The Pondo Awards

The Pondo Awards 2014

After seeing over 100 films and an event to remember at Cineworld in 2014, I thought I should end it with my own personal awards for the films seen.

I have a couple of months free with the Cineworld Unlimited Pass and will be continuing to watch films at the cinema throughout 2015.  I will continue to review them on my new film blog, Pondo Cinema: Episode II Return of the Pondo

Thank you to people who have read some of these reviews, I know there are millions of sites out there each with their own opinion, so what harm is one more?

So on to the awards....

Best Film

I have a top 10 list of the films I have seen throughout the year, but there are three films that I really enjoyed:

Nomination One: Gone Girl

Nomination Two: Guardians of the Galaxy

Nomination Three: Interstellar

And the winner is.....Click Here

Worst Film

There were some terrible films in 2014, but if I had to choose three of them, they would be:

Nomination One: Delivery Man

Nomination Two: The Rewrite

Nomination Three: What If?

And the winner (loser) is......Click Here

Best Actor

Nomination One: Andy Serkis (Ceasar - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)

Nomination Two: Tom Hardy (Ivan Locke - Locke)

Nomination Three: Matthew McConaughey (Cooper - Interstellar)

And the winner is.....Click Here

Best Actress

Nomination One: Lupita Nyong'o (Patsey - 12 Years a Slave)

Nomination Two: Imelda Staunton (Hefina - Pride)

Nomination Three: Rosamund Pike (Amy Dunne - Gone Girl)

And the winner is......Click Here

Best Soundtrack

Nomination One: Pulp Fiction

Nomination Two: Chef

Nomination Three: Begin Again

And the winner is....Click Here

Best Animated Movie

Nomination One: How to Train Your Dragon 2

Nomination Two: Frozen

Nomination Three: The LEGO Movie

And the AWESOME winner is......Click Here

Best Nostalgic Reshowing

Cineworld occasionally show classic films again on the big silver screen, I was fortunate enough to visit three of these events (I wish I could have done more)

Nomination One: Pulp Fiction

Nomination Two: Ghostbusters

Nomination Three: Sin City

And the winner is.....Click Here

Best Horror

I am a horror film fan and judge a years success on the quality of its Horror Films, 2014 had a tricky start and didn't seem to get much better nearer the end of the year, but there were a few highlights

Nomination One: Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

Nomination Two: Annabelle

Nomination Three: The Babadook

And the winner is....Click Here

Best Scene

The nominations here are all scenes that have stood out in the year, be it visual comedy, Tear inducingly moving or just the fact that there is a dual machine gun wielding, horse back riding, bad ass ape.

Nomination One: 12 Years a Slave - Solomon whipping Patsey

Nomination Two: X-Men Days of Future Past - Time in a Bottle Quicksilver Scene

Nomination Three :Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Koba dual wielding horse back bad ass

And the winner is....Click Here 

Most Visually Stunning

Nomination One: How to Train Your Dragon 2

Nomination Two: Gravity

Nomination Three: Interstellar

And the winner is...Click Here

Sleeper Hit

The nominations for this catagory are all films I enjoyed whilst watching at the cinema but a few days after I realised how much I really enjoyed them

Nomination One: Inside Llewyn Davis

Nomination Two: Locke

Nomination Three: Pride

And the winner is....Click Here

Worst Remake

Nomination One: Annie

Nomination Two: Robocop

Nomination Three: Godzilla

And the film that should not have been remade is....Click Here

Best Cameo - (Spoiler Warning)

Nomination One: Han Solo & Chewbacca - The Lego Movie

Nomination Two : Dr Emmett Brown - A Million Ways to Die in the West

Nomination Three: Billy Connolly - The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies

And the winner is......Click Here

Best Bad Guy

Nomination One: Hammer Girl and Baseball Bat Boy - The Raid 2

Nomination Two: Lou Bloom - Night Crawler

Nomination Three: Koba - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

And the winner is.....Click Here

Special Mention Award (for all the wrong reasons)

I do feel that one film this year deserves an award all by itself.  This film was wrong on so many levels and is everything a film should not be.  Over use of CGI, lack of any story, completely and utterly pointless. and over 3 hours long to boot.  It was that bad it could not even be mentioned in the "Worst Film" category.

And the winner is....Click Here

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I am definitely looking forward to an exciting year of cinema on 2015 and would love your feedback, comments or just a little +1 

Yours in Great (and not so great) Films 

Pondo