The Fourth Annual Snootchie Awards

[ZapRowsdower]

While this is mostly final, the list of nominees is subject to change without notice.

Best Picture

Hairspray
Into the Wild
Juno
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
There Will Be Blood

WINNER 2006: Children of Men
WINNER 2005: Munich
WINNER 2004: The Passion of the Christ

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Christian Bale for Rescue Dawn
Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Emile Hirsch for Into the Wild
James McAvoy for Atonement
Gordon Pinsent for Away from Her
Denzel Washington for American Gangster

WINNER 2006: Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
WINNER 2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote
WINNER 2004: James Caviezel for The Passion of the Christ

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Amy Adams for Enchanted
Nikky Blonski for Hairspray
Julie Christie for Away from Her
Marion Cotillard for La vie en rose
Angelina Jolie for A Mighty Heart
Ellen Page for Juno
Tang Wei for Lust, Caution

WINNER 2006: Helen Mirren for The Queen
WINNER 2005: Felicity Huffman for Transamerica
WINNER 2004: Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men
Paul Dano for There Will Be Blood
Philip Seymour Hoffman for Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook for Into the Wild
Ed Sanders for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
John Travolta for Hairspray

WINNER 2006: Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls
WINNER 2005: Clive Owen for Sin City
WINNER 2004: Clive Owen for Closer

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Ruby Dee for American Gangster
Catherine Keener for Into the Wild
Queen Latifah for Hairspray
Saoirse Ronan for Atonement
Amy Ryan for Gone Baby Gone
Jurnee Smollett for The Great Debaters

WINNER 2006: Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls
WINNER 2005: Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener
WINNER 2004: Maia Morgenstern for The Passion of the Christ

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood
Tim Burton for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Ethan Coen; Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men
Andrew Dominik for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Sean Penn for Into the Wild
Ridley Scott for American Gangster

WINNER 2006: Martin Scorsese for The Departed
WINNER 2005: Steven Spielberg for Munich
WINNER 2004: Mel Gibson for The Passion of the Christ

Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Judd Apatow for Knocked Up
Brad Bird for Ratatouille
Diablo Cody for Juno
Dean Craig for Death at a Funeral
Simon Pegg; Edgar Wright for Hot Fuzz
Adrienne Shelly for Waitress

WINNER 2006: Michael Arndt for Little Miss Sunshine
WINNER 2005: Woody Allen for Match Point
WINNER 2004: Charlie Kaufman for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

Ben Affleck; Aaron Stockard for Gone Baby Gone
Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood
Andrew Dominik for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Sean Penn for Into the Wild
Aaron Sorkin for Charlie Wilson's War
Steven Zaillian for American Gangster

WINNER 2006: David Arata; Alfonso Cuaron; Mark Fergus; Hal Otsby; Timothy J. Sexton for Children of Men
WINNER 2005: David S. Goyer; Christopher Nolan for Batman Begins
WINNER 2004: Patrick Marber for Closer

Best Cinematography

Atonement - Seamus McGarvey
Into the Wild - Eric Gautier
No Country for Old Men - Roger Deakins
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - Dariusz Wolski
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Roger Deakins
There Will Be Blood - Robert Elswit

WINNER 2006: Children of Men - Emmanuel Lubezki
WINNER 2005: Memoirs of a Geisha - Dion Beebe
WINNER 2004: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - Eric Adkins (Most Visually Impressive)

Best Art Direction

300 - Isabelle Guay; Nicolas Lepage; Jean-Pierre Paquet; Paul Hotte
Hairspray - Dennis Davenport; Gordon Sim
I Am Legend - Howard Cummings; Bill Skinner; Patricia Woodbridge; George DeTitta Jr.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - Bruce Crone; William Hawkins; William Ladd Skinner; Cheryl A. Carasik
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Dante Feretti; Francesca Lo Schiavo
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Martin Gendron; Troy Sizemore; Janice Blackie-Goodine

WINNER 2006: Apocalypto - Roberto Bonelli
WINNER 2004: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Most Visually Impressive)

Best Choreography - Dance

Across the Universe - Daniel Ezralow; Sandy Chase; Erin Elliott
Enchanted - John O'Connell; Maria Torres O'Connor;
Hairspray - Adam Shankman

WINNER 2006: Dreamgirls

Best Choreography - Fight

300 - Damon Caro; Chad Stahelski
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - George Marshall Ruge; Daniel W. Barringer
Shoot 'Em up - Eddie Perez

