Your Own Personal Awards

With all the talk about the Palme d’Or and Oscar, I searched up and updated a file I started about 15 years ago; My Own Personal Awards for films from all time.

And yes it very Westerncentric, damn my heathen blood.

Feel free to hate this and call me bad names, and post your own awards.

(Remember it’s not a competition, it’s an exhibition, please no wagering)

Best Picture
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather Part 1
The Ice Storm
Miller’s Crossing
Trois Couleurs: Bleu

Best Director
Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now
James Ivory, Howards End
Ang Lee, The Ice Storm
Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull
Zhang Yimou, Raise the Red Lantern

Best Lead Actor
Sean Connery, The Wind & The Lion
Robert De Niro, Raging Bull
Stephen Lang, Last Exit to Brooklyn
Paul Newman, The Verdict
Al Pacino, The Godfather Part 1

Best Lead Actress
Juliette Binoche, Trois Couleurs: Bleu
Holly Hunter, The Piano
Joely Richardson, Sister My Sister
Miranda Richardson, Dance With A Stranger
Audrey Tautou, Amelie

Best Supporting Actor
Vincent D’Onofiro, Full Metal Jacket
Ralph Fiennes, Schindler’s List
Ed Harris, Glengarry Glen Ross
Martin Landau, Ed Wood
John Turturro, Miller’s Crossing

Best Supporting Actress
Judy Davis, Naked Lunch
Marcia Gay Harden, Miller’s Crossing
Diane Keaton, The Godfather Part II
Natasha Richardson, Nell
Meryl Streep, The Deer Hunter

Best Original Screenplay
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Miller’s Crossing
Neil Jordan, The Crying Game
Christopher McQuarrie, The Usual Suspects
Scott Rosenberg, Things To Do in Denver When You’re Dead
Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous

Best Adapted Screenplay
Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo, The Godfather Part II
James Schamus, The Ice Storm
David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstren Are Dead
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Oh Brother Where Art Thou

Best Cinematography
Michael Chapman, Raging Bull
Roger Deakins, B.S.C., The Shawshank Redemption
Conrad L. Hall, A.S.C., Searching For Bobby Fischer/In Cold Blood
Darius Khondji, Seven
Vittorio Storaro, Apocalypse Now

Best Editing
Andrew Marcus, Howards End
Dylan Tichenor , Magnolia
Joe Hutshing & Pietro Scalia, JFK
Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg, Lisa Fruchtman, Apocalypse Now
Thelma Schoonmaker, Raging Bull

Best Score
Peter Gabriel, The Last Temptation of Christ
Jerry Goldsmith, The Wind And The Lion
Zbigniew Preisner, Trois Couleurs: Bleu
John Williams, Schindler’s List
John Williams, Star Wars

Dante Ferretti, The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen
Dante Ferretti, Titus
Dennis Gassner, Barton Fink
Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Toys
Walter Reimann, Walter Rohrig, Hermann Warm, The Cabinet of Dr. Caliguri

Best Costumes
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen
Excalibur
Hamlet(96)
The Cell

Best Makeup
Beetlejuice
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Star Trek: First Contact

Best Sound
The Last Of The Mohicans
Apocalypse Now
Excalibur
Glory
Saving Private Ryan

Best Sound Effects Editing
Apocalypse Now
Saving Private Ryan
Star Wars

Best Visual Effects
Hell Boy 2: The Golden Army
Forrest Gump
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Best Foreign Language Film (as I’m a dirty damn American)
Trois Couleurs: Bleu, France
Europa, Europa, Germany
Persona, Sweden
Raise The Red Lantern, China
Woman in the Dunes, Japan

Best Documentary
Anne Frank Remembered
American Dream
Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
Hoop Dreams
Visions of Light

Best Animated Feature
Beauty and the Beast
Persepolis
Toy Story

nothing, really… ahkay

I’m glad to see The Wind and the Lion around here. After a career with good movies and bad performances (or vice versa), Sean Connery became a first-class actor filming one after the other The Wind and the Lion, The Man Who Would Be King and Robin and Marian as well as could be wished.

what? but the list has change already, a little anyway

This is interesting, but I find it overwhelming—at least in terms of trying to respond, especially with my own suggestions. You’re talking about all-time best film, all-time best supporting actor, etc., right? I feel pretty overwhelmed just thinking about this.

I might actually try to do this… I know Kenji has done it in list form

Best Argument Producing Movie
Pulp Fiction
The Tree Of Life
2001: A Space Odyssey
Breathless
The Dark Knight

Best Naps
Mother and Son
Satantango
Jeanne Dielman
Russian Ark

Most Unintentionally Funny Movie
Hercules (1983)
Star Trek V
The Shadow (1994)
Die Hard 4

Best Title of a Film You Don’t Want To See
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Slayer
Snakes on a Plane
Hamlet 2

Most Sanctimonious Director
Sidney Lumet
Oliver Stone
Michael Haneke
Stanley Kubrick
Al Gore

^ lol

I’d definitely give the Sanctimonious Director award to Haneke though ;)

Isn’t Kubrick the opposite to that?

I did a year by year ranking of “Alternate Oscars” for the four major categories complete with tons of commentary, but good heavens I’m with Jazz this is a little overwhelming to think all time.

@ Jirin: I could agree with every one of your nominations for “Argument Producing” except your actual winner, “Pulp Fiction.” It seems to me that everyone who I’ve talked to loves that movie. I’ve had much more divided discussions about “2001” and “Tree of Life.”

Oliver Stone, on the other hand, is the very definition of sanctimonious.

The Kenji Awards