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Hayao magic.

Folk and horror go together like Fred and Ginger.

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I wouldn't say this is the greatest British football drama of all time. But it’s in the top one.

Adam Curtis' stunning, sprawling documentary is essential viewing for anyone interested in why everything in the 21st century feels so unstable and confusing. Only flaw, for me, is that Curtis veers into intellectual contortionism in Part 6 when attempting to simplify Tupac Shakur's complex career to fit his own narrative. Nonetheless, the rest of the documentary is, to me at least, incredibly well-argued and intricately constructed.

I cannot wait for SHIFTY!

As part of A-Level Film Studies Component 3 Short Film study.

As part of A-Level Film Studies Component 3 Short Film study.

As part of A-Level Film Studies Component 3 Short Film study.

As part of A-Level Film Studies Component 3 Short Film study.

As part of A-Level Film Studies Component 3 Short Film study.

As part of A-Level Film Studies Component 3 Short Film study.

The Roy Orbison - In Dreams moment hits so hard.

If the joke is intentional, this is genius. If it’s unintentional, it’s terrible. 3 stars.

Eisenstein would be horrified.

Fréwaka is straight on the watchlist now.

Quite like Wish World. The Reality War, though - sorry Russell, a step too far, for me.

Actually quite enjoyed the first one, so gave this is a go.  

Nah.

Particularly the off-a-cliff third act.

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Eyes Wide Shut, but catholic.

Wes Anderson at his most silly (complimentary). So much fun. 

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I have to say, it still works for its target audience - my daughter is absolutely potty for it.

Pete Davidson’s finest hour (and a bit).

“My pictures always come out.”

Wes Anderson curates a breathtaking Kodachrome visual style, which deconstructs American cultural idiom with playfully self-reflexive glee, and yet this artifice acts as a smokescreen for what the film really is; a genuinely affecting existential story about the processing of grief and the importance of making art.

Is Jean Cocteau the first vlogger?

I think they dropped the ball baaaaaadddlllllyyyy with Jumba, but other than that, this was quite decent. Props to Dean Fleischer Camp for somehow making it work. 

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*internally screams for the rest of the day*

That score is going to infiltrate my nightmares.

Watched for Isle of Wight locations. Stayed for Calvin Lockhart being Calvin Lockhart.

Ahhh, Zola makes sense now!

Yeah, easily still the best one.

Love the animation style. More of this please!

After three half-decent films, they’ve finally shat the bed. 

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A modern-day, Maltese version of Luchino Visconti’s La Terra Trema and a film that has quickly become a very personal one for me. I can't wait to see Żejtune!

This review may contain spoilers.

Takes a little bit of time to get going, but once it does… holy hell. That submarine set-piece is out of this world. 

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Hits harder after Andor.

I’ll be honest, it took me by surprise when I saw John Huston’s name pop up.

Decent music, but man he struggles with this acting malarkey.

Watched for Coppola, but I never know this was filmed in Malta!

🍌 🤷🏻‍♂️

We were robbed of vampire David Lynch.

Watched this a few weeks ago, but just finished Andor last night. 

The best Star Wars project in 45 years. Remarkable television. Onto Rogue One.

Good for context in Media Studies A-Level.

Casting agent deserves a bonus.

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I feel like Louis needed to make this - you can tell how cathartic it is.

David Lynch's Empire, but thankfully much much shorter.

This might be Louis Theroux's most devastating series.

An actual doc on Louis is needed.

First Miguel Gomes! Certainly good enough to warrant another visit to his work. 

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That Arsenal joke was not needed today.

A breath of fresh air that Marvel severely needed. 

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Economical and effective B western from Jacques Tourneur - less sweeping than Canyon age and more focused on crime. Cracking ending.

Mums are the best.

