Film Junk 2008 Reader’s Choice Award Winners
Here they are folks, the results of the 3rd annual Film Junk Reader’s Choice Awards! Once again, a whole lot of you voiced your opinions and picked the best movies of the year, and the results were pretty interesting. Most of the categories were extremely tight, but there were a few that ended up being an absolute blow-out (Best Animated was to be expected, but I thought the Comic Book category would have been a bit closer than it actually was).
Anyway, without any further adieu, you can now examine the full list of winners below. Do you disagree with any of the choices? Well, too bad, because you picked them!
Best Comedy
Nominees: Step Brothers, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Pineapple Express, Burn After Reading, Tropic Thunder
Winner: Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Runner-Up: Pineapple Express
Best Horror
Nominees: The Strangers, Saw V, Cloverfield, The Ruins, The Orphanage
Winner: Cloverfield
Runner-Up: The Orphanage
Best Thriller
Nominees: In Bruges, The Bank Job, Transsiberian, Lakeview Terrace, Body of Lies
Winner: In Bruges
Runner-Up: Transsiberian
Best Action
Nominees: Rambo, Doomsday, Quantum of Solace, Hancock, The Forbidden Kingdom
Winner: Quantum of Solace
Runner-Up: Rambo
Best Animated
Nominees: WALL-E, Horton Hears a Who!, Bolt, Kung Fu Panda, Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Winner: WALL-E
Runner-Up: Kung Fu Panda
Best Comic Book
Nominees: Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Wanted, Incredible Hulk, Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Winner: The Dark Knight
Runner-Up: Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Nominees: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , Jumper, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Twilight, Speed Racer
Winner: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Runner-Up: Speed Racer
Best Documentary
Nominees: Standard Operating Procedure, Young @ Heart, Man on Wire, Religulous, Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Winner: Man on Wire
Runner-Up: Religulous
Best Indie
Nominees: Rachel Getting Married, Son of Rambow, The Signal, Synecdoche, New York, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Winner: Son of Rambow
Runner-Up: Synecdoche, New York
Best Foreign
Nominees: JCVD, Slumdog Millionaire, Let The Right One In, Mongol, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire
Runner-Up: Let The Right One In
Best Drama
Nominees: Australia, Changeling, Milk, W., Appaloosa
Winner: Milk
Runner-Up: Appaloosa / W.
Most Anticipated December Movie
Nominees: The Spirit, Frost/Nixon, Valkyrie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Gran Torino
Winner: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Runner-Up: Valkyrie
Best Film of the Year
Winner: The Dark Knight
Runners-Up: WALL-E, Milk
Biggest Surprise
Winner: Speed Racer
Runners-Up: In Bruges, The Dark Knight, Iron Man
Biggest Disappointment
Winner: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Runners-Up: Hancock, Quantum of Solace, Pineapple Express
Want to see the winners from previous years? Here you go:
Comments (7)
is slumdog millionaire a foreign film?
Posted by blackmothra on December 30th, 2008what really makes a film “foreign” ?
are all us films foreign to canadians?
i think the catagorey is stupid.
a film is a film anywhere its made.
and if its a matter of language, would JCVD not be foreign flick in those parts of canada that speak french as their primary language?
its all confusing and a bit nationalistic, i propose it be stricken from all future catagorical film voting systems.
There is never going to be a ‘best of’ list that we all agree on, but I think this one shows how some categories had didn’t have much to shout about. Best Scifi/Fantasy goes to Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, yet it also manages to scoop up the ‘Biggest Disappointment’ award. Forgetting Sarah Marshall is considered to be the best comedy and yet it was hardly a chortle fest, but still admittedly better than the one laugh an hour of Pineapple Express.
Posted by Colin on December 30th, 2008Overall I get the feeling that the year started with a torrent of great releases, but then towards the end of the year this turned into a dribble of slightly better than rubbish releases.
Who voted for RAMBO to make it a runner up? Really!? Rambo is better than Doomsday or Hancock?
Also, I didn’t even consider “Slumdog” to be foreign. I suppose it is sort of, but people need to get out and see “4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days.” They’ll be emailing Sean frantically demanding to change their vote.
Posted by Andrew James on December 30th, 2008The Dark Knight shouldn’t have the best film of the year award. I’m tired of everyone making such a big deal out of a movie that really didn’t bring that much to the table. Don’t get me wrong I loved it, but there’s other movies that were much better.
Posted by twililghtfox on December 30th, 2008I’ll admit that I was kind of “winging it” with the different categories, but the foreign film category was based on movies that were non-English language, and also produced outside of the U.S. Slumdog Millionaire is a U.K. production and half in Hindi language, while JCVD is a Belgian/French production.
Posted by Sean on December 30th, 2008“Rambo is better than Doomsday or Hancock?”
Rambo was better than every other film on that list.
Posted by Steven on December 31st, 2008Go Speed Racer, Go!
Posted by Goon on December 31st, 2008Leave a Reply