The 9th Browning Film Awards (2008 films) (Don't kill me.)

The "Don't kill me." bit is for those who say I'm a one-trick pony. I have been asked to continue by those outside of this site, and I refuse to exclude you guys.

Anyways, rules are simple: Choose your favorite from each category (or as much as you can manage, though try and aim for six minimum if possible). Don't mock others. Don't mock this (I actually do work hard to bring the committee together to get these set up each time, even if I disapprove of their choices at times). Follow these three, and we should have no problems. Should. No guarantee.

The choices with each category:

Best Picture:
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-The Dark Knight
-Frost/Nixon
-Slumdog Millionaire
-WALL-E

Best Director:
-Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
-Clint Eastwood (Changeling)
-David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
-Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon)
-Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight)

Best Actor:
-Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino)
-Richard Jenkins (The Visitor)
-Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)
-Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire)
-Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Best Actress:
-Kate Beckinsale (Nothing But the Truth)-Cate Blanchett (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
-Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)
-Angelina Jolie (Changeling)
-Meryl Streep (Doubt)

Best Supporting Actor:
-Josh Brolin (Milk)
-Robert Downey, Jr. (Tropic Thunder)
-James Franco (Milk)
-Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt)
-Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)

Best Supporting Actress:
-Amy Adams (Doubt)
-Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
-Viola Davis (Doubt)
-Vera Farmiga (Nothing But the Truth)
-Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Best Original Screenplay:
-Burn After Reading
-Changeling
-Happy-Go-Lucky
-I've Loved You So Long
-WALL-E

Best Adapted Screenplay:
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Doubt
-The Reader
-Revolutionary Road
-Slumdog Millionaire

Best Animated Film:
-Bolt
-Horton Hears a Who!
-Kung Fu Panda
-The Tale of Despereaux
-WALL-E

Best Original Score:
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-The Dark Knight
-Milk
-Slumdog Millionaire
-WALL-E

Best Sound Editing:
-The Dark Knight
-Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
-Iron Man
-Slumdog Millionaire
-WALL-E

Best Sound Mixing:
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-The Dark Knight
-Iron Man
-Slumdog Millionaire
-WALL-E

Best Production Design:
-Changeling
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-The Dark Knight
-The Duchess
-Slumdog Millionaire

Best Cinematography:
-Changeling
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-The Dark Knight
-The Reader
-Slumdog Millionaire

Best Makeup & Hairstyling:
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-The Dark Knight
-The Duchess
-Hellboy II: The Golden Army
-Tropic Thunder

Best Costume Design:
-Australia
-Changeling
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-The Dark Knight
-The Duchess

Best Film Editing:
-Changeling
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-The Dark Knight
-Frost/Nixon
-Slumdog Millionaire

Best Visual Effects:
-The Dark Knight
-Hellboy II: The Golden Army
-Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
-Iron Man
-Journey to the Center of the Earth

If you have questions, concerns, or winning lottery ticket numbers, please feel free to message me. Especially those ticket numbers. I'm broke.

Best Picture:
-WALL-E
(No Milk?)

Best Director:
-David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Best Actor:
-Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
(No Sean Penn? Your committee sucks and you can tell them I said that)

Best Actress:
-Meryl Streep (Doubt)

Best Supporting Actor:
-Robert Downey, Jr. (Tropic Thunder)

Best Supporting Actress:
-Viola Davis (Doubt)

Best Original Screenplay:
-Burn After Reading

Best Adapted Screenplay:
-The Reader

Best Animated Film:

-WALL-E

Best Original Score:
-WALL-E

Best Production Design:
-The Dark Knight

Best Cinematography:
-The Reader

Best Makeup & Hairstyling:
-Tropic Thunder

Best Costume Design:
-The Duchess

Best Visual Effects:
-The Dark Knight

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You gave visual effects to The Dark Knight over Hellboy II, Miss Vicky?

I've only seen three of the films in that category and I certainly wasn't going to give my vote to Iron Man or ******* Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Oh. Well, Hellboy II takes that one for sure in my opinion.

