2020 BAMPie Awards

After a crazy year where most movies we expected to see were postponed, Matt and Jon haven't been inside a theater for most of 2020, and they subjected themselves to the BAMPocalypse, it was time to reflect on the great movies they still caught from 2020. This is a special episode of BAMP and the first-ever BAMPie Awards! Jonathan and Matt made a variety of categories and picked their winners and the episode concludes with their top five movies from 2020.

Categories and the winners

Below this list is the categories and the winners from Matt and Jon. Spoilers for the episode.

Viewing Regret

• Matt: On the Rocks
• Jon: Nomadland

Best International Film

• Matt: I WeirDO
• Jon: A Mermaid in Paris

Best Documentary

• Matt: Totally Under Control
• Jon: The Painter and the Thief

Best Animated Feature

• Matt: Onward
• Jon: Wolfwalkers

Best looking (cinematography)

• Matt: Virginie Saint-Martin - A Mermaid in Paris
• Jon: Benjamin Kracun - Promising Young Woman

Best score

• Matt: Amanda Brown - Babyteeth
• Jon: Ludwig Göransson - Tenet

Most feel bad

• Matt: Never Rarely Sometimes Always
• Jon: Fried Barry

Most feel good

• Matt: Bill & Ted Face the Music
• Jon: David Byrne’s American Utopia

Most disappointing

• Matt: Peninsula
• Jon: The Rhythm Section

Most surprising

• Matt: Host
• Jon: The Wolf of Snow Hollow

Best performances

• Matt: Kyle Gallner in Dinner in America | Eliza Scanlen in Babyteeth
• Jon: Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal | Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman

Best director

• Matt: Rose Glass directing Saint Maud
• Jon: Regina King directing One Night Miami

Top Five Films of 2020

• Jon’s Five - (top twenty list on Letterboxd.com)
  Sound of Metal
  Promising Young Woman
  Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  She Dies Tomorrow
  One Night in Miami
  
• Matt’s Five - (top twenty list on Letterboxd.com)
  I WeirDO
  Jojo Rabbit
  Dinner in America
  A Mermaid in Paris
  The Invisible Man