39th Film Independent Spirit Awards nominees and winners:
- Best Feature: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06. | 01 - Past Lives (Celine Song).
- Best First Feature: 07, 08, 09, 10, 11. | 07 - A Thousand and One (A. V. Rockwell).
- Best International Film: 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. | 12 - Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet).
- Best Director: 01, 03, 05, 06, 17. | 01 - Past Lives (Celine Song).
- Best Lead Performance: 01, 01, 02, 03, 05, 06, 07, 18, 19, 20. | 02 - American Fiction (Jeffrey Wright).
- Best Supporting Performance: 02, 02, 03, 06, 17, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24. | 21 - The Holdovers (Da'Vine Joy Randolph).
- Best Screenplay: 01, 02, 19, 21, 25. | 02 - American Fiction (Cord Jefferson).
- Best First Screenplay: 03, 09, 10, 23, 26. | 03 - May December (Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik).
- Best Cinematography: 13, 14, 15, 16, 21. | 21 - The Holdovers (Eigil Bryld).
- Best Editing: 04, 09, 23, 24, 27. | 27 - How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Garber).
- Best Documentary: 36, 37, 38, 39, 40. | 36 - Four Daughters (Kaouther Ben Hania).
- Robert Altman Award (ensemble cast, dir. and casting dir.): 28. | 28 - Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt, Gayle Keller).
- John Cassavetes Award (best feature under $1,000,000): 24, 29, 30, 31, 32. | 29 - Fremont (Babak Jalali).
- Someone to Watch Award: 19, 33, 34. | 34 - Mountains (Monica Sorelle).
- Truer Than Fiction Award: 35, 41, 42. | 35 - Unseen (Set Hernandez).
75th Festival de Cannes (17-28 May 2022):
- 01-21: In Competition
- 22-40: Un Certain Regard
- 41-47: Out of Competition
- 48-51: Midnight Screenings
- 52-63: Special Screenings
- 64-70: Cannes Premier
- 71-81: Critics' Week
- 82-103: Directors' Fortnight
- 104-112: Short Films Competition
- 113-128: Short Films Cinéfondation Selection
- 129-141: Short Films Critics' Week
Awards:
- Competition Palme D'or: 01 - Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund).
- Competition Grand Prix (ex-aequo): 02 - Close (Lukas Dhont).
- Competition Grand Prix (ex-aequo): 03 - Stars at Noon (Claire Denis).
- Competition Best Director Award: 04 - Decision to Leave (Park Chan-Wook).
- Competition Best Screenplay Award: 05 - Boy from Heaven (Tarik Saleh).
- Competition Best Actor Award: 06 - Broker (Song Kang-Ho).
- Competition Best Actress Award: 07 - Holy Spider (Zar Amir Ebrahimi).
- Competition Jury Prize (ex-aequo): 08 - The Eight Mountains (Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch).
- Competition Jury Prize (ex-aequo): 09 - EO (Jerzy Skolimowski).
- Competition 75th Anniversary Prize: 10 - Tori and Lokita (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne).
- CST Artist-Technician Prize (Head Sound Crew): 01 - Triangle of Sadness (Andréas Franck, Bent Holm, Jacob Ilgner, Jonas Rudels).
- CST Young Film Technician Award (Head Set Designer): 11 - Brother and Sister (Marion Burger).
- Un Certain Regard Prize: 22 - The Worst Ones (Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret).
- Un Certain Regard Jury Prize: 23 - Joyland (Saim Sadiq).
- Un Certain Regard Best Director Prize: 24 - Metronom (Alexandru Belc).
- Un Certain Regard Best Screenplay Prize: 25 - Mediterranean Fever (Maha Haj).
- Un Certain Regard Best Performance Prize (ex-aequo): 26 - Corsage (Vicky Krieps).
- Un Certain Regard Best Performance Prize (ex-aequo): 27 - Harka (Adam Bessa).
- Un Certain Regard Coup de Coeur Prize: 28 - Rodéo (Lola Quivoron).
- Caméra d'Or First Film Selection: 29 - War Pony (Riley Keough, Gina Gammell).
- Caméra d'Or Special Mention: 30 - Plan 75 (Chie Hayakawa).
- Critic's Week Grand Prize: 71 - La Jauria (Andrés Ramírez Pulido).
- Critic's Week French Touch Prize: 72 - Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).
- Critic's Week Gan Foundation Award for Distribution: 73 - The Woodcutter Story (Mikko Myllylahti).
- Critic's Week Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award: 74 - Love According To Dalva (Zelda Samson).
- Critic's Week SACD Prize: 71 - La Jauria (Andrés Ramírez Pulido).
- Directors' Fortnight Europa Cinemas Label: 82 - One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve).
- Directors' Fortnight SACD Prize: 83 - The Mountain (Thomas Salvador).
- Directors' Fortnight Carrosse D'Or: 12 - Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt).
- FIPRESCI Prize Competition: 13 - Leila's Brothers (Saeed Roustae).
- FIPRESCI Prize Un Certain Regard: 31 - The Blue Caftan (Maryam Touzani).
- FIPRESCI Prize Critic's Week: 74 - Love According to Dalva (Emmanuelle Nicot).
- Ecumenical Jury Prize: 06 - Broker (Hirokazu Kore-Eda).
- Golden Eye Documentary Prize: 56 - All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen).
- Golden Eye Jury's Special Award: 57 - Mariupolis 2 (Mantas Kvedaravičius, Hanna Bilobrova).
- Cannes Soundtrack Award: 09 - EO (Paweł Mykietyn).
- François Chalais Prize: 05 - Boy from Heaven (Tarik Saleh).
- Citizenship Prize: 13 - Leila's Brothers (Saeed Roustae).
- AFCAE Art House Cinema Award: 01 - Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund).
- AFCAE Special Mention: 09 - EO (Jerzy Skolimowski).
- Short Films Competition Palme D'or: 104 - The Water Murmurs (Jianying Chen).
- Short Films Competition Special Mention: 105 - Melancholy of my Mother's Lullabies (Abinash Bikram Shah).
- Cinéfondation First Prize: 114 - A Conspiracy Man (Valerio Ferrara).
- Cinéfondation Second Prize: 115 - Somewhere (Li Jiahe).
- Cinéfondation Third Prize (ex-aequo): 116 - Glorious Revolution (Masha Novikova).
- Cinéfondation Third Prize (ex-aequo): 117 - Humans Are Dumber When Crammed up Together (Laurène Fernandez).
- Critic's Week Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film: 129 - Ice Merchants (João Gonzalez).
- Critic's Week Canal+ Award for Short Film: 138 - On Xerxes' Throne (Evi Kalogiropoulou).
List compiled from (article and podcast): https://www.filmspotting.net/top-5-lists-archive/949-best-films-of-2023
Four Top 10 lists - from Adam, Josh, Michael Phillips and Marya E. Gates
Ranked by number of consensus Top 10 selections (most Top 10 selections first), then average place from all the lists
1: Past Lives - Michael (#1), Marya (#3)
2: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt - Josh (#5), Marya (#1)
3: Killers of the Flower Moon - Adam (#3), Michael (#3)
4: All of Us Strangers - Adam (#1), Josh (#6)
5: Asteroid City - Adam (#4), Josh (#3)
6: Anatomy of a Fall - Adam (#7), Josh (#2)
7: Oppenheimer - Adam (#2), Michael (#9)
8: Barbie - Josh (#10), Michael (#4)
9: The Zone of Interest - Adam (#10), Michael (#6)
10: May December - Adam (#8), Michael (#10)
Besides the 10 consensus movies, there are some outliers that only made it to one Top 10 list
11: The Holdovers - Adam (#5)
12: The Taste of Things - Adam (#6)
13: The Teachers’ Lounge - Adam (#9)
14: The Boy and the Heron - Josh (#1)
15: You Hurt My Feelings - Josh (#4)
16: Skinamarink - Josh (#7)
17: Priscilla - Josh (#8)
18: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Josh (#9)
19: The Boy - Michael (#2)
20: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. - Michael (#5)
21: Return to Seoul - Michael (#7)
22: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar - Michael (#8)
23: Plan 75 - Marya (#2)
24: Amanda - Marya (#4)
25: Fremont - Marya (#4)
26: The Blue Caftan - Marya (#5)
27: Godland - Marya (#6)
28: La Chimera - Marya (#7)
29: Kokomo City - Marya (#8)
30: Lakota Nation vs. United States - Marya (#9)
31: BlackBerry - Marya (#10)
Finally, below are the movies that made it to the 11-20 of at least one critic
32: Showing Up - Adam, Michael
33: Poor Things - Adam, Michael
34: Suzume - Adam, Josh
35: Four Daughters - Josh, Michael
36: The Iron Claw - Adam
37: The Killer - Adam
38: Menus-Plaisirs: Les Les Troisgros - Adam
39: Godzilla Minus One - Josh
40: Rodeo - Josh
41: Fair Play - Michael
42: I’m a Virgo - Michael
43: In the Rearview - Michael
44: The Royal Hotel - Michael
45: A Thousand and One - Michael
46: The Unknown Country - Michael
47: Blue Jean - Marya
48: Passages - Marya
49: Origin - Marya
50: Hannah Ha Ha - Marya
51: Brother - Marya
52: King Coal - Marya
53: Bottoms - Marya
Cold & Gray
Pulled from Rotten Tomatoes Top Movies section:
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-movies-of-2023/
UPDATED: 1/2/2024
Documentary Feature
“American Symphony”
“Apolonia, Apolonia”
“Beyond Utopia”
“Bobi Wine: The People’s President”
“Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy”
“The Eternal Memory”
“Four Daughters”
“Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project”
“In the Rearview”
“Stamped from the Beginning”
“Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie”
“A Still Small Voice”
“32 Sounds”
“To Kill a Tiger”
“20 Days in Mariupol”
Documentary Short Subject
“The ABCs of Book Banning”
“The Barber of Little Rock”
“Bear”
“Between Earth & Sky”
“Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games”
“Camp Courage”
“Deciding Vote”
“How We Get Free”
“If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis”
“Island in Between”
“The Last Repair Shop”
“Last Song from Kabul”
“Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó”
“Oasis”
“Wings of Dust”
International Feature Film
Armenia, “Amerikatsi”
Bhutan, “The Monk and the Gun”
Denmark, “The Promised Land”
Finland, “Fallen Leaves”
France, “The Taste of Things”
Germany, “The Teachers’ Lounge”
Iceland, “Godland”
Italy, “Io Capitano”
Japan, “Perfect Days”
Mexico, “Totem”
Morocco, “The Mother of All Lies”
Spain, “Society of the Snow”
Tunisia, “Four Daughters”
Ukraine, “20 Days in Mariupol”
United Kingdom, “The Zone of Interest”
Live-Action Short Film
“The After”
“The Anne Frank Gift Shop”
“An Avocado Pit”
“Bienvenidos a Los Angeles”
“Dead Cat”
“Good Boy”
“Invincible”
“Invisible Border”
“Knight of Fortune”
“The One Note Man”
“Red, White and Blue”
“The Shepherd”
“Strange Way of Life”
“The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”
“Yellow”
Animated Short Film
“Boom”
“Eeva”
“Humo (Smoke)”
“I’m Hip”
“A Kind of Testament”
“Koerkorter (Dog Apartment)”
“Letter to a Pig”
“Ninety-Five Senses”
“Once upon a Studio”
“Our Uniform”
“Pachyderme”
“Pete”
“27”
“War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko”
“Wild Summon”
Original Song
“It Never Went Away” from “American Symphony”
“Dear Alien (Who Art In Heaven)” from “Asteroid City”
“Dance The Night” from “Barbie”
“I’m Just Ken” from “Barbie”
“What Was I Made For?” from “Barbie”
“Keep It Movin’” from “The Color Purple”
“Superpower (I)” from “The Color Purple”
“The Fire Inside” from “Flamin’ Hot”
“High Life” from “Flora and Son”
“Meet In The Middle” from “Flora and Son”
“Can’t Catch Me Now” from “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes”
“Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)” from “Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Quiet Eyes” from “Past Lives”
“Road To Freedom” from “Rustin”
“Am I Dreaming” from “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
Original Score
“American Fiction”
“American Symphony”
“Barbie”
“The Boy and the Heron”
“The Color Purple”
“Elemental”
“The Holdovers”
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Oppenheimer”
“Poor Things”
“Saltburn”
“Society of the Snow”
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
“The Zone of Interest”
Makeup and Hairstyling
“Beau Is Afraid”
“Ferrari”
“Golda”
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“The Last Voyage of the Demeter”
“Maestro”
“Napoleon”
“Oppenheimer”
“Poor Things”
“Society of the Snow”
Visual Effects
“The Creator”
“Godzilla Minus One”
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One”
“Napoleon”
“Poor Things”
“Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire”
“Society of the Snow”
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
Sound
“Barbie”
“The Creator”
“Ferrari”
“The Killer”
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Maestro”
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One”
“Napoleon”
“Oppenheimer”
“The Zone of Interest”
Every movie nominated for any Spirit Award
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edgarwright UPDATED: On the very night of the BAFTA's, as we near the end of the 2023/2024 awards cycle, you will have already heard about several excellent films that are nominated, or have already won some hardware. But that's never the full story of the cinematic year.
With that in mind, here's 40 or so movies I saw in the last year that I enjoyed, was impressed by, or I think are of note, that were NOT nominated for either a BAFTA or an Oscar.
Source: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-movies-of-2023/
Academy, Bafta, Bifa, Critics Choice, DGA, Golden Globes, Gotham, Spirit, PGA, SAG, & Satellite
The Guardian's countdown of the best films released in the US during 2023
List compiled from: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/05/the-50-best-movies-of-2023-in-the-us
Ranked as in the list
1: Past Lives
2: Killers of the Flower Moon
3: The Zone of Interest
4: The Holdovers
5: All of Us Strangers
6: 20 Days in Mariupol
7: Poor Things
8: The Boy and the Heron
9: Godland
10: Anatomy of a Fall
11: Showing Up
12: The Eight Mountains
13: Maestro
14: Alcarràs
15: Amanda
16: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
17: After Love
18: Full Time
19: Monster
20: Incredible But True
21: Pacifiction
22: Joyland
23: Fremont
24: Love Life
25: May December
26: Nostalgia
27: Pretty Red Dress
28: The Teachers’ Lounge
29: Oppenheimer
30: Memory
31: Wonka
32: You Hurt My Feelings
33: Napoleon
34: Strange Way of Life
35: Passages
36: The Taste of Things
37: Bad Press
38: Rodeo
39: The Deepest Breath
40: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
41: The Future Tense
42: Orlando, My Political Biography
43: Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
44: War Pony
45: The Beasts
46: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
47: American Fiction
48: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
49: Anselm
50: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Guardian's countdown of the best films released in the UK during 2023
List compiled from: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/05/the-50-best-films-of-2023-in-the-uk
Ranked as in the list
1: Past Lives
2: Tár
3: Killers of the Flower Moon
4: 20 Days in Mariupol
5: The Boy and the Heron
6: Godland
7: Saint Omer
8: Anatomy of a Fall
9: All the Beauty & the Bloodshed
10: Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
11: The Eight Mountains
12: Maestro
13: Alcarràs
14: Return to Seoul
15: Amanda
16: The Eternal Daughter
17: Blind Willow Sleeping Woman
18: Full Time
19: Incredible But True
20: Pacifiction
21: Joyland
22: Typist Artist Pirate King
23: The Fabelmans
24: Law of Tehran
25: Creature
26: Fremont
27: Love Life
28: May December
29: My Imaginary Country
30: Nostalgia
31: Pretty Red Dress
32: Oppenheimer
33: My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
34: Wonka
35: You Hurt My Feelings
36: Napoleon
37: One Fine Morning
38: Strange Way of Life
39: Passages
40: Name Me Lawand
41: Rodeo
42: On the Adamant
43: The Deepest Breath
44: The Future Tense
45: The Damned Don’t Cry
46: Tish
47: Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
48: War Pony
49: Mother and Son
50: The Beasts
Movies culled from various best of 2023 lists
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