The Kermode Awards 2008

February 24, 2008 5:10 AM

The Culture Show's Mark Kermode has once again set out to right wrongs and award the un-awarded. Here are the deserving winners, none of which were up for an Oscar tonight:

Best Actor: Sam Riley (Control)
Best Actress: Anamaria Marinca (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)
Best Music Score: Jonny Greenwood (There Will Be Blood)
Best Foreign Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
Best Director: David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises)
Best Film: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)

posted by chuckdarwin (18 comments total)

Okay, where's the link where Mark does that?
posted by jmhodges at 5:20 AM on February 24 [1 favorite]

jmhodges, here is the link to last year's Kermode Awards... the new one hasn't hit YT yet.
posted by chuckdarwin at 5:27 AM on February 24

Nice one. A preemptive Metafilter post.

It's a shame a person who posts something cannot edit their entry after it's submitted.
posted by gsb at 5:42 AM on February 24

gsb, I often think that, coming from a more plastic blogging environment.
posted by chuckdarwin at 5:45 AM on February 24

Oops! I forgot:

Lifetime Achievement Award: Ken Russell
posted by chuckdarwin at 5:53 AM on February 24

Well here's his Rambo review from Friday, any way.
posted by nthdegx at 6:37 AM on February 24

Good Luck Chuck, Jumper, Transformers, Death Proof, The Simpsons Movie, Order of the Phoenix
posted by chuckdarwin at 7:19 AM on February 24

iPlayer link. Just to piss off everyone who has to good fortune to live elsewhere. I really dislike Mark Kermode and I don't know why.
posted by srboisvert at 7:40 AM on February 24

I wish this was by Frank Kermode.
posted by nasreddin at 7:51 AM on February 24 [1 favorite]

Nice one, srboisvert! I should've rubbed it in.
posted by chuckdarwin at 8:19 AM on February 24

What? Is Metafilter Mark Kermode's alternate fan site. Where can I get T-shirts with his catch phrase on it?
posted by tkchrist at 8:36 AM on February 24

Best Music Score: Jonny Greenwood (There Will Be Blood)

This isn't eligible. Most of the music was written for something else. Greenwood's admitted this.

Best Director: David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises)

Good Christ, why? It's an average thriller with passable performances. There's nothing exceptional about the movie at all.

Best Film: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)

This is laughable. The first half of this movie was dreadful. I almost walked out multiple times. Though the second half was stunning, it wasn't enough to save it. I have not read the book but I think the film suffers from a poor adaptation--the director not really knowing what is filmic. This is the complete opposite of the two films that do deserve best picture this year: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men. Though opposite in their adaptative processes, they both serve as terrific examples of literary to film interpretations.
posted by dobbs at 9:03 AM on February 24

His Rambo review is great.

I walked past the front of a cinema last night and the LCD screen listing the film times in the window said "RAMBO, 8:30 - Seats Available: 753", which was also a great review.
posted by tapeguy at 9:18 AM on February 24

I preferred his review of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 myself.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 9:30 AM on February 24

Oh, Christ. Youtube is geolocking content now.(1)

If there's nothing I fail to understand about marketing strategies, it's geolocking content on a medium whose main benefit is its worldwide accessibility. Oh, no, we certainly wouldn't want to generate ad revenue/dvd sales/buzz from people in other countries. Perish the thought.

(1) I realize I'm almost certainly behind the curve on this, but honestly now.
posted by flibbertigibbet at 10:14 AM on February 24 [2 favorites]

dobbs, I think you're missing the point re: Greenwood's score. I don't give a fuck WHAT project he wrote it for initially... it works perfectly for TWBB, and is the year's best score in a motion picture.

Fuck the arcane rules. He wins.
posted by chuckdarwin at 10:23 AM on February 24

PeterMcDermott, I love that review, but it's been linked to A LOT.
posted by chuckdarwin at 10:23 AM on February 24

I love Kermode's reviews. I find that I agree with him a lot more than I disagree, but when I disagree I understand where he's coming from. Also, Kermode and Simon Mayo are both very entertaining radio personalities who click together perfectly.

I wish I had caught The Assassination of Jesse James.

On a sidenote, is YouTube down for anyone else? If so, does anyone know why that is?
posted by Kattullus at 11:35 AM on February 24