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43rd shadows awards

B E S T   F I L M
 All of Us Strangers All of Us Strangers
dir-scr Andrew Haigh

With only four characters and a plot that's essentially an extended daydream, this gorgeously tactile film explores the nature of identity and memory with unusual insight. Skilfully made on every level, it also packs a proper wallop.

2. PAST LIVES (Celine Song)
3. JOYLAND (Saim Sadiq)
4. POOR THINGS (Yorgos Lanthimos)
5. REALITY (Tina Satter)
6. ANATOMY OF A FALL
    (Justine Triet)
7. THE FIRST SLAM DUNK
    (Takehiko Inoue)
8. THE ZONE OF INTEREST
    (Jonathan Glazer)
9. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
    (Martin Scorsese)
10. BARBIE (Greta Gerwig)
11. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
12. Passages (Ira Sachs)
13. Io Capitano (Matteo Garrone)
14. Scrapper (Charlotte Regan)
15. Evil Does Not Exist
      (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
16. Society of the Snow (JA Bayona)
17. Framing Agnes (Chase Joynt)
18. Perfect Days (Wim Wenders)
19. Rye Lane (Raine Allen-Miller)
20. Wonka (Paul King)
21. The Boy and the Heron
      (Hayao Miyazaki)
22. The Eternal Memory
      (Maite Alberdi)
23. Mutt (Vuk Lungulov-Klotz)
24. Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
25. A Thousand and One
      (AV Rockwell)
26. In Camera (Naqqash Khalid)
27. Green Border (Agnieszka Holland)
28. Return to Seoul (Davy Chou)
29. Saltburn (Emerald Fennell)
30. Robot Dreams (Pablo Berger)
31. American Fiction (Cord Jefferson)
32. Typist Artist Pirate King
      (Carol Morley)
33. Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismaki)
34. Sorcery (Christopher Murray)
35. Femme (Sam H Freeman,
      Ng Choon Ping)
36. Flora and Son (John Carney)
37. Afire (Christian Petzold)
38. Unidentified Objects
      (Juan Felipe Zuleta)
39. The Eight Mountains
      (Felix van Groeningen,
      Charlotte Vandermeersch)
40. May December (Todd Haynes)
41. Tiger Stripes (Amanda Nell Eu)
42. Totem (Lila Aviles)
43. How to Have Sex
      (Molly Manning Walker)
44. The Holdovers (Alexander Payne)
45. Samsara (Lois Patino)
46. Suzume (Makoto Shinkai)
47. The Iron Claw (Sean Durkin)
48. Alcarras (Carla Simon)
49. The Creator (Gareth Edwards)
50. Polite Society (Nida Manzoor)

NB. I saw 433 films in 2023
See also:
SHADOWS HALL OF FAME
2022   <   SHADOWS AWARDS

director: song D I R E C T O R

Celine Song
Past Lives
2. Tina Satter - Reality
3. Andrew Haigh - All of Us Strangers
4. Jonathan Glazer -
    The Zone of Interest
5. JA Bayona - Society of the Snow
6. Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer
7. Greta Gerwig - Barbie
8. Charlotte Regan - Scrapper
9. Saim Sadiq - Joyland
10. Justine Triet - Anatomy of a Fall

Honourable mention: Molly Manning Walker (How to Have Sex), Raine Allen-Miller (Rye Lane), Agnieszka Holland (Green Border), Carol Morley (Typist Artist Pirate King), Emerald Fennell (Saltburn).

screenwriter: song S C R E E N W R I T E R

Celine Song
Past Lives
2. Andrew Haigh - All of Us Strangers
3. Saim Sadiq - Joyland
4. Molly Manning Walker -
    How to Have Sex
5. Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach -
    Barbie
6. Alex Convery - Air
7. Charlotte Regan - Scrapper
8. Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Evil Does Not Exist
9. Nathan Bryon & Tom Melia - Rye Lane
10. Samy Burch - May December

Honourable mention: Tony McNamara (Poor Things). Cord Jefferson (American Fiction), Ava DuVernay (Origin). Justine Triet & Arthur Harari (Anatomy of a Fall), AV Rockwell (A Thousand and One).

actress: huller A C T R E S S

Sandra Hüller
Anatomy of a Fall,
The Zone of Interest
2. Emma Stone - Poor Things
3. Sydney Sweeney - Reality
4. Teyana Taylor - A Thousand and One
5. Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
6. Greta Lee - Past Lives
7. Zelda Samson - Love According to Dalva
8. Maja Ostaszewska - Green Border
9. Monica Dolan - Typist Artist Pirate King
10. Tatum Matthews - The Artifice Girl

