The 2016 DJG Movie Awards

After last years inaugural awards being quite successful, I decided to make this an annual tradition now to see if I can continue to get better nominees and winners than the Academy Awards themselves.
I truly feel that my nominations look so much better than a bunch of old gentleman in Los Angeles could create.

Like last year, there are a few of the categories you see in the Oscars that I have decided not to include as I do not have the knowledge of what is good or not e.g. sound editing, sound mixing.
But a have added and amended some as well merged. I have decided to change the actor and actress to male and female as everyone being called actors these days.
I have decided to merge my best original score and song categories into 'score and soundtrack' as there were not many original songs in the films I saw this year to make the award worthy.
I have also added the awards for production design, editing and merged the costume design and makeup awards into one as I feel I have understood more about categories after a further year of watching movies.

In total, I have 14 categories, each have five nominations apart from best film for which there are ten.

The category I always have trouble narrowing down to 5 is the best score & soundtrack. I am a huge fan of movie scores and I find it hard to pick a favourite. However, one other category has managed to end up with 6 nominations as I found it really tough to take one more away. That was for best supporting female.

Here is the full list of the winners and nominees. Let me know what you think and if you agree with them:

BEST EDITING:
Demolition
WINNER: Mad Max: Fury Road
Me And Earl And The Dying Girl
Shaun The Sheep Movie
Steve Jobs

BEST COSTUME DESIGN & MAKEUP:
Cinderella
WINNER: Mad Max: Fury Road
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tale Of Tales
The Revenant

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Crimson Peak
WINNER: Mad Max: Fury Road
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tale Of Tales
The Hateful Eight

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
WINNER: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Martian
The Walk

BEST SCORE & SOUNDTRACK:
Michael Brook - Brooklyn
Carter Burwell - Carol
Michael Giacchino - Inside Out
WINNER: Junkie XL - Mad Max: Fury Road
Daniel Pemberton - Steve Jobs

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Mad Max: Fury Road
Tangerine
The Danish Girl
The Hateful Eight
WINNER: The Revenant

BEST SCREENPLAY:
Demolition
Ex Machina
Inside Out
WINNER: Steve Jobs
The Big Short








BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE:
Beasts Of No Nation
WINNER: Mad Max: Fury Road
Spotlight
Tangerine
The Revenant

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE:
WINNER: Alicia Vikander - Ex Machina
Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs
Rebecca Ferguson - Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Rachel McAdams - Spotlight
Raffey Cassidy - Tomorrowland: A World Beyond
Rachel Weisz - Youth

BEST SUPPORTING MALE:
WINNER: Idris Elba - Beasts Of No Nation
Oscar Isaac - Ex Machina
Benicio Del Toro - Sicario
Mark Ruffalo - Spotlight
Tom Hardy - The Revenant





BEST LEADING FEMALE:
Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn
Charlize Theron - Mad Max: Fury Road
WINNER: Brie Larson - Room
Kitana Kiki Rodriguez - Tangerine
Anya Taylor-Joy - The Witch

BEST LEADING MALE:
Abraham Attah - Beasts Of No Nation
WINNER: Jacob Tremblay - Room
Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant





BEST DIRECTOR:
Cary Fukunaga - Beasts Of No Nation
George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
Lenny Abrahamson - Room
Sean Baker - Tangerine
WINNER: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - The Revenant

BEST FILM:

Beasts Of No Nation

Demolition
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Mad Max: Fury Road
WINNER: Room
Spotlight
Steve Jobs
The Danish Girl
The Revenant


Total list of winners
5   - Mad Max: Fury Road
3   - Room
2   - The Revenant
1   - Beasts Of No Nation
       Ex Machina
       Star Wars: The Force Awakens
       Steve Jobs

Total list of nominations
10 - Mad Max: Fury Road
7   - The Revenant
5   - Beasts Of No Nation
       Ex Machina
       Steve Jobs
4   - Room
       Spotlight
       Tangerine
3   - Demolition
       Inside Out
       Star Wars: The Force Awakens
       The Danish Girl
2   - Brooklyn
       Tale Of Tales
       The Hateful Eight
1   - Carol
        Cinderella
        Crimson Peak
        Me And Earl And The Dying Girl
        Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
        Shaun The Sheep Movie
        Sicario
        The Big Short
        The Martian
        The Walk
        The Witch
        Tomorrowland: A World Beyond
        Youth