Sunday, June 11, 2023

2022 JWD Awards

Previous Years: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 

Since I both didn't see half of what I meant to see, and this is so late, I'm sure these are going to be missing a lot of things, because I just haven't had the time to devote to it this year. 

Best Film:
TÁR
Eight Mountains
Bones & All
Decision to Leave
Aftersun
Memoria
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Banshees of Inisherin
After Yang
Eternal Daughter
Benediction

Notable Omissions: Women King, Women Talking, The Fablemans, The Wonder, Corsage, Pinocchio, Holy Spider, No Bears, Kimi, armageddon time, playground, lost illusions, EO

Best Popcorn Flick:
RRR
Top Gun Maverick
Nope
The Menu
Glass Onion
Men
Bob's Burgers
Marcel the Shell

Film I'm Most Looking Forward To That I Missed:
Corsage
the Wonder
Three Thousand Years
Crimes of the Future
The Northman
Zero Fucks Given
The House
the Card Counter
Pleasure

Best Debut Film:
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Aftersun
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Barbarian
On the Count of Three

Notable Omissions: Joyland, Farha, the Quiet Girl, Night of the Coconut, Lullaby, 20th Century Girl, Hit the Road, Falcon Lake, Emily the Criminal, the Inspection, Murina, Saint Omer, Happening, Clara Sola, Rodeo, We're All Going to the World's Fair

Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett - TÁR
Tang Wei - Decision to Leave
Taylor Russell - Bones & All
Tilda - Memoria, Eternal Daughter
Keke Palmer - Nope
Michelle Yeoh - EEAAO
Lily McInerny - Palm Trees and Power Lines
Odessa Young - Mothering Sunday

Notable Omissions: Viola Davis - Woman King, Michelle Williams - the Fablemans, Andrea Riseborough - To Leslie, Margot Robbie - Babylon, Danielle Deadwyler - Till, Lesley Manville - Mrs. Harris, Dale Dickey - A Love Song, Alena Mikhaylova - Tchaikovsky's Wife, Rooney Mara - Women Talking, Vicky Krieps - Corsage, Zar Amir Ebrahimi - Holy Spider, Mia Goth - Pearl, Adele Exarchopoulos - Zero Fucks Given, Guslagie Malanda - Saint Omer, Zoe Kazan - She Said, Anna Diop - Nanny, Park Ji-Min - Return to Seoul

Best Actor:
Rory Kinnear - Men
Jonathan Tucker - Palm Trees & Power Lines
Luca Marinelli - Eight Mountains
Timothee Chalamet - Bones & All
Park Hae-il - Decision to Leave
Paul Mescal - Aftersun
Colin Farrell - Banshees
Colin Farrell - After Yang
Jack Lowden - Benediction
Cooper Raiff - Cha Cha Real Smooth

Notable Omissions: Paul Dano - the Fablemans, Bill Nighy - Living, Diego Calva - Babylon, Jeremy Pope - the Inspection, Hugh Jackman - the Son, Daniel Gimenez Cacho - Bardo, Eden Dambrine - Close, Song Kang-ho - Broker, Brendan Fraser - the Whale, Viggo Mortensen - Crimes of the Future, Franz Rogowski - Great Freedom, Benjamin Voisin - Lost Illusions, Freddie Gibbs - Down with the King, Jake Gyllenhaal - Ambulance

Best Supporting Actress:
Kerry Condon - Banshees
Stephanie Hsu - EEAAO
Nina Hoss - TÁR
Noémi Hoss - TÁR
Sophie Kauer - TÁR
Haley Lu Richardson - After Yang
Tilda - Eternal Daughter ;)

Notable Omissions: Angela Bassett - Wakanda Forever, Hong Chau - the Whale, Carey Mulligan - She Said, Jessie Buckley/Claire Foy/Judith Ivey - Women Talking, Aimee Lou Wood - Living, Aisling Fanciosi - God's Creatures, Fatma Mohamed/Gwendoline Christie - Flux Gourmet, Lashana Lynch - Woman King, Gabrielle Union - Inspection

Best Supporting Actor:
Ben Daniels/Matthew Tennyson/Peter Capaldi - Benediction
Barry Keoghan - Banshees
Brendan Gleeson - Banshees
Ke Huy Quan - EEAAO
Ralph Fiennes - the Menu
Mark Rylance - Bones & All
Alessandro Borghi - Eight Mountains

Notable Omissions:
Albrecht Schuch - Fabian, Tom Burke - Living, Brian Tyree Henry - Causeway, Raúl Castillo - the Inspection, Jon Bernthal - Sharp Stick, Lennie James - There There, David Dawson - My Policeman, Don McKellar - Crimes of the Future, Vincent Lacoste - Lost Illusions, Judd Hirsch - the Fablemans, Ben Whishaw - Women Talking, Jeremy Strong - Armageddon time, 

