This Week in Rankings

Since the last update I wrote about the New Taiwanese Cinema and Hong Sangsoo’s The Woman Who Ran at The Notebook, and My Prince Edward and The Calming at InReview Online. Also, over at The Chinese Cinema, I wrote about a number of films that played at this year’s excellent San Diego Asian Film Festival.

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

Lady General Hua Mulan (Griffin Yueh Feng) – 33, 1964
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez) – 2, 1966
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (John D. Hancock) – 18, 1971
The Exorcist (William Friedkin) – 18, 1973

Black Christmas (Bob Clark) – 10, 1974
Deathdream (Bob Clark) – 18, 1974
Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May) – 8, 1976
Carrie (Brian De Palma) – 14, 1976
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman) – 14, 1978

Real Life (Albert Brooks) – 11, 1979
Salem’s Lot (Tobe Hooper) – 25, 1979
Friday the 13th (Sean S. Cunningham) – 37, 1980
Chan is Missing (Wayne Wang) – 3, 1982
The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg) – 15, 1983

Lost in America (Albert Brooks) – 13, 1985
Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola) – 16, 1986
The Name of the Rose (Jean-Jacques Annaud) – 34, 1986
Comic Book Confidential (Ron Mann ) – 58, 1988
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg) – 32, 1989

The Hunt for Red October (John McTiernan) – 13, 1990
Pump Up the Volume (Allan Moyle) – 18, 1990
The Addams Family (Barry Sonnenfeld) – 33, 1991
Babe (Chris Noonan) – 41, 1995

The Rock (Michael Bay) – 29, 1996
Ringu (Nakata Hideo) – 22, 1998
Battle Royale (Fukasaku Kinji) – 23, 2000
Scooby-Doo (Raja Gosnell) – 38, 2002
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (Raja Gosnell) – 57, 2004

Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan) – 43, 2005
Borat (Larry Charles) – 31, 2006
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) – 60, 2008
Unstoppable (Tony Scott) – 9, 2010
The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan) – 53, 2012

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Zack Snyder) – 94, 2016
Suicide Squad (David Ayer) – 133, 2016
Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins) – 145, 2017
Aquaman (James Wan) – 79, 2018

My Prince Edward (Norris Wong) – 34, 2019
Murder Mystery (Kyle Newacheck) – 58, 2019
Archiving Time (Lu Yuan-chi) – 73, 2019

The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sangsoo) – 2, 2020
Days (Tsai Ming-liang) – 4, 2020
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke) – 6, 2020

Birds of Prey (Cathy Yan) – 8, 2020
Hubie Halloween (Steven Brill) – 9, 2020
The Calming (Song Fang) – 10, 2020
Emma. (Autumn de Wilde) – 11, 2020

The Paper Tigers (Bao Tran) – 12, 2020
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Jason Wollner) – 13, 2020
Class Action Park (Seth Porges) – 17, 2020
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin) – 18, 2020

A Top 100 Films of All-Time

It is time once again for a Top 100 Films of All-Time list. As I’ve done for the last few years, the first ten spots on the list comprise a hypothetical Sight & Sound-style ballot. We had an on-going project related to this on The George Sanders Show, that is now based at Seattle Screen Scene. This top ten is presented here in chronological order. The remaining 90 films were randomly selected from a consideration set of 402 films, which excluded films that made my Top Tens in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

  1. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
  2. Mughal-e-azam (K. Asif, 1960)
  3. Yearning (Naruse Mikio, 1964)
  4. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez, 1966)
  5. Night of the Living Dead (George Romero, 1968)
  6. The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986)
  7. Om Shanti Om (Farrah Khan, 2007)
  8. Dusty Stacks of Mom (Jodie Mack, 2013)
  9. The Midnight After (Fruit Chan, 2014)
  10. Liz and the Blue Bird (Yamada Naoko, 2018)



  11. Steamboat Bill, Jr (Charles Resiner, 1928)
  12. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
  13. Miller’s Crossing (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1990)
  14. The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925)
  15. Safety Last! (Sam Taylor & Fred C. Newmeyer, 1923)
  16. Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
  17. Dirty Ho (Lau Kar-leung, 1979)
  18. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
  19. The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978)
  20. The Day He Arrives (Hong Sangsoo, 2011)



  21. Awaara (Raj Kapoor, 1951)
  22. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)
  23. Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To, 2012)
  24. 7 Women (John Ford, 1966)
  25. Sparrow (Johnnie To, 2008)
  26. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936)
  27. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
  28. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
  29. The Dawn Patrol (Howard Hawks, 1930)
  30. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946)



  31. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
  32. Little Women (Greta Gerwig, 2019)
  33. Wagon Master (John Ford, 1950
  34. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962)
  35. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent 1974)
  36. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976)
  37. The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman, 1983)
  38. School on Fire (Ringo Lam, 1988)
  39. Japanese Girls at the Harbor (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1933)
  40. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946)



  41. Histoire(s) du cinèma (Jean-Luc Godard, 1998)
  42. Welcome to LA (Alan Rudolph, 1976)
  43. Choose Me (Alan Rudolph, 1984)
  44. Reds (Warren Beatty, 1981)
  45. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
  46. Heaven’s Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980)
  47. Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)
  48. Fantasia (Ben Sharpsteen, et al, 1940)
  49. The Pan-American Exposition By Night (Edwin S. Porter, 1901)
  50. Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948)



  51. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
  52. Sans soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
  53. Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)
  54. All that Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
  55. New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara, 1998)
  56. Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman, 2016)
  57. Hanagatami (Obayashi Nobuhiko, 2017)
  58. Les amants du pont-neuf (Leos Carax, 1991)
  59. The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell, 1972)
  60. Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison, 2016)



