First of all, thanks to everyone who voted for their favorites! The official nominations for the 12th Annual JoBlo.com Movie Awards (aka the Golden Schmoes) have now been compiled and the final voting will begin on Monday (February 11 – 21), so sharpen your fingernails and get ready to vote for your faves. The winners will be announced on Friday, February 22nd, just two days before those darn “Oscar thingies” are handed out.
No records were broken this year in terms of the most nominations of all-time (that record still belongs to INCEPTION with 19 noms in 2010 with INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS in 2nd place with 18 noms in 2009 and THE DARK KNIGHT in 3rd spot with 16 noms), but there was a nice balance achieved this year with films like DJANGO UNCHAINED and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES getting 13 nominations each, the most of any film, followed closely by THE AVENGERS with 12 noms.
Tarantino always does well at the Golden Schmoes — BASTERDS won “Favorite Movie” in 2009 while KILL BILL: VOLUME II was runner-up for the same in 2004 — but Nolan ain’t no slouch either. BATMAN BEGINS won “Favorite Movie” in 2005, THE DARK KNIGHT won in 2008 and INCEPTION won in 2010! The dude even won 6 Golden Schmoes awards, including the “Most Underrated Movie of the Year”, for his first major film MEMENTO back in 2001 (the only film to get more awards that year was Peter Jackson’s THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING).
The two other “big flicks” to receive major nominations were SKYFALL and PROMETHEUS with 8 nominations each, followed by THE CABIN IN THE WOODS with 7 noms, LOOPER and SSILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK with 6 noms each while ARGO and DREDD 3D had 5 noms respectively. I was personally very happy to see CABIN, DREDD and LOOPER with so many nominations. Way to vote, schmoes!
Last year, DRIVE led the nominations with 15 but ended up winning only 6 of them, although in its defence, that was the most wins from any film last year.
MOST NOMINATIONS (2012)
Django Unchained (13)
The Dark Knight Rises ((13)
The Avengers (12)
Skyfall (8)
Prometheus (8)
Cabin in the Woods (7)
Looper (6)
Silver Linings Playbook (6)
Remember that each person can vote only once for the Golden Schmoes, but you needn’t be a member of our site to do so. We will also be running our 13TH ANNUAL OSCAR PREDICTION CONTEST this year, so stay tuned for that as well. See previous years’ GOLDEN SCHMOES winners below, along with this year’s crop of nominations per category. Thanks for participating!!
PAST WINNERS:
2011 / 2010 / 2009 / 2008 / 2007 / 2006 / 2005 / 2004 / 2003 / 2002 / 2001
Voting period: February 11 – 21, 2013
Winners announcement: Friday February 22nd, 2013
The official 2012 nominees are:
FAVORITE MOVIE OF THE YEAR
Argo
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained
Skyfall
WORST MOVIE OF THE YEAR
Battleship
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Piranha 3DD
That’s my Boy
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part 2)
BEST DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Ben Affleck – Argo
Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight Rises
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
Joss Whedon – The Avengers
BEST SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR
Argo
The Cabin in the Woods
Django Unchained
Looper
Silver Linings Playbook
MOST OVERRATED MOVIE OF THE YEAR
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hunger Games
Lincoln
Les Miserables
MOST UNDERRATED MOVIE OF THE YEAR
The Cabin in the Woods
Cloud Atlas
Dredd 3D
The Grey
Seven Psychopaths
TRIPPIEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR
The Cabin in the Woods
Cloud Atlas
Dredd 3D
Life of Pi
Looper
BEST COMEDY OF THE YEAR
21 Jump Street
Moonrise Kingdom
Seven Psychopaths
Silver Linings Playbook
Ted
BEST HORROR MOVIE OF THE YEAR
The Cabin in the Woods
Prometheus
Sinister
V/H/S
The Woman in Black
BEST ANIMATED MOVIE OF THE YEAR
Brave
Frankenweenie
Paranorman
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck-it-Ralph
BEST SCI-FI MOVIE OF THE YEAR
The Avengers
Cloud Atlas
Dredd 3D
Looper
Prometheus
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS OF THE YEAR
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Prometheus
BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE YEAR
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Dark Knight Rises
Dark Shadows
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Prometheus
BIGGEST SURPRISE OF THE YEAR
21 Jump Street
The Cabin in the Woods
Dredd 3D
The Grey
Looper
BEST ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
Liam Neeson – The Grey
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Denzel Washington – Flight
BEST ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Anne Hathaway – The Dark Knight Rises
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Naomi Watts – The Impossible
Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Javier Bardem – Skyfall
Leonardo DiCaprio – Django Unchained
Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Amy Adams – The Master
Emily Blunt – Looper
Judi Dench – Skyfall
Sally Field – Lincoln
Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Gina Carano – Haywire
Dane DeHaan – Chronicle
Kara Hayward – Moonrise Kingdom
Suraj Sharma – Life of Pi
Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
FAVORITE CELEBRITY OF THE YEAR
Ben Affleck
Christian Bale
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Tom Hardy
Jennifer Lawrence
COOLEST CHARACTER OF THE YEAR
Bane – The Dark Knight Rises
Django – Django Unchained
Dr. King Shultz – Django Unchained
The Hulk – The Avengers
Judge Dredd – Dredd 3D
BEST MUSIC IN A MOVIE
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Skyfall
FAVORITE MOVIE POSTER OF THE YEAR
The Cabin in the Woods
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained
Looper
Prometheus
BEST TRAILER OF THE YEAR
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained
Prometheus
Skyfall
BEST DVD OF THE YEAR
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures
Jaws
Prometheus
BEST ACTION SEQUENCE OF THE YEAR
Final NY City battle – The Avengers
Shootout at Candie-Land – Django Unchained
Bane vs Batman (breaks back) – The Dark Knight Rises
Entire opening sequence – Skyfall
Bin Laden compound raid – Zero Dark Thirty
MOST MEMORABLE SCENE OF THE YEAR
Airport escape – Argo
Hulk smashes Loki – The Avengers
The purge (unleash the monsters) – The Cabin in the Woods
Alien C-section/abortion – Prometheus
Silva’s introduction/entrance – Skyfall
BEST T&A OF THE YEAR
Jessica Chastain – Lawless
Anne Hathaway – The Dark Knight Rises
Scarlett Johansson – The Avengers
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Berenice Marlohe – Skyfall
BEST LINE OF THE YEAR
“Argo f*ck yourself” – Argo
“We have a Hulk” – The Avengers
“The D is silent” – Django Unchained
“I like the way you die, boy” – Django Unchained
“I’m the motherf*cker who found this place, sir!” – Zero Dark Thirty
COME BACK ON MONDAY AND VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITES….!