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Reel Society of Film Critics Awards 2020

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the 2020 Reel Society Of Film Critics Awards, the ceremony that celebrates and honours the movies and actors that sought not just to ensure quality, but also to entertain each and every member of the fantaverse and beyond. All movies released during 2019 within the United States have been considered, and after a long and diligent process, the valued members of the committee have narrowed down the prestige of those movies to tonight's nominees. It is from these nominees that voting has been canvased, and tonight I will reveal the winners of each award. The last couple of ballots have trickled in and I have whittled down all the nominees to reveal our winners!

Whilst 2019 seemed to be a continuation of a move into a more liberal landscape of cinema (despite Greta Gerwigs shut out at the Oscars), with a records broken and prescedents made, not least from Parasite winning the second most important accolade in cinema (we all know this is the award they all want), Hollywood was still able to have a lasting impression beyond its political intentions. There were many great movies which graced each and every genre, movies that will be remembered long into the future, and many of those films will be recognised tonight during the ceremony. From comedies like Booksmart, which proved that girls can do funny just as good as the boys, while Jojo Rabbit balanced said comedy with some real heart in some quite testing waters. Little Women proved that you can teach an old dog new tricks, revitalising the period drama and proving a hit for all quadrants, while Marriage Story provided an intimate take on divorce which was both honest and kind of enlightening. QT returned too with his own little spin on one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th Century in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, embracing the old Hollywood ideal of a buddy movie and the fading times of an archetypal character, while the previously mentioned Parasite, alongside Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, proved once again how important foreign language cinema still is for audiences. There was also room for small indie movies like Uncut Gems, The Lighthouse and Waves, each with a fascinating look at the descent of the male psyche in adverse conditions. Each movie proved that film is still at its absolute pinnacle in terms of craft, story and entertainment, and we look forward to honouring them all tonight. So please, will you join me in looking back at the year that has passed and the movies that graced our cinemas, courtesy of Fantaverse member, Sleepy Skunk.



There will be in total 16 awards handed out this evening, celebrating films for their acting, technicalities, writing and overall vision, and they will be announced in the following order, with Best Picture nominees celebrated at various points of the evening:

Best Breakthrough Performance

Booksmart Featurette

Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay


Jojo Rabbit Featurette

Best Actor In A Supporting Role

Little Women Featurette

Best Actress In A Supporting Role

Marriage Story Featurette

Best Animated Feature
Best Documentary Feature


Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Featurette

Best Cinematography
Best Visual Effects


Parasite Featurette

Best Score
Best Foreign Language Picture


Portrait Of A Lady On Fire Featurette

Best Cast

Uncut Gems Featurette

Best Actress In A Leading Role

The Lighthouse Featurette

Best Actor In A Leading Role

Waves Featurette

Best Director

Best Picture


Lots of exciting moments to anticipate of the next couple of hours so, without further ado, I give you, The 2020 Reel Society Of Film Critics Awards!

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And so, let us commence the celebrations with the first award of the evening:

Best Breakthrough Performance

And the nominees are:

Awkwafina, The Farewell
Roman Griffin Davis, Jojo Rabbit
Julia Fox, Uncut Gems
Taylor Russell, Waves
Jodie Turner-Smith, Queen & Slim

And the winner is...

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Taylor Russell, for her performance in Waves.

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Now on to our first featurette of our Best Picture nominees for this evening. Presented by numbersix, this is Booksmart.

It’s Superbad, but with girls. Superbra, if you will. That’s a cynical take on 2019’s best comedy, a film that has as much heart as it does giggles. The story of 2 nerds who decide to party in their final high-school year has plenty of delightful twists, including the realisation that those around them can get good grades and do good drugs. And from there the adventure gets better and better, with animated sequences, musical numbers, and kooky characters. Not bad for an actress’s first time at directing.


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Swiftly on to our next award;

Best Original Screenplay

And the nominees are:

Knives Out
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Parasite
Uncut Gems
Us

And the winner is....

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Parasite, written by Bong Joon-Ho and Jin Won-Han.

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And now, the Original Screenplay counterpart, the next award is for:

Best Adapted Screenplay

And the nominees are:

I Lost My Body
Jojo Rabbit
Little Women
Richard Jewell
The Irishman

And the winner is...

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Little Women, written for the screen by Greta Gerwig and based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott.

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Time for another Best Picture Featurette, this time presented by Transformers.

Jojo Rabbit

I doubt that any other filmmaker working today besides Taika Waititi could've made a film like Jojo Rabbit work. With the help of a brilliant cast headlined by Scarlett Johansson, Thomasin McKenzie, Sam Rockwell and newcomer Roman Griffin Davis as the titular Jojo, Waititi turns a film about a young boy in Nazi-occupied Germany that happens to have Hitler as his imaginary friend (Waititi) that has his worldview challenged when he discovers his mother (Johansson) is hiding a Jewish girl (McKenzie) in their home into a hilarious, depressing and touching commentary on the absurdity of bigotry, and how getting to know people from a group you've been trained to fear can make that blind hate go away.


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More awards, do you say? Then you are in luck, as we have plenty more of them.

Next up...

Best Actor In A Supporting Role

And the nominees are...

Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse
Shia LaBeouf, Honey Boy
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Brad Pitt, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

And the winner is...

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Brad Pitt, for his role in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

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Time for another Best Picture featurette? Here we have a great contribution from Screen for the winner of Best Adapted Screenplay.

Little Women

Greta Gerwig had a lot to live up to. Her previous films Frances Ha and Lady Bird were lauded for their clever writing and timely themes (with Lady Bird receiving a Best Picture nomination). Lady Bird was actually my favorite film of 2017, beating even Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread and Del Toro's The Shape Of Water. Also, it's not like Little Women is new material, with the 1994 adaptation being a critical/commercial success. Yet, she delivered. It's clear plenty of work went into making sure it wouldn't disappoint; the beautiful cinematography and an incredible score exemplify this tenfold. Great performances from a talented cast add to Gerwig's adaptation of the classic. Little Women shows us all that old stories can be revitalized if we put the effort in.


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On to the next award:

Best Actress In A Supporting Role

And the nominees are...

Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
Florence Pugh, Little Women
Taylor Russell, Waves
Park So-Dam, Parasite

And the winner is...

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Yep, two time winner now, it is Taylor Russell, for her role in Waves.

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On to another Best Picture Featurette, again courtesy of Transformers.

Marriage Story

To put it simply, Noah Baumbach's divorce drama Marriage Story was an emotional atomic bomb that I wasn't prepared for. The characters, the reasons why they're getting separated and their disagreements over what's best for their child are so well-developed that it seems like a documentary about the process of divorce, which helps makes this an unbelievably devastating and rewarding watch. The authenticity that occupies every moment of this film is a testament to the rawness that this unreal cast (Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta, Julie Hagerty) puts into their performances as well as the unflinching honesty in which Baumbach portrays everything from the petty competition both parties engage in to win favor with their kids while they're battling for custody to how civility can slowly return to the relationship after the agonizing process has concluded. This is a masterpiece in the purest of sense of the word and if it didn't make me cry so fucking much, I'd return to it with regularity.


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