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IMPORTANT NOTE
Voting starts once the last release of December is unleashed on the populace, December 15th. 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.
NO VOTING UNTIL DECEMBER 15 2020
VOTING CLOSES JANUARY 15 2021
And your 2020 Criterion Forum Awards categories are…
BEST RELEASE Numbered in order from 1-5. Must vote for five titles to have your ballot counted. Boxed sets can also be voted for in this category
BEST “NORMAL” BOXED SET
BEST “BIG” 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 Former DVD titles upgraded without new features
BEST COVER
WORST COVER
BEST PACKAGING - NON-BOXED SET INDIVIDUAL RELEASE
BEST PACKAGING - BOXED SET
BEST DISCOVERY For the film that is, as the NBC commercials used to say, new to you
MOST UNNECESSARY RELEASE 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 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
2020 RELEASES
1009 Holiday
1010 Le Petit Soldat
1011 Fail Safe
1012 All About My Mother
1013 Teorema
1014 Roma
1015-1017 Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman
1018 Paris is Burning
1019 Bamboozled
1020 Leave Her to Heaven
1021 Showboat
1022 the Prince of Tides
1023 the Cremator
1024 Destry Rides Again
1025 the Grand Budapest Hotel
1026 Me and You and Everyone We Know
1027 the Great Escape
1028 Dance, Girl, Dance
1029 Husbands
1030 Scorsese Shorts
1031 Wildlife
1032 An Unmarried Woman
1033 the Cameraman
1034 Portrait of a Lady on Fire
1035 Come and See
1036 Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits
1037 the War of the Worlds
1038 Marriage Story
1039 Town Bloody Hall
1040 Toni
1041 the Comfort of Strangers
1042 Beau travail
1043 Christ Stopped at Eboli
1044-1050 Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 3
1051 the Elephant Man
1052 Claudine
1053 the Gunfighter
1054 Parasite
1055 Girlfriends
1056 Moonstruck
1057 Ghost Dog: the Way of the Samurai
1058 the Irishman
1059 Crash
1060 Amores perros
--- the Complete Films of Agnes Varda
--- the Essential Fellini
REISSUES
045 Taste of Cherry
103 the Lady Eve
122 Salesman
146 the Cranes Are Flying
155 Tokyo Olympiad
UPGRADES
177 the Lost Honor of Katharina Bloom
342 Six Moral Tales
350 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes by William Greaves
363 Mouchette
380 the Naked City
383 Brute Force
421 Pierrot le fou
425 Antonio Gaudi
469 the Hit
515 The Fugitive Kind
ELIGIBLE BONUS FILMS
Holiday (Holiday)
The Birth of a Film Legend (museum doc, Journey to the Beginning of Time)
Why Zeman Made the Film (museum doc, Journey to the Beginning of Time)
Where the Film Was Shot (museum doc, Journey to the Beginning of Time)
Special-Effects Techniques (museum doc, Journey to the Beginning of Time)
Restoration Demonstration (museum doc, Journey to the Beginning of Time)
A Christmas Dream (Invention for Destruction)
A Horseshoe for Luck (Invention for Destruction)
Inspiration (Invention for Destruction)
King Lavra (Invention for Destruction)
Why Zeman Made the Film (museum doc, Invention for Destruction)
His Best Special Effects (museum doc, Invention for Destruction)
Restoring a World of Fantasy (museum doc, Invention for Destruction)
Restoration Demonstration (museum doc, Invention for Destruction)
Film Adventurer: Karel Zeman (The Fabulous Baron Munchausen)
Why Zeman Made the Film (museum doc, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen)
The Cast (museum doc, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen)
His Best Special Effects (museum doc, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen)
Karel Zeman, the Legend Continues (museum doc, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen)
Karel Zeman and the World (museum doc, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen)
Restoration Showreel (museum doc, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen)
Globesman (Salesman)
Blak Iz Blak (Bamboozled)
Dream with No Love (Bamboozled)
Hurricane Kalatozov (The Cranes Are Flying)
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (Show Boat)
The Junk Shop (The Cremator)
Music by Zdeněk Liška (The Cremator)
Open to the World (Me and You and Everyone We Know)
July Interviews July: Deauville, 2005 (Me and You and Everyone We Know)
The Amateurist (Me and You and Everyone We Know)
Nest of Tens (Me and You and Everyone We Know)
Joanie 4 Jackie: A Quick Overview (Me and You and Everyone We Know)
Dear Mom (Me and You and Everyone We Know)
The Slow Escape (Me and You and Everyone We Know)
No Place Like Home (Me and You and Everyone We Know)
Gigi (From 9 to 5) (Me and You and Everyone We Know)
"The Great Escape": Heroes Underground (The Great Escape)
Flaming Memory (Come and See)
How "Come and See" Was Filmed (Come and See)
Spite Marriage (The Cameraman)
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM (The Cameraman)
The Motion Picture Camera (The Cameraman)
Game of Death II (Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits, Disc 6)
Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend (Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits, Disc 6)
Project (Taste of Cherry)
Reflections on a Political Cinema (Christ Stopped at Eboli)
Humberto & "Lucia" (World Cinema Project No. 3)
Joyce at 34 (Girlfriends)
Commuters (Girlfriends)
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (Variety Lights)
Giulietta Masina: The Power of a Smile (Nights of Cabiria)
Once Upon a Time: "La dolce vita" (La dolce vita)
Toby Dammit (Juliet of the Spirits)
Reporter's Diary: "Zoom on Fellini" (Juliet of the Spirits)
The Secret Diary of "Amarcord" (Amarcord)
Fellini racconta: Diary of a Film (And the Ship Sails On)
Fellini racconta: Passegiatte nella memoria (Intervista)
Fellini's TV (Intervista)
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember (Essential Fellini)
ELIGIBLE COMMENTARIES
the Prince of Tides (because of new additions)
the Grand Budapest Hotel
Parasite
Il bidone
MINKIN'S COVER ROUND-UP
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The role of Minkin was played by swo17 this year
Bonus films and commentaries compiled by swo17