Sunday, 22 February 2015

The Grand Owen Awards 2014 - The Results!



It has quite literally been a year. And in this year, a number of things happened. But, chiefly amongst these things, some films were released. And chiefly amongst these films, some of them were good. Some of them were very good. Very, very good indeed.

Of course, this happens every year, even if 2014 was notably just for the quantity of greatness.It was a really good year, the kind of year that makes me glad the Grand Owen Awards were formed in a moment of self-indulgence back in 2012. Yes, that's right- This is the third year of the Grand Owen Awards, and to celebrate, we're doing exactly the same thing as usual, and announcing the results!

The final say on awards comes from the One-Man jury, but, the one man naturally has a wandering opinion, and so must stand by his choices, which includes not giving Oscar Isaac a nomination for Inside Llewyn Davis. The absolute fool. There's a fair chance he would have won.

As such, this makes the awards the most genuine out there. No harboring, no voting for the consensus, no pretending you've seen stuff when you haven't. Just one man, who sat through 200 films released in 2014, presenting the cream of the crop. These are the awards the actors, directors and writers alike really want to win. The Oscars are just a formality.

Saturday, 3 January 2015

The Owen Award Nominations Longlist 2014



It must be the start of 2015, because it looks like the definitive awards show is back!

Yes, it's time again to add another set of fantastic films (And 300: Rise of an Empire) to the lengthening list of films lucky enough to call themselves Owen Award nominees. Last year, The World's End (Wins for Best Screenplay, Best Actor, plus five further nominations) and Frances Ha (Wins for Best Actress, Best Picture, plus three other nominations) were the big winners, so who will follow in their footsteps this year?

The only change to the categories this year is the removal of 'Best Actor in a Bad Film', which just wouldn've been won by Martin Freeman for The Hobbit for the third year running and would get boring. Besides, it's a really weird category, so we gutted it. There are six nominees in each field, including Best Picture, and all are listed below...