American Animals 2018

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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/?year=2018

UPDATED: 2/22/22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_actual_events

LIst of movies based on actual / true events

Films lacking a big budget or a big studio release that were still enjoyed by many.

Updated at 2024-05-29

Using IMDb advanced search, filtering only by English language.

Notable entries missing include:
What Maisie Knew (2012)
Buried (2010)
The Babadook (2014)
Song of the Sea (2014)
Sleeping with Other People (2015)
Coriolanus (2011)
Palo Alto (2013)
The Hunt (2012)
Tamara Drewe (2010)
Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2015)

Last Updated: 26/06/2019

Movies

[feature films]
1-16: U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION
17-32: U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
33-44: WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
45-56: WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
57-66: NEXT
67-84: PREMIERES
85-97: DOCUMENTARY PREMIERES
98-106: MIDNIGHT
108-113: SPOTLIGHT
114-116: KIDS

2018 Sundance Film Festival:
- 1-15: Premieres
- 16-23: Spotlight
- 24-39: U.S. Dramatic Competition
- 40-51: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- 52-61: Next
- 62-69: Midnight
- 70: New Frontier
- 71-73: Sundance Kids
- 74-89: U.S. Documentary Competition
- 90-101: World Cinema Documentary Competition
- 102-115: Documentary Premieres
- 116-117: Special Events.

HollyWood Movies based on Popularity

This list will be frequently updated as movies move in-and-out of contention.

*Updated 1/23/19:
Final update for the year! Removed all moves not nominated for Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG, or Independent Spirit Awards. Add missing Academy Award nominated films. Good luck watching them all. See you next year!

Added:
A Night at the Garden
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Avengers: Infinity War
Bao
Black Sheep
Border
Christopher Robin
Detainment
End Game
Fauve
Late Afternoon
Lifeboat
Marguerite
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
One Small Step
Period. End of Sentence.
Ready Player One
Skin
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Weekends

Removed:
22 July
Ad Astra
Bad Times at the El Royale
Batman Ninja
Ben is Back
Bird Box
Creed II
Crime + Punishment
Disobedience
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot
Duck Duck Goose
Early Man
Hearts Beat Loud
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Judy
Lu Over the Wall
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Monster Family
Next Gen
On the Basis of Sex
Paddington 2
Smallfoot
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
The Front Runner
The Grinch
The Hate U Give
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Mule
The Other Side of the Wind
The Sisters Brothers
Three Identical Strangers
Vox Lux
Welcome to Marwen
What They Had
White Boy Rick
Widows

72nd British Academy Film Awards - 2019 EE BAFTA Film Awards nominees and winners:
- Best Film: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05. | 04 - Roma.
- Best British Film of the Year: 02, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10. | 02 - The Favourite.
- Best Direction: 01, 02, 03, 04, 11. | 04 - Roma (Alfonso Cuarón).
- Best Leading Actor: 03, 05, 06, 07, 12. | 06 - Bohemian Rhapsody (Rami Malek).
- Best Leading Actress: 02, 03, 13, 14, 15. | 02 - The Favourite (Olivia Colman).
- Best Supporting Actor: 01, 05, 12, 14, 16. | 05 - Green Book (Mahershala Ali).
- Best Supporting Actress: 02 (2), 12, 17, 18. | 02 - The Favourite (Rachel Weisz).
- Best Original Screenplay: 02, 04, 05, 11, 12. | 02 - The Favourite (Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara).
- Best Adapted Screenplay: 01, 02, 14, 17, 19. | 01 - BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, D.Rabinowitz, C.Wachtel, K.Willmott).
- Best Cinematography: 02, 04, 06, 11, 17. | 04 - Roma (Alfonso Cuarón).
- Best Editing: 02, 04, 06, 12, 17. | 12 - Vice (Hank Corwin).
- Best Film not in the English Language: 04, 11, 20, 21, 22. | 04 - Roma.
- Best Production Design: 02, 04, 17, 23, 24. | 02 - The Favourite.
- Best Costume Design: 02, 06, 18, 24, 25. | 02 - The Favourite.
- Best Make Up/Hair: 02, 06, 07, 12, 18. | 02 - The Favourite.
- Best Original Music: 01, 03, 19, 24, 26. | 03 - A Star Is Born ("Shallow").
- Best Sound: 03, 06, 17, 27, 28. | 06 - Bohemian Rhapsody.
- Best Special Visual Effects: 17, 23, 29, 30, 31. | 29 - Black Panther.
- Best Animated Film: 26, 32, 33. | 32 - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
- Best Documentary: 10, 34, 35, 36, 37. | 37 - Free Solo.
- Best Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer: 09, 38, 39, 40, 41. | 09 - Beast (Michael Pearce, Lauren Dark).
- Best Short Film: 42, 43, 44, 45, 46. | 43 - 73 Cows.
- Best Short Animation: 47, 48, 49. | 48 - Roughhouse.
- EE Rising Star Award: 09, 13, 29, 50, 51. | 29 - Black Panther (Letitia Wright).

IMDb movies from 7 to 7.4 rating (min. votes = 10k, min year = 2006)

2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominees and winners:
- Best Feature: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05. | 05 - If Beale Street Could Talk.
- Best First Feature: 06, 07, 08, 09, 10. | 09 - Sorry to Bother You.
- Best Director: 01, 02, 04, 05, 11. | 05 - If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins).
- Best Male Lead: 01, 04, 12, 13, 14. | 04 - First Reformed (Ethan Hawke).
- Best Female Lead: 03, 06, 07, 15, 16, 17. | 15 - The Wife (Glenn Close).
- Best Supporting Male: 03, 10, 18, 19, 20. | 20 - Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Richard E. Grant).
- Best Supporting Female: 02, 05, 11, 21, 22. | 05 - If Beale Street Could Talk (Regina King).
- Best Screenplay: 04, 09, 11, 20, 23. | 20 - Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Jeff Whitty, Nicole Holofcener).
- Best First Screenplay: 03, 08, 21, 24, 25. | 03 - Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham).
- Best Cinematography: 06, 10, 16, 26, 27. | 26 - Suspiria (Sayombhu Mukdeeprom).
- Best Editing: 01, 08, 10, 28, 29. | 01 - You Were Never Really Here (Joe Bini).
- Best International Film: 30, 31, 32, 33, 34. | 30 - Roma.
- Best Documentary: 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40. | 35 - Won't You Be My Neighbor?.
- Robert Altman Award (ensemble cast, dir. and casting dir.): 26. | 26 - Suspiria.
- John Cassavetes Award (Best Feature Under $500,000): 14, 22, 41, 42, 43. | 42 - En el séptimo día.
- Truer Than Fiction Award: 36, 39, 40. | 36 - Minding the Gap.
- Someone to Watch Award: 10, 14, 44. | 14 - Alexandre Moratto (Socrates).

Movies from 2010-2019 with 6.5+ IMDB, 6.5+ TMDB, 65%+ RottenTomatoes, at least 10K votes. Sorted by popularity.

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Last Updated: May 29, 2024

A list of films John Waters has referenced in his interviews, books, commentaries, and other work as influential to his career or that he is a fan of otherwise.

Includes all of the films ranked in his yearly 'Artforum: Best Of' year-end lists. (https://joeclark.org/dossiers/johnwaters.html)

This list is a work in progress, by no means a complete reference.

Cross referenced at
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls044203105/ (with JW quotes pertaining to each title)