Help Me With My "Critics Choice" Ballot

Voting has begun for the BFCA's 'Critics Choice' prize and I thought I'd ask for your input as a memory jog. Though I do keep track of my favorite achievements in film during the year I always forget about the categories that I don't have in my own FiLM BiTCH prizes so I definitely need help with those.

I already asked for help on Twitter but for those of you who don't follow me there (what's wrong with you?) Please sound off here about your suggestions in the following categories:

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (under 21)
BEST ACTION MOVIE  

and the following are *new* categories this year

BEST ACTOR in a COMEDY
BEST ACTRESS in a COMEDY
BEST ACTOR in a ACTION FILM
BEST ACTRESS in an ACTION FILM 
BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE

Make your FYC cases in the comment! Limit yourself to 3 choices in each category - that's all we get to put on the ballot (so difficult)

Comments

[zach]

My biggest FYC would be Greta Gerwig in Damsels in Distress for comedy actress

[Matt]

Young Actor - Logan Lerman (Perks)
Action Movie - Looper
Sci Fi - Promethus

[3rtful]

These are my options? I don't believe I've seen a single comedy released this year unless you count the horrible and someday will be funny to most Looper?

[eurocheese]

Young Actor/Actress - Please tell me Miss Wallis takes your top slot! Beyond her, Logan Lerman is technically young enough (I think). The kid from Looper was pretty good too.

Action Movie - Looper, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, Haywire, Skyfall... lots of choices

Comedy Actor - Channing for 21 Jump Street... yeesh, and that's all that comes to mind

Comedy Actress - Bachelorette and Pitch Perfect should give you enough options

Action Actor - See my Action Movie picks

Action Actress - The girl from Haywire, Scarlet in The Avengers and best of all, soon-to-be-Oscared Catwoman

Best Sci Fi/Horror - OK Looper goes here actually. Cabin in the Woods and Cloud Atlas are great picks too.

[tracep]

Best Young Actor/Actress:
1) Pierce Gagnon - Looper
2) Ezra Miller - Perks of Being a Wallflower
3) Logan Lerman - Perks of Being a Wallflower

Best Action Movie:
1) The Dark Knight Rises
2) Spiderman
3) Haywire

Best Actor in a Comedy:
1) Adam Scott - Friends with Kids
2) Andy Samberg - Celeste and Jesse Forever
3) Channing Tatum - 21 Jump Street

Best Actress in a Comedy:
1) Jennifer Westfeldt - Friends with Kids
2) Rashida Jones - Celeste and Jesse Forever
3) Ari Graynor - Celeste and Jesse Forever

Best Actor in an Action Film:
1) Tom Hardy - The Dark Knight Rises
2) Andrew Garfield - Spiderman
3) Mark Ruffalo - The Avengers

Best Actress in an Action Film:
1) Emma Stone - Spiderman
2) Anne Hathaway - The Dark Knight Rises
3) Charlize Theron - Prometheus/Snow White

Best Sci-fi/Horror Movie:
1) The Cabin in the Woods
2) Looper
3) Prometheus

[Devin D]

Keep in mind...

Best Young Actor:
Jared Gilman or Kara Hayward for Moonrise Kingdom
and
Logan Lerman or Ezra Miller for The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Best Action Movie:
Haywire (since all of my favorite action films from this year, excluding Skyfall, are firstly science fiction films - plus, I didn't see The Raid: Redemption)

Best Actor in a Comedy:
Sam Rockwell for Seven Psychopaths

Best Actress in a Comedy:
(Isn't it wrong that next to nothing besides) Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook (is coming to me?)

Best Actor in an Action Film:
Michael Fassbender for Prometheus (unless, of course, they have a Sci-Fi/Horror acting category)
and
Mark Ruffalo for The Avengers

Best Actress in an Action Film:
Judi Dench for Skyfall

Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie:
Looper
and
Prometheus

Boy, categories like these sure do make you think a whole lot!

