With Philadelphia’s largest film festival in full swing, the festival jury announced this year’s winner of the Worst Audience Question Award–a full week before the festival is scheduled to end.
“Yes, it is customary to present this award at the Closing Ceremony on Sunday night,” explained Paul Lamont, artistic director of the Philadelphia Film Society, “but this year’s question was so extraordinarily embarrassing, we decided to award it early.”
This year’s winner is Evan Kelly of Manayunk who impressed the jury with his question after the opening night’s film, Anomalisa. The question was directed to the film’s writer and director, Charlie Kaufman, and was so convoluted that it left the Oscar-winning screenwriter speechless.
“Our jury times the length of every audience question, and this one clocked in at a whopping 4 minutes, 2 seconds,” added Lamont. That makes this year’s question a whole minute longer than the previous record holder, a question from 2010.
“This is pretty awesome,” said Evan Kelly in a statement to Philadelphia Exquirer, “I’ve never won anything in my life. Except that one time I won second place in the hundred meter dash in middle school. The movie was weird, and I just wanted the director to tell me what it meant. I mean, why else would he have flown all the way to Philly?”
Our editor has decided not to include a transcript of the question here because it contains spoilers and is known to the State of California to cause brain damage.
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