Cinema-Scene

—Movie Reviews by David L. Blaylock—

8th Annual Cinema-Scene Awards

2003

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Best Picture
#1: Angels in America (dir: Mike Nichols)
#2: Elephant (dir: Gus Van Sant)
#3: In America (dir: Jim Sheridan)
#4: Irréversible (dir: Gespar Noé)

#5: Unknown Pleasures (dir: Jai Zhang-ke)

#6: Mystic River (dir: Clint Eastwood)
#7: Russian Ark (dir: Aleksandr Sokurov)
#8: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (dir: Quentin Tarantino)
#9: City of God (dir: Fernando Meirelles)
#10: 28 Days Later... (dir: Danny Boyle)

Honorable Mentions:
Gerry (dir: Gus Van Sant), Spider (dir: David Cronenberg), The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (dir: Errol Morris), All the Real Girls (dir: David Gordon Green), 21 Grams (dir: Alejandro González Ińárritu), The Weather Underground (dir: Sam Green and Bill Siegel), Love & Diane (dir: Jennifer Dworkin), Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (dir: Guy Maddin), 11'09"01—September 11 (dir: ), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (dir: Peter Weir), A Mighty Wind (dir: Christopher Guest), The Station Agent (dir: Thomas McCarthy), Vibrator (dir: Ryuichi Hiroki), X2 (dir: Bryan Singer), The Quiet American (dir: Philip Noyce), The Man Without a Past (dir: Aki Kaurismaki), Man on the Train (dir: Patrice Leconte), The Good Thief (dir: Neil Jordan), Cold Mountain (dir: Anthony Minghella), Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (dir: Nick Broomfield), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (dir: Gore Verbanski), Morvern Callar (dir: Lynne Ramsay), Dirty Pretty Things (dir: Stephen Frears), Love Actually (dir: ), The Shape of Things (dir: Neil La Bute), The Dancer Upstairs (dir: John Malkovich), Ararat (dir: Atom Egoyan), Winged Migration (dir: Jacques Perrin), and Cabin Fever (dir: Eli Roth).

 

Best Director
#1: Gaspar Noé (Irréversible)
#2: Gus Van Sant (Gerry and Elephant)

#3: Guy Maddin (Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary)
#4: Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill: Vol. 1)
#5: Fernando Meirelles (City of God)


Best Actor
#1: Sean Penn (Mystic River)
#2: Bill Murray (Lost in Translation)

#3: Chiwetel Ejiofor (Dirty Pretty Things)
#4: Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
#5: Javier Bardem (The Dancer Upstairs)


Best Actress
#1: Oksana Akinshina (Lilya 4-ever)
#2: Naomi Watts (21 Grams)
#3: Cate Blanchett (Veronica Guerin)

#4: Zooey Deschanel (All the Real Girls)
#5: Uma Thurman (Kill Bill: Vol. 1)


Best Supporting Actor
#1: Tim Robbins (Mystic River)
#2: David Carradine (Kill Bill: Vol. 1)
#3: Benicio Del Toro (21 Grams)

#4: Johnny Depp (Once Upon a Time in Mexico)
#5: Albert Dupontel (Irréversible)


Best Supporting Actress
#1: Monica Bellucci (Irréversible)
#2: Miranda Richardson (Spider)

#3: Scarlet Johansson (Lost in Translation)
#4: Marcia Gay Harden (Mystic River)
#5: Emma Thompson (Love Actually)


Best Original Screenplay
#1: In America (Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan, and Kirsten Sheridan)
#2: Lost in America (Soffia Coppola)

#3: Dirty Pretty Things (Steve Knight)
#4: All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
#5: 28 Days Later... (Alex Garland)


Best Adapted Screenplay
#1: Mystic River (Brian Helgeland)
#2: Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella)

#3: The Dancer Upstairs (Nicholas Shakespeare)
#4: The Good Thief (Neil Jordan)
#5: American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini)


Best Cinematography
#1: Harris Savides (Elephant and Gerry)
#2: Paul Suderman (Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary)

#3: Benoît Debie and Gespar Noé (Irréversible)
#4: John Murphy (Kill Bill: Vol. 1)
#5: Olli Barbé, Michel Benjamin, Sylvie Carcedo-Dreujou, Laurent Charbonnier, Luc Drion, Laurent Fleutot, Philippe Garguil, Dominique Gentil, Bernard Lutic, Thierry Machado, Stéphane Martin, Fabrice Moindrot, Ernst Sasse, Michel Terrasse, and Thierry Thomas (Winged Migration)


Best Film Editing
#1: Kill Bill: Vol. 1

#2: Irréversible
#3: City of God
#4: 28 Days Later...
#5: Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary


Best Original Score
#1: 28 Days Later... (John Murphy)

#2: Winged Migration (Bruno Coulais)
#3: Irréversible (Thomas Bangalter)
#5: 21 Grams (Gustavo Santaolalla)
#4: Girl with a Pearl Earring (Alexandre Desplat)


Best Original Song
#1: "Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" (A Mighty Wind)

#2: "School of Rock" (School of Rock)
#3: "Old Joe's Place" (A Mighty Wind)
#4: "A Man for All Seasons" (Johnny English)
#5: "Into the West" (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)


Best Production Design
#1: Kill Bill: Vol. 1

#2: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
#3: Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
#4: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
#5: 28 Days Later...


Best Costume Design
#1: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

#2: Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
#3: Kill Bill: Vol. 1
#4: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
#5: Down with Love


Best Makeup
#1: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

#2: 28 Days Later...
#3: Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
#4: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
#5: Cold Mountain


Best Sound
#1: Kill Bill: Vol. 1

#2: Irréversible
#3: City of God
#4: 28 Days Later...
#5: Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary


Best Visual Effects
#1: Irréversible

#2: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
#3: Kill Bill: Vol. 1
#4: X2
#5: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

 

--The Honorary Awards--

Best Breakthrough Performance - Male
Chiwetel Ejiofor (Dirty Pretty Things)


Best Breakthrough Performance - Female
Oksana Akinshina (Lilya 4-ever)


Best First Feature
John Malkovich (The Dancer Upstairs)


Worst Film of the Year
The Real Cancun (dir: Name)
 
by David L. Blaylock