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97th Annual Ronalds film awards

Rowdy Roddy McDowall

Rowdy Roddy McDowall

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These are my alternate Oscars in fifteen categories for Best and Worst. I started organizing it in 2004. As the thread title indicates, these go way back to 1915 when feature length films more or less began. The actual Academy awards started in 1927. In my case, every year and most categories have nominations as well as wins (for bests, not for worsts). Ties are possible except for Best and Worst Picture. I won't overwhelm you yet with 2011's multiple nominations or previous years' wins, but for now, here's who/what won their categories for 2011.


WORST SOUND The Smurfs, of course.

WORST VISUAL EFFECTS Rubber. The worst killer tire movie ever made. Yes. A killer tire.

WORST EDITING Also Rubber.

WORST COSTUME DESIGN Hobo With a Shotgun.

WORST CINEMATOGRAPHY Paranormal Activity 3. So bad you'd think it was shot on a camcorder.

WORST ART DIRECTION The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence.

WORST MUSICAL SCORE Footloose......Footloose....

WORST SCREENPLAY Kevin Williamson, SCREAM 4.

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS This hurts.....Helena Bonham Snarling Spitting Carter for HARRY POTTER 8. And to think I used to love her once.

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR No contest here. Villain with atrocious acting Brian Downey for HOBO.

WORST ACTRESS Neve Campbell, SCREAM 4.

WORST ACTOR For unequalled levels of absolute putridity, ChiaPet LaBeefyboof for TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON.

WORST DIRECTOR: Wes Craven, SCREAM 4. Oh, look, he's killing teenagers again. How inspired.

WORST PICTURE Normally, I'd pick TRANSFORMERS, but there was one even worse which moronically left out an actual ending. MEEK'S CUTOFF, an independent film with Bruce Greenwood, is this year's pits.

BEST SOUND Super 8. Flawed film, but good sound.

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Absolutely RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. No question.

BEST EDITING Tetsuo: The Bullet Man. A wild, funky foreign film sequel which rivals the freaky original.

BEST COSTUME DESIGN Captain America: The First Avenger.

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Super 8 again.

BEST ART DIRECTION A tough call, but in the end, TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, an interesting mystery though I never understood John LeCarre much. It's an incredibly deep movie which requires you to have read the book, or you're lost.

BEST DOCUMENTARY Making the Boys. It depicts the play and film versions of ''The Boys in the Band,'' which is one of my top ten screenplay favorites and top 100 film favorites.

BEST MUSICAL SCORE Henry Jackman, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS.

BEST SCREENPLAY Another clear champion. J.C. Chandor for MARGIN CALL. Nothing compares to it.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Cate Blanchett, HANNA.
First time winner.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR During the history of the Ronalds, only four men have ever won this category twice: Claude Rains, Sam Jaffe, Ronald Reagan and Robert Duvall. It's been 32 years since we had a double winner. Today we have a fifth. I'm proud to recognize someone the Oscars never had the decency to even nominate once. The winner is Alan Rickman for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2. He also won for DIE HARD, but I'd like to think he refused the award then in a drunken tirade on the grounds that it should've gone to Michael Palin instead in 1988.

BEST ACTRESS Another double winner, and her second win in four years: Meryl Streep for THE IRON LADY. The movie could've been better. Streep, as usual, could not. She also won for DOUBT in 2008.

BEST ACTOR One of the ground rules for winning an acting role is that you may not be seen (Claude Rains in THE INVISIBLE MAN), or you may not be heard (Robert Duvall in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD) but you cannot be both or you cannot win. David Prowse in STAR WARS is ineligible. So.......on the combined basis of being briefly heard------and BOY, was he heard------while acting in
an expressive way you didn't EXACTLY see........the winner is Andy Serkis as Caesar in RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. For now, it's the best CGI motion-capture performance ever, AVATAR and LORD OF THE RINGS included.

BEST DIRECTOR While the top ten were mostly understated efforts, I thought one choice rose above the others, though this film was barely seen. I give it to first-time director winner Kevin Smith for RED STATE. Finally he made a movie which approaches the storytelling excellence of DOGMA.

BEST PICTURE The other nominees were CAPTAIN AMERICA, CONTAGION, HANNA, KILLER ELITE, MARGIN CALL, RED HILL, RED STATE, RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES AND X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. The winner was
HARRY POTTER.



Feel free to let me know if you're wondering what else was nominated.
 
Yes. But there still was no point. Each film has a maximum of ten seconds of action. That's ten out of about 4800. And each film is twice as successful as the previous. America, you disappoint me so.:cardie:
 
Well, like I said, I haven't seen any of them and have no plans ever to do so.

