Wednesday, February 26, 2020

2019 JWD Award Winners




Best Film:
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Parasite
A Hidden Life
The Souvenir
Peterloo
Aquarela
Anthropocene
The Farewell
The Nightingale
The Irishman

Best Popcorn Flick:
Ford v Ferrari
Climax
Knives Out
Booksmart
Ready or Not
Captain Marvel
Late Night

Film I'm Most Looking Forward To That I Missed:
Charlie Says
Fast Color
Fighting with My Family
Transit
High Flying Bird
Mouthpiece
The Body Remembers when the World Broke Open
Atlantics
Rocketman
Ad Astra
Us
I Lost My Body
Sunset

Best Debut Film:
Booksmart
Last Black Man in San Francisco
Les Miserables

Best Actress
Aisling Franciosi - The Nightingale
Honor Swinton Byrne - The Souvenir
Karen Allen - Colewell
Zhao Tao - Ash is Purest White
Adele Haenel - Portrait
Noemie Merlant - Portrait
Awkwafina - The Farewell
Jessie Buckley - Wild Rose
Valerie Pachner - A Hidden Life

Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Adam Sandler - Uncut Gems
August Diehl - A Hidden Life
Christian Bale - Ford v Ferrari
George Mackay - 1917
Jimmy Fails - Last Black Man
Matt Damon - Ford v Ferrari
Robert de Niro - The Irishman
Tom Burke - The Souvenir

Best Supporting Actress
Kaitlyn Dever - Booksmart
Emma Thompson - Late Night
Cho Yeo-Jeong - Parasite
Hannah Gross - Colewell
Jennifer Lopez - Hustlers
Julia Butters - Once Upon a Time
Juliette Binoche - High Life
Julianne Nicholson - Monos
Park So-dam - Paradise
Idina Menzel - Uncut Gems
Luana Bajrami - Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Best Supporting Actor
Jonathan Majors - Last Black Man in SF
Song Kang-Ho - Parasite
Willem Dafoe - The Lighthouse
Joe Pesci - The Irishman
Andrew Scott - 1917
Rory Kinnear - Peterloo
Tracy Letts - Ford v Ferrari
Al Pacino - The Irishman

Best Ensemble
Parasite
Booksmart
Knives Out
Last Black Man in San Francisco
Parasite (haha. Oops. No but really.)
The Irishman
Peterloo

Best Documentary
Aquarela
Midnight Family
Anthropocene
Hail Satan?
Minute Bodies: Intimate World of F. Percy Smith
The Hidden City
The Seer and the Unseen

Best Animated Film:
... I literally didn't see anything animated last year. Not sure how that happened. 

Best Foreign Film:
Parasite
Les Miserables
Monos
Lapu
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Ash is Purest White
Climax

Best Director: 
Celine Sciamma - Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Bong Joon Ho - Parasite
Lulu Wang - The Farewell
Joanna Hogg - The Souvenir
James Mangold - Ford v Ferrari
Terrence Malick - A Hidden Life
Claire Denis - High Life
Lorene Scafaria - Hustlers
Sam Mendes - 1917

Best Screenplay (I think I literally liked one adapted, so I'm combining this year):
1917
Knives Out
Parasite
Ford v Ferrari
Booksmart
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The Irishman
The Souvenir
Les Miserables
Last Black Man in San Francisco

Best Editing:
Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Parasite
A Hidden Life
The Souvenir
Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Best Cinematography:
Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Lighthouse
1917
A Hidden Life
Monos
High Life
The Souvenir
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Ash is Purest White
Peterloo
Lapu

Best Costumes:
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote 


Best Makeup:
Hustlers
Peterloo
Once Upon a Time
Parasite
Ash is Purest White

Best Production Design:
Knives Out
Parasite
1917
Jojo Rabbit
The Man who Killed Don Quixote
The Souvenir
White Crow
Ford v Ferrari
Peterloo
Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Best Visual Effects:
The Irishman
1917
Captain Marvel
Ford v Ferrari

Best Score:

Best Song/Musical Moment:
Wild Rose - Glasgow
Wild Rose - Peace in this House
Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Bonfire scene
Spoiler: Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Summer (Presto). I almost linked to this on youtube, but just 5 seconds of watching and I was bawling again. So. 
Booksmart - You Oughta Know
Captain Marvel - Only Happy When it Rains (obviously.)
Ready or Not - Hide and Seek
Ash is Purest White - YMCA
Hustlers - Criminal
Little Women - the Piano
The Nightingale - each of Clare's songs (not online)
1917 - Wayfaring Stranger (Here. Have my favorite version again)
There were definitely some amazing dances in White Crow, but I don't see any online (there's one where he leaps and spins a ton that stands out in my mind - but I don't recall what it was to)
Last Black Man in San Francisco - San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear)
Climax - the first dance

Best Sound - both Editing & Mixing
Ford v Ferrari
1917
Parasite
Wild Rose
The Lighthouse
Monos

Best Short - Live Action/Doc:
Ad Astra (a different one)

(Hon mention: This was an older film shown at the fest, but I LOVE Black Mary.)

Best Short - Animated:

Best poster:

(Hon mention for 2020: WW 1984)

Best Trailer:

Best Quote:
"You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way." - Parasite
"Fucking Rich People" - Ready or Not
"I'll just chew on these grapes" - Jojo Rabbit
"This is so metaphorical" - Parasite
"And cut right there" - The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
"I lost my virginity in what I thought was a park but it turned out to be a graveyard and now the ghost spirits live inside my eggs waiting to be reborn" - Booksmart (Obviously. OBVIOUSLY. What else could it be?)
"You don't get to hate it unless you love it" - Last Black Man in San Francisco
"In-laws" - Ready or Not

Unforgettable Moment (Non-musical or otherwise superlative) (Arr. There be spoilers here:)
The massacre - Peterloo
The couple reunited - Ash is Purest White
Goose & the Tesseract - Captain Marvel
The black hole - High Life
The soccer match - Diamantino
The rape - The Nightingale
The dinner party - The Souvenir
The basement - Parasite
The nice death - The Irishman
The injection - Knives Out
The run through the bombed out night city - 1917
The perfect lap - Ford v Ferrari (Or Ford Jr.'s test drive, or the fist fight, or the wrench...)
The shoes - JoJo Rabbit
The decision - A Hidden Life
The book - Little Women
The final bet - Uncut Gems
The Stairway - Les Miserables

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