Contest: VOTE SF&F Avatar Contest: The TrekBBS Acting in SF&F Award 2024

[Kai "the spy"]

This year's Awards Season is heavily overshadowed by the catastrophic wildfires in California. And while we may be able to go on with our Awards, it is a bit more somber than in previous years.

Each user may cast votes for the two nominees they deem most deserving.


The male nominees are:

Walton Goggins as Cooper Howard / The Ghoul in "Fallout", Season 1 (nominated by @Avro Arrow )

Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides in "Dune: Part Two" (nominated by @Avro Arrow )

Chris Hemsworth as Dementus in "Furiosa - A Mad Max Saga" (nominated by @Kai "the spy" )

Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse in "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" (nominated by @Kai "the spy" )

Harvey Guillén as Guillermo de la Cruz in "What We Do in the Shadows", Season 6 (nominated by @the G-man )


Female nominees:

Ella Purnell as Lucy McLean in "Fallout", Season 1 (nominated by @Avro Arrow )

Noomi Rapace as Johanna "Jo" Ericsson in "Constellation", Season 1 (nominated by @Avro Arrow )

Cristin Milioti as Sofia Falcone/Sofia Gigante in "The Penguin", Season 1 (nominated by @Kai "the spy" )

Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz in "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" (nominated by @Kai "the spy" )

 

[Avro Arrow]

I voted. (Unfortunately, I haven't actually seen any of the entries other than my own, so I had to pick more on the avatars themselves, than on the performances. Sorry.)

Way back when I entered, I had said:

This last nom was tricky, as there were two people / roles I wanted to nominate. I ended up going with the one that nobody has apparently seen (and I couldn't even find a good gif for), rather than the one that everyone has probably seen.

And I entered Noomi Rapace for Constellation, which apparently not many people have seen. (Its cancellation was one of my bigger entertainment-related disappointments for 2024.) I thought someone else might have ended up entering the other one, since my understanding was a lot of people had seen this movie... but no one did. So as an honourable mention/alternate, the other nominee I was considering was:

Kirsten Dunst as Lee Smith, Civil War

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I fell in and voted.

 

[the G-man]

PWC has tallied the results and announced I voted

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Still a few days left to vote.

While they didn't get nominated, I thought these were also very deserving performances:

Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobb in "The Penguin", Season 1

Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor in "Doctor Who", Series 14

Zendaya as Chani in "Dune: Part Two"

Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle in "The Substance"

 

[Kai "the spy"]

And the Award goes to Ella Purnell

Accepting the Award on Ms. Purnell's behalf will be @Avro Arrow . Congratulations!

 

[Avro Arrow]

Ms. Purnell has asked me to thank everyone who voted for her, and to tell you that she will treasure her Golden Spock always.

As for me, I'll try to get a new contest up soon-ish. Hopefully by the end of the weekend? Fingers crossed.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Hi all.

So, please let me apologize profusely. Due to events around the time, I kind of forgot that I was the last winner of record in the SF&F contest. And that was also right around the time of my self-imposed withdrawal from most forums other than those I personally moderate. So I didn't see this thread to remind me that the contest was waiting for my followup. And as a result, the contest has just laid dormant for three months. I'm very sorry about that.

Thank you to @Orac for PMing me today to remind me that I was the weak link in this chain. I appreciate the reminder.

So, I will start up a new contest momentarily, and will see it through to completion, and then whoever wins can move forward with it, while I resume my (temporary?) absence from this forum.

I will update this post with a link when the new contest thread is ready.

ETA: The new contest is now up.

Again, my apologies for letting this sit for so long.