Sunday, March 29, 2020

The 2020 Paultacular Bruene Awards


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!