Bathroom MISSION IMPOSSIBLE FALLOUT	Han vs Chewie SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY
Surprising, well choreographd, and so much visual fx fun.	The entire movie is an action sequence. What to pinpoint?	Props for bravery and feistiness, raccoon, but you're outmatched.	Amazing stunt work, a different kind of 'guns' loaded	Funny, character-driven, and surprising.

Finalists: The Trench Aquaman, Casino Fight Black Panther , Heist x 2 Destroyer, Semi Finalists: Cliff Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Gemini Mission in *First Man* Final Tribe War Black Panther Iron Man SpiderMan and Dr Strange vs Thanos's minion Avengers Infinity War

Best Kiss

Henry Golding & Constance Wu CRAZY RICH ASIANS	Rachel McAdams & Rachel Weisz DISOBEDIENCE	Elle Fanning & Alex Sharp HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES	Nick Robinson & Keiynan Lonsdale LOVE SIMON	Bradley Cooper & Lady Gaga A STAR IS BORN
The proposal. Sweet and dreamy but grounded humorously by all that damn luggage.	"Do you think I should leave early?" No, Esti. No. So intimate. So tactile. So superbly acted!	And to think it begins with vomiting where you think a kiss would be. Then a series of funny, sweet, weird, alien-mating ritual liplocks.	Ferris wheel climax. The dream boyfriend arriving in the nth hour. He's not disappointed at all.	So much nuzzling adoration. May Cooper & Gaga find another reason to co-star.
Runners Up
Finalists: Joanna Kulig & Tomasz Kot in Cold War, Rachel Weisz & Olivia Colman in *The Favourite, Stephan James & Kiki Layne's in If Beale Street Could Talk* Semi Finalists: Nicole Kidman & Sebastian Stan in *Destroyer,* Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany in Avengers: Infinity War, Amandla Stenberg & KJ Apa / Amandla Stenberg & Algee Smith in The Hate U Give

Best Sex Scene

Eva Melander & Eero Milonoff BORDER	Joanna Kulig & Tomasz Kot COLD WAR	Rachel McAdams & Rachel Weisz DISOBEDIENCE	Lily Franky & Sakura Ando SHOPLIFTERS	Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, and Ron Livingston TULLY
Unforgettable in its shocking specificity of self discovery and animalistic passion	Torrid reunion sex. Their made-for-and-bad-for-each-other eroticism is fully realized by the actors. So steamy.	Character-driven, rushed, and ultra erotic... They've been waiting for years and they're all grown up now.	Two parents getting frisky when they're surprised to find themselves alone at "home". But oops, spoke too soon.	Perhaps too implied to register fully as a sex scene but so smart, naughty, and character-driven "I'll show you what he likes" that we had to include it.
Runners Up
Finalists: Abraham Lewis, Marina Bye, and Ross Tomlinson "Release. Merge. Let Go. Ascend" bisexual self-discovery in *How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Transactional hotness from Elizabeth Debicki & Lukas Haas in Widows, Yoo Ah-in overwhelmed by Jun Jong-Seo's aggressiveness in Burning. Semi Finalists: Michelle Pfeiffer & Keifer Sutherland's lonely colliding souls in Where is Kyra?, Tim Kalkhof and Sarah Adler /Roy Miller in The Cakemaker's deceitful mourning triangle, Stephan James & Kiki Layne's consummation/creation in If Beale Street Could Talk,* and Lesbian lunar tendencies via Marjorie Estiano & Isabél Zuaa in *Good Manners*

Best Opening Scene

BlacKkKlansman	Cold War	Eighth Grade	The Favourite	Widows
Gone with the Wind & hate speech	Recording folk songs	Opening vlog	A much too extravagant gift	A kiss / a job gone wrong
Runners Up
Finalists: memory newsreel Museo Semi Finalists: History of Wakanda Black Panther, "(Underneath the) Lovely London Sky" Mary Poppins Returns, Hotel purchase Crazy Rich Asians, 'an update on Emily' A Simple Favor, caught in the woods *Leave No Trace*

Best Ending

Disobedience	The Favourite	First Man	First Reformed	A Star is Born

Runners Up
Finalists: the scream Support the Girls, "I have a poem" The Kindergarten Teacher, couples portrait Wildlife Semi Finalists: BlacKkKlansman, Miseducation of Cameron Post, Cold War, and Western

Best Title Sequence Design

Annihilation (closing credits)	Ant-Man and the Wasp (closing credits)	Isle of Dogs (opening credits)	Roma (opening credits)	Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse (ending credits)
Hallucinogenic light show	Dioramas of the major sequences with shifting angles	That crazy good score illustrated plus multilingual credits	Hypnotic watery reflections	Busy duplicating textures and figures

Finalists: A Star is Born (opening title),The Darkest Minds (closing credits), Vice (mid-film credits) Semi Finalists: Crazy Rich Asians (opening/closing credits), *Black Panther* (closing credits), Hereditary (closing credits), A Simple Favor (opening credits)

Best Scenes (excluding aforementioned categories)

BURNING	EIGHTH GRADE	EIGHTH GRADE	HEREDITARY	ISLE OF DOGS
Dusk with a view of North Korea	Live shooter drill	The pool party	A family dinner	The Oracle

