Underdog Awards 2014
So you might remember at one point, I talked about how just a few months into my blog I had gotten a chance to write for whatculture.com
Of course that didn't fully materialize. My first article with them was rejected. Where as in between my second article, WhatCulture decided to make a change to their wordpress system and I didn't update on it. Hence losing my account.
So I'm here to talk about my second article.
That article was a lengthy feature called the Underdog Awards 2013, for the underrated films of 2012 that I felt didn't get the recognition they deserved whether it be Box Office or more importantly awards season.
It's not that the films I listed were the best of the year. Some of them definitely not. But they went under-appreciated at least according to me, even though I'm sure a lot of people would have also seen them. Of course there were still movies that were under seen in the underrated category, that I myself might have missed.
So why I am I dwindling in that area now. Well I wish to try and accomplish the same feat this year with multiple posts on Underdog movies from this year.
This year I've got better perspective to judge whether most of these films actually deserve awards recognition and they do. The only issue is that unlike 2012, I couldn't spend enough time in 2013 to watch many English movies.
As such I'm hoping for at least a month to be able to complete my awards list and then present it to you.
This post is just to make you aware that the Underdog Awards are coming...
Below I will list how I judge which films get nominated, the categories and list the unpublished awards from 2013 for the movies of 2012
So the idea of the awards is simple. I take films that I feel didn't get the recognition at the big awards like Screen Actor's Guild Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA and of course The Academy Awards. I also take into account films that went under appreciated through the year, even if they didn't deserve to be recognized by the big awards of Hollywood.
Once all the underrated films are taken into account. I watch them and rank the respective categories into the best.
So even if let's say Film A was more under appreciated than Film B, if Film B was better than it gets the nod above Film A.
Beyond that there's no other major ruling.
I try to avoid films that got some recognition at these awards ceremonies, but some pieces of those films may still go underrated and I have gotten some nominations from the likes of Prisoners (Oscar nominated in Cinematography) and American Hustle etc.
So here are the categories, do not I will be doing each section of awards on different posts so the links can be also found here;
Feature Awards
Best Film
Best Director
Performance Awards
Best Actor (Male) in a Leading Role Best Actor (Female) in a Leading Role
Best Actor (Male) in a Supporting Role Best Actor (Female) in a Supporting Role
Best Breakthrough Performer Best Ensemble Cast
Technical Awards
Best Cinematography Best Editing
Best Original Screenplay Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Score Best Soundtrack
Let's take a look at what would have been last years awards...
Underdog Breakthrough Performer
Winner: Dane DeHaan for Lawless and Chronicle
Underdog Ensemble
Lawless
Underdog Actor (Female) in a Supporting Role
Juno Temple for Killer Joe
Underdog Actor (Male) in a Supporting Role
Michael Fassbender for Prometheus
Underdog Performer of The Year
Matthew McCounaughey for Magic Mike, Bernie and Killer Joe
Underdog Actor (Female) in a Lead Role
Mary Elizabeth Winstead for Smashed
Underdog Actor (Male) in a Lead Role
Jack Black for Bernie
Underdog Director
Rian Johnson-Looper
Underdog Film
Looper
'Nuff Said
Aneesh Raikundalia
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