Honourable mention: Trace Lysette (Monica), Leonie Benesch (The Teachers' Lounge), Mia McKenna-Bruce (How to Have Sex), Sakura Ando (Monster, Godzilla Minus One), Tilda Swinton (The Eternal Daughter, The Killer, Asteroid City).

actor: junejo A C T O R

Ali Junejo
Joyland
2. Andrew Scott - All of Us Strangers
3. Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
4. Koji Yakusho - Perfect Days
5. Colman Domingo - Rustin, The Color Purple
6. Franz Rogowski - Passages, Disco Boy
7. Adam Bessa - Harka, Extraction II
8. Hitoshi Omika - Evil Does Not Exist
9. Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction, Rustin, Asteroid City
10. Harris Dickinson - Scrapper, The Iron Claw

Honourable mention: Barry Keoghan (Saltburn), Teo Yoo (Past Lives), Matthew August Jeffers (Unidentified Objects), Nabhaan Rizwan (In Camera), Gael Garcia Bernal (Cassandro).

supporting: randolph S U P P O R T I N G
A C T R E S S

Da’Vine Joy Randolph
The Holdovers,
A Little White Lie, Rustin
2. Rosamund Pike - Saltburn
3. Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple
4. Jodie Foster - Nyad
5. Claire Foy - All of Us Strangers
6. Sarwat Gilani - Joyland
7. Viola Davis - Air, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
8. Aisling Franciosi - God's Creatures
9. Catalina Saavedra - Rotting in the Sun
10. Audra McDonald - Origin

Honourable mention: Ritu Arya (Polite Society), Penelope Cruz (Ferrari), Ayo Edebiri (Theater Camp, Bottoms), Patti LuPone (Beau Is Afraid), Jeannie Berlin(You Hurt My Feelings).

supporting: mescal S U P P O R T I N G
A C T O R

Paul Mescal
All of Us Strangers, Foe,
God's Creatures, Carmen
2. Robert Downey Jr - Oppenheimer
3. Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things
4. Alessandro Borghi - The Eight Mountains
5. Aaron Pierre - Brother, Foe
6. John Magaro - Past Lives, Showing Up
7. Jamie Bell - All of Us Strangers
8. Tomasz Wlosok - Green Border
9. Jeremy Allen White - Fremont, The Iron Claw, Fingernails
10. Hugh Grant - Wonka, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre,
      Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves

Honourable mention: Alfredo Castro (El Conde), Jacob Elordi (Saltburn, Priscilla), Sterling K Brown (American Fiction), Albert Bosch (Alcarras), Shaun Thomas (How to Have Sex).

