The 2019 Cinema Touch Awards - SOUND MIXING/SOUND EDITING

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Julien Faddoul

SOUND MIXING

5. Her Smell

4. Parasite

3. Uncut Gems

2. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

1. Deadwood

SOUND EDITING

5. The Irishman

4. Parasite

3. Ad Astra

2. Deadwood

1. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

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The 2019 Cinema Touch Awards - ENSEMBLE CAST

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Julien Faddoul

5. Knives Out

4. The Farewell

3. High Flying Bird

2. Parasite

1. Deadwood

Runner Up: Her Smell

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The 2019 Cinema Touch Awards - FILM EDITING

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5. The Irishman – Thelma Schoonmaker

4. Parasite – Jinmo Yang

3. Little Women – Nick Houy

2. Apollo 11 – Todd Douglas Miller

1. Deadwood – Erick Fefferman, Martin Nicholson

Runner Up: Her Smell – Robert Greene

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The 2019 Cinema Touch Awards - COSTUME DESIGN

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5. Portrait of a Lady on Fire – Dorothée Guiraud

4. Peterloo – Jaqueline Durran

3. Little Women – Jacqueline Durran

2. Dolemite is My Name – Ruth E. Carter

1. Deadwood – Janie Bryant

Runner Up: The Irishman – Sandy Powell, Christopher Peterson

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The 2019 Cinema Touch Awards - PRODUCTION DESIGN

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5. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum – Kevin Kavanaugh

4. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Barbara Ling

3. Little Women – Jess Gonchor

2. Parasite – Lee Ha-jun

1. Deadwood – Maria Caso

Runner Up: 1917 – Dennis Gassner

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The 2019 Cinema Touch Awards - ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

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5. Her Smell – Alex Ross Perry

For a kinetically unpleasant film to sit through, presented as five separate sequences depicting its main character’s demise and ultimate redemption. Formidable and often astounding, for those who can take it.

4. Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach

For a deft and often moving Baumbachian portrait of the unanticipated bitterness of divorce proceedings.

3. Knives Out – Rian Johnson

For a highly amusing Agatha-Christie-style whodunnit served within a nest made up of modern political issues. In the end, it manages to say something arresting and cathartic about the American Dream.

2. High Flying Bird – Tarell Alvin McCraney

For an incisive and insightful piece of razzmatazz. Real life is nothing but a rehearsal for something else to these characters, and spending time with them is never less than enjoyably bitchy.

1. Parasite – Bong Joon Ho, Jin Won Han

For making the most telling points of any film this year. Although it may be a tad heavy-handed, it's commentary on the current zeitgeist was both the most original and fun of the film year.

Runner Up: Ash is Purest White – Jia Zhangke

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The 2019 Cinema Touch Awards - ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

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5. Transit – Christian Petzold

For interesting work. The narrative's central relationship would appear as banal as it actually is were it not for his alluring and thought-provoking conceit.

 

4. I Lost My Body – Jérémy Clapin, Guillaume Laurant

For a pensive, imaginative animated film that tells its story in a non-linear, bifurcated manner.

3. The Irishman – Steven Zaillian

For a creating a moral structure that completely pierces the heart.

2. Little Women – Greta Gerwig

For disseminating an onslaught of soothing memories without resorting to nostalgia.

1. Deadwood – David Milch

For his vigor. The sad paradox is that while the televisionization of modern Hollywood cinema has, for the most part, rendered thematic potency imperceptible, it requires a cinematic denouement of an actual TV Drama to deliver the artful wisdom of the basic human blessings and flaws (fear, romance, vengeance, guardianship etc.) that can publicly befall the consciousness of man.

Runner Up: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – Dean DeBlois

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