[morganisaqt]

Best Actor in a Comedy: Mathew McConaughey - Magic Mike or Tom Cruise - Rock of Ages
Best Actress in a Comedy: Kirsten Dunst - Batchelorette or Eva Green - Dark Shadows
Best Actor in an Action Film: Fassbender - Prometheus??? or if not, JGL in Looper
Best Actress in an Action Film: Judi Dench - Skyfall OR Emily Blunt - Looper
Best Action Film - Skyfall/Looper
Best Young Actress: Chloe Moretz - JOKING HAHAHA, Quvenzhane Wallis should be a shoo-in this year surely?

[Dean]

Just one FYC for Young Actor/Actress:

Kaya Scodelario in Wuthering Heights

[Squasher88]

Best Young Actor/Actress - Logan Lerman, Quvenzhane Wallis
Best Comedy Actor - Channing Tatum (21 Jump Street)
Best Action Actor - Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-Man)
Best Action Actress - Anne Hathaway (TDKR)
Best Sci-Fi - Prometheus

[Fernando Moss]

Best Action Actress (or is it a Comedy?)

SALMA HAYEK in Savages!!!!!!!!!!!

[JS]

I want to suggest Steve Carell and Keira Knightley for Best Comedy Actor/Actress in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, but your list of 2012 Reviewed Films tells me you haven't seen it! It's a far from perfect, but very interesting film. Everyone should give it a try.

[TB]

Welp. This was helpful for me to figure out all the things I missed I guess. I don't know how helpful it will be for you Nathaniel, but here's what I've got.

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (under 21)
1. Quevanzhane Wallis would seem like the obvious one, but is she eligible?
2. Jared Gilman for Moonrise Kingdom
3. Katy Hayward for Moonrise Kingdom

Of the movies I haven't been able to see yet, I've heard great things about Tom Holland in The Impossible, and both Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller in Perks Of Being a Wallflower are under 21.

Best Action Movie
1. The Avengers, which was good, but it is the only maybe action movie I saw this year.

Skyfall comes to mind first for the rest of the unseen field though. With Looper and Haywire being the other two I was disappointed to miss. Maybe Savages would work here?

BEST ACTOR in a COMEDY
1. Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook. I was very surprised at how much I liked him in this.
2. Andy Samburg for Celeste And Jesse Forever. Another pleasant surprise for me.
3. I'd say Bruce Willis or Bill Murray for Moonrise Kingdom, but are they leads?

Jack Black for Bernie seems possible of the things I haven't seen. And depending how you categorize The Sessions, maybe John Hawkes would work here as well. Maybe the Hope Springs fellows?

BEST ACTRESS in a COMEDY
1. Rashida Jones for Celeste And Jesse Forever. No question. It's so frustrating that this movie was seen by so few people because when a performer ARRIVES like this, you want them to be greeted with the kind of fanfare a performance like this warrants. This was a Holly Hunter in Broadcast News "Moment" with a capital M. And nobody saw it.
2. Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook
3.

I think the ladies from Bachelorette are the obvious ones here that I haven't seen. Again maybe The Sessions would work for this category. Maybe Meryl for Hope Springs? Maybe Emma Watson for Perks?

BEST ACTOR in a ACTION FILM
1. Mark Ruffalo for The Avengers

From what I haven't seen, maybe Joseph Gordon Levitt for Looper.

BEST ACTRESS in an ACTION FILM
1. Scarlett Johanssen for The Avengers
2. Jennifer Lawrence for The Hunger Games
3. Noomi Rapace for Prometheus

And that's all folks. I've heard great things about Gina Carano in Haywire though.

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
1. Prometheus, which really grew on me since I saw it.

Looper would fit here too, though I missed it in theaters.

[Taylor]

Best Action Film: The Dark Knight Rises
Best Sci-Fi/Horror Film: Looper
Best Actor in a Comedy: Jason Segel, Jeff Who Lives at Home
Best Actress in a Comedy: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook / Rashida Jones, Celeste and Jesse Forever
Best Actor in an Action Film: Michael Fassbender, Prometheus (if that counts) / Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Looper)
Best Actress in an Action Film: Anne Hathaway, The Dark Knight Rises / Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games

[Joe K]

Actor/Actress under 21:
Logan Lerman-Perks
Quvenzhane Wallis (obviously)
Either of the Moonrise Kingdom Kids (or both?)