Best Ensemble:
Banshees
After Yang
Everything Everywhere
Top Gun Maverick
TÁR
Bones & All
Decision to Leave
Nope
Eight Mountains
Benediction
Mothering Sunday

Twofers:
Aftersun
Men
Good Luck to You Leo Grande
Palm Trees & Power Lines

Notable Omissions: Women Talking, Women King, Fablemans, Flux Gourmet, the Wonder


Best Documentary:
All That Breathes
Moonage Daydream
32 Sounds
Jeanette

...I didn't see shit last year apparently

Notable Omissions: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Fire of Love, Navalny, Descendant, Cow, Beatles: Get Back, Wildcat, Volcano, Young Plato

Best Animated Film:
Marcel the Shell
Wendell & Wild
Bob's Burgers

Notable Omissions: Sea Beast, Turning Red, My Father's Dragon, Pinocchio, Inu-oh

Best Foreign Film:
Decision to Leave
RRR
Memoria
Eight Mountains
All That Breathes
Intregalde

Notable Omissions: Corsage, Holy Spider, Quiet Girl, Argentina 1985, EO, Close, Return to Seoul, Saint Omer, Utama, Lo Invisible, 

Best Director:
Todd Field - TÁR
Charlotte Wells - Aftersun
Martin McDonagh - Banshees
Joseph Kosinski - Top Gun
S.S. Rajamouli - RRR
Park Chan-Wook - Decision to Leave
Luca Guadaggnino - Bones & All
Kogonada - After Yang
Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch - Eight Mountains
Jamie Dack - Palm Trees & Power Lines
Apichatpong Weerasethakul - Memoria
Joanna Hogg - Eternal Daughter

Notable Omissions: Women King, Women Talking, Both sides of the Blade, She Said, Corsage, One Fine Morning, We're All Going to the World's Fair, Till, Saint Omer, Happening, the Fablemans, EO

Best Screenplay - Original:
TÁR
Banshees
Aftersun
Decision to Leave
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Palm Trees & Power Lines
EEAAO
Nope

Notable Omissions: Fablemans, Armageddon Time, EO, Return to Seoul, Flux Gourmet

Best Screenplay - Adapted:
Marcel the Shell
After Yang
Bones & All
Eternal Daughter
Mothering Sunday

Notable Omissions: Women Talking, Living, Three Thousand Years, the Wonder, Pinocchio, She Said, Lost Illusions, Petrov's Flu, Pleasure, 

Best Editing:
Top Gun
EEAAO
TÁR
Moonage Daydream
Bones & All
Marcel the Shell
Aftersun

Notable Omissions: Women Talking, Flux Gourmet, Nothing Compares

Best Cinematography:
TÁR
Top Gun
Men
Decision to Leave
Bones & All
All That Breathes
Banshees
Aftersun
Memoria

Notable Omissions: Bardo, Armageddon Time, Empire of Light, Fablemans, My Policeman, Women Talking, EO, Woman King, Corsage, Three Thousand, Northman, the Wonder, Pearl, Wildcat, 

Best Costumes:
EEAAO
Benediction

Notable Omissions: Babylon, Mrs. Harris, Wakanda Forever, Elvis, Women Talking, the Wonder, Living, Flux Gourmet, Corsage, Northman, Pale Blue Eye, Pearl, 3,000 Years of Longing

Best Makeup:
Bones & All
EEAAO
Men
the Menu
Thor Love & Thunder

Notable Omissions: Batman, Whale, Elvis, Wakanda Forever, Babylon, Crimes of the Future, Corsage

Best Production Design:
TÁR
Neptune Frost
Bones & All
Nope
Banshees

Notable Omissions: Babylon, Fablemans, Women Talking, Woman King, Till, Three Thousand, Pale Blue Eye, Lady Chatterly

Best Visual Effects:
Top Gun
Nope
RRR
Men
EEAAO

Notable Omissions: Northman, Three Thousand, Batman, Avatar, 

Best Score:
Banshees

Notable Omissions: Women Talking, Pinocchio, She Said, Three Thousand, Empire of Light, Fablemans, Northman, Corsage, We're all going to the world's fair, batman, inspection, white noise, Kimi, Stars at Noon, Crimes of the Future, X, Blonde, Pearl, 3000 years, Till, Descendant, my father's dragon, woman king

Best Song/Musical Moment:
I mean, it's obviously this:

but I do also really love You Made it Feel Like Home.