H A L L   O F   S H A M E

worst: expend4bles W O R S T   F I L M
Expend4bles
dir Scott Waugh
2. Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
    (Rhys Frake-Waterfield)
3. Hunt Club (Elizabeth Blake Thomas)
4. Haunted Mansion (Justin Simien)
5. Assassin Club (Camille Delamarre)
6. Til Death Do Us Part
    (Timothy Woodward Jr)
7. The Plus One (Erik White)
8. Devil's Peak (Ben Young)
9. Broadway (Christos Massalas)
10. 65 (Scott Beck, Bryan Woods)
11. You'll Never Find Me (Josiah Allen, Indianna Bell)
12. Supercell (Herbert James Winterstern)
13. Maybe I Do (Michael Jacobs)
14. The Exorcist: Believer (David Gordon Green)
15. The Re-Education of Molly Singer (Andy Palmer)
16. That's a Wrap (Marcel Walz)
17. Carmen (Benjamin Millepied)
18. The Boys in the Boat (George Clooney)
19. Exploited (Jon Abrahams)
20. Fair Play (Chloe Domont)
21. Fast X (Louis Leterrier)
22. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (Nia Vardalos)
23. The Locksmith (Nicolas Harvard)
24. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Peyton Reed)
25. The Winner Takes It All (James Demitri)
26. Shazam! Fury of the Gods (David F Sandberg)
27. Dance First (James Marsh)
28. The Little Mermaid (Rob Marshall)
29. What Happens Later (Meg Ryan)
30. Magic Mike's Last Dance (Steven Soderbergh)
MISSED OPPORTUNITY: The Boys in the Boat
Maestro. Magic Mike's Last Dance.
Carmen. The Marvels.
LEAST FUNNY COMEDY: Haunted Mansion
The Plus One. The Re-Education of Molly Singer.
A Little White Lie. The Man From Toronto.
LEAST THRILLING THRILLER: Assassin Club
65. The Exorcist: Believer. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3.
LEAST 'SPECIAL' EFFECTS: Haunted Mansion
Expend4bles. Supercell. Spy Kids: Armageddon.
 disappointment: maestro BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT:
Maestro
The Exorcist: Believer.
Magic Mike's Last Dance.
MOST PRETENTIOUS: Beau Is Afraid
You'll Never Find Me.
MOST DERIVATIVE: 65
Sharper. Supercell. Devil's Peak.
WORST MESSAGE: Hunt Club
The Equalizer 3. Magic Mike's Last Dance.
Til Death Do Us Part.
MOST OVERBLOWN
(THE MICHAEL BAY AWARD):
The Wandering Earth II
Fast X. Expend4bles.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
MOST OVERSTUFFED: 88
Haunted Mansion. Shazam! Fury of the Gods. Beau Is Afraid.
MOST UNDERCOOKED: The Exorcist: Believer
The Boys in the Boat. What Happens Later.
Magic Mike's Last Dance.
MOST CYNICALLY PACKAGED:
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
Haunted Mansion. Hunt Club.
WORST TITLE:
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Expend4bles. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.
The Red Shoes: Next Step. 65.
MOST THANKLESS ROLE:
Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist: Believer)
Javier Bardem (The Little Mermaid).
Michelle Rodriguez (Fast X). Tony Jaa (Expend4bles).
MOST ANNOYING VOICEOVER
(THE MORGAN FREEMAN AWARD):
Morgan Freeman (A Good Person)
Jim Parsons (Spoiler Alert). Michael Fassbender (The Killer).
MOST WASTEFUL DIRECTOR:
Michael Jacobs (Maybe I Do)
Rob Marshall (The Little Mermaid).
Scott Waugh (Expend4bles).
MOST WASTED DIRECTOR:
Justin Simien (Haunted Mansion)
SHOULD RETIRE: Rob Marshall
PLEASE STOP: Titles with colons. Marvel/DC digital slurry.
WORST MANAGEMENT: Henry Golding (Assassin Club)
Mickey Rourke (Hunt Club).

A R T I S T I C   A C H I E V E M E N T   A W A R D S

ensemble: Barbie ENSEMBLE: Barbie
2. Society of the Snow
3. Saltburn
4. Polite Society
5. How to Blow Up a Pipeline.
BREAKOUT FILMMAKER:
Celine Song (Past Lives)
2. Tina Satter (Reality)
3. Molly Manning Walker
    (How to Have Sex)
4. Charlotte Regan (Scrapper)
5. Raine Allen-Miller (Rye Lane)
BREAKOUT ACTOR:
Mia McKenna-Bruce (How to Have Sex)
2. Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple)
3. Nabhaan Rizwan (In Camera)
4. Aaron Pierre (Brother, Foe)
5. Lola Campbell (Scrapper)
music: society of the snow MUSIC:
Society of the Snow
(Michael Giacchino)
2. The Zone of Interest (Mica Levi)
3. Wonka (Neil Hannon & Joby Talbot)
4. Polite Society
    (Shez Manzoor & Tom Howe)
5. Barbie (Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt)
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
The Zone of Interest (Lukasz Zal)
2. Oppenheimer (Hoyte van Hoytema)
3. All of Us Strangers (Jamie D Ramsay)
4. Green Border (Tomasz Naumiuk)
5. Anatomy of a Fall (Simon Beaufils)
EDITING:
Evil Does Not Exist (Azusa Yamazaki)
2. All of Us Strangers (Jonathan Alberts)
3. 20 Days in Mariupol (Michelle Mizner)
4. Oppenheimer (Jennifer Lame)
5. Passages (Sophie Reine)
 design: barbie PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Barbie (Sarah Greenwood)
2. Joyland (Kanwal Khoosat)
3. Poor Things
    (Shona Heath & James Price)
4. Saltburn (Suzie Davies)
5. Society of the Snow (Alain Bainee)
COSTUMES: Passages (Khadija Zeggai)
2. Barbie (Jacqueline Durran)
3. The Iron Claw (Jen Starzyk)
4. The Killer (Cate Adams)
5. They Cloned Tyrone
    (Francine Jamison-Tanchuck)
MAKEUP & HAIR: Medusa Deluxe
2. Poor Things
3. Beau Is Afraid
4. The Iron Claw
5. Asteroid City
animation: The First Slam Dunk ANIMATION: The First Slam Dunk
2. The Boy and the Heron
3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
    Mutant Mayhem
4. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
5. Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
EFFECTS: Society of the Snow
2. Samsara
3. Oppenheimer
4. Beau Is Afraid
5. The Kitchen
SOUND DESIGN: The Zone of Interest
2. The First Slam Dunk
3. Past Lives
4. All of Us Strangers
5. Samsara
STUNTS: John Wick: Chapter 4
3. Polite Society
3. Nyad
4. The Iron Claw
5. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