Actor in a Comedy:
Channing Tatum in either Magic Mike or 21 Jump Street
Sam Rockwell in Seven Psychopaths

Actor in an Action Film:
Andrew Garfield in Spider-Man (sure, the movie was awful, but he was awfully charismatic)
Chris Evans in the Avengers (he does most of the heavy lifting in that movie, with little thanks)

Actress in an Action Film
Emma Stone in Spider-Man (same argument as for Andy G)
Elizabeth Banks in The Hunger Games (am I the only one who's disappointed that she's not in the Supporting Actress discussion?)
Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games (because *she'll know* if we don't vote for her)

Sci-Fi/Horror:
Cabin in the Woods
Cloud Atlas
Chronicle (Why aren't more people talking about this one?)

[SVG]

I'll echo the Fassbender/Dench/Blunt/McConaughey/Lawrence/Hathaway love from my fellow commenters and add a few others for your consideration!

Action-wise: Liam Neeson in The Grey. This felt very him- I think he suits these serious outdoorsy roles. I really liked him in Seraphim Falls a few years ago as well. I have him cast in my imaginary Viking film. My other one would be Guy Pearce in Lockout. So fun! If only the film had been up to his standards. And, does Savages count as an action film? If so, Salma Hayek goes at the top of my list! I loved her in this.

And for comedy I'd just add Seann William Scott in Goon. This might be one of my favourite performances of the year. It really surprised me! There's a scene in it where he threatens someone and there was such menace that he shot to the top of my out-of-the-box villain casting list. I hope he does more work like this.

[the boyfriend]

best actress in a comedy? Babs. Duh.

[Glenn]

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (under 21)
Shannon Beer and Soloman Glave in "Wuthering Heights"
Fenessa Pineda & Venecia Troncoso in "Mosquita y Mari" (if they qualify, I'm not sure of their ages)

BEST ACTION MOVIE
"Killing Them Softly"
"The Dark Knight Rises"
"End of Watch"

BEST ACTOR in a COMEDY
Logan Lerman in "Perks of Being a Wallflower" (best thing in it, for sure)
Chris Messina in "Ruby Sparks" (supporting role, but comedy actors seem quite thin this year)
Alex Ross Perry in "The Color Wheel" (just 'cause)

BEST ACTRESS in a COMEDY
Leslie Mann in "This is 40" (she was the best thing about it)
Anna Kendrick in "Pitch Perfect" (her barely concealed contempt for the material is actually spot on for the role)
Kirsten Dunst in "Bachelorette" (so icy and she does fake nice so well)

BEST ACTOR in a ACTION FILM
Scoot McNairy in "Killing Them Softly" (perhaps by #1 male performance of the year)
Dane DeHaan in "Chronicle" (because he was actually quite good, yeah?)
Andrew Garfield in "The Amazing Spider-Man" (because he was great even if the film around him was mediocre)

BEST ACTRESS in an ACTION FILM
Emma Stone in "The Amazing Spider-Man" (see above)
Judi Dench in "Skyfall" (etc)
America Ferrara for "End of Watch" (I thought she gave the minimal role some fine gravitas)

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
"The Innkeepers"
"Prometheus"
"Frankenweenie"/ "Paranorman" (child-friendly, but horror nonetheless)

[Phillip R.]

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (under 21)
this one is a toughy! A lot of great performances by young thespians this year...
-Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
-Jared Gilman, Moonrise Kingdom
-Ezra Miller, Perks of Being a Wallflower
-Pierce Gagnon, Looper

BEST ACTION MOVIE
-Dark Knight Rises
-Avengers
-Skyfall

BEST ACTOR in a COMEDY
-Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
-Matthew McConaghey, Magic Mike
-Jonah Hill, 21 Jump Street

BEST ACTRESS in a COMEDY
-Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
-Isla Fischer, Bachelorette
-Emily Blunt, Five Year Engagement
-Rebel Wilson, Pitch Perfect

BEST ACTOR in a ACTION FILM
-Daniel Craig, Skyfall
-Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Looper
-Tom Hardy, The Dark Knight Rises

BEST ACTRESS in an ACTION FILM
-Anne Hathaway, Dark Knight Rises
-Scarlett Johannson - Avengers
-Jennifer Lawrence, Hunger Games

