Predictions for the 96th Annual Academy Awards

These are my Oscar predictions. I’m not sure yet if I’m going to live-tweet the Endy Award winners during the ceremony again this year. Maybe. Nominees listed in alphabetical order, predicted winners in bold. Guaranteed to get 16-18 correct, no more, no less.

BEST PICTURE

American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro 
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest 

BEST DIRECTOR

Anatomy of a Fall
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest 

BEST ACTOR

Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

BEST ACTRESS

Annette Bening, Nyad
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Emma Stone, Poor Things

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
America Ferrera, Barbie
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Maestro
May December
Past Lives 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

American Fiction
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Poor Things 
The Zone of Interest 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things 

BEST FILM EDITING

Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things 

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon 

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things 

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things 

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot
“I’m Just Ken” from Barbie
“It Never Went Away” from American Symphony
“Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)”
from Killers of the Flower Moon
“What Was I Made For?” from Barbie 

BEST SOUND

The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest 

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Bobi Wine: The People’s President
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
To Kill a Tiger 
20 Days in Mariupol 

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

Io Capitano
Perfect Days
Society of the Snow
The Teachers’ Lounge
The Zone of Interest 

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Island in Between 
The Last Repair Shop 
Nai Nai & Wai Po

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

The After
Invincible
Knight of Fortune
Red, White and Blue
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar 

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko 

This Week in Rankings

Since my last update, the end of 2023 came and went. I nominated a bunch of movies for the Endy Awards, and listed my favorite Film Discoveries and Books of the past year. I submitted a list to the annual Sense of Cinema World Poll and wrote about Rocky aur Rani for InReview Online’s end of the year list. And I wrote about Ozu Yasujiro’s A Hen in the Wind for Criterion.

Over at The Chinese Cinema, I wrote about Where the Wind Blows, Silent Night, Raid on the Lethal Zone and Moscow Mission, All Ears, Last Hero in China, I Did It My Way, and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.

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These are the movies I’ve watched and rewatched over the last few months, and where they place on my year-by-year rankings.

Godzilla (Honda Ishiro) – 9, 1954
A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez) – 3, 1965
Don’t Look Back (DA Pennebaker) – 4, 1967
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (Bill Melendez & Phil Roman) – 38, 1973

Mad Max (George Miller) – 22, 1979
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (George Miller) – 6, 1981
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Obayashi Nobuhiko) – 5, 1983
Gremlins (Joe Dante) – 7, 1984
This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner) – 12, 1984

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (George Miller & George Ogilve) – 32, 1985
The Magic Crystal (Wong Jing) – 58, 1986
A Muppet Family Christmas (Eric Till & Peter Harris) – 67, 1987
Scrooged (Richard Donner) – 56, 1988
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Chris Columbus) – 80, 1992

Last Hero in China (Wong Jing) – 37, 1993
From Beijing with Love (Stephen Chow & Lee Lik-chi) – 20, 1994
Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan) – 2, 1997
Sideways (Alexander Payne) – 20, 2004
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson) – 3, 2009

Skyline (Colin & Greg Strouse) – 67, 2010
The Muppets (James Bobin) – 41, 2011
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) – 2, 2015
One Shot (James Nunn) – 24, 2021
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Swinton O. Scott III) – 82, 2021

Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt) – 1, 2022
Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella) – 6, 2022
Where the Wind Blows (Philip Yung) – 37, 2022
Eye for an Eye: The Blind Swordsman (Yang Bingjia) – 56, 2022

Bad City (Sonomura Kensuke) – 57, 2022
Death on the Nile (Kenneth Branagh) – 81, 2022
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules (Luke Cormican) – 94, 2022

Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (Karan Johar) – 1, 2023
Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan) – 4, 2023
Godzilla Minus One (Yamazaki Takashi) – 5, 2023
The Taste of Things (Trần Anh Hùng) – 6, 2023
Afire (Christian Petzold) – 7, 2023

Jigarthanda DoubleX (Karthik Subbaraj) – 8, 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese) – 10, 2023
The Boy and the Heron (Miyazaki Hayao) – 12, 2023
Menus Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman) – 14, 2023
Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismaki) – 15, 2023

Jawan (Atlee) – 16, 2023
All Ears (Liu Jiayin) – 19, 2023
Ferrari (Michael Mann) – 26, 2023
May December (Todd Haynes) – 28, 2023
Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos) – 30, 2023

Perfect Days (Wim Wenders) – 32, 023
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (Kelly Fremon Craig) – 37, 2023
Ballerina (Lee Chung-hyeon) – 38, 2023
Leo (Lokesh Kanagaraj) – 41, 2023
The Holdovers (Alexander Payne) – 42, 2023

Pathaan (Siddharth Anand) – 45, 2023
Silent Night (John Woo) – 47, 2023
A Haunting in Venice (Kenneth Branagh) – 49, 2023
Napoleon (Ridley Scott) – 50, 2023
Eileen (William Oldroyd) – 52, 2023

The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) – 56, 2023
Moscow Mission (Herman Yau) – 57, 2023
No Hard Feelings (Gene Stupnitsky) – 58, 2023
I Did It My Way (Jason Kwan) – 68, 2023

Albert Brooks: Defending My Life (Rob Reiner) – 69, 2023
Maestro (Bradley Cooper) – 71, 2023
The Pigeon Tunnel (Errol Morris) – 72, 2023
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever (Luke Cormican) – 81, 2023

One More Shot (James Nunn) – 2024

2023 Endy Awards

These are the 2023 Endy Awards, wherein I pretend to give out maneki-neko statues to the best movies, performances, etc of this year in film. Awards for many other years can be found in the Rankings & Awards Index. Eligibility is determined by imdb date and by whether or not I’ve seen the movie in question. Films are presented in alphabetical order, and the winners are in bold. As always, the winners and nominees are subject to change as I watch more movies. And the Endy goes to. . .


