Victim's Gold Stars: In Control

Only two categories and the top two of the top ten to go- hopefully this'll be completed by the weekend.

BEST DIRECTOR

I was going to do a little individual commentary for each one, but as I pondered this, I realized that each and every one of these directors are here because they were fiercely committed to a vision- very different visions, but committed to them all the same, stamping their own personalities and styles firmly on their respective films- these, each and every one, are auteurs, creating unique and surprising films in and out of systems that squash creativity, not bending to expectation, and producing films that inspired and entertained in different, but equally commendable ways.

Victim's Gold Stars: Snip Snip

I'm bored. And lazy. So I can't be bothered to do a blurb (or is this the blurb? Ooh, the mystery) for the Gold Stars for Best Editing.

Luc Barnier

Emma Collins

Claire Douglas, Richard Pearson & Christopher Rouse

Jon Harris

David Lynch

Victim's Gold Stars: They Go Together

Well, I still haven't seen Curse of the Golden Flower (I will!), but I thought I might as well get these awards rolling before I go back to university next week and my drive is hijacked by... books, or something. I am at least presenting a category that I suspect Curse will have no effect on: Best Ensemble. So, here are the lauded five who all get gold stars:

Daniel Miranda, Diego Cataño, Danny Perea & Enrique Arreola

Alan Arkin, Paul Dano, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear, Abigail Breslin & Toni Collette

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Ving Rhames, Tom Cruise & Maggie Q (with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Monaghan, Billy Crudup & Keri Russell)

Garrison Keillor, Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep & Lindsay Lohan (with Woody Harrelson, Kevin Kline, Tommy Lee Jones, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly & Maya Rudolph)

Lewis Alsamari, Peter Hermann, Ben Sliney, Christian Clemenson, Trish Gates, Omar Berdouni & Cheyenne Jackson