WINNERS
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Film:
Django Unchained
Director:
Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
Actor:
Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
Actress:
Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
Supporting Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio - Django Unchained
Supporting Actress:
Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables
Adapted Screenplay:
Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachwoski & Lana Wachowski - Cloud Atlas
Original Screenplay:
Rian Johnson - Looper
Editing:
Looper
Cinematography:
Prometheus
Stuntwork:
The Raid: Redemption
Art Direction:
Cloud Atlas
Costume Design:
Cloud Atlas
Make-Up:
Cloud Atlas
Visual Effects:
Prometheus
Sound Mixing:
Les Misérables
Music - Original Score:
Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek & Tom Tykwer - Cloud Atlas
Music - Original Song: (select link to listen)
John Legend - "Who Did That to You?" - Django Unchained
Music - Use of Previously Recorded Song; Feature:
Nine Inch Nails - "Last" - The Cabin in the Woods
Music - Use of Previously Recorded Song; Trailer:
James Brown - "The Payback" - Django Unchained
Animated Feature Film:
Wreck-It Ralph
Documentary Feature Film:
Searching for Sugar Man
Foreign Language Film:
Holy Motors - France
Animated Performance:
Seth MacFarlane - Ted
Villainous Performance:
Leonardo DiCaprio - Django Unchained
Comedic Performance:
Sean William Scott - Goon
Cameo / Bit-Part Performance:
Johnny Depp & Peter DeLuise - 21 Jump Street
Breakthrough Performance:
Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
Breakthrough Filmmaker:
Josh Trank - Chronicle
Cast:
Seven Psychopaths
Scene:
The Cabin in the Woods - Purging the system.
Quote:
The Grey - "Once more into the fray. Into the last good fight I'll ever know. Live and die on this day. Live and die on this day."
Tagline:
Casa de mi Padre - "Funniest Movie You'll Ever Read."
Poster Art: (select link to view)
Killing Them Softley (One Sheet 11)
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Most Underrated Film:
Films that did not receive a wide release, were unsuccessful at the box office, were not nominated for any major awards or receive acclaim at any major film festivals, and were generally unknown to most audiences at the time of their release... but were well-liked by most critics and audiences that did happen to see them.
Keyhole - Directed by Guy Maddin. Written by Guy Maddin & George Toles.
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"Grindhouse" Film Award:
Films that uphold the "Grindhouse" traditions of off-beat, exploitative, and taboo subjects, guerilla filmmaking techniques, and unconventional narrative structures, without which filmmaking as a whole cannot move forward.
V/H/S - Directed by David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence, Joe Swanberg, Ti West, & Adam Wingard. Written by Simon Barrett, David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence, Nicholas Tecosky, & Ti West.
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Special Achievement Award for Excellence in Filmmaking:
Joss Whedon
1. He directed and co-wrote (with Zak Penn) Marvel's The Avengers, the highest grossing film of 2012, and the third-highest grossing film (both domestically and internationally) of all time, with over $1.5 billion. The film is also one of the most critically acclaimed films of the year, despite being a summer action blockbuster, with a 92% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes (that's higher than Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, and Life of Pi).
The film is considered a direct sequel to four different continuing Marvel film franchises, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, and Captain America, while also standing on its own legs. This interesting and somewhat unique feat has only ever been previously accomplished by writer/director Kevin Smith (on a much smaller scale) with Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, itself a sequel to the stand-alone yet related films Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma.
Also, despite extremely heavy expectations, the film actually delivered on the hype of bringing together so many superheroes in a single film, with critics noting "it never forgets its heroes humanity." It was lauded for both its witty and genuinely funny screenplay, and for raising the bar for summer action films. Most films that try to tackle this many lead characters fail miserably, which makes the resounding success of this film that much more potent.
2. He co-wrote (with director Drew Goddard) and produced the meta-horror comedy The Cabin in the Woods, the best reviewed horror film of the last three years, and also one of the best reviewed films of 2012 (it also has a 92% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes). The film has been praised by horror fans and critics alike for delivering a film that's as heavy on gore and thrills as it is on laughs and fun, but also subverts the trappings of the genre in ways never before seen.
3. He co-wrote (with director Morgan Spurlock and producer Jeremy Chilnick) and produced the San Diego Comic-Con documentary Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope. This well-received (82% Fresh)documentary gives us an inside-look into 'nerd culture's largest event.'
4. He produced, wrote and directed the modern Shakespeare adaptation Much Ado About Nothing, which he filmed in secret at his house in the evenings while still in production on Marvel's The Avengers. The film releases June 21, 2013.
5. He wrote the paranormal romance In Your Eyes, directed by Brin Hill and starring Zoe Kazan, which releases sometime in 2013.
6. He and his wife, Kai Cole, founded their own production company Bellwether Pictures. Much Ado About Nothing is the first film under the Bellwether banner, and In Your Eyes will be the second.
7. He co-starred in a recurring role on season two of the web series Husbands, which marks his largest acting work to date. His work has been nominated for a Streamy Award for Best Guest Appearance and an Indie Soap Award for Best Supporting Actor (Comedy).
8. He created/developed the upcoming Marvel tie-in series S.H.I.E.L.D. as well as co-wrote (with his brother Jed Whedon and sister-in-law Maurissa Tancharoen) and will direct the pilot episode (filming began January 22, 2013). The series is tentatively set to premiere on ABC in late 2013.
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Special Achievement Award for Excellence in Performance:
Matthew McConaughey
For an actor that's been a household name for almost two decades, Matthew McConaughey hit a certain career-high in 2012, with four stand-out performances. In Richard Linklater's Bernie, Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike, and Lee Daniels' The Paperboy he garnered multiple nominations and awards as both a supporting actor and as part of an ensemble cast, and his no-holds-barred performance in William Friedkin's Killer Joe has earned him more praise than any single role in his career.
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Special Achievement Award for Excellence in Writing:
Martin McDonagh
Writing a story that gets better and better with every layer that's peeled back is a rare gift, and writing a story in which the layers are not all immediately present upon first-viewing is rarer still. Martin McDonagh has topped his 2008 award-winning film In Bruges, by writing a story that is so fun and easy to enjoy as pure-entertainment, but still containing all of those layers and subtleties... and a thought-provoking, complex, character-piece, with hints of a 'film-within-a-film,' underneath all of those layers. Similar to something you've seen before, yet unlike anything you've seen before.
Seven Psychopaths, on the surface, is a funny, well-written, violent, dialogue-driven crime-comedy, similar in vein to films by Quentin Tarantino or Guy Ritchie. But to say that it's JUST that kind of film is like saying that Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation is just about a guy writing about plants.
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