The Viewies 2024

Longtime readers might remember the Viewies as the awards I give out for movies every year (I did it badly, exactly once).

This is a hard reboot of the Viewies. This time, there are four major awards available (Best Original Score; Best One Liner, Best Trailer and, of course, The Dick Van Dyke award for Worst fake accent).

All other awards are very specific so no other movie would have a chance of beating them. Every movie is capable of winning one.

So what are the rules?
1. I have watched it between 1 January and 31 December 2024
2. The movie does not have to be released during that time
3. I have to be watching it for the first time during that period
4. For Best Trailer, the quality of the movie itself is irrelevant and I only have to see the trailer for the first time during the year
5. ALL movies must win at least one award
6. The four major awards are attainable by any movie and the winner will be crowned in January 2025

The original awards:

Shortest Training Montage: Boys in the Boat
Earliest Exodus of most cast members: The Holdovers
Most Time Passed Throughout a Movie: Maestro 
Fewest Duck Puns in a Movie About Ducks: Migration
Most Elaborate Visual Metaphor: Bob Marley: One Love 
Historical figure portrayed by Timothy Spall least likely to appear on a banknote: Wicked Little Letters
Best name for a giant invisible snail (Big Liam) - Seize Them!

The major award nominations (not all these might have nominees when you read this):

Best Original Score


Best One Liner

Migration - "It's you - with l'Orange on top."

Best Trailer

Fall Guy
Back to Black 

Best Picture (all movies that I've seen are eligible and I only decide the winner in January 2025)

Boys in the Boat
The Holdovers
Maestro
Migration
Bob Marley: One Love 

Dick Van Dyke Award for Worst Fake Accent

Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro 

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