To Miss Vicky: I was honestly shocked that Penn didn't make it, but gotta work with what I'm given. Also, I can understand not choosing Indy 4. I think the missing shocker of that category is Curious Case. And thank you for voting!

To Swan: So...should I count that as your vote for Visual Effects?

To everyone: Please tell me I'm not the only one that is somewhat disappointed that Waltz with Bashir didn't get a nomination in Animated Film. (Granted, it's not my #1 choice overall, but I think it most certainly deserved a spot!)

I actually just watched Waltz With Bashir for the first time today and thought it was phenomenal. It's at least a thousand times better than Horton Hears a Who!, Kung Fu Panda, and The Tale of Despereaux, all of which I thought were shining examples of mediocrity and emptiness.

On the subject of animation, don't forget to do some voting of your own, Browning. Compile a ranked list of your top 25 animated features and shorts and PM them to me. Rules and Guidelines can be found in this thread The MoFo Top Animated Films List - Voting

For sure.

I'll get right on that later today. I would do it now, but I don't know how much time I have online this moment, seeing as I have malware and possibly viruses out the butt! But I will jump onto that as soon as I can!

Alright, I'll get to adding it!

Best Picture- Dark Knight
Best Director- Christopher Nolan
Best Actor- Clint Eastwood
Best Actress- Angelina Jolie
Best Supporting Actor- Heath Ledger
Best Original Screenplay- Wall-E
Best animated Film- Wall-E
Best Original Score- The Dark Knight
Best Sound Editing- Iron Man
Best Sound Mixing- Iron Man
Best Production Design- Changeling
Best Cinematography- The Dark Knight
Best Visual Effects- Iron Man

Added, recorded, all that stuff Rauldc14!

Alright, one week remains, and there have been a total of voters. Don't make me start having to hunt people down! I'd rather you came here of your own free will!

Depending on how you look at it, there are 3 or 4 days left to vote, and there haven't been as many voters all-around as I had anticipated. If you have not voted, I implore you to do so, because in the last awards, you guys had the majority, and the results were more glorious than the two before it! I want to see that happen again! Share some awesomeness here, please!

The broken record's back, but only once more with this message. Today's the last day; roughly 15 hours left. If you haven't voted but would like to, now is the time!

Alright, just letting everyone know that the voting period is over for this one, I'll post the results on Tuesday afternoon (well, my Tuesday afternoon, anyway).

And I'm also letting you know when I've planned the next few awards to be. With a few holidays coming in, they're going to be more spread-out. Anywho, here's the planned schedule (it may change, depending on inclement weather and all):

2009 TBFA - Sept. 30
2010 TBFA - Oct. 28
2011 TBFA - Nov. 25
2012 TBFA - Jan. 6
2013 TBFA - Jan. 27
2014 and onward - 2nd or 3rd Tues. of June of the following year

Okay, results are in, and...well, let me put it this way: people really like The Dark Knight.

Winners:

Best Picture: The Dark Knight

Best Director: Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight)

Best Actor: Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino)

Best Actress: Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)

Best Supporting Actress: TIE!
-Amy Adams (Doubt)
-Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)

Best Original Screenplay: WALL-E

Best Adapted Screenplay: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Animated Film: WALL-E

Best Original Score: WALL-E

Best Sound Editing: The Dark Knight

Best Sound Mixing: The Dark Knight

Best Production Design: The Dark Knight

Best Cinematography: The Dark Knight

Best Makeup & Hairstyling: The Dark Knight

Best Costume Design: The Dark Knight

Best Film Editing: The Dark Knight

Best Visual Effects: Iron Man

Biggest shocker to me? Only one win for Slumdog Millionaire. What's yours?

How Hellboy II didn't win effects, I'll never know.

*shrugs* Sorry, man. But there is a bright side: no one picked Indy 4!

Biggest shocker for me is that Crappy Slumdog won something.

I actually liked that movie. Over-hyped, yes, but enjoyable.