This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year AND DECADE in Cinema" -- 2019

lol yes

(I haven't watched Diane)

(I haven't watched Diane)

Best Supporting Actress: Laura Dern, MARRIAGE STORY and LITTLE WOMEN (57 points)

Runners-up:
Florence Pugh, LITTLE WOMEN (44 points)
Jennifer Lopez, HUSTLERS (26 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 4, 2020

Best Actor: Antonio Banderas, PAIN AND GLORY (69 points)

Runners-up:
Adam Driver, MARRIAGE STORY (43 points)
Adam Sandler, UNCUT GEMS (41 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 4, 2020

Best Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt, ONCE UPON A TIME ... IN HOLLYWOOD (64 points)

Runners-up:
Joe Pesci, THE IRISHMAN (30 points)
Wesley Snipes, DOLEMITE IS MY NAME, and Song Kang Ho, PARASITE (18 points, tie)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 4, 2020

good to see Wesley Snipes get some recognition

Wesley Snipes would've been a delightful winner.

Best Cinematography: Claire Mathon, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE and ATLANTICS (41 points)

Runners-up:
Robert Richardson, ONCE UPON A TIME ... IN HOLLYWOOD (29 points)
Yorick Le Saux, LITTLE WOMEN (22 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 4, 2020

Best Screenplay: Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won, PARASITE (37 points)

Runners-up:
Quentin Tarantino, ONCE UPON A TIME ... IN HOLLYWOOD (34 points)
Greta Gerwig, LITTLE WOMEN (33 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 4, 2020

Best Picture: PARASITE (44 points)

Runners-up:
LITTLE WOMEN (27 points)
ONCE UPON A TIME ... IN HOLLYWOOD (22 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 4, 2020

I really like how they aggregate performances/work for those with multiple films to avoid vote splitting. Why can't the Academy do this?

Oh my!

Best Director: Greta Gerwig, LITTLE WOMEN (39 points)

Runners-up:
Bong Joon Ho, PARASITE (36 points)
Martin Scorsese, THE IRISHMAN (31 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 4, 2020

Second time she's won there in the last three years.

she's a good director!

is portrait of a lady on fire playing anywhere yet? or did I completely miss this movie?

Not much. Sometime this month. I only saw a screener.

End of February is its widest release

anyone see I Lost My Body? Often brilliant animation, story is a bit obvious and repetitive in last act.

Furious at the BAFTA's snubbing The Souvenir

awards are, y'know, shit

White as the whitest white can be, those acting nods.

Two actors filling four slots – embarrassing.

ILX really likes to talk about stuff w/out linking the info

Why link when I can just C+P?

BEST FILM
1917 Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, Jayne-Ann Tenggren
THE IRISHMAN Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Martin Scorsese, Emma Tillinger Koskoff
JOKER Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, Emma Tillinger Koskoff
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, Quentin Tarantino
PARASITE Bong Joon-ho, Kwak Sin-ae

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
1917 Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, Krysty Wilson-Cairns
BAIT Mark Jenkin, Kate Byers, Linn Waite
FOR SAMA Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
ROCKETMAN Dexter Fletcher, Adam Bohling, David Furnish, David Reid, Matthew Vaughn, Lee Hall
SORRY WE MISSED YOU Ken Loach, Rebecca O’Brien, Paul Laverty
THE TWO POPES Fernando Meirelles, Jonathan Eirich, Dan Lin, Tracey Seaward, Anthony McCarten

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
BAIT Mark Jenkin (Writer/Director), Kate Byers, Linn Waite (Producers)
FOR SAMA Waad al-Kateab (Director/Producer), Edward Watts (Director)
MAIDEN Alex Holmes (Director)
ONLY YOU Harry Wootliff (Writer/Director)
RETABLO Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio (Writer/Director)*

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
THE FAREWELL Lulu Wang, Daniele Melia
FOR SAMA Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
PAIN AND GLORY Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar
PARASITE Bong Joon-ho
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Céline Sciamma, Bénédicte Couvreur

DOCUMENTARY
AMERICAN FACTORY Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
APOLLO 11 Todd Douglas Miller
DIEGO MARADONA Asif Kapadia
FOR SAMA Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
THE GREAT HACK Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim

ANIMATED FILM
FROZEN 2 Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho
KLAUS Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh
A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON Will Becher, Richard Phelan, Paul Kewley
TOY STORY 4 Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen

DIRECTOR
1917 Sam Mendes
THE IRISHMAN Martin Scorsese
JOKER Todd Phillips
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Quentin Tarantino
PARASITE Bong Joon-ho

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BOOKSMART Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Katie Silberman
KNIVES OUT Rian Johnson
MARRIAGE STORY Noah Baumbach
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Quentin Tarantino
PARASITE Han Jin Won, Bong Joon-ho,

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
THE IRISHMAN Steven Zaillian
JOJO RABBIT Taika Waititi
JOKER Todd Phillips, Scott Silver
LITTLE WOMEN Greta Gerwig
THE TWO POPES Anthony McCarten

LEADING ACTRESS
JESSIE BUCKLEY Wild Rose
SCARLETT JOHANSSON Marriage Story
SAOIRSE RONAN Little Women
CHARLIZE THERON Bombshell
RENÉE ZELLWEGER Judy

LEADING ACTOR
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
ADAM DRIVER Marriage Story
TARON EGERTON Rocketman
JOAQUIN PHOENIX Joker
JONATHAN PRYCE The Two Popes

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
LAURA DERN Marriage Story
SCARLETT JOHANSSON Jojo Rabbit
FLORENCE PUGH Little Women
MARGOT ROBBIE Bombshell
MARGOT ROBBIE Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

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

ORIGINAL SCORE
1917 Thomas Newman
JOJO RABBIT Michael Giacchino
JOKER Hildur Guđnadóttir
LITTLE WOMEN Alexandre Desplat
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER John Williams

CASTING
JOKER Shayna Markowitz
MARRIAGE STORY Douglas Aibel, Francine Maisler
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Victoria Thomas
THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD Sarah Crowe
THE TWO POPES Nina Gold

CINEMATOGRAPHY
1917 Roger Deakins
THE IRISHMAN Rodrigo Prieto
JOKER Lawrence Sher
LE MANS ’66 Phedon Papamichael
THE LIGHTHOUSE Jarin Blaschke

EDITING
THE IRISHMAN Thelma Schoonmaker
JOJO RABBIT Tom Eagles
JOKER Jeff Groth
LE MANS ’66 Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Fred Raskin

PRODUCTION DESIGN
1917 Dennis Gassner, Lee Sandales
THE IRISHMAN Bob Shaw, Regina Graves
JOJO RABBIT Ra Vincent, Nora Sopková
JOKER Mark Friedberg, Kris Moran
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Barbara Ling, Nancy Haigh

COSTUME DESIGN
THE IRISHMAN Christopher Peterson, Sandy Powell
JOJO RABBIT Mayes C. Rubeo
JUDY Jany Temime
LITTLE WOMEN Jacqueline Durran
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Arianne Phillips

MAKE UP & HAIR
1917 Naomi Donne
BOMBSHELL Vivian Baker, Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan
JOKER Kay Georgiou, Nicki Ledermann
JUDY Jeremy Woodhead
ROCKETMAN Lizzie Yianni Georgiou

SOUND
1917 Scott Millan, Oliver Tarney, Rachael Tate, Mark Taylor, Stuart Wilson
JOKER Tod Maitland, Alan Robert Murray, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic
LE MANS ’66 David Giammarco, Paul Massey, Steven A. Morrow, Donald Sylvester
ROCKETMAN Matthew Collinge, John Hayes, Mike Prestwood Smith, Danny Sheehan
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER David Acord, Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, Stuart Wilson, Matthew Wood

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
1917 Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron, Dominic Tuohy
AVENGERS: ENDGAME Dan Deleeuw, Dan Sudick
THE IRISHMAN Leandro Estebecorena, Stephane Grabli, Pablo Helman
THE LION KING Andrew R. Jones, Robert Legato, Elliot Newman, Adam Valdez
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, Neal Scanlan, Dominic Tuohy

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
GRANDAD WAS A ROMANTIC. Maryam Mohajer
IN HER BOOTS Kathrin Steinbacher
THE MAGIC BOAT Naaman Azhari, Lilia Laurel

