Nominees Announced for People’s Choice Movie Awards
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, November
30 2012.
Nominees
Announced for People’s Choice Movie
Awards
Film website Flicks.co.nz
has announced the nominees for 17 categories in The
TelstraClear Flicks.co.nz People's Choice Movie
Awards. These brand-spanking new awards will let
the people of New Zealand bestow recognition on their
favourite films of 2012, covering a range of genres,
recognising a variety of performances, and eventually
narrowing it down to one supreme winner – the Movie of the
Year.
Amongst a tight field of contenders leading the nominations are The Dark Knight Rises and Moonrise Kingdom. Both are nominated in four categories, as is late entry The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey which makes a last-minute run for victory after its premiere this week.
Nipping at their heels are films such as Argo, The Avengers, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Martha Marcy May Marlene and Skyfall, showing that 2012 has been another awesome year at the movies.
“Most people would agree that we’ve been spoiled for choice by the number of great films this year,” says Flicks.co.nz Editor Steve Newall, “and now I’m looking forward to these films scrapping it out for the glory of taking home one of these awards”.
The award winners are decided by public vote throughout December, and announced in early January before the 2013 American award season heats up. New Zealanders can vote from the 1st of December at www.flicks.co.nz/awards. Everyone who votes goes in the draw to win a huge haul of prizes from Sony, Event Cinemas, Video Ezy, Madman and Rip It Up that will wow even the most hardcore movie lovers.
Nominees were decided after making a long-list of the public’s most-viewed and best-reviewed films on Flicks.co.nz during 2012, and then consulting with the site’s team of writers and reviewers to narrow these options down to the six nominees in each category. The full list follows, and can also be seen – and voted on – at www.flicks.co.nz/awards
And
The Nominees Are…
BEST MOVIE sponsored
by TelstraClear
Argo
The Avengers
The
Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit: An Unexpected
Journey
Killing Them Softly
Moonrise
Kingdom
BEST NZ MOVIE sponsored by Event
Cinemas
Fresh Meat
Good For Nothing
How to
Meet Girls from a Distance
Kiwi Flyer
The Most Fun You
Can Have Dying
Two Little Boys
BEST ACTION
sponsored by Quickflix
The Avengers
The Dark
Knight Rises
Dredd
The Grey
The
Raid
Skyfall
BEST COMEDY sponsored by
Sony
21 Jump Street
How to Meet Girls from a
Distance
The Intouchables
Moonrise Kingdom
Pitch
Perfect
Ted
BEST DRAMA
A
Separation
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Margin Call
Martha Marcy May Marlene
The Best Exotic Marigold
Hotel
Your Sister’s Sister
BEST
ROMANCE
The Deep Blue Sea
The Five-Year
Engagement
Like Crazy
Ruby Sparks
Safety Not
Guaranteed
Take This Waltz
BEST SCI-FI/FANTASY
sponsored by Video Ezy
The Hobbit: An Unexpected
Journey
The Hunger Games
John
Carter
Looper
Prometheus
Twilight: Breaking Dawn
Part 2
BEST
SUSPENSE
Argo
Headhunters
Julia’s
Eyes
Killing Them Softly
The Skin I Live In
Tinker
Tailor Soldier Spy
BEST
ANIMATED
Arrietty
Brave
Frankenweenie
Hotel
Transylvania
Madagascar 3
The Pirates! Band of
Misfits
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Brother
Number One
Buck
Crossfire Hurricane
How Far is
Heaven
Into the Abyss
Searching for Sugar
Man
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE
A
Separation
Headhunters
The Intouchables
Le
Havre
Monsieur Lazhar
The Raid
BEST
DIRECTOR
Ben Affleck, Argo
Wes Anderson,
Moonrise Kingdom
Andrew Dominik, Killing Them
Softly
Peter Jackson, The Hobbit: An Unexpected
Journey
Rian Johnson, Looper
Christopher Nolan, The
Dark Knight Rises
BEST
ACTRESS
Rosemarie DeWitt, Your Sister’s
Sister
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Elizabeth Olsen,
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk
About Kevin
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern
Wild
Michelle Williams, My Week With
Marilyn
BEST ACTOR
Javier Bardem,
Skyfall
Mark Duplass, Your Sister’s Sister
Michael
Fassbender, Shame
Ralph Fiennes, Coriolanus
John
Hawkes, The Sessions
Kevin Spacey, Margin Call
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE sponsored by Rip It
Up
Pierce Gagnon, Looper
Jared Gilman,
Moonrise Kingdom
Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May
Marlene
Aubrey Plaza, Safety Not Guaranteed
Maaka
Pohatu, Two Little Boys
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of
the Southern Wild
HERO OF THE YEAR sponsored by
Film3
Christian Bale, The Dark Knight
Rises
Daniel Craig,
Skyfall
Robert Downey Jr., The
Avengers
Martin Freeman, The Hobbit: An
Unexpected Journey
Jennifer Lawrence,
The Hunger Games
Karl Urban,
Dredd
WANKER OF THE YEAR
sponsored by George FM
All 3 Guys, Project
X
Richard Gere,
Arbitrage
Tom Hiddleston, The Avengers
Jeremy Irons, Margin Call
Shirley MacLaine,
Bernie
Jean-Claude Van Damme, The
Expendables
2
ENDS.
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People’s Choice Movie Awards
The People’s
Choice Movie Awards has been created by Flicks.co.nz as a
nationwide project, designed to let New Zealand movie lovers
choose the year’s best movies. These are the first awards.
The awards’ primary sponsor is TelstraClear. Co-sponsors
are Sony, Event Cinemas, Quickflix, Madman, Video Ezy, Rip
It Up, George FM and
Film3.