The Golden Banana


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2019 - 30th Annual Banane d'or Awards



Picture: Joker (Todd Phillips)
Director: Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood*
Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, Joker**
Actress: Kaitlyn Dever, Booksmart
Supporting Actor: Al Pacino, The Irishman
Supporting Actress: Park So-dam, Parasite
Screenplay: One Cut of the Dead - Shinichiro Ueda
Use of Music: Joker - Hildur Guonadottir, Todd Phillips
Rediscovery: Day of Anger - Tonino Valerii (first watch)

* - This is Tarantino's sixth Banana, cementing his status as the most awarded Banana winner in history.
** - Joaquin Phoenix becomes only the second person to receive a second Best Actor Banana, having previously won for The Master (2013).


2018 - 29th Annual Banane d'or Awards



Picture: Hereditary (Ari Aster)
Director: Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Actor: Yoo Ah-in, Burning
Actress: Meryl Streep, The Post
Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Supporting Actress: Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Screenplay: Hereditary - Ari Aster
Use of Music: Climax - Steve Bouyer, Pascal Mayer, Gaspar Noe
Rediscovery: Two-Lane Blacktop - Monte Hellman (first watch)


2017 - 28th Annual Banane d'or Awards



Picture: Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd)
Director: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Actor: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Mother!
Supporting Actor: Barry Keoghan, The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Supporting Actress: Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
Screenplay: Manchester by the Sea - Kenneth Lonergan
Use of Music: Dunkirk - Hans Zimmer, Christopher Nolan
Rediscovery: Tokyo Story - Yosujiro Uzo (first watch)


2016 - 27th Annual Banane d'or Awards



Picture: The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
Director: Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight*
Actor: Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
Actress: Cate Blanchett, Carol
Supporting Actor: Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Supporting Actress: Kim Tae-ri, The Handmaiden
Screenplay: The Hateful Eight - Quentin Tarantino*
Use of Music: Carol - Carter Burwell, Todd Haynes
Rediscovery: Rocky - John G. Avildsen (rewatch)

* - This is Tarantino's fourth and fifth Banana, making him the most awarded Banana winner in history. The record was previously held by David Lynch.
Tarantino also becomes the first person to win in all four non-acting categories.


2015 - 26th Annual Banane d'or Awards



Picture: Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
Director: George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road*
Actor: Miles Teller, Whiplash
Actress: Laia Costa, Victoria
Supporting Actor: Edward Norton, Birdman
Supporting Actress: Veerle Baetens, The Ardennes
Screenplay: Wild Tales - Damian Szifron
Use of Music: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - John Williams, J.J. Abrams
Rediscovery: True Romance - Tony Scott (rewatch)

* - This is Miller's second Banana, having previously won Best Screenplay for Babe (1996).


2014 - 25th Annual Banane d'or Awards



Picture: The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)*
Director: Richard Linklater, Boyhood**
Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Actress: Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
Supporting Actor: Michael Fassbender, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Supporting Actress: Agata Kulesza, Ida
Screenplay: Edge of Tomorrow - Christopher McQuarrie***, Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth
Use of Music: The Grand Budapest Hotel - Alexandre Desplat, Wes Anderson
Rediscovery: Mean Streets - Martin Scorsese (rewatch)

* - Scorsese is the second director to win a Golden Banana for both Best Director and Best Picture, having received the Best Director trophy for Goodfellas (1990).
** - This marks Linklater's second Banana, following his Best Screenplay win for Before Sunset (2005).
*** - This makes McQuarrie the first person to win Best Screenplay twice, after The Usual Suspects (1995).


2013 - 24th Annual Banane d'or Awards



Picture: Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron)*
Director: Noah Baumbach, Frances Ha
Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Actress: Adele Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color
Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Supporting Actress: Lea Seydoux, Blue is the Warmest Color
Screenplay: Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell
Use of Music: The Great Gatsby - Craig Armstrong, Jay Z, Baz Luhrmann
Rediscovery: Grand Illusion - Jean Renoir (first watch)

* - Following his win for Children of Men (2006), Cuaron takes home his second Best Picture Banana, becoming the third person to do so.


2012 - 23rd Annual Banane d'or Awards



Picture: Shame (Steve McQueen)
Director: Leos Carax, Holy Motors
Actor: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour
Actress: Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Supporting Actor: Thomas Bo Larsen, The Hunt
Supporting Actress: Carey Mulligan, Shame
Screenplay: Moonrise Kingdom - Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
Use of Music: The Broken Circle Breakdown - Bjorn Eriksson, Felix Van Groeningen
Rediscovery: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - Steven Spielberg (rewatch)


2011 - 22nd Annual Banane d'or Awards



Picture: Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Director: Steven Spielberg, The Adventures of Tintin*
Actor: Matthias Schoenaerts, Bullhead
Actress: Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Supporting Actor: Shahab Hosseini, A Separation
Supporting Actress: Sareh Bayat, A Separation
Screenplay: A Separation - Asghar Farhadi
Use of Music: Drive - Cliff Martinez, Nicolas Winding Refn
Rediscovery: Three Kings - David O. Russell (rewatch)

* - Spielberg joins Darren Aronofsky, Pedro Almodovar, Ang Lee, and the Coen Brothers as a two-time Best Director Banana winner, having previously won for Schindler's List (1994).


2010 - 21st Annual Banane d'or Awards



Picture: Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois)
Director: Adam Elliot, Mary & Max
Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mary & Max
Actress: Hye-ja Kim, Mother
Supporting Actor: Moritz Bleibtreu, Soul Kitchen
Supporting Actress: Chloe Moretz, Kick-Ass
Screenplay: The Social Network - Aaron Sorkin
Use of Music: A Single Man - Abel Korzeniowski, Shigeru Umebayashi*, Tom Ford
Rediscovery: Playtime - Jacques Tati (rewatch)

* - This marks Umebayashi's second Banana, following his win for In the Mood for Love (2000).


I have been handing out these awards since I was 14 at the end of 1990.
To be eligible in a certain year, a film must be released in Belgium and I must have seen it.
Screeners are always welcome :o)

(p.s. The winners were my favorites AT THE TIME, my tastes have changed over the years)