Hey everyone, Jack Drees here! Today is a big day in Scene Before history! As some of you may be aware, last year I announced something called the “Jackoff” awards. I described it as an award show that is not quite noteworthy enough to be on TV. For one thing, Scene Before does not have the same power that the rest of Hollywood does. Not to mention, I have not developed my own TV station. So unfortunately, you’re gonna have to settle for the lack of my voice, and the less entertaining platform, WordPress.com. But then again, they say that the Internet is the future, so maybe this ceremony will grow with time. Nevertheless, today is the day that I announce the nominees for this future event. I should note, that all of these were picked by me, and me alone. However, this is not completely under my authority, as I will explain further down the road. This year alone, I saw 68 new releases. Many of them are deserving of recognition. Some would argue I saw 69 (not making a sex joke, just stating the facts), but I am only counting films that had some sort of theatrical run, therefore “The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time” does not qualify for any nominations. I am also only counting films I have seen. One movie that was sort of on my radar was “On the Basis of Sex,” but I have a deadline with this thing, so I missed out on that movie. Same goes with other titles that are getting some buzz including “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “Mary Poppins Returns,” “Mary Queen of Scots,” and “Can You Ever Forgive Me?.”
For each category, I am going to announce five nominees. This excludes the final category, Best Picture, which will be receiving ten.
Just a warning, you may notice that the announcements may look a tad jumbly, and what I mean specifically is the fact that sometimes I’ll share a person’s name before a movie title, or a movie’s title before a person’s name with such a formula alternating. I wouldn’t call this disorganized, but at the same time I feel it is worth pointing out before someone else does. For the record, I don’t have OCD, so I don’t care.
Anyways, let’s get the show on the road! Here are the nominees!
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
- Sam Elliot (A Star Is Born)
- Timothée Chalamet (Beautiful Boy)
- Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther)
- Mahershala Ali (Green Book)
- Sam Rockwell (Vice)
BEST SOUND EDITING
- A Quiet Place
- Avengers: Infinity War
- First Man
- Mission: Impossible: Fallout
- Ready Player One
BEST SOUND MIXING
- Annihilation
- A Star Is Born
- First Man
- Mission: Impossible: Fallout
- Ready Player One
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
- Aquaman
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- The Favourite
- Operation Finale
- Vice
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
- Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place)
- Claire Foy (First Man)
- Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)
- Amy Adams (Vice)
- Leslie Mann (Welcome to Marwen)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
- Kym Barrett (Aquaman)
- Julian Day (Bohemian Rhapsody)
- Sandy Powell (The Favourite)
- Marlene Stewart (The House with a Clock in Its Walls)
- Trish Summerville (Red Sparrow)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
- Bill Brzeski (Aquaman)
- Curt Beech (BlacKkKlansman)
- Fiona Crombie (The Favourite)
- Nathan Crowley, Katherine Lucas (First Man)
- Eugenio Caballero (Roma)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
- Geoff Barrow, Ben Salisbury (Annihilation)
- Marco Beltrami (A Quiet Place)
- Justin Hurwitz (First Man)
- Alexandre Desplat (Isle of Dogs)
- Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible: Fallout)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
- Annihilation
- Aquaman
- Avengers: Infinity War
- First Man
- Ready Player One
BEST FILM EDITING
- Barry Alexander Brown (BlacKkKlansman)
- Tom Cross (First Man)
- Benjamin Rodriguez Jr. (First Reformed)
- Alfonso Caurón, Adam Gough (Roma)
- Hank Corwin (Vice)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
- The Grinch (Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier)
- Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird)
- Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)
- Ralph Breaks the Internet (Phil Johnston, Rich Moore)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- A Star Is Born (Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, and Will Fetters)
- Avengers: Infinity War (Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely)
- BlacKkKlansman (Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmot, Spike Lee)
- First Man (Josh Singer)
- Welcome to Marwen (Robert Zemeckis, Caroline Thompson)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- A Quiet Place (Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski)
- Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
- First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
- Roma (Alfonso Caurón)
- Vice (Adam McKay)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
- Cold War (Lukasz Zal)
- First Reformed (Alexander Dynan)
- Hereditary (Pawel Pogorzelski)
- Mission: Impossible: Fallout (Rob Hardy)
- Roma (Alfonso Caurón)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
- I’ll Never Love Again- Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born)
- Shallow- Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born)
- Ashes- Celine Deon (Deadpool 2)
- A Place Called Slaughter Race– Sarah Silverman, Gal Gadot (Ralph Breaks the Internet)
- What’s Up Danger- Blackway & Black Caviar (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)
BEST DIRECTOR
- John Krasinski (A Quiet Place)
- Damien Chazelle (First Man)
- Ari Aster (Hereditary)
- Alfonso Caurón (Roma)
- Adam McKay (Vice)
BEST ACTRESS
- Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born)
- Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade)
- Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
- Toni Collette (Hereditary)
- Yalitza Aparicio (Roma)
BEST ACTOR
- Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born)
- Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)
- John David Washington (BlackKkKlansman)
- Ethan Hawke (First Reformed)
- Steve Carell (Welcome to Marwen)
Before we get into Best Picture, I must have everybody reading this know a couple of facts. Despite how this is my ceremony, and I am choosing what awards will be given to which movies, I am only going to ANNOUNCE the nominations for Best Picture. This award in particular is going to be chosen by viewers, friends, people I know, anyone who has access to a computer who doesn’t happen to be me. These categories are based on my CURRENT list for my top 10 BEST movies of 2018. Without further ado, here are the nominees along with their producers!
BEST PICTURE
- Mission: Impossible: Fallout (J.J. Abrams, Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, Jake Myers)
- Avengers: Infinity War (Kevin Feige)
- Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg, Donald De Line, Dan Farah, Kristie Macosko Krieger)
- Roma (Alfonso Caurón, Gabriela Rodriguez, Nicolas Celis)
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Morgan Neville, Caryn Capotosto, Nicholas Ma)
- First Reformed (Jack Binder, Greg Clark, Victoria Hill, Gary Hamilton, Deepak Sikka, Christine Vachon, David Hinojosa, Frank Murray)
- Welcome to Marwen (Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis)
- First Man (Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, Isaac Klausner, Damien Chazelle)
- Eighth Grade (Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Lila Yacoub, Christopher Storer)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Christina Steinberg)
If YOU want to vote for best picture, click this link right here! You can choose from one of these ten movies, and maybe your pick will end up as the king of the Jackoffs! In the event of a tie, multiple movies will claim Best Picture together. Voting is open until February 10th at 12AM. Once the clock hits the start of February 10th, boom, the votes are locked and loaded! Believe it or not, these are actually not all of the awards, there will be a select couple of awards I am choosing to reveal once the ceremony is published, because it would probably have a greater effect on my viewers. Be sure to stay tuned for the 1st Annual Jackoff Awards, coming February 10th, on Scene Before! Thanks for reading this post! If you want to keep looking forward to more movie-related posts down the line, I should have you know that I will soon have my review up for “Serenity” starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway. Be sure to follow Scene Before either with a WordPress account or email so you can stay tuned for more great content! I want to know, do you agree with any of my picks for this ceremony? Do you disagree? Let me know in the comments down below! Scene Before is your click to the flicks, and just for the sake of further promoting this event, in case you haven’t seen it already, I have posted down below my trailer for the 1st Annual Jackoff Awards, featuring a good portion of the movies to be recognized and honored during the ceremony.
If you’re watching, please enjoy.
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The 1st Annual Jackoff Awards PREVIEW and RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT
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