1. The Brutalist
2. Nickel Boys
3. I'm Still Here
4. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
5. Sinners
6. Memoir of a Snail
7. Nosferatu
8. Flow
9. A Real Pain
10. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2. Doctor Who: The End of Time
3. Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
4. Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder
5. Doctor Who: The Giggle
6. Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
7. Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion
8. Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road
9. Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor
10. Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Last updated: 02/06/2025

1. Hot Fuzz
2. Young Frankenstein
3. Shaun of the Dead
4. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
5. Airplane!
6. What We Do in the Shadows
7. This Is Spinal Tap
8. Black Dynamite
9. Tropic Thunder
10. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Last updated: 02/06/2025

1. F for Fake
2. Close-Up
3. Punishment Park
4. Lake Mungo
5. The War Game
6. Ghostwatch
7. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
8. A Man Vanishes
9. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
10. Man Bites Dog

Last updated: 02/06/2025

1. The Shining
2. Psycho
3. Ashes and Diamonds
4. Last Year at Marienbad
5. Winter Sleep
6. The Silence
7. Death in Venice
8. The Grand Budapest Hotel
9. The Florida Project
10. What's Up, Doc?

1. The Green Ray
2. A Summer's Tale
3. My Night at Maud's
4. La Collectionneuse
5. Claire's Knee
6. The Aviator's Wife
7. Love in the Afternoon
8. Pauline at the Beach
9. A Tale of Autumn
10. Boyfriends and Girlfriends

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Asteroid City
3. Moonrise Kingdom
4. Isle of Dogs
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
6. The French Dispatch
7. The Royal Tenenbaums
8. Rushmore
9. The Phoenician Scheme
10. The Darjeeling Limited

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Jungle Book
2. Cinderella
3. Lilo & Stitch
4. Beauty and the Beast
5. Mulan
6. Lady and the Tramp
7. The Little Mermaid
8. Alice in Wonderland
9. Aladdin
10. The Lion King

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
3. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
4. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
5. Mission: Impossible III
6. Mission: Impossible
7. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
8. Mission: Impossible II

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
5. Return of the Jedi
6. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
7. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
8. Solo: A Star Wars Story
9. Ahsoka
10. Obi-Wan Kenobi

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Captain America: Civil War
2. Avengers: Infinity War
3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
4. Black Panther
5. Avengers: Endgame
6. Guardians of the Galaxy
7. The Avengers
8. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
9. Thunderbolts*
10. Iron Man

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Blue Velvet
2. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
3. Mulholland Drive
4. Eraserhead
5. The Straight Story
6. Lost Highway
7. Wild at Heart
8. Inland Empire
9. The Elephant Man
10. Dune

Last updated: 24/04/2025

1. The Night of the Hunter
2. Daughters of the Dust
3. A Streetcar Named Desire
4. Written on the Wind
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
6. Sinners
7. Deliverance
8. Beasts of the Southern Wild
9. The Young One
10. Cape Fear

Last updated: 24/04/2025

1. Nosferatu
2. Let the Right One In
3. Vampyr
4. Ganja & Hess
5. Nosferatu the Vampyre
6. The Addiction
7. Sinners
8. Nosferatu
9. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
10. Cronos

1. The Leopard
2. Rocco and His Brothers
3. La Terra Trema
4. Death in Venice
5. Senso
6. Le Notti Bianche
7. Obsession
8. Bellissima
9. Conversation Piece
10. Boccaccio '70

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1. The Seventh Seal
2. Persona
3. Fanny and Alexander
4. Wild Strawberries
5. Scenes from a Marriage
6. Hour of the Wolf
7. Cries and Whispers
8. Winter Light
9. The Virgin Spring
10. Autumn Sonata

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Last updated: 11/04/2025

1. Oppenheimer
2. Aftersun
3. Close Your Eyes
4. Titane
5. The Zone of Interest
6. Killers of the Flower Moon
7. The Brutalist
8. TÁR
9. Petite Maman
10. Babylon

Last updated: 02/01/2023

1. Bicycle Thieves
2. Rome, Open City
3. The Flowers of St. Francis
4. La Terra Trema
5. Paisan
6. La Strada
7. Umberto D.
8. I Vitelloni
9. Shoeshine
10. Obsession

