Due to bandwidth constraints, several of the MOSÆC Artistically Entertaining Awards are presented in a traditional fashion ;-). The remaining awards in the Artistic Category are:

Best Visual Effects (Film) – Transformers, Paramount/Dreamworks

Best Film Editing - Christopher Rouse, The Bourne Ultimatum, Universal

Best Costume Design (Film) – Atonement, Focus Features, Jacqueline Durran

Best Makeup (Film) - Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald, La Vie en Rose, Picture House

Best Art Direction (Film) – Atonement, Focus Features, Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood, Set Decoration: Katie Spencer

Best Television Series – Drama - The Sopranos, HBO

Æ Redux - Best Television Series – Drama - The Wire, HBO (2006)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Edie Falco, The Sopranos, HBO

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - David Duchovny, Californication, Showtime

Best Television Series – Comedy or Musical – Entourage, HBO

Best Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Television Series - Vanessa Williams, Ugly Betty, ABC

Æ Redux Best Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Television Series – Drama - Felicia Pearson, The Wire, HBO (2006)

Best Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Television Series - Jeremy Piven, Entourage, HBO

Æ Redux Best Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Television Series – Michael K. Williams, The Wire, HBO (2002)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made For Television - Queen Latifah - Life Support, HBO Films.  

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made For Television - Adam Beach – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, HBO Films.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made For Television - Anna Paquin – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, HBO Films.

Best Performance by an Actor in A Supporting Role in A Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television - August Schellenberg – Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, HBO Films.

Best New Television Series - The Bionic Woman, (NBC) – Doubts as to whether anyone could eclipse the impression made by Lindsay Wagner were soon removed as this century’s Jaime Somers began kicking a$$ and taking names.  A total revamping of the 1980’s version, the new series is appointment TV.

Best Original Score – Motion Picture - Clint Eastwood, Grace Is Gone

Best Original Song – Motion Picture - "Grace Is Gone," Grace Is Gone, Music By: Clint Eastwood; Lyrics By: Carole Bayer Sager

Best Song Featured in a Motion Picture -”In A Manner of Speaking,” A Mighty Heart; Performed by Nouvelle Vague

Æ Redux - Best Song Featured in a Motion Picture -”Mas,” Man on Fire, Performed by Kinky (2004)

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture - Talk to Me, (Various Artists), Atlantic/WEA MORE >>>

The remaining awards in the Entertaining Category are:

Best Depiction of Male Nudity
- Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises, Focus Features. Two words - nice package :-p.

Æ Redux - Best Depiction of Male Nudity - Ving Rhames, Baby Boy, Sony Pictures (2001). Two words
- nice bum (_!_).

Best Depiction of Almost Male Nudity
- Ray Winstone, Beowulf, Paramount.
Two words - nice striptease ;-).

Best Depiction of Almost Female Nudity - Angelina Jolie, Beowulf, Paramount. Covered in liquid gold or butt a$$ naked? You decide.

Best One Liner - “F*ck Me Sideways,” Uttered by Paul Giamatti in Shoot ‘Em Up, New Line Cinema

Æ Redux - Best One Liner - “I usually get kissed before I get f*cked,” Uttered by Michael Douglass in Black Rain, Paramount Pictures (1989). This one liner was given new life in 2006 when uttered by Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond, Warner Bros.

Best Junket Interlude - Denzel Washington & Russell Crowe on Selecting Acting Roles, American Gangster, October 20, 2007

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Denzel Washington & Russell Crowe (October 20, 2007)

 

Æ Redux - Best Junket Interlude - Tim Robbins on Just Saying No to Film Offers, Catch A Fire, October 5, 2006

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Tim Robbins  (October 5, 2006)

 

One to Watch Award (Actor) - Nate Parker, The Great Debaters, MGM Distribution Company

One to Watch Award (Actress) – Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone, Miramax

One to Watch Award (Producer) - Will Packer, Stomp the Yard (Sony Pictures); This Christmas (Sony Pictures); Honeydripper (Emerging Pictures)

One to Watch Award (Director) – Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone, Miramax

Best Actor: Motion Capture - Ray Winstone, Beowulf, Paramount

Æ Redux - Best Actor: Motion Capture – Savion Glover, Happy Feet (Warner Bros.) (2006).

Best Actress: Motion Capture - Robin Wright Penn, Beowulf, Paramount

Sans Souci Salute (Actress) - Amanda Peet, Martian Child (New Line Cinema), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (NBC Universal), Terra (Snoot Entertainment)

Sans Souci Salute (Actor) - Jake Gyllenhaal, Rendition (New Line Cinema), The Zodiac (Paramount)

Sans Souci Salute (Writer/Director) - James C. Strouse, Grace is Gone (The Weinstein Company)

Recycled Rhythms Award – “Explosion & Aftermath,” by Harry Gregson-Williams. Although used in the trailer for A Mighty Heart (starring Angelina Jolie), this rhythm was originally created for the soundtrack to Spy Game (2001) (starring Brad Pitt)...

It would be too easy to suggest that Brangelina pillow talk had anything to do with this recycled rhythm. But it is curious that the rhythm from a spy flick would be used to promote a film about a journalist whose day job was with the WSJ, not the CIA. Another piece of trivia - Harry Gregson-Williams was behind the Mr. & Mrs. Smith soundtrack where Brangelina was born…Hmmm.

Demand A Refund Award - Feel the Noise, TriStar Pictures. Even watching this for free will have one thinking, “That’s 86 minutes of my life that I can’t get back :-o!” Skip it and buy anything by a Reggaeton musician instead.

Hall of Shame Award - Norbit, Paramount Pictures. Eddie Murphy has issues with full-figured people that are best dealt with in therapy and not on celluloid.

WTF*CK! Entertainment Moment of 2007 - The Sopranos (Episode 21: Made in America).

Æ Redux - WTF*CK! Entertainment Moment of 2006 – HBO announces that Season 5 will be the last season of The Wire and no subsequent announcement is made of plans to produce a major motion picture based on the series.

Best Reality Show Moment - Best Reality Show Moment - Krystal Lee and Vanessa Hamilton Smackdown, College Hill - Virgin Islands, BET

Honorable Mention - Marie Osmond Faints, Dancing With the Stars, ABC. Watching the Little Miss Country fade to black was well worth looping.

Best Sports Moment - US Davis Cup Victory over Russia. Andy Roddick, James Blake and Bob and Mike Bryan brought the Davis Cup back to American soil after the US team’s crushing defeat of the Russian Davis Cup squad that featured the gambling controversy-plagued Nikolai Davydenko. The Russian mercurial tennis hottie, Marat Safin, was sadly not in attendance.

“I did not have Steroidal Relations with my Protégé” Award – Tie – Barry Bonds, San Francisco Giants and Roger Clemens, formerly of the New York Yankees. Of course, Marion Jones was in hot contention for this award until her ‘I’ve been lying and denying for too long and must now ‘fess up’ press conference in October 2007.

Unsportsmanlike Conduct Award – Michael Vick, Atlanta Falcons – Dog fighting? Besides being cruel and unusual, it’s so low brow. It’s only fitting that Vick spends time behind bars for his deeds. Here’s a suggestions for his parole penance – a 40 hour/week assignment to a manual pooper scooper detail.

Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda Demeritorious Award - No Country For Old Men, Miramax.  Although the Coen Brothers have probably crafted a film that is worthy of the accolades that it has received, apparently the film is only for certain journalists' consideration as MOSÆC’s rsvp to an awards screening was rejected.   Mentioning that MOSÆC voted for Film Independent's Spirit Awards and that MOSÆC was considering the film for its own awards as well as that of a film critics association comprised of people of color was insufficient for the film's gatekeepers. 

Thankfully, MOSÆC didn’t have to receive its dis in public after all voicemail is just as effective...LOL...

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Lastly, the following are MOSÆC.com’s top films for 2007: 

Top 10 Films for 2007

1. Juno

2. Talk to Me

3. The Namesake

4. The Bourne Ultimatum

5. American Gangster

6. No End in Sight

7. Beowulf

8. The Savages

9. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

10. A Mighty Heart

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