Your personal ballot of 2016

[jabbercash]

What is your personal ballot for all the main film categories for 2016? These won't be collected or anything, it's just for fun.

Best Picture
01. La La Land
02. Moonlight
03. Manchester by the Sea
04. Hell or High Water
05. Silence
06. The Handmaiden
07. Arrival
08. Elle
09. Hacksaw Ridge
10. Captain Fantastic

Honorable Mention(s)

[Show spoiler]11. 10 Cloverfield Lane
12. Café Society

Best Director
01. Damien Chazelle, La La Land
02. Martin Scorsese, Silence
03. Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
04. Park Chan-wook, The Handmaiden
05. Denis Villeneuve, Arrival

Honorable Mention(s):

[Show spoiler]06. Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge
07. Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
08. Paul Verhoeven, Elle

Best Ensemble Cast
01. Moonlight
02. Manchester by the Sea
03. Hail Caesar!
04. Nocturnal Animals
05. Captain Fantastic

Best Actor
01. Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
02. Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
03. Denzel Washington, Fences
04. Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
05. Chris Pine, Hell or High Water

Honorable Mention(s)

[Show spoiler]06. Ryan Gosling, La La Land
07. Joel Edgerton, Loving

Best Actress
01. Natalie Portman, Jackie
02. Isabelle Huppert, Elle
03. Amy Adams, Arrival
04. Emma Stone, La La Land
05. Kim Min-hee, The Handmaiden

Honorable Mention(s):

[Show spoiler]06. Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins

Best Supporting Actor
01. Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
02. Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
03. Trevante Rhodes, Moonlight
04. Ben Foster, Hell or High Water
05. Alden Ehrenreich, Hail Caesar!

Honorable Mention(s):

[Show spoiler]06. John Goodman, 10 Cloverfield Lane
07.Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
08. Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
09. Hugo Weaving, Hacksaw Ridge
10. Ashton Sanders, Moonlight

Best Supporting Actress
01. Viola Davis, Fences
02. Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
03. Naomie Harris, Moonlight
04. Kristen Stewart, Café Society
05. Janelle Monae, Moonlight

Honorable Mention(s)

[Show spoiler]06. Margaret Bowman, Hell or High Water
07. Nicole Kidman, Lion

Best Adapted Screenplay
01. Moonlight
02. Arrival
03. Silence
04. The Handmaiden
05. Elle

Best Original Screenplay
01. Manchester by the Sea
02. Hell or High Water
03. Café Society
04. Captain Fantastic
05. La La Land

Honorable Mention(s)

[Show spoiler]06. Zootopia
07. Midnight Special

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Best Cinematography
01. La La Land
02. Silence
03. The Handmaiden
04. The Neon Demon
05. Arrival

Honorable Mention(s)

[Show spoiler]06. Moonlight
07. Café Society

Best Costume Design
01. The Handmaiden
02. Hail Caesar!
03. La La Land
04. Silence
05. The Neon Demon

Best Film Editing
01. Arrival
02. La La Land
03. Moonlight
04. Manchester by the Sea
05. Hacksaw Ridge

Honorable Mention(s)

[Show spoiler]11. Hell or High Water
12.Silence

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
01. Hacksaw Ridge
02. Silence
03. Deadpool
04. The Neon Demon
05. Hail Caesar!

Best Original Score
01. Moonlight
02. La La Land
03. The Neon Demon
04. Nocturnal Animals
05. Arrival

Honorable Mention(s)

[Show spoiler]11. Jackie
12. The Handmaiden

Best Original Song
01. Another Day of Sun, La La Land
02. Someone in the Crowd, La La Land
03. City of Stars, La La Land
04. Audition, La La Land
05. Drive it Like You Stole it, Sing Street

Best Production Design
01. The Handmaiden
02. Silence
03. La La Land
04. Hail Caesar!
05. Arrival

Best Sound Editing
01. Arrival
02. Hacksaw Ridge
03. The Jungle Book
04. Sully
05. Silence

Best Sound Mixing
01. Hacksaw Ridge
02. Arrival
03. La La Land
04. Silence
05. Don't Breathe

Best Visual Effects
01. The Jungle Book
02. Arrival
03. Captain America: Civil War
04. Midnight Special
05. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

[Foggy]

Won't have the chance to see everything I would want to until April at the earliest, but I'll try and piece something together and revisit it when I've reached the end of the year.

