The 2012 Moscar Awards

It was a rainy day for our Australia Day BBQ but thanks to Beck who hosted at last minute, we had a venue for the 5th Annual Moscar Awards. Here are the results.

 

 

CLUB MOOFIE IS PROUD TO PRESENT:

THE 2012, 5th Annual MOSCAR AWARDS

1. Special Award:

The 2012 Club Moofie “Island of Doctor Moreau” Award for Most Experimental Location For a Meeting Venue goes to:

Jayne for “Cockatoo Island during Biennale”

 

2. The 2012 Club Moofie Award for BEST ACTOR goes to:

Bruno Ganz for “Downfall”

Voted for by Renny, Clint, Nat, Beck and Wendy

 

Also nominated were:

Ryan Gosling for “Blue Valentine” and “Lars and The Real Girl”

Daniel Day Lewis for “There Will Be Blood”

Jack Nicholson for “The Shining”

Andy Serkis for “The Hobbit”

Christian Bale for “The Prestige”

 

 

3.  Special Award:

The 2012 Club Moofie “Scooby Doo” Award for Most Animated Club Moofie Pet goes to:

Milo, the Magnificent Moofie Moodle!

Note: this award will be accepted on behalf of Milo by Natalya.

 

4. The 2012 Club Moofie Award for BEST ACTRESS goes to:

Michelle Williams for “Blue Valentine”

Voted for by: Renny, Paul, Sylv, Beck, Nat, Andy and Clint

 

Also nominated were:

Natalie Portman for “V for Vendetta”

Berenice Bejo for “The Artist”

Patricia Clarkson for “Lars and The Real Girl”

Noomi Repace for “Prometheus”

Emily Mortimor for “Lars and The Real Girl”

 

5. Special Award:

The 2012 Club Moofie “Babette’s Feast” Award for Most Sumptuous Food Contribution to a Moofie Night goes to:

Sylvia for Natalya’s Birthday Cake

 

6. The 2012 Club Moofie Award for WORST ACTOR/ACTRESS goes to:

And it’s a three-way tie!

Scarlett Johannson for “The Prestige”

Charlize Theron for “Prometheus”

Shelly Duvall for “The Shining”

SJ voted for by Paul and Nat, CT voted for by Paul and Renny, SD voted for by Renny and Andy

 

Also nominated were:

Bianca for “Lars and The Real Girl” (for wooden acting)

V’s Mask for “V for Vendetta” (also for wooden acting)

Yvonne Arnaud for “Rope”

Voice of Princess Mononoke for “Princess Mononoke”

Ian Holm for “The Hobbit”

Constance Collier for “Rope”

Natalie Portman for “V for Vendetta”

Jaques Tati for “Mon Oncle”

Martin Freeman for “The Hobbit”

The entire cast of “Rope”

 

 

7.  Special Award:

The 2012 Club Moofie “Exorcist Green Pea Soup” Award for Most Nauseated Club Moofie Member goes to:

Wendy for “Prometheus” in 3D.

Quote: “There were too many things exploding and making me sick.”

 

 

8. The 2012 Club Moofie Award for BEST SCRIPT/DIALOGUE– goes to:

Nancy Oliver for “Lars and The Real Girl”

Voted  for by Renny, Paul, Wendy, Sylv and Nat

 

Also nominated were:

Hume Cronyn (adapted from the play by Patrick Hamilton) for “Rope”

Paul Thomas Anderson (based on the novel by Upton Sinclair) for “There Will Be Blood”

Stanley Kubrick (based on the novel by Stephen King) for “The Shining”

Derek Cianfrance, Joey Curtis and Cami Delavigne for “Blue Valentine”

Andy and Lana Wachowski (based on the graphic novel by David Lloyd) for “V for Vendetta”

Jacques Tati for “Mon Oncle” (!)

Michel Hazanavicius for “The Artist” (!!)

 

 

9. Special Award:

The 2012 Club Moofie Award for Best Quote goes to:

Rebecca for several memorable lines including the following dialogue:

Andy on why he picked “Mon Oncle” and “The Artist”?

Andy: Because I love them… because they speak to me.

Beck: But they can’t, because they’re ‘silent’.

 

on “The Shining”:

Beck: “Not everything is tickety boo.”

 

To  Clint, on “Prometheus”:

Beck: “How did you feel about the depiction of Engineers, Clint?”

 

Other memorable quotes included:

* Paul, on Charlize Theron in “Prometheus”:

Well if she turned out to be a robot it would have been better. I don’t like her.

And:

Why did she do push-ups as soon as she got defrosted?

* Andy on “Blue Valentine”:

at first I thought, Oh my god I’m not watching this bogan love story but it was tragic so then I got caught up in it
.

 

 

10.The 2012 Club Moofie Award for BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY– goes to:

And it’s a tie!

