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Movies nominated for the Oscars since 1960.
All movies that are nomited for something in the 94th Academy Awards.
1 - Belfast (Best Picture: Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas; Best Director: Kenneth Branagh; Best Supporting Actor: Ciarán Hinds; Best Supporting Actress: Judi Dench; Best Original Screenplay: Kenneth Branagh; Best Sound: Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri; Best Original Song: “Down To Joy” music and lyric by Van Morrison)
2 - CODA (Best Picture: Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger; Best Supporting Actor: Troy Kotsur; Best Adapted Screenplay: Siân Heder)
3 - Don’t Look Up (Best Picture: Adam McKay and Kevin Messick; Best Original Screenplay: Adam McKay, story by Adam McKay and David Sirota; Best Original Score: Nicholas Britell; Best Film Editing: Hank Corwin;)
4 - Drive My Car (Best Picture: Teruhisa Yamamoto; Best Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi; Best Adapted Screenplay: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe; Best International Feature Film: Japan)
5 - Dune (Best Picture: Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter; Best Adapted Screenplay: Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth; Best Cinematography: Greig Fraser; Best Costume Design: Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan; Best Original Score: Hans Zimmer; Best Sound: Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett; Best Film Editing: Joe Walker; Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr; Best Production Design: production design: Patrice Vermette; set decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos; Best Visual Effects: Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer)
6 - King Richard (Best Picture: Tim White, Trevor White and Will Smith; Best Lead Actor: Will Smith; Best Supporting Actress: Aunjanue Ellis; Best Original Screenplay: Zach Baylin; Best Original Song: “Be Alive” music and lyric by Dixson and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter; Best Film Editing: Pamela Martin)
7 - Licorice Pizza (Best Picture: Sara Murphy, Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson; Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson; Best Original Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson)
8 - Nightmare Alley (Best Picture: Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper; Best Cinematography: Dan Laustsen; Best Costume Design: Luis Sequeira; Best Production Design: production design: Tamara Deverell; set decoration: Shane Vieau)
9 - The Power of the Dog (Best Picture: Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier; Best Director: Jane Campion; Best Lead Actor: Benedict Cumberbatch; Best Supporting Actor: Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPheeBest; Best Supporting Actress: Kirsten Dunst; Best Adapted Screenplay: Jane Campion; Best Cinematography: Ari Wegner; Best Original Score: Jonny Greenwood; Best Sound: Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb; Best Film Editing: Peter Sciberras; Best Production Design: production design: Grant Major; set decoration: Amber Richards)
10 - West Side Story (Best Picture: Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger; Best Director: Steven Spielberg; Best Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose; Best Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski; Best Costume Design: Paul Tazewell; Best Sound: Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy; Best Production Design: production design: Adam Stockhausen; set decoration: Rena DeAngelo)
11 - Being the Ricardos (Best Lead Actor: Javier Bardem; Best Lead Actress: Nicole Kidman; Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons)
12 - Tick, Tick … Boom! (Best Lead Actor: Andrew Garfield; Best Film Editing: Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum)
13 - The Tragedy of Macbeth (Best Lead Actor: Denzel Washington; Best Cinematography: Bruno Delbonnel; Best Production Design: production design: Stefan Dechant; set decoration: Nancy Haigh)
14 - The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Best Lead Actress: Jessica Chastain; Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh)
15 - The Lost Daughter (Best Lead Actress: Olivia Colman; Best Supporting Actress: Jessie Buckley; Best Adapted Screenplay: Maggie Gyllenhaal)
16 - Parallel Mothers (Best Lead Actress: Penélope Cruz; Best Original Score: Alberto Iglesias)
17 - Spencer (Best Lead Actress: Kristen Stewart)
18 - The Worst Person in the World (Best Original Screenplay: Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier; Best International Feature Film: Norway)
19 - Encanto (Best Animated Feature Film: Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer; Best Original Score: Germaine Franco; Best Original Song: “Dos Oruguitas” music and lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda)
20 - Flee (Best Animated Feature Film: Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie; Best Documentary Feature: Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie; Best International Feature Film: Denmark)
21 - Luca (Best Animated Feature Film: Enrico Casarosa and Andrea Warren)
22 - The Mitchells vs. the Machines (Best Animated Feature Film: Mike Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Kurt Albrecht)
