Welcome

The Film Experience™ was created by Nathaniel R. All material herein is written by our team.

This site is not for profit but for an expression of love for cinema & adjacent artforms. 

Powered by Squarespace
DON'T MISS THIS

Follow TFE on Substackd 

COMMENTS

Oscar Takeaways
12 thoughts from the big night

 

Keep TFE Strong

We're looking for 500... no 390 SubscribersIf you read us daily, please be one.  

I ♥ The Film Experience

THANKS IN ADVANCE

What'cha Looking For?
Subscribe

The Films of 2019. The 20th annual FiLM BiTCH Awards

PICTURE | ACTING | VISUALS | AURALS | EXTRAS | SPECIAL | SCENES 

 

AND THE NOMINEES ARE

 

Best Costume Design
Ruth E Carter
DOLEMITE IS MY NAME
Mitchell Travers
HUSTLERS
Jacqueline Durran
LITTLE WOMEN
Arianne Phillips
ONCE UPON A TIME... IN HOLLYWOOD
Julian Day
ROCKETMAN
          
 

Finalists: Kym Barrett for Us, and Minzheng Chen for Shadow 

Semi-Finalists: Mark Bridges for Joker, Paul Tazewell for Harriet, Deborah Cook for Missing Link, Colleen Atwood for Bombshell, and April Napier for Booksmart

 

 

Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins
1917
Jarin Blaschke
THE LIGHTHOUSE
Robert Richardson
ONCE UPON A TIME ...IN HOLLYWOOD
Hong Kyung Pyo
PARASITE
Claire Mathon
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

  

  


 

 

 

 

Finalists: Claire Mathon for Atlantics, Lawrence Sher for Joker, Hoyte van Hoytema for Ad Astra, and Xiadoing Zhao for Shadow

Semi-Finalists: Pawel Pogorzelski for MidSommar, Jose Luis Alcaine for Pain and Glory, and Adam Newport-Berra for Last Black Man in San Francisco

 

Best Production Design
Kevin Thompson for
AD ASTRA
Barbara Ling
ONCE UPON A TIME ... IN HOLLYWOOD
Antxón Gómez
PAIN & GLORY
Lee Ha-jun
PARASITE

Kwong Wing Ma
SHADOW

          

 

Finalists: Rick Heinrichs for Dumbo, Henrik Svensson for MidSommar, Jade Healy for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Semi-Finalists: Jess Gonchor for Little Women, Craig Lathrop for The Lighthouse, Mark Friedberg for Joker, and Dennis Gassner for 1917

 

 

Best Film Editing
Jamie Gross
BOOKSMART
Kayla Emter
HUSTLERS
Jennifer Lame
MARRIAGE STORY
Yang Jinmo
PARASITE
Julien Lacheray
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
          
 

Finalists: David Alexander Corno for Woman at War, Thelma Schoonmaker for The Irishman, Matt Friedman & Michael Taylor for The Farewell

Semi-Finalists: Ann McCabe for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Chris Dickens for Rocketman, Nicholas Monsour for Us, and Louise Ford for The Lighthouse 

 

Best Visual Effects
1917 ALITA BATTLE ANGEL AVENGERS ENDGAME GODZILLA KING OF MONSTERS SPIDER-MAN FAR FROM HOME
 Making the visual fx so invisible is its very special seamless trick All CGI all the time but this angel is a wonder as are her brutal limb losing battles  epic no E!P!I!C! collision of characters, powers, dimensions, live action, and cgi Mothra 4ever. The movie itself might not be grand but the kajiru specimes on view sure were.   "I don't think you know what's real, Peter" This team has a ton of fun with the very idea of visual fx.
 

Finalists: So wanted to make room for Ad Astra and then there's also  Star Wars Rise of Skywalker though we've seen all the latter's tricks befor.

Semi Finalists: Missing Link, Shadow, Captain Marvel, Toy Story 4, and Terminator Dark Fate

 

Best MakeUp and Hair

BOMBSHELL
MALEFICENT MISTRESS OF EVIL
MIDSOMMAR
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD ROCKETMAN
 The ladies doth prosthetic too much. Haha kidding. They're uncanny and glam and perfect. It's only Ailes who's a bit much.   Broadening the original's horned befeathered fantasy. "Dark fairies" AND Royal Pfeiffer?  Yes please.   Limp pathetic cultural tourists, Nordic naturalism, and... well... gore. Plus that memorable inbred Oracle.  Flop sweat stardom, on set hairpieces, California cool, New Hollywood glamour... and those dirty barefoot hippies.  Rapidly thinning hair, gap tooth charm, and other Taron-becoming-Eltonisms. Plus period work galore.
 

Finalists:  a mass ensemble of fantastical folk with bonus points for Black Widow's stages-of-grief hair Avengers Endgame , and a more explicitly clowny take on the Clown prince of crime in Joker.

Semi Finalists: Downton Abbey, Us, Harriet, Judy, and Dolemite is My Name

 

 

PICTURE | ACTING | VISUALS - you are hereAURALS | EXTRAS | SPECIAL | SCENES