  61. Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan, 1997)
  62. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2005)
  63. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
  64. La danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (Frederick Wiseman, 2009)
  65. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
  66. Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985)
  67. How Green was My Valley (John Ford, 1941)
  68. Mahjong (Edward Yang, 1996)
  69. Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer, 1983)
  70. Kid Auto Races at Venice (Henry Lehrman, 1914)



  71. Legend of the Mountain (King Hu, 1979)
  72. Maison du bonheur (Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2017)
  73. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
  74. My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, 2002)
  75. Holiday (George Cukor, 1938)
  76. Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1974)
  77. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
  78. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
  79. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
  80. It Felt Like a Kiss (Adam Curtis, 2009)



  81. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai, 2004)
  82. Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
  83. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)
  84. Xiao Wu (Jia Zhangke, 1998)
  85. The History of the Seattle Mariners (Jon Bois, 2020)
  86. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Gore Verbinski, 2006)
  87. The Immigrant (Charles Chaplin, 1917)
  88. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)
  89. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, 2016)
  90. All that Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955)



  91. Throw Down (Johnnie To, 2004)
  92. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)
  93. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993)
  94. Die Nibelungen (Fritz Lang, 1924)
  95. Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai, 1997)
  96. The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood, 1995)
  97. Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles, 1955)
  98. Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch, 1933)
  99. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996)
  100. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)

This Week in Rankings

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Over the last couple of months I haven’t done much of anything. Mostly I’ve just been trying to enjoy watching movies without having to write about them. I did my annual best of the year so far lists, and I also reviewed Special Actors for InReview as part of their Japan Cuts coverage, but otherwise, I haven’t had anything published yet. Expect to see something in the next few days though.

If you like what I do here or at Seattle Screen Scene, The Chinese Cinema, or anywhere else, please consider donating at my kofi page. Every little bit helps.

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 Maltese Falcon (John Huston) – 5, 1941
Klute (Alan J. Pakula) – 8, 1971
Night Moves (Arthur Penn) – 11, 1975
Superman (Richard Donner) – 12, 1978
Game of Death (Robert Clouse) – 18, 1978
Superman II (Richard Lester) – 36, 1980

In Our Time (Tao Te-chen, Edward Yang, Ko I-chen, & Chang Yi) – 18, 1982
Growing Up (Chen Kunhou) – 24, 1983
The Sandwich Man (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Zeng Zhuangxiang, & Wan Jen) – 29, 1983
Wheels on Meals (Sammo Hung) – 2, 1984
The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien) – 2, 1985
Taipei Story (Edward Yang) – 5, 1985

The Terrorizers (Edward Yang) – 2, 1986
Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien) – 17, 1986
Where’s Officer Tuba? (Philip Chan & Ricky Lau) – 62, 1986
A Chinese Ghost Story (Ching Siu-tung) – 14, 1987
Iron Angels (Teresa Woo) – 49, 1987
The Haunted Cop Shop (Jeffrey Lau) – 64, 1987

On the Run (Alfred Cheung) – 20, 1988
I Love Maria (David Chung) – 68, 1988
The Iceman Cometh (Clarence Fok) – 43, 1989
The Blonde Fury (Mang Hoi) – 54, 1989
Presumed Innocent (Alan J. Pakula) – 19, 1990

A Chinese Ghost Story II (Ching Siu-tung) – 49, 1990
Sex and Zen (Michael Mak) – 62, 1991
A Chinese Ghost Story III (Ching Siu-tung) – 73, 1991
The Player (Robert Altman) – 19, 1992
My Cousin Vinny (Jonathan Lynn) – 38, 1992

The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood) – 9, 1995
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (John McTiernan) – 29, 1995
Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma) – 17, 1998
Twilight (Robert Benton) – 43, 1998
Jackie Chan: My Stunts (Jackie Chan) – 57, 1999

Our Time, Our Story (Hsiao Chu-chen) – 21, 2002
New Blood (Soi Cheang) – 26, 2002
Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75 (Derek Burbidge) – 15, 2005
Wings for Wheels (Thom Zimny) – 20, 2005
Dream Home (Pang Ho-cheung) – 19, 2010
The Promise (Thom Zimny) – 59, 2010

World of Ursula K. Le Guin (Arwen Curry) – 119, 2018
Special Actors (Ueda Shinichirou) – 93, 2019
Greyhound (Aaron Schneider) – 5, 2020
Hamilton (Thomas Kail) – 9, 2020
Palm Springs (Max Barbakow) – 10, 2020


The Best Movies of 2020 (So Far)

 

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We are now halfway through the year and as has become an annual tradition here at The End, it’s time to look back at the best movies of the year so far. As I discussed in the 2013 halfway post, the consensus movie-dating system is nonsensical and posits New York as the center of the universe. Far more logical (and much easier to use) is a system reliant on imdb’s dating system, which locates a film in whatever year it first played for an audience. That’s what we use here for all Rankings & Awards as it’s the most fair to all eras and areas. (A dating system reliant on playing in a certain locality I think can be valuable for a publication that is geographically specific, like a local newspaper or website. But here at The End, we have a global reach.)

A by-product of the system is that a number of films that first go into wide-release in any given year actually had their premiere in the year before. A number of the films on many critics’ halfway-point lists will include these films, films that find their proper home here on my 2019 list. And so here we have two lists: the Best Movies of 2020, following the strict imdb dating system, and the Best 2019 Movies of 2020, which includes those films from last year (and a couple from years before that) that you might find on a more chronologically-illogical list. On this list I’m including anything that didn’t get a theatrical release but was made available on VOD and is therefore eligible for this year’s Seattle Film Critics Awards. For obvious reasons, the New York theatrical release standard is even more nonsensical this year. I also have a third list, Best Unreleased Movies of 2019, of last year’s films that have yet to see a New York release and therefore don’t (yet) exist by the standards of most critics. And there’s a fourth list, a halfway version of my annual Best Older Movies list, counting the top movies I saw for the first time this year that are more than a few years old.

