KJ Forum Choice Award

And the Nominees Are

George Clooney

2005 was a great year for Clooney. An explosive role in Syriana, along with co-writing and directing Good Night, and Good Luck. Clooney has proven he's more than Danny Ocean. He's the Robert Redford of his generation.

Warner Brothers

Warner Brothers excelled in 2005 unlike no other. Three films grossed over $200 Million (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - $281, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - $206, and Batman Begins - $205). Their indie division was responsible for both March of the Penguins and Good Night, and Good Luck. Truly extraordinary.

The Documentary

This year, more than every before, documentaries have broken into the mainstream. From Mad Hot Ballroom to Murderball, Grizzly Man to March of the Penguins, there was something for everyone. 2005 will be remembered as the year when even your grandmother talked about documentaries.

Steven Spielberg

Releasing two films in one year is old news for Spielberg. But releasing two genre bending films in one year, that's something to talk about. Spielberg's War of the Worlds took a story told several times over and gave it a post 9/11 importance and intimacy never seen in the alien invasion genre. Munich is the anti-Spielberg, a cautionary tale of vengeance, layered with historical and social revelance.

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I voted for The Documentary (although Spielberg was close). Grizzly Man haunted me the most.

Voted - glad to see me nomination pick is there.

neither. All four are incomprehensiblly bad choices for a poll.

George Clooney - his supporting characters were better than him.

Warner Bros also gave us Constantine. Bad movie for retarded fanboys who love badly written movies. Charlie was a bad film. And their advertising devision is a total mess, a remarkable movie like BB deserved more money.

Documentaries - If you mention INSIDE DEEP THROAT and THE ARISTOCATS, i would of voted. But instead you show us badly contrived surreal National Geographic bullshit. (Grizzly Man is great viewing, so maybe I should vote)

Steven Spielberg - hasn't made a good movie since Jurrassic Park. WotW is bullshit.

I didn't know I needed to list every documentary released in 2005.

I figured The Documentary covered all the bases.

No love for Georgie.

I will see Munich in some weeks and then vote.

The poll closes at the end of the week.

Bleh, you discriminate foreigners

download it.

I agree with you on everything but Charlie - plus I thought 2004 was the year of the documentary...

2004 was the year of F 9/11 and Super Size Me.

2005 was the year of the documentary.

Well, the Burg is winning, but the Documentary is making a catch-up. It was 6-2 yesterday, 7-5 now...

Ok, I think Clooney opened a few accounts today.

I voted for Mr. Clooney.

7 times it seems.

Steven Spielberg.

MUNICH is one of the most important films of the last 20 years. And a masterful thriller. WAR OF THE WORLDS was a great sci-fi film, too.

I originally pushed for Clooney, but Munich is just so damn good. Speilberg pulled off *so* much this year and I think it ought to be recognized.

That, and I didn't think Clooney's work in Syriana was that great

WB.

Potter, Charlie, Batman, Constantine. All in my top ten (for now).

techno fascist....
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I loved Clooney in SYRIANA and am glad he put his starpower behind such an important and relevant film, but the film he'll be remembered most for in 2005, GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK., was totally overrated. It was a misfire which took a fascinating true-life story and turned it into a poor Robert Altman film-clone with all the heart and force of a teacher lecture in a high school civics class. Ugh, that movie pissed me off. It made McCarthy seem like a grumpy old man and Edward R. Murrow like an asshole chainsmoker in search of big ratings. Not to mention the abrupt ending made it feel like 1/2 of a movie. The cinematography was ace, though. CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND was 100x superior.

I am not the greatest Murderball fan, but between March of the Penguins, Grizzly Man, Mad Hot Ballroom, Inside Deep Throat and the all the rest I'm missing (Enron comes out on DVD next week) I would say that rarely has there been a time when documentaries have been this... well... good. Especially at a time when cinema is dying a bit.

Spielberg would be my second. Munich... I love, but it's bound to be a mostly forgotten masterpiece similar to Empire of the Sun, The Color Purple and (IMO) A.I.:Artificial Intelligence. It will be one of those films that not flashy like his World War II epics nor fun like his late 1970s early 1980s work, but when people look back in 20 years it will shine with the best of his work. The man delivered two of his darkest films in 2005.

Clooney made a small but important impact. It was finally just the culmination of all his choices since Batman & Robin and his two films. Anybody who doubts how great Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is should really revisit it.

Warner Bros... eh. This year it will be Warners, next year it will be Disney, I see no point in giving props to studios. Warners did have a rather disasterous Oscar season.

Winner: The Documentary

You're literally the only person besides myself who didn't like GNGL.

Oh thank you Gunslinger, thank you so much.

what a race so far.

I love Spielberg, and I haven't seen Munich, but War of the Worlds just wasn't the towering achievement that I thought it'd be.

My nomination went to the documentary, and so does my vote. (I have Grizzly Man sitting here on my desk. )