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
-Cabin in the Woods
-Prometheus

[Devil Shark]

Actor in a Comedy:: Channing Tatum in 21 Jump Street. FUCK SCIENCE!
Adam Scott, Friends With Kids
Jack Black, Bernie

Actress in a Comedy: Greta Gerwig in Damsels in Distress
Anna Kendrick, Pitch Perfect
Rashida Jones, Celeste and Jesse Forever

Actor in an Action Film: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Looper
Guy Pearce, Lockout
Daniel Craig, Skyfall

Actress in an Action Film: Judi Dench, Skyfall
Gina Carano, Haywire
Olivia Thirlby, Dredd

[Dback]

Young Actor: Agreed, Logan Lerman. #2: Emma Watson
Best Action Movie: "The Hunger Games" (#2 "The Avengers")

Best Comedy Actor: Jason Segel, "Jeff Who Lives At Home" (#2 Jared Gilman)
Best Comedy Actress: Rosemary Dewitt, "Your Sister's Sister" (#2 Susan Sarandon, "Jeff...")

Best Actor in an Action Film: Mark Ruffalo, "The Avengers" (#2 Joseph Gordon Leavitt, "Premium Rush")

Best Actress in an Action Film: Jennifer Lawrence, "The Hunger Games." (#2: Charlize Theron, "Snow White and the Huntsman"

Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie: "Paranorman"

[Luke W.]

Best Actor in a Comedy: Channing Tatum for 21 Jump Street | Jonah Hill for 21 Jump Street | Chris Rock for 2 Days in New York

Best Actress in a Comedy: Greta Gerwig for Damsels in Distress | Julie Delpy for 2 Days in New York | Eva Green for Dark Shadows

Best Actor in an Action Film: Bruce Willis for Looper | Mark Ruffalo for The Avengers | Michael Fassbender for Haywire

Best Actress in an Action Film: Anne Hathaway for The Dark Knight Rises | Scarlett Johansson for The Avengers | Emily Blunt for Looper

Best Sci-fi/Horror Film: Looper | The Tall Man | Chronicle

Best Action Movie: The Avengers | Haywire (though, I know you weren't a fan) | End of Watch

Best Young Actor/Actress: Quvenzhane Wallis for Beasts of the Southern Wild | Kara Hayward for Moonrise Kingdom | Lucas Pittaway for The Snowtown Murders

[Checko]

Young Actor/Young Actress
Snowtown - Lucas Pittaway
He's 20 and he delivers an amazing performance in an incredible film also is the kind of young performance never gets recognized, too mature for being in a young category, too unknown to be with the grown ups

Action Movie
End of Watch - Indie films need support, not only big budget action flicks
Looper
The Avengers

Actor - Comedy
Intouchables - François Cluzet & Omar Sy (if this were an american film they would be locks as lead & supporting)

Actress - Comedy
Greta Gerwig in Damsels in Distress - She got a great year
Bachelorette - EVERYONE but Rebel Wilson - more female ensemble comedies please!!
Pitch Perfect - REBEL WILSON !!!! fat amy is cult status for the ages

Actor - Action
Mark Ruffalo in The Avengers - the most beloved character in the film
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Looper - strong body of work in strong action films (premium rush, the dark knight rises)
Michael Fassbender in Prometheus - he's the male cate blanchett, he's a God even when a film sucks

Actress - Action
The Dark Knight Rises - Anne Hathaway
Snow White and the Huntsman - Charlize Theron
Haywire - That Lady…

Sci-Fi / Horror Movie
Safety Not Guaranteed ( the most unexpected, funny awesome sci-fi film of the year )
Extraterrestrial by Nacho Vigalondo (you guys should use your power to recognize films out of the box, not only big Hollywood blockbusters)
The Cabin in the Woods

It's great what are you trying to do but you should stop this madness before you become ''the people's satellite blockbuster academy of science fiction fantasy & horror we're like the golden globes and some day were gonna nominate the tourist critics choice awards''

[Lucky]

Kirsten Dunst in Bachelorette.

That's all.

[Jonny]

If only I had one of these to fill out...

