SKANDIE AWARDS!

[The Original BJ]

BEST ACTRESS
1. Julie Christie, Away From Her (3,00000)
2. none
3. none
4. none
5. none

Yep. Their choices are pretty awesome.

[Akash]

Yes, but it's even more puzzling then that The New World came in second to Grizzly Man. I can understand a group of people being frustrated by the film and therefore not liking it. But for a group to appreciate it enough and still prefer something like Grizzly Man?

Either way, most of these choices are pretty awesome.



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[flipp525]

But...Grizzly Man??

Yeah, but wasn't the runner-up one of your favs that year?

[Akash]

Well at least ONE group got Casey Affleck's placement correct. But...Grizzly Man??

[Sabin]

The 13th Annual Skandies, named after Skander Halim, writer of 'Pretty Persuasion' from apparently the "glory days" of early film message boarding that spawned the likes of Harry Knowles and turned Mike D'Angelo & his ilk into the hipster internet critics du jour this side of slant. They've been voting for years now and have made some pretty sound choices for Best Picture. To wit:

2006: The Departed (r.u. The Prestige)
2005: Grizzly Man (r.u. The New World)
2004: Dogville (r.u. Eternal Sunshine...)
2003: Irreversible (r.u. Kill Bill: Vol. 1)
2002: 25th Hour (r.u. Y Tu Mama Tambien)
2001: In the Mood for Love (r.u. Mulholland Drive)
2000: Yi Yi (r.u. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
1999: Being John Malkovich (r.u. Eyes Wide Shut)
1998: Out of Sight (r.u. Rushmore)
1997: The Sweet Hereafter (r.u. In the Company of Men)
1996: Breaking the Waves (r.u. Secrets & Lies)
1995: Leaving Las Vegas


...and this year?

BEST PICTURE
1. There Will Be Blood (347/27)
2. No Country for Old Men (303/203)
3. Zodiac (173/15)
4. Grindhouse (127/12)
5. Syndromes and a Century (112/9)

BEST DIRECTOR
1. Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood (397/26)
2. Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men (323/24)
3. David Fincher, Zodiac (242/23)
4. Quentin Tarantino (179/16)
5. Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James... (112/12)

BEST ACTOR
1. Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (519/30)
2. Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James... (238/19)
3. Josh Brolin, No Country for Old Men (207/24)
4. Sam Rockwell, Joshua (196/13)
5. Viggo Mortenson, Eastern Promises (174/18)

BEST ACTRESS
1. Carice van Houten, Black Book (312/21)
2. Nicole Kidman, Margot at the Wedding (279/22)
3. Tang Wei, Lust, Caution (200/16)
4. Ellen Page, Juno (198/21)
5. Luisa Williams, Day Night Day Night (197/15)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men (340/25)
2. Kurt Russell, Grindhouse (228/20)
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War (198/15)
4. Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild (165/14)
5. Steve Zahn, Rescue Dawn (164/13)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone (355/25)
2. Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There (319/22)
3. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Margot at the Wedding (240/19)
4. Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton (202/16)
5. Kelly MacDonald, No Country for Old Men (173/17)

BEST SCREENPLAY
1. Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood (309/23)
2. Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men (289/26)
3. James Vanderbilt, Zodiac (193/20)
4. Noah Baumbach, Margot at the Wedding (189/17)
5. Ben Affleck & Aaron Stockard, Gone Baby Gone (177/17)

BEST SCENE
1. Attack on the Han River, The Host
2. "I drink your milkshake!", There Will Be Blood
3. Darkness in the hotel hallway, Zodiac
4. Waterloo Station, The Bourne Ultimatum
5. Ship's Mast, Grindhouse