February is awards season for the movie industry. Writer strikes permitting, Hollywood turns up the glamour and the glitz for the annual Academy Awards presentation.
Alternative awards ceremonies have also sprung up. While the Oscars recognize the best in film, the Razzies give prizes to the worst films and performers of the year.
The past year has been like one great thriller, horror story and comedy rolled into one for the global banking industry. So Euromoney decided to put finance and film together and, in honour of the screen that bankers spend more time watching than any other, has created the Blackberries.
Our nominations are as follows:
Best film:
The Departed
Starring: Chuck Prince, Stan O’Neal, Jimmy Cayne, Peter Wuffli and a cast of tens of thousands
Apocalypse Now
Starring: The global banking industry
Least likely line: "I love the smell of sub-prime in the morning"
A Bridge Too Far
Starring: Jimmy Cayne and Warren Spector
National Lampoon’s European Vacation
Starring: Bank of America
Billions flew out of the Cuckoo’s nest
Starring: Peter Wuffli, Huw Jenkins and John Costas
Dumb and Dumber
Starring: Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s
Best Actor/Actress:
Lloyd Blankfein
Starring in: The Sixth Sense
Balding middle-aged American can see things others cannot
Jimmy Cayne
Starring in: Smokey and the Bandit (allegedly)
Sallie Krawcheck
Starring in: Bride of Chucky
Todd Thomson
Starring in: The Aviator
Zoe Cruz
Starring in: The Goodbye Girl
We’d welcome the market’s views on any potential nominees we have missed. Either post your comments online or email us at chorwood@euromoney.com. We’ll publish the best of the rest next month.