Best Young Actor/Actress:
1) Quvenzhane Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
2) Jared Gilman - Moonrise Kingdom
3) Kara Hayward - Moonrise Kingdom

Best Action Movie:
1) The Dark Knight Rises
2) The Avengers
3) Looper

Best Actor in a Comedy:
1) Jack Black - Bernie
2) Channing Tatum - 21 Jump Street
3) Jonah Hill - 21 Jump Street

Best Actress in a Comedy:
1) Anna Kendrick - Pitch Perfect
2) Rebel Wilson - Pitch Perfect
3) Zoe Kazan - Ruby Sparks

Best Actor in an Action Film:
1) Dane DeHaan - Chronicle
2) Michael Fassbender - Prometheus
3) Tom Hardy - The Dark Knight Rises

Best Actress in an Action Film:
1) Anne Hathaway - The Dark Knight Rises
2) Emily Blunt - Looper
3) Noomi Rapace - Prometheus

Best Sci-fi/Horror Movie:
1) Cloud Atlas
2) Chronicle
3) Prometheus

[tombeet]

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (under 21)
-Eloise Laurence - Broken (knockout performance)
-Quvenzhane Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
-Jared Gilman - Moonrise Kingdom
-Katy Hayward - Moonrise Kingdom
-Ezra Miller - Perks of Being a Wallflower

BEST ACTION MOVIE
-The Hunger Games
-The Dark Knight Rises
-The Avengers
-Skyfall
-The Raid: Redemption

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
-Kill List
-Prometheus
-Looper
-Cabin in the Woods
-Cloud Atlas

[Jim]

FYC Best Young Actor:
TOM HOLLAND - The Impossible

[Paul Outlaw]

BEST YOUNG ACTOR
Suraj Sharma in Life of Pi, naturally
Ezra Miller in We Need to Talk About Kevin (US release 1-13-12)

BEST ACTION MOVIE
Skyfall
The Grey
The Dark Knight Rises
Cloud Atlas
The Avengers

BEST ACTOR in a COMEDY
Adam Scott in Friends with Kids
Sam Rockwell in Seven Psychopaths

BEST ACTRESS in a COMEDY
Shirley MacLaine in Bernie

BEST ACTOR in a ACTION FILM
Daniel Craig in Skyfall
Liam Neeson in The Grey
Christian Bale in The Dark Knight Rises

BEST ACTRESS in an ACTION FILM
Scarlett Johanssen in The Avengers
Anne Hathaway in The Dark Knight Rises

BEST SCI-FI FILM
Cloud Atlas

[Paul Outlaw]

Yeah, Tom Holland for sure as well.

[Travis]

Best Actress in a Action Movie: Judi Dench in Skyfall.
Best Actor in a Comedy: Channing Tatum in 21 Jump Street.
Best Actress in a Comedy, though it's a small part, would be Shirley Maclaine in Bernie.
Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie: Cloud Atlas

[Sam]

Young Actress Quvenzhané Wallis
Young Actor - Suraj Sharma
Actress in a Comedy is Leslie Mann eligible?
Actress in Action - Emily Blunt Looper ( please God not Anne Hathaway! )
Actor Comedy - Sam Rockwell
Actor in Action - Joe Gordon Levitt - Batman and Looper

These categories are getting ridiculous!

[San FranCinema]

Does Cloud Atlas count as an "action film"? Then I nominate Ben Whishaw.

[adri]

I'd like to second most of Luke W's choices.

The category that exasperates me most in groups that choose best actresses in comedy is that they don't seem to look very hard or appreciate what is there.

Best Actress in a Comedy:
Zoe Kazan, "Ruby Sparks"
Julie Delpy, "Two Days in New York"
Rashida Jones, "Celeste and Jesse Forever"
Greta Gerwig, "Damsels in Distress"

Best Actor in a Comedy:
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, "21Jump Street"
Paul Dano, "Ruby Sparks"
Chris Rock, "Two Days in New York"

Best Young Actor:
Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman in "Moonrise Kingdom"

Best Actress in an action (?) movie:
Jessica Chastain in "Zero Dark Thirty"

Best Actor in an Action Movie:
Christoph Waltz in "Django Unchained"

And some questions:
Would Holy Motors fit in the sci-fi, fantasy category?
Is Hello, I Must Be Going a comedy?
Is The Impossible an action film?

