The 2015 Mofo Film Awards

Deliberate product placement to make a point about commercialism. When has that been done before? Usually it is to sell products owned by the company behind the film or that the company has a deal with.

star wars for sure
that was the only one i checked and it wasn't available

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Anyway, this is my break-down of how many of my nominations made the final list and additional comments...

Best Film of The Year (2/5)

Man, what do you people see in The Martian that I don't? Otherwise, no complaints with the selection.

Worst Film of the Year (3/5)

So it looks like the only candidate I haven't already seen is Pixels - debating whether or not it'll be worth it to actually watch it. It could very well be worse than all three films I nominated.

Best Director of the Year (2/5)

So this is what happens when I throw my vote away on Yorgos Lanthimos and Paolo Sorrentino. Oh, well.

Best Actor of the Year (1/5)

The only one on my list to make it was Depp, and even then I'm still not sure that I'll actually vote for him.

Best Actress of the Year (3/5)

Shout-out to Nina Hoss and Emily Blunt.

Best Supporting Actor of the Year (3/5)

A fairly satisfactory selection.

Best Supporting Actress of the Year (4/5)

The only one of my noms who missed out was Mya Taylor in Tangerine.

Best Screenplay of the Year (3/5)

I'll say this - my #1 pick got snubbed, which brings me to...

Best Animated Film of the Year (3/4)

And I thought the Academy nominating World of Tomorrow but not actually giving it the win was bad. We'll see if I get around to Peanuts or Shaun the Sheep, but I'm sure as hell not voting for Inside Out.

Biggest Surprise of the Year (0/5)

The biggest surprise is that none of my picks made it. Figure I might as well list them - The Lobster, Beasts of No Nation, Tangerine, Bone Tomahawk, and Maggie.

Biggest Disappointment of the Year (1/5)

I find it funny how the one film I nominated for this is actually only the third-worst of the bunch.

Most Overrated Film of the Year (2/5)

Okay, so Creed made it onto the list but The Martian didn't? *insert jadaracist.jpg here* Also, It Follows over Kingsman - what.

Most Memorable Scene of the Year (1/5)

Another instance where I'm not even sure that I'll vote for the one I nominated. Revenant bear scene begs the inclusion of a "most overrated scene" category, though.

Best Trailer of the Year (4/5)

When I nominated Mad Max, I was actually thinking of this trailer (or one like it) - I definitely remember it using "Dies Irae". Also, how in the hell did Suicide Squad and its Hot Tub Time Machine-level dialogue win out over the monologue trailer from Black Mass?

Best Cast of the Year (2/5)

Martian, Martian, Martian. At least seeing Sicario here gave me a "why didn't I think of that" feeling.

Best Cinematography of the Year (4/5)

Tangerine is the only one that didn't make it, but sure, let's give The Flare Awakens another nod.

Breakout Performance of the Year (2/5)

Speaking of TFA, I actually picked Boyega instead of Ridley. I guess it didn't matter.

Best Score (3/5)

Silly me for thinking that Macbeth and its post-rock noodling could compete with either Revenant (which gets the Gravity award for least necessary use of music) or Sicario (which is at least another one I should have thought of). The other snub was Ex Machina, but I'm sure it'll be fine.

Best Visual Effects (4/5)

That bear is fake as sh*t. Also, I actually gave The Martian a nomination and it got passed over for actual Most Disappointing nominee Age of Ultron? I don't get this user base at all.

I'm actually really happy that the Martian got so much. It feels like one of those films that is going through a backlash right now. Good to see that it's just a vocal minority, I loved it. Also loved the inclusion of the Ex Machina dance scene. I'm not trying to attack It Follows or other good horrors when I say that the dance scene was the most unsettling thing I saw in a movie last year. I will agree with Iro on visual effects-Revenant only had 1, and it was kind of terrible, and Avengers didn't have anything unique to it that was more deserving than Ant Man, which at least was mostly unique in its effects. It's a pretty decent slate of worst films of the year, only one I will defend is Pixels. I'll vote for someone other than Leo out of protest that yall let him win for being a shouty, normal in a suit over McConaughey.

I wanted people to be a little more specific with trailers and when they aren't, I go for what the more popular one is.

