IMPORTANT NOTE
Voting starts once the last release of December is unleashed on the populace, December 13th. You may post in this thread before that, but any lists posted early will, as always, be deleted and your message replaced with Gossip Girl GIFs.
Please either post your votes in this thread or PM me, domino harvey. You may or may not vote in most categories, but you must provide a ranked Top Five to be counted at all. No ties will be counted in any category, so make the hard decision if you want your vote to matter.
VOTING CLOSES JANUARY 13 2017
And your 2016 Criterion Awards categories are…
BEST RELEASE Numbered in order from 1-5. Must vote for five titles to have your ballot counted
BEST BOXED SET
BEST MODERN FILM "New" (within the last five years) films released by Criterion
BEST COMMENTARY New commentaries only, not ports of existing discs from other labels/studios (see list below)
BEST "BONUS" FILM See list below
BEST BOOKLET
BEST ON-DISC NON-COMMENTARY EXTRA
BEST REISSUE
BEST UPGRADE
BEST COVER
WORST COVER Do we need a primary to whittle the options down?
BEST PACKAGING
BEST DISCOVERY For the film that is, as the NBC commercials used to say, new to you
MOST UNNECESSARY RELEASE A new category! For the film that didn’t need to join the Collection, either for personal reasons (you hate it) or because Criterion’s additions added little to already available editions
MOST FLAWED RELEASE Name adjustment! For Criterion's treatment, not the film itself
BEST THREAD For the discussion that yielded the most interesting insights or entertainment this year
MEMBER OF THE YEAR For the member with the best contributions to the forum this year
RICHARD CRANIUM AWARD For the member with the worst contributions to the forum this year
2016 RELEASES
790-791 Lady Snowblood / Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance
792 Bitter Rice
793 the American Friend
794 Inside Llewyn Davis
795 Gilda
796-797 the Emigrants / the New Land
798 Death by Hanging
799 the Kid
800 the Graduate
801 I Knew Her Well
802 Paris Belongs to Us
803 the Manchurian Candidate
804 A Brighter Summer Day
805 A Poem is a Naked Person
806 Only Angels Have Wings
807 Barcelona
808 the Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates
809 Phoenix
810 In a Lonely Place
811 the Naked Island
812 the Player
813-816 Wim Wenders: the Road Trilogy
— Alice in the Cities
— Wrong Move
— Kings of the Road
817 Le amiche
818 La chienne
819 Here Comes Mr Jordan
820 Fantastic Planet
821 Dr Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
822 Clouds of Sils Maria
823 the In-Laws
824 Muriel, or the Time of Return
825 A Touch of Zen
826 the New World
827 McCabe and Mrs Miller
828 Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
829 A Taste of Honey
830 Chimes at Midnight
831 the Immortal Story
832 the Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
833 Cat People
834 Blood Simple
835 Valley of the Dolls
836 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
837 Dekalog
838 Pan’s Labyrinth
839 Boyhood
840 the Executioner
841 Lone Wolf and Cub
— Sword of Vengeance
— Baby Cart at the River Styx
— Baby Cart to Hades
— Baby Cart in Peril
— Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
— White Heaven in Hell
842 Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
843 Punch-Drunk Love
844 One-Eyed Jacks
845 the Squid and the Whale
846 Heart of a Dog
847 the Asphalt Jungle
848 Roma
REISSUES
63 Carnival of Souls
197 Night and Fog
265 Short Cuts
UPGRADES
374 Bicycle Thieves
394 Woman in the Dunes
459 the Exterminating Angel
523 Night Train to Munich
COLLECTED SETS (Not eligible for Best Boxed Set)
3 Films by Whit Stillman
Trilogia de Guillermo del Toro
BONUS FILMS
Giuseppe De Santis (Bitter Rice)
Another Day, Another Time (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Sunday (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Diary of Yunbogi (Death by Hanging)
Nice and Friendly (the Kid)
Le Coup du berger (Paris Belongs to Us)
Likely Consequence (A Brighter Summer Day)
Our Time, Our Story (A Brighter Summer Day)
Out in the Woods (A Poem Is a Naked Person)
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (In a Lonely Place)
Robert Altman's Players (The Player)
Same Player Shoots Again (Alice in the Cities)
Silver City Revisited (Alice in the Cities)
On purge bébé (La Chienne)
Les Temps morts (Fantastic Planet)
Les Escargots (Fantastic Planet)
Laloux sauvage (Fantastic Planet)
Cloud Phenomena of Maloja (Clouds of Sils Maria)
King Hu: 1932-1997 (A Touch of Zen)
Momma Don't Allow (A Taste of Honey)
Portrait: Orson Welles (the Immortal Story)
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (Cat People)
A Short Film About Killing (Dekalog)
A Short Film About Love (Dekalog)
Making of "Dreams" (Akira Kurosawa's Dreams)
Shogun Assassin (Lone Wolf and Cub)
Sword of the Samurai (Lone Wolf and Cub)
Pharos of Chaos (the Asphalt Jungle)
LIST OF ELIGIBLE COMMENTARIES
Inside Llewyn Davis
the Kid
A Brighter Summer Day
Primary
In a Lonely Place
Chimes at Midnight
Boyhood
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Roma
Cover collage by Minkin, commentaries and bonus films compiled by swo17