23 - Raya and the Last Dragon (Best Animated Feature Film: Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho)
24 - Affairs of the Art (Best Animated Short Film: Joanna Quinn and Les Mills)
25 - Bestia (Best Animated Short Film: Hugo Covarrubias and Tevo Díaz)
26 - Boxballet (Best Animated Short Film: Anton Dyakov)
27 - Robin Robin (Best Animated Short Film: Dan Ojari and Mikey Please)
28 - The Windshield Wiper (Best Animated Short Film: Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sanchez)
29 - Cruella (Best Costume Design: Jenny Beavan; Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon)
30 - Cyrano (Best Costume Design: Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran)
31 - No Time to Die (Best Sound: Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor; Best Original Song: “No Time To Die” music and lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell; Best Visual Effects: Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner and Chris Corbould)
32 - Four Good Days (Best Original Song: “Somehow You Do” music and lyric by Diane Warren)
33 - Ascension (Best Documentary Feature: Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell)
34 - Attica (Best Documentary Feature: Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry)
35 - Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Best Documentary Feature: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein)
36 - Writing With Fire (Best Documentary Feature: Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh)
37 - Audible (Best Documentary Short Subject: Matt Ogens and Geoff McLean)
38 - Lead Me Home (Best Documentary Short Subject: Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk)
39 - The Queen of Basketball (Best Documentary Short Subject: Ben Proudfoot)
40 - Three Songs for Benazir (Best Documentary Short Subject: Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei)
41 - When We Were Bullies (Best Documentary Short Subject: Jay Rosenblatt)
42 - The Hand of God (Best International Feature Film: Italy)
43 - Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Best International Feature Film: Buthan)
44 - Coming 2 America (Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer)
45 - House of Gucci (Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras)
46 - Free Guy (Best Visual Effects: Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis and Dan Sudick)
47 - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Best Visual Effects: Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver)
48 - Spider-Man: No Way Home (Best Visual Effects: Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick)
49 - Ala Kachuu – Take and Run (Best Live Action Short Film: Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger)
50 - The Dress (Best Live Action Short Film: Tadeusz Łysiak and Maciej Ślesicki)
51 - The Long Goodbye (Best Live Action Short Film: Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed)
52 - On My Mind (Best Live Action Short Film: Martin Strange-Hansen and Kim Magnusson)
53 - Please Hold (Best Live Action Short Film: K.D. Dávila and Levin Menekse)
Full list at https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/50-best-films-2021
Below is our updated running tally of the films most frequently mentioned by individual critics on the year-end Top Ten lists. Note that if a critic ranks more than the standard 10 films, we will not include films ranked 11th or worse. (We do include unranked lists of 11-20 titles, though each film gets just one-half of a point.) In case of a tie for first or second, each film will receive the full points for that position.
https://www.metacritic.com/feature/film-critics-pick-10-best-movies-of-2021
Updated: 2022-01-23
Best Picture
Belfast
CODA
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Best Director
Kenneth Branagh, “Belfast”
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, “Drive My Car”
Paul Thomas Anderson, “Licorice Pizza”
Jane Campion, “The Power of the Dog”
Steven Spielberg, “West Side Story”
Best Actor
Javier Bardem, “Being the Ricardos”
Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Power of the Dog”
Andrew Garfield, “Tick, Tick … Boom!”
Will Smith, “King Richard”
Denzel Washington, “The Tragedy of Macbeth”
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”
Olivia Colman, “The Lost Daughter”
Penélope Cruz, “Parallel Mothers”
Nicole Kidman, “Being the Ricardos”
Kristen Stewart, “Spencer”
Best Supporting Actor
Ciaran Hinds, “Belfast”
Troy Kotsur, “CODA”
Jesse Plemons, “The Power of the Dog”
J.K. Simmons, “Being the Ricardos”
Kodi Smit-McPhee, “The Power of the Dog”
Best Supporting Actress
Jessie Buckley, “The Lost Daughter”
Ariana DeBose, “West Side Story”
Judi Dench, “Belfast”
Kirsten Dunst, “The Power of the Dog”
Aunjanue Ellis, “King Richard”
Original Screenplay
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
The Worst Person in the World
Adapted Screenplay
CODA
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog
Animated Feature
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon
Production Design
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
Costume Design
Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story
Cinematography
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
Editing
Don’t Look Up
Dune
King Richard
The Power of the Dog
Tick, Tick … Boom!
