Adam's Final Cut Awards Nominations Announcement

You may have noticed a tremendous lack of reviews coming from me, and if you follow me on Twitter (@adamj_film), you would know that I have been seeing quite a bit. The reason for this extended hiatus is that I am currently working on moving this blog over to Wix as a full-blown website. It is almost at the point I am ready to open it, but it's not quite there yet. However, I thought I would have it up sooner to publish my reviews for films like The Greatest Showman, Darkest Hour, The Post, and Lady Bird on that site first. I'm still debating whether to review them here or there, including my top twenty list of favorite films, but until then, I wanted to do something fun.

As you may know, the Oscar nominations come out today. While I will have my thoughts on them soon (since I'll hopefully have seen many of them), I figured I'd do my own awards contest since I feel that there were films that were overlooked by the Academy and maybe you, dear reader. While many of these categories will resemble a typical awards show roster (Best Picture, Actor, Director), I cannot and will not get into the nitty-gritty of sound design and visual effects: I'm not an expert in that field nor did I pay enough attention to them while watching the field. But there will be some original categories that make it fun. Keep in mind that there will be some differences between the lists you see here and my personal Top 20 list since in my Top 20, I'll include films that were 2016 limited releases that weren't made available to me until 2017. Here will only be films that were eligible for this awards season (although films I missed like Three Billboards, The Shape of Water, Kedi, and Molly's Game won't be featured on here).

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 And the nominees are.... 

BEST PICTURE

The Big Sick

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Get Out

The Greatest Showman

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore

Lady Bird

Logan

BEST DIRECTOR

Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk

Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

Joe Wright, Darkest Hour

Jordan Peele, Get Out

Michael Gracey, The Greatest Showman

BEST ACTOR

Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, IT

Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill, Darkest Hour

Hugh Jackman as Logan, Logan, and P. T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman

James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb and The Horde, Split

BEST ACTRESS

Anya Taylor-Joy as Casey Cooke, Split

Jennifer Lawrence as mother, mother!

Michelle Williams as Gail Harris, All the Money in the World

Octavia Spencer as Papa, The Shack

Saoirse Ronan as Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson, Lady Bird

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Dafne Keen as Laura, Logan

Holly Hunter as Beth Gardner, The Big Sick 

Laurie Metcalf as Marion McPherson, Lady Bird

Lily James as Elizabeth Layton, Darkest Hour

Sophia Lillis as Beverly Marsh, IT

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christopher Plummer as John Paul Getty, All the Money in the World

Elijah Wood as Tony, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore

Lucas Hedges as Danny O'Neill, Lady Bird

Sir Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier, Logan

Ray Romano as Terry Gardner, The Big Sick

BEST SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED OR ORIGINAL

The Big Sick by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon

Dunkirk by Christopher Nolan

Get Out by Jordan Peele

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore by Macon Blair

Lady Bird by Greta Gerwig

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Blade Runner 2049, Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch

Darkest Hour, Dario Marianelli

Logan, Marco Beltrami

The Post, John Williams

Star Wars: The Last Jedi, John Williams

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

"A Million Dreams" from The Greatest Showman (Benj Pasek and Justin Paul)

"Evermore" from Beauty and the Beast (Alan Menken and Tim Rice)

"Remember Me" from Coco (Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez)

"The Greatest Show" from The Greatest Showman (Benj Pasek and Justin Paul)

"This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman (Benj Pasek and Justin Paul)

Now come the Special Awards to honor genre fare, underrated films, artists with the brightest potential, and the studios that put it together.

BEST UP-AND-COMING ARTIST

Dafne Keen, Logan (Acting)

David F. Sandberg, Annabelle: Creation (Directing)

Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird (Directing)

Kelly Marie Tran, Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Acting)

Sophia Lillis, IT (Acting)

BEST HORROR FILM (I saw too many this year that I had to honor them!)

Annabelle: Creation

Get Out

IT

It Comes at Night

Split

MOST UNEXPECTED DELIGHT

The Big Sick

The Greatest Showman

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore

It Comes at Night

The Shack

And finally, along with the winners of these prestigious internet awards, I will announce the sole recipient of the STUDIO OF THE YEAR award in recognition of excellence in entertaining audiences, pursuing innovation, promoting new industry voices, and achieving financial successes.

What do you think of these nominations? What's missing? Who do you want to see win? Is it better than the Oscars (ha!)? Do you think all this is a bunch of hullabaloo? What should I do in the meantime? Whatever you have to say about me or the movies, comment below!