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Saturday, January 3, 2009

First Annual Mikey @ The Movies Best of the Year Awards

The First Annual
Mikey At The Movies Awards
And the Nominees are:


Best Dramatic Motion Picture:

  • Dark Knight, The
  • Doubt
  • Reader, The
  • Slumdog Millionaire
  • Wrestler, The

Best Comedic or Musical Motion Picture:

  • Burn After Reading
  • Ghost Town
  • Happy-Go-Lucky
  • In Bruges
  • Tropic Thunder

Best Independent Motion Picture: (Not already nominated in the Dramatic category)

  • · Boy A
  •   Rachel Getting Married
  • · Snow Angels
  • · Special
  • · Visitor, The


Best Animated or Family Motion Picture:

  • Bolt
  • City of Ember
  • Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
  • Kung Fu Panda
  • Wall E




Best Documentary Feature:

  • Encounters at the End of the World
  • Man on Wire
  • Standard Operating Procedure

Best Foreign Language Motion Picture:

· Let the Right One In (Låt den Rätte Komma in)
· Orphanage, The (El Orfanato)

Best Other Genre Motion Picture:

  • Incredible Hulk, The
  • Iron Man
  • Signal, The
  • Strangers, The
  • Wanted

Best Director:

  • Boyle, Danny for Slumdog Millionaire
  • Daldry, Stephen for Reader, The
  • Howard, Ron for Frost/Nixon
  • Nolan, Christopher for Dark Knight, The
  • Shanley, John Patrick for Doubt

Best Original Screenplay:
  • Docter, Pete & Stanton, Andrew for Wall E
  • Leigh, Mike for Happy-Go-Lucky
  • Lumet, Jenny for Rachel Getting Married
  • McDonagh, Martin for In Bruges
  • Siegel, Robert D. for Wrestler, The





Best Adapted Screenplay:

  • Beaufoy, Simon for Slumdog Millionaire
  • Gordon Green, David for Snow Angels
  • Hare, David for Reader, The
  • Nolan, Christopher & Nolan, Jonathon for Dark Knight, The
  • Shanley, John Patrick for Doubt

Best Film Editing:

  • Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The
  • Dark Knight, The
  • Doubt 
  • Frost/Nixon
  • Slumdog Millionaire

Best Cinematography:
  • Changeling
  • Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The
  • Dark Knight, The
  • Revolutionary Road
  • Slumdog Millionaire

Best Musical Score:

  • Changeling
  • Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The
  • Dark Knight, The
  • Revolutionary Road
  • Slumdog Millionaire

Best Special Effects:

  • Cloverfield
  • Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The
  • Dark Knight, The
  • Incredible Hulk, The
  • Iron Man





Best Sound Effects & Sound Editing:

  • Dark Knight, The
  • Iron Man
  • Strangers, The
  • Wall E
  • Wanted

Best Art Direction & Best Set Designs:

  • Changeling
  • Frost/Nixon
  • Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The
  • Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
  • Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Best Costuming & Best Make-Up:

  • Changeling
  • Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The
  • Frost/Nixon
  • Reader, The
  • Revolutionary Road

Best Actor in a Leading Role:

  • Dicaprio, Leonardo for Revolutionary Road
  • Jenkins, Richard for Visitor, The
  • Langella, Frank for Frost/Nixon
  • Rockwell, Sam for Snow Angels
  • Rourke, Mickey for Wrestler, The

Best Actress in a Leading Role:

  • Beckinsale, Kate for Snow Angels
  • Hathaway, Anne for Rachel Getting Married
  • Hawkins, Sally for Happy-Go-Lucky
  • Streep, Meryl for Doubt
  • Winslet, Kate for Revolutionary Road






Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

  • Downey Jr., Robert for Tropic Thunder
  • Eckhart, Aaron for Dark Knight, The
  • Hoffman, Phillip Seymour for Doubt
  • Ledger, Heath for Dark Knight, The
  • Shannon, Michael for Revolutionary Road

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:
  • Davis, Viola for Doubt
  • DeWitt, Rosemarie for Rachel Getting Married
  • Henson, Taraji P. for Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Tomei, Marisa for Wrestler, The
  • Winslet, Kate for Reader, The

Best Comedic or Musical Performance: (Not already nominated in other categories)

  • Clooney, George for Burn After Reading
  • Gervais, Ricky for Ghost Town
  • McDormand, Frances for Burn After Reading
  • Pitt, Brad for Burn After Reading
  • Vaughn, Vince for Four Christmases

Best Performance by a Young Actor or Actress: (20 or younger)

  • Butterfield, Asa for Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The
  • Hederbrant, Kare for Let the Right One In (Låt den Rätte Komma in)
  • Khedekar, Ayush Mahesh for Slumdog Millionaire
  • Leandersson, Lina for Let the Right One In (Låt den Rätte Komma in)
  • Patel, Dev for Slumdog Millionaire
Best Cameo or Limited Role Performance:

  • Cruise, Tom for Tropic Thunder
  • Fernandez, Karina for Happy-Go-Lucky
  • Simmons, J.K. for Burn After Reading
  • Voight, Jon for Four Christmases
  • Wiig, Kristen for Ghost Town




Best Ensemble Cast for a Motion Picture:

  • Burn After Reading
  • Dark Knight, The
  • Doubt
  • Rachel Getting Married
  • Revolutionary Road


SPECIAL CATEGORY: Best Straight-to-DVD or Made for TV Feature:

  • 24: Redemption
  • An American Crime
  • Lazarus Project, The
  • Otis
  • Purple Violets

Thursday, January 1, 2009

The Top Fifteen Films of 2008!



The First Annual

Mikey At The Movies
Top Fifteen Films of the Year

2008 Edition

 
I’m not a professional film critic, so I don’t really have to follow the guidelines they set for themselves. Every year most critics release their “Top Ten” films of the year. I wanted to be a bit different, for no reason. So I decided to do a “Top Fifteen” films of the year! And here are my choices, in alphabetical order:
 
 

Ø          The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Ø          The Dark Knight

Ø          Doubt

Ø          Frost/Nixon

Ø          Happy-Go-Lucky

Ø          In Bruges

Ø          Let the Right One In (Låt den Rätte Komma in)

Ø          Rachel Getting Married

Ø          The Reader

Ø          Revolutionary Road

Ø          Slumdog Millionaire

Ø          Snow Angels

Ø          The Visitor

Ø          WALL E

Ø          The Wrestler