S U P E R L A T I V E S

underrated: Typist Artist Pirate King MOST UNDERRATED:
Typist Artist Pirate King
2. The First Slam Dunk
3. El Conde
4. Saltburn
5. Gran Turismo
MOST OVERRATED:
Maestro
2. The Color Purple
3. Creed III
4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
5. The Boys in the Boat
MOST IMPORTANT FILM:
The Zone of Interest
2. Joyland
3. Origin
4. A Thousand and One
5. Perfect Days
MOST INVENTIVE: Reality
Samsara. Typist Artist Pirate King.
In Camera. Rotting in the Sun.
MOST ORIGINAL TAKE ON A TIRED GENRE:
Smoking Causes Coughing
Unidentified Objects. Fallen Leaves.
The First Slam Dunk. Rye Lane.
SMARTEST TAKE ON A COMPLEX ISSUE: Joyland
The Zone of Interest. Monster. Evil Does Not Exist. Sorcery.
important: framing agnes MOST IMPORTANT DOC:
Framing Agnes
2. 20 Days in Mariupol
3. 1946: The Mistranslation That
    Shifted Culture
4. Still: A Michael J Fox Movie
5. Who I Am Not.
MOST INVENTIVE DOC:
Blue Bag Life
Framing Agnes. Smoke Sauna Sisterhood. Anselm. American Symphony.
MOST INSPIRING DOC:
The Eternal Memory
Kenyatta: Do Not Wait Your Turn. American Symphony.
Bobi Wine: The People's President. Name Me Lawand.
MOST ENTERTAINING DOC: Scala!!!
Little Richard: I Am Everything. In Restless Dreams:
The Music of Paul Simon. Squaring the Circle:
The Story of Hipgnosis. Being Mary Tyler Moore.
MOST DEPRESSING DOC: 20 Days in Mariupol
Beyond Utopia. A House Made of Splinters.
Blue Bag Life. Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed.
MOST BLOOD-BOILING DOC:
Bobi Wine: The People's President.
LEAST OBJECTIVE DOC: The Last Rider
Brainwashed: Sex Camera Power.
biopic: io capitano BEST BIOPIC: Io Capitano
Typist Artist Pirate King. Oppenheimer. Rustin. Cassandro.
WEAKEST BIOPIC:
Big George Foreman
Simone: Woman of the Century.
The Boys in the Boat. Maestro.
MOST HOLLYWOODISED BIOPIC: Maestro
Jesus Revolution. Gran Turismo.
FUNNIEST MOVIE: Cocaine Bear
2. Polite Society
3. Barbie
4. Medusa Deluxe
5. Smoking Causes Coughing
NUTTIEST MOVIE: Poor Things
Cocaine Bear. Saltburn. Smoking Causes Coughing. Napoleon.
SILLIEST MOVIE: Fast X
Wonka. Joy Ride. The Marvels. Relax, I'm from the Future.
SEXIEST MOVIE: May December
All of Us Strangers. Passages. Horseplay.
Red, White & Royal Blue.
THE FAMILY VALUES AWARD: Joyland
Saltburn. The Iron Claw. Monster. Broker.
 remake: The Three Musketeers BEST REMAKE: The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan & Milady. Champions.
WORST REMAKE: Haunted Mansion
The Little Mermaid. Genie.
BEST SEQUEL: John Wick: Chapter 4. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.
Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia.
WORST SEQUEL: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
The Railway Children Return.
MOST SURPRISINGLY
NOT-AWFUL SEQUEL:
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Meg 2: The Trench. Trolls Band Together.
BEST PREQUEL: Wonka. Godzilla Minus One.
MOST SURPRISINGLY NOT-AWFUL PREQUEL:
The Wandering Earth II
BEST REBOOT:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
BEST SPINOFF: Renfield
WORST SPINOFF: Missing
BEST SHORT: Poison
book-to-film: all of us strangers BEST BOOK-TO-FILM:
All of Us Strangers
The Zone of Interest. Poor Things.
How to Blow Up a Pipeline.
The Eight Mountains.
BEST SHORT-TO-FEATURE: Femme
Framing Agnes. Theater Camp.
BEST DOC-TO-DRAMA: Next Goal Wins
BEST COMIC-TO-FILM:
The First Slam Dunk
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes.
WORST COMIC-TO-FILM: Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The Marvels.
BEST TV-TO-FILM: Bridesman
WORST STAGE-TO-FILM: What Happens Later
BEST GAME-TO-FILM:
Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves
BEST TOY-TO-FILM: Barbie.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.
WORST RIDE-TO-FILM: Haunted Mansion
thriller: green border SCARIEST MOVIE: Green Border
Talk to Me. Home Sweet Home:
Where Evil Lives. The Zone of Interest. God's Creatures.
MOST THRILLING THRILLER:
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Io Capitano. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One. The Dive.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
GRISLIEST MOVIE: Sisu
John Wick: Chapter 4. Here for Blood. Where the Devil Roams. Expend4bles..
GIRLIEST MOVIE: Tiger Stripes
The Miracle Club. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Nyad.
MANLIEST MOVIE: The Covenant
The Bikeriders. Creed III. The Eight Mountains. The Iron Claw.
MOPIEST MOVIE (THE TWILIGHT AWARD):
More Than Ever. The Middle Man. A Little White Lie.
Lie With Me. Plan 75.
TALKIEST MOVIE: The Artifice Girl
The Innocent. Cold Meat.
YUMMIEST MOVIE: The Taste of Things
Wonka. What You Wish For. May December.
YUCKIEST MOVIE: Swallowed
Where the Devil Roams. Infinity Pool.
Sick of Myself. Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey.
TRASHIEST MOVIE (THE JOHN WATERS AWARD):
Poor Things. Saltburn. Hunt Club.
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey. El Conde.
STRAIGHTEST GAY MOVIE (THE BROKEBACK AWARD): Maestro. Theater Camp. Cassandro. Minore.
GAYEST STRAIGHT MOVIE (THE BROMANCE AWARD): Saltburn. Barbie. The Iron Claw.