I will agree with you wholeheartedly on The Smurfs however. Any criticism of that movie is legitimate as far as I'm concerned. That movie was AWFUL. Seriously, it's quite possibly the single worst movie I have ever seen in my life. It damn near broke me as a person.
 
I have a theory that the best films have to fight harder to make real money. Most of the time the US's weekly grosses prove me right. Still, I should admit that I've seen none of the nine Oscar-nominated Best Picture contenders. That's the reverse of what happened in 2005 when I had seen all five nominated BPs before any were nominated. I admit most of my nominations are more commercial for 2011 with the notable exception of MARGIN CALL.
I have a feeling once again the Oscars will get lower ratings because the general public has mostly passed over the nine exccept for MONEYBALL and THE HELP. And writers will actually blame the nine nominated movie for it.
Lastly, I don't feel too bad about not seeing their nine yet, since they were too close-minded to give Alan Rickman a single acting nomination during his entire film career. Jonah Hill
is comparatively lucky.
 
foxhot said:
I have a theory that the best films have to fight harder to make real money. Most of the time the US's weekly grosses prove me right. Still, I should admit that I've seen none of the nine Oscar-nominated Best Picture contenders. That's the reverse of what happened in 2005 when I had seen all five nominated BPs before any were nominated. I admit most of my nominations are more commercial for 2011 with the notable exception of MARGIN CALL.
I have a feeling once again the Oscars will get lower ratings because the general public has mostly passed over the nine exccept for MONEYBALL and THE HELP. And writers will actually blame the nine nominated movie for it.
Lastly, I don't feel too bad about not seeing their nine yet, since they were too close-minded to give Alan Rickman a single acting nomination during his entire film career. Jonah Hill
is comparatively lucky.
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You're calling them close minded for not giving Alan Rickman a nomination, so you'll be close minded and not see any of the movies nominated?

At least see The Artist. It's fantastic.
 
Professor Zoom said:
foxhot said:
I have a theory that the best films have to fight harder to make real money. Most of the time the US's weekly grosses prove me right. Still, I should admit that I've seen none of the nine Oscar-nominated Best Picture contenders. That's the reverse of what happened in 2005 when I had seen all five nominated BPs before any were nominated. I admit most of my nominations are more commercial for 2011 with the notable exception of MARGIN CALL.
I have a feeling once again the Oscars will get lower ratings because the general public has mostly passed over the nine exccept for MONEYBALL and THE HELP. And writers will actually blame the nine nominated movie for it.
Lastly, I don't feel too bad about not seeing their nine yet, since they were too close-minded to give Alan Rickman a single acting nomination during his entire film career. Jonah Hill
is comparatively lucky.You're calling them close minded for not giving Alan Rickman a nomination, so you'll be close minded and not see any of the movies nominated?
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''You're calling them close minded for not giving Alan Rickman a nomination, so you'll be close minded and not see any of the movies nominated?''

Yes, but only for now. It's my temporary revenge. I will see THE ARTIST in future since Ed Lauter is in it. Meanwhile Rickman will be ignored until the end of time or his deathbed unless he portrays a cocaine-snorting homosexual with cerebral palsy.

This zero for nine situation is rare for me, so I intend to savor it. My favorite ten are listed in my first post above. I'd like to think MARGIN CALL would be the equal of these nine. At least they realized it was clearly Best Screenplay worthy.
 
I'm surprised Rickman has never been nominated, but has he really had many show-stopping performances of the variety that the Academy likes to award?
 
His first film was DIE HARD.

As Hans Gruber, he delivered what I consider to be the best supporting performance in the history of film. I'll reveal the other top four shortly.

There have been other show-stoppers. But he seems to lack the connections to seal a nomination. Admittedly, not all show-stoppers are as fortunate as, say, Tommy Lee Jones in THE FUGITIVE.

Daniel Radcliffe was also pushing Rickman to be nominated for HARRY POTTER 8, in which Snape reveals his true self. But still, not to be.
 
Hans Gruber is terrific, but the Academy doesn't usually give acting awards for action movies, especially those as straight-forward as Die Hard.

You'll notice that Albert Brooks was similarily snubbed for his role in Drive, and he's had a long career in Hollywood (and a previous Academy Award nomination -- for a drama/comedy, Broadcast News).
 
True. And Brooks' BROADCAST NEWS character is my favorite of his many roles, so I'm content with his 1987 nomination. But Alan Rickman's Hans, besides being one of thrillerdom's most formidable adversaries, made Hollywood sit up and take notice that heroes should have worthy villains........something Steven Seagal still refuses to realize.

