Wilkimen, bienvenue, welcome! to the fourteenth annual Paultacular Bruene awards. This thing is now getting old enough to hold independent annoying opinions. Let's keep it away from TikTok and YouTube.
Mostly unchanged, here is the format. We (that’s supposed to include you, the reader, not be a royal “we”) are going to talk about a bunch of categories, some traditional movie awards and some of my own creation. No new ones this year, but I am retaining Best Stuntwork from last year. I’m also ditching Newcomer of the Year, because I can’t come up with a way to do it that doesn’t feel arbitrary even by the standards of a thing I write by myself about my own taste (like, is it just someone I haven’t seen before? What if I just forgot them?)
Each category gets five Contenders and one Winner. As of this writing I’ve seen 56 films released in 2024, which is, I think you’ll agree, pretty good all things considered.
So without much further ado…the Pauls!