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The Best Movies of 2020 (So Far)

1. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sangsoo)
2. The History of the Seattle Mariners (Jon Bois)
3. Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)
4. We Have Boots (Evans Chan)
5. Birds of Prey (Cathy Yan)
6. New York New York (Spike Lee)
7. Be Water (Bao Nguyen)
8. The Cube Phantom (Alan Lau)
9. Enter the Fat Dragon (Wong Jing & Tanigaki Kenji)
10. Long Gone Summer (AJ Schnack)

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The Best 2019 Movies of 2020 (So Far)

1. Yourself and Yours (Hong Sangsoo)
2. Fourteen (Dan Sallitt)
3. Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan)
4. Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
5. Ride Your Wave (Masaaki Yuasa)
6. The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack)
7. Jallikattu (Lijo Jose Pellissery)
8. Hill of Freedom (Hong Sangsoo)
9. I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhangke)
10. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sangsoo)
11. MS Slavic 7 (Sofia Bohdanowicz & Deragh Campbell)
12. The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan)
13. Weathering With You (Makoto Shinkai)
14. The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu)
15. Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
16. Disappearance at Clifton Hill (Albert Shin)
17. House of Hummingbird (Kim Bora)

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The Best Unreleased Films of 2019 (So Far)

1. Labyrinth of Cinema (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
2. Chasing Dream (Johnnie To)
3. Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
4. Jeux de plage (Aimi Natsuto)
5. A Voluntary Year (Henner Winckler & Ulrich Köhler)
6. Heart (Jeong Gayoung)
7. Demolition Girl (Matsugami Genta)
8. The Bob Emergency (Jon Bois)
9. To Live To Sing (Johnny Ma)
10. Wet Season (Anthony Chen)

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2020 Discoveries (So Far)

1. Mughal-e-Azam (K. Asif, 1960)
2. The Rocking Horsemen (Obayashi Nobuhiko, 1992)
3. Om Shanti Om (Farah Khan, 2007)
4. Duvidha (Mani Kaul, 1973)
5. Mother India (Mehboob Khan, 1957)
6. Lagaan (Ashutosh Gowariker, 2001)
7. The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell, 1972)
8. Original Cast Album: Company (DA Pennebaker, 1970)
9. Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (V. Shantaram, 1955)
10. Dil Se.. (Mani Ratnam, 1998)
11. Welcome to LA (Alan Rudolph, 1976)
12. Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (Kundan Shah, 1994)
13. Eega (SS Rajamouli, 2012)
14. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (Itō Shunya, 1972)
15. Deewar (Yash Chopra, 1975)
16. Tamasha (Imtiaz Ali, 2015)
17. Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (Itō Shunya, 1972)
18. The Crazies (George Romero, 1973)
19. Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (Hasebe Yasuharu, 1970)
20. Cageman (Jacob Cheung, 1992)
21. Aag (Raj Kapoor, 1948)
22. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (Aditya Chopra, 1995)
23. Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter (Hasebe Yasuharu, 1970)
24. Devdas (PC Barua, 1936)
25. Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss (Hasebe Yasuharu, 1970)
26. Main Hoon Na (Farah Khan, 2004)
27. Ordinary Heroes (Ann Hui, 1999)
28. Ram Jaane (Rajiv Mehra, 1995)
29. Amrapali (Lekh Tandon, 1966)
30. Fan ((Maneesh Sharma, 2016)
31. Gangs (Lawrence Ah Mon, 1988)
32. emale Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (Itō Shunya, 1973)
33. Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher, 1995)
34. Enthiran (S. Shankar, 2010)
35. The Delinquent (Chang Cheh & Kuei Chih-hung, 1973)

This Week in Rankings

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Since the last update I’ve been a bit more productive, reviewing Johnnie To’s Chasing Dream at Mubi, Tsai Ming-liang’s Journey to the West at InReview Online, and Obayashi Nobuhiko’s Labyrinth of Cinema and Nabwana IGG’s Crazy World at Frame.land. But we’re still locked up in quarantine and I’ve spent most of my movie-watching time catching up on things I’ve not had time for over the last few years, like a bunch of Indian movies, Pirates and Batman movies, and a whole lot of Kaji Maiko and Alan Rudolph.

If you like what I do here or at Seattle Screen Scene, The Chinese Cinema, or anywhere else, please consider donating at my kofi page. Every little bit helps.

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

College Hounds (Zion Myers & Jules White) – 18, 1929
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa) – 1, 1954
East of Eden (Elia Kazan) – 30, 1955
Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger) – 2, 1959
Amrapali (Lekh Tandon) – 15, 1966

Original Cast Album: Company (DA Pennebaker) – 7, 1970
Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (Hasebe Yasuharu) – 10, 1970
Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter (Hasebe Yasuharu) – 12, 1970
Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss (Hasebe Yasuharu) – 13, 1970
Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo (Fujita Toshiya) – 16, 1970

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart) – 18, 1971
Stray Cat Rock: Beat ’71 (Fujita Toshiya) – 20, 1971
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (Itō Shunya) – 11, 1972
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (Itō Shunya) – 13, 1972
The Greenhouse Jungle (Boris Sagal) – 24, 1972

