Film Bitch Nominees. Final Categories
Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 7:00PM Whew that took me too long this year? I'm working on a new system for 2011, building templates already so we'll see if it pans out. I can't promise anything but I really want something smooth and daily next December/January with the medals handed out before the Oscars. I can dream. I'll wrap up with gold silver and bronze medals Monday or Tuesday but for now...
Best Sex Scenes, Best Kiss, Openings, Endings, Title Sequences, & Best Scenes...
Featuring achievements from 127 Hours, Black Swan, Somewhere, Mother, The Kids Are All Right, I Am Love and many more... all of which are now available on DVD. If you live in a city that doesn't get the movies on time, are you finally all caught up on your 2010 viewing? Was Blue Valentine your lone holdout?
Enjoy and please comment. But don't fall in love with married lesbians.
Film Bitch Awards, Year in Review
Reader Comments (14)
So much I like here. It's great to see these up. Personally my favorites among your nominees are the opening scene of Black Swan, the ending of The Ghost Writer, and the opening credits of I Am Love.
Surely this is the worst a Best Picture has ever done in your awards with King's Speech only getting one nom for Art Direction?
Dean -- hmmm. i dunno. I've never done any comparative studies. I don't even dislike The King's Speech actually. I think it's pleasant... just not anything to get worked up about in any particular way.
Is there any chance that you're going to put up your archived FilmBitch awards on this site?
Will there be a Best Individual Line Reading category this year? I was disappointed by its absence. Still, I'm happy to see your awards every year!
While I hated Enter the Void, the title sequence was truly amazing. Here's a link to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL0lNGXoP8E
I love the Film Bitch Awards. Strongest category is definitely Best Musical Moments (in a non-musical) haha. Those moments were the highlight of all those movies.
Great wrap-up, although I really miss the individual line reading category as well - that was often my favorite category! :(
Where is the love for Joan Rivers: a Piece of Work??? :-)
But so happppppppy to see Blue Valentine in Best Credits... So hauntingly beautiful!
Jasper, I just tried to watch the Enter the Void credits and all I can say is next time PLEASE give a warning "Not for Epileptics" (or something of the sort they put on cigarette packs); I thought I was going to have a seizure (yes, I do have epilepsy, no joke) watching that thing.
Re King's Speech: you got it right with the lack of nominations, Nathaniel. I'm one of those persons who actively dislike the movie for a number of reasons: blandness, royalist Anglophilia, the whitewashing of the actual king's anti-Semitism, the puerile psychologizing, the histrionic and dull-witted camera moves, Geoffrey Rush's alternating between his usual hypermuggery and an insincere sincerity. I thought Colin Firth was superb in "A Single Man" so I wasn't upset when he won this year, but his King isn't really one of his best performances; British actors turn into cardboard when they're trying to "respect" the lives of their royals. At least with Helen Mirren in "The Queen" you were entertained by her mimicry of a real-life person that we actually knew. About the only thing I liked about "The King's Speech" was, strangely enough, Helena Bonham-Carter, who brought some spice to the truly thankless "supportive-wife" role.
great film.
Made in Dagenham was the one film that kept evading me, and then I saw it one week after I wrapped up my fake ballot. I keep praying for Rosamund Pike to get some serious love. She's so effortlessly charming, it's ridiculous that she doesn't have a real lead role to her name (though I'm excited to see her TV version of Women in Love).