Best Picture:

1. 100 Yards
2. Afire
3. Baby Assassins: 2 Babies
4. Godzilla Minus One
5. Hidden Blade
6. Jigarthanda DoubleX
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
8. Oppenheimer
9. Rocky aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani
10. The Taste of Things

Best Director:

1. Xu Haofeng & Xu Junfeng, 100 Yards
2. Sakamoto Yugo, Baby Assassins: 2 Babies
3. Karthik Subbaraj, Jigarthanda DoubleX
4. Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
5. Karan Johar, Rocky aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani

Best Actor:

1. Lee Kang-Sheng, Absence
2. Dayo Wong, A Guilty Conscience
3. Tony Leung, Hidden Blade
4. Shah Rukh Khan, Jawan
5. Raghava Lawrence, Jigarthanda DoubleX
6. Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
7. Vijay, Leo
8. Gordon Lam, Mad Fate
9. Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
10. Ranveer Singh, Rocky aur Rani

Best Actress:

1. Paula Beer, Afire
2. Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
3. Margot Robbie, Barbie
4. Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
5. Julianne Moore, May December
6. Natalie Portman, May December
7. Ogawa An, Plastic
8. Emma Stone, Poor Things
9. Alia Bhatt, Rocky aur Rani
10. Juliette Binoche, The Taste of Things

Supporting Actor:

1. Michael Cera, Barbie
2. Glenn Howerton, Blackberry
3. Marshawn Lynch, Bottoms
4. Michael Wong, A Guilty Conscience
5. Donnie Yen, John Wick Chapter 4
6. Robert DeNiro, Killers of the Flower Moon
7. Charles Melton, May December
8. Jason Clarke, Oppenheimer
9. David Krumholtz, Oppenheimer
10. Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things

Supporting Actress:

1. Bea Hayden Kuo, 100 Yards
2. Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
3. Anne Hathaway, Eileen
4. Penelope Cruz, Ferrari
5. Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
6. Hayley Atwell, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
7. Vanessa Kirby, Napoleon
8. Jaya Bachchan, Rocky aur Rani
9. Hamabe Minami, Shin Kamen Rider
10. Bonnie Chagneau-Ravoire, The Taste of Things


Original Screenplay:

1. All Ears, Liu Jiayin
2. Hidden Blade, Cheng Er
3. Jigarthanda DoubleX, Karthik Subbaraj
4. River, Ueda Makoto
5. Rocky aur Rani, Ishita Moitra, Shashank Khaitan & Sumit Roy

Adapted Screenplay:

1. Baby Assassins: 2 Babies, Sakamoto Yugo
2. Barbie, Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach
3. Killers of the Flower Moon, Eric Roth & Martin Scorsese
4. Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan
5. The Taste of Things, Trần Anh Hùng

English Language Film:

1. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
2. Barbie (Greta Gerwig)
3. Ferrari (Michael Mann)
4. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
5. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)

Non-English Language Film:

1. 100 Yards (Xu Haofeng & Xu Junfeng)
2. Baby Assassins: 2 Babies (Sakamoto Yugo)
3. Godzilla Minus One (Yamazaki Takashi)
4. Hidden Blade (Cheng Er)
5. Rocky aur Rani (Karan Johar)

Non-Fiction Feature Film:

1. Elegies (Ann Hui)
2. The Final Game of Death (James Flower)
3. The History of the Minnesota Vikings (Jon Bois)
4. Menus plaisirs-Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman)
5. Onlookers (Kimi Takesue)

Animated Feature Film:

1. Across the Spider-verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson)
2. The Boy and the Heron (Miyazaki Hayao)
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever (Luke Cormican)

Unseen Film:

1. Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice)
2. Music (Angela Schanelec)
3. Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam (Lijo Jose Pellissery)
4. The Shadowless Tower (Zhang Lu)
5. Viduthalai Part 1 (Vetrimaaran)


Film Editing:

1. The Final Game of Death
2. Fist of the Condor
3. Hidden Blade
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
5. Oppenheimer

Cinematography:

1. Godzilla Minus One
2. Hidden Blade
3. In Water
4. Jigarthanda DoubleX
5. Rocky aur Rani

Art Direction:

1. Asteroid City
2. Barbie
3. Godzilla Minus One
4. Poor Things
5. The Taste of Things

Costume Design:

1. Barbie
2. Hidden Blade
3. Ponniyin Selvan Part 2
4. Poor Things
5. Rocky aur Rani

Make-Up and Hair:

1. Barbie
2. Jawan
3. Ponniyin Selvan Part 2
4. Poor Things
5. Rocky aur Rani


Original Score:

1. The Boy and the Heron
2. Full River Red
3. Godzilla Minus One
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
5. Oppenheimer

Adapted Score:

1. Asteroid City
2. The Final Game of Death
3. Godzilla Minus One
4. The Killer
5. Plastic

Choreography:

1. 100 Yards
3. Baby Assassins: 2 Babies
2. Fist of the Condor
2. Jawan
4. Leo

Sound:

1. Full River Red
2. Godzilla Minus One
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Oppenheimer
5. The Taste of Things

Sound Editing:

1. Godzilla Minus One
2. Jawan
3. John Wick Chapter 4
4. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
5. Pathaan

Visual Effects:

1. Godzilla Minus One
2. Poor Things
3. Raid on the Lethal Zone
4. Shin Kamen Rider
5. The Wandering Earth II

The Best Older Movies I Saw in 2023

An annual tradition here at The End, this is a look at my favorite film discoveries of the year, any movie more than a few years old that I saw for the first time in 2023. Previous years include: 2022,2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006. I watched just over 270 films this year, roughly a third of which qualified for this list. Here are 50 of my favorites.

1. School in the Crosshairs (Obayashi Nobuhiko, 1981)
2. Swordsman and Enchantress (Chor Yuen, 1978)
3. Bio-Zombie (Wilson Yip, 1998)
4. The Red Detachment of Women (Pan Wenzhan & Fu Jie, 1970)
5. Eighteen Springs (Ann Hui, 1997)
6. High Risk (Wong Jing, 1995)
7. The Returning (Jacob Cheung, 1994)
8. The Ghost Hill (Ting Shan-hsi, 1971)
9. The Imp (Dennis Yu, 1981)
10. Yellow Dragon’s Village (Sakamoto Yugo, 2021)
11. The Red Detachment of Women (Xie Jin, 1961)
12. Classic Albums: Steely Dan – Aja (Alan Lewens, 2000)
13. The Swordsman of all Swordsmen (Joseph Kuo, 1968)
14. Radioactive Dreams (Albert Pyun, 1984)
15. Living in the Material World (Martin Scorsese, 2011)
16. Take Care of My Cat (Jeong Jae-eun, 2001)
17. A Hen in the Wind (Ozu Yasujiro, 1948)
18. The Lake House (Alejandro Agresti, 2006)
19. Avengement (Jesse V. Johnson, 2019)
20. Heart of Dragon (Sammo Hung, 1985)
21. Woman Basketball Player No. 5 (Xie Jin, 1957)
22. Tower of Death (Ng See-yuen, 1981)
23. Mr. Vampire III (Ricky Lau, 1987)
24. Future Cops (Wong Jing, 1993)
25. Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Ozu Yasujiro, 1941)


26. The Debt Collector (Jesse V. Johnson, 2018)
27. Runnin’ Down a Dream (Peter Bogdanovich, 2007)
28. Boyka: Undisputed IV (Todor Chapkanov, 2016)
29. A Study in Choreography for the Camera (Maya Deren, 1945)
30. Revengeful Swordswoman (Artis Chow, 1979)
31. Close Range (Isaac Florentine, 2015)
32. The Avenging Eagle (Sun Chang, 1978)
33. Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, 2017)
34. Treasure Hunt (Jeffrey Lau, 1994)
35. Undisputed III: Redemption (Isaac Florentine, 2010)
36. Saviour of the Soul (Jeffrey Lau, Corey Yuen & David Lai, 1991)
37. Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Ozu Yasujiro, 1947)
38. Heaven and Earth (David Lai, 1994)
39. The Bravest Revenge (Chien Lung, 1970)
40. Shaolin Invincibles (Hou Cheng, 1977)
41. Savage Dog (Jesse V. Johnson, 2017)
42. A Janitor (Sakamoto Yugo, 2021)
43. Mr. Vampire Saga 4 (Ricky Lau, 1988)
44. Bend it Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha, 2002)
45. Bumblebee (Travis Knight, 2018)
46. Gen-X Cops (Benny Chan, 1999)
47. Hydra (Sonomura Kensuke, 2019)
48. Draft Day (Ivan Reitman, 2014)
49. El Gringo (Eduardo Rodriguez, 2012)
50. Undeclared War (Ringo Lam, 1990)

Books of 2023

This is a ranked list of the books I finished reading in 2023.

1. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
2. Tune In – Mark Lewisohn
3. The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones – Stanley Booth
4. The Idiot – Elif Batuman
5. Before the Storm – Rick Perlstein
6. A Snake Lies Waiting – Louis Cha
7. The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens
8. Nightfly – Peter Jones
9. Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock – Jesse Jarnow
10. Charles Dickens: An Introduction – Jenny Hartley
11. A Furious Devotion: The Authorised Story of Shane MacGowan – Richard Balls
12. Appointment with Death – Agatha Christie
13. The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions – Mark Lewisohn
14. Fight, Magic, Items – Aidan Moher

And this is a ranked list of the books I read but did not finish in 2023.

