This list is compiled from a collection of movie reviews in the 501 Must See Movies book. The movies have been split up into 10 genres, each with 50 movies (except for the last, which has 51): Action/Adventure & Epic, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Musical, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Mystery/Thriller, War and Western.
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/659583.501_Must_See_Movies
My baby loves the western movies
Updated 04.16.24 according to IMDB
Contemporary Stage/Novel-to-Film
2016 Academy Award Nominees
Updated with 2024 winners.
Movies
#BEST ACTOR & CORRESPONDING MOVIE BY YEAR
Actors only show up next to their first movie until Trakt allows the same item multiple times on a list
what the collection one day should look like
Tearjerkers
I made this list to remind me before watching or rewatching so I can prepare myself. Some provoke happy tears but I still want to know ahead of time. I hate crying. It causes headaches and stuffy noses.
BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA:
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Room
Carol
Spotlight
The Revenant (WINNER)
BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY:
Joy
Spy
The Big Short
Trainwreck
The Martian (WINNER)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA:
Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn)
Cate Blanchett (Carol)
Rooney Mara (Carol)
Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl)
Brie Larson (Room) - WINNER
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA:
Will Smith (Concussion)
Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs)
Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl)
Brian Cranston (Trumbo)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant) - WINNER
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY:
Lily Tomlin (Grandma)
Melissa McCarthy (Spy)
Maggie Smith (The Lady in the Van)
Amy Schumer (Trainwreck)
Jennifer Lawrence (Joy) - WINNER
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY:
All Pacino (Danny Collins)
Mark Ruffalo (Infinitely Polar Bear)
Christian Bale (The Big Short)
Steve Carell (The Big Short)
Matt Damon (The Martian) - WINNER
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE:
Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight)
Helen Mirren (Trumbo)
Jane Fonda (Youth)
Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina)
Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs) - WINNER
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE:
Michael Shannon (99 Homes)
Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation)
Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies)
Paul Dano (Love & Mercy)
Sylvester Stallone (Creed) - WINNER
BEST DIRECTOR - MOTION PICTURE:
Todd Haynes (Carol)
George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Tom McCarthy (Spotlight)
Ridley Scott (The Martian)
Alejandro Iñárritu (The Revenant) - WINNER
BEST SCREENPLAY - MOTION PICTURE:
Emma Donoghue (The Room)
Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer (Spotlight)
Charles Randolph & Adam McKay (The Big Short)
Quentin Tarantino (The Hateful Eight)
Aaron Sorkin (Steve Jobs) - WINNER
BEST MOTION PICTURE - ANIMATED:
Anomalisa
Shaun the Sheep Movie
The Good Dinosaur
The Peanuts Movie
Inside Out (WINNER)
BEST MOTION PICTURE - FOREIGN LANGUAGE:
Mustang (France)
The Brand New Testament (Belgium, France, Luxembourg)
The Club (Chile)
The Fencer (Finland, Germany, Estonia)
Son of Saul (Hungary) - WINNER
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - MOTION PICTURE::
Carter Burwell (Carol)
Daniel Pemberton (Steve Jobs)
Alexander Desplat (The Danish Girl)
Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto (The Revenant)
Ennio Morricone (The Hateful Eight) - WINNER
BEST ORIGINAL SONG - MOTION PICTURE::
Love me Like you Do (Fifty Shades of Grey)
See You Again (Furious 7)
One Kind of Love (Love & Mercy)
Simple Song #3 (Youth)
Writing's On The Wall (Spectre) - WINNER
BEST TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA:
Game of Thrones
Narcos
Empire
Outlander
Mr. Robot (WINNER)
BEST TELEVISION SERIES - MUSICAL OR COMEDY:
Veep
Transparent
Casual
Orange is the New Black
Silicon Valley
Mozart in the Jungle (WINNER)
BEST TELEVISION LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION:
American Crime
American Horror Story: Hotel
Fargo
Flesh & Bone
Wolf Hall (WINNER)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION:
Queen Latifah (Bessie)
Kristen Dunst (Fargo)
Sarah Hay (Flesh & Bone)
Felicity Huffman (American Crime)
Lady Gaga (American Horror Story: Hotel) - WINNER
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION:
Patrick Wilson (Fargo)
Idris Elba (Luther)
David Oyelowo (Nightingale)
Mark Rylance (Wolf Hall)
Oscar Isaac (Show Me a Hero) - WINNER
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA:
Robin Wright (House of Cards)
Viola Davis (How to get Away with Murder)
Caitriona Balfe (Outlander)
Eva Green (Penny Dreadful)
Taraji Henson (Empire) - WINNER
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA:
Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul)
Rami Malek (Mr. Robot)
Wagner Moura (Narcos)
Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan)
Jon Hamm (Mad Men) - WINNER
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES - MUSICAL OR COMEDY:
Lily Tomlin (Grace & Frankie)
Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin)
Jamie Lee Curtis (Scream Queens)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep)
Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) - WINNER
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES - MUSICAL OR COMEDY:
Aziz Ansari (Master of None)
Rob Lowe (The Grinder)
Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent)
Patrick Stewart (Blunt Talk)
Gael García Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle) - WINNER
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION:
Regina King (American Crime)
Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey)
Uzo Aduba (Orange is the New Black)
Judith Light (Transparent)
Maura Tierney (The Affair) - WINNER
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION:
Ben Mendelsohn (Bloodline)
Tobias Menzies (Outlander)
Alan Cumming (The Good Wife)
Damian Lewis (Wolf Hall)
Christian Slater (Mr. Robot) - WINNER
Cecil B. DeMille Award
Denzel Washington
Netflix Genre
Updated with 2024 winners.
This is a list of all movies that have been in the IMDB Top 250 since 1996.
Recent Changes:
- 2024/07/27 - Maharaja (2024)
- 2024/07/26 - Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
- 2024/03/01 - Dune: Part Two (2024)
- 2024/01/14 - Poor Things (2023)
- 2024/01/02 - 12th Fail (2023)
Source: http://250.took.nl/titles
Historical, Epic, Period Films
These are not supposed to be the "best" films but the ones that entertained me the most or I got something out of.
Starting it early this time so lots of bumping to be expected (since the year hasn't been really great).
There is still plenty I want to watch from http://trakt.tv/user/sp1ti/lists/2015-watchlist.
List of movies that won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
List of 4k movies I want to watch more then once
From: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/5wk63y/the_votes_have_been_counted_and_the_2017_reddit/deaphvo/
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Emma Beare's 501 Must-See Movies
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