[Hucksta G]

Haven't seen many of the big contenders, will edit when I see more I'm sure. Should have seen most things I want to by early March

Best Picture
1. Suburra
2. Hell or High Water
3. Moonlight
4. The Witch
5. The Wailing
6. Swiss Army Man
7. Green Room
8. The Handmaiden
9. Paterson
10. Hacksaw Ridge

Best Director
1. Damien Chazelle - La La Land
2. Barry Jenkins - Moonlight
3. Nicolas Winding Refn - The Neon Demon
4. Chan-wook Park - The Handmaiden
5. Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge

Best Ensemble Cast
1. Moonlight
2. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
3. Batman V Suerman: Dawn of Justice
4. Swiss Army Man
5. Jackie

Best Actor
1. Dave Johns - I, Daniel Blake
2. Peter Simonischek - Toni Erdmann
3. Paul Dano - Swiss Army Man
4. Andrew Garfield - Hacksaw Ridge
5. Adam Driver - Paterson

Best Actress - Loaded field I could list a number of others too
1. Natalie Portman - Jackie
2. Isabelle Huppert - Elle
3. Lou de Laâge - The Innocents
4. Kristen Stewart - Personal Shopper
5. Krisha Fairchild - Krisha

Best Supporting Actor
1. Michael Shannon - Nocturnal Animals
2. Ben Foster - Hell or High Water
3. Daniel Radcliffe - Swiss Army Man
4. Peter Sarsgaard - Jackie
5. Alden Ehrenreich - Hail, Caesar!

Best Supporting Actress
1. Hayley Squires - I, Daniel Blake
2. Naomie Harris - Moonlight
3. Sarah Gadon - Indignation
4. Avin Manshadi - Under the Shadow
5. Jena Malone - The Neon Demon

Best Foreign Language Film
1. Suburra
2. The Wailing
3. The Handmaiden
4. Personal Shopper
5. Under the Shadow

Best Documentary
1. O.J.: Made in America
2. Weiner
3. Tickled
4. 13th
5. Chasing Asylum

Best Animated
1. Tower
2. Kubo and the Two Strings
3. Zootipia
4. Sausage Party
5. Batman: The Killing Joke

Best Screenplay
1. Hell or High Water
2. Paterson
3. The Handmaiden
4. Moonlight
5. Elle


Best Cinematography
1. The Neon Demon
2. Arrival
3. The Handmaiden
4. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
5. The Innocents

Best Visual Effects
1. Doctor Strange
2. Rogue One
3. The Jungle Book
4. The BFG
5. Ghostbusters

[esteban²]

I'm missing 'Best Animated' and 'Best Foreign' Jabbercash. Hucksta G fixed it.

I'll post my list before the summer. Have a lot of catching up to do.

[jabbercash]

Originally Posted by esteban²

I'm missing 'Best Animated', Jabbercash.

I'll post my list before the summer. Have a lot of catching up to do.

I didn't include Best Animated, Best Documentary, or Best Foreign Language film as I hadn't seen enough to fill any of those 3 categories. I only saw 2 animated films, 3 foreign films, and no documentaries.

[Jasonic]

I'll skip BP, because it's just me arguing with myself of just going with my favorites or being realistic(whatever that means).

Best Director
1. Damien Chazelle - La La Land
2. Park Chan-wook - The Handmaiden
3. Martin Scorsese - Silence
4. Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge
5. Taika Waititi - Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Best Actor
1. Andrew Garfield - Hacksaw Ridge
2. Ryan Gosling - La La Land
3. Casey Affleck - Manchester By the Sea
4. Denzel Washington - Fences
5. Kwak Do-won - The Wailing

Best Actress
1. Emma Stone - La La Land
2. Jessica Chastain - Miss Sloane
3. Isabelle Huppert - Elle
4. Kim Min-hee - The Handmaiden
5. Amy Adams - Arrival

Best Supporting Actor
1. Michael Shannon - Nocturnal Animals
2. John Goodman - 10 Cloverfield Lane
3. Jeff Bridges - Hell or High Water
4. Mahershala Ali - Moonlight
5. Daniel Radcliffe - Swiss Army Man

Best Supporting Actress
1. Viola Davis - Fences
2. Lupita Nyong'o - Queen of Katwe
3. Felicity Jones - A Monster Calls
4. Naomi Harris - Moonlight
5. Kim Tae-ri - The Handmaiden

Best Animated Feature
1. Your Name
2. Zootopia
3. The Little Prince
4. Kubo and the Two Strings
5. Moana

Best Foreign Language Film
1. The Wailing
2. Your Name
3. The Handmaiden
4. Train to Busan
5. Elle

Best Cinematography
1. La La Land
2. The Handmaiden
3. Hell or High Water
4. Silence
4. The Wailing

Best Production Design
1. The Handmaiden
2. La La Land
3. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
4. Silence
5. A Monster Calls

