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2022 CRITERION FORUM AWARDS



IMPORTANT NOTE
NO VOTING UNTIL: DECEMBER 13, 2022
VOTING CLOSES: JANUARY 16, 2023

RESULTS HERE

Voting starts once the last release of December is available to the plebes: Tuesday, December 13th. You may post in this thread before that, but any lists posted early will, as always, be deleted and your message replaced with Okja gifs.

Please either post your votes in this thread or PM me, DarkImbecile. You may or may not vote in most categories, but you must provide a ranked Top Five to be counted at all. No ties will be counted in any category, so make the hard decision if you want your vote to matter.

Your 2022 Criterion Forum Awards categories are:

BEST RELEASE Numbered in order from 1-5. Must vote for five titles to have your ballot counted. Boxed sets can also be voted for in this category

BEST BOXED SET
BEST MODERN FILM "New" (2018-2022) films released by Criterion

BEST COMMENTARY New commentaries only, not ports of existing discs from other labels/studios — see list below
BEST "BONUS" FILM See list below
BEST BOOKLET
BEST ON-DISC NON-COMMENTARY EXTRA

BEST UHD RELEASE
BEST REISSUE
BEST UPGRADE Former titles upgraded to a new format without new features

BEST COVER
WORST COVER
BEST PACKAGING - NON-BOXED SET INDIVIDUAL RELEASE
BEST PACKAGING - BOXED SET

BEST DISCOVERY For the film that is, as the NBC commercials used to say, new to you
MOST UNNECESSARY RELEASE For the film that didn’t need to join the Collection, either for personal reasons (you hate it) or because Criterion’s additions added little to already available editions
MOST FLAWED RELEASE For Criterion's treatment, not the film itself

BEST THREAD For the discussion that yielded the most interesting insights or entertainment this year
MEMBER OF THE YEAR For the member with the best contributions to the forum this year
RICHARD CRANIUM AWARD For the member with the worst contributions to the forum this year

2022 RELEASES
1108 The Celebration
1109 Time
1110 The Piano UHD
1111 Dick Johnson is Dead
1112 Miller's Crossing
1113 Boat People
1114 Love Affair
1115 Adoption
1116 The Flight of the Phoenix
1117 love jones
1118 The Last Waltz UHD
1119 Miracle in Milan
1120 The Girl Can't Help It
1121 Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)
1122 'Round Midnight
1123 Mr. Klein
1124 Chan is Missing
1125 The Funeral
1126 Double Indemnity UHD
1127 Mississippi Masala
1128 Farewell Amor
1129 Rouge
1130 Shaft UHD
1131 Pink Flamingos
1132 The Worst Person in the World
1133 Okja UHD
1134 Raging Bull UHD
1135 Devil in a Blue Dress UHD
1136 Drive My Car
1137 Frownland
1138 Daddy Longlegs
1139 Hôtel du Nord
1140 Buck and the Preacher
1141 Faya dayi
1142 Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 4
—1143 Sambizanga
—1144 Prisioneros de la tierra
—1145 Chess of the Wind
—1146 Muna moto
—1147 Two Girls on the Street
—1148 Kalpana
1149 Take Out
1150 Exotica
1151 Sound of Metal UHD
1152 Lost Highway UHD
1153 Arsenic and Old Lace
1154 Eve's Bayou
1155 Cure
1156 La Llorona
1157 Daisies
The Power of the Dog UHD
1159 The Infernal Affairs Trilogy
1160 Malcolm X UHD
1161 WALL·E UHD
1162 Three Films by Mai Zetterling
1163 Michael Haneke: Trilogy
1164 The Velvet Underground
1165 Cooley High

REISSUES
22 Summertime
96 Written on the Wind
423 Walker

UPGRADES
54 For All Mankind UHD
147 In the Mood for Love UHD
218 Le cercle rouge UHD
227 Le Corbeau
317 The Tales of Hoffman
562 Blow Out UHD
711 A Hard Day's Night UHD
909 Night of the Living Dead UHD
920 The Virgin Suicides UHD

