Bricks in Motion Awards: 2010 Winners!

Bricks in Motion.com have just held their annual BiM Awards - the Oscars of the Brickfilming world. The winners were announced in a live chat feed yesteday, but in case you didn't want to scan through the transcript of the entire chat, here's the winners in a handy list:

BEST ANIMATION: A Clone Halloween (Fancypants)

BEST SCREENPLAY: Days of our Pizza (Keshen)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: The River (Night Owl)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Picturesque (Nick Durron)

BEST SET DESIGN: Alles ist die Noppe (Nichtgedreht)

BEST SOUND DESIGN: The River (Night Owl)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: The River (Night Owl)

BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE: Keshen as Febrizzio in Days of Our Pizza

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST: It's the Network (Lego Shark Productions)

BEST SERIES: Nightly News at Nine (Fallen Tomato)

VIEWERS' CHOICE: The River (Night Owl)

BEST FILM: Alles ist die Noppe (Nichtgedreht)


As always, I have my own opinions. For Best Animation, I would have much rather given the award to The Force Unleashed, an amazing lightsaber fight also made by Fancypants. So, though it was for the wrong film, at least Fancypants got the award.

Days of Our Pizza is indeed a very well scripted and a very funny film, but it is only a comic sketch. It would have been nice to give the Screenplay award to a film with a well thought-through script with a clear beginning, middle and end and character development to top. A good script is key to any film, and whilst Days of Our Pizza didn't have a bad script, there is room for improvement.

I totally agree with all the awards that Night Owl's The River won. It is an amazing film, and it gave me chills when I first saw it at the STAR closing chat last year. The cinematography and sound design work in perfect harmony to create a truly unique and unforgettable experience.

I seem to remember I was less happy with Picturesque. Whilst the visual effects do deserve their BiM award, the script was atrocious and the overall plot was really not good. I won't watch all three parts now to remind myself - you can watch them for yourselves. I seem to remember the death of one of the main characters is almost completely ignored, in one of the later parts.

Finally, I am glad that the Nightly News at Nine and Alles ist die Noppe have been recognised as the amazing Brickfilms they are. I remember blogging Alles ist die Noppe sometime last year, it's a mesmerizing film that has such style and an entrancing atmosphere. The Nightly News at Nine is a series of quick, witty and well-scripted Brickfilms in a news show format. I'm glad someone else liked it as much as I did.

Oh, and thanks to Zach Macias for letting me know about the winners so quickly. The BiM feed hasn't been showing up in my RSS reader, so I would have otherwise missed it.

~John