My Own Personal Awards

By: Jonas Silgali​s

I should thank and credit Uli³Cai​n for sharing his own list and so inspiring me to make my own. This is a great idea. It makes one think about all aspects of the film. It was a great joy to make this list.

Best Picture

● The Big Lebowski
● The Godfather: Part II
● Pulp Fiction
● Fargo
● The Man Who Wasn’t There

Best Director

● Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)
● Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters)
● Steven Spielberg (Munich)
● Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (The Man Who Wasn’t There)
● David Fincher (Zodiac)

Best Lead Actor

● Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski)
● Billy Bob Thorton (The Man Who Wasn’t There)
● Adrien Brody (The Pianist)
● Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
● Jean Reno (Léon)

Best Lead Actress

● Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)
● Dianne Keaton (Annie Hall)
● Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs)
● Juliette Binoche (Three Colors: Blue)
● Frances McDormand (Fargo)

Best Supporting Actor

● Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton)
● John Goodman (The Big Lebowski)
● Robert De Niro (The Godfather Part II)
● Robert Downey Jr. (Zodiac)
● Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)

Best Supporting Actress

● Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters)
● Cate Blanchett (The Aviator)
● Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)
● Catherine Keener (Capote)
● Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club)

Best Original Screenplay

● Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton)
● Ramin Bahrani & Bahareh Azimi (Goodbye Solo)
● Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects)
● Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (Fargo)
● Woody Allen (Another Woman)

Best Adapted Screenplay

● Jiri Menzel (I Served the King of England)
● Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)
● Ronald Harwood (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
● Anthony Minghella (The Talented Mr. Ripley)
● Traffic (Stephen Gaghan)

Best Cinematography

● Roger Deakins (Jarhead)
● Christopher Doyle (Chungking Express)
● Roger Deakins (Fargo)
● Janusz Kaminski (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
● Roger Deakins (The Man Who Wasn’t There)

Best Editing

● Julian Clarke (District 9)
● Dody Dorn (Memento)
● Michael Kahn (Munich)
● John Bloom (Gandhi)
● Sally Menke (Pulp Fiction)

Best Score

● Alexandre Desplat (Lust, Caution)
● Craig Armstrong (The Quiet American)
● Harry Gregson-Williams (Spy Game)
● John Williams (Munich)
● John Williams (Star Wars)

Best Song

● “The Wrestler” by Bruce Springsteen from The Wrestler
● “Man of the Hour” by Pearl Jam from Big Fish
● “Another Way to Die” by Alicia Keys & Jack White from Quantum of Solace
● Back to the House that Love Built” by Tito & Tarantula from Desperado
● “Regulate” by Warren G & Nate Dogg from Above the Rim

Best Art Direction

● Dante Ferretti (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
● Terry Ackland-Snow, Nigel Phelps & Leslie Tomkins (Batman)
● Norman Garwood & Maggie Gray (Brazil)
● Leslie Dilley, Harry Lange & Alan Tomkins (Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back)
● Dante Ferretti (The Aviator)

Best Costumes

● Marie Antoinette
● The Talented Mr. Ripley
● Big Fish
● The King’s Speech
● The Darjeeling Limited

Best Makeup

● Batman Returns
● Life
● La Vie en Rose

Best Sound

● Inception
● True Grit (2010)
● Jarhead
● Sin City
● Moon

Best Sound Effects Editing

● Inception
● Star Wars
● Green Zone

Best Visual Effects

● Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
● A.I. Artificial Intelligence
● Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Best Foreign Language Film

● The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (France)
● I Served the King of England (Czech Republic)
● Il divo (Italy)
● The Beat That My Heart Skipped (France)
● Three Colours: Blue (France)

Best Documentary

● The Cove
● Fahrenheit 9/11
● Inside Job
● 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep
● Exit Through the Gift Shop

Best Animated Feature

● Monsters, Inc.
● Rango
● Ratatouille
● The Lion King
● Spirited Away

Special award (for the most personal and inspirational film)

● Hearts in Atlantis
● Man on the Moon
● Léon
● Big Fish
● 12 Angry Men

Multiple winners:

2 – Munich
2 – The Man Who Wasn’t There
2 – Fargo

The list below contains 19 winning films

• 01
  The Big Lebowski
  Joel Coen
• 02
  Munich
  Steven Spielberg
• 03
  The Man Who Wasn't There
  Joel Coen
• 04
  Fargo
  Joel Coen
• 05
  The Godfather: Part II
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 06
  Hannah and Her Sisters
  Woody Allen
• 07
  No Country for Old Men
  Ethan Coen
• 08
  Lust, Caution
  Ang Lee
• 09
  Desperado
  Robert Rodriguez
• 10
  Batman
  Tim Burton
• 11
  The Darjeeling Limited
  Wes Anderson
• 12
  Life
  Ted Demme
• 13
  Inception
  Christopher Nolan
• 14
  Green Zone
  Paul Greengrass
• 15
  Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
  Irvin Kershner
• 16
  I Served the King of England
  Jiří Menzel
• 17
  Inside Job
  Charles Ferguson
• 18
  Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 19
  Big Fish
  Tim Burton