The Films of 2019. The 20th annual FiLM BiTCH Awards
PICTURE | ACTING | VISUALS | AURALS | EXTRAS | SPECIAL | SCENES
AND THE NOMINEES ARE
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Best Original Score
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| Thomas Newman 1917 |
Hildur Gudnattsottir JOKER |
Emile Mosseri THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO |
Randy Newman MARRIAGE STORY |
Alberto Iglesias PAIN AND GLORY |
 Appropriate sweeping and potent. Newman is one of the greats. |
Brooding heavy cellos and quite unsettling too. Hildur has a bright future ahead |  Lush and stirring and a great fit for the movie's epic intimacy.
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Playful, precise, and lullaby like in its simplicity. Melancholy too |  The beauty. Iglesias and Almodovar continue to be a perfect match... with range, too. |
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Finalists: Love Theodore Shapiro's use of a trio of voices warbling in several passages like whispers or unverbalized thoughts roaming around that tense office in Bombshell | And hey how about that soundscape in Atlantics by Fatima Al Qadiri |
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Best Adapted Score, Combination Score, or Song Score
*not an Oscar correlative traditional category - anything song heavy or that uses both old & original music * |
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| BOOKSMART | ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD | ROCKETMAN | US | WILD ROSE |
| Various artists providing propulsive energy for the chaotic antics | Various artists. Tarantino always gives good mix tape | Elton John's catalogue as sung by Taron Egerton and cast |
Various artists. Plus Michael Abels fine score -especially the way it twists "I Got 5 On It" |
Famous country tunes and originals funneled through Jessie Buckley's exquisite pipes |
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Finalists: Hustlers, Motherless Brooklyn |
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Best Original Song
Tunes! |
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| FROZEN "Into the Unknown" Robert Lopez & Kristin Anderson-Lopez |
HARRIET "Stand Up" |
HER SMELL "Control" Alicia Bognanno |
ROCKETMAN |
WILD ROSE "Glasgow" Caitlyn Smith, Mary Steenburgen, and Kate York |
| Yes, it's trying to be the next "Let it Go" but the storytelling, when paired with its second act twin "Show Yourself," works beautifully. |
If only there were more of singing within the film itself! But we'll take this closing anthem and the bits of her beautiful disembodied vocals in the dark woods. | This late-in-film song is a terrific character piece, if first-draft feeling song as befitting the spent former rock goddess trying to work it (and her issues) out simultaneously. | A poppy celebratory (self) love-in between actor and famous man he's playing as the credits roll? Yes please. Especially after all the therapy within. |
As a drama this one isn't so special outside of its music. But that voice! Talk about ending on a high note. Great song. Great scene. Great character arc closure. |
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Finalists: Frozen II "Show Yourself" (if you pretend this is a major reworked reprise of "Into the Unknown" and fuse them together it's one super song rather than two good ones!) and, yes, Cats is a mess but we like Taylor Swift's "Beautiful Ghosts" Semi Finalists: Frozen II "Lost in the Woods" and "The Next Right Thing", Her Smell "Can't Wait" High Life "Willow," Yesterday "Summer Song" |
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Best Sound Mixing
Think overall soundscape. They record while filming and later blend multiple sources (dialogue, effects, music, etcetera) for finished sound design |
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| 1917 | AD ASTRA | ATLANTICS | ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD | US |
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Finalists: Rocketman, Woman at War, Shadow |
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Best Sound Effects Editing
Think disparate elements. They create, assemble, record sound and effects. |
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| 1917 | AD ASTRA | FORD V FERRARI | GODZILLA KING OF MONSTERS | SHADOW |
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Finalists: Avengers Endgame, Alita Battle Angel, The Lighthouse, Us |
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NOMINATIONS IN TRADITIONAL (I.E. OSCAR PARALLEL) CATEGORIES
(19 of 19 traditional categories announced | 40 films honored)
8 nominations
MARRIAGE STORY (5 silver)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (1 gold. 2 silver. 2 bronze)
PARASITE (6 gold)
5 nominations
1917 (2 gold. 1 silver. 1 bronze)
4 nominations
A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD (2 bronze)
PAIN AND GLORY (1 gold. 1 silver. 1 bronze)
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (1 bronze)
ROCKETMAN (2 silver)
3 nominations
AD ASTRA (1 gold. 1 bronze)
BOOKSMART (1 bronze)
THE FAREWELL (2 bronze)
LITTLE WOMEN (1 gold. 1 silver. )
2 nominations
CLEMENCY (1 gold)
GODZILLA KING OF MONSTERS
HUSTLERS (1 silver)
THE IRISHMAN (1 silver)
SHADOW (1 silver. 1 bronze)
US (1 gold. 1 silver)
1 nomination
ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL
ATLANTICS (1 bronze)
AVENGERS: ENDGAME (1 gold)
BOMBSHELL (1 gold)
DIANE (1 bronze)
DOLEMITE IS MY NAME (1 bronze)
FORD V FERRARI
FROZEN 2 (1 bronze)
HARRIET
HER SMELL
I LOST MY BODY (1 bronze)
INVISIBLE LIFE
JOKER
KLAUS (1 silver)
LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO (1 silver)
THE LIGHTHOUSE (1 gold)
LUCE
MALEFICENT MISTRESS OF EVIL (1 bronze)
MIDSOMMAR
MISSING LINK (1 gold)
SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (1 bronze)
TRANSIT (1 silver)
WILD ROSE (1 gold)