I might be alone in the how much I loved American Fiction
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Everyone involved with Emilia Perez might suck
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I’ve only watched 6 of the best movies but my ranking on enjoyment level:
- Dune 2
- Anora
- Conclave
- The Substance
- Nickel Boys
massive gap
- Emila Perez (foreign musical with bad music and bad acting - crazy how many noms this got)
Enjoyed Real Pain and The Apprentice. Would’ve had those two nominated.
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It was so good. When Sterling Brown announced his award last night, it made me wanna go watch it immediately.
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As we’ve talked about in many movie threads, “rewatchability” is an amorphous term, so instead I’ll take a stab at ranking the winners and then list out what nominees I’d very objectively say were “worthy” of their nomination.
Really only feel comfortable about doing the nominees for the 2020’s, I’d need to brush up on a couple of nominees from each year pre-2015 to do this with full confidence:
2020’s Winners
Oppenheimer (2023)
Anora (2024)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
CODA (2021)
Nomadland (2020)
2020's Other Nominees
Other Nominees (29/43)
2020
The Father
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Minari
Sound of Metal
2021
Belfast
Drive My Car
Dune
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
2022
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Fabelmans
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Women Talking
2023
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
2024
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune 2
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
2010’s Winners
Parasite (2019)
Moonlight (2016)
Spotlight (2015)
Argo (2012)
Birdman (2014)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
The Artist (2011)
The Shape of Water (2017)
The King’s Speech (2010)
Green Book (2018)
2000’s Winners
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Gladiator (2000)
The Return of the King (2003)
The Departed (2006)
The Hurt Locker (2009)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Chicago (2002)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Crash (2005)
1990’s Winners
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Titanic (1997)
Schindler’s List (1993)
Unforgiven (1992)
The English Patient (1996)
Braveheart (1995)
American Beauty (1999)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
80’s are a bit of a blind spot on the winners for me, looking through all the Noms I think this might be the “Most Wrong Winners” decade. 1980 (Raging Bull), 1985 (In modern times Back to the Future and Rocky IV get nominated, but I’ll take Witness), 1987 (Broadcast News), 1988 (Dangerous Liaisons), 1989 (Dead Poets Society or My Left Foot).
1970’s Winners
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather II (1974)
The French Connection (1973)
The Sting (1971)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Rocky (1976)
Annie Hall (1977)
Patton (1970)
Kramer vs Kramer (1979)
Pre-70’s I cannot speak to all of them with much authority, but this was a fun exercise and one that inspires me to continue forward and deeper into film from all years.
Long Live Movies!
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To clarify, I greatly enjoyed American Fiction, but didn’t think it was a great film from an awards perspective.
I’d rather rewatch it than probably half of last year’s nominees, although some of those were “better.”
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You and @tigergolftraveler might be its biggest fans, I did enjoy it though!
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That’s a block I want to be on!
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Maverick got robbed!
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I wasn’t really suggesting rating the movies based on rewatchability, but moreso on the initial binary of “did you ever watch the movie again?”
If there was a panel of film critics/writers, that could be an automatic +/-1 for the ranking system, perhaps. Maybe it started it in the bottom 50% or something.
It’s a tough assignment, for sure.
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This gets better every time I watch it. The performances in Spotlight are some of the best I’ve ever seen. Ruffalo, Schreiber, and Mcadams in particular are incredible in their roles.
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It’s so good. I’m going to continue to harp on my issues with comparison, but if I had to put Anora in a ranking with last year’s movies based on what I like…the ones below are grouped in tiers. I’d slide Anora into the second tier. Maestro would be an easy bump for me, but it’s just personal taste.
Poor Things
Barbie
American Fiction
The Holdovers
Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Past Lives
Anatomy of a Fall
Zone of Interest
Maestro
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That said, still think Challengers was my favorite of 2024.
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So Long, London.
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man that is a brutal decade for rewatchability of the BP winners. Parasite is the only one I’d ever want to see more than twice
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2000’s Winners
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Gladiator (2000)
The Return of the King (2003)
The Departed (2006)
The Hurt Locker (2009)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Chicago (2002)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Crash (2005)
I cant believe There Will be Blood didn’t win in 2007. I think in hindsight, even though No Country for Old Men is a great movie, most would consider TWBB the best movie that year, if not the 21st century.
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I was just reading some stuff about this the other night. In 2007, a lot of critics had TWBB somewhere between 2nd and 9th on their top 10 of the year list, but then in 2010 when they made their best movies of the decade list, had TWBB at number 1. Reading through some of the reviews at the time and comparing it to what they had to say a few years later, it seems like a lot of them thought it was too ambitious, didn’t like the ending, and maybe just didn’t fully understand it at the time, but time (and probably a couple of rewatches) changed their minds and they ended up putting it on the pedestal it deserves.
2007 was an insane year for movies though. Just go look at all the award races for that year. TWBB won one best picture across all the major awards. PTA got one or two best directors. Hell, the Bourne Ultimatum won more Oscars than TWBB that year.
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This took me a second lol. I don’t know that it’ll age quite as well because it’s a much more flawed movie, but it’s also top tier for movies I’ve thought about the most well after seeing them
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