Dear Readers,
As consistent as a Roger Deakins Oscar nomination, as certain as a Roger Deakins Oscar loss, the Silver Stamps are back!
It’s the end of the year, awards season, and time to be left wondering “how could that have won!?” Well, we have some good news. We’ve fired PriceWaterhouseCoopers, triple-checked the ballot boxes, replaced Warren Beatty with Christopher Plummer, and are absolutely confident that the names below belong to their respective categories.
After all, we have this thing figured out—this post marks the 1000th article ever published on Dear Cast and Crew. Which means today we’re all honorary winners.
(But here are the actual winners.)
Best Film Credit: Fornicator, Mother!
Worst Film Credit: Sexy Race Starter, Fate of the Furious
Best Actor in a Misleading Role: Jim Carrey, Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond
Best Actor in an Unsupporting Role: Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
Best Short Actor, Live Action: Tom Cruise, American Made
Best Short Actor, Animated: Steve Zhan, War for the Planet of the Apes
Best War with an Ape: War for the Planet of the Apes Kong: Skull Island
Loudest Sound Design: Dunkirk
Loudest Costume Design: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Most Tone-Deaf Costume Design – Justice League (Amazon’s uniforms)
Best Harry Styles in Make-Up: Harry Styles in Dunkirk
Best Doc You Meant to See: The Vietnam War
Best Doc You Mean to See, Shorter than 10 Hours: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Best Re-Production Design: getting birthed from a bag in Blade Runner 2049
Best Stunt: The production schedule for The Post
Worst Stunt: the reveal at the end of Split
Worst Movie That Everyone Saw: Justice League
Best Movie That No One Saw: Your Name
Best Vegetarian Propaganda: (tie) Okja and Raw
Best Carnivore Propaganda: (tie) War for the Planet of the Apes and Kong: Skull Island
Most Seductive Use of Her Whip: Fifty Shades Darker Wonder Woman
Most Seductive Use of His Wit: Battle of the Sexes
Most Original Canadian Hockey Movie: Hello Destroyer
Least Original Canadian Hockey Movie: Goon: Last of the Enforcers
Most Original Way to Score: the threesome in Blade Runner 2049
Best Song, Allegory for Masturbation: the flute scene in Alien: Covenant
Best Song, Allegory for Emancipation: "Amazing Grace" in Detroit
Most Distracting Mustache: Murder on the Orient Express Justice League
Biggest Disaster for an Artist: Gore Verbinski, A Cure for Wellness
Biggest Artist in a Disaster: Tom Cruise, The Mummy
Biggest Surprise from an Artist: James Franco, The Disaster Artist
Best Kiss-of-Death for an On-Set Relationship (presented by Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman): Mother!
Most Welcome Return: [spoiler] in The Last Jedi
Most Unwelcome Return:xXx: The Return of Xander Cage
Darkest Sequel: Fifty Shades Darker Logan
Darkest Hour: It Comes at Night
Luckiest Logan: Logan Lucky Logan
Best Writing (Inept Screenplay): Snatched
Best Writing (Unoriginal Screenplay): Rough Night
Goldblumiest Jeff Goldblum Performance: Jeff Goldblum, Thor: Ragnarok
Best Film for Creating Cross-cultural Enlightenment: Get Out
Worst Film for Creating Cross-cultural Enlightenment: Ghost in the Shell
Proof that Kurt Russell Can’t Save Everything: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Film Most in Need of Christopher Plummer: Baby Driver
Special Achievement for a Trailer that Made Seeing the Film Redundant: Happy Death Day
He can Act?! Award: Robert Pattison in Good Time
She can Act?! Award: Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper
6th Annual Award for Excellence in Being Roger Deakins: Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049
Sincerely,
Dear Cast & Crew