E V E N   M O R E   P R I Z E S !

casting: momoa BEST CASTING: Jason Momoa (Fast X)
The Silent Twins. The Woman King.
2. Nicolas Cage as Dracula (Renfield)
3. Colman Domingo (Rustin)
4. How to Have Sex. Barbie
5. The Iron Claw
WORST CASTING:
Hopper Penn (Devil's Peak)
BEST ANIMAL PERFORMANCE:
Snoop (Anatomy of a Fall).
Cocaine Bear. Red Hare (Ride On).
Chloe & Channing (Puppy Love).
BEST HAIR: Teyana Taylor (A Thousand and One).
Kiah McKirnan (Perpetrator). Medusa Deluxe.
WORST HAIR: Zac Efron (The Iron Claw)
Emma Thompson (What's Love Got to Do With It).
Hugh Grant (Wonka).
WORST MAKE-UP: Haunted Mansion
LEAST EXPRESSIVE FACE: Amie Donald (M3gan)
Megan Fox (Expend4bles).
BEST VOICE PERFORMANCE: Helen Mirren (Barbie)
Jason Schwartzman (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse). Awkwafina & Daveed Diggs (The Little Mermaid).
Neil Gaiman (Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose).
MOST PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE:
Emma Stone (Poor Things)
Barry Keoghan (Saltburn). Laure Calamy (Full Time).
Jennifer Lawrence (No Hard Feelings).
babe: lawrence BABE OF THE YEAR:
Jennifer Lawrence (No Hard Feelings)
Margot Robbie (Barbie). Jennifer Lopez (Shotgun Wedding, The Mother).
Sasha Calle (The Flash).
HUNK OF THE YEAR:
Franz Rogowski (Passages, Disco Boy)
Ryan Gosling (Barbie). Taylor Zakhar Perez (Red, White & Royal Blue). Shazad Latif (What's Love Got to Do With It).
Francois Civil (D'Artagnan/Milady).
MOTHER OF THE YEAR:
Viola Davis (Air). Cocaine Bear.
Rosamund Pike (Saltburn). Julie Delpy (The Lesson).
Patti LuPone (Beau Is Afraid). Maura Tierney (The Iron Claw).
BEST CHEMISTRY:
Glenda Jackson & Michael Caine (The Great Escaper)
Annette Bening & Jodie Foster (Nyad). Paul Mescal & Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers). Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin (Moving On, 80 for Brady). Franz Rogowski & Ben Whishaw (Passages).
BEST VILLAIN: Olivia Colman (Wonka)
Jason Momoa (Fast X). Jena Malone (Swallowed).
Nimra Bucha (Polite Society). Shohreh Aghdashloo (Renfield).
MOST LUDICROUS VILLAIN:
Lucy Liu (Shazam! Fury of the Gods)
Jared Leto (Haunted Mansion). Noomi Rapace (Assassin Club). Mickey Rourke (Hunt Club). Will Ferrell (Barbie).
scene stealer: brooks BEST SCENE-STEALING:
Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple)
Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things). Clare Perkins (Medusa Deluxe). Tony Shalhoub (Flamin' Hot). Jennifer Coolidge (Shotgun Wedding).
BEST SCENE-CHEWING:
Kate McKinnon (Barbie)
Nicolas Cage (Renfield). Jason Momoa
(Fast X). Anne Hathaway (Eileen).
Tony Goldwyn (Plane).
WORST SCENE-CHOMPING:
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
(Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny)
Vin Diesel (Fast X). Stephen Dorff (Mob Land). Ruth Negga (Good Grief). Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Cocaine Bear).
BEST COSTAR-CHEWING (THE ALIVE AWARD):
Society of the Snow.
Cocaine Bear. What You Wish For. El Conde.
Dee Snider (Here for Blood). Nicolas Cage (Renfield).
