King Coal 2023

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

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.

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