Best Editing
1. La La Land
2. The Handmaiden
3. Your Name
4. Silence
5. 10 Cloverfield Lane

Best Visual Effects
1. The Jungle Book
2. A Monster Calls
3. Rogue One
4. Doctor Strange
5. Train to Busan

Best Sound Editing and Mixing
1. Silence
2. The Wailing
3. The Handmaiden
4. La La Land
5. Rogue One

Best Original Score
1. La La Land
2. The Handmaiden
3. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
4. 10 Cloverfield Lane
5. Nocturnal Animals

Best Screenplay
1. The Handmaiden
2. The Wailing
3. Your Name
4. Zootopia
5. La La Land

Best Costume Design
1. The Handmaiden
2. Rogue One
3. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
4. Silence
5. Allied

[jabbercash]

Damn! I made a typo in my thread title lol.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by jabbercash

Damn! I made a typo in my thread title lol.

I got you, bruh.

[Hucksta G]

Originally Posted by jabbercash

Damn! I made a typo in my thread title lol.

didn't even notice until you pointed it out haha

[jabbercash]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I got you, bruh.

Thanks!

[jabbercash]

Edited a few choices and added some honorable mentions.

[Smartmark]

Best Picture
La La Land
Manchester By The Sea
Silence
Hell Or High Water
Arrival
The Accountant
Sing Street
Midnight Special
Captain Fantastic
Hacksaw Ridge
Nocturnal Animals
The Neon Demon
Swiss Army Man

Best Director
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Martin Scorsese, Silence
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By The Sea
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals
Nicolas Winding Refn, The Neon Demon

Best Ensemble Cast
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice
Hell Or High Water
Midnight Special
Captain America: Civil War

Best Actor
Casey Affleck, Manchester By The Sea
Denzel Washington, Fences
Chris Pine, Hell Or High Water
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nocturnal Animals
Jeremy Renner, Arrival

Best Actress
Amy Adams, Arrival
Michelle Williams, Manchester By The Sea
Natalie Portman, Jackie
Emma Stone, La La Land
Jennifer Lawerence, Passengers

Best Supporting Actor
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nocturnal Animals
Ben Foster, Hell Or High Water
John Goodman, 10 Cloverfield Lane
Jeff Bridges, Hell Or High Water
Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals

Best Supporting Actress
Isla Fisher, Nocturnal Animals
Kristen Stewart, Café Society
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Viola Davis, Fences
Margaret Bowman, Hell Or High Water

Best Animated Feature
Zootopia
Kubo & The Two Strings
Moana
Your Name

Best Adapted Screenplay
Arrival
Moonlight
Silence
Jackie
The Handmaiden

Best Original Screenplay
Manchester By The Sea
Hell Or High Water
La La Land
Midnight Special
Captain Fantastic
Nocturnal Animals

Best Cinematography
La La Land
Arrival
Manchester By The Sea
The Neon Demon
Nocturnal Animals

Best Film Editing
La La Land
Arrival
Manchester By The Sea
Hacksaw Ridge
The Neon Demon
Nocturnal Animals

Best Original Score
La La Land
Sing Street
Arrival
Manchester By The Sea
The Neon Demon
Nocturnal Animals

Best Sound Editing
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
Silence
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Best Visual Effects
Arrival
Captain America: Civil War
Dr. Strange
Midnight Special
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The Jungle Book

Have seen any foreign films or documentary films this year.

Added my own category

Best Horror or Suspense Film
Don't Breath
Hush
Lights Out
The Conjuring 2
Carnage Park
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[oliver_67]

Best Picture
01. Silence
02. Toni Erdmann
03. The Lobster
04. Being 17
05. Moonlight

Best Director
01. Martin Scorsese (Silence)
02. Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann)
03. Paul Verhoeven (Elle)
04. Andre Techine (Being 17)
05. Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

Best Ensemble Cast
01. Silence
02. Manchester by the sea
03. Toni Erdmann
04. Hell or high water
05. Moonlight

Best Actor
01. Adam Driver (Paterson)
02. Andrew Garfield (Silence)
03. Casey Affleck (Manchester by the sea)
04. Peter Simonischek (Toni Erdmann)
05. Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake)

Best Actress
01. Natalie Portman (Jackie)
02. Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
03. Amy Adams (Arrival)
04. Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann)
05. Kate Beckinsale (Love and Friendship)

Best Supporting Actor
01. Issey Ogata (Silence)
02. Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
03. Jeff Bridges (Hell or high water)
04. Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Nocturnal Animals)
05. Dev Patel (Lion)

