Celebrating Achievement, Scorning Everything Else

Every year since 2004, I've honored what I felt was the best among the movies I'd seen during the previous twelve months. And this year will be no exception, as it's now time for the 2007 edition of what I like to call the "Sutton At The Movies" Achievement Awards. Now remember, these are only for movies that I actually saw. Which means, unfortunately, that I can't give anything to Sweeney Todd or Juno, no matter how much I might like to. And be forewarned, there may or may not be some spoilers amongst these awards. Now that that's out of the way, let's get to it.

• Best Movie: The Simpsons Movie
• Best Actor: Christian Bale, 3:10 To Yuma
• Best Actress: Marcia Gay Harden, The Mist
• Best Supporting Actor: Ben Foster, 3:10 To Yuma and 30 Days of Night
• Best Supporting Actress: Sheri Moon-Zombie, Halloween
• Best Director: James Wan, Death Sentence
• Best Hero: Christian Bale, 3:10 To Yuma
• Best Villain: the evil room, 1408
• Best Antihero: the Predator, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
• Best Animated Movie: The Simpsons Movie
• Best Comedy: The Simpsons Movie
• Best Action Movie: Hot Fuzz
• Best Horror Movie: 1408
• Best Superhero Movie: Ghost Rider
• Best Movie Based on a Comic Book: 30 Days of Night
• Best Movie Based on a Video Game: Resident Evil: Extinction
• Best Movie Based on a Novel or Short Story: I Am Legend
• Best Movie Based on a Television Show: The Simpsons Movie
• Best Remake: 3:10 To Yuma
• Worst Remake: Halloween
• Worst Sequel: 28 Weeks Later
• Worst Movie: Hannibal Rising
• Most Bizarre Movie: Bug
• Best Action Scene: the supermarket sequence, Hot Fuzz
• Best Fight: the Predator vs. the "Predalien," Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
• Most Frequent Use of Numerology: The Number 23
• Best Blast From The Past: TMNT
• Most Blatant Toy Commercial: Transformers
• Most Insane Scene: the Predalien's children literally tear their way out of the womb, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
• Biggest Cinematic Acid Trip: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters
• Most Complicated Plot: Saw IV
• Most Entertaining Concept: Grindhouse
• Best Cameo: Bruce Campbell, Spider-Man 3
• Best Character: Spider-Pig, The Simpsons Movie
• Best Use of a Song in a Movie: "In The Air Tonight" by Phil Collins, in Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters
• The "Shut Up And Do Something" Award: Death Proof, thanks to its over-excessive (and mostly pointless) talking scenes
• Most Vulgar Dialogue: Halloween
• Overkill Award: WWE heavily promoting The Condemned for weeks despite the fact that most theaters had stopped carrying it
• Worst Movie That I Didn't Actually See: Bratz: The Movie. Who thought it was a good idea to make Bratz: The Movie, let alone release it theatrically? A damn fool, that's who.

And that's it for this year's "Sutton At The Movies" Achievement Awards. Congratulations to all our winners, and to the losers, better luck next year.