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To keep things "simple," only movies eligible for a 2002 Academy Award are eligible for a 2002 Crankyland Movie Award. If you give me a top 10 list that includes a 2001 or 2003 movie (according to Academy definition), I'm simply going to skip over that movie and move the rest of the titles up accordingly. I know this creates havoc for our foreign friends who have much different release dates than the US/Canada, but if I don't draw a line somewhere, there will be chaos. "Two Towers" is obviously going to win everything anyway and it was released in every country in 2002, so what's it really matter?
If you vote today and see something in the next three weekends that causes you to change your mind about a specific category, just make the correction in the Crankyland Movie Award thread of the week because I have no problem changing your ballot right up until the day of (actually, that's not entirely true -- I have to start writing the fanfic days before I post it, but I still usually make it work).
As I said, if you did this last year, nearly all of the rules/procedures remain the same, and you can just skip to the ballot -- anything I changed, I also pointed out on the ballot.
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BEST PICTURE
The Best Picture category will remain the same as previous years -- gimme your Top 10 (or whatever) lists, and I'll award 10 points to your # 1 choice, 9 points to your # 2 choice, etc., and add them all up. The top five films will be the 5 Best Picture nominees for the ceremony and the one with the most points wins. If you give me a top 10 list in alphabetical order, I'll just assign each of them an equal amount of points (5.5). I actually issued a top 11 list (0- 10) for my station this year -- I haven't quite figured out what I'm going to do for my CMA ballot about that, but that's my problem.
ACTING, WRITING, DIRECTING and GUILTY PLEASURE (new category)
Gimme your top five choices for each, and I'll tally them up the same way as Best Picture except # 1 gets 5 points, etc.. If you only list one nominee, that one nominee gets 5 points. You list more than 5 without indicating a tie somewhere, I'll truncate the list at 5.
The screenplay awards are more complicated due to the fact that most people don't know whether one is adapted or original, so just gimme ten total choices of whatever kind and I'll sort out the bodies later (doing this last year created a big mess for me but I really don't see any other way to do it).
LESSER, TECHNICAL CATEGORIES
With the "lesser" technical categories that received little interest in 2001, I made some changes in 2002, and those worked out well enough to keep things that way. Since I saw essentially every movie that could be nominated for, say, Best Visual Effects, I'm just going to go ahead and give you X amount of choices (including all Guild and Golden Globe nominees for each category), and you can vote for whichever one you want.
I don't care if you didn't see the movie or even a preview - - just pick one, damn it!. If you think "Windtalkers" deserves Best Editing because you know a guy whose third cousin was a costume designer on the set, then that's good enough for me! I just want more participation! Anyway, that sort of blind voting will make us more like the real Oscars! If I somehow leave off what you consider to be the obvious choice for a category, feel free to write- in your choice and I'll add it to the "ballot" -- assuming your choice is logical, of course. (For example, you will never be able to convince me that I should lengthen the list of Best Art Direction category nominees to include "Kung Pow: Enter the Fist.")
Those I'm doing that way will be Visual Effects, Sound Effects, Costume Design, Make-Up, Art Direction, Cinematography, Animated Feature and Editing.
If you as an individual want to do things the old way for these categories, I have no problem with that -- I'll assign points by the 5-4-3-2-1 style again if you give me a list of five. People who simply vote for one of the given choices will automatically be assigning 5 points to that choice, so it should all add up correctly in the end.
WORST CATEGORIES
Again, we'll have Worst Picture, Worst Actress and Worst Actor. But there was almost no participation in these categories in 2000 because, apparently, most people avoid movies they know will be bad. So… once again, I'm going to encourage blind voting! Who cares if you actually saw "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Severs"? If Antonio Banderas is your least favorite person in the world, just nominate him for Worst Actor and be done with it! I'll take your top 5 nominees (real or imagined) for these categories.
Please, though -- no blind voting for Best Picture or the Acting/Directing/Writing categories. Don't vote for anything in those that you haven't seen. I don't have participation problems with them.
INSTRUMENTAL & SONG SCORE
As Bickle is fond of pointing out, instrumental scores are not the world's easiest things to differentiate or remember. Even *I* had trouble remembering some of them this year. But, I'll go ahead and toss out a few nominees for that category and let you vote on them (blindly, if necessary), because we must have this category. Song Score is something else entirely -- we tend to remember those better and our enjoyment of them is much more of a subjective taste issue. To get your memory rolling, I'm going to list a few of the more memorable ones (including my favorites) this year, and you can add what I forgot, then vote.
BEST TEASE SCENES AND UN-COSTUMED SCENES
I'll give you a few of my suggestions to jog your memory, but you can nominate/vote for whoever you want. Just so you unschooled females know, these two awards have only gone to females in the past. If there's enough nominations for males in either of these categories, I'll go ahead and split the award, but in the past Crankyland has been far too male and lesbian dominated for that to happen.
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