1. Against the Day – Thomas Pynchon
2. The Path to Power – Robert Caro
3. Suttree – Cormac McCarthy
4. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
5. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
6. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
7. Orientalism – Edward Said
8. American Prometheus – Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin
9. Quantum Criminals – Alex Pappademas & Joan Lemay
10. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
11. Haroun and the Sea of Stories – Salman Rushdie
12. Ozu – Donald Richie
13. Typee – Herman Melville
14. The Classical Style – Charles Rosen
15. A Heart Divided – Louis Cha
16. A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion – Steven Weisenberger
17. Arabian Nights: A Companion – Robert Irwin
18. God Only Knows – David Leaf
19. Killing Floor – Lee Child
20. Dickens – Peter Ackroyd

This Week in Rankings

Since the last update, I wrote about some more festival films at InReview Online: Following the Sound, The Breaking Ice, 100 Yards, and A Light Never Goes Out. At SeattleScreenScene I wrote about Boudica: Queen of War. Over at The Chinese Cinema, I wrote about The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell, The Imp, Gen-X Cops and Gen-Y Cops, The Mr. Vampire Sequels, The Arrow Bruce Lee Boxset, New Fist of Fury, and Baby Assassins: 2 Babies. I appeared, along with my daughter, on The Wiseman Podcast to talk about Ballet, and I recorded a commentary track for the upcoming Kino/Metrograph Bluray of Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong.

These are the movies I’ve watched or rewatched over the last few weeks, and where they place on my year-by-year rankings.

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Ozu Yasujiro) – 14, 1941
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Ozu Yasujiro) – 15, 1947
A Hen in the Wind (Ozu Yasujiro) – 23, 1948
Zulu (Cy Endfield) – 4, 1964
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez) – 1, 1966

The Big Boss (Lo Wei) – 6, 1971
The Way of the Dragon (Bruce Lee) – 15, 1972
Fist of Fury (Lo Wei) – 19, 1972
Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse) – 11, 1973
New Fist of Fury (Lo Wei) – 36, 1976
Game of Death (Robert Clouse) – 36, 1978

The Happenings (Yim Ho) – 20, 1980
The Imp (Dennis Yu) – 26, 1981
Once Bitten (Howard Storm) – 50, 1985
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes) – 30, 1986

Mr. Vampire II (Ricky Lau) – 53, 1986
Mr. Vampire 3 (Ricky Lau) – 36, 1987
Mr. Vampire Saga 4 (Ricky Lau) – 45, 1988
Vampire vs. Vampire (Lam Ching-ying) – 67, 1989

Searching for Bobby Fischer (Steven Zaillian) – 18, 1993
Heaven and Earth (David Lai) – 49, 1994
Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan) – 2, 1997
Bio Zombie (Wilson Yip) – 21, 1998

Gen-X Cops (Benny Chan) – 61, 1999
Gen-Y Cops (Benny Chan) – 50, 2000
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien) – 1, 2001
U-Man (Cheung Chi-sing) – 52, 2002

La La Land (Damien Chazelle) – 82, 2016
Murder on the Orient Express (Kenneth Branagh) – 141, 2017
In Search of Ozu (Daniel Raim) – 105, 2018
Hydra (Sonomura Kensuke) – 67, 2019
Ponniyin Selvan Part 1 (Mani Ratnam) – 3, 2022

100 Yards (Xu Haofeng and Xu Junfeng) – 1, 2023
Baby Assassins: 2 Babies (Sakamoto Yugo) – 2, 2023
The Final Game of Death (James Flower) – 5, 2023
Ponniyin Selvan Part 2 (Mani Ratnam) – 8, 2023
Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet) – 15, 2023

The Killer (David Fincher) – 20, 2023
Blackberry (Matt Johnson) – 22, 2023
The History of the Minnesota Vikings (Jon Bois) – 23, 2023
Raid on the Lethal Zone (Herman Yau, 26, 2023
Bottoms (Emma Seligman) – 27, 2023

Boudica: Queen of War (Jesse V. Johnson) – 37, 2023
The Breaking Ice (Anthony Chen) – 39, 2023
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (Davis Guggenheim) – 41, 2023
The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell (Herman Yau) – 43, 2023

The Top 309 Films of All-Time

It’s time once again for a list of my favorite movies. For the last decade or so, I’ve been creating a randomly selected Top 100 out of a much larger consideration set. This year, I tried to make a list of my favorites that was as small as possible, and ended up with 309 I simply couldn’t bear to cut. Here they are in random order.

1. Labyrinth of Cinema
2. Steamboat Bill, Jr
3. Celine and Julie Go Boating
4. An Autumn Afternoon
5. Hard-Boiled
6. Millennium Mambo
7. Moonrise Kingdom
8. Ballet
9. Vampyr
10. Red Cliff
11. The Lion in Winter
12. A Canterbury Tale
13. The Love Eterne
14. Dangerous Encounters — First Kind
15. Kicking and Screaming
16. The Grandmaster
17. Trouble in Paradise
18. Whisper of the Heart
19. Ran
20. School on Fire
21. Funny Face
22. The Day He Arrives
23. Seven Samurai
24. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
25. Modern Times


26. One Froggy Evening
27. Made in Hong Kong
28. Shanghai Express
29. I’m Not There
30. Rushmore
31. The Matrix
32. The Right Stuff
33. Yi yi
34. The Lady Eve
35. Intolerance: Love’s Struggle through the Ages
36. Only Angels Have Wings
37. Legend of the Mountain
38. Throw Down
39. In the Mood for Love
40. House
41. The Empire Strikes Back
42. The Adventures of Robin Hood
43. Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
44. 35 Shots of Rum
45. Once Upon a Time in the West
46. Casablanca
47. Nomad
48. A Matter of Life and Death
49. Dead Man
50. Fantasia


