The 2018 Hollmann Award Nominees

A terrific year for films, 2018 was. Not since 2011 have I had such a spread: 35 films in 18 categories! And it was tough to narrow down - all the way up to midnight last night, I still had six to eight finalists in several categories...

But here they are! The nominees for the 13th Annual Hollmann Awards:

Best Supporting Actress

Sakura Andô as Nobuyo Shibata
Shoplifters


Ingrid Caven as Miss Vendegast

Suspiria 

Sissy Spacek as Jewel
The Old Man & the Gun

Angela Winkler as Miss Tanner

Suspiria

Michelle Yeoh as Eleanor Young

Crazy Rich Asians

The remaining 17 categories after the jump....

Top Ten of 2018

With apologies to All is True, Bad Times at the El Royale, Black Panther, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Crazy Rich Asians, The Favourite, Good Manners, The Hate U Give, Hereditary, Leave No Trace, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Mary Poppins Returns, The Old Man & the Gun, The Other Side of the Wind, Paddington 2, Shirkers, Shoplifters, A Simple Favor, Swing Kids, and Zama, may I present....

My Top Ten of 2018....after the jump.

Lucky 13

A great many films to discuss....

Halloween

dir: David Gordon Green

scr: David Gordon Green & Danny McBride & Jeff Fradley

adapted from: characters created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill

seen: Cinerama Dome at ArcLight Hollywood

This Halloween fan was satisfied. In ignoring all but the first film in the series, the filmmakers both explore the trauma of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis, both gutting and bad-ass), and how that trauma is dismissed, re-interpreted, or forgotten by the world's mythologizing of a serial killer and his crimes. As a fan of true crime podcasts and docs, it hit close to home.

Venom, First Man, A Star is Born, and more - after the jump...