The Golden Schmoes are coming

Ladies and gents, it’s time again for the Golden Schmoes!

Last year, we celebrated our 20th edition of the fest, and now we’re on to the 21st edition of the longest running online fan movie awards. If you’re new to the site and don’t know what The Golden Schmoes are all about, you can read all about them right HERE. However, with these awards, what we like to do is put the power of choosing both the nominees and winners for what we consider the Best Movies of The Year in YOUR hands. So if you’re annoyed that someone like Mia Goth wasn’t able to land a best actress nomination for Pearl (as the Academy famously shuns horror), or that one of the best movies of the year, The Northman, was ignored, now’s your chance. Do you think Tom Cruise deserved a best actor nomination for Top Gun: Maverick? Have your say and give the man a Golden Schmoe!

All you need is a valid email address and, once the nomination period opens up on Monday (Feb 13) at 10am EST on the official site, you pick the nominees and the winners!

Here’s our timeline:

Voting for nominees starts Feb 13th at 10am EST and closes Feb 18th (at 11:59 pm EST) and will take place on the official site. We’ll announce the official nominees on Feb 20th and you can begin VOTING for the winners from February 20th through March 3rd. Winners will be announced on March 10th!

Nominations start on Monday, and we’ll post an article getting into the nitty-gritty and running down the specific categories, but you can check out past winners here. If you need a refresher on which movies came out in 2022, you can find all of the major releases right here.

Suffice to say, we’re super proud of our awards and are dying to find out what you all think are the year’s best movies. Sometimes the Academy, critics, and guilds seem out of touch with what people are actually watching. So if you have a movie you’re rooting for, make sure to let us know in the comments below. For me, I hope folks don’t forget movies like The Northman and Pearl, although I also hope the big movies like Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis and Everything Everywhere All At Once also get some love. Hopefully, this 21st edition of the Golden Schmoes is one to remember!