This list will be updated frequently throughout the year as contenders rise and fall.
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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
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edgarwright UPDATED: On the very night of the BAFTA's, as we near the end of the 2023/2024 awards cycle, you will have already heard about several excellent films that are nominated, or have already won some hardware. But that's never the full story of the cinematic year.
With that in mind, here's 40 or so movies I saw in the last year that I enjoyed, was impressed by, or I think are of note, that were NOT nominated for either a BAFTA or an Oscar.
2023 Sundance Film Festival (19-29 Jan 2023):
- 01-12: U.S. Dramatic Competition
- 13-24: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- 25-36: U.S. Documentary Competition
- 37-48: World Cinema Documentary Competition
- 49-75: Premieres
- 76-80: Spotlight
- 81-89: Next
- 90-97: Midnight
- 98: Special Screenings
- 99-101: New Frontier
- 102-104: Kids
- 105-167: Short Films Program:
. U.S. Fiction Short Films (105-127)
. International Fiction Short Films (128-145)
. Nonfiction Short Films (146-155)
. Animation Short Films (156-167)
Awards:
- U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: 01 - A Thousand and One (A.V. Rockwell).
- U.S. Dramatic Audience Award: 02 - The Persian Version (Maryam Keshavarz).
- U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: 03 - The Accidental Getaway Driver (Sing J. Lee).
- U.S. Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: 02 - The Persian Version (Maryam Keshavarz).
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast: 04 - Theater Camp.
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: 05 - Magazine Dreams (Elijah Bynum).
- World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: 13 - Scrapper (Charlotte Regan).
- World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: 14 - Shayda (Noora Niasari).
- World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: 15 - Slow (Marija Kavtaradze).
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Performance: 16 - When it Melts (Rosa Marchant).
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography : 17 - Mami Wata (Lílis Soares).
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: 18 - Animalia (Sofia Alaoui).
- U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize: 25 - Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson).
- U.S. Documentary Audience Award: 26 - Beyond Utopia (Madeleine Gavin).
- U.S. Documentary Directing Award: 27 - A Still Small Voice (Luke Lorentzen).
- U.S. Documentary Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: 28 - Going Varsity in Mariachi (Daniela I. Quiroz).
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Clarity of Vision: 29 - The Stroll (Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucke).
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression: 30 - Bad Press.
- World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: 37 - The Eternal Memory (Maite Alberdi).
- World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: 38 - 20 Days in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov).
- World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: 39 - Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Anna Hints).
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: 40 - Fantastic Machine.
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking: 41 - Against the Tide.
- Festival Favorite Audience Award: 49 - Radical (Christopher Zalla).
- Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: 50 - The Pod Generation (Sophie Barthes).
- Next Audience Award: 81 - Kokomo City (D. Smith).
- Next Innovator Award: 81 - Kokomo City (D. Smith).
- Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction: 06 - The Starling Girl.
- Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction: 51 - It’s Only Life After All.
- Short Film Grand Jury Prize: 105 - When You Left Me on That Boulevard.
- Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction: 106 - Rest Stop.
- Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: 128 - The Kidnapping of the Bride.
- Short Film Jury Award: Non-Fiction: 146 - Will You Look at Me.
- Short Film Jury Award: Animation: 156 - The Flying Sailor.
- Short Film Special Jury Award for U.S. Directing: 107 - The Vacation.
- Short Film Special Jury Award for International Directing: 129 - AliEN0089.
Program List (Different Categories) January 19th to 29th
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