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Created by: C.J. (thief) on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 01:44 pm

Vote for the good, the bad and the crappy from 2002! Here is where we'll nominate the movies and performancs that were really worth your $8 (or $9...or $10). Vote on the final list of nominees!, and bestow the highly-coveted and prestigious AFFAs during our own online gala.

The Schedule

1) The Nomination Period begins January 1st and ends at midnight, Monday, January 27, 2003. All nominations must be posted on this topic by 11:59pm on the 27th (Eastern Standard Time).

2) The Voting Period begins January 28 and ends at midnight, February 19, 2003. All votes are sent via secret ballot at carlogc68@yahoo.com. I must receive your ballot by 11:59pm (PST) on February 19 for your vote to count. All ballots are final, so vote only when you're ready.

3) The Awards show begins February 20th. Awards will be presented by you, the voters.

See the next post for more details on Award Categories and other logistics.

This post was edited from vornporn's past year header. Kudos to him.

For the list of categories, see the first post.

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Jeff Vorndam (jeff)
Posted on Sunday, April 13, 2003 - 08:41 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
Dude, the crickets left a long time ago.
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C.J. (thief)
Posted on Sunday, April 13, 2003 - 08:51 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
What about the tumbleweeds?...
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Cornuto Content (coachk)
Posted on Monday, April 14, 2003 - 02:00 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
Is this thing still going?
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C.J. (thief)
Posted on Monday, April 14, 2003 - 02:49 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
Don't worry... e-mailing the delayer right now.
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Brian (stang66)
Posted on Monday, April 14, 2003 - 03:24 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
Okay, I would have presented during the past week, but it was Spring Break, and I spent six wonderful days in New York City, so I have some new inspiration for my presentation.
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AKA Friends (tony_rigatoni)
Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2003 - 08:38 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
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So now is Julianne Moore now the first two time winner here at the aboutfilm/pathfinder awards?

If I remember correctly, Nicole Kidman won the Best Actress AFFA last year for her work in both Moulin Rouge and The Others.
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"We are in control." Yeah, right! (thezookieman)
Posted on Friday, April 18, 2003 - 01:28 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
While we are waiting, let's have a word from our sponsors:

With the 2004 elections just round the corner, perhaps you would like to see how a mature democracy conducts an election?
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Jamesie (justjames)
Posted on Friday, April 18, 2003 - 02:28 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
Tony

What I mean with two-time winner is if I remember correctly Julianne won Best Supporting Actress at the aboutfilm/pathfinder awards for An Ideal Husband and Magnolia. So is this the first time that we have had someone now win the more than once now. So I think she has two so is she the first one though?
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Brian (stang66)
Posted on Monday, April 21, 2003 - 04:47 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
Brian rushes out on to the stage. He is bedraggled and mussed and has bags under his eyes. He had planned to wear a tux, but he could not have been so lucky. His tux was ripped to shred by some angry dogs he had come across on the street on his way to the venue. So now, he stands at the podium, tired and out of breath and wearing just his boxers, a wifebeater with black socks and shiny dress shoes. On his arms and legs are cuts that are bleeding.

For the past couple of weeks he has been readying his presentation. But after the violent dog attack, there isn't much left. All he has are the remains of a few mechanical spiders and a pilot's cap. He's is too tired to do the faux temper that he had planned. And his sparkly dress? Well, that's another story. He was supposed to show up in a beat up old car, but that wasn't about to happen because the battery died and people won't stop to help anyone because they're all BASTARDS! His hobbit friend, Elijah Wood was, sadly enough, eaten by the vicious dogs.

But now, Brian has finally arrived and is ready to present his award. The only problem is that he doesn't have much in the way of a visual. So, instead, he discussed it with the stage manager, and they are going to show clips of the nominated FILM that the five nominated directors have made over the past year.

The light dims, and a big screen is lowered from the ceiling, on it are the words 'BEST DIRECTOR'.

Paul Thomas Anderson, Punch-Drunk Love: We see clips of Adam Sandler and Emily Watson kissing, Adam Sandler and Luis Guzman in a grocery store, Philip Seymour Hoffman looking tired, Emily Watson looking cute, and finally, a picture of Paul Thomas Anderson wearing headphones around his neck.

Alfonso Cuaron, Y Tu Mama Tambien: Maribel Verdu having sex with Diego Luna, Maribel Verdu having sex with Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna having sex with his girlfriend, Gael Garcia Bernal having sex with his girlfriend, Maribel Verdu having sex with Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal.

Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: Hobbits, hobbits, Liv Tyler, hobbits, hobbits, Cate Blanchett, hobbits, hobbits, and (you guessed it), hobbits.