ELIGIBLE BONUS FILMS
Last Round (The Celebration)
The Boy Who Walked Backwards (The Celebration)
The Purified (The Celebration)
ADM:DOP (The Celebration)
Alone (Time)
Water Diary (The Piano)
Acting for Douglas Sirk (Written on the Wind)
Looking for Sally (Love Affair)
Mighty Like a Moose (Love Affair)
Keep Rolling (Boat People)
As Time Goes By (Boat People)
Blow-Ball (Adoption)
Márta Mészáros: Portrait of the Hungarian Filmmaker (Adoption)
Walker 2008 (Walker)
On the Origins of "Walker" (Walker)
Goose (Eyimofe)
Besida (Eyimofe)
Because Men in Silk Shirts on Lagos Nights (Eyimofe)
Before Midnight ('Round Midnight)
Story of a Day (Mr. Klein)
Is Chan Still Missing? (Chan Is Missing)
Billy, How Did You Do It? (Double Indemnity)
Shadows of Suspense (Double Indemnity)
Suspense (Farewell Amor)
The Market King (Farewell Amor)
Farewell Meu Amor (Farewell Amor)
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (Rouge)
Still Love You After All These (Rouge)
Shaft's Big Score! (Shaft)
Divine Trash (Pink Flamingos)
Second Stop from Jupiter (Daddy Longlegs)
Why? (This Movie Exists) (Daddy Longlegs)
There's Nothing You Can Do (Daddy Longlegs)
Carné, You Said Carné (Hôtel du Nord)
He Who Dances on Wood (Faya dayi)
Heroin (Faya dayi)
Hairat (Faya dayi)
Calendar (Exotica)
Peep Show (Exotica)
En passant (Exotica)
Artaud Double Bill (Exotica)
The Majnoun and the Wind (Chess of the Wind)
Green (Sound of Metal)
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch (Lost Highway)
Dr. Hugo (Eve's Bayou)
A Bagful of Fleas (Daisies)
Ceiling (Daisies)
Malcolm X (Malcolm X)
The Pixar Story (WALL•E)
A Story (WALL•E)
BURN•E (WALL•E)
Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress (Three Films by Mai Zetterling)
Lines from the Heart (Three Films by Mai Zetterling)
Venus in Furs (The Velvet Underground)
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol (The Velvet Underground)

ELIGIBLE COMMENTARIES
Time
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Mississippi Masala
Farewell Amor
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Velvet Underground

COVER ROUND-UP


As always, invaluable help graciously provided by swo17 to the extent that it's not clear why I claim any credit at all

This is the first year since I’ve been a member here that I won’t be able to vote, as there were/are not even five titles I cared enough about to purchase. Congrats to those who are eligible several times over all the same

Jeez, that's a lot of "new" films added to the collection

domino harvey wrote: Tue Sep 27, 2022 5:51 pm This is the first year since I’ve been a member here that I won’t be able to vote, as there were/are not even five titles I cared enough about to purchase. Congrats to those who are eligible several times over all the same

Even with each of the WCP titles getting their own spine number?

domino harvey wrote: Tue Sep 27, 2022 5:51 pm This is the first year since I’ve been a member here that I won’t be able to vote, as there were/are not even five titles I cared enough about to purchase.

This actually counts as a vote for Shaft

Many good bonus films this year, but I can't recommend Ceiling (on the Daisies release) highly enough- which will likely beat Calendar, A Bagful of Fleas et al for my pick after revisits. I still have many more to see though

a decent category addition could be "Biggest UHD Omission", cause we have some real candidates..

Mississippi Masala
Pink Flamingos
The Tales of Hoffmann
Summertime
Exotica
Cure
Arsenic and Old Lace

just an idea!

It'd be a good opportunity for everyone annoyed at the surge of "NO UHD?!" posts to spite-vote The Celebration

If two other users indicate they’d want such a category in this here thread, I’ll include it

Can I vote against it and raise the threshold to three?

Just one more, folks!

Okay fine include it.

I'm with domino, we have enough negative categories already

I'm against it, but even aside from the category serving as a gateway into more negative feedback on Criterion's inadequacies, it's just so broad. I fully expect like seven runner-ups listed for whatever release wins for each member, since it seems many are disappointed that every release doesn't have a UHD option

I'd say to include it, but limit it to one title (if the person feels the category is needed for their ranking in the first place). That way, no one can just dump all their UHD-related grievances into one place

I would say the Most Flawed Release category already covers that

BEST RELEASE
1. Double Indemnity
2. Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 4
3. Cure
4. Malcolm X
5. Raging Bull

BEST BOXED SET
Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 4

BEST MODERN FILM
Drive My Car

BEST COMMENTARY
Haven't had a chance to listen to any of the eligible options yet!