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (Itō Shunya) – 17, 1973
Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701’s Grudge Song (Hasebe Yasuharu) – 22, 1973
Welcome to LA (Alan Rudolph) – 6, 1976
Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan) – 28, 1981
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis) – 13, 1985

The Moderns (Alan Rudolph) – 8, 1988
Batman (Tim Burton) – 19, 1989
Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty) – 20, 1990
Love at Large (Alan Rudolph) – 44, 1990
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (Jim Abrahams) – 50, 1990

The Rocking Horsemen (Obayashi Nobuhiko) – 6, 1992
Batman Returns (Tim Burton) – 15, 1992
Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (Kundan Shah) – 20, 1994
Mrs. Parker & the Vicious Circle (Alan Rudolph) – 24, 1994
Ram Jaane (Rajiv Mehra) – 34, 1995

Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher) – 37, 1995
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: The Complex Sessions (Jonathan Demme) – 48, 1995
Batman & Robin (Joel Schumacher) – 67, 1997
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (Karan Johar) – 20, 1998
Love on a Diet (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) – 21, 2001

Kabhi Kushi Kabhie Gham (Karan Johar) – 33, 2001
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Chris Columbus) – 37, 2001
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski) – 13, 2003
Love for All Seasons (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) – 36, 2003
Throw Down (Johnnie To) – 2, 2004

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Gore Verbinski) – 6, 2006
Zodiac (David Fincher) – 7, 2007
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Gore Verbinski) – 13, 2007
The Rebel (Charlie Nguyen) – 32, 2007
Clash (Le Thanh Son) – 36, 2009

Enthiran (S. Shankar) – 37, 2010
Who Killed Captain Alex? (Nabwana IGG) – 42, 2010
Tees Maar Khan (Farah Khan) – 69, 2010
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Rob Marshall) – 70, 2011
Chennai Express (Rohit Shetty) – 48, 2013

Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang) – 5, 2014
Crazy World (Nabwana IGG) – 79, 2014
Tamasha (Imtiaz Ali) – 17, 2015
Piku (Shoojit Sircar) – 55, 2015
Fan (Maneesh Sharma) – 28, 2016

Bad Black (Nabwana IGG) – 30, 2016
Dangal (Nitesh Tiwari) – 53, 2016
20th Century Women (Mike Mills) – 80, 2016
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg) – 160, 2017

Labyrinth of Cinema (Obayashi Nobuhiko) – 3, 2019
Chasing Dream (Johnnie To) – 8, 2019
Jallikattu (Lijo Jose Pellissery) – 11, 2019
Heart (Jeong Gayoung) – 26, 2019
The Bob Emergency (Jon Bois) – 40, 2019
Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Richard Linklater) – 51, 2019

The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sangsoo) – 1, 2020
The History of the Seattle Mariners (Jon Bois) – 2, 2020
Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee) – 3, 2020
New York New York (Spike Lee) – 6, 2020
Be Water (Bao Nguyen) – 7, 2020
Long Gone Summer (AJ Schnack) – 10, 2020

Rankings: 2020-2029

2020:
2020 Endy Awards

1. The History of the Seattle Mariners
2. Lovers Rock
3. Septet: the Story of Hong Kong
4. Wife of a Spy
5. Undine
6. Days
7. Mangrove
8. The Woman Who Ran
9. Her Socialist Smile
10. Still Processing
11. Hold Me Back
12. Da 5 Bloods
13. Inside the Red Brick Wall
14. Tesla
15. We Have Boots
16. Monster Hunter
17. City Hall
18. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
19. Keep Rolling
20. Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes
21. Greyhound
22. The Cure
23. Shock Wave 2
24. The Calming
25. Hubie Halloween
26. Tenet
27. Point and Line to Plane
28. My Missing Valentine
29. Kung Fu Stuntmen
30. Debt Collectors
31. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
33. The Invisible Man
34. One Second
35. Hand Rolled Cigarette
36. World of Tomorrow 3
37. Hopper/Welles
38. Lost Bullet
39. Love Aaj Kal
40. Extraction
41. Crazy Samurai Musashi
42. The Eight Hundred
43. The Disciple
44. Love After Love
45. 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8
46. Birds of Prey
47. Minari
48. Demon Slayer: Mugen Train
49. Emma.
50. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
51. Another Round
52. American Utopia
53. Nomadland
54. Hamilton
55. Leap
56. The Paper Tigers
57. Palm Springs
58. The Rescue
59. Inventing the Future
60. MLK/FBI
61. Miss Agent
62. Sonic the Hedgehog
63. Mank
64. France Against the Robots
65. Promising Young Woman
66. October Rumbles
67. Class Action Park
68. The New Mutants
69. The Cube Phantom
70. Be Water
71. New York New York
72. Visit
73. Long Gone Summer
74. Trial of the Chicago 7
75. Wonder Woman 1984
76. Enter the Fat Dragon

