 The Sixth Annual Mutant Awards: 2003 |
It's raining chaos in the MRFH offices. Kyle's sulking under the conference table, refusing to come out even for moist Fig Newtons. Clare is on top of the table, marching up and down it like an unholy Joan of Arc, ready to do battle with whoever calls her a heretic once more. Bobby and PoolMan are in the Circle Of Death, pounding on each other and giving out noogies like no one's business. Justin's in the corner with a black crayon, drawing crosses on the walls, himself, and anything else that gets within range. Snoozing away in a straightjacket, Rich is dreaming and drooling of a time where movies made sense to him. And -- as usual -- Alex is clad in pure black leather, banging her riding crop against a blackboard, trying to teach everyone about Danish heritage and geography.
Yeah, it's that time of year again.
Don't get us wrong, we love the Annual Mutant Awards. But the stress of brainstorming categories, then the added stress of dredging our memories for nominations for those categories is more than any sane man could bear. And as we have long left that country, we're left with huddled delusions and boxes of Dunkin' Donuts coffee to sustain our minds.
As with each year since the Annual Mutant Awards began, the MRFH staff has tried to reinvent the idea of stuffy, back-patting awards shows by giving our own take on what really should be awarded in films. These eight all-new categories were hand-picked by the Head Mutant out of a massive list that included such actual gems as "best use of breakfast cereal" and "strangest use of blood." And those were just some of Kyle's ideas. We thought up the categories, each staff member having the option to nominate up to two movies/things per category -- but the decision came down to the readers. The many, the weird, the trying-to-do-anything-but-work crowd. Their voice was heard over the month of October 2003.
We've very proud to be presenting the awards for the 6th AMA (and proud to have been around doing this since 1998... sheesh!). It's always a nervous time when the staff puts their nominations to the field to see them chewed up like a three-legged zebra on Lioness Parade Day. We never know which of ours might be the most popular -- or the most ignored -- and there's always the inevitable "You forgot [THIS] when you came up with this category, you [NOT A VERY COMPLIMENTARY COMPARISON]!" But the end results are like MRFH itself: a bit wild and wooly, unpredictable, and kinda fun.
The 6th AMA has a number of firsts. It's the first year where we delegated the presentations themselves among the staff (a good move, since I'm usually so blind after reading the Nth percentage point on votes to come up with anything slightly witty when we finally post the results), and I think we all had a lot of fun with it. It's also the first year where we are giving out a Cult Lifetime Achievement Award (chosen by the staff alone), a tradition we hope to carry on in the future, barring any lawsuits from previous Cult Lifetime Achievement Award winners. Finally, a small change but a fun one, in addition to showing the top four highest voted movies in any category, we're also going to show the one voted on the least -- the DEAD LAST. Spooky.
Extra credit goes to Alex, for designing the 6th AMA front page banner, and Pooly for designing the Ashy statue and the award buttons!
So, with ado and aplomb, let's hand out some Muties!
Posted: November 6, 2003
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