[Sad man]

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (under 21)
Lucas Pittaway, The Snowtown Murders
Shannon Beer, Wuthering Heights
Sami Gayle, Detachment

BEST ACTION MOVIE
The Avengers
The Bourne Legacy
The Dark Kni¡ght Rises

BEST ACTOR in a COMEDY
Tommy Lee Jones, Hope Springs
Mark Duplass, Safety Not Guaranteed
Seann William Scott, Goon

BEST ACTRESS in a COMEDY
Kiera Knightley, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Aubrey Plaza, Safety Not Guaranteed
Lizzy Caplan, Bachelorette

BEST ACTOR in a ACTION FILM
Tom Hiddleston, The Avengers
Jeremy Renner, The Bourne Legacy
Andrew Garfield, The Amazing Spider-Man

BEST ACTRESS in an ACTION FILM
Scarlett Johansson, The Avengers
Rachel Wiesz, The Bourne Legacy
Emma Stone, The Amazing Spider-Man

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
The Cabin in the Woods
Excision
Sound of My Voice

[Drew C]

Best Young Actor/Actress: Quevenzhane Wallis "Beasts"
Logan Lerman "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
Best Action Film: Looper, End of Watch
Best Actor in a Comedy- Jack Black "Bernie," Channing Tatum "21 Jump Street," Tommy Lee Jones "Hope Springs"
Best Actress in a Comedy- Lizzy Kaplan "Bachelorette," Ari Graynor "For a Good Time, Call..." Lauren Miller "For a Good Time Call"
Best Actor in an Action Film- Andrew Garfield "The Amazing Spider-man," Joseph Gordon-Levitt "Looper" Bruce Willis "Looper," Jeremy Renner "The Bourne Legacy" Daniel Craig "Skyfall" the boys from End of Watch
Best Actress in an Action Film- Emily Blunt "Looper" ! (I think this is her best work and one of the best performances of the year), Judi Dench "Skyfall," Anne Hathaway "The Dark Knight Rises,"
Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie- Looper, Chronicle, Paranorman (animated yes, but still great), Holy Motors (hey it has to count as something....)

[Peggy Sue]

Eeew! These awards are getting more and more like the People Choice Awards. Don't go there! Awards for everyone is not a good idea.

[Yavor]

actress comedy -> Maggie Smith in Quartet, no?

[JoFo]

Best Young Actor/ Actress:
Those Moonrise Kindgom kids. For sure!
How old is Suraj Sharma in Life of Pi?

Best Action Movie:
Apart from the obvious ones, honestly, I loved Judge Dredd.

Some comedy/ action /Sci-fi/ Horror films to consider:
Is Holy Motors Sci-Fi?
The Grey
Killer Joe (Comedy?)

[hrh]

Best Young Actor:
1) Tom Holland, THE IMPOSSIBLE (!!!)
2) Quvenzhane Wallis for BEST OF THE...
3) Jared Gilman for MOONRISE KINGDOM.

Best Action Movie:
1) SKYFALL
2) HAYWIRE
3) THE AVENGERS

Best Actor in a Comedy:
1) Channing Tatum MAGIC MIKE or 21 JUMP STREET
2) Bruce Willis or Edward Norton, MOONRISE KINGDOM
3) Jhonny Depp, DARK SHADOWS

Best Actress in a Comedy:
1) Kristen Dunst, BACHELORETTE (she's perf in the movie)
2) Eva Green, DARK SHADOWS
3) Rebel Wilson, PITCH PERFECT

Best Actor in an Action Film:
1) Joaquin Bardem, SKYFALL (such a great perfomance!)
2) Matthew McConaughey, KILLER JOE
3) Liam Neeson, THE GREY

Vincent D'Onofrio is also great in CHAINED by Jennifer Lynch, but it's a horror film.

Best Actress in an Action Film:
1) Gina Canaro, HAYWIRE
and faaaar faaaar away:
2) Charlize Theron, SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN or PROMETHEUS...

Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie:

LOOPER
CHAINED
THE HUNGER GAMES (it's sci-fi, right?)