MUSEO	OLD MAN AND THE GUN	PADDINGTON 2	THE RIDER	ROMA
Thieves in the night	Multiple escapes	Pop up book for Aunt Lucy	Breaking the wild horse	The beach
		Finalists: Wildlife dinner date, If Beale Street two families/good news, If Beale Street two women in puerto rico, Love Simon 'you can breathe now', Ben is Back Ben is, well, back! Surprise, Crazy Rich Asians mahjong, Widows gun show, BlacKkKlansman 'polaroid' Semi-Finalists: Tully 'night in Brooklyn', If Beale Street "imaginary furniture", The Wife coffee with reporter, We the Animals fired from job, The Favourite a way in - bonding over rabbits, A Simple Favor 'role playing office visit'
A STAR IS BORN	VICE
Parking lot composition	Fake-out ending

NOMINATIONS IN ALL CATEGORIES, OSCAR PARALLEL AND EXTRA
(40 categories | 53 films honored)

14 nominations
A Star is Born (4 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze)

12 nominations
The Favourite (6 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)

11 nominations
BlacKkKlansman (2 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze)

9 nominations
Black Panther (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)

8 nominations
Cold War (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
First Man (2 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze)
Roma (2 gold, 3 silver)

7 nominations
Eighth Grade (1 silver, 4 bronze)

6 nominations
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (3 gold)
Crazy Rich Asians (1 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze)
Disobedience (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
Paddington 2 (2 silver)
Shoplifters (1 silver, 2 bronze)

5 nominations
Hereditary (1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
Isle of Dogs (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
Mary Poppins Returns (1 silver, 2 bronze)
We the Animals
Widows (1 gold, 3 silver)

4 nominations
Burning (1 gold)
First Rerformed (2 silver)
If Beale Street Could Talk (1 gold, 2 bronze)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (1 gold, 1 silver)

3 nominations
Annihilation (2 silver)
Ant Man and the Wasp (1 silver, 2 bronze)
Avengers Infinity War (1 gold)
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (1 bronze)
Museo (2 bronze)
Tully (1 gold, 1 bronze)
You Were Never Really Here (1 gold)

2 nominations
Border (2 gold)
Capernaum (1 gold)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (1 gold)
A Simple Favor (1 gold, 1 bronze)
Sorry to Bother You (1 silver)
Vice (1 bronze)
The Wife (1 silver, 1 bronze)
Wildlife (2 bronze)

1 nomination
El Angel (1 silver)
The Children Act
Destroyer
Girl
Incredibles 2 (1 silver)
A Quiet Place
Love Simon (1 silver)
Mary Queen of Scots
Oceans 8
Old Man and the Gun (1 silver)
The Rider
Ruben Brandt Collector (1 bronze)
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Support the Girls
Suspiria

some random stats for fun (so far)
Please note: I am not thinking about these things at all while nominating! They are not intentional results. I'm only thinking about "best in ___ category"

RANDOM FILM BITCH STUFF
• most gold medals: THE FAVOURITE (5 wins)
• most medals, any color: A STAR IS BORN (10 wins)
• most noms for a film that did not make my top ten list: BLACK PANTHER (9 nominations)
• only film that won gold medals with each nomination: BORDER (2 noms/2 golds)
• most noms without any medal wins: WE THE ANIMALS (5 nominations)
• least medals for any of our best picture nominees: SHOPLIFTERS (3 medals)
• most medals for a film not in our best picture list: FIRST MAN (6 medals)
• most noms for a film I was lukewarm on: IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (4 nominations)
• most noms for a film I didn't like at all really: VICE (2 nominations)
• film I saw the most times this year: A STAR IS BORN (3 times + 1 at home)
• most noms for a foreign language film: [tie] COLD WAR from Poland and ROMA from Mexico (8 nominations)
• least noms for a film I am madly in love with: TULLY (3 nominations... what the hell, Nathaniel?)
• least noms for a film in my top ten list: A SIMPLE FAVOR (2 nominations)
• highest ranking films in my own take on the year with zero nominations here: WESTERN at #14 (okay, now I feel bad) runner up is I FEEL PRETTY my 35th favourite of the year (so underrated as the comedies go)

INDIVIDUAL PERFORMERS AND/OR ACTING PRIZES
• most medals won by a single person: Lady Gaga (5 medals - best song x 2, best song score, best musical scene x 2)
• runner up most medals won by a single person: Rachel Weisz (4 medals - diva, kiss, sex scene, ensemble)
• film with most medals for acting categories [TIE]: SHOPLIFTERS (ensemble, supporting actress, youth performance) and WIDOWS (ensemble, supporting actress, breakthrough performer)

RELATED TO OSCAR STUFF
• most noms for a film not nominated for Oscar's Best Picture: COLD WAR and FIRST MAN (8 nominations)
• most noms for a film nominated for Oscar's Best Picture: A STAR IS BORN (also the nomination leader with 14)
• most noms for a film that received ZERO Oscar love: EIGHTH GRADE (7 nominations)
• most noms for a film that received only 1 Oscar nomination: SHOPLIFTERS (6 nominations)
• least noms for a best picture nominee: GREEN BOOK and BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (no nominations)