TY to Novel Novice for letting us know about this!
“TheScorecardReview.com, a great movie review/news website is currently promoting their 8th Annual TSR Awards — and NEW MOON is nominated in several categories:
Best Blockbuster
Best Music
Best Action Hero – Jacob Black
Best Action Hero – Edward Cullen
Best Ending
Best Visual Special Effects
Best Screenplay (Adapted)
Best Actress – Kristen Stewart for New Moon
Quote of the Year – “I just have one condition. If you want me to do it, then … marry me Bella.” ROBERT PATTINSON – THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON
Actress of the Year (Multiple Roles) – Kristen Stewart for New Moon & Adventureland
Actor of the Year (Multiple Roles) – Michael Sheen for New Moon & The Damned United
What’s so cool about these awards, is that you get to rank all of the movies you’ve seen — rather than choose between them. (So you can vote for NEW MOON & any of your other favorite nominees, such as AVATAR or STAR TREK. Or in the “Best Action Hero” category, you can vote for BOTH Edward & Jacob!)
Voting is going on now:
http://thescorecardreview.com/news/awards/2010/02/11/8th-annual-tsr-movie-awards-vote-now/8401
The poll has been discontinued, see the comments for explanation.
Ummmmm? I didn’t see any New Moon nominations, and I went through the whole thing, very confused.
I went through the whole thing as well and also found NOTHING for New Moon!
sameee !?!?!?!?! no neww moonnn!?
I went through the whole thing and Michael Sheen (Aro) was the only one I saw nominated…wow I feel like my time is wasted. At least Michael got my vote
I went through the whole thing and saw all of the New Moon stuff listed above…you guys must have just missed them somehow
Yeah, me too. I went through the whole thing, and it was cool and all, but I only saw a couple things, like Michael Sheen. I don’t know what you were looking at. I’m confused. ‘Cause New Moon didn’t come up when I voted. Did some of us click on the wrong thing or something?
I saw no New Moon stuff!!! Made me very mad. How can we vote for something that doesn’t come up. Someone needs to look into that.
I run The Scorecard Review … Unfortunately, I had to remove The Twilight Saga: New Moon choices. Too many twihards were giving everything Twilight a 10, and every other film a 1, trying to manipulate the results.
I have no problem with people loving Twilight, but trying to kill other movies (even ones they clearly haven’t seen) is not the point of these awards. Side note … Edward was beating Jacob. Pretty funny actually. Edward had the most 1st place AND last place votes. But officially, Team Edward was in the lead.
Ok, so that’s not cool if that’s what people were doing. So what does that mean we just don’t get to vote for anything New Moon now?
And unfortunately you have taken the opportunity to press mass blame on the Twilight community and smear us and this blog as a whole. Shame on you!
Perhaps the next time you create a voting system you might want to take into account that if you notify the fansites of the number 4 selling film of the year, you might perchance arrive at a skewed result. We didn’t come looking for you;you came to us!
I assure you, had your quiz been even a blip on the radar of the Star Trek and Harry Potter fandom sites’ radars you would have seen similar results. The fact is that they don’t even know you exist.
Perhaps you might want to take into account the design flaw of your poll which is to allow bottoming to begin with. Other sites EW, MTV, OK, Hello, People’s Choice, etc. only allow for single vote per category to avoid exactly this situation. It’s a known design flaw in polling which as a film critic you might possess a passing knowledge of! Do you honestly think that if the Academy Awards allowed bottoming in their system James Cameron wouldn’t be paying everyone in town he knew to bottom his ex-wife’s film? That’s what serious voting is a one vote, positive vote system
I did not notify this site of the awards. And I apologize for finding it interesting to see how movies rank, instead of just having people pick one winner.
I have an email from Sarah from Novel novice and I quote, “Hi all,
I’m writing to you on behalf of my friend Jeff, who runs TheScorecardReview.com, a great movie review/news website. They are currently promoting their 8th Annual TSR Awards — and NEW MOON is nominated in several categories:
Best Blockbuster
Best Music
Best Action Hero – Jacob Black
Best Action Hero – Edward Cullen
Best Ending
Best Visual Special Effects
Best Screenplay (Adapted)
Best Actress – Kristen Stewart for New Moon
Quote of the Year – “I just have one condition. If you want me to do it, then … marry me Bella.” ROBERT PATTINSON – THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON
Actress of the Year (Multiple Roles) – Kristen Stewart for New Moon & Adventureland
Actor of the Year (Multiple Roles) – Michael Sheen for New Moon & The Damned United
What’s so cool about these awards, is that you get to rank all of the movies you’ve seen — rather than choose between them. (So you can vote for NEW MOON & any of your other favorite nominees, such as AVATAR or STAR TREK. Or in the “Best Action Hero” category, you can vote for BOTH Edward & Jacob!)
Voting is going on now:
http://thescorecardreview.com/news/awards/2010/02/11/8th-annual-tsr-movie-awards-vote-now/8401
I’d love it (and so would Jeff) if you guys are able to mention this on your sites between now & March 6th, when voting ends. Plus, this is another great chance to show how strong the Twilighter community really is!
Below, you’ll find Jeff’s original e-mail about the awards — and the graphic is attached.”
She then forwards your original email which at the bottom clearly says “Please forward this any movie fans you may know. Sorry if you received this more than once. ”
So obviously you were looking for publicity, you just didn’t like the PR that you got and you were ill prepared to handle it.
