austin cinephile | filmgoing in austin, tx


2009 Cinephilia Award Winners

Posted by Austin Cinephile

Just in time for you suckers to kvetch about the Oscars, Austin Cinephile has tallied up its votes and come up with the winners of its own awards, the colorfully titled Cinephilia Awards. You may remember our nominations from a month or so ago. In case not, you can check them out.

There were some tough calls, and none of us are happy with all of the winners. I guess that’s what voting is all about. Well, without further ado, the people and movies that made us love the movies the past year:

David O Selznick Award in Picture Production:
Where the Wild Things Are

Jean-Luc Godard Award in Direction:
Werner Herzog – My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done/The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans

Humphrey Bogart Excellence Award in Male Leading Performance:
Nicolas Cage – The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans

Elisha Cook Award in Male Supporting Performance:
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

Barbara Stanwyck Award in Sassy Female Lead Performance:
Carey Mulligan – An Education

Margaret Dumont Award in Female Supporting Performance:
Julianne Moore – A Single Man

Lon Chaney Award for Overflowing Ensemble Cast:
Where the Wild Things Are

Woody Allen Award in Witty Original Screenwriting:
Jody Hill – Observe and Report

Charlie and Donald Kaufman Award for Adaptation:
Spike Jonze & Dave Eggers – Where the Wild Things Are

Our Bloody Valentine to 3D Cinema Excellence Award:
(Recognizing the outstanding technical achievements in the three dimensional arts)
Coraline

Alfred Hithcock Award for Formulaic Excellence in Genre Filmmaking:
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans – Crime Film

Write a Comment

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Subscribe to our RSS

Events Calendar

  • Pages

  • Latest Posts