2021:
2021 Endy Awards

1. The Heike Story
2. Drive My Car
3. Licorice Pizza
4. Shadow Kingdom
5. A New Old Play
6. Baby Assassins
7. In Front of Your Face
8. Karnan
9. Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched
10. West Side Story
11. Benedetta
12. The Night
13. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
14. Get Back
15. The French Dispatch
16. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
17. Belle
18. A Writer’s Odyssey
19. Limbo
20. Yellow Dragon’s Village
21. Nothing Serious
22. The Velvet Underground
23. Inu-Oh
24. Matrix Resurrections
25. One Shot
26. The History of the Atlanta Falcons
27. Evangelion 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time
28. Can’t Get You Out of My Head
29. Drifting Petals
30. Introduction
31. Old
32. Cliff Walkers
33. Sycorax
34. Just Remembering
35. Long Promised Road
36. Yanagawa
37. Dune
38. Hell Hath No Fury
39. The Green Knight
40. Queen of Triads
41. Bergman Island
42. The Falls
43. The Power of the Dog
44. Justice League
45. Coffin Homes
46. The Good Woman of Sichuan
47. The Sniper
48. The Worst Person in the World
49. Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
50. Judas and the Black Messiah
51. Venom: Let There Be Carnage
52. The Battle at Lake Changjin
53. The Voyeurs
54. Kate
55. A Janitor
56. The Witches of the Orient
57. The Last Duel
58. Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas
59. The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill
60. Fight Against Evil
61. Cry Macho
62. Once Upon a Time in Uganda
63. Malignant
64. Pompo: The Cinephile
65. The Card Counter
66. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
67. Muppets Haunted Mansion
68. Mad God
69. Spider-Man: No Way Home
70. JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass
71. The Suicide Squad
72. Schemes in Antiques
73. Eternals
74. Raging Fire
75. Disney’s FastPass: A Complicated History
76. The Many Saints of Newark
77. No Time to Die
78. Nightmare Alley
79. The Mole Song: Final
80. Queenpins
81. The Great Director
82. The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Dragon Tamer
83. King Richard
84. Kid 90
85. Black Widow
86. Cloudy Mountain
87. Who Are You, Charlie Brown?
88. New York Ninja
89. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
90. As We Like It
91. CODA
92. Don’t Look Up
93. House of Gucci
94. Eyes of Tammy Faye
95. Framing Britney Spears
96. Gunpowder Milkshake
97. Woodstock ’99: Peace Love and Rage

2022:

2022 Endy Awards

1. Showing Up
2. Hundreds of Beavers
3. The Novelist’s Film
4. Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1
5. The Fabelmans
6. Three Thousand Years of Longing
7. Walk Up
8. Trenque Lauquen
9. Shin Ultraman
10. Captain Ahab: The Story of Dave Stieb
11. Detective vs. Sleuths
12. Decision to Leave
13. The King of Wuxia
14. Apollo 10 1/2
15. Avatar: The Way of Water
16. Tár
17. Where
18. RRR
19. Nope
20. Thirteen Lives
21. Section 1
22. The First Slam Dunk
23. Remembering Every Night
24. The Battle at Lake Changjin II
25. Armageddon Time
26. Sayonara, Girls.
27. Crimes of the Future
28. White Noise
29. When Morning Comes I Feel Empty
30. Blue Island
31. The Banshees of Inishirin
32. Ambulance
33. Prey
34. Turn Every Page
35. Mondays
36. Fire of Love
37. How to Score Ten Runs in the First Inning and Lose
38. Vikram
39. Where the Wind Blows
40. Suzume
41. Hustle
42. Elvis
43. Confess, Fletch
44. The Munsters
45. Furies
46. Disney Channel’s Theme: A History Mystery
47. The Sparring Partner
48. The Eternal Daughter
49. The Princess
50. It’s What Each Person Needs
51. New Kung Fu Cult Master (Parts I & II)
52. Dead for a Dollar
53. Snipers
54. Fall
55. Special Delivery
56. The Roundup
57. Lost Bullet 2
58. Eye for an Eye: The Blind Swordsman
59. Bad City
60. Next Sohee
61. Enter the Girl Dragon
62. A Light Never Goes Out
63. There is a Stone
64. Lynch/Oz
65. Everything Everywhere All at Once
66. Eo
67. Hand
68. The Killer
69. Top Gun: Maverick
70. Female Special Police Officer
71. Confession
72. Emily the Criminal
73. Broker
74. The Woman King
75. Don’t Worry Darling
76. Glass Onion
77. The Northman
78. Warriors of Future
79. Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
80. Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday
81. Mutant Ghost Wargirl
82. The Batman
83. The People You’re Paying to Be in Shorts
84. Barbarian
85. Day Shift
86. Queen of Triads 2
87. Death on the Nile
88. The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks
89. We Are Still Here
90. George Carlin’s American Dream
91. Hansan: Rising Dragon
92. Werewolf By Night
93. The Menu
94. Convenience Story
95. My Dear Bodyguard
96. Song of the Assassins
97. Downton Abbey: A New Era
98. Thor: Love and Thunder
99. Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me
100. I Want You Back
101. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules
102. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
103. Scream
104. Wolf Pack
105. Legendary in Action!
106. Morbius

