Before the Oscars, They Belonged to Us, Part 3
February 26th, 2009
Disclaimer: This article may contain sarcasm; irony and “LOLs” proceed with caution.
The Final Chapter (read Part 2 here)! We have Howard the Duck, Freejack and Shyamalan flicks on the list; these are never good signs. Nonetheless we are bringing it all to you in full-color and in 3-D. (Ed. Note: Due to the economy, 3-D has been dropped and will be replaced by Smell-o-vision — check for your scratch and sniff cards in about 4-6 weeks.) Best Sound went to rage-zombie veterans Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke, leaving Mark Weingarten who worked on Rejuvenatrix in the dust. The Sound Editing section contains one too many references to Ron Silver, and at least two references to a Roger Corman film.
The visual effects category pulled on our heartstrings this year due to the loss of Stan Winston, who was noted en memoriam along with other heroes, Vampira, Leonard Rosenman and Charles H. Schneer just to name a few. The Technical Awards were totally lacking from the live awards ceremony. I did include some genre notes on these tech-titans and a link to all the winners. I hope you enjoyed the ride as much I did; if you don’t mind I’ll just hitchhike my way home. If you do care to join me for dinner, I live right next to the old slaughterhouse.
There’s roadkill all over Texas. Now let’s get on with it.
Best Achievement in Sound:
28 Weeks Later, Sunshine
28 Days Later
The Skeleton Key*, Dark Water, Van Helsing, The Mothman Prophecies*, The Mummy Returns, Cecil B. DeMented, Pecker (John Waters!), Tremors II: Aftershocks, Ed Wood, Serial Mom, Amityville: A New Generation, Children of the Night, The Fly II, The Blood of Heroes (Post-Apocalyptic Rutger Hauer), My Best Friend Is a Vampire, Pin (a film I have been dying to see), April Fool's Day, Creature (Media Home Entertainment VHS; released in a big box? We could only have hoped)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, King Kong (remake), The Village*, Hellboy, Signs*, The Mothman Prophecies*, Air Bud: Golden Receiver (just snuck that in there didn’t I?), Ed Wood, Serial Mom, Amityville: A New Generation, Rampage (A great Friedkin flick) (Oh, and he also worked on a lot of the Ernest films including Ernest Scared Stupid; of interest perhaps for there are Trolls in it. Ok maybe not)
Sound Department:
Se7en*
Music Department:
Se7en* (Music Consultant: David Fincher)
"True Blood", Snakes on a Plane (classy), Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Rejuvenatrix (This one is for you Gingold), Deadly Illusion (Larry Cohen and some Billy Dee Williams)
A Simple Plan (Thee Raimi), The Crow: City of Angels*, Masters of the Universe (Meg Foster as Evil Lyn), Exterminator 2 (Cannon Group Inc.; Banned in Finland 1985), Liquid Sky (80’s Cult Film released on Media Home Entertainment VHS)
The Ring, The Faculty, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Mimic
My Bloody Valentine 3-D, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation, Hellboy, Darkness Falls, Mimic 2, The Exorcist (2000 Special Edition), Dracula 2000 (Roger Corman at the Oscars), The Prophecy 3: The Ascent, Lake Placid, The Haunted Village
Wes Craven Presents: They, Lake Placid, Mimic
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, King Kong (remake), Corpse Bride, The Village*, Hellboy, Signs*, The Mothman Prophecies*, The Faculty, Ed Wood, Amityville: A New Generation, Rampage
Sound Department:
The Dark Crystal*, Howard the Duck (!!!), Death Race 2000 (1975), (Also everything Star Wars, ever)
Special Effects:
The Milpitas Monster
Death Race, Resident Evil: Extinction, Underworld: Evolution, Exorcist: The Beginning, Dawn of the Dead (remake), Freejack (so bad; saw it in the theater), RoboCop 2, Rampage, Day of the Dead, Creepshow
Death Race, Underworld: Evolution, Exorcist: The Beginning, Dawn of the Dead (remake), Timecop (best Ron-Silver-shattering-like-glass-moment ever captured on film), Body Snatchers, Addams Family Values, Outlaw of Gor (Super tacky, like Deathstalker, but more nudity)
AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Van Helsing, Revenge of the Rats
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
The Exorcist (Re-Release), Blue Steel (Just because we need more Ron Silver on the list)
The Village*, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation, Hellboy, Dracula 2000, The Prophecy 3: The Ascent, The Haunting, Lake Placid, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Mars Attacks!, Serial Mom
King Kong (Remake), Dracula 2000
28 Weeks Later, Sunshine, 28 Days Later
Sound Department:
The Dark Crystal*, Howard the Duck (!!!), Death Race 2000 (1975), (Also everything Star Wars, ever)
Grindhouse, The Skeleton Key*, Exorcist: The Beginning, Mighty Joe Young (remake), The Relic, Tron
Best Achievement in Visual Effects:
King Kong (remake), Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace
The Ring, Mighty Joe Young (remake), Ghost in the Machine, Dracula, Darkman, Arachnophobia*, RoboCop 2, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The Witches of Eastwick*, Poltergeist, Dragonslayer (because it was on a Fango cover ... Barron also worked on many of the beloved 80s sci-fi/fantasy films as a matte guy; E.T., Explorers, Enemy Mine, The Goonies, The Neverending Story, Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal, just to name a few)