51. A Touch of Zen
52. Blind Detective
53. Dazed and Confused
54. Days of Being Wild
55. Eyes Wide Shut
56. Oki’s Movie
57. The Flowers of Shanghai
58. The Thin Red Line
59. The General
60. The Bellboy
61. Zulu
62. Bull Durham
63. Slacker
64. Jackie Brown
65. Original Cast Album: Company
66. Die Nibelungen
67. L’Avventura
68. Harlan County, USA
69. Metropolis
70. Fantastic Mr. Fox
71. Duck Soup
72. The Puppetmaster
73. Black Narcissus
74. Duvidha
75. The Midnight After


76. Inherent Vice
77. Awaara
78. Last of the Mohicans
79. Chan is Missing
80. Orlando
81. Reds
82. Heat
83. The History of the Seattle Mariners
84. Comrades: Almost a Love Story
85. Still Life
86. The Mission (1999)
87. Big Night
88. Xiao Wu
89. Johnny Guitar
90. The Last Temptation of Christ
91. Duck Amuck
92. In the Heat of the Sun
93. The New World
94. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
95. A New Leaf
96. What’s Opera, Doc?
97. The Red Shoes
98. The Terrorizers
99. Pierrot le fou
100. A City of Sadness


101. Two-Lane Blacktop
102. The Philadelphia Story
103. Wheels on Meals
104. Yearning
105. Mahanagar
106. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
107. The Searchers
108. Shanghai Blues
109. Bringing Up Baby
110. All About Eve
111. The Quiet Man
112. Howard’s End
113. All that Jazz
114. Robin and Marian
115. The Battle of Algiers
116. Mughal-e-azam
117. Les amants du Pont-Neuf
118. Hero
119. They Were Expendable
120. A Day in the Country
121. The Docks of New York
122. The Musketeers of Pig Alley
123. Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
124. The Third Man
125. Raiders of the Lost Ark


126. Touch of Evil
127. Stranger than Paradise
128. The Rules of the Game
129. Romancing in Thin Air
130. Certified Copy
131. Sunrise
132. The Miracle Fighters
133. Annie Hall
134. Dragon Gate Inn
135. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
136. A Woman is a Woman
137. Hatari!
138. Beau travail
139. Unforgiven
140. The Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter
141. The Harder They Come
142. Singin’ in the Rain
143. Exiled
144. The Shop Around the Corner
145. The Blade
146. Police Story
147. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
148. Lovers Rock
149. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
150. Punch-Drunk Love


151. Chungking Express
152. Alien
153. Hellzapoppin’
154. Airplane!
155. Fort Apache
156. Blackhat
157. SPL 2: A Time for Consequences
158. Les Vampires
159. Mulholland Dr.
160. Histoire(s) du cinema
161. Wagon Master
162. Renaldo & Clara
163. Out of the Past
164. The Last Days of Disco
165. La Commune (Paris 1871)
166. Charade
167. Peking Opera Blues
168. Bambi
169. The Bad News Bears
170. Mahjong
171. Broadcast News
172. Hana and Alice
173. Sans soleil
174. Pyaasa
175. The Age of Innocence


176. Holiday
177. Los Angeles Plays Itself
178. The Heart of the World
179. His Motorbike, Her Island
180. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
181. Metropolitan
182. Shadow Kingdom
183. The Fellowship of the Ring
184. Late Spring
185. Throne of Blood
186. Running on Karma
187. Three Colors: Blue
188. Vertigo
189. City Lights
190. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2
191. Liz and the Blue Bird
192. The Bridges of Madison County
193. Tropical Malady
194. Perceval le Gallois
195. The Princess Bride
196. Ash is Purest White
197. Anatomy of a Murder
198. Ugetsu
199. Satantango
200. Speed Racer


201. Chimes at Midnight
202. The Royal Tenenbaums
203. Glengarry Glen Ross
204. Mad Max: Fury Road
205. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
206. Playtime
207. Let the Bullets Fly
208. A Charlie Brown Christmas
209. Rear Window
210. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
211. Sparrow
212. My Fair Lady
213. The Music Room
214. La danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
215. Trainspotting
216. Dirty Ho
217. Young Mr. Lincoln
218. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
219. The BIg Sleep
220. Miller’s Crossing
221. My Neighbor Totoro
222. I am Cuba
223. Platform
224. Meek’s Cutoff
225. Citizen Kane


226. Linda Linda Linda
227. Fallen Angels
228. Miami Vice
229. Children of Paradise
230. Song of the Exile
231. Night of the Hunter
232. Only Yesterday (1991)
233. Happy Together
234. Meet Me in St. Louis
235. Broken Blossoms
236. Kiki’s Delivery Service
237. The Big Red One
238. My Left Eye Sees Ghosts
239. Excalibur
240. Green Snake
241. Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
242. Kung Fu Hustle
243. The Killer
244. Good Men, Good Women
245. Conan the Barbarian
246. A Moment of Romance
247. An American in Paris
248. Phantoms of Nabua
249. Henry V
250. It Felt Like a Kiss