2023:
2023 Endy Awards

1. Oppenheimer
2. Kubi
3. Rocky aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani
4. Baby Assassins: 2 Babies
5. 100 Yards
6. Jigarthanda DoubleX
7. Evil Does Not Exist
8. The Taste of Things
9. Godzilla Minus One
10. Hidden Blade
11. Afire
12. Killers of the Flower Moon
13. In Water
14. Kyrie
15. The Boy and the Heron
16. River
17. Menus Plaisirs-Les Troisgros
18. Fallen Leaves
19. Jawan
20. Fist of the Condor
21. The Final Game of Death
22. The Sniper: King of Snipers
23. All Ears
24. Mad Fate
25. Ponniyin Selvan Part 2
26. In Our Day
27. Plastic
28. Sleep
29. Full River Red
30. Asteroid City
31. A Guilty Conscience
32. Raid on the Lethal Zone
33. Only the River Flows
34. Barbie
35. Woman of the Hour
36. Ferrari
37. May December
38. Poor Things
39. Anatomy of a Fall
40. Perfect Days
41. John Wick Chapter 4
42. Hit Man
43. You Hurt My Feelings
44. The Killer
45. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
46. Ballerina
47. Absence
48. The Lyricist Wannabe
49. Death Notice
50. Blackberry
51. Leo
52. Onlookers
53. The Holdovers
54. The History of the Minnesota Vikings
55. Pathaan
56. Sound! Euphonium: Ensemble Contest
57. Shin Kamen Rider
58. Silent Night
59. Saga Saga
60. Art College 1994
61. Enter the Clones of Bruce
62. Following the Sound
63. Bottoms
64. A Haunting in Venice
65. Extraction 2
66. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
67. Moscow Mission
68. Shadow of Fire
69. Napoleon
70. Eileen
71. Past Lives
72. The Zone of Interest
73. No Hard Feelings
74. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
75. The Wandering Earth II
76. The Roundup: No Way Out
77. Boudica: Queen of War
78. Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny
79. Between the White Key and the Black Key
80. Fight Against Evil 2
81. The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell
82. The Breaking Ice
83. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse
84. Anyone But You
85. I Did It My Way
86. Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
87. Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3
88. Queen of Triads 3
89. Self-Reliance
90. Maestro
91. The Marvels
92. The Pigeon Tunnel
93. The Super Marios Bros. Movie
94. Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
95. Sakra
96. Vital Sign
97. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
98. Scream VI
99. Kitty the Killer
100: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
101. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever

2024:
2024 Endy Awards

1. Furiosa
2. Eephus
3. Baby Assassins Everyday!
4. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
5. Pavements
6. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
7. Henry Fonda for President
8. She Taught Me Serendipity
9. Broken Rage
10. The Shadow Strays
11. Baby Assassins: Nice Days
12. Chime
13. Juror #2
14. 11 Rebels
15. Black Dog
16. Cloud
17. The Gesuidouz
18. A Traveler’s Needs
19. Look Back
20. Bushido
21. Megalopolis
22. Caught by the Tides
23. By the Stream
24. God Hates a Coward
25. I Saw the TV Glow
26. Abiding Nowhere
27. The Colors Within
28. The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel
29. Ghost Killer
30. Tomahawk Clouds
31. Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot
32. Here
33. The Killer
34. Vengeance Most Fowl
35. The Kadarius Toney Fan Club
36. Anora
37. Desert of Namibia
38. Trap
39. Escape from the 21st Century
40. Reform!
41. Second Life
42. Crisis Negotiators
43. Dead Talents Society
44. See You Tomorrow
45. Dahomey
46. Drive-Away Dolls
47. Hideko Akabane’s Bodyguards
48. The Fall Guy
49. That’s Not Entirely Accurate
50. One More Shot
51. The Bodyguard
52. Blade of Fury
53. Possession Street
54. Made in England
55. Eye for an Eye 2
56. Friendship
57. Nothing Can’t Be Undone By a Hotpot
58. Veteran 2: I, the Executioner
59. Challengers
60. Serpent’s Path
61. The Last Dance
62. Dune 2
63. Daughter’s Daughter
64. The History of Slipping on Banana Peels
65. Twisters
66. Drunken Prodigy
67. Conclave
68. Would You Like to Buy a Mattress?
69. A Complete Unknown
70. Striking Rescue
71. The Prosecutor
72. Alien: Romulus
73. Wild Agent 2: Peach Assassination
74. The Art of the Calendar
75. The Brutalist
76. Customs Frontline
77. Shell Girl
78. The Roundup: Punishment
79. Black Storm
80. Rainier: A Beer Odyssey
81. Sniper 2
82. Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary
83. Cunk on Life
84. Once Upon a Time in China
85. The Captives
86. Nosferatu
87. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
88. Hot Blooded Angel
89. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
90. Steve!
91. Jim Henson Idea Man
92. Treasure Hunting
93. Civil War
94. Deadpool & Wolverine
95. Brats
96. An Arrow through the Heart
97. Madame Web
98. SWAT Angels in Mission

2025:

1. Rewrite
2. CITY the Animation
3. One Battle After Another
4. Sinners
5. Nemurubaka
6. Nouvelle Vague
7. The Mastermind
8. Lone Samurai
9. Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants
10. Resurrection
11. Blue Fight
12. The Sixth Robber
13. Shifty
14. In the Lost Lands
15. Muromachi Outsiders
16. WTO/99
17. Ella McCay
18. Videoheaven
19. Bullet Train Explosion
20. Red Sonja
21. Fool Time
22. I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn
23. Blue Moon
24. Deep in the Mountains
25. Tunnels: Sun in the Dark
26. Honey Don’t
27. Fish, Fists, and Ambergris
28. Girl on Edge
29. Amoeba
30. Ordinary Life
31. Water Sports
32. Two Seasons, Two Strangers
33. The Forbidden City
34. Thug Life
35. The Phoenician Scheme
36. Sham
37. Glass Heart
38. Predator: Killer of Killers
39. Girls on Wire
40. Dongji Rescue
41. Superman
42. Morte Cucina
43. Avatar: Fire and Ash
44. Through Your Eyes
45. Diablo
46. All You Need is Kill
47. A House of Dynamite
48. It Was Just an Accident
49. A Useful Ghost
50. Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery
51. The Shadow’s Edge
52. Scorigami
53. Back to the Past
54. If I had Legs I’d Kick You
55. Predator: Badlands
56. Peter Hujar’s Day
57. Invincible Swordsman
58. Train Dreams
59. Ballerina
60. A Gilded Game
61. Pee-wee as Himself
62. Ali
63. 28 Years Later
64. Weapons
65. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
66. Prisoner of War
67. The Legend of Condor Hero: What is Love
68. Frankenstein
69. Wake Up Dead Man
70. Fantastic Four
71. The Finder
72. Informant
73. We Beat the Dream Team
74. Happy Gilmore 2
75. Mr. Scorsese
76. Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
77. Highest 2 Lowest
78. Billy Joel: And So It Goes
79. Holy Night: Demon Hunters
80. Becoming Led Zeppelin
81. Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
82. Smashing Frank
83. Final Destination: Bloodlines
84. A Very Straight Neck
85. The Stone
86. Dear Stranger
87. A South Facing Window
88. Behind the Shadows
89. Correct Me If I’m Wrong
90. John Candy: I Like Me
91. Thunderbolts
92. The Prosecutor
93. Last Bullet
94. The Old Woman with the Knife
95. Under Current
96. So Beautiful Wonderful and Lovely
97. The Old Way
98. Affinity
99. Oh. What. Fun.
100. Eddington
101. The Red Banca
102. Another Simple Favor
103. Captain America: Brave New World

