The Nighthawk Awards: 2007

Oh, Josh, that dog was the least of your concerns.

You can read more about this year in film here.  The Best Picture race is discussed here, with reviews of all the nominees.  First there are the categories, followed by all the films with their nominations, then the Globes, where I split the major awards by Drama and Comedy, followed by a few lists at the very end.  If there’s a film you expected to see and didn’t, check the very bottom – it might be eligible in a different year.  Films in red won the Oscar in that category (or Globe, in the Globes section).  Films in blue were nominated.  Films (or directors) in olive are links to earlier posts that I don’t want to have show up in blue and be mistaken for a nominee.  Films with an asterisk (*) were Consensus nominees (a scale I put together based on the various awards) while those with a double asterisk (**) were the Consensus winners.

I’m listing the top 20 in the categories but only the top 5 earn Nighthawk nominations.

Nighthawk Awards:

• Best Picture

1. No Country for Old Men  **
2. Atonement  *
3. Across the Universe
4. There Will Be Blood  *
5. Ratatouille
6. Eastern Promises
7. Michael Clayton  *
8. Gone Baby Gone
9. Juno  *
10. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
11. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
12. 3:10 to Yuma
13. Away from Her
14. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
15. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
16. Lust, Caution
17. I’m Not There
18. Persepolis
19. Charlie Wilson’s War
20. Once

Analysis:  Those are all **** films.  There are also a few more (24 in total), but they will be listed down below in the Drama and Comedy sections.  Both the 24 **** films and the total of 46 **** / ***.5 films are the second most ever, behind only 2005.

 

The History of the Academy Awards: Best Animated Film – 2007

I so want to try that soup.

The 80th annual Academy Awards, for the film year 2007.  The nominations were announced on 22 January, 2008 and the awards were held on 24 February, 2008.

Best Animated Film:  Ratatouille

• Persepolis
• Surf’s Up

Most Surprising Omission:  The Simpsons Movie

Best Eligible Film Not Nominated:  The Simpsons Movie

Rank (out of 16) Among Best Animated Film Years:  #3

Oscar Score:  91.7

Alternate Oscar Score:  98.4

 

Best Adapted Screenplay: 1960

“Det håller tre Wallare upå vår gård, De hafva gjort af med döttrarne vår.” (“There are three highwaymen in our yard, Who have our daughters slain.”)

My Top 10:

1. The Virgin Spring
2. The Cranes are Flying
3. Tunes of Glory
4. The World of Apu
5. Elmer Gantry
6. Our Man in Havana
7. Sons and Lovers
8. Inherit the Wind
9. Psycho
10. Spartacus

Note:  My full list is 18 films long.  The rest of the list is down at the bottom (in rank order by script).

 

The Nighthawk Awards: 2006

You definitely don’t want to be the other guy.

You can read more about this year in film here.  The Best Picture race is discussed here, with reviews of all the nominees.  First there are the categories, followed by all the films with their nominations, then the Globes, where I split the major awards by Drama and Comedy, followed by a few lists at the very end.  If there’s a film you expected to see and didn’t, check the very bottom – it might be eligible in a different year.  Films in red won the Oscar in that category (or Globe, in the Globes section).  Films in blue were nominated.  Films with an asterisk (*) were Consensus nominees (a scale I put together based on the various awards) while those with a double asterisk (**) were the Consensus winners.

I’m listing the top 20 in the categories but only the top 5 earn Nighthawk nominations.

Nighthawk Awards:

• Best Picture

1. The Departed  **
2. Pan’s Labyrinth
3. Children of Men
4. The Fountain
5. The Queen  *
6. The Prestige
7. Casino Royale
8. United 93
9. Army of Shadows
10. Perfume – The Story of a Murderer
11. Volver
12. The Lives of Others
13. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
14. Stranger than Fiction
15. The Painted Veil
16. Brick
17. Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
18. Blood Diamond
19. Babel  *
20. Joyeux Noel

Analysis:  The Departed has the lowest Consensus total in five years but that doesn’t mean it’s a competitive race.  It just means that there was a lack of consensus, with a record eight different films winning a Best Picture award (1974 is the only other year with more than six and that was because different eligibility years lead to three films winning the BAFTA).  The Departed wins the Oscar, BFCA, LAFC and CFC while Letters from Iwo Jima wins the LAFC, NBR and the Globe for Best Foreign Film.  The other award winners are The Queen (BAFTA), Little Miss Sunshine (PGA), Babel (Globe – Drama), Dreamgirls (Globe – Comedy / Musical), United 93 (NYFC) and Pan’s Labyrinth (NSFC).  Every Consensus winner after this (through 2016) will score at least 585 points (The Departed has 485) and every year will have at least one film that wins five awards.

 

The History of the Academy Awards: Best Animated Film – 2006

How to make your charming animated film even better? Just add some Robin Williams.

The 79th annual Academy Awards for the film year 2006.  The nominations were announced on January 23, 2007 and the awards were held on February 25, 2007.

Best Animated Film:  Happy Feet

• Monster House
• Cars

Most Surprising Omission:  Flushed Away

Best Eligible Film Not Nominated:  Flushed Away

Rank (out of 16) Among Best Animated Film Years:  #15

Oscar Score:  71.4

Alternate Oscar Score:  97.2

 

The History of the Academy Awards: Best Picture – 2016

Three parts of a life that equals one man.

The 89th annual Academy Awards, for the film year 2016.  The nominations were announced on 24 January 2017 and the awards were held on 26 February 2017.

Best Picture:  Moonlight

• La La Land
• Arrival
• Manchester by the Sea
• Fences
• Hell or High Water
• Hidden Figures
• Lion
• Hacksaw Ridge

Most Surprising Omission:  Deadpool  *

Best Eligible Film Not Nominated:  The Handmaiden

Rank (out of 89) Among Best Picture Years:  #40

 

The Year in Film: 2016

Best traffic jam ever.

My Top 20:

1. La La Land
2. Arrival
3. The Handmaiden
4. Manchester by the Sea
5. Moonlight
6. Silence
7. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
8. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
9. Zootopia
10. Moana
11. Finding Dory
12. The Salesman
13. Nocturnal Animals
14. Fences
15. Hell or High Water
16. Julieta
17. Kubo and the Two Strings
18. A Monster Calls
19. 20th Century Women
20. Sing Street

note:  All 20 films are ****.  There were several high ***.5 films that I wish could have made the list – Captain America: Civil War, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Hail Caesar! and Passengers were among my considered choices.  There are only a handful of films that earned any award nominations that I haven’t seen yet (I Daniel Blake, Certain Woman, Allied, Your Name, King’s Choice) so I don’t think this list will be changing (depending on Your Name, perhaps), unlike the last several years, when this list was written more closely after the Oscars.