The 2012 Juan And Only Award Nominations

Awards season has rolled in and everything has been announced, except for the most important award nomination set of the year. Last year, I decided to take matters into my own hands and created the one, the only, the Juan And Only Awards. Ridiculous, I know, but a whole lot of fun.

While last years nominees were fairly in line with what the other award shows were churning out, this year gets a little crazier. There are also a few more categories than last year and a whole lot of variety for everyone to be happy. There are six nominees per category, not including best picture which goes up to ten.

The nominees are always chosen by me (with some help from outside parties on occasion) and I try to be fair sometimes, but it’s mostly just what I want nominated for the categories I choose. Voting for the Juan and Only Awards begin as soon as the nominees are announced, and it’s usually a voted restricted team of people, but things may take a turn as there may possibly be an audience vote this year!

So without further ado, here are the second annual Juan and Only Award nominees!

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Best Picture

Best Actor

  • Denis Lavant (Holy Motors)
  • Ewan McGregor (The Impossible)
  • Frank Langella (Robot & Frank)
  • Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)
  • Matthew McConaughey (Killer Joe)
  • Robert Pattinson (Cosmopolis)

Best Actress

  • Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)
  • Greta Gerwig (Damsels in Distress)
  • Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
  • Marion Cotillard (Rust & Bone)
  • Naomi Watts (The Impossible)
  • Rachel Weisz (The Deep Blue Sea)

Best Supporting Actor

  • Edward Norton (Moonrise Kingdom)
  • Leonardo DiCaprio (Django Unchained)
  • Michael Fassbender (Prometheus)
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
  • Sam Rockwell (Seven Psychopaths)
  • Thomas Haden Church (Killer Joe)

Best Supporting Actress

  • Amy Adams (The Master)
  • Ann Dowd (Compliance)
  • Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)
  • Brit Marling (Sound of My Voice)
  • Judi Dench (Skyfall)
  • Juno Temple (Killer Joe)

Best Young Actor/Actress

  • Jared Gilman (Moonrise Kingdom)
  • Kara Hayward (Moonrise Kingdom)
  • Pierce Gagnon (Looper)
  • Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
  • Suraj Sharma (Life of Pi)
  • Tom Holland (The Impossible)

Best Ensemble

Best Director

  • Ben Affleck (Argo)
  • David Cronenberg (Cosmopolis)
  • Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master)
  • Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
  • Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom)
  • William Friedkin (Killer Joe)

Best Original Screenplay

  • Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods)
  • Leos Carax (Holy Motors)
  • Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master)
  • Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
  • Sarah Polley (Take This Waltz)
  • Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom)

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Chris Terrio (Argo)
  • Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski & Tom Tykwer (Cloud Atlas)
  • David Cronenberg (Cosmopolis)
  • David Magee (Life Of Pi)
  • Tom Stoppard (Anna Karenina)
  • Tracy Letts (Killer Joe)

 

Continue to the next page for the rest of the nominees!

Juan Barquin

Just yer average twenty-something college student with no time on his hands who ends up watching (and writing) too many movies and shows for his own good.

8 Responses

  1. Glad to see Avengers in the Ensemble award! It really looked like a fun time on screen.

    Good that The Raid is in action sequences!!!

    I think you’ve watched more gialli than me, Juan, so I wonder what you’ll think of Berberian Sound Studio whenever you see it. I liked it, even though I don’t think it was 100% successful. Then again I sometimes go easier than others on ambitious experimental dramas.

    I can’t wait until Ace Attorney shows up at my library so I can blast it on the bigger TV screen.

    • Juan Barquin says:

      @Diandra Rodriguez, I couldn’t resist adding The Avengers to ensemble and I took the cue for Raid in action from a few trust-worthy friends. I had to make the category just because I genuinely wanted to reward a few of those action films throughout the year.

      Also, a few people have told me the exact same thing as you about Berberian Sound Studio and I’m pretty excited to check it out sometime soon actually!

  2. Rago says:

    No Best Actor nod for DDL in Lincoln? Ouch. Also curious why you seemed to like Cosmopolis a whole lot more than everyone else.

    • Juan Barquin says:

      @Rago, IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII have a lot of feelings on Lincoln. I think DDL was good as Lincoln, really good in fact. Do I think it’s one of the best performances of the year? Nope. It’s not even what the bulk of the film is about. It’s all about the Fourteenth Amendment, and when you have a character who has a surprisingly minor role comparatively speaking as the titular character, it doesn’t seem like something worth nominating to me. The scenes with his family seem shoehorned in (no matter how much I enjoyed Sassy Sally as I’ve now decided to call her) and absolutely pointless to the subject matter at hand: the fourteenth amendment. I cannot in good conscience nominate DDL for an award that says Lead Actor, when the only real Lead of Lincoln was the moving lips of every white male in the movie.

      I think I respect Cosmopolis more than I genuinely love it. It interests me, just like Don DeLillo’s novel interests me, but it’s not something I can say I enjoyed every single minute of. I think in its crafting it’s genius – it’s claustrophobic, it draws straight from the source material providing humor and serious tension, it boasts excellent performances all around (especially Pattinson & Giamatti), and the slow progression of Pattinson’s character in the little details is just fascinating to me.

      Don’t get me wrong, I can TOTALLY see why people would hate it or dislike it – heck, my boyfriend fell asleep – but it’s something I feel deserves to be rewarded for existing. It’s a challenging movie, and we don’t get enough of that nowadays.

  3. amy says:

    I am kind of divided with your nominated films xD I hated Cosmopolis, didn’t care for Django Unchained and I’m unsure which film has been more dividing between Cosmopolis or Holy Motors xD hahaha Also, I’m surprised to see Skyfall.

    And I’m surprised you added Amour for Best Foreign when you seemed to not have loved it much, while you could have maybe add Wolf Children (I didn’t know you were able to watch it) to that list. Or did you love that half and half as well?

    • Juan Barquin says:

      @amy, I already gave my long speech about Cosmopolis and I feel sort of the same way about Holy Motors in that respect. Interest over genuine love. Hey, I loved Skyfall! I also love Sam Mendes. I just dig that movie on a whole level.

      The Amour nomination was one of those ~fairness~ things and also one of those ~not having seen so many foreign movies~ things, which is something I genuinely want to fix this year. Wolf Children, I took my friend Derek’s word for, because I’m immensely excited to check it out and I thought it deserved it.

      • amy says:

        @Juan Barquin, Wolf Children has Miyazaki Aoi doing main voices, so I’m hopeful it will be good. She always manages to get some kind of god material. While you’re waiting for it, you should check out Colorful. *cough* there are no official releases with subtitles so *cough* you know what you can do. xD

  1. January 20, 2014

    […] When I was an eager young blogger and wanted user participation, I set up the Experiment Awards [1]- I got people nominating films and voting. It was actually pretty good, but too much work, and I just dropped the whole idea the following year. I just left it to Juan to do his Juan-And-Only Awards [1][2]. […]

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