Three parts left in the first 1000 (before the updates). The introduction can be found here. The preceding parts of the list can be found here. (more…)
10 April, 2022
A Century of Film: The Top 1000 Films (#150-101)
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14 October, 2017
The Nighthawk Awards: 2009
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You can read more about this year in film here. The Best Picture race is discussed here, with reviews of all the nominees. First 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 – it might be eligible in a different year. Films in red won the Oscar in that category (or Globe, in the Globes section). Films in blue were nominated. Films (or directors) in olive are links to earlier posts that I don’t want to have show up in blue and be mistaken for a nominee. Films with an asterisk (*) were Consensus nominees (a scale I put together based on the various awards) while those with a double asterisk (**) were the Consensus winners.
I’m listing the top 15 in the categories but only the top 5 earn Nighthawk nominations. I’m only going with the Top 15 because there are 15 **** films and several categories don’t even get that far. It’s a weak year all around.
Nighthawk Awards:
- Best Picture
- Inglourious Basterds *
- The Hurt Locker **
- A Serious Man *
- Up *
- Broken Embraces
- An Education *
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Up in the Air *
- A Single Man
- District 9 *
- The White Ribbon
- The Informant
- Sin Nombre
- Coraline
- Revanche
Analysis: As mentioned above, I went with 15 films because that’s how many **** films there are in this year. That the Oscars nominated seven of them (as well as my #16 film, Precious) speaks well of their first year with 10 nominees in 66 years. (more…)