The 2013 East Powderhorn Critical Film Society Awards: The Nominees
On January 20, 2014, EPCFS members T.A. Wardrope and Melissa Hansen announced the nominees for the first annual Hornie Awards. The nominees were selected from motion picture programs which premiered in 2013.
While everyone on this list is certainly worthy of the honors bestowed on them, choices must be made, so the winner of each category will be announced on the conclusion of awards season, March 3, 2014. (So that we may ship their Hornie in a timely manner, a small shipping and processing fee will be charged to the recipients of the winning award.)
The Hornie Award
While it could be said that supporting the annual award season paradigm is perpetuating the illusion of ideological hegemony which the movie industry packages into what it calls "entertainment", not to mention the implication that there is some allegiance to artistic quality in the calculus of the multiplex, the EPCFS believes that every viewer is a critic and every critic can have a voice. So, we welcome your input and may consider these ideas as something like "votes".
Please participate in the discussion of these nominated films by including the hashtag #hornieaward in your twitter suggestions.
- Orange Cat, Inside Lleywn Davis
- Baboons, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- Giraffe, Hangover 3
- Bulldog, Pacific Rim
- Dog, The Man of Steel
- Captain Phillips
- GI Joe: Retaliation
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- World War Z
- Javier Bardem, The Counselor
- Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
- Elizabeth Banks, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- John Goodman, Inside Lleywn Davis
- Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
- Christian Bale, American Hustle
- Amy Adams, American Hustle
- Coen Brothers, Inside Lleywn Davis
- Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
- Vince Vaughn, The Internship
- Bill Pohlad, Producer, 12 Years a Slave*
- Jessica Lange, American Horror Story
- Dan Bakkedahl, The Heat
- Javier Bardem, The Counselor
- Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
- James Franco, Spring Breakers
- Fred Melamed, In a World
- August: Osage County*
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Pacific Rim
- Elysium
- Only God Forgives
- The World’s End
Best post credit sequence
- Anchorman 2
- Iron Man 3
- Thor 2
- Wolverine
- Cameron Diaz, The Counselor
- Amy Adams, American Hustle
- Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
- Scarlett Johanssen, Don Jon
- Pacific Rim
- The Desolation of Smaug
- Sharknado
- This is the End
- Captain Phillips
- The Desolation of Smaug
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- The Conjuring
- Evil Dead (2013)
- Spring Breakers
- Thor 2: The Dark World
- The Desolation of Smaug
- GI Joe: Retaliation
- 47 Ronin
- Spring Breakers
- Leonardo DiCaprio, The Great Gatsby
- Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
- Robert Downey, Jr., Iron Man 3
- Ken Marino, In a World
- Thor 2
- World War Z
- The Man of Steel
- The Wolverine
- A Good Day to Die Hard
- Birdemic 2
Best onscreen mayhem that didn’t require a stuntman or pyrotechnics
- August: Osage County*
- Gravity
- Star Trek: Into Darkness
- This is the End
- World War Z
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Star Trek: Into Darkness
- The Desolation of Smaug
- The Fifth Estate*
- August: Osage County*
- 12 Years a Slave*
- Idris Elba/Stringer Bell, Pacific Rim
- Idris Elba/Stringer Bell, Mandela, Long Walk To Freedom*
- Michael K. Williams/Omar Little, 12 Years a Slave*
- Wendell Edward Pierce/Detective Bunk Moreland, Parker *
- Andre Royo/Bubbles,The Spectacular Now*
- Michael Bakari Jordan/Wallace, Fruitvale Station*
- Lance Reddick/Cedric Daniels, White House Down*
- The Lords of Salem
- Aftershock
- After Earth
- R.I.P.D.*
- Escape Plan*
- Charlie Sheen Live*
- Spring Breakers
*= A film we have not viewed to date.
The 2013 East Powderhorn Critical Film Society Awards: The Nominees
On January 20, 2014, EPCFS members T.A. Wardrope and Melissa Hansen announced the nominees for the first annual Hornie Awards. The nominees were selected from motion picture programs which premiered in 2013.
While everyone on this list is certainly worthy of the honors bestowed on them, choices must be made, so the winner of each category will be announced on the conclusion of awards season, March 3, 2014. (So that we may ship their Hornie in a timely manner, a small shipping and processing fee will be charged to the recipients of the winning award.)
The Hornie Award
While it could be said that supporting the annual award season paradigm is perpetuating the illusion of ideological hegemony which the movie industry packages into what it calls "entertainment", not to mention the implication that there is some allegiance to artistic quality in the calculus of the multiplex, the EPCFS believes that every viewer is a critic and every critic can have a voice. So, we welcome your input and may consider these ideas as something like "votes".
Please participate in the discussion of these nominated films by including the hashtag #hornieaward in your twitter suggestions.
- Orange Cat, Inside Lleywn Davis
- Baboons, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- Giraffe, Hangover 3
- Bulldog, Pacific Rim
- Dog, The Man of Steel
- Captain Phillips
- GI Joe: Retaliation
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- World War Z
- Javier Bardem, The Counselor
- Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
- Elizabeth Banks, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- John Goodman, Inside Lleywn Davis
- Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
- Christian Bale, American Hustle
- Amy Adams, American Hustle
- Coen Brothers, Inside Lleywn Davis
- Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
- Vince Vaughn, The Internship
- Bill Pohlad, Producer, 12 Years a Slave*
- Jessica Lange, American Horror Story
- Dan Bakkedahl, The Heat
- Javier Bardem, The Counselor
- Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
- James Franco, Spring Breakers
- Fred Melamed, In a World
- August: Osage County*
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Pacific Rim
- Elysium
- Only God Forgives
- The World’s End
Best post credit sequence
- Anchorman 2
- Iron Man 3
- Thor 2
- Wolverine
- Cameron Diaz, The Counselor
- Amy Adams, American Hustle
- Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
- Scarlett Johanssen, Don Jon
- Pacific Rim
- The Desolation of Smaug
- Sharknado
- This is the End
- Captain Phillips
- The Desolation of Smaug
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- The Conjuring
- Evil Dead (2013)
- Spring Breakers
- Thor 2: The Dark World
- The Desolation of Smaug
- GI Joe: Retaliation
- 47 Ronin
- Spring Breakers
- Leonardo DiCaprio, The Great Gatsby
- Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
- Robert Downey, Jr., Iron Man 3
- Ken Marino, In a World
- Thor 2
- World War Z
- The Man of Steel
- The Wolverine
- A Good Day to Die Hard
- Birdemic 2
Best onscreen mayhem that didn’t require a stuntman or pyrotechnics
- August: Osage County*
- Gravity
- Star Trek: Into Darkness
- This is the End
- World War Z
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Star Trek: Into Darkness
- The Desolation of Smaug
- The Fifth Estate*
- August: Osage County*
- 12 Years a Slave*
- Idris Elba/Stringer Bell, Pacific Rim
- Idris Elba/Stringer Bell, Mandela, Long Walk To Freedom*
- Michael K. Williams/Omar Little, 12 Years a Slave*
- Wendell Edward Pierce/Detective Bunk Moreland, Parker *
- Andre Royo/Bubbles,The Spectacular Now*
- Michael Bakari Jordan/Wallace, Fruitvale Station*
- Lance Reddick/Cedric Daniels, White House Down*
- The Lords of Salem
- Aftershock
- After Earth
- R.I.P.D.*
- Escape Plan*
- Charlie Sheen Live*
- Spring Breakers
*= A film we have not viewed to date.