Best Supporting Actress
01.Viola Davis (Fences)
02.Nicole Kidman (Lion)
03.Naomi Harris (Moonlight)
04.Michelle Williams (Manchester by the sea)
05.Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures)

Best Adapted Screenplay
01.Silence
02.Moonlight
03.Arrival
04.The lobster
05.nocturnal animals

Best Original Screenplay
01.Being 17
02.Toni Erdmann
03.Elle
04.manchester by the sea
05.Jackie

Best Non-English Language Film
01.Toni Erdmann
02.Being 17
03.Elle
04.Handmaiden
05.Neruda

Best Cinematography
01.Silence
02.La la land
03.Jackie
04.Knight of cups
05.nocturnal animals

Best Costume Design
01.Silence
02.Jackie
03.La la land
04.Hail Caesar!
05.

Best Film Editing
01.Moonlight
02.La la land
03.Manchester by the sea
04.Silence
05.Elle

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
01.Deadpool
02.Silence
03.Star trek
04.X-man: apocalypse
05.Neon Demon

Best Original Score
01.Jackie
02.Moonlight
03.20 century woman
04.La la land
05.The BFG

Best Production Design
01.Silence
02.La la land
03.Handmaiden
04.Jackie
05.Arrival

Best Sound Editing
01.hacksaw ridge
02.la la land
03.silence
04.sully
05.arrival

Best Sound Mixing
01.la la land
02.jackie
03.hacksaw ridge
04.arrival
05.sully

Best Visual Effects
01.arrival
02.the jungle book
03.rogue one
04.BFG
05.doctor strange

[Talleyrand]

Best Picture

1. The Neon Demon
2. Hacksaw Ridge
3. In a Valley of Violence
4. Nocturnal Animals
5. Elle
6. High-Rise
7. Manchester by the Sea
8. Hell or High Water

Best Director

1. Nicolas Winding Refn, The Neon Demon
2. Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge
3. Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals
4. Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
5. Paul Veroheven, Elle

Best Original Screenplay

1. Mary Lewis, Nicolas Winding Refn & Polly Stenham, The Neon Demon
2. Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
3. Taylor Sheridan, Hell or High Water
4. Shane Black and Anthony Bagarozzi, The Nice Guys
5. Ti West, In a Valley of Violence

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals
2. Amy Jump, High-Rise
3. David Birke, Elle
4. Andrew Knight & Robert Schenkkan, Hacksaw Ridge
5. Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese, Silence

Best Lead Actor

1. Jake Gyllenhaal, Nocturnal Animals
2. Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
3. Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Rdige
4. Tom Hiddleston, High-Rise
5. Ben Affleck, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
6. (Likely to Make My Final List When I see It) Matthew McConaughey, Gold

Best Lead Actress

1. Isabelle Huppert, Elle
2. Elle Fanning, The Neon Demon
3. Amy Adams, Nocturnal Animals (and NOT Arrival!!)
4. Kim Min-hee, The Handmaiden
5. Natalie Portman, Jackie
6. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, 10 Cloverfield Lane

Best Supporting Actor

1. Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
2. John Travolta, In a Valley of Violence
3. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nocturnal Animals
4. Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
5. Jesse Eisenberg, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
6. Gil Birmingham, Hell or High Water
7. Jeremy Irons, High-Rise
8. Keanu Reeves, The Neon Demom
9. Luke Evans, High-Rise
10. Issey Ogata, Silence
11. Shia LaBeouf, American Honey
12. Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
13. Vince Vaughn, Hacksaw Ridge
14. Nicolas Cage, Snowden
15. Kyle Chandler, Manchester by the Sea

Best Supporting Actress

1. Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
2. Abbey Lee, The Neon Demon
3. Chun Woo-hee, The Wailing
4. Bella Heathcote, The Neon Demon
5. Sienna Miller, High-Rise
6. Jean Malone, The Neon Demon
7. Moon So-ri, The Handmaiden
8. Angourie Rice, The Nice Guys

Best Foreign Language Feature

1. France, Elle
2. South Korea, Age of Shadows
3. Denmark, Land of Mine
4. (Likely to Make My Final List When I see It) Norway, The King's Choice
5. (Likely to Make My Final List When I see It) Italy, Suburra
6. (Likely to Make My Final List When I see It) Canada, It's Only the End of the World

Best Documentary Feature

1. O.J.: Made In America

Best Cinematography

1. Natasha Braier, The Neon Demon
2. Rodrigo Prieto, Silence
3. Jody Lee Lipes Manchester by the Sea
4. Emmanuel Lubezki, Knight of Cups
5. Seamus McGarvey, Nocturnal Animals

[imsounoriginal]

Reserved, will come back when I've seen enough to really make a list. For now, I would say my Best Picture nominees would be:

Arrival
Deadpool
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Silence

[jabbercash]

Originally Posted by Talleyrand

Best Director[*]Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge[*]Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea[*]Paul Veroheven, Elle[/LIST]

So hard for me to leave off those 3!

