Season 16 Golden Reel Awards

Welcome to the Season 16 Golden Reel Awards, celebrating the best Last Resort Films releases of the studio's 16th season. This season there are a whopping 19 different films vying for the 14 prestigious awards of the evening. The fantasy epic Excalibur leads the way with 10 nominations coming in to the ceremony.

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This is the first Golden Reel Award win in any category for a film written by Meirad Tako. Last Season, Hotel California, also written by Tako was nominated, but did not win this award.

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This is the first award of the night for the film, Excalibur, which is still nominated for eight more awards in this ceremony. This win gives writer Roy Horne his second GRA for Best Soundtrack after previously winning in Season 11 for Flash Gordon.

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This win gives writer Chad Taylor his fourth GRA for Most Wanted Sequel, on top of four other nominations in the category. He previously won for Season 8's Booster Gold II: The Booster Gold Story, Season 10's Justice League International (shared with writers APJ and D.R. Cobb) and Season 12's Booster Gold: Lost in Time. Gambit and Rogue's victory also makes it the second Marvel Universe film to win the award, following X-Men from last season.

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This is the first Best Ensemble Cast trophy for writer Jimmy Ellis. His co-writer, John Malone, previously won the award for The Prisoner back in Season 3 and Revolution in Season 7.

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Ben Foster is the first performer to win the Best Starring Couple Award in back-to-back seasons after winning the award (along with co-star Riley Keough) for Kurt & Courtney: All Apologies. This marks Ben Foster's third victory in an acting category (he also won the award for Best Actor last season, also for Kurt & Courtney). This is the first trophy for his co-star Shia LaBeouf after previous nominations in the Best Supporting Actor and Best Villain categories.

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Richard Gere takes home his first GRA trophy for his first nomination (and his first LRF project). Coma still has four more chances to win more awards on the evening.

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This is the first Best Adaptation Golden Reel Award for writer Roy Horne. He was previously nominated in the same category in Season 6 for Perfect Blue and Season 10 for Kite. This is the second award of the night for Excalibur after already winning for Best Soundtrack.

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This marks writer Dwight Gallo's second time winning the GRA for Best Original Story after previously winning for Blackwater in Season 2. The writer was previously nominated in the category in Seasons 12 and 14 for Ypsilanti and Born in Brooklyn, respectively.

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This is the first solo GRA acting victory for Madelaine Petsch. Her only other nominations come from her part of the ensemble cast of the Batman series (Best Ensemble Cast for Batman: Caped Crusader and Batman: Arkham).

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This is the second award of the night for Ben Foster. He already won the GRA trophy for Best Starring Couple (along with co-star Shia LaBeouf). Foster now has four Golden Reel Awards to his name (all won in just the past two seasons).

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This is the first solo GRA acting trophy for Olsen. She has two Best Ensemble Cast trophies for her part as a cast member in The Prisoner (Season 3) and Heavy Rain (Season 6). She has previous GRA nominations for Best Starring Couple for Heavy Rain in Season 6 (alongside co-star Jake Gyllenhaal) and Best Supporting Actress for The Prisoner in Season 3.

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Chris Pine takes home his first trophy for Best Actor with this win and his third total GRA victory. He has previous wins in the categories of Best Supporting Actor for Of Rocks and Sand in Season 14 and Best Starring Couple for Lullabies for Little Criminals in Season 4.

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This is Refn's second Best Director GRA win. He previously won the award in Season 8 for this work on Crowley. He has two additional Best Director nominations in Season 2 and Season 10 for The Question and Kite, respectively.

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Excalibur takes home the final award of the night, giving it four on the season. This is the first Best Picture win for a Roy Horne-penned film.


Congratulations to all of the winners! That's a wrap on the 16th season in the world of Last Resort Films and Hollywood Movie Studio. LRF will return for its 17th season on September 28th! In the meantime, stay tuned for a special edition of The Numbers on Friday, followed by some brand new LRF NOW content during the break.