2026:

1. Blades of the Guardians
2. The Sheep Detectives
3. All the Lovers in the Night
4. The Great Money Robbery
5. The Fly: Abyss of Mutation

This Week in Rankings

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Since the last update I haven’t done much of anything. It was on March 14th, school was shut down the day before and I’ve been trapped here with my kids ever since then, and will be for the foreseeable future. So while I have watched some movies, the only review I’ve published in the last several weeks was on Sound! Euphonium: The Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day. Otherwise I’ve just been making my kids watch classic Hollywood movies while I watch a bunch of classic Bollywood movies I really should have seen by now (so far I’ve almost doubled the number of Indian movies I’ve seen in my life, I’ve got a running list of them at letterboxd of course.

If you like what I do here or at Seattle Screen Scene, The Chinese Cinema, or anywhere else, please consider donating at my kofi page. Every little bit helps.

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

Safety Last! (Sam Taylor & Fred C. Newmeyer) – 2, 1923
Metropolis (Fritz Lang) – 2, 1927
Devdas (PC Barua) – 4, 1936
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz) – 1, 1942
Kismet (Gyan Mukherjee) – 18, 1943

Aag (Raj Kapoor) – 6, 1948
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford) – 4, 1949
A Star is Born (George Cukor) – 11, 1954
Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (V. Shantaram) – 7, 1955
Mother India (Mehboob Khan) – 6, 1957

North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock) – 2, 1959
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder) – 13, 1959
Mughal-e-azam (K. Asif) – 2, 1960
A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester) – 14, 1964

Duvidha (Mani Kaul) – 7, 1973
Deewar (Yash Chopra) – 8, 1975
Day of the Dead (George Romero) – 13, 1985
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner) – 3, 1987

Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg) – 23, 1993
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (Aditya Chopra) – 27, 1995
Dil Se.. (Mani Ratnam) – 13, 1998
The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson) – 3, 2001
Lagaan (Ashutosh Gowariker) – 5, 2001

The Two Towers (Peter Jackson) – 8, 2002
The Return of the King (Peter Jackson) – 11, 2003
Madness in the Desert (Satyajit Bhatkal) – 32, 2003
Main Hoon Na (Farah Khan) – 19, 2004

Miami Vice (Michael Mann) – 1, 2006
Om Shanti Om (Farah Khan) – 3, 2007
Happy New Year (Farah Khan) – 48, 2014
Sound! Euphonium: The Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day (Ishihara Tatsuya) – 45, 2019
The Sky is Clear and Blue Today (Ricky D’Ambrose) – 79, 2019

This Week in Rankings

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Since the last update the new year has come and gone along with award season. I counted down my favorite film discoveries of 2019, my favorites of the books I read in 2019, my favorite 220 movies of the 2010s, and handed out the Endy Awards for 2019. I contributed some capsule reviews to InReview Online’s Best of the Decade series (on Meek’s Cutoff, Romancing in Thin Air, Uncle Boonmee and some others), and I wrote yet another Ash is Purest White blurb for their end of the year list. For Frame.land’s Directors of the Decade feature, I wrote about Hong Sangsoo. I also participated in end of the year polls and awards by Senses of Cinema, the Murials and the Seattle Film Critics Society. And I appeared on SIFFcast’s two-part end of the year show. For the Mubi Notebook’s end of the year festivities I contributed an image for the 2010s and fantasy double features for 2019.

Also at The Notebook I wrote about Only Cloud Knows and Ip Man 4, Jia Zhangke’s I Wish I Knew, the Hong Kong series at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, and Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong. At Seattle Screen Scene I reviewed Enter the Fat Dragon, and The Rise of Skywalker. On the Film Stage Podcast I talked about the Shaun the Sheep movie Farmageddon.

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

King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack) – 6, 1933
Song of the South (Harve Foster & Wilfred Jackson) – 38, 1946
The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad (James Algar, Clyde Geronimi & Jack Kinney) – 28, 1949
Night of the Living Dead (George Romero) – 5, 1968

Columbo: Murder by the Book (Steven Spielberg) – 16, 1971
Columbo: Dead Weight (Jack Smight) – 19, 1971
Columbo: Lady in Waiting (Norman Lloyd) – 22, 1971
Columbo: Suitable for Framing (Hy Averback) – 24, 1971
Columbo: Death Lends a Hand (Bernard Kowalski) – 25, 1971

The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell) – 2, 1972
Columbo: Etude in Black (Nicholas Colasanto) – 9, 1972
Columbo: Blueprint for Murder (Peter Falk) – 18, 1972
Columbo: Short Fuse (Edward M. Abroms) – 29, 1972
The Crazies (George Romero) – 13, 1973
The Delinquent (Kuei Chih-heung & Chang Cheh) – 23, 1973

