After spending months working on my 2014 5MMG Awards, I feel kind of obligated to write a little something about it. This is that little obligatory something. If you haven't yet seen them, now is as good a time as any to check them out. By now, I imagine most of you have actually seen a good portion of the nominated movies and will have your own opinions on them. With that said, I'd love to hear about your own favorites of the year and see how much they either match up with or differ from my own.
As you read in my last post, The Return of the Movie Guy, a cat attack and a subsequent lack of motivation delayed the awards for a time, and as a result, they weren't finished until long after The Oscars. However, I just want to make it clear that The Oscars' results had no bearing on my choices. I had chosen my winners long before the show, and for the most part, I don't think my nominees often even matched up with the Academy's choices anyway. The only things we really agreed on were Birdman being our favorite movie of the year, and Big Hero 6 being the best animated film. Ironically, I expected Boyhood to win the Oscar for Best Picture and How to Train Your Dragon 2 to win Best Animated Film. Go figure.
So in the end, I came up with 25 award categories in all, with 5 nominees a piece. In retrospect, that part alone was a massively ambitious endeavor. Plus, of course, I wanted to talk briefly about each of the nominees to explain why they were selected. So I wrote a paragraph about each of the 125 nominees, and then longer paragraphs about the 25 winners. I'm not going to waste time trying to break that down any further, but good God, what was I thinking? Hahaha. I jumped right in completely over my head. Factor in all the time that went into formatting the awards, as well as choosing and cropping all the pictures, and well, I probably spent a lot of time looking something like this:
As you read in my last post, The Return of the Movie Guy, a cat attack and a subsequent lack of motivation delayed the awards for a time, and as a result, they weren't finished until long after The Oscars. However, I just want to make it clear that The Oscars' results had no bearing on my choices. I had chosen my winners long before the show, and for the most part, I don't think my nominees often even matched up with the Academy's choices anyway. The only things we really agreed on were Birdman being our favorite movie of the year, and Big Hero 6 being the best animated film. Ironically, I expected Boyhood to win the Oscar for Best Picture and How to Train Your Dragon 2 to win Best Animated Film. Go figure.
So in the end, I came up with 25 award categories in all, with 5 nominees a piece. In retrospect, that part alone was a massively ambitious endeavor. Plus, of course, I wanted to talk briefly about each of the nominees to explain why they were selected. So I wrote a paragraph about each of the 125 nominees, and then longer paragraphs about the 25 winners. I'm not going to waste time trying to break that down any further, but good God, what was I thinking? Hahaha. I jumped right in completely over my head. Factor in all the time that went into formatting the awards, as well as choosing and cropping all the pictures, and well, I probably spent a lot of time looking something like this:
Still, at the end of the day, I'm really proud of the end result here. It was worth all of the struggle, the head banging, and the lack of sleep. If I end up doing movie awards again next year, don't expect them to be nearly this in depth. By then, I'd really like to switch it all to video format. I imagine that would be an easier way to both create and share my content with you guys, especially since I know some people hate reading (obviously not you guys, though, if you're still reading this. You guys are awesome!)
There were a lot of other award categories I came up with but didn't use because A.) I couldn't find 5 suitable nominees for the award, or B.) they weren't that interesting, or C.) 25 awards is already too many. Just for giggles, I'm gonna share a few of those unused award ideas along with which films would have won:
- Cutest Movie of the Year - Big Hero 6
- Creepiest Movie of the Year - A Walk Among the Tombstones
- Weirdest Movie of the Year - Inherent Vice
- Most Unintentionally Funny Movie - Exodus: Gods and Kings
- Most Surprisingly Disappointing Movie - The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
- Movie I Most Regret Not Seeing - The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
- Most Anticipated Movie of 2015 - Click here to find out!
Well there you have it, folks. Those are the 2015 5MMG Awards, and that's all I have to say about that. Please check them out, please vote and comment, and please share your favorites as well. Thanks for reading! I can't wait to read your thoughts!
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