Emily Blunt was really close to making the list of nominations. Same with Boyega for Breakthrough Performance.

I'll throw my support for Rebecca Ferguson, she also had my vote for Supporting. I think a lot of people tend to go the Oscar route and performances like this go unnoticed. She breathed a bit of fresh female life into this series when most of the female characters were cardboard cutout spies.

I was surprised to see Star Wars get a cinematography nod. I was hoping for Beasts of No Nation to get some recognition here.

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Suspect's Reviews

I don't remember all my noms but my two favorite performances of the year didn't make it. Elizabeth Moss in Queen Of Earth and Paul Dano in Love & Mercy. Almost positive I nominated Beasts for cinematography, I agree with you there Suspect. Overall I think our noms are good.

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The fact that The Martian didn't get nominated for Most Overrated Film only confirms to me how overrated it is. If Ridley Scott was a no-name and this was his debut feature, I can't imagine he'd get the love he's getting.

The Martian>>>>Mad Max Fury Road, Spotlight, The Big Short, Age of Ultron, Spectre, Star Wars The Force Awakens

Actually he'd probably be getting even more if this were his first film. Everyone would be talking about how a newbie could be making something so high-quality.

Also, the movie not getting nominated just proves everyone else is wrong and you're right? Just a tad arrogant...

Correct answer:

INside Out>>>>The Martian>>>>Mad Max Fury Road, Spotlight, The Big Short, Age of Ultron, Spectre, Star Wars The Force Awakens

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Even better yes, Gatsby.

Fixed it even further

Just sent through my votes.

My only issue is that the best supporting actor/actress nominees almost all deliver vastly better performances than the best leading actor/ actress nominees (the same was true with the Oscars). It just always seems to make a mockery of these two categories; particularly when the line between lead and supporting actor/actress is often blurred in ensemble casts. I would like to see the categories combined to avoid absurd situations like DiCaprio winning an Oscar when he is the second best actor in his own movie; or Idris Elba being put in a supporting role when he is as much a lead as anyone else in his movie.

In fact on the DiCaprio point; Hardy delivered a superior performance, and Hardy still sits about third on my list of the supporting actor nominees. That is how huge the gulf between the lead and supporting categories is to me.

I do like the addition of best ensemble cast as a category; that is much needed at the Oscars.

Christian Bale should have won and Steve Carell should have also been nominated.

What were the previous MoFo best picture winners?

I filled out the categories I had some familiarity with. Have all of you seen these animated shorts that are nominated each year? Do any of you watch them?

Right now catching up on last years stuff, so when I gave my 2 cents, well thats what its really worth.

Huh, well, how about that. I remember specifying which trailers I had in mind last time around but I didn't bother this time. I guess that's on me.

Damn, how did I overlook Beasts' cinematography?

I think a lot of it is down to the fact that The Martian, for all its strengths and weaknesses, doesn't do too much to divide people's opinions. You look at all five Overrated nominees, you'll find people who love and hate the film, but nobody seems to seriously hate The Martian. I had it as my #3 pick for Most Overrated (ahead of actual finalists The Revenant and Creed), but my opinion can easily be summed up as "eh, it's okay, I guess".

Perhaps - I do wonder how much of the hype could be credited to Ridley Scott finally putting out an all-around solid film that people generally like after so many films that were either too divisive (Prometheus, possibly The Counselor) or too dull (Robin Hood, Body of Lies).

That seems like you're reading too much into it. Considering how two Best Film nominees are also contenders for Most Overrated, it's not without precedent.

I'm sort of surprised that Hardy's gotten so much hype for his work in Revenant. He's done good work in other films, but I didn't care for his performance in this one because of how he mangles his American accent pretty badly and, considering how much dialogue he gets, that's a problem.

Gravity (for 2013) and Birdman (for 2014).

I did note that World of Tomorrow got snubbed (it was my #1 nomination for Animated Film). I went out of my way to watch it because it's Don Hertzfeldt - I have not seen any of the other Animated Short contenders, though.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, if we have both a Surprise and a Disappointment, then shouldn't there be an Underrated to go with the Overrated? I think some of my picks in the Surprise category would be better fits for a hypothetical Underrated category.