BEST PHONED-IN PERFORMANCE:
John Travolta (Mob Land)
John Lithgow (Sharper). Idris Elba (Extraction II).
Stephen Fry (Red, White & Royal Blue).
 guilty pleasure: cocaine bear GUILTY PLEASURE: Cocaine Bear
2. Plane
3. Sisu
4. Smoking Causes Coughing
5. Red, White & Royal Blue
NICEST SURPRISE: Air
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
    Mutant Mayhem
3. Barbie
4. Polite Society
5. Dungeons & Dragons: Honour
    Among Thieves
BEST HEART-STOPPER:
The Power of Love (All of Us Strangers)
Dachau (Lee). Trinity (Oppenheimer). The final swish (The First Slam Dunk). The crashes (Ferrari and Gran Turismo).
BEST SHOW-STOPPER:
Sacre-Coeur steps (John Wick: Chapter 4)
The final dance (Saltburn).
BEST LINE OF DIALOG: "Till death do us part needed a rewrite after penicillin" - Maybe I Do. "And I thought all the Nazis were hiding in Argentina" - The Holdovers.
ONE-SHOT WONDERS: Medusa Deluxe
Home Sweet Home: Where Evil Lives. Failure.
FILM HISTORY AWARD: My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed. El Conde.
5-25-77. Ride On. Brainwashed: Sex Camera Power.
cameo: firth BEST CAMEO: Colin Firth (Rye Lane)
Whoopi Goldberg (The Color Purple). Margot Robbie (Asteroid City).
Bradley Cooper (Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves).
Nicholas Braun (Dream Scenario).
CAMEO-RAMA: Barbie
The Marvels. Fast X. Ghosted.
ONE CAMEO TOO MANY:
Haunted Mansion. The Flash.
MOST POINTLESS CAMEO: Three out of five from Take That (Greatest Days)
Olga Kurylenko (Extraction II). Matthew Rhys (Cocaine Bear). Antonio Banderas (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny).
WORST CAMEO: Guy Fieri (80 for Brady)
MOST OVER-BILLED CAMEO:
Taika Waititi (Next Goal Wins)
Marlon Wayans (Air). Helen Mirren (Fast X).
Karen Allen (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny).
Daniel Levy (Haunted Mansion).
EWAN McGREGOR GOLDEN LIGHT SABER AWARD:
Barry Keoghan (Saltburn)
Alexander Skarsgard (Infinity Pool). Charles Melton (May December). Jordan Firstman (Rotting in the Sun). Horseplay.
hardest working: mescal THE HARDEST WORKING PERSON IN MOVIES:
Paul Mescal (All of Us Strangers, Foe, God's Creatures, Carmen)
BEST REINVENTION:
Andy Samberg (Lee)
Zac Efron (The Iron Claw).
Lenny Kravitz (Shotgun Wedding).
BEST NEW TREND:
Nuanced immigrant stories (Past Lives, Return to Seoul, Fremont, Aporia, Shortcomings).
Embracing the B-movie (Plane, M3gan, Cocaine Bear,
Smoking Causes Coughing).
WORST NEW TREND:
Philippines as the villain (Shotgun Wedding, Plane).
Dull/drab sequels (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, et al).
MOST ANTICIPATED FILM OF 2024:
Dune: Part Two
Challengers. Mickey 17. Nosferatu. Furiosa.
Bob Marley: One Love. If. Wolfs. The Fall Guy.
Wicked: Part 1. Joker: Folie a Deux. Gladiator 2.
Deadpool 3. Inside Out 2. Beetlejuice 2.
LEAST ANTICIPATED FILM OF 2024:
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Bad Boys 4. Rush Hour 4. Blade. Thunderbolts.
Madame Web. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
Transformers One. The Garfield Movie. Twisters.