Best Sound - both Editing & Mixing:
Top Gun
EEAAO
Moonage Daydream
Men
Aftersun
Nope
TÁR
After Yang
Memoria
32 Sounds

Notable Omissions: Elvis, Avatar, Batman, Flux Gourmet, the Wonder, Bardo, Quiet Girl, EO, Argentina 1985, Prey, Fire of Love, Fablemans, Pearl, Northman

Best Short - Doc:

Best Short - Live Action:

Best Short - Animated:

Special Pandemic Section - Best Older Short Seen This Year
575 Castro St.

Best poster:
Tár (this variation is good, too)
Pearl (or this variant) (the one for X was pretty great, too)
Pinnocchio

Best Trailer:

Best Quote:
"Student Loans?" - The Menu
“You want to be people? Let’s be people.” - Bones & All
“Oh it's so dumb, it's brilliant." "No! It's just dumb!” - Glass Onion
"I have body dysmorphia." - Bodies Bodies Bodies
"I wasn't trying to be nice. I was trying to be accurate." - Banshees
"But sometimes you just have to disregard those rules and think, "well, actually, the rule is that I want to be having a good life, ad stay alive, and not just survive, but have a good life." - Marcel
"Sometimes, people say that my head is too big for my body. And then I say, "compared to what?"" - Marcel
"Whale jetski" - Marcel
“guess why i smile a lot.” “why?” “because it’s worth it.” - Marcel

Unforgettable Moment (Arr. There be spoilers here:)
When the type of horror Barbarian is reveals itself
Memoria one-er
The rocks - EEAAO
Ram's introduction - RRR
Gordy's rampage - Nope
Under Pressure - Aftersun
the Julliard class - TÁR
the car ride - Marcel

Other superlatives:
2023 Film I am Most Looking Forward To: Emily
Actor Having the Most Fun While Earning a Paycheck: Andrew Garfield - No Way Home (Runner Up: Christian Bale - Thor)
The film most scientifically designed in a lab to appeal to me: See How They Run (I'm literally currently wearing my Poirot in the Streets shirt...)
Most Sam Rockwell performance: See How They Run
Best Taskmaster alumni appearance in a film: Tim Key - See How They Run
Best Breakthrough: Taylor Russell - Bones & All (Runner up: Stephanie Hsu - Everything Everywhere)
Best Cameo: Daredevil - No Way Home
Best MTT joke: TÁR
Best Trailer for a 2023 film: Deadpool 3
Biggest Waste of a Cast/idea: Please Baby Please
Best Action Scene: The final run - Top Gun
Best Call-Back to a 2021 Doc: Nope's Eadweard Muybridge
Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldn't: Neptune Frost
Best argument that marvel should be entirely tv-based at this point: Wanda - Doctor Strange
Best Superhero: Brett Goldstein
Creepiest Scene: the tunnel - Men
Best measuring tape: Barbarian
Best Depiction Of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction: Good Luck to You Leo Grande
Most Nerve Wracking Sequence: (spoiler) the sex work scene- Palm Trees and Power Lines
Best Credits: After Yang
Best Tom Cruise cosplay: Glass Onion
Best buttplug - EEAAO
Best Female Action Star: Monica Barbaro - Top Gun
Best Scene in an otherwise okay film: the birth - Catherine Called Birdy
Best surprise Glenda Jackson: Mothering Sunday
Best chekov's corpse: Doctor Strange
Most WTF: the ending of Men
Best Chase: Under the wharf - Bob's Burgers
Best depiction of trauma: Benediction
Best New to Me: Dans la nuit
Best Restoration: Foolish Wives
Prettiest landscape: Eight Mountains
Best cake: Eternal Daughter
Best Kiss: RRR. Oh, did that not happen? Feels like it did
Best Music Cue: Your Silent Face - New Order - Bones & All 
Best sing along: Barbarian
Most disappointing song to be nominated ahead of Bones & All: Lady Gaga - Top Gun
Most ridiculously, stupidly entertaining music cue: Danger Zone. OBVIOUSLY. (But shout-outs to Jordan Peele's films with I Am a Poseur - Wendell & Wild & Sunglasses at night in Nope)
Worst scene in an otherwise great film: Joseph being kind to Andrew at the end of Cha Cha Real Smooth. Takes the nicecore too far. 
Best Goats: Thor: Love and Thunder
Best Donkey: Banshees
Best Dog: Eternal Daughter
Best Racoon: EEAAO
Best Birds: All That Breathes
Best Menagerie: RRR
Most shocking opening: Memoria
Best unexpected Jessica in a film (TWO YEARS IN A ROW?!?): Memoria
Best cheeseburger: the Menu
Best Ending (the McKayla Maroney award): Decision to Leave (Runner up: Palm Trees and Power Lines)


Best TV Show: STILL HANNIBAL.

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