251. Voyage in Italy
252. Journey to the West (2014)
253. Days of Heaven
254. Sherlock, Jr
255. Once Upon a Time in China
256. Kill Bill Vol. 1
257. Rio Bravo
258. Kiss Me Kate
259. The Big Lebowski
260. Wolf Children
261. Om Shanti Om
262. Dangerous Liaisons
263. City on Fire
264. Irma Vep
265. Morocco
266. The Time to Live, the Time to Die
267. M. Hulot’s Holiday
268. The Rocking Horsemen
269. Pulp Fiction
270. Full Contact
271. Safety Last
272. It’s a Wonderful Life
273. A Brighter Summer Day
274. Last Life in the Universe
275. Paterson


276. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
277. Apocalypse Now
278. The Story of Woo Viet
279. Do the Right Thing
280. Fire Walk with Me
281. Rouge
282. F for Fake
283. Little Women
284. The Birds
285. Ruggles of Red Gap
286. 2046
287. The Wind that Shakes the Barley
288. News from Home
289. The Green Ray
290. Ashes of Time
291. Mean Streets
292. The Band Wagon
293. Cat People
294. A Better Tomorrow
295. Oxhide II
296. The Pirate
297. One Week
298. Psycho
299. Jaws
300. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly


301. Amanda (2019)
302. Spring in a Small Town
303. Japanese Girls at the Harbor
304. Ishtar
305. North by Northwest
306. Yourself & Yours
307. Claire’s Camera
308. Baahubali
309. Early Summer

This Week in Rankings

Since the last update, I’ve covered a number of films for various film festivals: In Our Day for Cannes, Enter the Clones of Bruce for Tribeca, Vital Sign, Kitty the Killer, A Light Never Goes Out, and Nomad for the New York Asian Film Festival, Shin Kamen Rider, My Heart is that Eternal Rose, Take Care of My Cat, and River for Fantasia, and When Morning Comes I Feel Empty, Mondays, The First Slam Dunk, Convenience Story, Saga Saga, Hand, and Plastic for Japan Cuts. I also wrote about The Roundup: No Way Out at InReview Online and Barbie, Once Upon a Time in Uganda, and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny at Seattle Screen Scene.

At The Chinese Cinema, to which you can subscribe for a mere $1/month or $10/year, I wrote about the Swordsman of All Swordsmen Trilogy, Mutant Ghost Wargirl, The Sparring Partner and A Guilty Conscience, Heart of Dragon, A Janitor and Yellow Dragon’s Village, High Risk, Woman Basketball Player No. 5, Mad Fate, two versions of The Red Detachment of Women, and The Avenging Eagle.

These are the movies I’ve watched or rewatched over the last few weeks, and where they place on my year-by-year rankings.

How to Play Golf (Jack Kinney) – 15, 1944
A Study in Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren) – 13, 1945
Woman Basketball Player No. 5 (Xie Jin) – 19, 1957
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards) – 5, 1961
The Red Detachment of Women (Xie Jin) – 9, 1961

The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (Sergio Leone) – 1, 1966
The Swordsman of All Swordsmen (Joseph Kuo) – 12, 1968
The Red Detachment of Women (Pan Wenzhan & Fu Jie) – 11, 1970
The Bravest Revenge (Chien Lung) – 14, 1970
The Ghost Hill (Ting Shan-hsi) – 8, 1971
The Avenging Eagle (Sun Chang) – 19, 1978

Nomad (Patrick Tam) – 1, 1982
Repo Man (Alex Cox) – 22, 1984
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton) – 21, 1985
Heart of Dragon (Sammo Hung) – 31, 1985
My Heart is that Eternal Rose (Patrick Tam) – 9, 1989

Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner) – 39, 1990
Ballet (Frederick Wiseman) – 5, 1995
High Risk (Wong Jing) – 21, 1995
Happy Gilmore (Dennis Dugan) – 36, 1996
Take Care of My Cat (Jeong Jae-eun) – 15, 2001
The Princess Diaries (Garry Marshall) – 58, 2001

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin’ Down a Dream (Peter Bogdanovich) – 24, 2007
Transformers (Michael Bay) – 55, 2007
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay) – 83, 2009
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Michael Bay) – 65, 2011
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson) – 2, 2012
Transformers: Age of Extinction (Michael Bay) – 82, 2014

The American Ballet Theatre: A History (Ric Burns) – 143, 2015
Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan) – 85, 2017
Transformers: The Last Knight (Michael Bay) – 88, 2017
Bumblebee (Travis Knight) – 83, 2018
Extraction (Sam Hargrave) – 40, 2020

Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson) – 6, 2021
Yellow Dragon’s Village (Sakamoto Yugo) – 19, 2021
A Janitor (Sakamoto Yugo) – 50, 2021
Once Upon a Time in Uganda (Cathryne Czubek) – 55, 2021

The First Slam Dunk (Inoue Takehiko) – 19, 2022
When Morning Comes, I Feel Empty (Ichibashi Yuho) – 24, 2022
Mondays (Takebayashi Ryo) – 31, 2022
The Sparring Partner (Ho Cheuk-tin) – 42, 2022
It’s What Each Person Needs (Sophy Romvari) – 45, 2022

A Light Never Goes Out (Anastasia Tsang) – 54, 2022
Hand (Matsui Daigo) – 58, 2022
Mutant Ghost Wargirl (Liu Binjie) – 71, 2022
Convenience Story (Miki Satoshi) – 82, 2022

Asteroid City (Wes Anderson) – 1, 2023
Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan) – 3, 2023
In Our Day (Hong Sangsoo) – 5, 2023
Barbie (Greta Gerwig) – 6, 2023
Mad Fate (Soi Cheang) – 7, 2023

Plastic (Miyazaki Daisuke) – 8, 2023
A Guilty Conscience (Jack Ng) – 11, 2023
John Wick Chapter 4 (Chad Stahelski) – 12, 2023
River (Yamaguchi Junta) – 13, 2023
You Hurt My Feelings (NIcole Holofcener) – 14, 2023

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One (Christopher McQuarrie) – 16, 2023
Shin Kamen Rider (Anno Hideaki) – 17, 2023
Saga Saga (Natsuto Aimi) – 18, 2023
Past Lives (Celine Song) – 19, 2023
Extraction 2 (Sam Hargrave) – 20, 2023

The Roundup: No Way Out (Lee Sang-yong) – 22, 2023
Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (James Mangold) – 23, 2023
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers) – 24, 2023
Enter the Clones of Bruce (David Gregory) – 25, 2023
Following the Sound (Sugita Kyoshi) – 26, 2023

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein) – 27, 2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 (James Gunn) – 29, 2023
Vital Sign (Cheuk Wan-chi) – 31, 2023
Kitty the Killer (Lee Thongkham) – 33, 2023
Scream VI (Tyler Gillett & Matt Bettinelli-Olpin) – 34, 2023
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (Steven Caple) – 35, 2023

This Week in Rankings

Since the last update, I handed out the winners for the 2022 Endy Awards and announced that I’ve written an essay for the upcoming Radiance Films release of Benny Chan and Johnnie To’s A Moment of Romance. For InReview Online I wrote about Tsai Ming-liang’s Where, playing at the Prismatic Ground festival, Shinkai Makoto’s Suzume, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza and Marko Zaror’s Fist of the Condor, Veronica Ngô’s Furies, and the Berlin Film Festival’s Remembering Every Night, There is a Stone, and Absence.

Over at The Chinese Cinema, I wrote about: Swordsman and Enchantress, The Bare-Footed Kid, The Wandering Earth II, New Kung Fu Cult Master (Parts I & II), Black Cat and Black Cat II: The Assassination of President Yeltsin, Secret Police, Undeclared War, Hidden Blade, Fist of Legend, Black Mask 2: City of Masks, In Water, Snipers, The Tantana, Easy Money, Red Pirate, Peace Hotel, In the Line of Duty III and IV, The Shaolin Invincibles and Seven to One, Code of the Assassins, Saviour of the Soul I & II, Treasure Hunt, and Full River Red. Please do consider subscribing if you’re able and you like my work. It’s only $1/month or $10/year.

These are the movies I’ve watched or rewatched over the last few weeks, and where they place on my year-by-year rankings.

The Battle of Midway (John Ford) – 17, 1942
Buccaneer Bunny (Friz Freleng) – 28, 1948
Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones) – 5, 1953
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) – 5, 1972

Seven to One (Hou Cheng) – 41, 1973
The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola) – 4, 1974
Shaolin Invincibles (Hou Cheng) – 18, 1977
Swordsman and Enchantress (Chor Yuen) – 11, 1978

Radioactive Dreams (Albert Pyun) – 20, 1984
Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino) – 28, 1987
Easy Money (Stephen Shin) – 53, 1987
In the Line of Duty III (Brandy Yuen & Arthur Wong) – 35, 1988

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herek) – 15, 1989
Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir) – 26, 1989
In the Line of Duty IV (Yuen Woo-ping) – 30, 1989
A Moment of Romance (Benny Chan) – 9, 1990
I Love You to Death (Lawrence Kasdan) – 31, 1990
Undeclared War (Ringo Lam) – 57, 1990

Saviour of the Soul (Corey Yuen, Jeffrey Lau & David Lai) – 49, 1991
Black Cat (Stephen Shin) – 56, 1991
The Royal Scoundrel (Johnnie To) – 85, 1991
The Tantana (Mang Hoi) – 92, 1991

Saviour of the Soul II (Corey Yuen & David Lai) – 49, 1992
Black Cat II: The Assassination of President Yeltsin (Stephen Shin) – 72, 1992
Secret Police (Yiu Tin-hung) – 79, 1992
Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater) – 3, 1993
Future Cops (Wong Jing) – 49, 1993
A Moment of Romance II (Benny Chan) – 77, 1993
The Bare-Footed Kid (Johnnie To) – 94, 1993

Fist of Legend (Gordon Chan) – 13, 1994
The Returning (Jacob Cheung) – 26, 1994
Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee) – 28, 1994
Treasure Hunt (Jeffrey Lau) – 52, 1994
In Between (Samson Chiu, Yonfan & Sylvia Chang) – 61, 1994