Dawn of the Dead (George Romero) – 7, 1978
Escape from New York (John Carpenter) – 17, 1981
Long Arm of the Law (Johhny Mak) – 11, 1984
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis) – 14, 1988
Gangs (Lawrence Ah Mon) – 35, 1988

Cageman (Jacob Cheung) – 11, 1992
Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan) – 4, 1997
Fight Club (David Fincher) – 10, 1999
Ordinary Heroes (Ann Hui) – 26, 1999
Iron Man (Jon Favreau) – 39, 2008

Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt) – 3, 2010
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) – 5, 2010
I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhangke) – 17, 2010
Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau) – 67, 2010
Thor (Kenneth Branagh) – 40, 2011
Captain America (Joe Johnston) – 46, 2011

Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To) – 2, 2012
Eega (SS Rjamouli) – 11, 2012
The Avengers (Joss Whedon) – 54, 2012
Iron Man 3 (Shane Black) – 43, 2013
The Winter Soldier (Joe & Anthony Russo) – 63, 2014

The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams) – 40, 2015
Sleeping with Other People (Leslye Headland) – 59, 2015
Age of Ultron (Joss Whedon) – 76, 2015
Civil War (Joe & Anthony Russo) – 77, 2016
The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson) – 10, 2017

Peterloo (Mike Leigh) – 15, 2018
Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry) – 46, 2018
Little Women (Greta Gerwig) – 1, 2019
The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) – 2, 2019
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino) – 5, 2019

Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie) – 7, 2019
Chasing Dream (Johnnie To ) – 8, 2019
Ride Your Wave (Yuasa Masaaki) – 9, 2019
Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello) – 10, 2019
Parasite (Bong Joonho) – 15, 2019

Dolemite is My Name (Craig Brewer) – 16, 2019
Dark Waters (Todd Haynes) – 22, 2019
Promare (Imaishi Hiroyuki) – 24, 2019
Weathering with You (Shinkai Makoto) – 25, 2019
Atlantics (Mati Diop) – 28, 2019

Farmageddon (Will Becher & Richard Phelan) – 33, 2019
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma) – 34, 2019
Alita: Battle Angel (Robert Rodriguez) – 36, 2019
Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller) – 48, 2019

Richard Jewell (Clint Eastwood) – 50, 2019
The Farewell (Lulu Wang) – 59, 2019
The Rise of Skywalker (JJ Abrams) – 70, 2019
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Marielle Heller) – 73, 2019

Only Cloud Knows (Feng Xiaogang) – 74, 2019
Ip Man 4 (Wilson Yip) – 75, 2019
The Good Liar (Bill Condon) – 87, 2019
Bombshell (Jay Roach) – 91, 2019
1917 (Sam Mendes) – 92, 2019

Birds of Prey (Cathy Yan) – 1, 2020
We Have Boots (Evans Chan) – 2, 2020
The Cube Phantom (Alan Lau) – 3, 2020
Enter the Fat Dragon (Wong Jing & Tanigaki Kenji) – 4, 2020

Predictions for the 92nd Annual Academy Awards

These are my Oscar predictions. During the ceremony Sunday night, as I’ve done for the past couple of years, I’ll be live-tweeting the winners of the 2019 Endy Awards, the nominees for which can be found here. Follow along on twitter @TheEndofCinema.

BEST PICTURE

Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
1917
Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood
Parasite

BEST DIRECTOR

Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Todd Phillips, Joker
Sam Mendes, 1917
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood
Bong Joon Ho, Parasite

BEST ACTOR

Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes

BEST ACTRESS

Cynthia Erivo, Harriet
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
Charlize Theron, Bombshell
Renée Zellweger, Judy

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell
Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
Florence Pugh, Little Women
Margot Robbie, Bombshell

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Knives Out, Rian Johnson
Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach
1917, Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino
Parasite, Bong Joon Ho & Han Jin Won

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Irishman, Steven Zaillian
Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi
Joker, Todd Phillips & Scott Silver
Little Women, Greta Gerwig
The Two Popes, Anthony McCarten

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Irishman, Rodrigo Prieto
Joker, Lawrence Sher
The Lighthouse, Jarin Blaschke
1917, Roger Deakins
Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood, Robert Richardson

BEST FILM EDITING

Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Parasite

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Avengers: Endgame
The Irishman
The Lion King
1917
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
1917
Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood
Parasite

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

Bombshell
Joker
Judy
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
1917

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Joker, Hildur Guðnadóttir
Little Women, Alexandre Desplat
Marriage Story, Randy Newman
1917, Thomas Newman
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, John Williams

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” from Toy Story 4, Randy Newman
“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” from Rocketman, Elton John & Bernie Taupin
“I’m Standing With You” from Breakthrough, Diane Warren
“Into The Unknown” from Frozen II, Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez
“Stand Up” from Harriet, Joshuah Brian Campbell & Cynthia Erivo

BEST SOUND EDITING

Ford v Ferrari
Joker
1917
Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

BEST SOUND MIXING

Ad Astra
Ford v Ferrari
Joker
1917
Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus
Missing Link
Toy Story 4

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

American Factory
The Cave
The Edge of Democracy
For Sama
Honeyland

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

Corpus Christi (Poland)
Honeyland (North Macedonia)
Les Misérables (France)
Pain and Glory (Spain)
Parasite (South Korea)

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

In The Absence
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)
Life Overtakes Me
St. Louis Superman
Walk Run Cha-Cha

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

Brotherhood
Nefta Football Club
The Neighbors’ Window
Saria
A Sister

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Dcera (Daughter)
Hair Love
Kitbull
Memorable
Sister