The winners of the Fourth Annual Edendale Shortlist Prize were announced last night following the conclusion of the 79th Academy Awards. In the closest voting ever, Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, which earlier in the night won three Oscars (although not the anticipated statue for Best Foreign Language Film), took the prize for film by a single vote. In the music category, Cat Power's album The Greatest - the 7th album from singer/songwriter Chan Marshall - won the Edendale prize by just two votes.
Pan's Labyrinth just edged out Larry Charles' comedy Borat, with Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men coming in third, just one vote behind Borat. Martin Scorsese's Best Picture Oscar winner The Departed came in fourth, while Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Ferris' Little Miss Sunshine was fifth. Little Miss Sunshine, which dominated the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, was by far the top vote getter in original polling for the shortlist - where voters nominated their five favorite films - garnering more than ten votes more than Pan's Labyrinth. But in the end, it had the least number of votes in the final tallying.
On the music side, Band of Horses' Everything All the Time and TV on the Radio's Return to Cookie Mountain, tied for second, just two votes behind Cat Power, who had led the early voting by just a few votes over Tom Waits' Orphans. The Waits album ended up fourth in the final voting, with Joanna Newsom's Ys coming in fifth.
Here's the original post on this year's Shortlist Nominees with background on the prize itself and previous winners. And here's a full list of films that received votes in the first round.
ggggrrrrr... i hate scorcese!
Posted by: DaveKCMO | February 26, 2007 at 07:57 PM