Rob Marshall, Chicago: Catherine Zeta-Jonez and "All That Jazz", "Cell Block Tango", "Funny Honey", "Roxie", "Mr. Cellophane", "We Both Reached For The Gone", and the very end of "Hot Honey Rag", picture of Rob Marshall teacher Jones and Zelwegger how to dance.

Steven Spielberg, Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can: Tom Cruise and Samantha Morton hugging each other, Tom Cruise on the run, Lois Smith in the green house, the spiders, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Garner, Christopher Walken, and Leo running down the street in his youth.

Back to Brian: and the winner is....at that exact moment, Paul Thomas Anderson jumps up and yells "It better be me you assholes!" and then vorn pulls out a gun and shoots him. Alejandro weeps. Brian, unphased by this turn of events opens the envelope and says the name of the winner:


Steven Spielberg for 'Minority Report' and 'Catch Me If You Can'
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Brian (stang66)
Posted on Monday, April 21, 2003 - 04:49 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
Sorry about the slipshod presentation. Graduation is looming around the corner and I'm getting kind of bogged down. I wish I could have done a better job fo you guys. Here are the totals:

Spielberg: 7 votes
Marshall: 5 votes
Anderson: 4.5 votes
Cuaron: 3 votes
Jackson: 0.5 votes

(Someone voted for a tie._
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Tim (tim)
Posted on Monday, April 21, 2003 - 10:11 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
Interesting. Was it the one-two punch of two solid films? Or could he have won based on only one of those films?

In some ways I think it would be more meaningful to limit directors to one film in a given year.
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AdamL (adaml)
Posted on Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - 08:53 am:   Edit Post Print Post
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In some ways I think it would be more meaningful to limit directors to one film in a given year.



Would agree but there was a vote before the awards and the majority liked the 'body of work' option.
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AdamL (adaml)
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2003 - 05:49 am:   Edit Post Print Post
I think I just saw a funeral march go by.
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Glenda Glamazon (alison_aboutfilm)
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2003 - 03:04 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
Yeah, are we ever going to find out who we voted for as the Best Picture?
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Tim (tim)
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2003 - 03:19 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
I heard a rumor we won't find out until August...of 2004.
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Star of 'House of 1000 Pancakes' (docscribe)
Posted on Friday, April 25, 2003 - 05:20 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
If so, a proposed name change: the AFTFAs (About Freakin' Time Film Awards).
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AdamL (adaml)
Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2003 - 10:05 am:   Edit Post Print Post
Things that have happened during this years awards...

  • A war has started.
  • A war has finished.
  • The biggest health scare of the century has broken out.
  • J-Lo has been married twice.
  • And divorced twice.
  • Man has landed on the moon.
  • Henry VIII has killed another wife.
  • Human's have evolved from apes.
  • The big bang.
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Alex Dr_Evil (drevil)
Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2003 - 12:11 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
LOL
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C.J. (thief)
Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2003 - 02:09 am:   Edit Post Print Post
Don't despair. Big winner will be posted tomorrow.... hopefully
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Wax on, polish off. (thezookieman)
Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2003 - 02:54 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
And maybe the real killers of Nicole Brown Simpson & Ron Goldman will confess, too...
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C.J. (thief)
Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 04:07 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
While y'all wait for the big award, let's have a look at some of our sponsors...

They're cuddly!
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They're in chains!
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Call now and receive a free leather jock-strap for you!

The most recent Got Milk ad.
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AdamL (adaml)
Posted on Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 07:11 am:   Edit Post Print Post
I heard the Republicans will announce that they rigged the election later today.

And apparently NASA will reveal that they faked the moon landing.

Stay tuned for details.
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X1 + T2 - MI2 / XXX = X2 (docscribe)
Posted on Tuesday, May 06, 2003 - 05:36 am:   Edit Post Print Post
What was the Best Pic?

And what was the year??
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Eat lead, Einstein! (watchorn)
Posted on Tuesday, May 06, 2003 - 09:05 am:   Edit Post Print Post
Out of nowehere, in the nearly empty auditorium, watchorn suddenly leaps on stage

"By acclamation, the best picture AFFA goes to Minority Report! I'd like to thank everyone for making a considerably wise decision."

He swipes the AFFA, and runs off, shouting MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! all the way.
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X1 + T2 - MI2 / XXX = X2 (docscribe)
Posted on Tuesday, May 06, 2003 - 04:45 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
You go watchorn! "Run! RUN!! RUNNN!!!"

Everyone left in the Chapel gets up and starts...uhm...running.
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C.J. (thief)
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 05:04 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
As everyone starts running towards the door, a loud bang is heard. Everybody looks back at the podium, and FINALLY something happens...
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C.J. (thief)
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 05:17 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
My apologies to all of you for the massive delay, for which I was the final contributor. Here's hoping that next year we can keep a tighter schedule for the presentations.
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Carlo (spiro_t_agnew)
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 05:26 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
The web site I have tried to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer.
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C.J. (thief)
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2003 - 11:04 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
:S Is anyone else having the same problem?
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Tim (tim)
Posted on Friday, May 09, 2003 - 01:20 am:   Edit Post Print Post
Nope. Worked fine for me.

