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Oscar Winners 2019: Bloody Disgusting’s All-Horror Edition!
The 91st Academy Awards ceremony has officially come and gone, and with it a whole new slew of upsets, disappointments, and of course, the usual exclusion of the horror genre.
Well, except for that unexpected bright moment in the 2019 In Memoriam segment, in which a chosen clip for actor James Karen was pulled from The Return of the Living Dead!
When the Oscar nominations dropped, we thought it’d be fun to rewrite them with an all horror edition of nominees. Clearly, you all felt the same, as our comment section was filled with your votes and thoughts. We read them all and tallied the results. If there were an all-horror edition of the Oscars, these would be your 2019 winners…
Best Picture:
“Hereditary”
“Mandy”
“Annihilation”
“A Quiet Place”
“The Endless”
“Revenge”
“Halloween”
“Upgrade”
Winner: “Hereditary”
Lead Actor:
Nicolas Cage, “Mandy”
Logan Marshall-Green, “Upgrade”
Dan Stevens, “Apostle”
Matt Dillon, “The House That Jack Built”
Alex Wolff, “Hereditary”
Winner: Nicolas Cage, “Mandy”
Lead Actress:
Toni Collette, “Hereditary”
Madeline Brewer, “Cam”
Jamie Lee Curtis, “Halloween”
Tilda Swinton, “Suspiria”
Mathilda Lutz, “Revenge”
Winner: Toni Collette, “Hereditary”
Supporting Actor:
Linus Roache, “Mandy”
Wyatt Russell, “Overlord”
Vincent Colombe, “Revenge”
Oscar Isaac, “Annihilation”
Dylan McDermott, “The Clovehitch Killer”
Winner: Linus Roache, “Mandy”
Supporting Actress:
Jennifer Jason Leigh, “Annihilation”
Milly Shapiro, “Hereditary”
Millicent Simmonds, “A Quiet Place”
Andrea Riseborough, “Mandy”
Judy Greer, “Halloween”
Winner: Milly Shapiro, “Hereditary”
Very close runner-up: Millicent Simmonds, “A Quiet Place”
Director:
Ari Aster, “Hereditary”
Panos Cosmatos, “Mandy”
Coralie Fargeat, “Revenge”
Demian Rugna, “Terrified”
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorheard, “The Endless”
Winner: Ari Aster, “Hereditary”
Best Screenplay:
“Hereditary,” Ari Aster
“A Quiet Place,” Bryan Woods & Scott Beck and John Krasinski
“Mandy,” Panos Cosmatos & Aaron Stewart-Ahn
Cam,” Isa Mazzei
“Anna and the Apocalypse,” Alan McDonald, Ryan McHenry
Winner: “Hereditary,” Ari Aster
Cinematography:
“Annihilation,” Rob Hardy
“Revenge,” Robrecht Heyvaert
“The Nun,” Maxime Alexandre
“Overlord,” Laurie Rose, Fabian Wagner
“Tumbbad,” Pankaj Kumar
Winner: “Annihilation,” Rob Hardy
Production Design:
“The Nun,” Jennifer Spence
“Hell Fest,” Michael Perry
“Apostle,” Tom Pearce
“Overlord,” Jon Henson
“The Strangers: Prey at Night,” Freddy Waff
Winner: “Overlord,” Jon Henson
Best Score:
“Mandy,” Jóhann Jóhannsson
“Halloween,” John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies
“Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich,” Fabio Frizzi
“Suspiria,” Thom Yorke
“Hereditary,” Colin Stetson
Winner: “Halloween,” John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies
Makeup FX:
“Suspiria”
“Terrified”
“Halloween”
“The Nun”
Winner: “Suspiria”
Creature FX:
“The Ritual”
“Annihilation”
“The Predator”
“Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich”
“Primal Rage”
Winner: “The Ritual”
Visual Effects:
“Annihilation”
“A Quiet Place”
“Overlord”
“The Predator”
“The House with a Clock in Its Walls”
Winner: “Annihilation”
Which categories would you like to have seen in the All-Horror edition of the Oscars? Are you satisfied with the results? Hereditary swept up a lot of awards this season; do you agree or disagree? Competition was stiff, and 2019 is on track to make the award season even tougher next year!
The trailer for Ti West’s upcoming adaptation of A Christmas Carol raised a lot of eyebrows when it dropped earlier this week. While plenty of folks initially dismissed Ebenezer as a derivative project meant to cash in on the recent wave of unnecessary prequels that expand the backstory of beloved characters (such as 2023’s Wonka), Charles Dickens’ original novel already made a point of exploring Ebenezer Scrooge’s origins in detail – meaning that this new film is likely just a particularly faithful adaptation of the source material under a different name.
Couple that with the fact that the movie is being helmed by a genuine horror auteur and I think it’s safe to say that the latest iteration of the first modern ghost story is in good hands.
That being said, one detail that immediately jumped out at me during the brief teaser (other than a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nod to Johnny Depp’s iconic bedroom death scene from the original A Nightmare on Elm Street) is the fact that many of Ebenezer’s ghosts appear to have been directly lifted from the iconic John Leech illustrations that accompanied the first edition of Dickens’ novel.
Here are a couple of stills from the trailer compared to the original artwork:
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
The Phantoms in ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Ebenezer’
Marley’s Ghost in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
Mainly working with old-school wood and steel engravings that would later be transferred to print, Leech was instrumental in crafting the iconic look of history’s most influential phantoms – especially since Dickens is said to have been deeply involved with the creation of these so-called “comic illustrations.”
And since the novel is commonly said to have popularized spiritualism in Victorian England, much of the ghostly iconography that we still see in genre media to this very day (including some of Ti West’s previous films) can be traced back to the author’s partnership with Leech.
Ebenezer won’t be the first A Christmas Carol adaptation to borrow heavily from these designs, but I can appreciate how Ti West is incorporating an important part of horror history into his latest film.
Ebenezer will be available in theaters starting November 13.
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