N O N - F I L M   P I C K S

tv: the bear T V   S E R I E S
The Bear
FX
2. Lessons in Chemistry (Apple)
3. Ted Lasso (Apple)
4. Dave (FX)
5. Succession (HBO)
6. Somebody Somewhere (HBO)
7. Heartstopper (Netflix)
8. Jury Duty (Prime)
9. Beef (Netflix)
10. Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
11. Juice (BBC)
12. Fellow Travelers (HBO)
13. Bupkis (Peacock)
14. Sex Education (Netflix)
15. What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
16. Never Have I Ever (Netflix)
17. Blue Eye Samurai (Netflix)
18. Lupin (Netflix)
19. Young Rock (NBC)
20. The Conners (ABC)
21. The Crown (Netflix)
22. Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields (ABC)
23. Star Trek: Picard (Prime)
24. Frasier (Paramount)
25. The Other Two (HBO)
26. Good Omens (BBC)
27. Tore (Netflix)
28. White House Plumbers (HBO)
29. The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (Prime)
30. Glamorous (Netflix)
tv performance: white L E A D   T V
P E R F O R M A N C E
Jeremy Allen White
The Bear
2. Bella Ramsey - The Last of Us
3. Kieran Culkin - Succession
4. Jonathan Bailey - Fellow Travelers
5. Bridget Everett - Somebody Somewhere
6. Brie Larson - Lessons in Chemistry
7. Steven Yeun - Beef
8. Sarah Snook - Succession
9. Ali Wong - Beef
10. Martin Short - Only Murders in the Building
GUILTY PLEASURES: The Traitors. The Great British Bake-Off. Strictly Come Dancing. Drag Race (All Stars, UK, España, Canada, Down Under). Selling Sunset/The OC.
 single: people pleaser S I N G L E
People Pleaser
Cat Burns
2. Flowers - Miley Cyrus
3. Heaven - Niall Horan
4. Padam Padam - Kylie
5. Chemical - Post Malone
6. Sad Bitch - Anne-Marie
7. Dance the Night - Dua Lipa
8. What I Was Made For - Billie Eilish
9. Waffle House - Jonas Brothers
10. I'm Just Ken - Ryan Gosling
11. I'm Not Here to Make Friends -
      Sam Smith, Calvin Harris & Reyez
12. Love Again - Kid Laroi
13. Trustfall - Pink
14. Desire - Calvin Harris, Sam Smith
15. Disconnect - Becky Hill, Chase & Status
16. 0800 Heaven - Nathan Dawe, Joel Corry, Ella Henderson
17. Rush - Troye Sivan
18. Here - Tom Grennan
19. I Wrote a Song - Mae Muller
20. Used to Be Young - Miley Cyrus
21. Calm Down - Rema
22. Ready to Fly - Subfocus & Dimension
23. Unhealthy - Anne-Marie, Shania Twain
24. Who We Love - Sam Smith & Ed Sheeran
25. React - Switch Disco & Ella Henderson
26. Flip a Switch - Raye
27. Eyes Closed - Ed Sheeran
28. Bittersweet Goodbye - Issey Cross
29. Reach - Switch Disco, Ella Henderson
30. Barbie World - Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice, Aqua
tv performance: waddingham S U P P O R T I N G   T V
P E R F O R M A N C E
Hannah Waddingham
Ted Lasso
2. Ebon Moss-Bacharach - The Bear
3. Ayo Edebiri - The Bear
4. Nick Offerman - The Last of Us
5. Bowen Yang - Saturday Night Live
6. Lena Headey - White House Plumbers
7. Murray Bartlett - The Last of Us
8. Brian Cox - Succession
9. Brett Goldstein - Ted Lasso
10. Harvey Guillen - What We Do in the Shadows
WORST TV SERIES: Poker Face, Marie Antoinette, The Full Monty, One Piece, Loki.

