Mr. O'Toole never won a best actor Oscar. Hard to believe. Nor will we ever see movies made like this again. G.C. It's not hard I'm afraid. O'Toole certainly deserved to win, but it's not surprising that Gregory Peck won that year for To Kill a Mockingbird , his performance is still admired (more s...

Last week I saw seven movies. History, or how not to show it, turns out to be a major theme. The United States v. Billie Holiday comes from Lee Daniels, whose most famous movie, Precious , answers the question "What if the Dardenne Brothers were soulless hacks?" This movie, which got an ac...

And here's his 20 runner ups A Chiara Jonas Carpignano All That Breathes Shaunak Sen Armageddon Time James Gray Corsage Marie Kreutzer Descendant Margaret Brown Donbass Sergei Loznitsa Dos estaciones Juan Pablo González Everything Everywhere All at Once Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert The Fabelmans St...

Not exactly an award, but here's A.O. Scott's top 10 list for this year: Nope Jordan Peele Neptune Frost Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman Mr. Bachmann and His Class Maria Speth Aftersun Charlotte Wells No Bears Jafar Panahi Tár Todd Field Lost Illusions Xavier Giannoli Flux Gourmet Peter Strickland ...

And here's the National Board of Review top ten: Top Gun: Maverick (Number #1) Aftersun Avatar: The Way of Water The Banshees of Inisherin Everything Everywhere All at Once The Fabelmans Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery RRR Till The Woman King Women Talking And here's the other major awards: Best D...

Well here's the New York Film Critic Circle competitive awards for this year: Best Film: Tár Best Director: S. S. Rajamouli – RRR Best Actor: Colin Farrell – After Yang and The Banshees of Inisherin Best Actress: Cate Blanchett – Tár Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at ...

The TCM board had a thread for movie awards. One problem was that they didn't distinguish quite which year they were talking about it, so the thread for 2021 movies kept going for the 2022 movies. So ideally all awards news in this thread should be for this year's movies.

Jeanne Dielman was not chosen for “pretentious” reasons or for obscurity but merely for its feminist theme. It fits perfectly into the current zeitgeist the same way Citizen Kane did during the initial baby boom era where the “self-made man” theme was the cornerstone of the times. Jeanne Dielman is...

One aspect behind the list was a clear desire to get newer films. Remember that 2001 was the youngest film in the 2012 top ten. So now there are four younger there. And well into this century I was seeing greatest movies of all time lists where Blade Runner and Fanny and Alexander were the highest r...

I'm reviving a long-time TCM forum thread, the least and most favorite movie of the week. This week I saw five movies. Blonde was certainly the worst. Some critics have found nuance in Ana de Armas's performance as Marilyn Monroe, but the movie consists of such unrelenting victimization and of Monro...

As People have noticed Portrait of a Lady on Fire was the highest ranking movie since the last poll (as well as the highest ranking movie since 2009) at #30. Looking at theyshootpictures.com top movies of this century (https://theyshootpictures.com/21stcentury_allfilms_table.php), we see it wasn't u...

What about the Director's Poll?

It's tempting to think that many critics thought it might be a good idea to include a female-directed movie on their list, and since most movies are directed by men, the handful of female directed movies did relatively well. (On theyshootpictures.com top 1000 movies list, there are 28 movies directe...