BRITISH SHORT FILM
AZAAR Myriam Raja, Nathanael Baring
GOLDFISH Hector Dockrill, Harri Kamalanathan, Benedict Turnbull, Laura Dockrill
KAMALI Sasha Rainbow, Rosalind Croad
LEARNING TO SKATEBOARD IN A WARZONE (IF YOU’RE A GIRL) Carol Dysinger, Elena Andreicheva
THE TRAP Lena Headey, Anthony Fitzgerald

EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
AWKWAFINA
JACK LOWDEN
KAITLYN DEVER
KELVIN HARRISON JR.
MICHEAL WARD

ILX really likes to talk about stuff w/out linking the info

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius),

Gee, my first instinct would be to Google it myself, pops.

the effing BAFTAs? life is short

Banderas running the table in the critics' awards and then getting snubbed by SAG and BAFTA sets him up nicely to be this year's Ethan Hawke.

I don't know how one remembers 'snubs' a year later unless one is a trophy workhorse like Jeff Wells

I don't know how one gives one shit about baseball stats, so we're even.

I don't give a shit about baseball awards, so we're uneven again

I can live with that.

Now kiss

we both kiss you, Three Stooges style

nyuk nyuk nyuk

was Eve Harrington one of the stooges

Curly Eve

Nomi Malone slapping everyone itt

*stabbing

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Dennis Lim tries to sort out the decade:

Presenting his work at a film at Lincoln Center retrospective in 2018, Christian Petzold railed against a type of festival film he described as “the lemon-tree movie.” This would, as Petzold derisively imagines it, involve two lovers, one Palestinian and one Israeli, their star-crossed romance represented by a lemon tree situated right on the Gaza-Israel border. (He may have had in mind an actual Israeli movie called Lemon Tree, which has a somewhat different plot but uses similar botanical symbolism.) Anyone who has sampled even a sliver of contemporary world cinema will recognize this species of “subject movie,” to use Petzold’s term. These are films that are relentlessly about something: laden with sociopolitical import, allowing for a touch of lyricism but very little ambiguity, and bearing the telltale traces of the screenwriting workshop.

Petzold’s example gets at a rarely spoken truth about the film-industrial complex. While distinctive work is emerging all the time, especially on the margins, and therefore easy to overlook, many of the institutions that determine what gets made and shown still function as forces of homogenization, from film schools to the funding bodies and development labs that are sometimes attached to the very festivals that serve as showcases for the end results of this often highly professionalized process. Ours is an age of fatiguing overload but also of numbing sameness: too many movies, too many festivals, too many reviews, too many opinions, too many lists, too many hot takes and think pieces that turn complicated issues into cultural talking points and empty posturing—all of which amount not to a lively discourse but a reinforcement of conventional wisdom (or worse)....

The brave new world of digital streaming promises instant access, but choice is a pernicious myth when entire swathes of cinema are conveniently forgotten or actively suppressed (as is happening with Disney’s continued withholding of 20th Century Fox titles from repertory theaters). Everything is market-tested, only for us to be told that what people want is more of the same. The late-capitalist logic is seamless: what we get is not, as advertised, plenitude, but its precise opposite, a narrowing of options to an algorithmically determined menu and a simultaneous impression that no other options exist.

https://www.filmcomment.com/article/the-termites-return-dennis-lim-best-of-the-decade/

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Also ...

http://filmcomment.com/best-films-of-the-decade/

The fact that that top 5 gets followed by that 6-10 is astonishing ... specifically that #1, which awesome but I wouldn't have predicted that to get this decade's Mulholland Drive slot.

namechecks Martin Eden as a fave......my man xps

I've seen all ten on that list, don't dislike any, but am crazy about 3 or 4 tops.

surprised to see Zama at the top spot as well but I'm not mad about it

same

Lol, that top ten kinda plays out like a normal American zine top ten, but turned on it's head :)

Exactly! (I'd have been a little less surprised had it been Toni Erdmann that came out on top.)

RE: Lemon Tree fetishism, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 'Wild Pear Tree" might be my favorite film of the year but it sort of acknowledges the trope and plays with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po0vls18Koc

well Toni Erdmann is the arthouse 'hit' of the top 5, right? The other four filmmakers are defiantly sui generis. xp

I think The Master might've benefited from the tragic resonance of PS Hoffman's death, as Akerman's film echoes strongly after hers.