Gay movies and shows
Pulled from Rotten Tomatoes Top Movies section:
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-movies-of-2023/
UPDATED: 1/2/2024
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
A collection of films screening at Screenwave International Film Festival in Coffs Harbour and Bellingen, New South Wales in April 2023.
Missing on Trakt:
- Return Chute: The Survival of a Small Town Video Store
- Ukrainistan Artist War
- You Can Go Now
- Birth of the Endless Summer
- The Spiral
https://www.scaruffi.com/cinema/best22.html
Over 3,000 LGBT-themed movies and TV shows featuring gay storylines, characters, or actors.
Films about/for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer
https://aframe.oscars.org/news/post/2023-oscars-shortlists
Documentary Feature Film
15 films will advance in the Documentary Feature Film category for the 95th Academy Awards. 144 films were eligible in the category. Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.
The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:
All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Bad Axe
Children of the Mist
Descendant
Fire of Love
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
Hidden Letters
A House Made of Splinters
The Janes
Last Flight Home
Moonage Daydream
Navalny
Retrograde
The Territory
Documentary Short Film
15 films will advance in the Documentary Short Film category for the 95th Academy Awards. 98 films qualified in the category. Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.
The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:
American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton
Anastasia
Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison
As Far as They Can Run
The Elephant Whisperers
The Flagmakers
Happiness Is £4 Million
Haulout
Holding Moses
How Do You Measure a Year?
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Nuisance Bear
Shut Up and Paint
Stranger at the Gate
38 at the Garden
International Feature Film
15 films will advance to the next round of voting in the International Feature Film category for the 95th Academy Awards. Films from 92 countries and regions were eligible in the category. Academy members from all branches were invited to participate in the preliminary round of voting and must have met a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category.
In the nominations round, Academy members from all branches are invited to opt in to participate and must view all 15 shortlisted films to vote.
The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:
Argentina, Argentina, 1985
Austria, Corsage
Belgium, Close
Cambodia, Return to Seoul
Denmark, Holy Spider
France, Saint Omer
Germany, All Quiet on the Western Front
India, Last Film Show
Ireland, The Quiet Girl
Mexico, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Morocco, The Blue Caftan
Pakistan, Joyland
Poland, EO
South Korea, Decision to Leave
Sweden, Cairo Conspiracy
Makeup and Hairstyling
10 films will advance in the Makeup and Hairstyling category for the 95th Academy Awards. All members of the Academy’s Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch will be invited to view excerpts and interviews with the artists from each of the shortlisted films on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. Branch members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar:registered: consideration.
The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Amsterdam
Babylon
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Blonde
Crimes of the Future
Elvis
Emancipation
The Whale
Music (Original Score)
15 scores will advance in the Original Score category for the 95th Academy Awards. 147 scores were eligible in the category. Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.
The scores, listed in alphabetical order by film title, are:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Devotion
Don't Worry Darling
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Nope
She Said
The Woman King
Women Talking
Music (Original Song)
15 songs will advance in the Original Song category for the 95th Academy Awards. 81 songs were eligible in the category. Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.
The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are listed below in alphabetical order by film title:
"Time" from Amsterdam
"Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)" from Avatar: The Way of Water
"Lift Me Up" from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
"This Is A Life" from Everything Everywhere All at Once
"Ciao Papa" from Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
"Til You’re Home" from A Man Called Otto
"Naatu Naatu" from RRR
"My Mind & Me" from Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
"Good Afternoon" from Spirited
"Applause" from Tell It like a Woman
"Stand Up" from Till
"Hold My Hand" from Top Gun: Maverick
"Dust & Ash" from The Voice of Dust and Ash
"Carolina" from Where the Crawdads Sing
"New Body Rhumba" from White Noise
Animated Short Film
15 films will advance in the Animated Short Film category for the 95th Academy Awards. 81 films qualified in the category. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.
The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:
Black Slide
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
The Debutante
The Flying Sailor
The Garbage Man
Ice Merchants
It’s Nice in Here
More than I Want to Remember
My Year of Dicks
New Moon
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It
Passenger
Save Ralph
Sierra
Steakhouse
Live Action Short Film
15 films will advance in the Live Action Short Film category for the 95th Academy Awards. 200 films qualified in the category. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation, Directors, Producers and Writers Branches vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.
The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:
All in Favor
Almost Home
An Irish Goodbye
Ivalu
Le Pupille
The Lone Wolf
Nakam
Night Ride
Plastic Killer
The Red Suitcase
The Right Words
Sideral
The Treatment
Tula
Warsha
Sound
10 films will advance in the Sound category for the 95th Academy Awards. All eligible members of the Sound Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees. Academy members will be invited to view excerpts from each of the shortlisted films beginning Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, in the San Francisco Bay area, followed by New York, London and Los Angeles. Branch members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.
The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Moonage Daydream
Top Gun: Maverick
Visual Effects
10 films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 95th Academy Awards. The Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee determined the shortlist. All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view excerpts and interviews with the artists from each of the shortlisted films on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. Branch members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.
The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Jurassic World Dominion
Nope
Thirteen Lives
Top Gun: Maverick
Source: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-movies-of-2023/
Nouveautés 2023
Hit after hit. Still swingin'. You, I'm gonna pay you in lost time. Don't blame me if it's nothing substantial, but for this watchlist is so bad it doesn't fear god. That's the watchlist way!
List of 2023 movies. Watch at https://realiptv.to
https://aframe.oscars.org/news/post/2023-oscars-shortlists
Argentina, Argentina, 1985
Austria, Corsage
Belgium, Close
Cambodia, Return to Seoul
Denmark, Holy Spider
France, Saint Omer
Germany, All Quiet on the Western Front
India, Last Film Show
Ireland, The Quiet Girl
Mexico, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Morocco, The Blue Caftan
Pakistan, Joyland
Poland, EO
South Korea, Decision to Leave
Sweden, Cairo Conspiracy
2022 Lisbon & Sintra Film Festival:
- 01-17: Out of competition
- 18-28: In Competition.
Awards:
- Best Picture Prize Leffest: 19 - Poet (Darezhan Omirbayev).
- Jury Award: 20 - Return to Dust (Li Ruijun).
- Jury Special Prize - Best Director: 21 - Sons of Ramses (Clément Cogitore).
- Jury Special Prize - Revelation: 22 - The Water (Elena López Riera).
Films showing during the Zürich Film Festival 2022.
https://zff.com/en/programme/
Gay
by Josep Maria