Hello and welcome to the decennial Paultacular Bruene awards.
That’s right, I’ve been doing this dumb thing for ten full years now. To
address a few questions: Yes, it is a coincidence that I started doing this at
the start of a decade. Yes, I will be writing a “best of the decade” type of
thing here at some point, hopefully before we’re done with 2020. And no, I
categorically do not stand by anything I wrote when I was 19.
Anyways, here’s the format, almost entirely unchanged from the
last few years. I’m going to run through a bunch of categories and give my top
five for the year (which I’ve termed “contenders”) and then give a winner. Many
of the categories are copied from standard awards categories, plus a few of my
own creation and minus a few I don’t like or didn’t see enough to judge—maybe
one day I’ll watch newly-released documentaries, but that has not yet come. As
always, I barely know what I’m talking about, so your indulgence is greatly
appreciated
So without much further ado…the Pauls!