sunrise7shotsYou can read more about this year in film here.  The Best Picture race is discussed here, with reviews of all the nominees.  There are the categories, followed by all the films with their nominations, then the Globes, where I split the major awards by Drama and Comedy, followed by a few lists at the very end.  If there’s a film you expected to see and didn’t, check the very bottom.  Films in red won the Oscar in that category.  Films in blue were nominated.  But remember, there were only a handful of Oscar categories in this, the first year of the Oscars.

Nighthawk Awards:

  • Best Picture
  1. Sunrise
  2. Metropolis
  3. The Man Who Laughs
  4. The Circus
  5. 7th Heaven (more…)

Greed-notes-and-queries-v-007You can read more about this year in film here.  Since this is the pre-Oscar era, clearly there are no Best Picture reviews to link to.  So, without further ado, here are the initial Nighthawk Awards, covering the entire pre-Oscar era.  There are the categories, followed by all the films with their nominations, then the Globes, where I split the major awards by Drama and Comedy, followed by a few lists at the very end.  If there’s a film you expected to see and didn’t, check the very bottom.

Nighthawk Awards:

  • Best Picture:
  1. Greed
  2. The Battleship Potemkin
  3. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  4. The Gold Rush
  5. The Phantom of the Opera

note:  A good year for films because there are so many.  The next five, in order, are The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Birth of a Nation, Faust, The Last Laugh and Foolish Wives and the **** films go all the way down to #16. (more…)

I grabbed this banner from altscreen.com.  They deserve credit, because it's awesome.

I grabbed this banner from altscreen.com. They deserve credit, because it’s awesome.

My Top 10 Adapted Screenplays:

  1. Greed  (1925)
  2. The Phantom of the Opera  (1925)
  3. The Hunchback of Notre Dame  (1923)
  4. Faust  (1926)
  5. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse  (1921)
  6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  (1920)
  7. Ingeborg Holm  (1913)
  8. Oliver Twist  (1922)
  9. The Birth of a Nation  (1915)
  10. The Avenging Conscience  (1914) (more…)
That great shot where we first see Lincoln's face.

That great shot where we first see Lincoln’s face.

My Top 20:

  1. Lincoln
  2. Argo
  3. Les Misérables
  4. Zero Dark Thirty
  5. Anna Karenina
  6. Moonrise Kingdom
  7. Django Unchained
  8. Amour
  9. The Dark Knight Rises
  10. Skyfall
  11. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  12. Brave
  13. Silver Linings Playbook
  14. Prometheus
  15. Life of Pi
  16. The Avengers
  17. Frankenweenie
  18. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
  19. The Master
  20. The Secret World of Arietty

(more…)

If you're an 11 year old boy, this is the girl you want to meet - Chloe Grace Moretz in Hugo.

If you’re an 11 year old boy, this is the girl you want to meet – Chloe Grace Moretz in Hugo.

My Top 20:

  1. Hugo
  2. The Descendants
  3. The Artist
  4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  5. Midnight in Paris
  6. A Separation
  7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
  8. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
  9. The Tree of Life
  10. The Ides of March
  11. Incendies
  12. Jane Eyre
  13. Beginners
  14. Contagion
  15. My Week With Marilyn
  16. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  17. Rango
  18. Moneyball
  19. Margin Call
  20. Take Shelter

(more…)

Great old-fashioned movie making: The King's Speech (2010).

Great old-fashioned movie making: The King’s Speech (2010).

The 83rd annual Academy Awards for the film year 2010.  The nominations were announced on 25 January 2011 and the awards were held on 27 February 2011.

Best Picture:  The King’s Speech

  • The Social Network
  • Inception
  • True Grit
  • Winter’s Bone
  • Black Swan
  • Toy Story 3
  • The Kids Are All Right
  • The Fighter
  • 127 Hours

Most Surprising Omission:  The Town

Best Eligible Film Not Nominated:  The Ghost Writer

Rank (out of 84) among Best Picture Years:  #7  (by far the best among years with more than 5 nominated films) (more…)

A couple of star performances in the best film of the year.

A couple of star-making performances in the best film of the year.

My Top 20:

  1. The Social Network
  2. The King’s Speech
  3. Inception
  4. True Grit
  5. The Ghost Writer
  6. Winter’s Bone
  7. Black Swan
  8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I
  9. Another Year
  10. Toy Story 3
  11. The Town
  12. Biutiful
  13. The Kids are All Right
  14. Tangled
  15. Shutter Island
  16. Never Let Me Go
  17. Rabbit Hole
  18. The Fighter
  19. Green Zone
  20. Blue Valentine

(more…)

Michael Fassbender makes, shall we say, a costly error, in Inglourious Basterds.

Michael Fassbender makes, shall we say, a costly error, in Inglourious Basterds.

My Top 20:

  1. Inglourious Basterds
  2. The Hurt Locker
  3. A Serious Man
  4. An Education
  5. Broken Embraces
  6. Up
  7. Up in the Air
  8. The White Ribbon
  9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  10. District 9
  11. The Informant
  12. Sin Nombre
  13. Crazy Heart
  14. Coraline
  15. Revanche
  16. Precious
  17. (500) Days of Summer
  18. A Single Man
  19. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
  20. Duplicity

note:  There has been a slight change since I first posted this, because I finished re-watching film for Best Picture and dropped District 9 a few spots and moved Up up a few spots.

(more…)

The perfect ending.

The 81st annual Academy Awards, for the film year 2008.  The nominations were announced on 22 January 2009 and the awards were held on 22 February 2009.

Best Picture:  Slumdog Millionaire

  • Milk
  • The Reader
  • Frost/Nixon
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Most Surprising Omission:  The Dark Knight

Best Eligible Film Not Nominated:  The Dark Knight

Rank (out of 84) Among Best Picture Years:  #45

(more…)

A brilliant and perfect ending to the best film of the year.

My Top 20:

  1. Slumdog Millionaire
  2. Milk
  3. The Dark Knight
  4. Wall-E
  5. Revolutionary Road
  6. Rachel Getting Married
  7. The Visitor
  8. I’ve Loved You So Long
  9. Happy-Go-Lucky
  10. Let the Right One In
  11. In Bruges
  12. Iron Man
  13. Burn After Reading
  14. A Christmas Tale
  15. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  16. Australia
  17. The Wrestler
  18. Gran Torino
  19. Changeling
  20. The Reader

note:  Nothing like the year before.  The **** films end with #8.  Zodiac – the #25 of 2007, would be the #9 film here. (more…)

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