Best Alternative Universes for different outcomes: Run Lola Run.
With an honourable mention for Donnie Darko, Sliding Doors, and The Butterfly Effect.
Best Blow-Job Scene: Chloe Sevigny in The Brown Bunny.
Best use of “Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear”: Jurassic Park
Best rejecting your ex crawling back to you scene: Casablanca when Rick tells Elsa that she has to live the rest of her life with the dweeb instead of him.
Best sex and violence in the same scene: Shoot Em Up
Runner up: Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Best outnumbered commandos fighting to the death against a whole pissed-off city: Blackhawk Down
Best surprise kick to the face: Kill Bill vol 2
Best fight scene (without gun) : Viggo Mortensen and the Chechen guy in Eastern Promises.
Ok, sod it. Best Big Green Rabbit: Donnie Darko.
The best sex scene in a non porn flick has got to be the one from* Name of the Rose*. Oh, how an ardent and devout watcher of that film my teenage self was. Yes. Um. Yes.
Best Parkour scene: Casino Royale (the one with Daniel Craig, natch)
Best use of Precision Swearing: Fight Club - the “don’t FUCK with us” speech.
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Best attack by a giant creature with 8 or more appendages: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Disney version)
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I’m partial to the one from *Sphere *- mostly because you never actually see the gigantic squid outside of a sonar screen, making it all the scarier.
My pick for best Western Gunfight Dual is the one between Indio and Mortimer in For A Few Dollars More. The scene is crisp, clean and raw, stripped of the production values we expect today. The tinkling watch chime combined with Ennio Morricone’s haunting music score makes this one of the high water marks of the genre.
The best beautiful girl gets hit in the cleavage with a pie - The Great Race
The best use of organ music over titles - Rollerball (the original and best IMHO version)
The best entry of a villain from a stomach - Alien
Best spontaneous sex scene (with chemistry between actors) : Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange in The Postman Always Rings Twice.
While I truly love this scene, the Ned Beatty scene in Network blows it away.
I read that, and thought “Oh hell no, I know of an even better one. Have you ever seen…”
Um. Yeah, exactly what I was thinking.
It also has Best Portrayal of a Multilingual Insane Monk with a Tongue the Size of a Manhole Cover as Played by Hellboy. Unless you’ve got a better example.
Best scenes paying homage to Wall Street:
Winner: Boiler Room
Honorable mention: Hot Shots Part Deux
Best karate chop to racist dwarf: In Bruges
Best vampiric character exposition: Shadow of the Vampire (“What an actor!”)
Best cameo by man wearing bear skin: True Grit (2010)
Best double forearm amputation: Princess Mononoke
Best opening scene: Star Wars
Best boarding school judicial hearing scenes:
Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman
Sean Connery in Finding Forrester (can’t find on YouTube)
Best Job Interview scene:
Ben Affleck in Good Will Hunting
Best surprise showdown - Tombstone (I’m your huckleberry)
Best non-sexy striptease by a sexy guy - PS I Love You
I’ll give House of Games the “Best con scene where the con man gives back the money” award.
No way. Animal House! “Fuck her! Fuck her brains out!”
Best pitcher’s mound conference: Bull Durham.
The winningist one, of course.
Preach it.
Best composing scene: Amadeus
Best “ok, lots of this has been kinda crappy, but holy God is there about to be some awesomeness” moment: when the good guys have just landed in Naboo and that door slides open and there’s Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace