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Movies that look good and need to watch out for in 2016.
When people talk about what a terrible year 2016 has been, they could be referring to any number of things, from virus scares to the death of beloved celebrities to whatever the fuck happened on November 8. What they can’t mean is the movies, though. Only those who spent all their money on the biggest Hollywood product could really complain about the cinema of 2016 (and even then, they’d have some pretty good Marvel movies and a solid Star Wars spin-off to fall back on). As usual, there was no grand unifying element linking all of the year’s finest films, but there were some shared themes and motifs: grief, and coping with it; strained family bonds; the responsibility (and burden) of religious faith; and, of course, cars. More than a few of the year’s best films also took time to highlight the details of normal life, tethering their drama, comedy, or delirious fantasy to something mundanely relatable. Mathematically ranked by our six regular reviewers, who each filed an annotated ballot, the 20 films below all have at least one thing in common: They made 2016 a little easier to bear, either by offering an escape from its nightmares or helping make sense of them.
Practically the whole of your childhood is dead (including the Powerpuff Girls), bigotry has entered the White House, we are about to face similar problems for the same reason, and Pokémon have taken people out of reality and off of cliffs. It's no wonder I go to the cinema so many goddamn times. However, with all these disinteresting sequels and "original" concepts, I don't see that happening nearly as much as 2016.
As far as I know, there's no farting corpses, very little hot dogs, hardly any seagulls, no chance of cute 3D redheads and a bunch of gems I've already witnessed first at a festival. Until another festival can surprise me, be it Flare, Sundance, LFF or even the LIAF, the most notable experience I can think of as of yet is seeing who else will attend the My Little Pony movie.
One thing's for sure - there will be less to see than last year, and the rising interest in digital releases doesn't help (especially with the region cheats). Will there be another Carol like there was twice last year, not counting their UK releases this year? Or is 2017 just going to be the weakest year for film by far? Unless we act soon, it won't just be democracy that's dead.
Anyway, movies!
List of Nominees:
CASEY AFFLECK "Manchester by the Sea"
ANDREW GARFIELD "Hacksaw Ridge"
RYAN GOSLING "La La Land"
VIGGO MORTENSEN "Captain Fantastic"
DENZEL WASHINGTON "Fences" ✔️
MAHERSHALA ALI "Moonlight"
JEFF BRIDGES "Hell or High Water" ✔️
LUCAS HEDGES "Manchester by the Sea"
DEV PATEL "Lion"
MICHAEL SHANNON "Nocturnal Animals" ✔️
ISABELLE HUPPERT "Elle"
RUTH NEGGA "Loving"
NATALIE PORTMAN "Jackie"
EMMA STONE "La La Land"
MERYL STREEP "Florence Foster Jenkins" ✔️
VIOLA DAVIS "Fences" ✔️
NAOMIE HARRIS "Moonlight"
NICOLE KIDMAN "Lion"
OCTAVIA SPENCER "Hidden Figures"
MICHELLE WILLIAMS "Manchester by the Sea"
"KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS" Travis Knight and Arianne Sutner
"MOANA" John Musker, Ron Clements and Osnat Shurer
"MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI" Claude Barras and Max Karli
"THE RED TURTLE" Michael Dudok de Wit and Toshio Suzuki
"ZOOTOPIA" Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer ✔️
"ARRIVAL" Bradford Young ✔️
"LA LA LAND" Linus Sandgren
"LION" Greig Fraser
"MOONLIGHT" James Laxton
"SILENCE" Rodrigo Prieto
"ALLIED" Joanna Johnston
"FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM" Colleen Atwood ✔️
"FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS" Consolata Boyle ✔️
"JACKIE" Madeline Fontaine
"LA LA LAND" Mary Zophres
"ARRIVAL" Denis Villeneuve ✔️
"HACKSAW RIDGE" Mel Gibson
"LA LA LAND" Damien Chazelle
"MANCHESTER BY THE SEA" Kenneth Lonergan
"MOONLIGHT" Barry Jenkins
"FIRE AT SEA" Gianfranco Rosi and Donatella Palermo
"I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO" Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety and Hébert Peck
"LIFE, ANIMATED" Roger Ross Williams and Julie Goldman
"O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA" Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow
"13TH" Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick and Howard Barish
"EXTREMIS" Dan Krauss
"4.1 MILES" Daphne Matziaraki
"JOE'S VIOLIN" Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen
"WATANI: MY HOMELAND" Marcel Mettelsiefen and Stephen Ellis
"THE WHITE HELMETS" Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara
"ARRIVAL" Joe Walker ✔️
"HACKSAW RIDGE" John Gilbert
"HELL OR HIGH WATER" Jake Roberts ✔️
"LA LA LAND" Tom Cross
"MOONLIGHT" Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon
"LAND OF MINE" Denmark
"A MAN CALLED OVE" Sweden
"THE SALESMAN" Iran
"TANNA" Australia
"TONI ERDMANN" Germany
"A MAN CALLED OVE" Eva von Bahr and Love Larson
"STAR TREK BEYOND" Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo ✔️
"SUICIDE SQUAD" Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson ✔️
"JACKIE" Mica Levi
"LA LA LAND" Justin Hurwitz
"LION" Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka
"MOONLIGHT" Nicholas Britell
"PASSENGERS" Thomas Newman
"AUDITION (THE FOOLS WHO DREAM)" from "La La Land"; Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
"CAN'T STOP THE FEELING" from "Trolls"; Music and Lyric by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Karl Johan Schuster ✔️
"CITY OF STARS" from "La La Land"; Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
"THE EMPTY CHAIR" from "Jim: The James Foley Story"; Music and Lyric by J. Ralph and Sting
"HOW FAR I'LL GO" from "Moana"; Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda
"ARRIVAL" Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder and David Linde, Producers ✔️
"FENCES" Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington and Todd Black, Producers ✔️
"HACKSAW RIDGE" Bill Mechanic and David Permut, Producers
"HELL OR HIGH WATER" Carla Hacken and Julie Yorn, Producers ✔️
"HIDDEN FIGURES" Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams and Theodore Melfi, Producers
"LA LA LAND" Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz and Marc Platt, Producers
"LION" Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Angie Fielder, Producers
"MANCHESTER BY THE SEA" Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck and Kevin J. Walsh, Producers
"MOONLIGHT" Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers
"ARRIVAL" Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Paul Hotte ✔️
"FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM" Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock ✔️
"HAIL, CAESAR!" Production Design: Jess Gonchor; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
"LA LA LAND" Production Design: David Wasco; Set Decoration: Sandy Reynolds-Wasco
"PASSENGERS" Production Design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena
"BLIND VAYSHA" Theodore Ushev
"BORROWED TIME" Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj
"PEAR CIDER AND CIGARETTES" Robert Valley and Cara Speller
"PEARL" Patrick Osborne
"PIPER" Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer ✔️
"ENNEMIS INTÉRIEURS" Sélim Azzazi
"LA FEMME ET LE TGV" Timo von Gunten and Giacun Caduff
"SILENT NIGHTS" Aske Bang and Kim Magnusson
"SING" Kristof Deák and Anna Udvardy
"TIMECODE" Juanjo Giménez
"ARRIVAL" Sylvain Bellemare ✔️
"DEEPWATER HORIZON" Wylie Stateman and Renée Tondelli
"HACKSAW RIDGE" Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright ✔️
"LA LA LAND" Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
"SULLY" Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
"ARRIVAL" Bernard Gariépy Strobl and Claude La Haye ✔️
"HACKSAW RIDGE" Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace
"LA LA LAND" Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee and Steve A. Morrow
"ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY" David Parker, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson ✔️
"13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI" Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Mac Ruth
"DEEPWATER HORIZON" Craig Hammack, Jason Snell, Jason Billington and Burt Dalton
"DOCTOR STRANGE" Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli and Paul Corbould ✔️
"THE JUNGLE BOOK" Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Dan Lemmon
"KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS" Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McLean and Brad Schiff
"ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY" John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel and Neil Corbould ✔️
"ARRIVAL" Screenplay by Eric Heisserer ✔️
"FENCES" Screenplay by August Wilson ✔️
"HIDDEN FIGURES" Screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi
"LION" Screenplay by Luke Davies
"MOONLIGHT" Screenplay by Barry Jenkins; Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney
"HELL OR HIGH WATER" Written by Taylor Sheridan ✔️
"LA LA LAND" Written by Damien Chazelle
"THE LOBSTER" Written by Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou ✔️
"MANCHESTER BY THE SEA" Written by Kenneth Lonergan
"20TH CENTURY WOMEN" Written by Mike Mills
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