Reel Society Of Film Critics Awards 2019 - The Master List

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Reel Society Of Film Critics Awards 2019 - The Master List

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Happy New Year crew! I have returned after a year of absence (thanks Tranny for covering me during the past year for the awards), to call upon you all to participate in our annual award ceremony. Offering us an opportunity to recall our favourite film moments of the past year, we shall embark upon the annual journey that is the Reel Society of Film Critics Awards 2017!

There have been some magnificent movies this year, and so by coming together we can, as a committee, decide which were actually the best, and who gave the best performances. We are now in the 2019 edition, and the intention once again is to hold the ceremony on the first weekend of March, giving everyone a good couple of months to catch up on the holiday season's movies, not to mention any others you may have missed throughout the year. we shall begin the process in this thread with a Master List; a list of movies which the committee deem essential viewing for voting. It doesn't mean all the nominees will have to come from this list, but it gives you all a good starting point if you need to catch up.

Remember, the nominees must be selected from movies released in the US from 1st January 2018 - 31st December 2018, it doesn't matter what format they are released in during that period, but it must be released between those dates.

I ask that everyone that wants to take part as a committee member in the awards should put forward your names here, and then that they provide me with a list of five movies seen over the past year that they believe to be essential viewing. Once I have received all lists, I will present The Master List on the first page of this thread, and it can then be used as a reference if you are stuck on a movie which may be worth watching prior to the actual nominees.

Now, although this is not important at this point, as we are solely interested in generating the Master List, once announced it will become time to start thinking of the nominees. The the following categories will provide the nominees:

Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Actress in a Supporting
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Animated Picture
Best Documentary Feature
Best Cast
Breakthrough Performance
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Score
Best Visual Effects

Following the first round of voting there will be 10 nominees for Best Picture, and 5 nominees for each other award. These will then be voted on again to determine the actual winners. Below I have gone into further detail the actual process.

Voting
The voting structure is as follows:

Master voting: everyone nominates 5 movies of the year that should be deemed 'essential viewing'.

1st round of voting: everyone nominates a maximum of 5 nominees in each category. This will produce the award nominees.

2nd round of voting: everyone ranks their nominees in a sliding system of 1-10 for Best Picture nominees, with your favourite gaining a maximum of 10 points, and then you can assign a score for each of the remaining movies as you please, while movies unseen must be given a 0. For other categories it is the same system but on a sliding scale of 1-5. This will decide the winners.

Schedule
I've allowed for as long a round of voting as possible so that everyone can find an opportunity to watch movies which may be up for consideration, and starting from today, the Master List voting is now open. Tentative dates which can be amended if need be as follows:

Jan 1st – Jan 15th – Master List Voting
Master List Announced - Jan 16th
Jan 16th - February 24th - 1st round of voting
Nominees Announced - February 25th
February 25th – March 9th– 2nd round of voting

Awards Show - Sunday, March 10th

As stated earlier, for this to work we need a committee of set voters, so please register your interest in this thread, and I will add you as a member. You can pm your Master List nominations to my inbox, email me at silversurfer19@hotmail.com or simply note them on this thread.

As always I would request 10 people to submit a small featurette for the 10 Best Picture nominees. These can be decided at a much later date, but I thought I'd remind everyone nevertheless. And please, if you do wish to provide a featurette, please ensure you have the time to do so. It doesn't need to be an essay, even a couple of sentences why you love the movie is enough, but so that I don't have to do them all myself at the last minute, ensure you have the time. Hopefully this should prove just as exciting as previous years with lots of close races, so on with the nominations!


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walleye
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undeadmonkey
JohnErle
Chien
BanksIsDaFuture
Nico

The Master List

1. A Simple Favor 
2. A Star Is Born
3. Annihilation
4. Bandersnatch
5. Beast
6. Beautiful Boy
7. Black Panther
8. Blackkklansman
9. Bohemian Rhapsody
10. Burning
11. Can You Ever Forgive Me? 
12. Cold War
13. Collette
14. Destroyer
15. First Man
16. First Reformed
17. Free Solo
18. Game Night
19. Good Manners
20. Green Book
21. Halloween
22. Hereditary
23. Hold The Dark
24. Isle Of Dogs
25. Leave No Trace
26. Mandy
27. Mid90s
28. Mission-Impossible: Fallout
29. Ready Player One
30. Roma
31. Searching
32. Shoplifters
33. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse
34. Support The Girls
35. The Endless
36. The Guilty
37. The Rider
38. The Sisters Brothers
39. The Spy Gone North
40. They Shall Not Grow Old
41. Three Identical Strangers
42. Tigers Are Not Afraid
43. Upgrade
44. Widows
45. You Were Never Really Here
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You know I'm gonna get in on this

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I'll join in.
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My list is always so small compared to all of yours, but I'll add what I can.

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I'm in as always
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Yup.
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I guess I'll be back.
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My master list contribution

Cold War: For Film, Director, Cinematography, Foreign, Original Script
The Endless: For Film, Director, Original Script
Shoplifters: For Film, Foreign Film, Original Script, Cast
Annihilation: for Film, Director, Lead Actress, Adapted Script, SFX, Score
The Guilty: For Foreign, Film, Director, Lead Actor, Original Script

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I don't really have anything to nominate, but i'm in to watch the list and vote in round 1 and 2

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Haven't seen much this year, but I'll nominate a few so that those of you who see everything (you know who are) will have more to choose from. Six, you totally wasted a pick on Shoplifters, since that would have been my #1. And it seems like ages since I saw The Endless. I guess it counts as a 2018 film. Another worthy choice.

Burning
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Destroyer
Support The Girls
Tigers Are Not Afraid*

*I'll keep nominating this until it gets a proper release and the acclaim it deserves.

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I'm in, yes.
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Master List:

First Reformed
BlacKkKlansman
They Shall Not Grow Old (this is supposed to getting a general release on January 11th)
You Were Never Really Here
Green Book
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Duh

My 5 contributions to the Master List:

A Star Is Born
Bandersnatch (I'm already guessing some will see this as a gimmick, and not a movie?)
Isle of Dogs
Spider-Man: Into The SpiderVerse
Widows
Alexandra Daddario: Eyes of a Demon, Face of My Future Ex-Wife

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Bandersnatch is an episode of a TV show and I believe will be promoted as a TV movie for Emmy consideration. I think this would only be viewed as a movie on Letterboxd (where comedy specials and the Maniac series somehow are also viewed as movies).

I view it as being like that episode of SpongeBob with the three endings.
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Yeah, even disregarding its choose-your-own-adventure format, if it was a standalone entirely new story, maybe, but because it's a special from a well-established anthology TV series I don't consider it in any way eligible. Also it just might tip poor Chien over the edge.

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