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Best Use Of 3D Let's be clear about this: 3D is awesome. It's bad 3D that's the problem.

With s tereoscopic cinema here to stay, let's champion the movies that really do take o ur brains to another dimension. (And, hopefully, give the lazy ones a kick up th e backside.) WINNER: Transformers: Dark Of The Moon . Best Laughs As Judd Apatow once noted, it's easy to make a film that's not funny. But comedi es, like all genre films, never get the recognition they deserve. The last comed y to win an Oscar for Best Picture? Shakespeare In Love. Twenty-four years ago. Let's give the clowns something to smile about. WINNER: Bridesmaids . Best Poster A great movie poster is an iconic as the movie it's promoting. In fact, it's a w ork of art in itself. The best sell for huge money at auction. The worst are jus t two floating heads. What's more, this category can even be won by a movie that 's not even out yet... WINNER: The Dark Knight Rises . Best Debut Every year, a startling new talent arrives out nowhere to stamp themselves on th e movie map. Of all our awards, this special category the most wide open and hot ly contested: it could be won by a director or an actor... WINNER: Lucas Pittaway (Snowtown) . The Robert De Niro Award For Best Not-Giving-A-Damn Acting is a job. And like all jobs, you still have to do it even when you can't be bothered. Hence this award for 'special' performances, dedicated to the man w ho gave up acting years ago but still shows up for work. WINNER: Robert De Niro (Killer Elite) . Best Movie No One Will See This award actually does exist in real life. It's called the Academy Award for B est Foreign Film. But since 'Foreign Film' is kind of a big category, we think i t's only fair to champion another non-Hollywood masterwork you might have missed . Discover it, thank us later. WINNER: A Separation . Best Use Of A Hammer What time is it? Hammer time. It's the weapon of choice. Check out Kill List, Dr ive, Thor, Immortals... Everywhere you look, someone's doing something amazing/h orrendous with a hammer. But who's the master of the mallet? WINNER: Kill List . Best Trailer Nothing beats the thrill of that first three-minute peek at a new movie on its w ay to a cinema near you. A great trailer is like its own short film: sharply edi ted, tantalising and teasing. Many of them are better than the movie itself... WINNER: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo . Best Chance Of Being Remade Why come up with your own great idea for a film when you can let someone else do it for you? Every year, Hollywood scours the foreign films you didn't bother se eing for one it could remake with Jake Gyllenhaal, bigger explosions and no subt

itles. It's like Fame Academy for movies. WINNER: Cell 211 . Best Scares Why it is that horrors spawn endless sequels? Because people /love/ horror films . Most awards ceremonies are way too snooty to applaud a film that's made their palms sweat and their hearts palpitate... So let's fix that right now. WINNER: Paranormal Activity 3 . Best Chest You know it, we know it, they know it: chests equal treasure in Hollywood. Wheth er you're Halle Berry or Daniel Craig, bulging bras and perfect pecs can sell mo vies all by themselves. Fellas sweat in the gym and ladies cram themselves into teeny-bikinis for your viewing pleasure. Let's reward their efforts. WINNER: Ryan Gosling (Crazy, Stupid, Love) . Best Original Idea A special agent who must endlessly relive the last three minutes of his life. A glove-puppet takes over a man's personality. A future in which time replaces mon ey. Every year, even in Hollywood, a few filmmakers prove you haven't seen it al l before. WINNER: The Beaver . Best Arty Nudity Award Nothing says 'serious acting' like getting your kit off. More flesh, more meanin gful, right? Let's reward the brave thesps who let it all hang out in the name o f art. And hey, if it encourages a few more A-listers to go cine-skinny-dipping, so be it. WINNER: Michael Fassbender (Shame) (Apologies for the non-nude picture here guys) . Best Actress Who's Not Meryl Streep We love Meryl Streep. And, to be fair, she hasn't won an Oscar 30 years. But it feels like she's nominated just for getting dressed in the morning. So how about a Meryl-proof award that gives other deserving actresses a chance for recogniti on? This year, the winner's a no-brainer... WINNER: Olivia Colman (Tyrannosaur) . Best Physical Transformation From De Niro eating half the pasta in Italy for Raging Bull to Christian Bale's terrifying self-skeletonisation for The Machinist, some thespians go to insane l engths to transform themselves into a character. This award goes to an actor who literally vanishes inside their role. WINNER: Rooney Mara (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) . Best Fight Fight! Fight! Fight! We love a good fight. But a good fight is hard to find. We need an award that sorts the haymakers from the handbags. Which big-screen brawl ers really managed to knocked us out? WINNER: Gina Carano vs Michael Fassbender (Haywire) . Best Stunts Stuntmen risk their lives to make movies. Stunts make movies amazing. And yet, t here's an Oscar for Best Makeup but no Oscar for Best Stunt? That's just plain w rong. Here's to the men and women who lay it all on the line for our viewing ple asure. WINNER: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol . Best Animal

Every year, one of the hottest prizes at the Cannes Film Festival is the Palme D og. But here at MSN Movies, we're not prejudiced. So we're throwing open this ca tegory to any heartwarming animal who's best in show. Might have to skip the acc eptance speech, mind. WINNER: Uggie (The Artist) .

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