BEST VOICE PERFORMANCE: MALE:



01. Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 - Bradley Cooper (7 / 2)
02. Paddington 2 - Ben Whishaw (4 / 2)
03. The LEGO Batman Movie - Will Arnett (2 / 4)
04. Despicable Me 3 - Steve Carell (1 / 2)
05. The LEGO Batman Movie - Michael Cera (0 / 3)

And Cooper picks up a very easy win here!

Bradley Cooper scored seven 1st preference votes to score the superhero's first win of the night for his role as Rocket Racoon. I always expect the Guardians franchise to do better than it has done here (but then the 1st film was against the juggernaut of Gone Girl). Cooper takes over from last year's winner Jason Bateman for Zootropolis which I much preferred to B-Coop oops. (But then this category is rly weak on the whole)

In 2nd place is Ben Whishaw as the titular Paddington and he deserved to win here. One of my favourite voice performances and he is perfect as Paddington, at least he came 2nd place by quite a distance *.* Despite being a previous winner for the same role, and in a year against B-Coop for Guardians as well, Will Arnett underwhelms this year as Batman took centerstage in his own movie only ended up with him coming 3rd. His co-star Michael Cera comes last and in the middle of them is another nearly previous winner Steve Carell (he missed out by like one 2nd preference vote in 2010 iirc) for his iconic turn as Gru!

BEST ANIMATION:



01. The LEGO Batman Movie (6 / 2)
02. Sing (4 / 2)
03. Loving Vincent (3 / 1)
04. Despicable Me 3 (1 / 4)
05. Boss Baby (0 / 2)
05. The LEGO Ninago Movie (0 / 2)

Ew this franchise wins again.

The LEGO Batman Movie was good (and way better than the overrated crap that preceded it) but its still easily the weakest of the 4 films I've seen here so I'm gutted to see it win here with 6 first preference votes. This takes on from the way superior Zootropolis winning this last year. This category also highlights the dreadful year for animation as none of these made it into best picture whereas last year we had like 4 animations in the line-up.

In 2nd place is my favourite film here, the incredibly fun Sing that I've seen a few times and loved every time. The only other competitor here was Loving Vincent which once again surprised me about how much support it picked up on a site like buzzjack! Mainstream animations also got in here and struggled as Despicable Me 3 did poor for the franchise its from and Oscar nominated Boss Baby & inferior Lego film Ninjago both failed to even get one first preference vote.

BEST PICTURE: NOMINEE #7

Popchartfreak:

Wonder Woman is Girl Power. At long last equality reaches the blockbuster superhero movie, and appropriately the one that did is the original comics superhero. When Superman and Batman came along in the 30's the biggest female superhero was Wonder Woman. I read Justice League Of America comics as a kid, and Wonder Woman was very much the only female on an equal footing with the men - so here we are, 75 years plus on, and the 20th biggest grossing movie, the 10th biggest of 2010, and the one most-lauded critically (2nd best of all time, say Rotten Tomatoes) pulls in both male and female viewers.

Quite rightly so. Directed by Patty Jenkins, Wonder Women is a beautifully constructed action movie with a great (largely-female) cast, especially Gal Godot as goddess Diana, and Chris Pine as her first love, American pilot Steve Trevor. Sticking to the comics backstory helps a lot, setting it during the First World War was a terrific idea, as it lets in plenty of social commentary on the World Of Men, and the overall good-natured adventure was also tinged with tragedy and heroism, setting up sequels nicely. It also puts paid to the notion that women can't direct blockbusters. They can. They can be acclaimed, they can be money-spinners. In terms of DC movies, 21st century DC has largely under-achieved compared to the long history of the many many comics with movie potential, and compared to Marvel movies. For once I can look forward to another DC superhero movie without expecting it to be a bit plodding, or re-telling the Batman origin for the yawnsometh time. Hooray For Wonder Woman!

Regina:

