The First Annual 1/10 Awards 2009!!!

The 1/10 awards are designed to highlight the worst of the year in film making. All nominees were culled from films I watched for the sake of the Dolphins, so it's the worst of what is "supposed" to be good. It should be noted that I never watched Amelia

Worst Picture
(500) Days of Summer
Avatar
The Blind Side
The Boat That Rocked
Coraline
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Julie & Julia
Public Enemies
The Road

Worst Director
James Cameron - Avatar
John Lee Hancock - The Blind Side
John Hillcoat - The Road
Michael Mann - Public Enemies
Sam Mendes - Away We Go
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

Worst Actor
Sharlto Copley - District 9
Tobey McGuire - Brothers
Viggo Mortensen - The Road
Chris Pine - Star Trek
Sam Worthington - Avatar

Worst Actress
Amy Adams - Julie & Julia
Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
Zooey Deschanel - (500) Days of Summer
Zoe Saldana - Avatar
Rachel Weisz - The Brothers Bloom

Worst Supporting Actor
Jae Head - The Blind Side
Eli Roth - Inglourious Basterds
David Schwimmer - Nothing but the Truth
Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Road
Karl Urban - Star Trek

Worst Supporting Actress
Anjoa "Ruhhhgby" Andoh - Invictus
Vera Farmiga - Nothing but the Truth
Eva Mendes - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Mo'Nique - Precious
Charlize Theron - The Road

Worst Original Screenplay
(500) Days of Summer
Avatar
The Boat That Rocked
Cold Souls
Inglourious Basterds
Up

Worst Adapted Screenplay
The Blind Side
Coraline
Invictus
Julie & Julia
Public Enemies
The Road

Worst Editing
Avatar
Big Fan
Inglourious Basterds
Public Enemies
The Road

Worst Score or Soundtrack
(500) Days of Summer
Avatar
Away We Go
Invictus
Precious

Worst Animated Film
Avatar
Coraline
Up

Worst Technical Achievement
Avatar - Smurf Effects; "Costumes"
The Brothers Bloom - Pretending to be Wes Anderson
Cold Souls - Ripping off all its ideas from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation., Synecdoche, NY and Being John Malkovich; general lack of a point
Julie & Julia - Amy Adams' hair
The Lovely Bones - Peter Jackson's dumb vision of Heaven or whatever it's supposed to be

Special Achievement: Worst 2 1/2 Hour Video Game Advertisement Masquerading as a Film
Avatar

Lifetime Failure Award: James Cameron

Few filmmaker's have mastered the twin trajectories of wasting egregious amounts of money making completely asinine shit and being a huge, egomaniacal prick the way James Cameron has. We all know the crap he's made so I'll save everyone some time and remind you all just of a couple of his achievements perhaps destined to be less remembered. Cameron spoke in "Na'vi" during his pompous, god-complex-laden Golden Globes speech and also, earlier in the decade, confirmed that not only is he a complete douche but a horrendous actor during his multi-episode guest starring role on Entourage. Congratulations Jim!

Nomination Tally
4/10 Avatar
1/7 The Road
4/5 The Blind Side
0/5 Inglourious Basterds
0/4 (500) Days of Summer
0/4 Invictus
0/4 Julie & Julia
0/4 Public Enemies
0/3 Coraline
1/2 Away We Go
0/2 The Boat That Rocked
0/2 The Brothers Bloom
1/2 Cold Souls
0/2 Nothing but the Truth
0/2 Precious
0/2 Star Trek
0/2 Up
0/1 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
0/1 Big Fan
1/1 Brothers
0/1 District 9
0/1 The Lovely Bones