AP Movie Awards - Voting (Official Thread)

[ForlrnPerplxity]

The Nominations are now in, and the following are the Final Categories. To vote, all you need to is PM me your choices (1 per category, obviously). You don't have to vote for every category. Do not post your votes in this thread or they won't be counted. Instead, feel free to have debates/convos about the movies listed just to keep this thread on the main page and to get some discussion going. This thread will be open until Friday night, and the winners will be announced on the following Saturday.

Best Picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Slumdog Millionaire
The Wrestler

Actor in a Leading Role
Sean Penn, Milk
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor

Actor in a Supporting Role
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Josh Brolin, Milk

Actress in a Leading Role
Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road
Kate Winslet, The Reader
Meryl Streep, Doubt
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Anne, Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky

Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams, Doubt
Penolope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Rebecca Hall, Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Animated Feature Film
Wall-E
Kung Fu Panda
Waltz With Bashir
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!
Bolt

Best Cinematography
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
Australia
The Reader

Best Director
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant, Milk
Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler
Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married

Music (Score)
A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
Thomas Newman, Revolutionary Road
Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard, The Dark Knight
Thomas Newman, Wall-E
Alexandre Desplat, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Music (Song)
Bruce Springsteen, "The Wrestler"; The Wrestler
A.R. Rahman, "Jai Ho"; Slumdog Millionaire
Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, "Down to Earth"; Wall-E

Visual Effects
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

Writing (Original or Adapted Screenplay)
The Wrestler
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Rachel Getting Married
In Bruges
Wendy and Lucy
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Wall-E
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

[ForlrnPerplxity]

I'm a little disappointed that Leonardo DiCaprio didn't get nominated for Best Actor and David Fincher didn't get nominated for Best Director.

One award that I'll be really disappointed that doesn't win (for the real Oscars) is the score to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Alexandre Desplat. It's one of the best scores I've ever heard. Although, Thomas Newman is long overdue for an Oscar, and the score to Wall-E fits the movie perfectly.

[Recovery Room]

Why do some categories have more than five choices?

[ForlrnPerplxity]

Why do some categories have more than five choices?
A couple categories had a few movies tied, so I didn't really have a good way of eliminating them.

[Ailite]

How the fuck did David Fincher not get nominated?

Ya'll are crazy. Otherewise, this is awesome.

[ForlrnPerplxity]

I still need to see Milk, The Wrestler, and The Reader.

[bootsydan]

How the fuck did David Fincher not get nominated?

Ya'll are crazy. Otherewise, this is awesome.

I actually can't believe David Fincher was getting nominated at the oscars and the like. I thought there was nothing outstanding about the direction in benjamin button, especially compared to his previous work (se7en, fight club, zodiac) - and especially compared to other films of this year.

[ForlrnPerplxity]

I'm getting a good amount of votes so far. Keep em coming.

[ForlrnPerplxity]

I'll probably bump this once a day until Friday just to get it some attention on the front page.

[callthemrogues]

this is a really cool idea. when the winners are actually announced i'll try get this posted on the front page if you guys want.

[ForlrnPerplxity]

this is a really cool idea. when the winners are actually announced i'll try get this posted on the front page if you guys want.
That'd definitely be cool.

Keep the votes coming.

[ForlrnPerplxity]

I wish we could have got more attention on this sooner. Maybe next year we could get this on the news page early in the process to get more people involved. I was gonna post a thread in the General Forum but thought about just restricting it to here.

[callthemrogues]

When is the last day to send votes?

[ForlrnPerplxity]

When is the last day to send votes?
Late Friday night.

[Adeniz19]

submitted. seeing as how i still havent seen all the picks, i just voted for my favorites instead of which one i think is "best"

oh, and i'm surprised to see rachel getting married get a nod for best direction. the camera work made me nauseous while watching it.

[ForlrnPerplxity]

submitted. seeing as how i still havent seen all the picks, i just voted for my favorites instead of which one i think is "best"

oh, and i'm surprised to see rachel getting married get a nod for best direction. the camera work made me nauseous while watching it.
Yeah, I thought David Fincher and Sam Mendes both deserved to be in there.

[ForlrnPerplxity]

Last day to vote.

[Adeniz19]

how many people have voted already?

[ForlrnPerplxity]

10

[Thomas Balkcom]

doing mine now

[ForlrnPerplxity]

The following categories are very close:
Best Picture
Actor in a Leading Role
Actress in a Supporting Role

The following categories are tied:
Best Cinematography
Music (Score)

We need some more voters to help spread these categories apart. Keep the votes coming!

[ForlrnPerplxity]

I'm still needing one other person to vote on the categories that are tied.

[ForlrnPerplxity]

Anybody? Just need 1 more vote for Best Cinematography and Best Score.