Reel Society Of Film Critics Awards 2020 - The Master List

[silversurfer19]

Happy New Year my fellow film lovers! As we usher in a new decade, it is time to call upon you all to participate in our annual award ceremony once again. 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 2020!

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 2020 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 United States from 1st January 2019 - 31st December 2019, 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 4th - Jan 19th – Master List Voting
Master List Announced - Jan 20th
Jan 20th - February 23rd - 1st round of voting
Nominees Announced - February 24th
February 24th – March 7th– 2nd round of voting

Awards Show - Sunday, March 8th

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!


Committee Members
silversurfer
Buscemi
numbersix
Screen
W
Chienfantome
transformers
Banks
JohnErle
Ron Burgundy

The Master List

1. A Hidden Life
2. Ad Astra
3. Atlantics
4. Birds Of Passage
5. Bombshell
6. Booksmart
7. Dolemite is My Name
8. Don't Let Go
9. Dragged across concrete
10. Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse
11. Her Smell
12. High Life
13. Honey Boy
14. Hotel Mumbai
15. Hustlers
16. I Am Mother
17. I Lost My Body
18. In Fabric
19. Jojo Rabbit
20. Knives Out
21. Little Women
22. Little Woods
23. Long Day's Journey into the night
24. Maiden
25. Marriage Story
26. Midsommar
27. Monos
28. Motherless Brooklyn
29. Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood
30. Pain and Glory
31. Parasite
32. Peanut Butter Falcon
33. Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
34. Rocketman
35. The Art Of Self-Defense
36. The Farewell
37. The Irishman
38. The Lighthouse
39. The Mustang
40. Tigers Are Not Afraid
41. Uncut Gems
42. Under the Silver Lake
43. Us
44. Waves

[Buscemi2]

I'll join up again.

[numbersix]

I'm in.

[Screen203]

I'll be in

[W]

Yep

[Chienfantome]

Court me in !

[transformers2]

Sign me up

[BanksIsDaFuture]

I'm in of course

My 5 picks:

Bombshell
Don't Let Go
Parasite
Booksmart
Rocketman

[transformers2]

Master List picks (edited because Banks had a couple of mine):
Booksmart
Dolemite is My Name
Honey Boy
Jojo Rabbit
Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood

[JohnErle]

I'm in, but as usual I either haven't seen or haven't liked a lot of stuff that will probably be in the running. Here's my master list submissions:

In Fabric
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
The Lighthouse
Tigers Are Not Afraid
Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse

I saw the latter two in late 2017, but they both got their official US releases in 2019 so I'm giving them a nomination each.

It looks like Blood Quantum, Extra Ordinary and Colour Out Of Space will all count as 2020 releases, so I'll have to remember them for next year

[Buscemi2]

Master list:

The Irishman
High Life
Uncut Gems
Ad Astra
Maiden

[numbersix]

My 5

Monos
Atlantics
I Lost My Body
Little Women
The Farewell

[Screen203]

My 5 -

The Art Of Self-Defense
Hustlers
Little Woods
Motherless Brooklyn
Us

[Chienfantome]

Almost all the films I would have nominated first for the masters List have already been named, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Parasite, Ad Astra, Once upon a time...
So I'll wait a bit to list mine, to give me some time, maybe, to see a few new films that might deserve to be mentioned here. If not I'll have to nominate a 13 hour Argentinian film and a 4-hour Chinese film...
One film I'll list here for sure is Under the Silver Lake, which I saw back in 2018 and couldn't nominate then.

[W]

Waves
Peanut Butter Falcon
Midsommar
The Mustang
Hotel Mumbai