Originally Posted by Talleyrand

Best Original Screenplay
[*]Andrew Knight & Robert Schenkkan, Hacksaw Ridge

Hacksaw is actually adapted apparently.

Originally Posted by Talleyrand

Best Lead Actress[*]Amy Adams, Nocturnal Animals (and NOT Arrival!!)

You didn't like her in Arrival?!?

Surprised that Silence made cinematography and adapted screenplay but nothing else for you. What did you think of it overall?

[Talleyrand]

Originally Posted by jabbercash

Hacksaw is actually adapted apparently.

Fixed, thanks. Don't know how I messed that up.

Originally Posted by jabbercash

You didn't like her in Arrival?!?

I thought she was fine in Arrival and I thought Arrival was a fine, competently done film. The overblown praise it's getting is mystifying to me. I only made that note so that people don't think I typo'd, given that Arrival has all the steam this year, and also to clarify it's not some kind of "she was in lots of great films this year so I'll give her the nom" thing; I think she earns the nomination in Nocturnal Animals alone.

Originally Posted by jabbercash

Surprised that Silence made cinematography and adapted screenplay but nothing else for you. What did you think of it overall?

I thought it was a great film, or at least nearly great. If I had a full list of ten nominees for Picture, it'd probably be on it. However, it can be between 5 and 10 (which is something I know is controversial, but I actually agree strongly with that system and hope it stays in place forever). And the eight I picked are all above a certain threshold of quality that the next few films on my list (Silence among them) don't quite attain. There's just some parts of it that are a bit plodding. But the cinematography is excellent, and the screenplay itself was great. Honestly, the direction was great too, it nearly got a slot in that category for me. But, on the whole, the film is slightly less than the sum of its parts for me.

For the sake of interest, you can compare that, to, for instance, In a Valley of Violence, my #3 of the year and a film I love, which did not really excel in any category (certainly its direction specfically is not worth a nomination), but it just works and winds up being a great film, much greater than the sum of its parts.

[jabbercash]

Originally Posted by Talleyrand

Fixed, thanks. Don't know how I messed that up.


I thought she was fine in Arrival and I thought Arrival was a fine, competently done film. The overblown praise it's getting is mystifying to me. I only made that note so that people don't think I typo'd, given that Arrival has all the steam this year, and also to clarify it's not some kind of "she was in lots of great films this year so I'll give her the nom" thing; I think she earns the nomination in Nocturnal Animals alone.


I thought it was a great film, or at least nearly great. If I had a full list of ten nominees for Picture, it'd probably be on it. However, it can be between 5 and 10 (which is something I know is controversial, but I actually agree strongly with that system and hope it stays in place forever). And the eight I picked are all above a certain threshold of quality that the next few films on my list (Silence among them) don't quite attain. There's just some parts of it that are a bit plodding. But the cinematography is excellent, and the screenplay itself was great. Honestly, the direction was great too, it nearly got a slot in that category for me. But, on the whole, the film is slightly less than the sum of its parts for me.

For the sake of interest, you can compare that, to, for instance, In a Valley of Violence, my #3 of the year and a film I love, which did not really excel in any category (certainly its direction specfically is not worth a nomination), but it just works and winds up being a great film, much greater than the sum of its parts.

I loved Arrival, but I see what you're saying. Your nominations for In a Valley of Violence are very similar to Hell or High Water for me. It's one of my favorites of the year, but somehow didn't make that many categories.

[Talleyrand]

Originally Posted by jabbercash

I loved Arrival, but I see what you're saying. Your nominations for In a Valley of Violence are very similar to Hell or High Water for me. It's one of my favorites of the year, but somehow didn't make that many categories.

Yeah, it only got a screenplay nod from me (and two for best supporting, if you include my overly long list). But even there, while they were both a lot of fun, I thought Gil Birmingham is super-underated in that film. Bridges is great, but really just being Jeff Bridges; certainly, the chemistry the two of them had only worked as a two-man affair. So I prefer Gil. Also,

[Show spoiler]for some reason Gil dieing feels "off" to me. It seems that Bridges should have been the one to die, that would have fit the film better imo. That's more of a screenpaly criticism than an acting one, though, I guess.

[jabbercash]

I rewatched Moonlight, and absolutely loved it on second viewing. I've added some new picks and changed the order