Our straw poll of the best films of 2012 confirmed what we at the Lexi already know – we are lucky indeed in our audience! Your choices reflect a respect for serious film making, and honour some pretty high-flying home grown talent. You also heap praise on the Iranian film, A Separation; an exceptional study of a family, and a society, in flux. And in the Best Fun category, you show you’re not above a good bit of scatological humour. And then there was the strong Ryan Gosling contingent…you know who you are! Look out for the March programme (soon) for the opportunity to wallow in some of the winners, plus the chance to see a few ‘Honourable Mentions’ which are new to the Lexi.
And the winners are:
Best Film: a tie between The Artist and Shame, with an Hon Men to Tyrannosaur
Best Male Actor: Ryan Gosling in Drive narrowly pipped Michael Fassbender, who knows no Shame
Best Female Actor: Meryl Streep, just about as invincible as the real Iron Lady
Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation from Iran
Best Documentary: Senna – still a winner
Best Cinematography: Drive, making a modest budget look like mega million $$$
Best Fun: Bridesmaids, proving that humour isn’t so gender-based after all. Hon Mens to My Week with Marilyn and The Guard, a cult-in-the-making if ever there was one
Just to put in context how relevant The Lexi awards results are, a Los Angeles Times study this week found that Academy (Oscar) voters are markedly less diverse than the general public, and even more monolithic than many in the film industry may suspect. Academy members, who vote for the Oscars, are nearly 94% Caucasian and 77 % male. Blacks constitute 2% of the Academy, and Latinos less than 2%. Oscar voters have a median age of 62, the study showed. And people younger than 50 constitute just 14% of the membership.
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