The FAFTAs are our annual awards ceremony, celebrating the best of MNFC dictatorship over the previous year. These awards are hotly contested, and the annual event is now known in the industry as the award ceremony of the year in London.
The Founder’s Award for Film of the Year:
2014 Adam (The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters)
2015 Adam (The Act of Killing) and Sam (The Kings of Summer)
2016 Susan (Slow West)
Idi Amin Award for Most Memorable Evening:
2014 Everyone (The Great Dictator)
2015 Jon/Lucy (Don’t Look Now)
2016 Jon (Tokyo Godfathers)
Fidel Castro Award for Inspiring the Most Intelligent Chin-Stroking:
2014 Jon (An Evening of Animated Shorts)
2015 Adam (The Act of Killing)
2016 Lisa (Eraserhead)
Oliver Cromwell Award for Best British Film:
2014 Susan (Son of Rambow)
2015 Susan (Frank)
2016 Susan (Slow West)
Benito Mussolini Award for Best Foreign Language Film:
2014 Matt (Les Intouchables)
2015 Adam (The Act of Killing)
2016 Lucy (A Separation)
Robert Mugabe Improbable Film Choice Award:
2014 Adam (The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters)
2015 Helen (The Lego Movie)
2016 Jon (Tokyo Godfathers)
Muammar Gaddafi Award for Most Pretentious Film:
2014 Becca (Holy Motors)
2015 Jon (Offret)
2016 Lisa (Eraserhead)
Francisco Franco Award for Culinary Flare:
2014 Di (Biancanieves) For Chorizo stew, mulled wine, Christmas biscuits and mince pies
2015 Lisa (The Station Agent) Cuban Pork and Sam (In Bruges) Lamb Meatballs
2016 Jon (Tokyo Godfathers) Pork Baps, Mince Pies, Christmas Cocktails
Chairman Mao Award for Quote of the Year:
2014 Adam (King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters) “Mr. Awesome: Everything would’ve fell right into place, but he forgot about one thing: About me convincing Steve Wiebe not to be a chump, talking him out of chumpatizing himself.”
2015 Susan (Frank) “Stale beer, fat fucks, smoked out, cow-poked, sequined mountain ladies, I love you all. Put your arms around me, fiddly digits, itchy britches, I love you all”
2016 Matt (What We Do In The Shadows) “I think we drink virgin blood because it sounds cool. I think of it like this. If you are going to eat a sandwich, you would enjoy it more if you knew no one had fucked it.”
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