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14 nominations for SERENITY!!!
The Second Annual Smart-Popcorn Awards! Best Screenplay, Best Lead Actress, Breakthrough Performance by a Male, Best Supporting Actor, Best Film of the Year... |
The Second Annual Smart-Popcorn Awards
It's time to recognize the best films of last year again, folks! Welcome to you The Second Annual Smart-Popcorn Awards, or as we like to call them, The Smoppies. We've added some categories to the awards and shuffled things around a bit. Last year we thought we did a great job at thumbing our nose at the narrow view of the Hollywood Foreign Press and The Academy by recognizing 48 seperate films throughout all the categories. This year we exceeded even our greatest expectations. Sixty-one films total made their way into our nominations in some way shape or form. Films like King Kong, Brokeback Mountain, and Jarhead are up for a great many awards with Joss Whedon's Serenity garnering the most nods with fourteen. But lesser known films like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Mrs. Henderson Presents, and Millions also have a chance to take home image file gold! Are any of those your favorite from 2005? Well show 'em some love and vote in our forum! You need to register at Smart-Popcorn to be able to vote!
 And the Nominees Are. . .
[only the categories with Serenity]
Smart:
Best Screenplay
Joss Whedon - Serenity
Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana - Brokeback Mountain
Lars Von Trier - Dear Wendy
Noah Bambauch - The Squid and the Whale
Shane Black - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
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Best Costume
Colleen Atwood - Memoirs of a Geisha
Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh - Breakfast On Pluto
Ruth E. Carter - Serenity
William Chang - 2046
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 Breakthrough Performance by a Male
Alex Etal - Millions
Jake Gyllenhaal - Jarhead and Brokeback Mountain
Jesse Eisenberg - The Squid and the Whale
Nathan Fillion - Serenity
With the charisma, wit, goofiness, and action hero quality of a young Harrison Ford, Nathan Fillion dazzled Sci-Fi buffs and nearly everyone else who took the time to see him in the underappreciated Serenity.
Steve Carell - The 40 Year-Old Virgin
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Breakthrough Achievement in Filmmaking
Joss Whedon - Serenity
Whedon turned the remnants of his television series into the freshest Sci-Fi motion picture to come along since-- dare we say-- Lucas and wiped away memories of years of cheesy space operas and intergalactic horrors.
Judd Apatow - The 40 Year-Old Virgin
Miranda July - Me and You and Everyone We Know
Noah Baumbach - The Squid and the Whale
Robert Rodriguez - Sin City
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Best Supporting Performance by a Male
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Serenity
Chiwitel Ejiofor as the cool, calculating, and deadly Operative.
Ed Harris - A History of Violence
Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
Peter Sarsgaard - Jarhead
Val Kilmer - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
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 Best Lead Performance by a Female
Dame Judi Dench - Mrs. Henderson Presents
Gwenyth Paltrow - Proof
Naomi Watts - King Kong
Nicole Kidman - The Interpreter
Summer Glau - Serenity
Summer Glau's dangerous character, River, is consoled by her brother Simon on board the Serenity when she fears for her sanity.
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Popcorn:
Best Action Elements or Scenes in a Film
Bruce Wayne's Ninja Test - Batman Begins
Kong vs. T-Rexes - King Kong
Kung Fu Masters vs. Killer Harpists - Kung Fu Hustle
Oh Dae-su vs. Goons in Hallway - Oldboy
Final Battle - Serenity
River Tam and Captain Malcolm Reynolds are both forced to show what they can do in the climactic battle in Serenity as River fends off a relentless onslaught of the savage space zombies known as Reavers and Mal throws down with the highly efficient killer known only as The Operative.
Anakin vs. Obi-Wan - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
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Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Elements or Scenes in a Film
Android Women - 2046
Talking Animals - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Talking to Saints - Millions
The Serenity Universe - Serenity
Once again, Joss Whedon's grandiose and magnificently envisioned Serenity universe breathed new life into the sci-fi genre and is so finely constructed and smartly executed that no one aspect can be zeroed in on for recognition.
Fall of Anakin, Rise of Vader - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Human Fertilizer - War of the Worlds
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Biggest Surprise Film of the Year
The 40 Year-Old Virgin
Red-Eye
Serenity
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
An Unfinished Life
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 Best Protagonist
Andy Stitzer - The 40 Year-Old Virgin
Captain Malcolm Reynolds - Serenity
Kong - King Kong
Mark Zupan - Murderball
Ting, The Muay Thai Warrior - Ong-bak
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Best Antagonist
Darth Sidious - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Kevin - Sin City
Oil Companies & The US Government - Syriana
The Operative - Serenity
The Unseen Sender of the Troublesome Videotape - Caché
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Best Collaborative Pair/Team
Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt - Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez - Sin City
Joss Whedon & the Firefly Crew - Serenity
Serenity's brainchild and the loyal gang of ne'er-do-wells that populated his little stretch of sci-fi western space.
Naomi Watts & Andy Serkis - King Kong
Robert Downey, Jr. & Val Kilmer - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
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Biggest Trend in Film
Multiple Narratives: From Crash and Syriana to The United States of Leland and Me
and You and Everyone We Know, 2005 was a big year for lots of characters running along intertwining plot threads.
Rebirth of Strong Sci-Fi Productions: Serenity, Episode III, Hitchiker's Guide, War of the Worlds, 2046, and hell, even the first half of The Island-- Sci-Fi came on strong and never let up in 2005.
Sex & Violence: It seems you couldn't avoid the theme of sex vs. violence and the way they go hand in hand this year. Some tackled the concept in a fun way, and others tried to shove messages down your throat, but no matter what, you'll have a difficult time thinking of another year where so many non-horror films combined the two as a statement (A History of Violence, Munich, Derailed, The Devil's Rejects,
Sin City, Mr. and Mrs. Smith)
Tension in a Post-9/11 Society: In the world we live in, this atmosphere in media, art, and storytelling is going to be around for a long long time, but it was brought into sharp focus this year (whether socially or politically) with a wide variety of films like Crash (racism and urban alienation), Munich (governmental response to terror), War of the Worlds (creating fear in the population), Good Night, and Good Luck (distrust in the practices of those in power), etc. Combined with criticism of government policies in the above film and in films like Jarhead, you have an electrifying year for controversial filmmaking.
Torture and Sadistic Violence: TORTURE!!! You saw it in Syriana. You saw it in Wolf Creek, Saw 2, Devils Rejects. You saw it taken to new psychological heights in Oldboy. Filmmakers are just f'd up these days!
Best Films:
Best Popcorn Film of the Year
Batman Begins
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Serenity
Sin City
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
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Best Film of the Year
Brokeback Mountain
Cinderella Man
A History of Violence
Jarhead
Serenity
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