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Hi, and welcome back to the 2009 5th Annual UltimateDisney.com / DVDizzy.com Movie Awards! Many of you submitted nominations, which were tabulated and resulted in the finalists below. Of the nominees that follow, one in each category will be elected by you, the UD/DVDizzy community, as a winner.

You may vote for one and only one of the following finalists in each category. Please submit all votes to awallaceunc@gmail.com. Please make the subject of your email "UD MOVIE VOTES 2009". Any votes submitted on the message board or through PM will NOT be accepted.

You have until 11:59pm (Eastern Time) on Friday, February 20 to submit your votes. A thread for assigning presenters in the awards ceremony will be started soon.

And the nominees are...

Best Film
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E

Best Drama
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Comedy
Burn After Reading
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Mamma Mia!
Sex and the City
Tropic Thunder
WALL-E

Best Animated Feature
Bolt
Horton Hears a Who!
Kung Fu Panda
WALL-E

Best Documentary
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Man on Wire
Religulous

Best Director
Andrew Stanton (WALL-E)
Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight)
Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
John Patrick Shanley (Doubt)

Best Actor
Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road)
Sean Penn (Milk)

Best Actress
Angelina Jolie (Changeling)
Cate Blanchett (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road)
Meryl Streep (Doubt)
Meryl Streep (Mamma Mia!)

Best Supporting Actor
Brad Pitt (Burn After Reading)
Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
James Franco (Milk)
Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt)
Robert Downey, Jr. (Tropic Thunder)

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams (Doubt)
Julie Walters (Mamma Mia!)
Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight)
Viola Davis (Doubt)

Best Original Screenplay
Burn After Reading (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
The Dark Knight (Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan)
Milk (Dustin Lance Black)
Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux, Etan Cohen)
WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon)

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Eric Roth)
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
Mamma Mia! (Catherine Johnson)
Slumdog Millionaire (Simon Beaufoy)
The Spiderwick Chronicles (Karey Kirkpatrick, David Berenbaum, John Sayles)

Best Cinematography
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E

Best Costumes
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Best Make-Up
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Tropic Thunder

Best Set Design
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Mamma Mia!
Slumdog Millionaire
Tropic Thunder
WALL-E

Best Original Score
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E

Best Adapted Score
Mamma Mia!

Best Original Song
"Down to Earth" (performed by Peter Gabriel, featuring The Soweto Gospel Choir; written by Peter Gabril) from WALL-E
"Dracula's Lament" - (performed by Jason Segel; written by Jason Segel) from Forgetting Sarah Marshall
"Jai Ho" - (performed by A.R. Rahman, Sukhwinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, and Mahalakshmi Iyer; written by Gulzar) from Slumdog Millionaire
"Now or Never" (performed by Zac Efron, Vanessa Ann Hudgens, and Corbin Bleu; written by Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil) from High School Musical 3: Senior Year

Best Song Adapted for a Movie
"Dancing Queen" (performed by Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, and Meryl Streep; originally written and performed by ABBA) in Mamma Mia!
"Mamma Mia" (performed by Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Ashley Lilley, and Rachel McDowall; originally written and performed by ABBA) in Mamma Mia!
"The Muppet Show Theme" (performed by Jason Segel; written by Sam Pottle and Jim Henson; originally performed by originally performed by Jim Henson and The Muppets) in Forgetting Sarah Marshall
"Paper Planes" (performed by M.I.A.; written by M.I.A., Topper Headon, Mick Jones, Wesley Pentz, Paul Simonon, and Joe Strummer) in Slumdog Millionaire
"Por Ti Volare" (performed by Will Ferrell; written by Francesco Sartori and Lucio Quarantotto as "Con te partirò"; originally performed by Andrea Bocelli) in Step Brothers
"The Winner Takes It All" (performed by Meryl Streep; originally written and performed by ABBA) in Mamma Mia!

Best Visual Effects
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Speed Racer

Best Sound
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Mamma Mia!
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E

Best Sound Effects
The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
WALL-E

Best Editing
The Dark Knight
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E

Best Short Film
Presto
Secrets of the Furious Five
Surviving Sid
Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death

Best Sequel
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (sequel to The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe)
The Dark Knight (sequel to Batman Begins)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (sequel to Hellboy)
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (sequel to High School Musical)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark)

Best Villain
Auto/Ship's Computer (portrayed by MacInTalk, Sigourney Weaver in WALL-E)
Irina Spalko (portrayed by Cate Blanchett in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
The Joker (portrayed by Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight)
Sister Aloysius Beauvier (portrayed by Meryl Streep in Doubt)