Gone are the days of seeing Linda Carter spin around to get into her Wonder Woman costume, Gal Gadot has brought the iconic Amazon warrior into the new age
of superhero movies and brought her here with a bang.
We got a glimpse of her in Batman vs. Superman, but this is her fist big solo outing, indeed, the first big solo movie for the character not including cartoons.
Gal brings all the qualities of Diana that we as comic nerd need. She has that supreme beauty that we come to expect, she can easily pull off the no nonsense warrior (no doubt thanks to her time in the army) and she can bring the soft human side that sets Diana apart from many other similar women.
Much like Captain America: The First Avenger, the movie is an origins of sorts that takes part during one of history's greatest wars, this time the First World War.
A spy (played rather brilliantly by Chris Pine) crashes onto the secluded island home of the Amazons and brings the news (and enemies) of the great war to their doorstep.
Diana believes this is all to do with the God of War Ares and sets off with Steve to stop him. Here she is thrown head first into the human world. It is a beautiful glimpse into the eyes of a stranger to our war of life and the main comedy of the movie comes from seeing her naivety at these new customs. However, the coomedy never feels forced or undermines the darker tones of the movie.
I won't go too much into the plot of the movie as it really is one that is best explaine dby actually watching it, I could never do it justice. But what I will sa is that the scenes of the War are so vivid and candid that it is har dnot to get emotional, in particular the No Man's Land scene. Seeing a glimpse into how evil and mad the enemy can be is a really chilling moment and you are given a front row seat into the inner workings of some mad geniuses.
Patty Jenkins directs the movie flawlessly and you can tell the entire cast trusted her as they all give it their best and really sell every moment. The background is just as important as the actors and there are some gorgeous shots in the movie, as well as some harrowing ones.
All in all, this stands up against any male led superhero movie and proves that woman can lead their own movies with little to no help from men. Hopefully we now see some more solo female movies. Thankfully we are getting Captain Marvel soon, very much the Marvel side of the Wonder Woman/DC coin.

I need to reboot my laptop so we'll be back in about 10 minutes or so! The next batch of categories are already prepped so as long as y'all comment a bit before then we'll get started straight away x

The Lego Batman Movie was by far the highlight of an incredibly poor year for Animated movies. Lego Ninjago Movie is good fun too!

 

Yyyyaaasssss for B-Coop! :wub: His voice work for Rocket is fantastic and Will Arnett might actually be my fave Batman!

BEST LOOK & STYLE:



01. Beauty & The Beast (4 / 2)
02. Blade Runner 2049 (4 / 1)
02. Call Me By Your Name (4 / 1)
04. La La Land (3 / 5)
05. The Greatest Showman (1 / 4)
05. The Florida Project (1 / 2)

And in another one of the closest races of the year, B&TB just triumphs over two films by one 2nd preference vote :o

Beauty & The Beast is definitely a deserving winner here. The production design is something else and the costumes are absolutely gorgeous and the film is an absolute marvel to look at *.* I saw this in IMAX and the style & look of the film is stunning. This is the last of the new categories tonight, hope y’all liked the new additions!

In joint 2nd place is Call Me By Your Name (again!) & Blade Runner 2049. The latter aced it on the cinematography & visual sides of things and looked stunning from the trailers and the former had the stunning setting of Italy and looked great as well. In 4th place is my fave La La Land which ofc looked perfect and aced the production design & costumes in particular. In 5th is The Greatest Showman which aced in the same areas as LLL and in 6th place is The Florida Project which had absolutely stunning cinematography & looked incredibly visually. My 3 fave films of 2017 being the bottom three here </3

La La Land or Blade Runner shoulda got that one for me. But it's another category in which I can see why each nominee was nominated so can't begrudge too much! :P

I liked Beauty and the Beast but the animated version was the first film I ever saw in the cinema, so it'll never be as good as that for me. I think I would have wanted the Greatest Showman to win this one.

BEST SCENE IN A MOVIE:



01. La La Land – Epilogue (5 / 5)
02. Wonder Woman – No Man Land’s Scene (5 / 4)
03. It – Opening Scene (3 / 3)
04. Manchester by the Sea – Lee’s House Burns Down (2 / 2)
05. Call Me By Your Name – Peach Scene (2 / 1)

The best scene of 2017 winning *.* and another win for La La Land <3

Epilogue is a 7 minute masterpiece and is the most perfect scene of 2017 <3 The visual aspects is incredible, the storytelling is gorgeous & the scene has one of the best pieces of score music attached to it. This scene made me feel so many different emotions and is pure perfection. WD Buzzjack <3 <3 Last years winner was the iconic airport scene from civil war!

Another very close battle as Wonder Woman comes marginally in 2nd with its No Man’s Land Scene that misses out by one 2nd preference vote. It’s a good scene but doesn’t compare to epilogue for me so I’m glad it didn’t win. It’s iconic opening scene which has been parodied all over the internet is frightening af but a great scene and is wholly deserving of a bronze position here. Lee’s house burning down is such a powerful scene in Manchester by the Sea and is a really inspired nom here that pays off as it comes 4th. I don’t know what I’m more shocked at, CMBYN being last in a category or the fact it was the peach scene that’s been talked about non-stop that saw it comes last place. Ngl I’m glad about this, I really disliked the peach scene and it felt like I was watching some weird fetish thing, no thx.