Robert Elswit for “There Will Be Blood”

John Alcott for “The Shining”

TWBB voted for by: Renny, Andy, Sylv, and Paul; TS voted for by: Renny, Clint, Nat and Beck

 

Also nominated were:

Darius Wolski for “Prometheus”

Rainer Klausman for “Downfall”

Andrew Lesnie for “The Hobbit”

Guillaume Schiffman for “The Artist”

 

11. Special Award:

The 2012 Club Moofie “Amelie” Award for Most Traveled Award Statuette goes to

Moscar  for “Moscar Does The Canadian Rockies”

This award will be accepted on behalf of Moscar by Clint

 

12. The 2012 Club Moofie  “Realdoll.com ” Award for The Actor/Actress You Would Most Like to See Next Modelled in Anatomically-correct, Life-sized Form goes to:

Ryan Gosling (“Lars and the Real Girl”)

Voted for by Paul, Wendy and Beck

 

Also nominated were:

Michelle Williams, voted for by Andy (“Blue Valentine”)

Richard Armitage, voted for by Nat (“The Hobbit”)

Natalie Portman, voted for by Clint (“V for Vendetta”)

Martin Freeman, voted for by Renny (“The Hobbit”)

Jean Dujardin, voted for by Sylv (“The Artist”)

 

13. Special Award:

The 2012 Club Moofie “Willy Wonka” Award for Best Club Moofie Confectionery Invention goes to:

Paul for homemade Caramel Tim Tam Icecream

 

14. The 2012 Club Moofie Hitchcock “Enough Rope” Award For The Actor/Actress You Would Most Like To Strangle, Hide In A Trunk And Serve Supper Over goes to:

Shelley Duvall (“The Shining”)

Voted for by: Beck and Andy

 

Also nominated were:

Charlize Theron, voted for by Paul (“Prometheus”)

Paul Dano, voted for by Sylv (“There Will Be Blood”)

Ryan Gosling, voted for by Wendy (“Blue Valentine”)

Constance Collier, voted for by Clint (“Rope”)

John Dall, voted for by Renny (“Rope”)

The Entire Cast of “Rope”, voted for by Beck (“Rope”)

Hugh Jackman, voted for by Nat (“The Prestige”)

 

15. Special Award:

The 2012 Club Moofie “ Unexpected Journey” Award for Moofie Commitment goes to:

Renny for her return to Middle Earth to attend the World Premiere of “The Hobbit” in Wellington, NZ.

 

16. The 2012 Club Moofie Award for WORST FILM – goes to:

“Mon Oncle”, directed by Jacques Tati

Voted for by Wendy, Paul, Clint and Renny

 

Also nominated were:

“Princess Mononoke”, directed by Hayao Miyazaki

“The Hobbit”, directed by Peter Jackson

“V for Vendetta”, directed by James McTeigue

“The Prestige”, directed by Christopher Nolan

“The Artist”, directed by Michel Hazanavicius

“Downfall”, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel

“Blue Valentine”, directed by Derek Cianfrance

“Rope”, directed by Alfred Hitchcok

 

 

17. Special Award:

The 2012 Inaugural Club Moofie “Bill Collins’ Golden Years of Hollywood” Award for  Obscure Film Knowledge goes to:

Andrew for his Encyclopedic knowledge of films: information that no-one else knows.

 

AND DRUM ROLLLLLLLLL……….

 

18. The 2012 Club Moofie Award for BEST FILM goes to:

And it’s another tie!

“The Shining”, directed by Stanley Kubrick

and

“Lars and The Real Girl”, directed by Craig Gillespie

 

This Award will be shared by Clint (“The Shining”) and Natalya (“Lars and the Real Girl”) – so Moscar has two homes this year!

TS voted for by: Renny, Clint, and Nat; LATRG voted for by: Sylv, Wendy, Beck and Nat

 

Other nominees included:

“Downfall”, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel

“Blue Valentine”, directed by Derek Cianfrance

“There Will Be Blood”, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

“The Prestige”, directed by Christopher Nolan

“Mon Oncle”, directed by Jacques Tati

 

This year, our Club Moofie sessions highest scoring films reflected our voting, with 2012’s highest scoring film being:

 

“The Shining”: 4.4

 

Our other films scored:

“Lars and The Real Girl”: 4.1

“The Artist”: 4

“Downfall”: 3.9

“There Will Be Blood”: 3.9

“Blue Valentine”: 3.7

“The Prestige”: 3.7

“The Hobbit”: 3.3

“Rope”: 3

“Prometheus”: 2.9

“Princess Mononoke”: 2.8

“V for Vendetta”: 2.7

Our lowest scoring film was:

“Mon Oncle”: 2.3

 

But wait a minute – there’s more!

BOOM CRASH – Bigger DRUMMM ROLLLLLLLL …..

 

19. The 2012 Club Moofie Award for MOOFIEST MOOFIE FOR OUR FIRST FIVE YEARS: goes to:

“Donnie Darko”, directed by Richard Kelly

This award will be accepted by Sylvia.

Voted for by: Wendy, Clint, Beck and Nat

 

Equal 2nd place: “Spirited Away”, directed by Hayao Miyazaki and “The Shining”, directed by Stanley Kubrick

SA voted for by: Wendy, Sylv and Andy, TS voted for by Clint, Renny and Nat

 

3rd place: “Pan’s Labyrinth”, directed by Guillermo Del Toro

PL voted for by: Sylv, Clint and Renny

 

4th place: “Bladerunner”, directed by Ridley Scott, voted for by Clint and Wendy

 

5th place: “Lars and The Real Girl”, directed by Craig Gillespie, voted for by Sylv and Beck

 

Other nominees included, in descending order:

Star Trek

Let the Right One In

Fargo

Three Colours Red

Heat

Lives of Others

Moon

Children of Heaven

Inception

Downfall

City of Lost Children

The Prestige

The September Issue

There Will Be Blood

Sophie’s Choice

 

And that’s, it folks! The culmination of another fabulous year’s viewing! Many happy returns, Moscar!

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