Makeup and Hairstyling
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
Sound
Belfast
Dune
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Visual Effects
Dune
Free Guy
No Time to Die
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Score
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Encanto
Parallel Mothers
The Power of the Dog
Song
Be Alive” (“King Richard”)
Dos Oruguitas” (“Encanto”)
Down to Joy” (“Belfast”)
No Time To Die” (“No Time to Die”)
Somehow You Do” (“Four Good Days”)
Documentary Feature
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Writing With Fire
International Feature
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, Bhutan
Flee, Denmark
The Hand of God, Italy
Drive My Car, Japan
The Worst Person in the World, Norway
Animated Short
Affairs of the Art
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin
The Windshield Wiper
Documentary Short
Audible
Lead Me Home
The Queen of Basketball
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies
Live-Action Short
The Dress
The Long Goodbye
On My Mind
Please Hold
Ala Kachuu — Take and Run
Pulled from Rotten Tomatoes Top Movies section:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/?year=2021
UPDATED: 3/21/22
NOTE: It appears Rotten Tomatoes has not been refreshing this list. I will keep checking and update the Trakt list once RT resumes updates.
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Movies (and some tv series/episodes) that are so insanely packed with things and ideas and visuals they become dense in one way or another.
Ordered alphabetically.
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Shortlist from The Oscars 2020-2024 nominees.
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Hollywood Reporter critics pick the 50 best films of the 21st century (so far), from 2000 up until and including 2021
List compiled from: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-movies-21st-century
Ranked as in the list (honorable mentions start at #51 and are listed in alphabetical order)
1: Yi Yi
2: Inside Llewyn Davis
3: The Gleaners and I
4: Zodiac
5: Mulholland Drive
6: Spirited Away
7: Brokeback Mountain
8: In the Mood for Love
9: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
10: Get Out
11: Boyhood
12: Moonlight
13: Burning
14: Wall-E
15: The Power of the Dog
16: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
17: Talk to Her
18: Shoplifters
19: Drive My Car
20: Far From Heaven
21: Parasite
22: Before Sunset
23: 35 Shots of Rum
24: Timbuktu
25: Call Me by Your Name
26: Y Tu Mamá También
27: At Berkeley
28: A Serious Man
29: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
30: Marie Antoinette
31: Manchester by the Sea
32: The Return
33: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
34: The Social Network
35: The Favourite
36: Lovers Rock
37: Wendy and Lucy
38: Children of Men
39: I Am Not Your Negro
40: Summer of Soul
41: Pan’s Labyrinth
42: Never Rarely Sometimes Always
43: Grizzly Man
44: Things to Come
45: Bridesmaids
46: Pariah
47: Bright Star
48: Time
49: Black Panther
50: Weekend
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Honorable mentions (listed alphabetically)
51: Caché
52: The Dark Knight
53: L’Enfant
54: Holy Motors
55: The Hurt Locker
56: Margaret
57: Marriage Story
58: The Piano Teacher
59: The Royal Tenenbaums
60: Summer Hours
61: There Will Be Blood
62: Under the Sand
63: Under the Skin
64: Vera Drake
65: Waltz With Bashir
Every film discussed on the podcast "Kill James Bond" in chronological order.
Films that are structured into chapters are a storytelling technique that allows for a non-linear narrative or the division of a longer story into smaller, more manageable parts. In these films, each chapter is a distinct segment or scene that serves to advance the plot or to provide different perspectives or flashbacks. This structure can create a sense of unpredictability and keep the audience engaged, as they are constantly presented with new information and twists in the story. Examples of films that are divided into chapters include "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "The Killer" (1989), and "Interstellar" (2014). The use of chapters in films allows filmmakers to be more experimental and inventive in their storytelling, and to create unique and memorable movie experiences.
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