Yesssss. I was torn between that and "no man's land" for my first preference so, although I voted NML first, I'm so happy about LLL winning this. :heart:

BEST MOVIE COUPLE:



01. Call Me By Your Name – Armie Hammer & Timothee Chalamet (8 / 1)
02. La La Land – Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling (3 / 5)
03. Wonder Woman – Chris Pine & Gal Gadot (2 / 2)
04. Wonder – Julia Roberts & Owen Wilson (1 / 3)
05. Baby Driver – Ansel Elgort & Lily James (1 / 0)
05. The Greatest Showman – Zac Efron & Zendaya (1 / 0)
07. The Big Sick – Kumail Nanjiani & Zoe Kazan (0 / 3)

No shocker here as CMBYN scores one of the biggest landslides of the evening.

Armie & Timothee are fab together and have great chemistry which sees them easily dominate this category with 8 first preference votes, more than double of 2nd place. They are also way better than Morena Baccarin & Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool which somehow won this category last year.

In 2nd place and taking many of the 2nd preference votes was the 3rd teaming of Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling in La La Land; their chemistry was incredible as ever and they were such a fabulous couple. Gal & Chris worked perfectly off each other in Wonder Woman and are the only couple to get more than one 1st preference vote in 3rd place. In 4th we saw the return of Julia Roberts & Owen Wilson in Wonder who were an incredible couple and worked perfectly together. In joint 5th we see Buzzjack faves Baby Driver & The Greatest Showman, I’m shocked Zac & Zendaya did so badly considering themselves & the film’s popularity. The only couple to not pick up any 1st preference votes is my 2nd fave here (Kumail & Zoe in The Big SicK) who are incredible together but at least they got a few 2nd preference votes!

I liked Beauty and the Beast but the animated version was the first film I ever saw in the cinema, so it'll never be as good as that for me. I think I would have wanted the Greatest Showman to win this one.

 

SILENCE!!

 

OMG YASS BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 2 AWARDS!! :wub:

 

wHY DID NO ONE VOTE FOR bELLE AND THE bEAST??

 

Did Edward and Bella ever win btw?

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:



01. Thor: Ragnarok (4 / 2)
02. Star Wars: The Last Jedi(4 / 1)
03. Beauty & The Beast (3 / 0)
04. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2 / 4)
05. Wonder Woman (1 / 5)
05. Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 (1 / 3)

Another very close race sees Thor pick up its first win of the evening!

I haven’t seen Thor but I’m guessing the visual effects are very good as they usually are for the Marvel superhero films! This takes over Disney’s The Jungle Book which won for its incredible visual effects last year!

In 2nd place and just missing out on the win by one 1st preference vote is Star Wars 8, showing Buzzjack haven’t completely given up on the franchise yet! Beauty & The Beast also does very well in 3rd whilst superhero films making up 4th to 6th. I’m surprised Wonder Woman didn’t do better and Guardians is rly struggling.

Yaass at Timothee Chamalet not winning most attractive actor, I'm sorry but he looks like an androgynous 10 year old. Also thank god the peach scene didn't win, haven't yet seen the film but it was vile in the book :rofl:

 

Get Out and Greatest Showman winning :wub: This Is Me deffo deserved song as well so yaaasss.

Yesssss. Both great winners. I voted Ryan and Emma over Tim and Armie, but I was the sole 2nd preference vote it seems haha.

 

A very deserving win for Thor too! :heart:

BEST PICTURE: NOMINEE #8

Chez:

Like it or not, of all the films released in 2017, this will certainly go down in a history as one to refer back to. What starts off as a simple budding romance of a young couple taking their first steps of being introduced to the family soon becomes a bit more sinister when Chris (played expertly by clear future star, Daniel Kaluuya) discovers his girlfriend's family might be a little bit more sinister than he first thought. Get Out was significant for bringing the horror genre back to a world of contemporary realism with it's smart use of social commentary and generally being an extremely entertaining movie to watch with fantastic, crowd pleasing performances and a gripping pace that will leave you breathless. One of the biggest surprise hits of the year and for very good reason. Maybe think twice the next time you're introducing your new lover to your parents

And we are done for tonight cos I'm getting ready for the real life Oscars now (with about 500 bags of popcorn :lol:) *.*

 

We have 12 more awards to get through + 4 more best picture spotlights. This'll happen hopefully tomorrow!

Thank you Sam! It's been great so far!

Thanks for all your hard work! Enjoy the Oscars - I'm off to bed! :lol:

03. Beauty & The Beast (3 / 0)

04. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2 / 4)

 

SQUEEZE ME

 

These should be 1 and 2