Fuck politics. Fuck popularity. Fuck pay-offs. These are the works of art that move us and make life worth living.
Awards are awarded on an as-needed basis; not all awards are given in any
particular year, and some special awards are given only in particular years. Moreover, I do not
pretend these awards to be definite; in fact, like any honest awards, they are malleable and
subject to change.
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Motion Pictures |
Graphic Literature |
Literature |
| 2002 |
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Special Award for Excellence:
Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson (the completion of Transmetropolitan)
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Best Books of Poetry:
Julian Darius (Parnassiad, Fragments of a Formerly Active Sex Life)
Best Play:
Julian Darius (Nostalgia in Three Acts)
Best Essay Collection:
Julian Darius (Essays in Search of a Medium)
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| 2001 |
Best Motion Picture:
Moulin Rouge
Second Best Motion Pictures:
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, The Royal Tenenbaums, Vanilla Sky
Best Director:
Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge)
Best Music Video:
R.E.M., "Imitation of Life"
Most Overrated Motion Picture:
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Poorest Motion Picture Adaptation:
From Hell
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Best Graphic Novel:
Marc-Antoine Mathieu (Le Dessin)
Best Published Graphic Novel Scripts:
Julian Darius (Peace, The Rooms and The Rituals)
Most Important Published Graphic Novel Script:
Julian Darius (The Times They Are A-Ending)
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Best Book of Poetry:
Julian Darius (CLOSE)
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| 2000 |
Best Motion Picture:
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Best Motion Picture:
Traffic
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Best Graphic Novel:
Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth)
Second Best Graphic Novels:
Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Book One), Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (JLA: Earth 2)
Special Award for Excellence:
Grant Morrison (The Invisibles Volume Three #1 and the completion of The Invisibles)
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Best Novel:
Philip Roth (The Human Stain)
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| 1999 |
Best Motion Pictures:
American Beauty, Eyes Wide Shut, Fight Club, Magnolia, The Matrix
Best Music Video:
Baz Lehrmann, "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)"
Most Underrated Motion Picture:
Eyes Wide Shut
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Best Graphic Novel:
Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell (From Hell)
Second Best Graphic Novel:
Frank Miller (300)
Special Award for Excellence:
Warren Ellis (The Authority and Planetary)
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| 1998 |
Best Motion Pictures:
Life is Beautiful, Lolita
Second Best Motion Pictures:
American History X, Shakespeare in Love
Most Underrated Motion Picture:
Lolita
Honorable Mention:
Bulworth
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Best Graphic Novel:
Dave McKean (Cages)
Second Best Graphic Novel:
Will Eisner (Family Matter)
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Best Novel:
Philip Roth (I Married a Communist)
Best Book of Poetry:
Deborah Garrison (A Working Girl Can't Win and Other Poems)
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| 1997 |
Best Motion Pictures:
Deconstructing Harry, The Game
Most Overrated Motion Picture:
Good Will Hunting
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Best Novel:
Oliver Stone (A Child's Night Dream)
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| 1996 |
Best Motion Picture:
Romeo + Juliet
Best Director:
Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet)
Honorable Mention:
The People Vs. Larry Flint
Most Overrated Motion Picture:
Sling Blade
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Special Award for Excellence:
Neil Gaiman (the completion of The Sandman)
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| 1995 |
Best Motion Pictures:
Nixon, Se7en
Honorable Mention:
Heat, The Usual Suspects
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| 1994 |
Best Motion Picture:
Natural Born Killers
Second Best Motion Picture:
The Shawshank Redemption
Best Director:
Oliver Stone (Natural Born Killers)
Honorable Mention:
Bleu, Ed Wood, Farewell My Concubine, The Remains of the Day
Most Overrated Motion Pictures:
The Piano, Schindler's List
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Best Graphic Novel:
Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross (Marvels)
Second Best Graphic Novel:
Grant Morrison and Jon J. Muth (The Mystery Play)
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Best Novel:
Charles Bukowski (Pulp)
Best Book of Non-Fiction:
Christina Hoff Sommers (Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women)
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| 1993 |
Best Motion Picture:
The Age of Innocence
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Best Graphic Novel:
Frank Miller (Sin City)
Best Graphic Non-Fiction Book:
Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics)
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| 1992 |
Best Motion Picture:
Malcolm X
Best Documentary Motion Picture:
The Panama Deception
Honorable Mention:
Bob Roberts
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Best Graphic Novels:
Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham (Miracleman: The Golden Age),
Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean (Signal to Noise)
Second Best Graphic Novels:
Neil Gaiman and others (Sandman: Season of Mists),
Frank Miller and Geof Darrow (Hard Boiled)
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Best Essay Collection:
Camille Paglia (Sex, Art, and American Culture)
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| 1991 |
Best Motion Picture:
JFK
Second Best Motion Picture:
The Silence of the Lambs
Best Documentary Motion Picture:
Truth or Dare
Best Music Video:
Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Honorable Mention:
Homicide
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Best Graphic Novel:
Alan Moore and Oscar Zarate (A Small Killing)
Second Best Graphic Novel:
Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean (Black Orchid)
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| 1990 |
Best Motion Picture:
Miller's Crossing
Honorable Mention:
Edward Scissorhands
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Best Graphic Novel:
Alan Moore and John Totleben (Miracleman: Olympus)
Second Best Graphic Novel:
Marc-Antoine Mathieu (L'Origine)
Third Best Graphic Novel:
Frank Miller (Elektra Lives Again)
Fourth Best Graphic Novel:
Kyle Baker (Why I Hate Saturn)
Special Award for Excellence:
Grant Morrison (the completion of his run on Animal Man)
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Best Book of Non-Fiction:
David D. Gilmore (Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity)
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| 1989 |
Honorable Mention:
Batman
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Best Graphic Novel:
Grant Morrison and Dave McKean (Batman: Arkham Asylum)
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| 1988 |
Best Motion Picture:
The Last Temptation of Christ
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Best Graphic Novels:
Alan Moore and Brian Bolland (Batman: The Killing Joke),
Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli (Batman: Year One)
Second Best Graphic Novel:
Mike Grell (Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters)
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| 1987 |
Best Motion Picture:
Full Metal Jacket
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Best Graphic Novel:
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Watchmen)
Second Best Graphic Novel:
Will Eisner (The Building)
Special Award for Excellence:
Alan Moore (the completion of his work on Swamp Thing)
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| 1986 |
Best Motion Picture:
Platoon
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Best Graphic Novel:
Frank Miller (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns)
Second Best Graphic Novel:
Will Eisner (New York, the Big City)
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| 1985 |
Honorable Mention:
Back to the Future
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Best Novel:
Paul Auster (City of Glass)
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| 1984 |
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| 1983 |
Best Motion Picture:
Videodrome
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Best Book of Non-Fiction:
Paul Fussell (Class: A Guide through the American Status System)
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| 1982 |
Best Motion Picture:
Blade Runner
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Best Novel:
Robert Coover (Spanking the Maid)
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| 1981 |
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| 1980 |
Most Overrated Motion Picture:
Raging Bull
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| 1979 |
Best Motion Pictures:
Apocalypse Now, Manhattan
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| 1978 |
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| 1977 |
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| 1976 |
Best Motion Picture:
Network
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| 1975 |
Best Motion Picture:
Tommy
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| 1974 |
Best Motion Picture:
Chinatown
Best Documentary Motion Picture:
F for Fake
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| 1973 |
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| 1968 |
Honorable Mention:
The Producers
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