In retrospect . . . not the best title for a film award that's not about pornography, but "Best Mature Film" doesn't sound quite right and "Most Controversial" isn't necessarily what the award is about. My goal for this category was to highlight the fact that the movie industry is often terrified of receiving an R rating for fear of dropped sales. Even though several award nominations that boast those bold ratings still rake in loads of cash each year, this is about showing appreciation for the few films that don't worry about the restriction rating or reviews they get, and instead choose to bravely lead us down a new path.
This award is for us to shine a spotlight on which movie had the most guts without sacrificing skill or style. It has to have mature themes, scenes, characters, and/or plots, and hopefully also change how people look at something when the credits are done drifting off the screen. It's about rewarding a film for doing something bold and doing it well.
What's often the case is that the more uncomfortable a topic is, the more the director thinks it's worth exploring, and that was certainly the case for many films last year. Make your award predictions and then keep reading to see who won!
While this isn't a big deal to most of you (since I assume Flixist readers are part of a cool motorcycle gang that terrorizes a single small town once a year), the cast of Pitch Perfect (minus Anna Kendrick and Adam Devine) ...
| Nick Valdez |
We've gone through a lot of awards over the past week honoring some of the best films in pretty much every way we can, but now we come to it. No more genres or categories, simply put, what follows is the best movie of the yea...
| Matthew Razak |
The much maligned documentary gets an unfair shake. You say documentary to someone and they think talking heads and boredom. However, as this year's nominees show, that's pretty much one of the most inaccurate statements ever...
| Matthew Razak |
Much like this year's Best Actress Oscar nominations, our Flixist Award nominees ranged from girls about 9 years old to women about 90 years old. Quvenzhané Wallis from Beasts of the Southern Wild was a lot of people's...
| Liz Rugg |
As a hopeful screenwriter, Best Screenplay is the one award I pay the most attention to in every awards. Our kind isn't so often publicly recognized, no matter how handsome we all are. Screenplays are important thou...
| Nathan Hardisty |
As we award the best of 2012 with shiny golden dino statues it's important to note that sometimes movies aren't good. Sometimes movies are really, really, really, really, really, ridiculously bad. And we don't mean bad simply...
| Matthew Razak |
While we were stuck in Oscar mania, another set of awards took place a few nights beforehand. The 33rd Golden Raspberry Awards handed out "awards" to "winners" in ten categories ranging from Worst Actor to Worst Remake, Rip-O...
| Nick Valdez |
The 2012 Flixist Awards (known as the Golden Pterodactyls by those in the know) have arrived. Now that those far less important awards have come and gone, it's time to get down to the ones that really matter. We'll be spendin...
| Matthew Razak |
They're over! We stayed up late and watched them all and now we have the winners. If you missed our Google Hangout of the show you can check it out here. You'll learn about statue polishing robot technique, our ability to get...
| Matthew Razak |
Update: And we're live! All dressed up and ready for the Oscars! You can watch the Hangout right here and talk with us in the comments. If you want to join the hangout just let us know and we can invite you. You know wh...
| Matthew Razak |
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