The Covie Awards were created three years ago to
recognize cinematic achievement in various categories
during the pandemic. Since then, the virus hasn't
entirely gone away, and it looks like the Covies, with
ever-evolving variants, will be sticking around, too.
Picture: "The Quiet Girl" (2022)
Director: Emerald Fennell, "Saltburn" (2023)
Actress: Emma Stone in "Poor Things" (2023)
Actor: Barry Keoghan in "Saltburn" (2023)
Supporting Actress: America Ferrera in "Barbie" (2023)
Supporting Actor: Dominic Sessa in "The Holdovers" (2023)
Cameo: Hanna Schygulla in "The Mystery of Henri Pick" (2019) and "Poor Things" (2023)
Ensemble: "That Championship Season" (1982)
Couple: Dale Dickey and Wes Studi in "A Love Song" (2022)
Juvenile Performance: Lola Campbell in "Scrapper" (2023)
Foreign Language Film: "Fallen Leaves" (2023)
Short Film: "Time Traveling Through Time" (2022)
Better With Age: Judy Davis in "Mystery Road" (2018)
Cinematography: Lloyd Ahern II, "Dead For a Dollar" (2022)
Musical Score: Jeff Grace, "In a Valley of Violence" (2016)
Production Design: "Poor things" (2023)
Title Sequence: "The Lost King" (2023)
Best Title For an Exploitation Movie: "Schoolgirls In Chains" (1973)
Best Musical Performance: "Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind" (2019)
Best Use of a Kinks Song: "LOLA" (2022)
Beat Mad Scene: Iwona Petry in "Szamanka" (1996)
Best Argument For Sequels: "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" (2023)
Beat the Devil: "The Pope's Exorcist" (2023)
Top Hat & Tails: Mary Pickford in "Kiki" (1931)
Back To the Future: "A Time of Roses" (1969)
The World Turned Pink: "Barbie" (2023)
Gone With the Wind: "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948)
Wake of the Flood: "Noah's Ark" (1928)
Play Ball: "It Happens Every Spring" (1949)
Blood and Bikinis: "Slaughter Island" (2008)
Once Upon a Time In the West: "Dead For a Dollar" (2022)
Larger Than Life: Peter Dinklage in "Avengers: Infinity War" (2018)
Still Crazy After All These Years: Brent Spiner in "Independence Day: Resurgence" (2016)
End of the Line: "Neville Brand in "Evils of the Night" (1985)
Strangers In a Strange Land: Paula Luna and Elina Lowensohn in "After Blue" (20021)
The Eyes Have It: Paul Giamatti in "The Holdovers" (2023)
Drink Up: "Prohibition" (2011)
Bon Appetit: Divine in "Pink Flamingos" (1972)
The Bible On a Budget: "Sins of Jezebel" (1953)
Games People Play: "Cheap Thrills" (2014)
Earth Girls Are Uneasy: Gloria Talbot in "I Married a Monster From Outer Space" (1958)
She Sees Dead People: Shirley Henderson in "Life During Wartime" (2009)
If Only It Was Only a Dream: "Tag" (2015)
Just a Gigolo: William Powell in "Ladies' Man" (1931)
On the Road Again: Clint Eastwood in "Cry Macho" (2021)
Best Performance By a Somnambulist: Sondra Locke in "The Second Coming of Suzanne" (1974)
Grinning From Ear To Ear: Mia Goth in "Pearl" (2022)
Catching a Few Rays: "The Hideous Sun Demon" (1958)
Still Cracking the Whip: Harrison Ford in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" (2023)
Building the Bomb: "Oppenheimer" (2023)
Dropping the Soap In the Shower: Anne Heche in "Girls In Prison" (1994)
That Witch Looks Familiar: Donald Sutherland in "The Castle of the Living Dead" (1964)
Dracula Dead and Loving It: Nicolas Cage in "Renfield" (2023)
The Devil Made Her Do It: Madison Stone in "Evil Toons" (1992)
Maynard G. Krebs Award For Beatnik Slang: Peter Brown in "Kitten With a Whip" (1964)
All In the Family: "Byleth: Demon of Incest" (1972)
Most Eye-Catching Nude Scene: Eva Green in "The Dreamers" (2003)
Most Discreet Nude Scene: Charlotte Gainsbourg in "My Dog Stupid" (2019)
Best Performance By an Actor Playing a Walrus: Justin Long in "Tusk" (2014)
Wickedest Lipstick: Jodie Foster in "The Mauritanian" (2021) and Scarlett Johansson in "Asteroid city" (2023)
Scariest Teeth: Morgana Ignis in "Moon Garden" (2022)
Most Depressing Nightclub Routine: "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie" (1976)
Monsters' Ball: "House of the Wolf Man" (2009)
Scream and Scream Again: Judee Morton in "The Slime People" (1963)
Golden Meat Cleaver Award For Gratuitous Carnage: "The Untold Story" (1993)
Best Animal Performance: The elephant in "Zenobia" (1939)
Weirdest Nicolas Cage Movie: "Prisoners of the Ghostland" (2021)
It Came From Beneath the Sea: "Godzilla Minus One" (2023)
Why Closeups Were Invented: Sally Hawkins in "The Lost King" (2023) and Léa Seydoux in "France" (2021)
Playin' In the Band: "The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir" (2014)
Doin' the Vatican Rag: Jude Law in "The Young Pope" (2016)
Beyond the Green Door: Marilyn Chambers in "Angel of H.E.A.T" (1982)
Herman Scobie Award For Career Achievement: Peter Coyote
