The Bob Awards

As a film fanatic in my teens and early twenties I took part in the time honored tradition that so many of us do. Waking up at 5:30 AM to watch the Oscar nominations and immediately begin complaining about them. After a few years of this I decided that if I wasn’t happy with the Academy’s choices then I should create my own awards. So I started the imaginatively named…Bob Awards. (It only occurs to me now that had I been named Oscar I’d have had a problem. Bullet dodged. Thanks, Mom and Dad.)

I have been doing these for a little over a decade now but this is the first time I will be sharing the Bob Award nominations as a writer for More Than One Lesson and I am very excited. I really hope you enjoy them. If you don’t like these nominees then by all means create your own movie awards. Go on. Do it! I dare you!… No, really, you’ll feel better. It works for me. (If your name is Bob or Oscar though then I’m so sorry, but you’ll just have to accept these.) Of course I still complain about the Oscar nominations. But slightly less. And I guess that’s something.

I will be back before the Oscars to reveal the winners in not only these categories but several others.

Best Picture
ARRIVAL
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS
HELL OR HIGH WATER
LA LA LAND
MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
A MONSTER CALLS
MOONLIGHT
SILENCE
SWISS ARMY MAN
ZOOTOPIA

Best Director
Denis Villeneuve, ARRIVAL
David MacKenzie, HELL OR HIGH WATER
Damien Chazelle, LA LA LAND
Jeff Nichols, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
J.A. Bayona, A MONSTER CALLS
Barry Jenkins, MOONLIGHT

Best Actor
Casey Affleck, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
Ben Foster, HELL OR HIGH WATER
Ryan Gosling, THE NICE GUYS
Hugh Grant, FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS
Tom Hanks, SULLY
Denzel Washington, FENCES

Best Actress
Amy Adams, ARRIVAL
Kate Beckinsale, LOVE & FRIENDSHIP
Viola Davis, FENCES
Ruth Negga, LOVING
Emma Stone, LA LA LAND
Meryl Streep, FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS

Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali, MOONLIGHT
Gil Birmingham, HELL OR HIGH WATER
Jeff Bridges, HELL OR HIGH WATER
Daniel Radcliffe, SWISS ARMY MAN
Michael Shannon, NOCTURNAL ANIMALS
Patrick Stewart, GREEN ROOM

Best Supporting Actress
Olivia Colman, THE LOBSTER
Naomie Harris, MOONLIGHT
Felicity Jones, A MONSTER CALLS
Jena Malone, THE NEON DEMON
Alison Sudol, FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
Michelle Williams, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

Best Original Screenplay
Taylor Sheridan, HELL OR HIGH WATER
Damien Chazelle, LA LA LAND
Kenneth Lonergan, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
Shane Black & Anthony Bagarozzi, THE NICE GUYS
Daniel Scheinert & Dan Kwan, SWISS ARMY MAN
Jared Bush & Phil Johnston, ZOOTOPIA

Best Adapted Screenplay
Eric Heisserer, ARRIVAL
August Wilson, FENCES
Patrick Ness, A MOSTER CALLS
Barry Jenkins & Tarell Alvin McCraney, MOONLIGHT
Tom Ford, NOCTURNAL ANIMALS
Jay Cocks & Martin Scorsese, SILENCE

Best Original Score
James Newton Howard, FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, HELL OR HIGH WATER
Mica Levi, JACKIE
Justin Hurwitz, LA LA LAND
Nicholas Britell, MOONLIGHT

Best Animated Film
FINDING DORY
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS
MOANA
ZOOTOPIA

Best Ensemble Cast
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS
HELL OR HIGH WATER
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
MOONLIGHT
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS
SILENCE