The Noah Castle Film Awards (Part V: The Winners)

Finally, almost a month after the Oscars, I'm handing out my metaphorical trophies, the Noecitos! It's been so hard to choose even semi-cheating as I've done but I think it's an easy guess to say which are my two favorite films of the year...

Best Ensemble: The Social Network

Breakthrough Actor: Miles Teller in Rabbit Hole

Breakthrough Actress: Mila Kunis in Black Swan

Best Supporting Actor: Andrew Garfield in The Social Network

Best Supporting Actress: Mila Kunis in Black Swan

Best Leading Actor: Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network

Best Leading Actress: Natalie Portman in Black Swan

Best Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin for The Social Network

Best Original Screenplay: Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin for Black Swan

Best Director: Ex Aequo 

Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan and David Fincher for The Social Network

Best Picture: Black Swan

The Noah Castle Film Awards (Part IV: The Acting Nominations)

If you want to, you can already see the nominations for my acting awards!! There is no commentary this time because I start writing and it is ok for a while but before I notice it, I'm writing commonplaces such as "she really embodies the character" or "she is the character" or "she really knows how to eat cheese" etc... So, no commentary! And besides, this is more Oscary-like, something I'm REALLY concerned about and that is why I'm using this post to do something that the AMPAS does... Choosing runner-ups!! (CHEAT FACTOR: Every category was supposed to have 5 runner-ups. Best Actress has 6. Deal with it! Since we are on the topic of cheating I should warn you that the breakthrough nominees are numerous in the case of the boys and very numerous in the case of the ladies...)

Runner-ups for Best Supporting Actor

Pierce Brosnan as Adam Lang in The Ghost Writer

Andrew Garfield as Tommy in Never Let Me Go

Rhys Ifans as Ivan Schrank in Greenberg

Richard Jenkins as The Father in Let Me In

Michael Lonsdale as Luc in Of Gods and Men

Runner-ups for Best Supporting Actress

Marion Cotillard as Mal in Inception

Shirley Henderson as Joy in Life During Wartime

Melissa Leo as Alice Ward in The Fighter

Jacki Weaver as Smurf in Animal Kingdom

Olivia Williams as Ruth Lang in The Ghost Writer

Runner-ups for Best Actor

Javier Bardem as Uxbal in Beautiful

Jim Broadbent as Tom in Another Year

James Franco as Aaron Rolston in 127 Hours

Ben Stiller as Roger Greenberg in Greenberg

Mark Wahlberg as Micky Ward in The Fighter

Runner-ups for Best Actress

Annette Bening as Nic in The Kids Are All Right

Juliette Binoche as Elle/She in Copie Conforme

Greta Gerwig as Florence in Greenberg

Yoon Jeong-hee as Mija in Poetry

Tilda Swinton as Emma Recchi in I Am Love

Natasha Yarovenko as Natasha in Room in Rome 

COMING SOON: The Winners!!

The Noah Castle Film Awards (Part III: The Big Awards Nominations)

Truth be told, the nominations have been uploaded on the main page for almost two weeks but with the Oscars, life and similar stuff I have not had the time or the will to comment... But I'm back! 

I wanted to use this post as an explanation to the question that must be burning in your minds... Why don't I give technical awards? Well, it is, as the best explanations in life, simple and embarrassing. I don't understand them. Well, I can talk of the costumes of a movie, I can discuss the make-up and I can appreciate cinematography and more or less I understand what editing means. 

But when it comes to aural categories I'm at a loss. I have the worst ear ever to identify scores because, for some reason, they don't register in my brain. I don't even know what the difference between sound and sound editing is so I think it would be hypocritical (not to say complicated) to give awards for those categories. I promise I'm going to learn about the technical aspects in film so I can include the categories in the next NCFA's. Nevertheless I have to say that I saw how wonderful the cinematography, costumes, make up and visual effects are in Black Swan, how great the score and the cinematography are in The Social Network, 

how gorgeous are the cinematography and costumes of I am Love 

and how good the make-up in Splice is. By the way, a special award for best costume design should have gone to Natasha Yarovenko's parents for creating that "suit".

A category I would like to comment further is Original Song because the four nominees at the Oscars were awful and tremendously boring. The following songs would have made my list had I made such a category:

"Sticks and Stones" by Jónsi for How to Train your Dragon

"Loving Strangers" by Russian Red for Room in Rome

"Kick Ass" by Mika for Kick-Ass

And speaking of sexy young man with curly hair, here is Xavier Dolan, one of my three runner-ups for Best Director of the year. 

The other two, in case you don't recognize them, are Sofia Coppola and John Cameron Mitchell. The three do a great job at directing their respective films but some of them had to stay out...

Coming soon: Acting Awards!!

The Noah Castle Film Awards (Part II: Special Awards Part II)

The second part of the Special Awards are already on the main page. And a part of the anatomy of a British actress has won an award... Nope, not the boobs, sorry. But speaking of boobs and other arousing things, here we have the second part of the candidates for the Sex-On-A-Stick award!

Aaron Eckhart is a Filf (Milf sounds better) in Rabbit Hole. Well, he no longer has a son, so strictly speaking (not really) that disqualifies him as a father so he's just hot. Period. Very, very sexy indeed. There's something about his face that conveys safety and warmth...

Armie Hammer is the gift that keeps on giving. 1) He has a beautiful muscular body. 2) He has a really beautiful face. 3) He has a voice that melts underwear away. 4) In The Social Network there's two of them!!

Mila Kunis plays Lily in Black Swan. Mila Kunis is insanely hot from an objective point of view. I mean, only seeing her in pictures you can see she has a great body and a very sensual face. But Lily's attitude is pure sex. Everything she does is incredibly enticing. From dancing like a pro (a professional ballerina, I mean) to lusciously eating a hamburger all she does is sex, sex, sex.

Stephen Dorff's daughter in Somewhere is alive so he is officially a Filf! Stephen Dorff is not exactly very famous but she conveys that in the film perfectly. And fame is very exciting! Plus, he has a great body (thank you Sofia for all the shower scenes) and that scruffy sexy look...

Ok, so this is slightly illegal. Josh Hutcherson was not yet eighteen when he worked in The Kids Are All Right. Even worse, he plays a fifteen-year-old. But what can we do if he plays a hot fifteen-year-old? Well, admire him from a distance lest we should star in a new production of Lolita called Lolito...

Colin Farrell's character in The Way Back must smell pretty badly. But he is very sexy, especially when his hair is a little longer... I thought that, next to Saoirse's character, his was the most interesting. So interesting that he could do a spin-off in which he finds that he has to have sex with a lot of men in order to be free or whatever the hell he was doing during the film!

Love and Other Drugs was quite bland. But it had vast amounts of sex and nudity. And if that nudity is courtesy of Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal I can only say thank you. Thank you to whoever wrote that mess. You should have an Oscar! (not really)

And this is the end for the 2010 sexy people... In a few days I will announce the winner. There are more awards to come (acting and the BIG ones) and those will have winners too but the Special Awards on the main page will remain as they are... No winners and losers I mean, sometimes it's hard to pick a winner when only one film competes! 

Coming soon: The BIG Awards nominations (I'm leaving Acting for the end...)