The Mummy, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Alien 3, Nightbreed, Link, Lifeforce, Krull (because it is always on Cinemax)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Wolf, Forbidden Zone (Visual Effects Animator)
King Kong (remake), Van Helsing, The Mummy
Wolf
Working at Stan Winston Studio: Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Predator 2, Leviathan, The Monster Squad, Predator, Aliens, The Vindicator
Miscellaneous Crew:
A Gnome Named Gnorm (Gnorm wrangler)
Make-Up Department:
Chiller
Animation Department:
Invaders from Mars
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year:
Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Labyrinth*, The Dark Crystal*
Best Documentary, Features:
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Stars Mentioned in Passing:
Actress:
Plan 9 from Outer Space, "The Vampira Show"
Make-Up Department:
The Island of Dr. Moreau, Interview with the Vampire: The, Vampire Chronicles, Wes Craven's Chiller, Friday the 13th Part III, The Thing, Dead & Buried, The Hand, The Entity, The Exterminator, The Island, Dracula's Dog, Mansion of the Doomed, Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde, The Bat People, Gargoyles
Special Effects:
Darkness Falls, Lake Placid, The Relic, Predator 2, Leviathan, The Monster Squad, Predator, "Amazing Stories"* (The one with Christopher Lloyd), Aliens, Invaders from Mars, The Vindicator, The Phantom of the Opera (1983), Dracula's Dog
Miscellaneous Crew:
Predator 2 (Creature Creation), Leviathan (Creature Designer), The Monster Squad (monsters)
Producer:
Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature, How to Make a Monster
Director:
A Gnome Named Gnorm, Pumpkinhead
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director:
Aliens
Visual Effects:
Parasite
Writer:
Pumpkinhead
Costume and Wardrobe Department:
“The Star Wars Holiday Special”
Producer:
Clash of the Titans, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, The Valley of Gwangi, First Men in the Moon, Jason and the Argonauts, The 3 Worlds of Gulliver, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, 20 Million Miles to Earth, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (produced films featuring Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion magic)
Actor:
The Relic, The Shawshank Redemption (King!), "The Ray Bradbury Theater", "The Twilight Zone"
Composer:
RoboCop 2, "Amazing Stories"*, Prophecy, The Car, The Possessed, Sybil (I was scared of the disembodied cat head when I was little…), The Phantom of Hollywood, The Cat Creature, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Fantastic Voyage, "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour", "The Twilight Zone"
Music Department:
RoboCop 2 (Conductor)
The Lord of the Rings (Conductor … I mention LOTR here because he was the conductor, and that is awesome)
Actor:
Soylent Green, The Omega Man
Actor:
Jaws, Jaws 2, Naked Lunch, Dracula II: Ascension, Dracula III: Legacy
Actor:
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents", Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Actor:
"The Twilight Zone", Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo, Maximum Overdrive, "The Shining"
Actor:
Escape from L.A., "Tales from the Crypt", Escape from New York (A-Number 1)
Sound Department:
Pet Sematary II, Poltergeist II: The Other Side, Cat's Eye, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Actress:
Cry of the Werewolf
Cinematographer:
Return to Oz, To the Devil a Daughter, Mahogany (Anthony Perkins acting nuts), The Devils, Marat/Sade
Writer:
“Dark Shadows”
Actress:
Wicked Stepmother, A Return to Salem's Lot, "Amazing Stories"*
Actor:
To the Devil a Daughter
Director:
The Tell-Tale Heart (1941)
Art Department:
The Stepford Wives (1975), The Exorcist
Special Guest:
Janusz Kaminski:
Cinematographer:
Grim Prairie Tales: Hit the Trail... to Terror, The Terror Within II
Camera and Electrical Department:
Watchers II (Director of Photography: Second Unit), After Midnight (Chief Lighting Technician), Dance of the Damned (Gaffer)
Director:
Lost Souls
Technical Awards:
Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Visual Effects: Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (KKKKHHAAANNNNN!!!)
Mark Kimball
TRON (Computer Systems and Software Development)
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That’s a rap until next year fright fans, when I go back into the crypt and find out who worked on Basket Case 3 and Dead Pit. It could be any of them. I do dream of the day when a picture like Howling XII takes home an Oscar for Best Picture. And Joe Dante gets his Lifetime Achievement Award where he gives props to monster-kids everywhere. All things are possible in Hollyweird, U.S.A.
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Now that's impressive. An Oscars wrap up that somehow finds a way to mention the Star Wars Holiday Special.
And it's true, you know. KRULL's on Cinemax even as we speak.
Submitted by SauceyJack on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 9:07pm.