Now that the nominees have been tallied and announced (despite much controversy), we can now start accepting ballots for the winners of this year's Motion Picture awards. The nominees are as follows...

Best Picture
Atonement
Juno
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
Zodiac

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd
Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
David Fincher, Zodiac
Joe Wright, Atonement

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl
Emile Hirsch, Into the Wild
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Gorden Pinsent, Away From Her

Best Actress
Amy Adams, Enchanted
Helena Bonham Carter, Sweeney Todd
Julie Christie, Away From Her
Keira Knightley, Atonement
Ellen Page, Juno
Keri Russell, Waitress

Best Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood
Robert Downey Jr., Zodiac
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress
Romola Garai, Atonement
Jennifer Garner, Juno
Leslie Mann, Knocked Up
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone

Best Ensemble
Atonement
Juno
Knocked Up
No Country For Old Men
Zodiac

Best Original Screenplay
Juno
Knocked Up
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Once
Ratatouille

Best Adapted Screenplay
Atonement
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac

Best Animated Feature
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Shrek the Third
The Simpsons Movie
Surf's Up

Best Documentary
For the Bible Tells Me So
The King of Kong
Lake of Fire
No End in Sight
Sicko
Zoo

Best Foreign Film
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Lives of Others
Lust, Caution
Paris, je t'aime
Persepolis

Best Cinematography
The Assassination of Jesse James
Atonement
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac

Best Editing
Atonement
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac

Best Original Score
Atonement
Into the Wild
Ratatouille
The Assassination of Jesse James
There Will Be Blood

Best Original Song
Falling Slowly, Once
Guaranteed, Into the Wild
If You Want Me, Once
That's How You Know, Enchanted
When Your Mind's Made Up, Once

Best Makeup
300
Atonement
Hairspray
La Vie En Rose
Sweeney Todd

Best Visual Effects
300
The Golden Compass
Harry Potter 5
I Am Legend
Pirates of the Caribbean 3
Sunshine
Transformers

Best Art Direction
300
Atonement
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Sweeney Todd
There Will Be Blood

Best Costume Design
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Hairspray
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Sweeney Todd

Best Sound
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Sweeney Todd
There Will Be Blood
Transformers

Best Horror
28 Weeks Later
Disturbia
Grindhouse
I Am Legend
Sweeney Todd

Best Comedy
Hot Fuzz
Juno
Knocked Up
Ratatouille
Superbad

Most Overlooked Film


... You are to select one of the nominees in each category as your winner. The deadline to have your ballots in is Friday, February 22nd by 11:00 PM PST. Once again, you will PM both myself and xiayun with your complete ballot.

We are going hostless this year in an attempt to hopefully speed up the ceremony. If you'd like to volunteer to present a category, check out this thread: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=38834

Questions? Concerns? Comments? I'll have more info up soon, but I wanted to get this up and I'm already running way behind on it.

I think that's too early a deadline, but I guess I can understand why you guys want to have it before the Oscars. I wanted to try and see as much as I could before the deadline, and since I have the week of the 18th off, it would've worked better for me to have the ceremony later.

But it's your show, have the ceremony when you please. Don't change it on my account.

Oh, and Most Overlooked. Still going with it? What are the parameters?

Thanks guys.

Only movies whose title start with "Across" and end in "Universe" is eligible for Most Overlooked. =P

I'd go with any film that has no nom in the top 9 or only 1 nom total. Will see if makeshift agrees.

Stardust for Most Overlooked! I am OUTRAGED it got no noms.

Can only agree. Even with the Oscar slate of last year, Stardust stands far and wide the best motion picture. It captured the essence of what big, escapist film-making is all about. I think we lose our desire to escape in cinema these days when our films become so grounded in reality and theres such emphasis on making everything feel as realistic as possible.

Stardust flaunted that obsession with realism and went off into blockbuster territory of yore. It felt like Jurassic Park for me in terms of capturing that cinematic essence. It certainly stands higher in my all time list than any of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

Oh and by the way, I'm going to throw my support behind

Ratatouille for BP.
Jennifer Garner for Best Supporting Actress. I know she's polarizing people already, but she's by far the most love/hate in the category. She needs the loves support in full force to win this bitch. Awards have snubbed her even though rumour has it she just missed many major ceremonies nominee list, so let's show those big award shows that performance matters more than prestiege.

I'm also tentatively saying Amy Adams for Best Actress. Great category this year and there are performances there with way more depth, but I think Adams' deep charm and involvement in her character as well as it being a real breakout year for her makes her more deserving than the other actresses, even the lovely Ellen page, who is getting quite enough recognition as is.

My predictions for the winners:

All the best to Paris Je T'aime too for best foreign. Loved that movie.

It's all about Leslie fucking Mann, and y'all know it.

DOORMAN!

Leslie Mann should be for best supporting actor.
See what i did there? I crack me up.

HELL YES!!!

With me, Rat's already up to three...

Yeah I'd vote Ratatouille too. Best Pic of the year. Politically I would vote No Country which I also loved as it has a better chance of winning and anything so Atonement doesnt win. Would love Zodiac to win but it doesnt have much of a chance.

So if enough people vote the Rat - then i would too.

Stardust is criminally overlooked. What an amazing film. I dont think ive EVER been so surprised by a film.

Foreign is a tough category. If it wasnt for Lives of Others I would have voted for Paris J'eteme too.

Once again, the deadline's too early.

I sent my ballot.

Most overlooked: The Lookout

Most Overlooked: American Gangster

Ummm no. Most overrated definitely...

most overlooked: stardust

Most Overlooked = Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

It would be WONDERFUL if Pinsent and Christie won best actor and best actress