2006 Swanky Awards!
 

Hi All! Please send me a PM with the top 5 of the following:

Swankiest Picture (Foreign, Animated, Short included)
Swankiest Actor (Support or Leading
Swankiest Actress (Support or Leading)
Swankiest Screenplay (Adapted or Original)
Swankiest Director

Please PM before 11:59pm on Thursday, February 22, 2007 and on Friday, February 23, 2007 I will put the top 5 nominations here and you all can vote publicly for your fav. That voting will close Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 11:59 PM and we'll announce the winner of the 2006 "Virtual" Swanky just in time for Oscar Sunday!!

(Non-voters will be made fun of) Go to it!!

Didn't I ignore this request once before??

I swear I won't this time. Let me give some thought to who and which were swankiest (as opposed to simply "best"), and I'll PM you my votes.

And here's my nominations for the 2006 Get Out Your Swankies:

Best Picture - THE QUEEN - the secret lives of royalty, no less. Pretty darn swanky, any way you cut it. The private world of monarchs trumps all other nominees this year for swank.

Best Actress - MERYL STREEP in "The Devil Wears Prada." Though hardly the best performance of either the year or her career, she gets tons of swank points for her fashion bravada alone. The attitude of royal arrogance was borderline swanky, too. The lifestyle portrayed, definitely so.

Best Actor - A tie. LEONARDO DiCAPRIO did not play a swanky character in "Blood Diamond," but nailing a really sexy South Afrikan accent is a swankomplishment. PETER O'TOOLE exudes swank from his every pore in "Venus," but it's almost unfair to have him in a swank-off with anyone else on the planet. He plays growing old so gracefully, and gets major swank points for his performance as well as for his very self.

Best Supporting Actress - RINKO KIKUCHI in "Babel." Not the best performance out there (not even the best nominated performance in that movie ... her competition in this very same category has her beat in acting). But she was undeniably swanky as the teenage nymphet loose in Tokyo, blithely unaware or uncaring as she descended into total mania of the nympho variety. Mmmmm, Teenage Asian Nymphomania. Believe it or not, swankier than any of the other supporting actress roles this year.

Best Supporting Actor - I hate to say it, but EDDIE MURPHY in "Dreamgirls." My least favorite performance among the supporting actor noms was nonetheless the most swanky. And that's not to say that a fast-fading, drug-addicted Motown star was a particularly swanky role ... but there was ZERO swank to be found among the other, far better performed, nominated roles.

Best Director - STEPHEN FREARS for "The Queen." His direction was very understated and classy. I don't know why, but there was something decidedly swank about it. Honorable mention must go to PAUL GREENGRASS for the tres swanky move of casting real people to play themselves in "United 93."

Best Adapted Screenplay - CHILDREN OF MEN - because there were no kids anywhere in the world, in this movie. Adults only. Swankerific.

Best Original Screenplay - PAN'S LABYRINTH - the melding of a terrifying fantasy realm with a terrifying reality situation was somehow a swanky accomplishment.

Deadline is tonight folks!

:( I got 2 pm's.

I just PM'd ya, sorry I missed the original posting!

Oscar Ballot
 

If you're having an Oscar party, here's a ballot

Once again, I've been denied my request to aim a paintball gun at the red carpet.

Swankiest Picture (Foreign, Animated, Short included) Volver
Swankiest Actor (Support or Leading) Peter O'Toole
Swankiest Actress (Support or Leading) Perelope Cruz
Swankiest Screenplay (Adapted or Original) Hanif Kurishi for Venus
Swankiest Director - Pedro Amodovar

I've only seen on nominated movie so I'm not really qualified to vote.

Who's sending the screeners out?

I think ISp was going to share his screeners! ;)

Katie - This has nothing to do with "Nominated" films. Its what you think it the swanky film etc. Not what Oscar is giving out...

Ok then - Little Miss Sunshine for best movie

Didnt' see much last year. Little Miss Sunshine and Cars. Both were great. But "swanky"? I wouldn't call them swanky...

When I submitted mine I just used "best" as a synonym for swanky in this instance.

I'm sure it will come as no surprise to anybody but I have no idea what swanky means.

If not limited to Oscar nominated films, I hereby nominate Casino Royale as the swankiest film of the year, bar none.

I forgot CR was this year. Hmmmm, that sure puts at monkey wrench in my swank.

Ok. Based on the 5 folks who submitted nominations. Here's what we come up with. Vote for your favorite of the nominee's and we'll try to tablulate the 1 or 2 ballots cast Saturday night.

Best Picture
- The Queen
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Volver
- Pan's Labyrinth
- The Departed

Best Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Paul Greengras
- Stephen Frears
- Guillerimo Del Torro
- Pedro Amodover

Best Actor
- Alan Arkin
- Eddie Murphy
- Daniel Craig
- Peter O'Toole
- Clive Owen

Best Actress
- Meryl Streep
- Jennifer Hudson
- Penelope Cruz
- Abagail Brislen
- Helen Mirran

Best Screenplay
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Venus
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Notes on a Scandle
- Children of Men

Go to it!

What? No Casino Royale? Shenanigans!

Exactly! When I was apprised of the "rule" opening up the Swankie nominations to beyond the Oscar noms, Casino Royale was the first and obvious choice ... and I posted so immediately.


I'm writing in my vote .... Swankiest Picture of the Year = CASINO ROYALE.

Swanky Awards? Anarchy Awards is more like it. ;)

Well...Daniel Craig is nominated at least. :D

Yes ... and the agony of comparing the best James Bond in decades with the swank factor of Peter O'Toole. Yikes!

Well, I guess more people should have said Casino Royale. ;) It only got 2 noms.

As I said, I'm not sure what "swanky" means but no movie that so screws up the game of poker can be swanky. At least, not as I've internally defined the word (SWANKY; adj. from SWAN (gr.) meaning un-ugly duck + key (lith.) meaning nosewart).

Ok, 20 min. until the voting ends and I've gotten 3 submissions.
Since everyone is busy recovering from the Swanking, I'll extend it to 11:59 PM Sunday night.

As of now its a 3 way tie between almost all the catagories!! C'mon people!

ALso, I know 2 awards were handed out earlier in the evening at a very swanky ceremony hosted by Not Afraid. I don't recall the winners because I was too busy being mocked, so if anyone can repeat what they were, please feel free! ;)

Swankiest Animated Short Subject was The Danish Poet

Swankiest Live-Action Short Subject was The Saviour.


Both excellent.

And the Swanky goes to!!

Swankiest Animated Short Subject - The Danish Poet

Swankiest Live Action Short Subject - The Saviour

Swankiest Screenplay- Little Miss Sunshine

Swankiest Actor - (tie) Peter O'Toole & Alan Arkin

Swankiest Actress - Helen Mirran

Swankiest Director - Guillerimo Del Torro

Swankiest Picture - (tie) Little Miss Sunshine & Casino Royale

Thanks to the 5 who voted! The other's who didn't should be ashamed...

Including seeing Casino Royale on Saturday, I saw all of 9 of the movies released in '06. And Clerks II, Superman, and Chapelle's Block Party didn't exactly qualify me to be a voting member of the Swankadamy.

Yea! - So how shall we notify the winners? I've got some LoT buttons I can send out...