S H A D O W S   S W E E P S T A K E S   2 0 2 4
The final standings on 15.Apr.24 with 193 awards tabulated to show the overall winners of the year...

F I L M
1759 The Zone of Interest**+
1648 Anatomy of a Fall*+
1451 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse*++
1369 Oppenheimer**++
1271 The Boy and the Heron**+
1237 Past Lives*+
1028 Poor Things*+
1009 Barbie*+
1002 Killers of the Flower Moon*+
997 20 Days in Mariupol**+
689 The Holdovers*+
597 Godzilla Minus One
560 American Fiction*+
557 Still: A Michael J Fox Movie*
545 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem+
533 All of Us Strangers*
518 Elemental*+
505 Fallen Leaves
503 Four Daughters*
495 American Symphony*++
D I R E C T O R
1257 Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer**++
785 Greta Gerwig - Barbie+
628 Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon*+
535 Celine Song - Past Lives
474 Yorgos Lanthimos - Poor Things*+
S C R E E N P L A Y
833 Past Lives.*+ - Celine Song
818 Anatomy of a Fall.** - Arthur Harari & Justine Triet
815 American Fiction**++ - Cord Jefferson
788 Barbie.*+ - Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach
770 Oppenheimer*+ - Christopher Nolan
E N S E M B L E
483 Barbie++
482 Killers of the Flower Moon*++
477 Oppenheimer++
326 The Holdovers**++
263 The Color Purple+
A C T R E S S
1121 Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon*++, The Unknown Country
1078 Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall*, The Zone of Interest*
1044 Emma Stone - Poor Things**+
549 Greta Lee - Past Lives
540 Margot Robbie - Barbie*+
A C T O R
1076 Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer**++
798 Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers*+
797 Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction*+, Rustin, Asteroid City
636 Colman Domingo - Rustin*+, The Color Purple
570 Andrew Scott - All of Us Strangers
S U P P O R T I N G   A C T R E S S
1374 Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers**++, Rustin, A Little White Lie
544 Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple*+
456 Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer*+
431 Julianne Moore - May December
419 Jodie Foster – Nyad*+
S U P P O R T I N G   A C T O R
1002 Robert Downey Jr - Oppenheimer**++
764 Ryan Gosling - Barbie*+
643 Charles Melton - May December
514 Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things*
484 Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon*+
B R E A K O U T   A C T O R
318 Dominic Sessa - The Holdovers
280 Abby Ryder Fortson - Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
214 Charles Melton - May December
207 Mia McKenna-Bruce** - How To Have Sex
135 Ayo Edebiri* - Bottoms, Theater Camp, etc
B R E A K T H O U T   F I L M M A K E R
663 Celine Song - Past Lives++
264 Cord Jefferson - American Fiction+
264 Molly Manning Walker - How To Have Sex*
263 AV Rockwell - A Thousand and One+
191 Raine Allen-Miller - Rye Lane
A R T
1956 Poor Things**++
1224 Barbie*++
1040 Oppenheimer*++
941 Killers of the Flower Moon*+
687 Maestro*++
M U S I C
1411 Barbie**++ - Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt
1054 Oppenheimer**+ - Ludwig Goransson
799 Killers of the Flower Moon**+ - Robbie Robertson
636 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse*+ - Daniel Pemberton
541 Poor Things* - Jerskin Fendrix
C I N E M A T O G R A P H Y
1049 Oppenheimer**++ - Hoyte Van Hoytema
594 Poor Things*++ - Robbie Ryan
591 Killers of the Flower Moon*+ - Rodrigo Prieto
431 Maestro*+ - Matthew Libatique
289 The Zone of Interest* - Lukasz Zal
T E C H
1101 Oppenheimer*++
1052 The Creator*++
1020 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3*++
859 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse++
828 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One*++
E D I T I N G
815 Oppenheimer**++ - Jennifer Lame
544 Killers of the Flower Moon*+ - Thelma Schoonmaker
428 Anatomy of a Fall*+ - Laurent Senechal
389 Poor Things*+ - Yorgos Mavropsaridis
261 Barbie+ - Nick Houy
W O R S T   F I L M
575 Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
394 Expend4bles
210 The Exorcist: Believer
156 Ghosted
147 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
109 65
105 Meg 2: The Trench
96 Shazam! Fury of the Gods
90 Johnny & Clyde
83 Magic Mike's Last Dance

Oscar/Bafta *nominees **winners
Guilds +nominees ++winners.
Numbers are cumulative points based on Shadows' secret scoring system, combining awards, Oscarwatchers and more.

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