BEST "BONUS" FILM
Malcolm X

BEST BOOKLET
Malcolm X

BEST ON-DISC NON-COMMENTARY EXTRA
Imogen Sara Smith and Eddie Muller on Double Indemnity

BEST UHD RELEASE
Double Indemnity

BEST REISSUE
Written on the Wind

BEST UPGRADE
Le Corbeau — purely for the much-needed audio-visual improvement

BEST COVER


WORST COVER


BEST PACKAGING - NON-BOXED SET INDIVIDUAL RELEASE
Pink Flamingos

BEST PACKAGING - BOXED SET
Infernal Affairs Trilogy

BEST DISCOVERY
Chess of the Wind

MOST UNNECESSARY RELEASE
Okja

MOST FLAWED RELEASE
In the Mood for Love — Bringing back the hits, one last time

BEST THREAD
The 1960 Mini-List

MEMBER OF THE YEAR
It's really swo for making the decades lists both an order of magnitude better for us and more of a pain in the ass for him by the same factor AND co-launching SNAPSЖOT AND being generally amusing, but since he's won like six times already I'll go with skilar for the behind the scenes contributions to the list projects and my favorite daily movie game. Strong runner-up honors to Finch for the work in the UHD thread, ryannichols7 for the monthly speculation roundups, Computer Raheem for the monthly cover breakdown, and everyone else who has found a way to regularly contribute to the forum

RICHARD CRANIUM AWARD
Strong late push from some of the denizens of the Sight and Sound thread, but this six-month fiasco has to take the glans-shaped cake

Quick question before I vote: I wouldn’t consider the covers for The Piano or The Power of the Dog to be strong contenders for Best Cover on their own, but I do quite like how they reflect one another, so would it be reasonable to treat them as a single entry for the purposes of these awards?

Unfortunately, you must choose one or the other, but if you do so you can rest assured we’ll know what context you had in mind

BEST RELEASE
1. Double Indemnity
2. Shaft
3. Devil in a Blue Dress
4. Buck and the Preacher
5. Cure

BEST BOXED SET
The Infernal Affairs Trilogy

BEST MODERN FILM
La Llorona

BEST UHD RELEASE
Double Indemnity

BEST REISSUE
Written on the Wind

BEST UPGRADE
Blow Out

BEST COVER


WORST COVER


BEST DISCOVERY
Eyimofe

MOST UNNECESSARY RELEASE
Love Jones

MOST FLAWED RELEASE
Miller’s Crossing

domino harvey wrote: Tue Sep 27, 2022 5:51 pm This is the first year since I’ve been a member here that I won’t be able to vote, as there were/are not even five titles I cared enough about to purchase. Congrats to those who are eligible several times over all the same

This makes me very sad. (Even sadder than my reaction to your reaction to the S+S poll.)

BEST RELEASE
1. Double Indemnity
2. The Worst Person in the World
3. The Girl Can’t Help It
4. Lost Highway
5. Written on the Wind

BEST MODERN FILM
The Worst Person in the World

BEST ON-DISC NON-COMMENTARY EXTRA
Video essay by David Cairns on The Girl Can’t Help It

BEST UHD RELEASE
Double Indemnity
BEST REISSUE
Written on the Wind
BEST UPGRADE
The Virgin Suicides

BEST COVER
The Flight of the Phoenix
WORST COVER
Some real stinkers this year, but Daddy Longlegs must take it.
BEST PACKAGING - NON-BOXED SET INDIVIDUAL RELEASE
The Girl Can’t Help It

BEST THREAD
Annoyingly, it’s probably the Sight & Sound thread
MEMBER OF THE YEAR
swo17
RICHARD CRANIUM AWARD
Cinephile1

As others have said, not a whole lot for me this year. It doesn't help that I've fallen off film watching pretty heavily in favor of other activities (video games, writing music again, spending time with friends, etc.). I know I said this last year, but I hope to be a more active contributor in 2023!

Best Release
1. Lost Highway
2. Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 4
3. Rouge
4. Exotica
5. Boat People

Best Boxed Set
Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 4

Best Modern Release
La llorona

Best Commentary
Time

Best Bonus Film
Because Men in Silk Shirts on Lagos Nights

Best Book/Booklet
The Girl Can't Help It

Best Other Supplement
Conversation between author Megan Abbott and the Coens about film noir and hard-boiled crime fiction (Miller's Crossing)

Best UHD Release
Lost Highway

Best Revamped Release
Written on the Wind

Best Format Upgrade
For All Mankind

Best Cover


Best Packaging
The Celebration

Best Discovery
Kalpana

Best Thread
Lists Project Central: Forum Favorites by Year

Forum Member of the Year
skilar

Best Release
1. Double Indemnity
2. Raging Bull
3. Lost Highway
4. Rouge
5. The Piano

Best Box Set- Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project Vol. 4

Best Modern Release- The Velvet Underground

Best UHD Release- Double Indemnity

Best Reissue- Written on the Wind

Best Cover- Written on the Wind

Worst Cover- The Worst Person in the World

Best Packaging- Pink Flamingos

Best Discovery- Rouge

Most Unnecessary Release- WALL-E

Most Flawed Release- In the Mood for Love (beating a dead horse at this point, but it’s the obvious choice for a reason)

It absolutely kills me to see people voting the best cover of the year as the worst