Each year, Hollywood’s finest parade down the red carpet in hopes of fetching one of the film industry’s top honors: an Academy Award. In the spirit of the upcoming Oscars, we at SustainLane are giving out our own awards - for the best green films. We asked you, our de facto “academy,” to vote, and you did. And so, without further ado, we announce Sustainlane's 2009 Green Oscar Winners, as well as the winners of five stainless steel water bottles — our thanks to you for voting.
SustainLane Green Film Awards 2009
Film Most Likely to Make You Ditch Your Gas Guzzler
Watching just one of these films might be enough to make you ditch your gas guzzling car. We've long heard of America's addiction to oil, but one of these films helped many of us finally stage an intervention.
The nominees are:
Crude Awakening: The Oil Crisis
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
Film Most Likely to Change Your Eating Habits
These films all took a bite out of our current food crisis in hopes of inspiring a change on all of our plates, but one film made many SustainLane members say sayonara to unhealthy food once and for all.
The nominees are:
Best Film Exposé of Today's Environmental Issues
Thanks, in part, to movies like these, the phrase, "going green" is now a part of every American's vocabulary. All of these films affected how we view environmental issues, but one in particular spoke to our Academy.
The nominees are:
Best Film to Inspire the Next Generation of Environmentalists
Our youngest movie-watchers are tasked with taking care of the environment in the years to come. Here are the nominations for films that helped to cultivate the next generation of environmentalists and send them to the box office in droves.
The nominees are:
All environmental films have one goal in common: to make the viewer say, "Wow, there's a really problem out there, we ought to do something about it. I have to do something about it." This category had a near unanimous vote for the winner.
The nominees are:
