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Last Update: Releases up to August 2024 (Spine #1232)
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Essential movies covering people of the African diaspora.
Pulled from Rotten Tomatoes Top Movies section:
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-movies-2022/
UPDATED: 1/30/23
NOTE: It seems RT has deprecated the list I have used historically. It hasn't updated in months. I found a similar list that is being updated. I will pull from that going forward. If they resume updates on the other list, I will switch back to that.
2023: Independent Spirits
2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominees and winners:
- Best Feature: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05. | 03 - Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan).
- Best First Feature: 06, 07, 08, 09, 10. | 06 - Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).
- Best Director: 01, 02, 03, 11, 12. | 03 - Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan).
- Best Lead Performance: 01, 03, 05, 06, 07, 08, 13, 14, 15, 16. | 03 - Everything Everywhere All at Once (Michelle Yeoh).
- Best Supporting Performance: 01, 03, 03, 05, 07, 08, 09, 17, 18, 19. | 03 - Everything Everywhere All at Once (Ke Huy Quan).
- Best Screenplay: 01, 02, 03, 11, 20. | 03 - Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan).
- Best First Screenplay: 08, 09, 12, 21, 22. | 08 - Emily the Criminal (John Patton Ford).
- Best Cinematography: 01, 06, 10, 13, 23. | 01 - Tár (Florian Hoffmeister).
- Best Editing: 01, 03, 06, 18, 24. | 01 - Everything Everywhere All at Once (Paul Rogers).
- Best International Film: 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. | 27 - Joyland (Saim Sadiq).
- Best Documentary: 30, 31, 32, 33, 34. | 31 - All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.
- Robert Altman Award (ensemble cast, dir. and casting dir.): 02. | 02 - Women Talking.
- John Cassavetes Award (Best feature under $1,000,000): 15, 18,35, 36, 37. | 18 - The Cathedral.
- Truer Than Fiction Award: 38, 39, 40. | 40 - I Didn't See You There.
- Someone to Watch Award: 16, 36, 41. | 39 - Nanny (Nikyatu Jusu).
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-horror-movies-of-all-time/
UPDATED: 11/7/23
A collection of Movies produced by Blumhouse.
*Last update 31/08/2023
Source: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-movies-2022/
Note: Count is off by two because Corsage and Ted K are double counted (127/128 & 148/149).
List compiled from (article and podcast): https://www.filmspotting.net/top-5-lists-archive/2022/12/22/902-top-10-films-of-2022-with-michael-phillips-and-marya-e-gates
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: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Josh, Marya, Michael)
2: Aftersun (Adam, Josh)
3: TÁR (Adam, Michael)
4: The Banshees of Inisherin (Adam, Marya)
5: After Yang (Adam, Josh)
6: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Marya, Michael)
7: Decision to Leave (Adam, Josh)
8: Hit The Road (Adam, Josh)
9: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Josh, Marya)
10: Saint Omer (Josh, Michael)
Besides the 10 consensus movies, there are some outliers that only made it to one Top 10 list
Adam:
11: Close
12: No Bears
13: RRR
14: The Fabelmans
Josh:
15: Everything Everywhere All At Once
16: Nope
17: Don’t Worry Darling
Michael:
18: Compartment No. 6
19: EO
20: Kimi
21: Let the Little Light Shine
22: The Woman King
23: Turning Red
Marya:
24: Babylon
25: Fire of Love
26: Strawberry Mansion
27: The Eternal Daughter
28: Girl Picture
29: Nanny
All 2022 English Language with:
Runtime: +45 Minutes
IMDB Rating +4.0 AND 100 Votes
Prorgama de Sitges 2022
https://www.scaruffi.com/cinema/best22.html
Slow burn horror. Updated weekly.
2022 Sundance Film Festival (10-20 Jan 2022):
- 01-10: U.S. Dramatic Competition
- 11-20: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- 21-30: U.S. Documentary Competition
- 31-40: World Cinema Documentary Competition
- 41-60: Premieres
- 61-65: Spotlight
- 66-72: Next
- 73-78: Midnight
- 79-81: Special Screenings
- 82-83: Kids
- 84-142: Short Films Program
Awards:
- U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: 01 - Nanny (Nikyatu Jusu).
- U.S. Dramatic Audience Award: 02 - Cha Cha Real Smooth (Cooper Raiff).
- U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: 03 - Palm Trees and Power Lines (Jamie Dack).
- U.S. Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: 04 - Emergency (KD Davila).
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast: 05 - 892/Breaking.
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Uncompromising Artistic Vision: 06 - Blood (Bradley Rust Gray).
- World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: 11 - Utama (Alejandro Loayza Grisi).
- World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: 12 - Girl Picture (Alli Haapasalo).
- World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: 13 - Klondike (Maryna Er Gorbach).
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: 14 - Dos Estaciones (Teresa Sánchez).
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Innovative Spirit: 15 - Leonor Will Never Die (Martika Ramirez Escobar).
- U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize: 21 - The Exiles (Ben Klein and Violet Columbus).
- U.S. Documentary Audience Award: 22 - Navalny (Daniel Roher).
- U.S. Documentary Directing Award: 23 - I Didn't See You There (Reid Davenport).
- U.S. Documentary Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: 24 - Fire of Love (Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput).
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact for Change: 25 - Aftershock (Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee).
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: 26 - Descendant (Margaret Brown).
- World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: 31 - All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen).
- World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: 32 - The Territory (Alex Pritz).
- World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: 33 - A House Made of Splinters (Simon Lereng Wilmont).
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking: 34 - Midwives (Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing).
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft: 32 - The Territory (Alex Pritz).
- Festival Favorite Audience Award: 22 - Navalny (Daniel Roher).
- Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: 61 - After Yang (Kogonada).
- Next Audience Award: 66 - Framing Agnes (Chase Joynt).
- Next Innovator Award: 66 - Framing Agnes (Chase Joynt).
- Short Film Grand Jury Prize: 98 - The Headhunter's Daughter.
- Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction: 84 - If I Go Will They Miss Me.
- Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: 99 - Warsha.
- Short Film Jury Award: Non-Fiction: 126 - Displaced.
- Short Film Jury Award: Animation: 134 - Night Bus.
- Short Film Special Jury Prize for Screenwriting: 115 - Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver.
- Short Film Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast: 100 - A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here.
Ultimate Spooktober List
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/2022-horror-movies-ranked/
UPDATED: 12/23/22
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