Just about any Hans Gruber dialogue line is a quotable keeper. Rickman is quite simply DIE HARD's greatest asset.

Let me clarify one earlier statement. I should have said I consider Rickman's Hans to be the Best Supporting ACTOR role of all time (as opposed to Best Supporting ROLE). To open up the focus a bit, and to pull out statistical info, here are my other four choices in the top five all-time Best Supporting Actors. Each won for their respective years.

Claude Rains, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Richard Dreyfuss, JAWS
Harrison Ford, STAR WARS
Jaye Davidson, THE CRYING GAME

Now, which five candidates would the rest of you choose? Would you overlap in your choices? Let the debate begin....
 
I like Claude Rains more in Casablanca, I think, than Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. His performance in that movie is brilliant, and helps us ignore the insanity of the plot.

I'd have to think before I could name four other performances, though.
 
He's always excellent. My top TEN all-time would definitely include his CASABLANCA role. He was the first Supporting Actor in my version to win the category twice, for MR. SMITH and CASABLANCA. I also gave him Best Actor for THE INVISIBLE MAN while nominating him for NOTORIOUS, KINGS ROW and THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD.
 
Picking on Rubber is like picking on the autistic kid who's actually really good at playing the Tuba. Sure, he has a disability when it comes to interacting with people and doing almost everything else the same as normal people, but when it comes to the Tuba, he blows your fucking mind.

Rubber is just like that. It's the weirdest film I've ever seen. I don't see any films attempting to replicate it any time soon. It's a one off. An evolutionary dead end. But simply because it was so different I enjoyed the hell out of it. It got a fair few laughs out of me.

So, why pick on it? No reason.
 
Movies about killer tires need to try harder. Just because it's the only one is no excuse. I thought it would be a laugh-out-loud comedy for me. But it just dribbled and stagnated. It only won Worst for Editing and Special Effects.

For a really weird movie, there's WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM. That may be the pinnacle of perversity.
 
foxhot said:
He's always excellent. My top TEN all-time would definitely include his CASABLANCA role. He was the first Supporting Actor in my version to win the category twice, for MR. SMITH and CASABLANCA. I also gave him Best Actor for THE INVISIBLE MAN while nominating him for NOTORIOUS, KINGS ROW and THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD.
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It's shameful, but I've never seen The Invisible Man. I saw a beautiful print of Bride of Frankenstein last year, and afterwards, I just couldn't see the point of seeing a Universal horror film that wasn't at least on Blu-Ray. The black and white photography is simply gorgeous, and demands to be seen in the best picture quality available.
 
We already know that Alan Rickman won here for 2011's Best Supporting Actor for HARRY POTTER. Here are the nine others he beat:

Steve Bisley, RED HILL
Marton Csokas, THE DEBT
Philip Seymour Hoffman, THE IDES OF MARCH
Jeremy Irons, MARGIN CALL
John Lithgow, RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
Matthew Lewis (AKA Neville Longbottom), HARRY POTTER
AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2
Ryan Phillippe, THE LINCOLN LAWYER
Alexander Skarsgard, STRAW DOGS
Stanley Tucci, MARGIN CALL

Which ten would you pick, overlapping or not? This year the Oscars selected a completely different five than I did. Normally we'd overlap two out of their five, sometimes more.
For me, this category is always the most entertaining to duke out.
 
It would be pretty hard for me not to pick Ezra Miller's supporting actor role in We Need To Talk About Kevin. That film was criminally ignored by the Academy (don't get me started about Tilda Swinton being overlooked for Best Actress).

I'd also recognize Albert Brooks in Drive, as previously mentioned.

And although it was an average movie, I thought Viggo Mortensen was terrific as Sigmund Freud in A Dangerous Method.

Not sure about the others. There still are plenty of films that I haven't seen from 2011.
 
Thanks. I wanted to see KEVIN very badly, but even my local Washington DC art theaters kept dragging their heels on it while everything else was opening. It looks like a more intense version of BEAUTIFUL BOY. Now that Tilda and the film were totally passed over, it's still not around yet and may go straight to video in my locale. After a month and a half of waaaaaaiting, I got disgusted and completed my nominations. Since I assumed KEVIN would be coming, I kept Ezra Miller in contention as a potential replacement for the eventual ten supporting actors I chose. Unfortunately, not yet having seen it, I could not award it anything. BUT.....I did nominate Tilda Swinton on general principles for the final ten------and Viola Davis of course------though I went for Meryl Streep as the final winner for a film I had in fact seen.

Which could lead us in to my ten Best Actress nominees, including Streep, Davis and Swinton.....likely tomorrow.
 
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