The Apostle 1997

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This list contains the favorite movies of movie critic Jonathan Rosenbaum who writes for the Chicago Reader. The movies span virtually every decade, and include many an obscure movie.

#1 - #1012: original list
#1013 - #1073: 2008 additions
#1074 - #1133: 2016 additions

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Cinema-Necessity-Film-Canons/dp/0801889715

This list contains the favorite movies of movie critic Jonathan Rosenbaum who writes for the Chicago Reader. The movies span virtually every decade, and include many an obscure movie.

http://www.alsolikelife.com/FilmDiary/rosenbaum.html

Source: IMDB
Filter: Votes >= 10000
Order: Votes Descending
Date: 2014-08-23

This list is drawn from "The New York Times Book of Movies: The Essential 1,000 Films to See", published in 2019. It contains a selection of 1000 reviews that have been printed in The New York Times. The majority of movies in this book are among the "10 Best Films" chosen by New York Times critics at the end of each year.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/New-York-Times-Book-Movies/dp/078933657X

Movies

Source:
Years 1931-2018 come from:
The New York Times: Book of Movies
the essential 1,000 films to see
2019 ed

Years after 2018 come from NYT website.

work in progress
There are discrepancies between the website and the book, particular for years after 2003. Please leave a comment for any errors you find.

Rotten Tomatoes - Best of year

Shows & Movies I watched in the year 2021

The Arts & Faith's Top 100 Films (previously known as the 100 most spiritually significant films) list has been selected by the Arts & Faith members, which is dedicated to the combination of art and faith.

2020 update added a new restriction of one film per director, but other films that would have made the list without that restriction can be seen in the subtitle for each main entry in the source.

Source: http://artsandfaith.com/index.php?/films/year/8-2020-top-100/

HollyWood Movies based on Popularity

List of Academy Award-winning since 1994 in:
- Best Picture - Best Director
- Best Actor/Actress - Best Supporting Actor/Actress
- Best Original Screenplay - Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Animated Feature Film - Best Animated Short Film
- Best Documentary Feature - Best Documentary Short Subject
- Best Live Action Short Film - Best International Feature Film
- Best Original Score - Best Original Song
- Best Sound Editing - Best Sound Mixing
- Best Production Design - Best Cinematography
- Best Makeup and Hairstyling - Best Costume Design
- Best Film Editing - Best Visual Effects

The list includes also nominations in the same categories.

The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 23, 1998, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA.

All the movies with "Must-See" badge on Metacritic. Movie gets the badge when it has a score of 81 or higher and has been reviewed by at least 15 pro critics.

Using IMDb advanced search, filtering only by English language.

Notable entries missing include:
Holy Man (1998)
Alaska (1996)
Army of Darkness (1992)
Balto (1995)
The Astronauts Wife (1999)
Immortal Beloved (1994)
Chaplin (1992)
Hackers (1995)
BASEketball (1998)

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take from: http://www.avclub.com/article/best-movies-1997-259214

This list contains the favorite movies of movie critic Jonathan Rosenbaum who writes for the Chicago Reader. The movies span virtually every decade, and include many an obscure movie.

http://www.alsolikelife.com/FilmDiary/rosenbaum.html

List of Nominees and Winners.

• Actor in a Leading Role

Matt Damon in "Good Will Hunting"
Robert Duvall in "The Apostle"
Peter Fonda in "Ulee’s Gold"
Dustin Hoffman in "Wag the Dog"
Jack Nicholson in "As Good as It Gets" - WINNER

• Actor in a Supporting Role

Robert Forster in "Jackie Brown"
Anthony Hopkins in "Amistad"
Greg Kinnear in "As Good as It Gets"
Burt Reynolds in "Boogie Nights"
Robin Williams in "Good Will Hunting" - WINNER

• Actress in a Leading Role

Helena Bonham Carter in "The Wings of the Dove"
Julie Christie in "Afterglow"
Judi Dench in "Mrs. Brown"
Helen Hunt in "As Good as It Gets" - WINNER
Kate Winslet in "Titanic"

• Actress in a Supporting Role

Kim Basinger in "L.A. Confidential" - WINNER
Joan Cusack in "In & Out"
Minnie Driver in "Good Will Hunting"
Julianne Moore in "Boogie Nights"
Gloria Stuart in "Titanic"

• Art Direction

"Gattaca" Art Direction: Jan Roelfs; Set Decoration: Nancy Nye
"Kundun" Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
"L.A. Confidential" Art Direction: Jeannine Oppewall; Set Decoration: Jay R. Hart
"Men in Black" Art Direction: Bo Welch; Set Decoration: Cheryl Carasik
"Titanic" Art Direction: Peter Lamont; Set Decoration: Michael Ford - WINNER

• Cinematography

"Amistad" Janusz Kaminski
"Kundun" Roger Deakins
"L.A. Confidential" Dante Spinotti
"Titanic" Russell Carpenter - WINNER
"The Wings of the Dove" Eduardo Serra

• Costume Design

"Amistad" Ruth E. Carter
"Kundun" Dante Ferretti
"Oscar and Lucinda" Janet Patterson
"Titanic" Deborah L. Scott - WINNER
"The Wings of the Dove" Sandy Powell

• Directing

"The Full Monty" Peter Cattaneo
"Good Will Hunting" Gus Van Sant
"L.A. Confidential" Curtis Hanson
"The Sweet Hereafter" Atom Egoyan
"Titanic" James Cameron - WINNER

• Documentary (Feature)

"Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life" Michael Paxton
"Colors Straight Up" Michèle Ohayon, Julia Schachter
"4 Little Girls" Spike Lee, Sam Pollard
"The Long Way Home" Rabbi Marvin Hier, Richard Trank - WINNER
"Waco: The Rules of Engagement" Dan Gifford, William Gazecki

• Documentary (Short Subject)

"Alaska: Spirit of the Wild" George Casey, Paul Novros
"Amazon" Kieth Merrill, Jonathan Stern
"Daughter of the Bride" Terri Randall
"Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies" Mel Damski, Andrea Blaugrund
"A Story of Healing" Donna Dewey, Carol Pasternak - WINNER

• Film Editing

"Air Force One" Richard Francis-Bruce
"As Good as It Gets" Richard Marks
"Good Will Hunting" Pietro Scalia
"L.A. Confidential" Peter Honess
"Titanic" Conrad Buff, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris - WINNER

• Foreign Language Film

"Beyond Silence" Germany
"Character" The Netherlands - WINNER
"Four Days in September" Brazil
"Secrets of the Heart" Spain
"The Thief" Russia

• Makeup

"Men in Black" Rick Baker, David LeRoy Anderson - WINNER
"Mrs. Brown" Lisa Westcott, Veronica Brebner, Beverley Binda
"Titanic" Tina Earnshaw, Greg Cannom, Simon Thompson

• Music (Original Dramatic Score)

"Amistad" John Williams
"Good Will Hunting" Danny Elfman
"Kundun" Philip Glass
"L.A. Confidential" Jerry Goldsmith
"Titanic" James Horner - WINNER

• Music (Original Musical or Comedy Score)

"Anastasia" Music by Stephen Flaherty; Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens; Orchestral Score by David Newman
"As Good as It Gets" Hans Zimmer
"The Full Monty" Anne Dudley - WINNER
"Men in Black" Danny Elfman
"My Best Friend’s Wedding" James Newton Howard

• Music (Original Song)

"Go the Distance" from "Hercules" Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by David Zippel
"How Do I Live" from "Con Air" Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
"Journey to the Past" from "Anastasia" Music by Stephen Flaherty; Lyric by Lynn Ahrens
"Miss Misery" from "Good Will Hunting" Music and Lyric by Elliott Smith
"My Heart Will Go On" from "Titanic" Music by James Horner; Lyric by Will Jennings - WINNER

• Best Picture

"As Good as It Gets" James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson and Kristi Zea, Producers
"The Full Monty" Uberto Pasolini, Producer
"Good Will Hunting" Lawrence Bender, Producer
"L.A. Confidential" Arnon Milchan, Curtis Hanson and Michael Nathanson, Producers
"Titanic" James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers - WINNER

• Short Film (Animated)

"Famous Fred" Joanna Quinn
"Geri’s Game" Jan Pinkava - WINNER
"La Vieille Dame et les Pigeons (The Old Lady and the Pigeons)" Sylvain Chomet
"The Mermaid" Alexander Petrov
"Redux Riding Hood" Steve Moore, Dan O’Shannon

• Short Film (Live Action)

"Dance Lexie Dance" Pearse Moore, Tim Loane
"It’s Good to Talk" Roger Goldby, Barney Reisz
"Sweethearts?" Birger Larsen, Thomas Lydholm
"Visas and Virtue" Chris Tashima, Chris Donahue - WINNER
"Wolfgang" Kim Magnusson, Anders Thomas Jensen

• Sound

"Air Force One" Paul Massey, Rick Kline, D. M. Hemphill, Keith A. Wester
"Con Air" Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, Arthur Rochester
"Contact" Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis Sands, William B. Kaplan
"L.A. Confidential" Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Kirk Francis
"Titanic" Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, Mark Ulano - WINNER

• Sound Effects Editing

"Face/Off" Mark P. Stoeckinger, Per Hallberg
"The Fifth Element" Mark Mangini
"Titanic" Tom Bellfort, Christopher Boyes - WINNER

• Visual Effects

"The Lost World: Jurassic Park" Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Randal M. Dutra, Michael Lantieri
"Starship Troopers" Phil Tippett, Scott E. Anderson, Alec Gillis, John Richardson
"Titanic" Robert Legato, Mark Lasoff, Thomas L. Fisher, Michael Kanfer - WINNER

• Writing (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)

"Donnie Brasco" Paul Attanasio
"L.A. Confidential" Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson - WINNER
"The Sweet Hereafter" Atom Egoyan
"Wag the Dog" Hilary Henkin, David Mamet
"The Wings of the Dove" Hossein Amini

• Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

"As Good as It Gets" Screenplay by Mark Andrus, James L. Brooks; Story by Mark Andrus
"Boogie Nights" Paul Thomas Anderson
"Deconstructing Harry" Woody Allen
"The Full Monty" Simon Beaufoy
"Good Will Hunting" Ben Affleck, Matt Damon - WINNER

This list is drawn from the second edition of "The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made" (St. Martin's Griffin, $24.95), edited by Peter M. Nichols and published in 2004. For additional information about the list, read Peter M. Nichols's preface, or A. O. Scott's introduction.

This list is drawn from the second edition of "The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made", published in 2004. It contains a selection of 1000 reviews that have been printed in The New York Times in a time period of over seven decades. The majority of movies in this book are among the "10 Best Films" chosen by New York Times critics at the end of each year.

Spanning the length of Roger Ebert's career as the leading American movie critic, this book contains all of his four-star reviews written during that time. A great guide for movie watching.

Taken from external source. 64 movies missing from original.