The Underdog Awards 2014: Part 7

The Underdog Awards 

 

 

 

We're almost at the end, so indulge me for a little bit more. 

Now onto the next category, the captain of the ship; The Director. The man who takes control of everything, lifts the words from page and creates his own vision that will provide a visual experience for the ages. 

A lot of great directors were on showcase at many of the major awards, they were definetly great heck the best director hands down of the year was Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity), but at the same time a multitude of terrific directors had to be overlooked. This award and even the nominations are to those directors...

The Underdog Awards 2014: Part 6

The Underdog Awards

 

Time for the biggie, at least in popular terms; The Leading Acting awards!

*Drumroll please*

First let me just clear a few things;

-A few films I missed this year just so you don't complain about some nominations; Labor Day, Philomena, Nebraska and Side Effects are the major ones I can remember not watching

-To those DiCaprio fans, he had a mind blowing performance in The Wolf of Wall Street. Sadly comedy isn't taken seriously by the academy but thank god he got nominated, cause there are a lot more people who didn't get the love for their performances like he did. 

-There's a particular actor I've nominated on this list whose seen awards season nomination but for me I felt it was in the wrong category. That man is Daniel Bruhl, his performance in Rush was seen as supporting. I can understand because the film was promoted that way, but it was promoted that way because Chris Hemsworth (Thor) is more bankable. Both he and Bruhl were co-leads, which no matter what anyone says should not have been confusing.  Not that Hemsworth wasn't good, he electrified and hammered home the role (puns galore!)

-Of the Academy Award nominees I would remove Christian Bale and Meryl Streep from the list as totally undeserving, even though Bale was quite good. Most of my nominees here could also easily replace the top three of each leading category, once again that's how awesome this year was.

-And most importantly, Academy get your heads out of Meryl Streep's ass! She didn't deserve to win for Iron Lady and she definitely didn't the nomination for her hammy performance in August: Osage County

Onto the awards I guess...

The Underdog Awards 2014: Part 5

The Underdog Awards

Welcome back to the Underdog Awards. 

The year 2013 saw some terrific films and terrific performances, like with any year a lot of praise was heaped on the leading men and women and rightly so. This year however saw tons upon tons of show stealing supporting performances. Such that the honorable mentions on my nomination list are close to the ten nominees, such that these ten nominees for supporting role could have easily as well featured on any awards show this year (barring certain tastes and rulings). 

Here's a few major snubs and mistakes that the Oscars made for supporting roles;

-Julia Roberts was the lead of August: Osage County not supporting

-While he got nominations at other awards, Daniel Bruhl was unfairly snubbed by the Academy for his work in Rush. At the same time I know he was promoted as supporting, but in truth Bruhl should have been in the running for Lead Actor

-James Gandolfini also got unfairly overlooked for a post-houmous nomination after campaigns on his behalf

-Neither Bradley Cooper (American Hustle) nor Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street) should have been nominated for their performances, this was a typical Hill showing where as Cooper had a better performance in The Place Beyond The Pines in the same year. It just seemed like a major shut out of any other films than the few varied in the Oscar nominations. Not saying they didn't have good performance, I'm just saying better ones bit the dust.

-James Franco supposedly campaigned, James Franco lost. His Alien in Spring Breakers was a shockingly brilliant turn for the actor

I have no idea about any other notable campaigners for the supporting awards...but anyways onto my two awards for this post...

The Underdog Awards 2014: Part 4

The Underdog Awards

 

 

 

Finally we come to this years most exciting awards; for Performances!

This category will be divided into three; special, supporting and leading.

This post is for the special acting categories basically awards for Ensemble and Breakthrough. 

Obviously you my dear readers (*crickets chirping*) are wondering why I am dividing these posts, well it's just that much easier and I believe or choose to believe that it can be more views on each individual post. 

So onto the awards...

The Underdog Awards 2014: Part 3

The Underdog Awards

Writing and Music are through, now to head towards the actual technical parts of the technical awards. 

One thing I forgot to note earlier, the under appreciated here or the idea behind these awards as a whole isn't to attack the Academy Awards. As usual in any year, the Academy snubbed a lot of excellent movies that should have been nominated. They also have a highly flawed system. Yet I will say this, surprisingly this year many of the films/film entities that at least won the award were deserving of their wins. There were no particular winning shocks, in fact I have to give kudos to the Academy cause I suspected that they would give Lupita Nyongo the deserving golden man but they did.

So onto the technical technical awards...

The Underdog Awards 2014: Part 2

The Underdog Awards

 

 

So Part 1 just got finished, time for part two. So let's get going with the awards...

First a recap of some things. 

-The Awards will include a few recognized films of the year. Simply because I cannot watch the underrated films of the underrated films, since those would be hard to find

-Among the films here, there are also those that have been award recognized and even Oscar recognized. 

-There will be five nominees in the small categories, ten in the acting and directing and a stagerring 20 in the film category simply because I'm too nice and there were too many good films this year. Heck there's even a honorable mentions in each award list. 

-Best soundtrack was jointly won by Inside Llewyn Davis and Frozen where as Best Score was won by Stoker...here is where you can see the nominees and ceremony for that bit

Now let's move on to...

The Underdog Awards 2014: Part 1

The Underdog Awards 2014

Welcome to the first ever Official Underdog Awards.


These are films awards that celebrate some of the under-appreciated but best works from the previous year. Now I know, films nominated will not be as unknown as they should be.

Why?

Most of these films would have gone underrated if it weren't for the countless pop culture websites and critics giving them the thumbs up. Still to me these films went under appreciated simply because they neither made the moo-la they should have nor did they garner the awards reception that they deserved in some cases (awards recognition here mostly being just the Oscars).

A few films on these awards will have been Awards recognized heck even Oscars and some will have aspects that went even unacknowledged within those said films, as well.  An example is that some nominees come from recognized films like American Hustle, Rush and All is Lost

What this is, is simply another small push for a wider audience to go see the best films that they might not know about in the year.

Like I mentioned in my previous post, the awards will be divided into three categories with each category having sub categories of the award. The category of awards here are suited to the main awards categories from the Academy Awards.

When it comes to great or even good movies, I have a big heart. It's the reason why I made a top 30 of Bollywood films from 2013 when there could have easily just has have been only 10. So the smaller awards here will have the regular five nominations, but the acting and directing awards will have ten and thus the film award will be bumped to a huge twenty. On top of that I will also list the honorable mentions for each award, and for some of those awards there's many!

Note: I would like to point out that I did not nominate any comic book films, as I felt that would have been a bit bias of me...so you will see no superheroes and no 2 Guns, no Oblivion, no Kick Ass 2 and definitely no GI Joe 2 either. Though I would have nominated other geek films like I did with Pacific Rim

Onwards to the first category of the ceremony...