Friday 5 January 2024


 

MY HONORS FOR FILMS SEEN BETWEEN 1ST JANUARY 2023 AND 31ST DECEMBER 2023
 
Best Film: KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Scorsese)
Runner-up: Past Lives (Song)
 
Best Director: AKI KAURISMAKI for FALLEN LEAVES
Runner-up: Celine Song for Past Lives 
 
Best Actor: BRADLEY COOPER for MAESTRO
Runner-up: Bill Nighy for Living
 
Best Actress: SAOIRSE RONAN for FOE
Runner-up: Carey Mulligan for Maestro
 
Best Supporting Actor: ROBERT DE NIRO for KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Runner-up: Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer 
 
Best Supporting Actress: CATALINA SAAVEDRA for ROTTING IN THE SUN
Runner-Up: Julianne Moore in May December
 
Best Original Screenplay: DAVID HEMINGSON for THE HOLDOVERS
Runner-Up: Celine Song for Past Lives.
 
Best Adapted Screenplay: ERIC ROTH and MARTIN SCORSESE for KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Runner-Up: Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer 
 
Best Cinematography: MATTHEW LIBATIQUE for MAESTRO
Runner-Up: Rodrigo Prieto for Killers of the Flower Moon
 
Best Production Design: SARAH GREENWOOD for BARBIE
Best Costume Design: JACQUELINE DURAN for BARBIE
Best Film Editing: JENNIFER LAME for OPPENHEIMER
Best Sound Recording: OPPENHEIMER
Best Special Effects: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE
 
Best Music Score: OLIVER COATES, PARK JIHA and AGNES OBEL for FOE
Runner-Up: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for The Killer 
 
Most Promising Director: CELINE SONG for PAST LIVES
Most Promising Actor: EDEN DAMBRINE for CLOSE
Most Promising Actress: LILY GLADSTONE for KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON 
 
Best Comedy: SICK OF MYSELF
Best Thriller: HOLY SPIDER
Best Musical: MAESTRO
Best Western: KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Best Horror Film: THE MENU
Best War Film: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Best Documentary: ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED and NAVALNY (tie)
Best Animated Film: CRYPTOZOO
Best Action Film: BULLET TRAIN
Best Entertainment: THE KILLER
Most Imaginative Film: BEAU IS AFRAID 
 
Most Disappointing Film: ASTEROID CITY
Most Overrated Film: ANATOMY OF A FALL
Most Underrated Films: BEAU IS AFRAID and FOE
Most Neglected Film: FOE
 
Best Classics seen for the first time: BATAILLE DU RAIL and THE SAGA OF ANATAHAN 
 
Best Re-Issues: BLOW UP, CLUNY BROWN, THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE, THE NIGHTS OF CABIRIA and REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT
 
And Six Turkeys: A HAUNTING IN VENICE, A VIGILANTE, ENYS MEN, FAYA DAYI, MARLOWE and PLEASE BABY PLEASE.
 
MY TEN BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR.
 
1) KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Scorsese)
2) PAST LIVES (Song)
3) FALLEN LEAVES (Kaurismaki)
4) OPPENHEIMER (Nolan)
5) CLOSE (Dhont)
6) BROKER (Kor-eda)
7) THE HOLDOVERS (Payne)
😎 FOE (Davis)
9) NAVALNY (Roher)
10) MEMORIA (Weerasethakul)

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