This is the “Sara” who wrote that e-mail — **I** sent the note, not Jeff. I was trying to help his site’s awards get some extra attention. He didn’t ask me to send the note.
I’m sorry it turned into such a mess …
What a bunch of crap. So because of your poor planning Twilight can’t win? Boo on you.
I’m curious as to what makes you so certain people were voting for movies they “clearly haven’t seen? How do you know they haven’t seen them? Do you have pyschic super powers or something. If you do, I’d like the numbers for next Powerball drawing please! I looked at your poll and I can honestly say that I hae seen the majority of the movies listed. In fact, in the “Biggest Blockbuster” category, I have seen all but one of the many listed.
Oh, and FYI, by deleting one of the biggest movies of the year from your poll, you are skewing the results yourself.
EXACTLY. “skewing” the results. What a joke.
He Did so by creating a fake movie named after his dog. According to the rules, people only vote for moving they have seen. The fake film had several hundred 1-point votes, so obviously there were voters who were cheating. Sorry. Maybe honesty’s the best choice after all.
Well I did this when it first came up on the lexicon. So I guess I got to it before all the New Moon things were removed.
Wow, this is just stupid, and totally unfair. I’m not saying it’s ok to rate the other movies badly just so NM would win, but I’m sure every fanboy out there will do the same thing for Avatar. They’re going to have to remove every big movie off the list. Bad planning…
Relax, people! It’s Jeff’s baby…he can do what he wants with it.
At the end of the day, he’s juz highlighted the awesome power and connection which the Twilight Saga has with us and frankly, we don’t need his poll (or any others, for that matter) to ‘validate’ our passion for Edward and company.
I agree that, as Twihards, we don’t need a poll to tell us what the Saga means to all of us. Okay, yeah. What happened with the poll was just plain stupid, however, like said before in other posts, serious voting doesn’t work like that.
My take on it is that it was, in fact, bad planning. Whether it was meant to get onto the Lexicon or not, people would have found out and it would’ve happened anyway.
I also think that removing New Moon was a mistake because of how well it did with its audience. Granted, other movies were more popular than New Moon (it was a big year, let’s face it), but it still made quite a bit of money. How can we ignore that?
Dear all:
I think its a real shame what u do.
All the movies have fans, and you have to respect the opinion of the people.
now you have several days people visiting your site, and having a lot of publicity, and in some ways joking with the votes.
If a movie has a lot of votes, is for something.
Now you just got a lot of the worst publicity ever seen.
Bye.
I understand that he thought it was unfair that twifans voted for just Twilight and they just saw that movie but he did say,
‘If you have seen two movies or 200, it doesn’t matter. You only vote for the films you have seen.’
He should have seen this coming if people favor one movie over another. I mean isn’t that the point of polls? To see which is more popular. IDK that’s just my view.
Why would people be voting 1 for everything besides Twilight? You can vote 10s for more than one movie. Come on, guys. Don’t be jerks. New Moon is NOT the only movie out there and certainly not the best 2009 movie.
its really too bad that New Moon was taken off. the actors and directors did a great job, and it would have been cool to see it win some awards. but its not the end of the world. we can all still love the movie.
When I first read it I thought WTF.
But now, being serious, that’s just such a mess. It should be a cool and nice poll, and asking fans for voting shouldn’t make them voting bad for other movies. It should be a chance for fans to vote New Moon the best, only this.
I just voted to see how it worked and it’s a freaking simple system, anyone could vote only for New Moon without bottoming the other movies.
It’s pretty sad the saga fans have this kind of “fame”. But it’s a true fact and the fans don’t care doing anything to change it.
I think New Moon and Twilight would have been recognized as ” Award winning ” movies if they had hired well known actors.I read all the books first and I thought they were really interesting.My granddaughter read them after me and fell in love with Edward, but really liked Jacob too, and the rest of the wolfpack.She never read anything like these books before and now she’s into rereading them.She loved both of the movies, and is waiting for more!
GUYS PLEASE CHILL OUT!! So many of you are being incredibly harsh on this guy, and what right do you have to criticize him? No voting system will ever be perfect, and all of your outrageous negative comments are completely irrational and downright hurtful. How dare you publically insult this person who was simply trying to give movie fans a voice. And may I also say, you all are giving Twilight fans a horrible name in the process, showing others that we are angry people who will lash out at anything that doesn’t allow us to put Twilight up on a pedestal and smash everything else into the dust. Please just consider your comments before you post them.
Agreed. Please guys, just stop the hate.
I agree with both Amanda and Marie.
I have to say I’m kind of embarrassed to be a Twilight fan at the moment. I think some people here need to just grow up and become a little bit more mature in situations like this…
I don’t think it’s the Twilight fans that should
be beat up on its a business that can’t seem to
work a poll. I will doubt the pollster from
here on out.
Well , well a pollster uses a flawed poll and
then when its flaws are used, instead of removing
the poll he removes only the movie that is winning
and which would most likely have won under any
circumstances. Whow are the Twilight fans the
only ones that use this..I don’t think so. Think
pollster will be taken seriously again?
Hi all – It’s Jeff Bayer, the guy who created the 8th Annual TSR Movie Awards.
Just wanted to say, I don’t mind the hate, and thanks for some love. I realize it’s a “flawed” awards system, because I am expecting movie fans to be honest. For some, that’s apparently a lot to ask. This easily could have happened with any other fan group such as ‘Avatar’ or ‘Harry Potter.’ When 80-90 percent of the voters were manipulating the results (yes, it was that many), then that movie will win. But what has it really won?
*awkward*… lol