Film Bitch Awards: Diva and Sexpot Nominations
Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 6:21PM 
I'm working on the character page portion of the awards. Today write-ups for the Diva and Sexpot of the year with nominees from Magic Mike XXL, Saint Laurent, Spy and more. Hero & Villain categories coming shortly.
Bear in mind that I don't let characters cross over into more than one category lest they dominate too many categories so, for instance, you won't see Lysistrata from Chi-Raq under Best Diva, though she is one because she fits the Sexpot category to a T (and A). She owns it. And she's not giving it away. "No Peace. No Pussy."
The film doesn't work at all if you don't see how badly Chi-Raq (Nick Cannon), her gang leader boyfriend, wants that "nappy pouch". Teyonah Parris is on in this movie and it's so hard to believe it's the same actress that played quiet confident Dawn in Mad Men, just trying to earn her paycheck in that office with all that crazy white folks drama. (Remember that awkward episode when Peggy tried to confide in her. -so uncomfortable)
Chi-Raq is now streaming on Amazon Prime and on DVD and you should watch it.
Reader Comments (13)
Peggy took Shirley's flowers, not Dawn's.
Funny that Shirley called Dawn Shirley and vice-versa. Great and insightful writing. (Not dissing you, that's just funny)
Cal - i was JUST going to say - it plays right into the joke that people in the office couldn't tell them apart. I can actually... just got plot mixed up.fixed.
I just watched Chi-Raq last night. Not perfect but I loved that Spike Lee is so experimental and and Ms. Parris even had my gay ass begging for peace. I hope she blows up. We need a black Alicia Vikander.
Your chart just reminded me that the daughter in Carol is somehow named "Rindy". I couldn't figure that out for the entire movie, thought maybe they were just saying "Wendy" in an impossibly posh accent. I guess that's what happens when you come from a family with a "Harge" in it.
Good point about Isaac in "Machina" not really needing to be sexualized - and yet it's clearly no accident, and doesn't feel arbitrary.
Teyonah Parris is on in this movie and it's so hard to believe it's the same actress that played quiet confident Dawn in Mad Men
Have you seen Dear White People? She gave my favorite performance in the movie.
I found Isaac much sexier as Poe than in Ex Machina.
Poster: I'd probably put The Big Short's "Money Ocean" (evocative, appropriate, kind of gorgeous) in the finalists. It's not as good as your top 5 (all excellent picks), but I'm surprised that you can't see the merit of that as a film-selling image.
Carol turned on every gay man and woman I know. Doesn't get more sexpot than that.
@/3rtful : AGREED. Teyona Parrish in Dear White People is fantastic. Tessa Thompson got the Gotham award, but Teyonah brought the heart and the fierceness. And not for one minute did I realize she was Mad Men's Dawn...until the end credits!
Need to see Chi-Raq.
@NATHANIEL: These charts are really fun.
Right there with /3rtful - Teyonah Parris is fantastic in Dear White People.
I'd have to give Diva to Byrne (with Binoche, Blanchett, and Ulliel as runners-up), and to me Oliver Lawless/Marsden is the clear choice for Sexpot (not that I'd disagree strongly with picking Schoenaerts).
And I love what you wrote about the poster for Room. I don't necessarily even like it that much - but it's perfectly designed and it has stayed in my head in a way only a couple of other posters (Brooklyn's, maybe Lost River's) have this year.
Parris, Isaac, and the Shoenaerts in one line up is simply too much to handle. Gonna go stand in front of an open freezer now.
Can't wait for Limited Actor/Actress and Line reading!