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Southeastern Film Critics Name Their Favorites
The Southeastern Film Critics Association has decided to throw a bunch more love at movies that are currently being orgasmed over by critics from coast to coast. The organization which consists of newspaper film critics in most of the states that tried to keep slavery going (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia) named No Country For Old Men their best picture this year and Daniel Day-Lewis as best actor for There Will Be Blood. The awards don’t hold much surprise from top to bottom, with Joel and Ethan Coen winning for both best director and best adapted screenplay for their violent modern Western, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly capturing the best movie where you can’t understand what the actors are saying without subtitles, and Pixar’s Ratatouille taking home the top animation prize. The Pixar win ignores that The Simpson’s Movie was better, but I can’t complain too much.
Other winners in the Southestern awards who have been showing up on multiple lists are No Country For Old Men’s psychotic hit man Javier Bardem for best supporting actor and Amy Ryan for best supporting actress in Gone Baby Gone. I have no qualms with Bardem who steals the movie and Amy Ryan is a vet of The Wire, which means she deserves every accolade out there. Slightly surprising was the anti-America documentary No End in Sight winning over the anti-America documentary Sicko. Unlike some critics’ awards, the Southeastern gang lists their top 10 movies along with the awards. So in addition to the obvious inclusions below No Country for Old Men, like There Will Be Blood and Atonement, a few surprises sneak on. Not everybody thought The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford was a long-winded bore fest, apparently. In fact, Casey Affleck’s portrayal of the said coward ended up as the runner-up for best supporting actor to Bardem. The group also gives out the “Wyatt Award” for the movie that “captures the spirit of the South.” The winner was Waitress, a cute movie as sweet as a piece of peach pie. The runner-up was Black Snake Moan, meaning that a black man chaining a nympho to a radiator is considered to “capture the spirit of the South.” No comment. Check the full list of winners: Best Picture: 1. No Country for Old Men 2. There Will Be Blood 3. Atonement" 4. Juno 5. Michael Clayton" 6. Zodiac 7. The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford 8. Gone Baby Gone 9. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 10. Into the Wild Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away From Her Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men Best Supprting Actress: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone Best Director: Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men Best Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, Juno Best Adapted Screenplay: Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men Best Foreign Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Best Documentary: No End in Sight Best Animated Feature: Ratatouille Wyatt Award: Waitress
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December 18th, 2007 at 13:56
Dear Ed,
As a SEFCA member from North Carolina, I suggest that you grab a history book and brush up on some facts. My home state had already drafted legislation to abolish slavery before our country started this thing we all called the Civil War.
I am sure all the jokes you wrote in this article was more or less a 'creative' and roundabout way of saying the obvious: "No Country for Old Men" won, again. But some of the things you said were just as ignorant as perception in horror films that people from small Southern towns are a bunch of mutant cannibals.
As for the Wyatt award, we had to pick three nominees for each category. 2007 was 'slim pickens' for Southern filmmaking so "Blake Snake Moan" kinda got the nod by default. David Gordon Green's "Snow Angels" didn't go theatrical this year, so we couldn't vote for that. I voted for the indie religious sex comedy "Forgiving the Franklins," but few people got to see that one since it didn't have a distributor.
"Waitress" won, as it should have. And to it's credit, "Black Snake Moan" depicts working-class caucasians and African-Americans who have already realized we are in this together. If you visit multi-racial rural towns near Army bases and textile mills, you'll find this is fairly common despite what you might have seen in "Mississippi Burning." My co-host grew up in a small town where all the kids played together pretty much because they were too poor to discriminate based on something arbitrary like race. That's something Green got right in "George Washington," as did Craig Brewer when he wasn't chaining Christina Ricci up during her 'sex-spells' in "Black Snake Moan."
I read your site a lot, and cite you guys fairly often when reporting news stories during my radio program. So in the future, let's try to keep things friendly between the Union and Confederate movie news websites. Don't make me have to break bad and have to cannibalize you. Sure you might be a delicious and tasty Yankee, but where would I get my news stories then?
-Joe Scott,
www.themovieshow.org
P.S. "The Simpsons Movie" did get runner-up behind the superior "Ratatouille," even though it was as no more entertaining than the most average episodes in the series.