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)