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Tuesday, September 18, 2018

2017 BEACHHOUSE AWARDS -- Original Song

And the nominees and Winner for Original Song are...

"HOW CAN A MOMENT LAST FOREVER" - Beauty and the Beast

"MYSTERY OF LOVE" - Call Me By Your Name

"REMEMBER ME" - Coco

"REWRITE THE STARS" - The Greatest Showman

"THIS IS ME" - The Greatest Showman

2017 BEACHHOUSE AWARDS -- Foreign Language Film

And the nominees and Winner for Foreign Language Film are...

BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE)

FACES PLACES

FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER

LOVELESS

THE SQUARE

2017 BEACHHOUSE AWARDS -- Comedy Film

And the nominees and Winner of Best Comedy are...

THE BIG SICK

THE DISASTER ARTIST

I, TONYA

LADY BIRD

THOR: RAGNAROK



2017 BEACHHOUSE AWARDS -- Action Film

BABY DRIVER

DUNKIRK

JOHN WICK 2

LOGAN

WONDER WOMAN

2017 BEACHHOUSE AWARDS -- Breakthrough Filmmaker

And the nominees and Winner for Breakthrough Filmmaker are...


SEAN BAKER - "The Florida Project"

GRETA GERWIG - "Lady Bird"

KOGONADA - "Columbus"

JOHN CARROLL LYNCH - "Lucky"

JORDAN PEELE - "Get Out"

2017 BEACHHOUSE AWARDS -- Breakthrough Performance

And the nominees and Winner of Best Breakthrough Performance are...

Timothee Chalamet - "Call Me By Your Name"

Daniel Kaluuya - "Get Out"

Dafne Keen - "Logan"

Brooklyn Prince - "The Florida Project"

Florence Pugh - "Lady Macbeth"

2017 BEACHHOUSE AWARDS -- Best Scene/Sequence

And the nominees and Winner for Best Scene/Sequence of the Year are...

BABY DRIVER - Opening Getaway

COCO - Remember Me

GET OUT - Hypnosis & The Sunken Place

SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING - The Dad Talk
WONDER WOMAN - No Man's Land

2017 BEACHHOUSE AWARDS -- Best Shot

And the nominees and Winner for Best Shot of the year are...


BABY DRIVER - Opening Credits

DUNKIRK - Burning the plane

THE FLORIDA PROJECT - Fixing the AC

STRONGER - Bomb Aftermath

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI - Thrown out the window

2017 BEACHHOUSE AWARDS -- Overlooked Film

And the nominees and winner for Best Overlooked Film are...

AMERICAN MADE

BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99
FILM STARS DON'T DIE IN LIVERPOOL

GOOD TIME

HOSTILES

INGRID GOES WEST

THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER

LOGAN LUCKY

PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMAN

WIND RIVER

Friday, February 9, 2018

2017 OSCAR NOMINATIONS and How I Did Predicting

As a whole, in 21 categories, predicting 107 total nods, I had 86 right for a 80.3% total, including nailing 7 categories perfectly. If you add in the alternate choices as well, tack on another 12 for 98/107 = 91.5%. 

The Shape of Water leads with 13
Dunkirk with 8
Three Billboards with 7
Darkest Hour/Phantom Thread with 6
Lady Bird/Blade Runner with 5
Call Me/Get Out/Mudbound/Star Wars with 4

BEST PICTURE - 7/9 (9)

  • Call Me By Your Name
  • Darkest Hour (alternate)
  • Dunkirk
  • Get Out
  • Lady Bird
  • Phantom Thread (alternate)
  • The Post
  • The Shape of Water
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST DIRECTOR - 4/5
  • Paul Thomas Anderson - "Phantom Thread" (missed)
  • Guillermo Del Toro - "The Shape of Water"
  • Greta Gerwig - "Lady Bird"
  • Christopher Nolan - "Dunkirk"
  • Jordan Peele - "Get Out"
BEST ACTOR - 4/5 (5)
  • Timothee Chalamet - "Call Me By Your Name"
  • Daniel Day-Lewis - "Phantom Thread"
  • Daniel Kaluuya - "Get Out"
  • Gary Oldman - "Darkest Hour"
  • Denzel Washington - "Roman J. Israel, Esq." (alternate)
BEST ACTRESS - 5/5
  • Sally Hawkins - "The Shape of Water"
  • Frances McDormand - "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"
  • Margot Robbie - "I, Tonya"
  • Saoirse Ronan - "Lady Bird"
  • Meryl Streep - "The Post"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - 5/5
  • Willem Dafoe - "The Florida Project"
  • Woody Harrelson - "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"
  • Richard Jenkins - "The Shape of Water"
  • Christopher Plummer - "All the Money in the World"
  • Sam Rockwell - "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - 4/5 (5)
  • Mary J. Blige - "Mudbound"
  • Allison Janney - "I, Tonya"
  • Lesley Manville - "Phantom Thread" (alternate)
  • Laurie Metcalf - "Lady Bird"
  • Octavia Spencer - "The Shape of Water"
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY - 5/5
  • The Big Sick
  • Get Out
  • Lady Bird
  • The Shape of Water
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY - 4/5 (5)
  • Call Me By Your Name
  • The Disaster Artist
  • Logan (alternate)
  • Molly's Game
  • Mudbound
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE - 3/5 (4)
  • The Boss Baby (alternate)
  • The Breadwinner
  • Coco
  • Ferdinand (missed)
  • Loving Vincent
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - 5/5
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Darkest Hour
  • Dunkirk
  • Mudbound
  • The Shape of Water
BEST FILM EDITING - 4/5 (5)
  • Baby Driver
  • Dunkirk
  • I, Tonya (alternate)
  • The Shape of Water
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN - 5/5
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Darkest Hour
  • Dunkirk
  • The Shape of Water
BEST COSTUME DESIGN - 3/5
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Darkest Hour (missed)
  • Phantom Thread
  • The Shape of Water
  • Victoria & Abdul (missed)
BEST SOUND MIXING - 5/5
  • Baby Driver
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Dunkirk
  • The Shape of Water
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi
BEST SOUND EDITING - 5/5
  • Baby Driver
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Dunkirk
  • The Shape of Water
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS - 3/5 (4)
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (missed)
  • Kong: Skull Island (alternate)
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  • War for the Planet of the Apes
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING - 2/3
  • Darkest Hour
  • Victoria & Abdul (missed)
  • Wonder
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - 3/5 (4)
  • Dunkirk
  • Phantom Thread
  • The Shape of Water
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi (missed)
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (alternate)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG - 4/5 (5)
  • "Mighty River" - Mudbound
  • "Mystery of Love" - Call Me By Your Name
  • "Remember Me" - Coco
  • "Stand Up for Something" - Marshall (alternate)
  • "This Is Me" - The Greatest Showman
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM - 3/5 (4)
  • A Fantastic Woman
  • The Insult (alternate)
  • Loveless
  • On Body and Soul (missed)
  • The Square
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE - 3/5 (4)
  • Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (missed)
  • Faces Places
  • Icarus
  • Last Men in Aleppo
  • Strong Island (alternate)
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
  • Edith + Eddie
  • Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405
  • Heroin(e)
  • Knife Skills
  • Traffic Stop
BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM
  • Dekalb Elementary
  • The Eleven O'Clock
  • My Nephew Emmett
  • The Silent Child
  • Watu Wote / All of Us
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
  • Dear Basketball
  • Garden Party
  • Lou
  • Negative Space
  • Revolting Rhymes