I have no problems adding that one if nobody else does.

What about the "official thread"?

Best Soundtrack is a good idea. Movies like Garden State, In Good Company, The Girl Next Door, and Kill Bill Vol. 2 all had great background music that WASN'T composed for the film. And, we all know about Moulin Rouge...

Ya, that sounds great. Garden State had a superb list of songs that derserves recognition.

Best Soundtrack sounds (no pun intended ) like a good idea to me.

Time to bring back the sig!!!!!

And this...

I just updated the first post for everyone.

A few FYCs...

Although I can't find a FYC poster for it (or a good picture for that matter), I'd just like to put my full support into

Helen Mirren in The Clearing

for Best Actress. She was phenominal.

Categories are set. Nominations start!

Campaign has already started, and let's the voting begin!

As for the eligibility. My suggestion is that all films that are released in the U.S. from Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2004 are eligible in all categories except for Best Foreign Film, where only films speaking in foreign language apply. So Hero is eligible in all categories, and The Passion of the Christ is also eligible in Foreign Film.

As for which category to put a performance under (lead or supporting), there is no restriction, and I encourage people to put them under which category they personally feel to be more appropriate. For example, for me, both Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise are the leads in Collateral, and all of the actors/actresses in Closer are equally supporting.

Any comments on these topics are welcome!

not sure where this stands as of now, but if you'd like, l'll preset Best Cinematography, or any of the final 7 listed save Horror...lemme know if ya want/need me:)

also, is "Dr. Licker" there on purpose? :?

I'll put you down for that category.

Dr. Licker? I have no idea what you mean.

Who wants to guess which category I'm offering to do the speech for? C'mon...take a wild guess.

I took one, did I get it right?

Depends...what did you guess?

I edited it into the first post.

Not sure what you meant by "or," so some of the movies listed below meet only one of the two qualifications.

Some movies eligible for a Best Overlooked Film nomination based on above:

The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Bad Education
Baadasssss!
Before Sunset
Beyond the Sea (over 300 theaters, under $10 million)
Being Julia
Birth (over 300 theaters, under $10 million)
The Clearing
Dogville
The Door in the Floor
The Dreamers
Infernal Affairs
Kinsey (over 300 theaters, under $10 million)
The Machinist
Maria Full of Grace
The Motorcycle Diairies (over $10 million, under 300 theaters)
Saved! (over 300 theaters, under $10 million)
The Sea Inside
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Stage Beauty
Super Size Me (over $10 million, under 300 theaters)
Super Babies: Baby Geniuses 2 (over 300 theaters, under $10 million)
Vera Drake
The Woodsman


Not eligible based on above guidelines:

De-lovely
Garden State
Hotel Rwanda ($10mil as soon as this coming weekend, already over 300 theaters)
House of Flying Daggers ($10mil in a couple days, already over 300 theaters)
Napolean Dynamite
Shaun of the Dead

I guess we don't necessarily need a hard cutoff set of criteria to decide if a film is overlooked. If a film hasn't been seen by the majority of movie-goers, it's likely that it hasn't been by many folks here. So I'd say it's fine if you believe certain movie like Garden State that should've been seen by more people; write it down on your ballot. However, try to keep it in the lower gross range, and not a film that you think deserve $300M and only got $150M in the box office. That's not "overlooked" or "best movie nobody saw" in any stretch of imagination. Less than $10M seems to be a good starting point, as I'd argue movies like Before Sunset, Maria Full of Grace, and Kinsey are good choices since they are some of the best movies that not many people know about, but they also have die-hard fans among those who've seen them.

Why does this thread get stickied and the Razzie thread is moved into obscurity?

I think it's probably the same reason that the Oscars are a bigger deal than the Razzies. There just doesn't seem to be much interest in doing a Razzie awards show, and these awards take a lot of time and energy to organize and pull off, so the thought of doing more than one isn't very appealing, even if it only required voting.

Besides, it's much more fun to be a part of a celebration, which is what these awards are, than it is to be a part of a negative themed awards show.

....

Xia, I am sending out ballots of your original post (on pg. 3) as we speak, so lets not open it up to new categories, I think it best to just get this going and keep it simple, we can always change things around for the next one when we've learned through trial and error.


edit*** I have finished sending out this ballot:

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*The Categories for the First Annual WorldofKJ Movie Awards!*

Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Ensemble
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Art Direction
Best Costume Design
Best Score
Best Sound
Best Song
Best Visual Effect
Best Makeup
Best Breakthrough Performance
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Animated Feature
Best Comedy
Best Horror
Best Sequal/Remake
Best Overlooked Film
Entertainer of the Year

26 categories total.

1. Please write 5 nominees for each of the categories except for Animated Feature, Comedy, Horror, and Sequal/Remake, which you will write 3 nominees.

2. Please PM your ballots to Mav, xiayun, or matatonio by 9:00am, February 20.

3. You don't have to vote for all categories if you haven't seen enough films for a particular category (e.g. Foreign Film) or you want to save some time filling out the ballot. However, for the ones you vote, please write down the appropriate number of nominees (5 or 3), otherwise your vote for that category won't be counted.

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BJ has graciously offered to send out ballots to 90 of the users as well, and so everyone will have a ballot awaiting them in their box soon. Everyone remember to thank BJ, he does this for all our awards show and it makes everything go so much smoother.

I'm pretty sure we will have at least 75 submissions, and that's pretty good. You guys keep us updated on how many ballots you get (you will need to communicate as Ripper, I , and Lecter did in the last show I think) and we'll see how big we can make this. Everyone enjoy.

dolce, thanks! There is actually one more category that I didn't edit my post to include: Best Soundtrack. It's all good to go.

Too late.

I sent it out to probably 150 people and I'm not going back in to change each ballot. Perhaps we can post a sticky notification for awhile, and anyone that catches it can add it, and everyone else just will pass in the ballot they have?