The Clara Movie Awards Nominees 2016 for Oscars 2017

It is that time of the year again, just a week from the catty awards that nobody sees, but everyone kind of would love. It's the Clara Awards for movies!

Most of the Oscar picks this year are in very limited release and would be out by January 1, and none of the have been seen! Oh no! Well the last week of the year will have to be catch up. Those old farts never remember anything before November anyway. We do!

Clara Awards are separated into appropriate category based on genre!

If we didn't see it by January 1, it is not nominated! The only exception is that Marx Cards might have recommended it.

The Nominees are:
Best Drama
Edge of Seventeen
Snowden
Sully
Deepwater Horizon

Note: Not a lot of drams this year, although likely to see Hacksaw Ridge soon, and La La Land soon.

Best Comedy
Keanu
Hail Ceaser!
Sausage Party
Deadpool
Barbershop The Next Cut

Note. Most comedies this year sucked, but there were some early players of note, and some original swag. Deadpool is there because it is a comedy also. Sausage Party was so gross it was good.

Best Horror Thriller
10 Cloverfield Lane
Blair Witch 3
Midnight Special

Note: Except for the last 12 minutes, 10 Cloverfield Lane was creepy.

Best Fantasy
Star Trek Beyond
Rogue One a Star Wars Story
Midnight Special
The Jungle Book
Pete's Dragon

Note: Live action Disney adaptations were actually excellent this year. Will the Star Trek win only because it is the 50th? Will the Star Wars one tie only because it is pretty darned great?

Best Action
Deadpool
Captain America Civil War
Doctor Strange
Hardcore Henry

Note: The most original and hard to sit through is the POV video game movie Hardcore Henry, but will the two Marvel movies get it? Or with that funny filthy Fox Deadpool movie get it?

Best Animated
Zootopia
Finding Dory
Moana
Secret Life of Pets
Kung Fu Panda 3
Kubo and the Two Strings

Note: Dreamworks and Akea are back in separate films, but Illumination actually gets its first nod! Then there are three Disney Pixar movies looking to steal the crown from each other! Oh no! Three way split?

Honorable Mentions
The Witch
13 Hours
Magnificent 7
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out of the Shell

The Trailer Lied
Suicide Squad
Batman v Superman
Rogue One

Turd of the Year
Max Steel

Best Visual Effects
Doctor Strange (the enfolding cities)
Rogue One (the beachhead battle, CGI people)
Star Trek Beyond (the Potempkin station)
Kubo and the Two Strings (that paper was stop motion)