Skandies: #20 (Patreon)

Most of you are likely familiar with the Skandies, but for those just tuning in: This is an annual year-end survey I've been conducting since 1995. Roughly 30 cinephiles take part—some of them professional critics, most of them not. The August Voting Body (AVB), as we call it, mostly formed on a Usenet movie chatgroup in the mid-to-late '90s. It's heavily male, and in fact this year is 100% male, as all three of the women currently on the roster abstained for various reasons. Rather than announce the results all at once, I draw the thing out for three freakin' weeks, revealing the top 20 in each category one day at a time, starting with everything that placed 20th. (That's what you'll find below.) Eventually the complete results and all ballots will be available at the not-terribly-official Skandies website, where you can currently find results from all previous years. Any questions, ask away in the comments. Away we go...

(The parenthetical numbers are points/votes. I stole the Pazz & Jop rules: 100 points for each category, maximum of 30 and minimum of 5.)

Picture: Bisbee '17 (53/5)
Director: Tamara Jenkins, Private Life (49/5)
Actress: Jeanne Balibar, Barbara (40/2)
Actor: Viggo Mortensen, Green Book (47/5)
S. Actor: Mark Rylance, Ready Player One (38/3)
S. Actress (tie for #19): Isabelle Huppert, Claire's Camera (36/4)
S. Actress (tie for #19): Alia Shawkat, Blaze (36/4)
Screenplay: Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk (39/6)
Scene: The big corporate presentation, Dim the Fluorescents (35/3)

[Click the link to watch the scene, assuming YouTube hasn't killed it. Note: It's the end of the movie, and probably incomprehensible out of context.]

HISTORY:

Jenkins did not place for Slums of Beverly Hills or The Savages.

It took four years after his death, but Huppert has now tied Philip Seymour Hoffman's record for most career appearances in the top 20, with 15. (Hoffman remains in first place for the moment, however, because I break ties by average placement—he's tended to finish just a little bit higher, overall. Both have won outright: Hoffman for The Master, Huppert for Elle.) Here's her complete rundown (the lowercase s = supporting):

1. Elle

2. The Piano Teacher

2s. 8 Women

4. Gabrielle

8. Abuse of Weakness

8. The School of Flesh

8. Things to Come

12. White Material

13s. I ❤️ Huckabees

13s. Amour

15. La Cérémonie

17. Time of the Wolf

17. In Another Country

19. Home

20s. Claire's Camera

Mortensen, who I really did not expect to see here but okay, has placed four times previously (mostly in Cronenberg films), for A History of Violence (#2, 2005), Eastern Promises (#5, 2007), A Dangerous Method (#7s, 2011), and Jauja (#19, 2015). Balibar makes her first appearance in a decade (and her first in a film not directed by Rivette); she previously placed 18th for Va Savoir (2001) and 8th for The Duchess of Langeais (2008). Rylance, who I think may hold the record for longest gap between appearances—he placed 11th for Angels and Insects in 1996, then didn't show up again until landing at #3 in Supporting for Bridge of Spies in 2015—likewise gets his third nod. Shawkat is new. (And there's actually a third actor tied for #19—I'm arbitrarily saving the first name alphabetically for tomorrow's post.) 

Jenkins' screenplay for Moonlight placed 12th.