73rd Berlin International Film Festival (16-26 Feb 2023):
- 01-19: Competition
- 20-39: Berlinale Special
- 40-55: Encounters
- 56-90: Panorama
- 91-118: Forum
- 119-132: Perspektive Deutsches Kino
- 133-187: Generation
- 188-207: Berlinale Shorts

Awards:
- Competition Golden Bear: 01 - On the Adamant (Nicolas Philibert).
- Competition Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize: 02 - Afire (Christian Petzold).
- Competition Silver Bear Jury Prize: 03 - Bad Living (João Canijo).
- Competition Silver Bear For Best Director: 04 - The Plough (Philippe Garrel).
- Competition Silver Bear Best Leading Performance: 05 - 20,000 Species of Bees (Sofía Otero).
- Competition Silver Bear Best Supporting Performance: 06 - Till the End of the Night (Thea Ehre).
- Competition Silver Bear Best Screenplay: 07 - Music (Angela Schanelec).
- Competition Silver Bear Outstanding Artistic Contribution: 08 - Disco Boy (Hélène Louvart).
- Competition FIPRESCI Prize: 09 - The Survival of Kindness (Rolf de Heer).
- Competition Ecumenical Prize: 10 - Totem (Lila Avilés).
- Competition Ecumenical Jury Special Mention: 01 - On the Adamant (Nicolas Philibert).
- Competition Guild Film Prize: 05 - 20,000 Species of Bees (Sofía Otero).
- Encounters Best Film: 40 - Here (Bas Devos).
- Encounters Special Jury Award (ex aequo): 41 - Samsara (Lois Patiño).
- Encounters Special Jury Award (ex aequo): 51 - Orlando, My Political Biography (Paul B. Preciado).
- Encounters Best Director: 50 - The Echo (Tatiana Huezo).
- Encounters FIPRESCI Prize: 40 - Here (Bas Devos).
- Panorama Feature Film Audience Award Winner: 56 - Sira (Apolline Traoré).
- Panorama FIPRESCI Prize: 57 - The Quiet Migration (Malene Choi).
- Panorama Ecumenical Prize: 58 - Midwives (Léa Fehner).
- Panorama CICAE Prize: 59 - The Teachers' Lounge (Ilker Çatak).
- Panorama Label Europa Cinemas Prize: 59 - The Teachers' Lounge (Ilker Çatak).
- Forum FIPRESCI Prize: 103 - Between Revolutions (Vlad Petri).
- Forum Ecumenical Prize: 104 - Where God Is Not (Mehran Tamadon).
- Forum CICAE Prize: 91 - The Face of the Jellyfish (Melisa Liebenthal).
- Perspektive Deutsches Kino Compass-Perspektive Award: 126 - Seven Winters in Teheran (Steffi Niederzoll).
- Perspektive Deutsches Kino Compass-Perspektive Special Mention: 129 - The Kidnapping of the Bride (Sophia Mocorrea).
- Perspektive Deutsches Kino Heiner Carow Prize: 119 - Bones and Names (Fabian Stumm).
- Generation 14plus Crystal Bear: 133 - Adolfo (Sofía Auza).
- Generation 14plus Grand Prix: 143 - Hummingbirds (Silvia Castaños, Estefanía Contreras).
- Generation 14plus Youth Jury Special Mention: 144 - And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine (Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryckù).
- Generation 14plus International Jury Special Mention: 134 - Mutt (Vuk Lungulov-Klotz).
- Generation 14plus AG Kino-Gilde Prize: 144 - And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine (Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryckù).
- Generation Kplus Crystal Bear: 135 - Sweet As (Jub Clerc).
- Generation Kplus Grand Prix: 136 - She – Hero (Mira Fornay).
- Generation Kplus Children's Jury Special Mention: 137 - Sea Sparkle (Domien Huyghe).
- Generation Kplus International Jury Special Mention: 138 - Longing for the World (Jenna Hasse).
- GWFF Best First Feature Award: 52 - The Klezmer Project (Leandro Koch, Paloma Schachmann).
- GWFF Best First Feature Spetial Mention: 92 - The Bride (Myriam Uwiragiye Birara).
- Berlinale Documentary Award: 50 - The Echo (Tatiana Huezo).
- Berlinale Documentary Special Mention: 51 - Orlando, My Political Biography (Paul B. Preciado).
- Panorama Documentary Audience Award Winner: 82 - Kokomo City (D. Smith).
- Short Film Golden Bear: 188 - Les Chenilles (Michelle Keserwany, Noel Keserwany).
- Short Film Silver Bear Jury Prize: 189 - Dipped in Black (Matthew Thorne, Derik Lynch).
- Short Film Special Mention: 190 - It’s a Date (Nadia Parfan).
- Short Film Berlin Candidate for the European Film Awards: 188 - Les Chenilles (Michelle Keserwany, Noel Keserwany).

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).

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 biographical film or biopic is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people.

Ranked by how much they didn't need a movie.

Pulled from Rotten Tomatoes Top Movies section:
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-movies-of-2023/

UPDATED: 1/2/2024

Films lacking a big budget or a big studio release that were still enjoyed by many.

best compilation on trakt.tv ? just :thumbsup_tone1: it .
(c) ... 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

:date:08/06/2024 : :kissing_heart::kissing_heart::kissing_heart: Thanks for :100: of :thumbsup_tone1:

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