The 77th Academy Awards, or Oscars to you less-portentous types, takes place on Sunday. Actors will blush, gush, weep and bleep as they clutch their gold statuettes. But we wanted to give teen moviegoers (ages 13-19) the opportunity to select their favorite films. So we created the TAFFYS (Teen Awards for Favorite Films of the Year).
You voted, voted some more, and here are the winners and runners-up in each of the TAFFY categories. Best Picture, Hero and Villain were runaways, Best Actress featured a strong stretch run and Best Actor ended in a tie (cage match, anyone?). Many thanks to all who participated, and without further ado . . .
BEST ACTRESS
KATE WINSLET
“Finding Neverland”
Runners-up: Hilary Swank in “Million Dollar Baby,”
Uma Thurman in “Kill Bill: Vol. 2.”
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS “SPIDER-MAN 2”
Runners-up:”Day After Tomorrow,”
“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.”
BEST PICTURE
“NAPOLEON DYNAMITE”
Runners-up:
“Finding Neverland,”
“Spider-Man 2.”
BEST HERO
SPIDER-MAN “Spider-Man 2”
Runners-up: Mr. Incredible of “The Incredibles,” Napoleon Dynamite of “Napoleon Dynamite.”
BEST VILLAIN
COUNT OLAF
“Lemony Snicket”
Runners-up:Doc Ock of “Spider-Man 2,”
George W. Bush of “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
BEST ACTOR (TIE)
JAMIE FOXX “Ray”JOHNNY DEPP “Finding Neverland.”
Runners-up: Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Aviator,” Jon Heder in “Napoleon Dynamite.”
The runaway winner in the final TAFFY category, BEST MOVIE MOMENT, is the DANCE SCENE from “Napoleon Dynamite.” Find pictures and other favorite movie moments in MOVIES.
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THE WINNING ENTRANTS, chosen from a random drawing by Tribune movie critic Michael Wilmington:
1ST PRIZE ($100 cinema gift card and three DVDs): Josie Truong,19, of Chicago
2ND PRIZE ($50 cinema gift card and two DVDs): Clinton McClure, 18, of Evanston
3RD PRIZE ($25 cinema gift card and one DVD): Harriet White, 14, of Chicago
