====== Flosscars 2008 ======

Flosscars are our annual awards for acting, failing to act, writing, failing to write, and generally anything we feel deserves an award at the time. Feel free to browse our archives of Flosscars in years gone past as well as using this page in Trinity of each year to nominate and vote for that year's Flosscars!

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===== Best Hero =====

**Nominees** :
  *Ashley Ridgeway for Aladdin
  *Alex Craven for Dr Watson (Or Doctor Doctor, if you're being strictly technical...)
  *rk hughes //(hertford)// for Aeneas

**Winner** : Jon Foulds for Sherlock Holmes


===== Best Heroine =====

**Nominees** :
  *Lotty for Violet
  *Lotty for Queen Dido of Carthage
  *rk hughes //(hertford)// for Maid

**Winner** : Lotty for Princess Jasmine


===== Best Sidekick =====

**Nominees** :
  *[[member:Dan Artus]] //(Regent's Park)// for Achates
  *Seb for Wishee Washee

**Winner** : Alex for Dr Watson


===== Best Villain =====

**Nominees** :
  *[[member:Kate Morris]] //(St Hildas)// for Queen Victoria
  *Rhos Beckwith for Illioneus

**Winner** : Laith for Abanazer


===== Beyond the Call of Duty =====

**Nominees** :
  *[[member:Kate Morris]] //(St Hildas)// for Destroying her knees in the Wadham Chapel for the greater glory of OULES in Holmes.
  *[[member:Perry Hartland-Asbury]] //(Mansfield)// for Dying on stage but continuing to be King Priam without so much as a single pause.

**Winner** : Nick for Standing in and learning a significantly large part in one evening in Holmes.


===== Best Impression of an Animal by an Animal =====

**Nominees** :
  *Monty for Camel
  *Monty for Trojan Horse

**Winner** : Monty for Elephantine Hordes of Carthage


===== Best Line =====

**Nominees** :

**Winner** : Jon for It's a honey badger


===== Best Ad-Lib =====

**Nominees** :
  *Phil Scott for Magical Shepherd stories.
  *[[member:Mariel Harrison]] //(St Hilda's)// for Ulysses improvising.

**Winner** : Alex and Jon for Rolling various corpses around stage, 'A well-rolled corpse yields more clues'


===== 'Ooh, you lovey!' (Person with actual acting talent in a minor part) =====

**Nominees** :
  *[[member:Perry Hartland-Asbury]] (Mansfield) for Priam

**Winner** : Phil Scott for Fetish

===== Best Snog =====

**Nominees** :
  *Jon and Jacob for Various points in time.
  *Seb and Cass for Wishee Washee and Esmerelda.
  *Seb and Rhos for Wishee Washee and Splishee Sploshee

**Winner** : [[member:Rory Morrison]] //(Mansfield)// and Liina for Cheese and Cheese Grater in Hades


===== Best Play =====

**Nominees** :
  *the marvellous writer types at Pennand for Aladdin
  *[[member:William Minter]] //(Wadham)// for The Body in the Parlour
  *Jon Foulds and Iona for The Aeneid or 'A funny thing happened on the way to Rome'

**Winner** : [[member:Sally Outen]] //(Ex-Worcester)// for Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Inanimate Body


===== Best Song =====

**Nominees** :
  *One Day More
  *40 Pirates / thieves for Pointless Song ([[shows:aladdin2|Aladdin]])
  *'It's the Fairytale ending that counts...'

**Winner** : Laith for Fluffy Kitens (Aladdin)


===== Best Cock-Up =====

**Nominees** :
  *Jon for Missing Fiddle line
  *[[member:Kate Morris]] //(St Hildas)// for Smashing glass with hat
  *rk hughes //(hertford)// for Losing sword on stage
  *Ayaka and [[member:Radostina Christova]] //(St Hildas)// for Managing to call the pairings wrong at the end of Aladdin ([[shows:aladdin2|Aladdin]])
  *[[member:Sally Outen]] //(Ex-Worcester)// for swallowing copious amounts of talc ([[shows:rome|A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Rome]])
  *Jon for Various moments of Iona abuse. Like corpse-dropping.

**Winner** : Lavinia's head bursting and its subsequent replacement with the Carthaginian blogosphere.

===== Best inanimate object =====

**Nominees** :
  *Iona and Cass for Corpse
  *Skeletons

**Winner** : [[member:Rory Morrison]] //(Mansfield)// and Liina for Cheese and Cheese-Grater ([[shows:rome|A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Rome]])


===== Best Caricature of Self =====

**Nominees** :
  *[[member:Sally Outen]] //(Ex-Worcester)// for Sally the squirrel
  *Jon for Sherlock Holmes

**Winner** : [[member:Sally Outen]] //(Ex-Worcester)// for Sally the mysterious and terrifying Assassin


===== Best Speech =====

**Nominees** :
  *Jon for Home Office Complicity Speech

**Winner** : [[member:Sally Outen]] //(Ex-Worcester)// for General squirrel-related ramblings


===== Best Person as an animal =====

**Nominees** :
  *Jacob for Talking monty
  *[[member:Kate Morris]] //(St Hildas)// for Fluffy Kitten
  *James, Phil, [[member:Matthew Robinson]] //(Wadham)// and Anabelle for Cerberus

**Winner** : [[member:Sally Outen]] //(Ex-Worcester)// for Squirrel


===== Best Costume =====

**Nominees** :
  *Kiss Cerberus
  *Jon for Multiple capes + deerstalkers
  *[[member:Sally Outen]] //(Ex-Worcester)// for her tail

**Winner** : Masking tape skeletons


===== Best Couple =====

**Nominees** :
  *Watson and Holmes
  *Doctor Who and Doctor Watson
  *Oscar Wilde and Eric the Stable Boy
  *Fetish and Mrs Gristle
  *Aladdin and Jasmime
  *Aeneas and Dido
  *Twanky and Abanazer
  *Wishee Washee and Esmerelda
  *Wishee Washee and Splishee Sploshee

**Winner** : Cheese and Cheese Grater


===== The Tom Reynolds Spurious Accent Award =====

**Nominees** :
  *Trojan Shepherds for Implacable Accent
  *[[member:William Minter]] //(Wadham)// for writing the play (A Mystery in the Parlour)

**Winner** : [[member:William Minter]] //(Wadham)// for His Entire cast (A Mystery in the Parlour)


===== The Sally Outen Award for Most Gloriously Surreal Moment =====

**Nominees** :
  *The talking horse / Ulysses / Agammemnon and his enormous corgette flashback scene ([[shows:rome|A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Rome]])

**Winner** : [[member:Sally Outen]] //(Ex-Worcester)// for Transformation from a Squirrel into a Dinosaur


===== Best portrayal as a member of the opposite sex =====

**Nominees** :
  *Laith for Juno
  *Ashley for Aladdin
  *rk hughes (hertford) for Aeneas

**Winner** : [[member:Perry Hartland-Asbury]] //(Mansfield)// for Widow Twankey

Dan R for Mrs Gristle