Best Opening and/or Closing Credits
Mamma Mia!
Slumdog Millionaire
Tropic Thunder
WALL-E

Best DVD Release of a Film
101 Dalmatians: Platinum Edition (on 2-Disc DVD)
Mamma Mia!: Special Edition (on 2-Disc DVD and 1-Disc Blu-ray)
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Collectors Edition (on 2-Disc DVD and 2-Disc Blu-ray/DVD)
Sleeping Beauty: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition (on 2-Disc DVD and 3-Disc Blu-ray/DVD)
WALL-E: Special Edition (on 3-Disc DVD and 3-Disc Blu-ray/DVD)

Best Direct-to-Video Movie of the Year
I Could Never Be Your Woman
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
The Prince and the Pauper
Tinker Bell

Best Performance in a Bad Movie
Meryl Streep (Mama Mia!)
Shia LeBouf (Eagle Eye)
Tom Skerritt (Bonneville)

Worst Film of the Year
The Happening
The Love Guru
Meet the Spartans


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Thanks!

The number of nominees in a given category was determined by the number of nominations submitted for that category, with 5 being the preferable number of finalists in any given category (in the event that either 4 or 6 had to be chosen, 4 were chosen in all categories). In the event that either 2 or 10 nominees had to be chosen, 10 were selected.

-Aaron

Leading the pack with 16 nominations is The Dark Knight. The individual with the most nominations is Meryl Streep, with 7.

Here's a complete break-down by film:

• 16 - The Dark Knight
  14 - WALL-E
  13 - Mamma Mia!
  11 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  11 - Slumdog Millionaire
  10 - Doubt
  7 - Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  6 - Tropic Thunder
  4 - Changeling
  4 - Milk
  3 - Burn After Reading
  3 - Forgetting Sarah Marshall
  3 - Iron Man
  2 - Hellboy II: The Golden Army
  2 - High School Musical 3: Senior Year
  2 - Revolutionary Road
  2 - Sex and the City
  1 - 101 Dalmatians
  1 - Bolt
  1 - Bonneville
  1 - The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
  1 - The Duchess
  1 - Eagle Eye
  1 - Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
  1 - Horton Hears a Who!
  1 - I Could Never Be Your Woman
  1 - Kung Fu Panda
  1 - The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
  1 - Man on Wire
  1 - The Nightmare Before Christmas
  1 - Presto
  1 - The Prince and the Pauper
  1 - Religulous
  1 - Secrets of the Furious Five
  1 - Sleeping Beauty
  1 - Speed Racer
  1 - The Spiderwick Chronicles
  1 - Step Brothers
  1 - Surviving Sid
  1 - Tinker Bell
  1 - Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death
  -1 - The Happening
  -1 - The Love Guru
  -1 - Meet the Spartans

-Aaron

Bump.

I sent in my nominations a few minutes ago.

When will the Media Awards thread be started? (And the presentor one, too. )

I'll hopefully have both of those posted sometime tomorrow.

-Aaron

Mickeyfan, if you read the rules correctly, you would have seen that you are supposed to send your choices to Aaron's e-mail address, which is listed in the post and in his profile.

I have a question about Meryl's two noms. I have heard (though i'm not sure if it's true) that in the oscars, if an actor is nominated twice in the same category, all the votes towards the actor, regardless of film, are counted together. Is that the case here? Or are we voting in terms of the film?

lord-of-sith wrote:I have a question about Meryl's two noms. I have heard (though i'm not sure if it's true) that in the oscars, if an actor is nominated twice in the same category, all the votes towards the actor, regardless of film, are counted together. Is that the case here? Or are we voting in terms of the film?

In the acting categories, each performance is counted separately. So a submission for Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia! and a submission for Meryl Streep in Doubt are counted separately in the same way that a submission for Kate Winslet in The Reader and a submission for Queen Latifah in The Secret Life of Bees would be.

-Aaron

I've just send my votes.

I have just seen this thread & I am to late to vote

Darn. I was about to submit an E-Mail when I read that the voting ended last night. I really need to read the posts more thoughroughly.

Voting extended until midnight tonight!

-Aaron

Did you receive my votes yet?

PeterPanfan wrote:Did you receive my votes yet?

I have your Movie votes but not the Media ones

-Aaron

Extending for one more hour... votes due at 1:59 a.m. (Eastern Time) on 2/22/09.

-Aaron

Okay I know my threat of ending voting is getting old, but it turns out I am not going to finish counting these tonight after all. So...

You may still vote until 12 noon on Sunday, February 22 (Eastern Time).

-Aaron

I finally sent in my votes.

Voting has now ended. Thanks.

(Voting in the Media awards is still open).

-Aaron