[Heisenberg]

Best Young Actor/Actress:
1) Logan Lerman – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2) Ezra Miller – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
3) Jared Gilman/Kara Hayward – Moonrise Kingdom

Best Action Movie:
1) Looper
2) Skyfall
3) The Dark Knight Rises

Best Actor in a Comedy:
1) Mike Birbiglia – Sleepwalk with Me
2) Sam Rockwell – Seven Psychopaths
3) Seann William Scott – Goon

Best Actress in a Comedy:
1) Aubrey Plaza – Safety Not Guaranteed
2) Lauren Ambrose – Sleepwalk with Me
3) Rebel Wilson – Pitch Perfect

Best Actor in an Action Film
1) Michael Fassbender - Prometheus
2) Javier Bardem - Skyfall
3) Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Looper

Best Actress in an Action Film
1) Emily Blunt – Looper
2) Gina Carano - Haywire
3) Judi Dench - Skyfall

Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie
1) Looper
2) Chronicle
3) The Cabin in the Woods

[Sean D]

FYC- Young Actress
Kara Hayward, Moonrise Kingdom

Honestly, she and Marion Cotillard are the frontunners on my personal Best Actress of the year, in any genre, ballot. Suzy Bishop is an extraordinarily well-rounded and emotive creation.

FYC- Comedy Actress
Aubrey Plaza, Safety Not Guaranteed

I wasn't too big a fan of the film, and Plaza doesn't vary much from her usual style in the performance, but really come on, the deadpan charms of April Ludgate, they're killer.

FYC- Comedy Actor
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook

He's genius in the role! Better than Lawrence in the film even, very powerful.

FYC- Action Actress
Charlize Theron, Snow White and the Huntsman

I mean come on, SO MUCH BADASS. Ravenna kills it dead.

FYC- Action Actor
Javier Bardem, Skyfall

Do supporting performances count in those categories Nathaniel? At any rate, he does diabolical gay villainy with the best of them, so wonderful. Puts a smile to any angry young gay man's face.

[Katie]

Actress in a Comedy is easy: Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings) and the two dames, Judi and Maggie, for Marigold Hotel and Quartet.

[Roark]

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (under 21):

Thomas Doret, The Kid With the Bike

BEST ACTION MOVIE:

Assuming you're not going to go for something awesome like Expendables 2 (ha), Haywire, Looper or Lockout are solid backups (in that order).

BEST ACTOR in a COMEDY

Seann William Scott in Goon. Seriously, this is a great, sadly underseen comedy and Scott is wonderful in it.

BEST ACTRESS in a COMEDY

Greta Gerwig for Damsels... or Aubrey Plaza for Safety Not Guaranteed

BEST ACTOR in a ACTION FILM

Guy Pearce in Lockout.

BEST ACTRESS in an ACTION FILM

Naomi Harris for Skyfall

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE

ParaNorman, Cabin in the Woods, The Woman in Black, or Prometheus

[Jackie]

Best young actor: Kara Hayward and Jared Gillman for Moonrise Kingdom!

Best sci-fi movie: Looper

Best actress in comedy: Anna Kendrick for Pitch Perfect

Best actor in comedy: Jack Black for Bernie

Best Actress in an action film: I'd sat JLawrence for The hunger games or Emily Blunt for Looper

Best Actor in an action film: anyone but Downey Jr please! Lol. Ok let's say Daniel Craig or Bardem

[Bia]

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (under 21): Logan Lerman or Ezra Miller, Perks of Being a Wallflower

BEST ACTION MOVIE: Skyfall

BEST ACTOR in a COMEDY: Bruce Willis, Moonrise Kingdom

BEST ACTRESS in a COMEDY: Kirsten Dunst, Bachelorette

BEST ACTOR in a ACTION FILM: Michael Fassbender - Prometheus

BEST ACTRESS in an ACTION FILM : Charlize Theron for Prometheus or Snow White

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE: Cabin in the Woods

[K]

Actress in a Comedy:
Rashida Jones, Celeste and Jesse Forever
Rebel Wilson, Bachelorette
Penelope Cruz, To Rome with Love

Actor in a Comedy:
John Cusack, The Paperboy
Will McCormack, Celeste and Jesse Forever