WINNER 2006: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Best Visual Effects

300
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Spider-Man 3
Transformers

WINNER 2006: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
WINNER 2005: King Kong
WINNER 2004: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Most Visually Impressive)

Best Animated Feature

Beowulf
Ratatouille
Surf's Up
The Simpsons Movie
TMNT

WINNER 2006: Happy Feet
WINNER 2005: Howl's Moving Castle
WINNER 2004: The Incredibles

Best Documentary

TBA

WINNER 2006: An Inconvenient Truth
WINNER 2005: The Aristocrats

Best Foreign Language Film

TBA

WINNER 2006: Letters from Iwo Jima - Clint Eastwood
WINNER 2005: Oldboy - Chan-wook Park
WINNER 2004: The Passion of the Christ - Mel Gibson

Best Music, Original Score

Michael Brook; Kaki King; Eddie Vedder for Into the Wild
Michael Giacchino for Ratatouille
Jonny Greenwood for There Will Be Blood
Mark Mancina for August Rush
Dario Marianelli for Atonement
Hans Zimmer for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

WINNER 2006: Javier Navarette for Pan's Labyrinth
WINNER 2005: John Williams for Munich
WINNER 2004: John Debney for The Passion of the Christ

Best Music, Original Song

"Come So Far (Got So Far to Go)"
Marc Shaiman (music/lyrics); Scott Wittman (lyrics)
Hairspray

"Falling Slowly"
Glen Hansard; Marketa Irglova
Once

"Guaranteed"
Eddie Vedder
Into the Wild

"Hoist the Colours"
Ted Elliott (lyrics); Terry Rossio (lyrics); Hans Zimmer (music)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

"Someday"
John Legend
August Rush

"True Love's Kiss"
Alan Menken (music); Stephen Schwartz (lyrics)
Enchanted

"Walk Hard"
Judd Apatow; Marshall Crenshaw; Jake Kasdan; John C. Reilly
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story


WINNER 2006: "You Know My Name"
David Arnold; Chris Cornell
Casino Royale

WINNER 2005: "In the Deep"
Michael Becker; Bird York
Crash

WINNER 2004: "Remember"
James Horner (music); Cynthia Weil (lyrics)
Troy

[Pulpmariachi]

These are just personal for you, right? Because you seem to be the only one who really really likes "Sweeny Todd" at all.

[ZapRowsdower]

Yep... I'm gonna start up the board's Oscars on tuesday.

[Pulpmariachi]

Man: I was assembling my Oscars list and used yours as a reference point...Hans Zimmer for "Pirates"? Seriously, dude. That man has written maybe ten songs in his entire life and used them over and over and over and over again. Listen to "The Planets"; it's blatant plagarism of Holst.

Zimmer = lamest composer working in Hollywood today.

[ZapRowsdower]

Yeah, I knew he freely borrowed from "Planets"... last semester, I took a class on Film Music, and our instructor (who was also the brilliant artist who composed the "Darkwing Duck" theme) played us an exerpt.

But that's not uncommon. John Williams himself owes much of his success to Erich Korngold's theme for "King's Row".

[Pulpmariachi]

While that is true, Williams has also borrowed from other pieces (everybody borrows from everybody else), and in fact, I was listening to Dukas today and heard stuff adapted for "Jurassic Park." Williams tends to mix it up, however. I swear to you, I heard the same song in "Gladiator" I did in "Pirates."

[ZapRowsdower]

That's true... although if I'm not mistaken, the first Pirates was composed by Klaus Badelt... and there was some serious "borrowing" in that movie from Gladiator. I did catch that.

I still prefer Zimmer's score to Pirates 3 over James Newton Howard's score for Michael Clayton, which sounds exactly like the score for EVERY OTHER POLITICAL THRILLER EVER WRITTEN. The Academy disqualified Greenwood's score because "it wasn't written directly for the film"... their nomination of Howard's score just suggests inconsistency.

Enough of that rant... I really didn't think Michael Clayton was that good.

[Pulpmariachi]

Haven't seen Michael Clayton, but I was up in arms over Greenwood's dismissal. There were maybe two songs he borrowed from his own "Popcorn Superheat Reciever", among his entire score, you know? And of the ones I heard this year, it's the most lasting, resonating, and mood-setting. Probably utilized the best, as well.

[ZapRowsdower]

I've just announced the winners on my Myspace account.

NOTE: A couple categories were added on after I posted them here, and I've been forgetting to update this one.

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