Last updated: 16/03/2025

1. Jurassic Park
2. The Prestige
3. Us
4. Logan
5. Moon
6. Mickey 17
7. Never Let Me Go
8. They Cloned Tyrone
9. Cloud Atlas
10. Splice

1. Parasite
2. Memories of Murder
3. Mother
4. Snowpiercer
5. The Host
6. Mickey 17
7. Okja
8. Barking Dogs Never Bite
9. Incoherence

Last updated: 09/03/2025

1. Bait
2. Brighton Rock
3. Saint Maud
4. The Birthday Party
5. Last Resort
6. Ammonite
7. London to Brighton
8. Stan & Ollie
9. O Dreamland
10. Quadrophenia

Last updated: 09/03/2025

1. Offside
2. Diego Maradona
3. The Damned United
4. Looking for Eric
5. Arsène Wenger: Invincible
6. Once In A Lifetime: Argentina
7. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
8. Copa 71
9. Gregory's Girl
10. Next Goal Wins

1. Anora
2. The Florida Project
3. Red Rocket
4. Tangerine
5. Prince of Broadway
6. Starlet

Last updated: 02/03/2025

Use 'notes' for the individual number of wins and nominations. The list is ranked according to the number of nominations. The winners will be confirmed on 1st March 2025, the day before the 97th Academy Awards ceremony. These are my personal picks, not award predictions.

This is based on UK 'awards season' eligibility - for instance, I saw Close Your Eyes, About Dry Grasses etc. when they were released in the UK in 2024 but they are technically part of the 2023-2024 'awards season' and do not feature here as a result. 

Full list of wins/nominations are here:

Best Film:

I'm Still Here
Anora
The Substance
The Brutalist 🏆
Nickel Boys
Dune: Part Two
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Nosferatu
Conclave
No Other Land

Best Director:

Denis Villeneuve - Dune: Part Two
Walter Salles - I'm Still Here
Brady Corbet - The Brutalist 🏆
RaMell Ross - Nickel Boys
Sean Baker - Anora

Best Actor:

Colman Domingo - Sing Sing
Adrien Brody - The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet - Dune: Part Two
Sebastian Stan - A Different Man🏆
Ralph Fiennes - Conclave

Best Actress:

Fernanda Torres - I'm Still Here 🏆
Lily-Rose Depp - Nosferatu
Mikey Madison - Anora
Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Hard Truths
Demi Moore - The Substance

Best ing Actor:

Yura Borisov - Anora
Willem Dafoe - Nosferatu
Kieran Culkin - A Real Pain
Adam Pearson - A Different Man
Guy Pearce - The Brutalist 🏆

Best ing Actress:

Ariana Grande - Wicked
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor - Nickel Boys
Isabella Rossellini - Conclave 🏆
Joan Chen - Dìdi
Felicity Jones - The Brutalist

Best Original Screenplay:

The Brutalist
The Substance
A Different Man
I Saw the TV Glow
Anora 🏆

Best Adapted Screenplay:

I'm Still Here
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Nickel Boys 🏆
Conclave

Best Editing:

The Brutalist 🏆
Conclave
Nickel Boys
Anora
I'm Still Here

Best British/Irish Film:

Kneecap
Love Lies Bleeding
Hard Truths
Conclave 🏆
Civil War

Best Animated Film:

The Wild Robot
Memoir of a Snail 🏆
Flow
Grand Theft Hamlet
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Best Film in a Foreign Language:

Kneecap
The Girl with the Needle
I'm Still Here 🏆
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
All We Imagine as Light

Best Film by a First-time Feature Director:

Daughters 🏆
Monkey Man
Kneecap
Hundreds of Beavers
Dìdi

Best Documentary Feature:

SPERMWORLD
Sugarcane
Daughters
No Other Land 🏆
Dahomey

Best Cinematography:

Jomo Fray - Nickel Boys 🏆
Greig Fraser - Dune: Part Two
Stéphane Fontaine - Conclave
Lol Crawley - The Brutalist
Jarin Blaschke - Nosferatu

Best Visual Effects:

Dune: Part Two 🏆
Better Man
Alien: Romulus
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Civil War

Best Production Design:

Dune: Part Two
Gladiator II
The Brutalist
Wicked
Nosferatu 🏆

Best Costume Design:

Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked 🏆
Queer
Conclave

Best Hair and Make-up:

Dune: Part Two
Alien: Romulus
The Substance 🏆
A Different Man
Nosferatu

Best Sound Design (Mixing and Editing):

Dune: Part Two 🏆
Nosferatu
The Brutalist
Conclave 
A Complete Unknown

Best Musical Score:

Hans Zimmer - Dune: Part Two
Warren Ellis - I'm Still Here
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Challengers 🏆 
Volker Bertelmann - Conclave
Daniel Blumberg - The Brutalist 

Best Song:

'Harper and Will Go West' - Kristen Wiig (Will & Harper)
'Kiss the Sky' - Maren Morris (The Wild Robot)
'Sick In The Head' - KNEECAP (Kneecap) 🏆
'Not My Fault' - Reneé Rapp ft. Megan Thee Stallion (Mean Girls)
'Out of Oklahoma' - Lainey Wilson (Twisters)

1. The Brutalist

   4 wins, 11 nominations

2. Dune: Part Two

   2 wins, 11 nominations

3. Conclave

   2 wins, 10 nominations

4. I'm Still Here

   2 wins, 7 nominations

5. Nickel Boys

   2 wins, 6 nominations

6. Nosferatu

   1 win, 9 nominations

7. Anora

   1 win, 6 nominations

8. The Substance

   1 win, 4 nominations

9. A Different Man

   1 win, 4 nominations

10. Kneecap

    1 win, 4 nominations

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Last updated: 02/03/2025

• Grandma's Reading Glass
• History of a Crime
• A Trip to the Moon
• The Great Train Robbery
• The Impossible Voyage
• Rescued by Rover
• The Consequences of Feminism
• That Fatal Sneeze
• The Adventures of Dollie
• The Diabolic Tenant

...plus 115 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Last updated: 26/02/2025

1. Get Carter
2. The Long Good Friday
3. Brighton Rock
4. Performance
5. The Ladykillers
6. Sexy Beast
7. The Firm
8. Mona Lisa
9. Down Terrace
10. Snatch

1. Contempt
2. Weekend
3. Vivre Sa Vie
4. Pierrot le Fou
5. Histoire(s) du cinéma
6. Band of Outsiders
7. Alphaville
8. In the Darkness of Time
9. Breathless
10. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Naked
2. Secrets & Lies
3. Mr. Turner
4. Another Year
5. Hard Truths
6. Meantime
7. Topsy-Turvy
8. Vera Drake
9. Happy-Go-Lucky
10. Life Is Sweet

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Last updated: 04/02/2025

1. Amy
2. jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
3. Senna
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop
5. Amazing Grace
6. Diego Maradona
7. HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
8. "Sr."
9. RBG
10. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond

Last updated: 03/02/2025

1. Scorpio Rising
2. Easy Rider
3. Akira
4. Mad Max 2
5. The Motorcycle Diaries
6. The Wild One
7. Mad Max
8. Quadrophenia
9. The Bikeriders
10. Mask

Last updated: 30/01/2025

1. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
2. The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris
3. J'accuse
4. The Cameraman's Revenge
5. Broken Blossoms
6. Fantômas
7. The Immigrant
8. The Outlaw and His Wife
9. Shoes
10. A Dog's Life

Last updated: 30/01/2025

1. Paths of Glory
2. Grand Illusion
3. J'accuse
4. All Quiet on the Western Front
5. They Shall Not Grow Old
6. All Quiet on the Western Front
7. 1917
8. Gallipoli
9. King and Country
10. Oh! What a Lovely War

Last updated: 30/01/2025

1. Ema
2. Spencer
3. Jackie
4. Post Mortem
5. El Conde
6. Maria

Last updated: 27/01/2025

1. The Elephant Man
2. The Prestige
3. Poor Things
4. Great Expectations
5. Bram Stoker's Dracula
6. The Personal History of David Copperfield
7. Topsy-Turvy
8. Oliver Twist
9. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
10. Scrooge

