In just a few hours, the telecast of the Oscars (or, as we refer to them, the “Weirdcademy Awards for squares”) will begin. We are happy to steal the Academy’s thunder by announcing cinema’s weirdest winners of 2020 now.

In the category of “Weirdest Short Film,” the winner is “Sock Six” by David Firth.

In the category of “Weirdest Scene,” the Weirdcademy Award goes to I’m Thinking of Ending Things, for the janitor and pig scene. We won’t totally spoil the surprise for anyone who hasn’t seen the film yet, except to say it features this cutie:

In the category of “Weirdest Actress,” in something of an upset in the most competitive category, the Award goes to: Andrea Riseborough in Possessor, as a sociopathic assassin who inhabits other people’s bodies.

In the category of “Weirdest Actor,” the Award goes to Tom Hardy, chewing a carrot and firing a gold-plated Tommy-gun while wearing a diaper in Capone.

https://youtu.be/qD3XHHbUhxE

And finally, the award for Weirdest Picture of 2019 goes to… drum roll…  Argentina’s stop-motion nightmare The Wolf House [La Casa Lobo].

Thanks to all voting members of the Weirdcademy, and see you again next year!

We’re sticking to our plan of one Netflix and one Amazon Prime watch party per month. It’s Netflix’s turn.

We’re open to suggestions for different starting times, dates, or methods of propagating the watch link.

The party is scheduled for May 8 at 10:15 PM ET.  We’ll take nominations for movies to screen in the comments until we reach at least five entries (from five different attendees), then put up a voting poll.

The Canonically Weird movies on Netflix that we haven’t yet screened yet are A Clockwork Orange (1971), Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010). Feel free to nominate any of these, or ignore them in favor of other selections. Since we’ve rolled over into a new year, we could technically decide to watch something we’ve seen before (if it’s still on the platform). For reference, the movies we’ve already screened are The Platform, April and the Extraordinary World, The Bad Batch, Skins [Pieles], Under the Skin, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Enemy, A Ghost Story, Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema, Between Worlds, Buster’s Mal Heart, The Aerial [La Antena], The Endless, The Wicker Man (1973),  Murder Party (2007), I Lost My Body (2019), I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020), We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018), Cadaver (2020), Being John Malkovich (1999), Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (2017), My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea (2016), Freaks (2018), and Five Elements Ninjas (1982).

To participate, you’ll need a U.S. Netflix account, a Chrome-based browser, and the TeleParty (formerly “Netflix Party”) extension.

Make your nominations in the comments below.

This month’s Amazon Prime Watch Party— Things (1989)—starts in fifteen minutes.

You’ll need to be an Amazon Prime member in the US to participate.

Here is the link to join: https://amz.onl/7XC4ZFu

See you soon!

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Our weekly look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs and Blu-rays (and hot off the server VODs), and on more distant horizons…

Trailers of new release movies are generally available at the official site links.

IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE):

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) (remastered): Read the Canonically Weird entry! Edgar Wright has remastered his millennial cult classic. We’re early reporting on this one (the show debuts in AMC theaters April 30), but it’s a light week, and we have actually heard of theaters selling out already. Entertainment Weekly has an interview with Wright about the project.

CANONICALLY WEIRD (AND OTHER) REPERTORY SCREENINGS:

This week we have only a single canonically weird movie screening to highlight nationwide. More next week, for sure.

• Winchester, VA
  • Alamo Drafthouse – Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), 4/27

FREE ONLINE WEIRD MOVIES ON TUBI.TV:

Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (2013): Read the canonically weird entry! Whet your appetite for Sion Sono‘s upcoming Prisoners of the Ghostland with (another?) look at Sono’s ulraviolent, self-reflexive yakuza war film. Listed as “leaving soon.” Watch Why Don’t You Play in Hell? free on Tubi.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE: It’s that time of year again, that major event in the film calendar. Yes, the Weirdcademy Awards are right around the corner, and as honorary members of the Academy of Weird Arts and Sciences you (yes, you!) have about 48 hours to get your votes in. The Weirdest Short race is still a contest, but David Firth‘s dark “Sox Six” has finally pulled ahead of the lighthearted early leader, Brian David Gilbert‘s “Earn $20K EVERY MONTH by being your own boss!” In the Feature contests, The Wolf House has a commanding (and perhaps insurmountable) lead for Weirdest Picture. For Weirdest Actor, Jean Dujardin’s portrayal of a man in midlife crisis in Deerskin is within striking distance of Tom Hardy‘s superbly odd take on Al Capone. Andrea Riseborough holds a slim lead in Weirdest Actress for her Possessor assassin, but Jessie Buckley isn’t ending her campaign for I’m Thinking of Ending Things. And Ending Things‘ pig scene is also the current favorite to win Weirdest Scene (followed by another pig-related scene from The Wolf House). Of course, your votes could still change any of these. Vote for Shorts here and Features here.

And we also need to remind you that our weird Amazon Prime party is scheduled for tomorrow, with 1989’s baffling microbudget horror Things our subject. Join us at 10:15 PM ET; as always, the link to join will appear here, on Facebook, or on Twitter around 10 PM ET. Should be a fun one.

We will have a busy week of content next week, starting with the official announcement of the 2020 Weirdcademy Awards on Sunday. Then, since there was no Summer Blockbuster season last year, Alfred Eaker wants to make up lost time by reviewing blockbusters from summers of yore (with your input, naturally). Giles Edwards reviews the upcoming surrealist feature film Country of Hotels and notches an interview with its creators, and Gregory J. Smalley weighs in on 2016’s cannibal art film Raw. Theaters may be slow right now, but we’ve got all the weirdness you need right here. Onward and weirdward!

What are you looking forward to? If you have any weird movie leads that we have overlooked, feel free to leave them in the COMMENTS section.