Best Sci-Fi:
Cloud Atlas

[Ed]

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (under 21)
- Ezra Miller for The Pearks of Being a Wallflower
- Quvenzhané Wallis for Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Kara Hayward for Moonrise Kingdom

BEST ACTION MOVIE
- The Avengers
- Looper
- The Hunger Games

BEST ACTOR in a COMEDY
- Bradley Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook
- Matthew McConaughey for Magic Mike
- Tommy Lee Jones for Hope Springs

BEST ACTRESS in a COMEDY
- Meryl Streep for Hope Springs
- Kirsten Dunst for Barchelorette
- Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook

BEST ACTOR in a ACTION FILM
- Mark Ruffalo for The Avengers
- Christian Bale for Dark Knight Rises
- Javier Bardem for Skyfall

BEST ACTRESS in an ACTION FILM
- Scarlett Johansson for The Avengers
- Jennifer Lawrence for The Hunger Games
- Anne Hathaway for Dark Knight Rises

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
- Looper
- The Hunger Games
- Cabin in the Woods

[Sawyer]

Young Actor: QW, Beasts
Action Movie: End of Watch or The Grey
Actor, Comedy: McFarlane, Ted
Actress, Comedy: Dewitt, Your Sister's Sister
Actor, Action: Fassbender, Prometheus
Actress, Action: McDonald, Brave
Sci-Fi/Horror: Either Prometheus or Cabin in the Woods

[Liz N.]

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (under 21)

Ezra Miller - Perks of Being a Wallflower
Logan Lerman - Perks of Being a Wallflower

BEST ACTION MOVIE

Looper
Lawless

BEST ACTOR in a COMEDY

Adam Scott - Friends with Kids
Jon Hamm - Friends with Kids
Bruce Willis - Moonrise Kingdom

BEST ACTRESS in a COMEDY

Kristen Scott Thomas - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Rosemarie DeWitt - Your Sister's Sister
Emily Blunt - Your Sister's Sister

BEST ACTOR in a ACTION FILM

Guy Pearce for Lockout
Jake Gyllenhaal for End of Watch
Michael Pena for End of Watch

BEST ACTRESS in an ACTION FILM

Anne Hathaway for The Dark Knight Rises
Emily Blunt for Looper

[Paul Outlaw]

And Guy Pearce and Jason Clarke in Lawless (ACTION).

[denny]

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
FYC - Jared Gilmore AND Kara Heyward, Moonrise Kingdom. This dual performance anchors the movie in something real. Surprisingly real, given that this story of young love is the first big movie role for both of these talented youngsters. Yes, the adult character actors steal the show, but they wouldn't have anything to steal if these two weren't SO GOOD. And I firmly believe that one of these performances wouldn't exist without the other. A perfect symbiotic relationship.

BEST ACTION MOVIE
FYC - Cloud Atlas. Only two of its six stories are sci-fi, and it really rests on the action setpieces, so I would put this here instead of in Sci-Fi. It may not be as strong as the sum of its parts, but its still the most audacious, ambitious, exciting film I've seen all year. And it contains some of the most thrilling sequences seen on a big screen since Avatar, easily.

BEST ACTOR in a COMEDY
FYC - Josh Brolin in Men In Black 3. Yes, the film was a mess. But his performance as young Tommy Lee Jones is so perfectly, hilariously, accurate that he deserves some recognition. Best impersonation of the year (sorry, Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Looper!).

BEST ACTRESS in a COMEDY
FYC - Ellen DeGeneres in Finding Nemo 3D. What!?! It was released this year! And it's easily one of the best voiceover performances of all time!
FYC - Olivia Munn in Magic Mike. For being so effortlessly sexy, so naturalistically easy-going, and so easily, sneakily funny.

BEST ACTOR in a ACTION FILM
FYC - Mark Ruffalo in The Avengers. For proving that the third time's the charm for this character. And for, somehow, keeping this often very silly movie grounded.

BEST ACTRESS in an ACTION FILM
FYC - Elizabeth Banks in The Hunger Games. Let's be honest. Who knew she had THAT in her? It was just the makeup and ridiculous costumes that transformed her. She BECAME Effie Trinket on every level. She deserves far more credit than she's gotten.