Peace Hotel (Wai Ka-fai) – 35, 1995
The Phantom Lover (Ronny Yu) – 67, 1995
Beyond Hypothermia (Patrick Leung) – 23, 1996
A Moment of Romance III (Johnnie To) – 46, 1996

Eighteen Springs (Ann Hui) – 16, 1997
Walk In (Herman Yau) – 71, 1997
Red Pirate (Chen Chi-hwa) – 81, 1997
The Truman Show (Peter Weir) – 28, 1998
Classic Albums: Steely Dan – Aja (Alan Lewens) – 27, 1999

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee) – 4, 2000
Bend it Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha) – 44, 2002
Black Mask 2: City of Masks (Tsui Hark) – 50, 2002
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir) – 7, 2003
Jiang Hu (Wong Ching-po) – 43, 2004

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ken Kwapis) – 53, 2005
Undisputed II: Last Man Standing (Isaac Florentine) – 57, 2006
In Search of Mozart (Phil Grabsky) – 61, 2006
Superbad (Greg Mottola) – 45, 2007
Undisputed III: Redemption (Isaac Florentine) – 55, 2010

George Harrison: Living in the Material World (Martin Scorsese) – 14, 2011
El Gringo (Eduardo Rodriguez) – 49, 2012
John Wick (Chad Stahelski) – 40, 2014
Draft Day (Ivan Reitman) – 63, 2014

Close Range (Isaac Florentine) – 48, 2015
Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater) – 39, 2016
Boyka: Undisputed IV (Todor Chapkanov) – 55, 2016
John Wick Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski) – 54, 2017
Savage Dog (Jesse V. Johnson) – 72, 2017

The Debt Collector (Jesse V. Johnson) – 38, 2018
Ballet Now (Steven Cantor) – 55, 2018
Avengement (Jesse V. Johnson) – 32, 2019
John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum (Chad Stahelski) – 47, 2019
Murder Mystery (Kyle Newacheck) – 66, 2019
Abduction (Ernie Barbarash) – 90, 2019

Greyhound (Aaron Schneider) – 21, 2020
Debt Collectors (Jesse V. Johnson) – 30, 2020
The Great Director (Lei Xu) – 72, 2021
Where (Tsai Ming-liang) – 14, 2022
Remembering Every Night (Kiyohara Yui) – 19, 2022
Suzume (Shinkai Makoto) – 32, 2022

Furies (Veronica Ngô) – 37, 2022
New Kung Fu Cult Master (Parts I & II) (Wong Jing and Venus Keung) – 41, 2022
Snipers (Zhang Yimou) – 43, 2022
Fall (Scott Mann) – 44, 2022

Special Delivery (Park Dae-min) – 45, 2022
There is a Stone (Ota Tatsunari) – 49, 2022
Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) – 50, 2022
Song of the Assassins (Daniel Lee) – 74, 2022

In Water (Hong Sangsoo) – 1, 2023
Hidden Blade (Cheng Er) – 2, 2023
Fist of the Condor (Ernesto Díaz Espinoza) – 3, 2023
Full River Red (Zhang Yimou) – 4, 2023
Absence (Wu Lang) – 5, 2023

The Wandering Earth II (Frant Gwo) – 6, 2023
Sakra (Donnie Yen & Kam Ka-wai) – 7, 2023
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Aaron Horvath & Michael Jelenic) – 8, 2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Peyton Reed) – 9, 2023


Predictions for the 95th Annual Academy Awards

These are my Oscar predictions. I’m not sure yet if I’m going to live-tweet the Endy Award winners during the ceremony again this year. Maybe.

BEST PICTURE

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking

BEST DIRECTOR

Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Todd Field, Tár
Ruben Östlund, Triangle of Sadness

BEST ACTOR

Austin Butler, Elvis
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Bill Nighy, Living

BEST ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett, Tár
Ana de Armas, Blonde
Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
Michelle Williams, The Fablemans
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau, The Whale
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Todd Field, Tár
Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Ruben Östlund, Triangle of Sadness

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie from a story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks, Top Gun: Maverick
Kazuo Ishiguro, Living
Rian Johnson, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Edward Berger, Ian Stokell, and Lesley Paterson, All Quiet on the Western Front

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

All Quiet on the Western Front
Bardo
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tár

BEST FILM EDITING

The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther
Top Gun: Maverick

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
The Fabelmans

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Babylon
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Whale

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

All Quiet on the Western Front
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Applause – Tell It Like a Woman (Diane Warren)
Hold My Hand – Top Gun: Maverick (Lady Gaga, BloodPop)
Naatu Naatu – RRR (MM Keeravaani, Chandrabose)
Lift Me Up – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Tems, Ludwig Göransson, Rihanna and Ryan Coogler)
This Is A Life – Everything Everywhere All at Once (Ryan Lott, David Byrne, Mitski)

BEST SOUND

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Elvis
Top Gun: Maverick

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
The Sea Beast
Turning Red

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
A House Made of Splinters
Navalny

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)
Close (Belgium)
EO (Poland)
The Quiet One (Ireland)

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

The Elephant Whisperers
Haulout
How Do You Measure a Year
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Stranger at the Gate

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

An Irish Goodbye
Ivalu
Le Pupille
Night Ride
The Red Suitcase

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse
The Flying Sailor
Ice Merchants
My Year of Dicks
An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It