Flixist Awards 2011: Reader's Choice Award[UPDATE: THIS CONTEST IS NOW OVER! Check out the winner after the jump!] You've seen us choose Drive as the best movie of the year, and deservedly so, as it's a fairly tremendously well-made picture. Now, you beautiful weirdos, it's your turn. You, yes you!, are going to vote on this year's Reader's Choice Award! The instructions are simple. Comment below with the film you thought was the best of the year, and that's it! We'll tally up the votes on Saturday and announce the winner on Sunday, just in time for the Oscars. But seriously, though, f**k the Oscars. Our awards are better. Vote! You've got until Saturday! Not only will you get to take part in our Kickin' Sweet awards, you'll be entered to win the Flixist Awards 2011 Prize Package of Awesome! What's in that prize pack? Why, it's only the top three nominees in the Best Movie category, Drive, Hugo, and Midnight in Paris! That's right! You get three of the best films of the year just for commenting! A note, though: you do NOT need to vote for one of those three movies. You can vote for any of last year's releases. This contest is available to all our readers, US and International! When you comment, make sure you leave your preference of blu-ray or DVD. Also, on Saturday, when we tally up the votes make sure to check your email inbox and your PM inbox on the top right corner of the site. We will be contacting our winner directly through email and through PM, and if you haven't responded by mid-day Sunday, we will give the prize pack to someone else. And the winner is...
Man, you guys picked a great one. Drive, which was also the staff movie of the year, was soundly ignored by the Academy, receiving only a sound editing nomination and losing that to Hugo. We at Flixist know the Oscars are very far from perfect, and it's frankly a crime that this movie was ignored as thoroughly as it was, and apparently, you guys do too. Further congratulations to El_Rhino, the winner of our contest! Drive also won by a pretty clear landslide, garnering five votes, with Source Code, Hugo, and Midnight in Paris tying for second place. Drive: 5 Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
3:00 PM on 02.27.2012 Flixist Awards 2011: Reader's Choice Award[UPDATE: THIS CONTEST IS NOW OVER! Check out the winner after the jump!] You've seen us choose Drive as the best movie of the year, and deservedly so, as it's a fairly tremendously well-made picture. Now, you beautiful w...
2:00 PM on 02.20.2012 The Flixist Awards are done!Well, they've come and gone, and now we have our winners. This year saw some awesome winners and a few surprises here and there. We'd like to congratulate Drive for winning the most awards by taking Best Pictur...
4:00 PM on 02.17.2012 Flixist Awards: Best MovieAnd so it comes down to it. After two weeks of doling out awards to the best of the best from 2011 we come to the actual best. The number one film. The film that stood out above all others for the most writers here at Flixist...
10:00 AM on 02.17.2012 Flixist Awards 2011: The PterodactylToday is day I've been ruing for a long time know. Up until today, I've been getting really close with all the candidates, but alas, today is the day that I must cast friendships aside and deliver the verdict of the Bes...
4:00 PM on 02.16.2012 Flixist Awards 2011: Best ScreenplayScreenplays can be a weird entity. Though they are integral to a movie, some people can find it hard to understand just how important a screenplay is. Think of it like this: without the script, you'd have no story, no plot tw...
10:00 AM on 02.16.2012 Flixist Awards 2011: Best DirectorFrom the Swedish tundra to a kaleidoscopic view of growing up in a small Texas town, 2011 brought us directors who told familiar stories through a new perspective. It's hard to detach a director's work from the end product fo...
4:00 PM on 02.15.2012 Flixist Awards 2011: Best ActorHow brilliant are actors?! They can look at a tennis ball and see a bus. They can run down the street being pursued by an alien predator, then remember that exact feeling for when they're in a movie. They can have a real life...
10:00 AM on 02.15.2012 Flixist Awards 2011: Best ActressAs you may recall in my awards post from yesterday, I love the ladies. When I was tasked with Best Actress I was overjoyed that I got to write about the talented women of 2011, and the category's six competitors all dese...
4:00 PM on 02.14.2012 Flixist Awards 2011: Best Supporting ActorBeing nominated for Best Supporting Actor is like being declared 2nd best two times over. Not only are you not the main star of the film (nor do you get paid as much, probably), but you're automatically cast into the role of ...
10:00 AM on 02.14.2012 Flixist Awards 2011: Best Supporting ActressIf you've read my work on this site before, you may have gathered that I love women a real lot. Like, a lot. No, I didn't set out to become Flixist's resident boobie-watcher (untrue), but here I am. It's my lot in life. Howev...
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