Last updated: 27/01/2025

1. Hoop Dreams
2. Welfare
3. Harlan County U.S.A.
4. Central Park
5. Streetwise
6. National Gallery
7. City Hall
8. Grey Gardens
9. Divorce Iranian Style
10. To Be and to Have

1. Welfare
2. Central Park
3. National Gallery
4. City Hall
5. Hospital
6. Law and Order
7. Titicut Follies
8. High School
9. Essene
10. Meat

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Last updated: 25/01/2025

1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather Part II
3. Heaven's Gate
4. News from Home
5. The Brutalist
6. The New World
7. Everything Everywhere All at Once
8. Past Lives
9. Minari
10. The Immigrant

Last updated: 20/01/2025

1. Citizen Kane
2. Rashomon
3. The Handmaiden
4. JFK
5. The Usual Suspects
6. Gone Girl
7. Knives Out
8. Monster
9. The Last Duel
10. Elephant

Last updated: 20/01/2025

1. The Social Network
2. Bo Burnham: Inside
3. Eighth Grade
4. Belle
5. Zola
6. Pleasure
7. Searching
8. Sweat
9. Bodies Bodies Bodies
10. We're All Going to the World's Fair

Last updated: 17/01/2025

1. The Shining
2. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
3. Psycho
4. Eraserhead
5. Kwaidan
6. Nosferatu
7. Possession
8. Onibaba
9. The Exorcist
10. Hour of the Wolf

Last updated: 14/01/2025

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Strike
3. Blade Runner
4. Casablanca
5. La Jetée
6. Vivre Sa Vie
7. Parasite
8. Alien
9. Under the Skin
10. Get Out

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Last updated: 13/01/2025

1. The General
2. Brief Encounter
3. Dumbo
4. Cairo Station
5. The Hero
6. Before Sunrise
7. Strangers on a Train
8. The Great Train Robbery
9. Central Station
10. Snowpiercer

Last updated: 13/01/2025

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Battleship Potemkin
3. L'Atalante
4. Jaws
5. Knife in the Water
6. Triangle of Sadness
7. Das Boot
8. Flow
9. The African Queen
10. The Last of Sheila

Last updated: 13/01/2025

1. Only Angels Have Wings
2. The Wind Rises
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. Airplane!
5. Wings
6. United 93
7. Wings
8. Flight
9. Tora! Tora! Tora!
10. Sully

Last updated: 13/01/2025

1. F for Fake
2. Modern Times
3. Persona
4. Bicycle Thieves
5. Strike
6. Eraserhead
7. The ion of Joan of Arc
8. Viridiana
9. City Lights
10. Journey to Italy

1. The Social Network
2. Se7en
3. Zodiac
4. Fight Club
5. Gone Girl
6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
7. Mank
8. The Killer
9. Panic Room
10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Last updated: 07/01/2025

1. The Wicker Man
2. The Others
3. The Edge of the World
4. Beast
5. The Story of Adele H.
6. Archipelago
7. The Outrun
8. Whisky Galore!
9. Apostle
10. And Then There Were None

1. Dumbo
2. The Jungle Book
3. The Lion King
4. Pinocchio
5. Lilo & Stitch
6. Alice in Wonderland
7. Zootopia
8. The Emperor's New Groove
9. Mulan
10. Moana

...plus 54 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Last updated: 01/01/2025

1. L'Atalante
2. The Night of the Hunter
3. Lake Mungo
4. Wanda
5. True Stories
6. The Night of Counting the Years
7. Carnival of Souls
8. Angst
9. Limite
10. Nil by Mouth

1. Close Your Eyes
2. The Zone of Interest
3. About Dry Grasses
4. Anora
5. Dune: Part Two
6. The Holdovers
7. Monster
8. The Substance
9. Poor Things
10. There's Still Tomorrow

...plus 202 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.