Fun presentation! Can't believe the awards are finally over - it's May!
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In Da Mickey Mouse Club (thezookieman)
Posted on Friday, May 09, 2003 - 10:58 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
All I can say is, I'm glad to have finally found out who the real killers are...O.J. can rest in peace at last!
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X1 + T2 - MI2 / XXX = X2 (docscribe)
Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2003 - 12:17 am:   Edit Post Print Post
I never met a Muppet I liked...or felt I could implicitly trust.

Great presentation* C.J.!

* Worked fine for me too--no access problems.
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AdamL (adaml)
Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 07:02 am:   Edit Post Print Post
Worth the wait!

Terrific presentation Thief and nicely hosted.

Oh and I had trouble choosing between those two films so am happy with the outcome.
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Tim (tim)
Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2003 - 01:18 am:   Edit Post Print Post
Is there a summary of the winners somewhere?
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C.J. (thief)
Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2003 - 04:03 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
On the works...
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Frances Nicole (midge_wood)
Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2003 - 04:43 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
Need help?
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RIP Buffy Summers... (thezookieman)
Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2003 - 07:09 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
Got milk?
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C.J. (thief)
Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 01:36 am:   Edit Post Print Post
Finally, for those of you who were born during the awards and are now old enough to find out who won what... for those who just forgot what the heck we were doing here... or for those that just like to click at every link. Here's the 2002 AFFA Official Review Page.

Sorry for the sloppiness on the page. It was done in sort of a hurry.
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Matrices...within Matrices...within (docscribe)
Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 04:09 am:   Edit Post Print Post
Am I alone in thinking that our distribution was a bit weird this year?
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C.J. (thief)
Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 07:29 am:   Edit Post Print Post
Definitely agree with you...
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AdamL (adaml)
Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 10:52 am:   Edit Post Print Post
Apart from the appalling cinematography decision, I'm pretty happy with this year's awards. Nice job everyone. I think the weird distribution reflects the lack of an outright favourite amongst the ranks here.
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C.J. (thief)
Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 03:59 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
A total of nine ties also. That also reflects the lack of a favorite.
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Buffy ain't buff - discuss. (thezookieman)
Posted on Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 12:00 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
Thanks for the Review page thief. I hope in the second iteration of it, there will be links to all the HTML-based presentations, just as there was last year?
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Alex Dr_Evil (drevil)
Posted on Monday, June 02, 2003 - 12:33 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
I was about to apologize for forgetting to vote for Best Presentation, but it appears as if I wasn't the only one.
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Live, from New York, it's... (thezookieman)
Posted on Monday, June 02, 2003 - 01:04 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
I hope we won't have to wait for the results of the Best Presentation AFFA as long as we did for the other AFFAs. ;)
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C.J. (thief)
Posted on Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 12:43 am:   Edit Post Print Post
Well, I should've posted this earlier, but anyway...

zookie has sent me his votes for Best Presentation of the AFFA's. If anyone else wants to participate, just send them to my yahoo acount (affa_thief@yahoo.com).

An interesting note you might want to consider (thanks, zookie)... Perhaps you can split your votes in Best HTML-based presentation and Best Text presentation, and finally a Best Overall presentation. Let's see what consensus we can reach about this. That is if this is still a go...
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Carlo (spiro_t_agnew)
Posted on Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 12:55 am:   Edit Post Print Post
Hmm... now I have to remember all the presentations...
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C.J. (thief)
Posted on Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 01:14 am:   Edit Post Print Post
I'll try and link the HTML-based ones to my review page, but that'll be tomorrow...
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Carlo (spiro_t_agnew)
Posted on Sunday, July 20, 2003 - 01:52 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
My AFFA presentations for the last three years will be unavailable through the links on these boards for the next ten days or so due to host server space issues. Thanks.
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fishstick (fishstick)
Posted on Sunday, July 20, 2003 - 06:49 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
Is it too early for nominations? I nominate Johnny Depp (Pirates) for the Best Actor, Keira Knightley (Pirates, Beckham) for the Best Actress, Daredevil&Hulk for the Biggest POS of the Year, Paul Walker for the Best Tree, Demi Moore for the Biggest Boxoffice Backstab.
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Say what, say what? (Thezookieman)
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Post Number: 1511
Registered: 06-2001
Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 12:43 pm:   Edit Post Print Post
Just out of curiosity -- who won the Best AFFA Presentation award? Or has that been lost to the mists of time?

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