The 4th Annual LION Awards: Best Poster

It's our second LION Award to hand out and this one is for the best movie poster of 2010. Out of 28 voters, here are your Top 5...plus 10 extras:

5. The American-19 points

4. The Social Network-32 points

3. Buried-34 points

2. Inception-43 points

1. Black Swan-79 points

Right about now you may be calling "shenanigans" on the top two entries. However, the votes were so scattered over the different designs for both films (if the votes even specified one design) that had I counted them individually none of the posters would've made it into the Top 5, which very well may have caused an uprising. Blame the marketing teams of the two films for creating so many fantastic posters.

Come back tomorrow for the Best Foreign Language film, which will have one clear cut winner.

The 3rd Annual LION Awards: Introductory Ceremonies/Best Poster

Welcome to the LIONs! The field has been expanded slightly this year, with awards to be presented in the following categories:

Best Poster
Best Foreign Film (non-English)
Best Documentary
Best Scene
Best Cast
Best Director
Best Performance by a Supporting Female
Best Performance by a Supporting Male
Best Performance by a Leading Female
Best Performance by a Leading Male
Bottom Five Films of the Year
Top 10 Films of the Year

Many thanks go out to the 49 total voters, representatives of the following sites (in voting order): Insight Into Entertainment, The Flick Chick, Not Just Movies, Nevermind Popular Film, Anomalous Material, The Dark of the Matinee, Random Ramblings of a Demented Doorknob, Cannelton Critic, Big Thoughts From A Small Mind, The Sophomore Critic, The Ludovico Technique, Plus Trailers, Movie Mobsters, Movies Kick Ass, The Moving Arts, Behind the Couch, Keyzer Soze's Place, Fandango Groovers Movie Blog, Marshall and the Movies, Cut The Crap Movie Reviews, Cinematically Correct, Foolish Blatherings, Le Mot du Cinephiliaque, hal0000's Movie Reviews, This Guy Over Here, bip-bip, Korova Theatre Presents, The Movie Encyclopedia, filmicability with Dean Treadway, Radiator Heaven, Invasion of the B Movies, Film Forager, Final Cut, Minty's Menagarie, He Shot Cyrus, Phil on Film, I Rate Films, Movie Dearest, Detailed Criticisms, Encore Entertainment, And All That Film, MiNG Movie Reviews …in about 100 words or less, Journalistic Skepticism, Valley Dreamin', Situated Laundry, Insight into Entertainment, Rachel's Reel Reviews, Reel Whore, & Blog Cabins.

Our first award for presentation is for Best Poster. There were a total of 44 votes for this category (only the Top 10 of the Year was required for all). We have a tie for runner-up, with 4 votes each:




And taking the trophy, with 6 votes:


Next up... Best Foreign Film. Stay tuned to the LAMB for more of the LIONs, culminating with our Top 10 Films of 2009.

The 2nd Annual LION Awards...Best Poster

I have no idea what this image is supposed to
mean, but it has a lamb and a lion.
Bless you, Google Image Search.

The votes have been cast, the independent accounting firm of Fletch & Fletch has been consulted, and the time has come for the LIONs to be handed out.

Our first award for presentation is for Best Poster. There were a total of 48 voters. The runner-up, with 5 votes...Burn After Reading!


And taking the trophy, with a combined 13 votes*, The Dark Knight's "Why So Serious" poster!


* The Dark Knight received 13 total votes - 9 that simply stated the film's title along with another 4 that specifically called out the above poster.


Next up... Best Cast. Stay tuned to the LAMB for more of the LIONs, culminating with our Top 10 Films of 2008.