Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Best of the Rest of 2018



BEST BREAKTHROUGH: Letitia Wright


Honorable Mentions: John David Washington, Winston Duke, Brian Tyree Henry, Yalitza Aparicio, Cynthia Erivo, Hannah John-Kamen, Henry Golding, Millicent Simmonds, Zazie Beetz, Awkwafina, Florian "Big Nasty" Munteanu, Milly Shapiro



BEST ENSEMBLE: Widows


Honorable Mentions: Black Panther, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, BlacKkKlansman, The Death Of Stalin, Game Night, A Star Is Born, A Quiet Place, Hereditary, Avengers: Infinity War



BEST DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón - Roma


Honorable Mentions: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse), Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman), Boots Riley (Sorry To Bother You), John Krasinski (A Quiet Place), Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (Let The Corpses Tan), Coralie Fargeat (Revenge), Morgan Neville (Won't You Be My Neighbor?), Steve McQueen (Widows), Ari Aster (Hereditary), Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born), Armando Iannucci (The Death Of Stalin), Chloé Zhao (The Rider), Leigh Whannell (Upgrade), Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Padmaavat)



BEST SCREENPLAY: Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows - The Death Of Stalin


Honorable Mentions: Gillian Flynn and Steve McQueen (Widows), Boots Riley (Sorry To Bother You), Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse), Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), Mark Perez (Game Night), Leigh Whannell (Upgrade), Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper and Will Fetters (A Star Is Born)



BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Alfonso Cuarón - Roma


Honorable Mentions: Pawel Pogorzelski (Hereditary), Matthew Libatique (A Star Is Born), Benjamin Loeb (Mandy), Charlotte Bruus Christensen (A Quiet Place), Linus Sandgren (First Man), Robrecht Heyvaert (Revenge), Sean Bobbitt (Widows), Rob Hardy (Annihilation), Lyle Vincent (Thoroughbreds), Manu Dacosse (Let The Corpses Tan), Sudeep Chatterjee (Padmaavat)



BEST EDITING: Bernard Beets - Let The Corpses Tan


Honorable Mentions: Jeff Malmberg and Aaron Wickenden (Won't You Be My Neighbor?), Jay Cassidy (A Star Is Born), Christopher Tellefsen (A Quiet Place), Coralie Fargeat, Bruno Safar and Jérôme Eltabet (Revenge), Jennifer Lame and Lucian Johnston (Hereditary), Joe Walker (Widows), Terel Gibson (Sorry To Bother You), Sam Rice-Edwards (Whitney), Andy Canny (Upgrade), Peter Lambert (The Death Of Stalin), Alfonso Cuarón and Adam Gough (Roma)



BEST SCORE: Jóhann Jóhannsson - Mandy


Honorable Mentions: Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse), Alexandre Desplat (Isle Of Dogs),Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow (Annihilation), Hans Zimmer (Widows), Marco Beltrami (A Quiet Place), Kiyoshi Yoshida (Big Fish and Begonia), Tyler Bates (Deadpool 2), Justin Hurwitz (First Man), Takatsugu Muramatsu (Mary and the Witch's Flower)



BEST SONG: "Shallow" by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born


Honorable Mentions: "Sunflower" by Post Malone and Swae Lee (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse), "I Will Go To War" by Tessa Thompson (Creed II), "The Big Unknown" by Sade (Widows), "All The Stars" by Kendrick Lamar and SZA (Black Panther), "Ghoomar" by Shreya Ghoshal and Swaroop Khan (Padmaavat), "I'll Never Love Again" by Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born), "Ashes" by Céline Dion (Deadpool 2), "Mirai no Theme" by Tatsuro Yamashita (Mirai), "Spidey-Bells (A Hero's Lament)" by Chris Pine (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse)



BEST PREEXISTING SONG: "Radio Ga Ga (Live Aid)" by Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody


Honorable Mentions: "Helplessly Hoping" by Crosby Stills & Nash (Annihilation), "Harvest Moon" by Neil Young (A Quiet Place), "Quando Quando Quando" by Engelbert Humperdinck (Game Night)



BEST OPENING CREDITS: Roma


Honorable Mentions: Upgrade, Deadpool 2, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, Let The Corpses Tan



BEST ENDING CREDITS: Game Night


Honorable Mentions: Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, Whitney



BEST STINGER: Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse


Honorable Mentions: Deadpool 2, Game Night



BEST POSTER ART: BlacKkKlansman


Honorable Mentions: Overlord, Suspiria, Game Night, Let The Corpses Tan, First Man (Moon Helmet), Creed II (Teaser), Incredibles 2 (Teaser), Isle of Dogs, Deadpool 2 (Teaser), Free Solo, A Simple Favor



BEST TRAILER: A Star Is Born


Honorable Mentions: Hereditary, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Creed II, Action Point



BEST ACTION FILM: Creed II


Honorable Mentions: Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Let The Corpses Tan, The Hurricane Heist



BEST ANIMATED FILM: The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl


Honorable Mentions: Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, Isle Of Dogs, Mary and the Witch's Flower, Mirai, Big Fish & Begonia, Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes, Early Man



BEST COMEDY FILM: Game Night


Honorable Mentions: Sorry To Bother You, Deadpool 2, The Death Of Stalin, Crazy Rich Asians



BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM: Won't You Be My Neighbor?


Honorable Mentions: Whitney, Filmworker, Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki, McQueen



BEST HORROR FILM: A Quiet Place


Honorable Mentions: Hereditary, Summer of 84



BEST SCI-FI FILM: Upgrade


Honorable Mentions: Annihilation



BEST GUILTY PLEASURE: Ready Player One



FUTURE CULT AND APPRECIATION

Films that I feel will grow on me beyond my initial expectations and opinions and become the great films that they sought to be.

Annihilation
Mandy
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes
Thoroughbreds



UNDERRATED AND UNDERAPPRECIATED

Actors and actresses that gave great performances in bad films and/or in roles with little material and screen time.

Paul Bettany (Solo: A Star Wars Story)
Sterling K. Brown (Black Panther, The Predator)
Nicolas Cage (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse)
Andrew "Dice" Clay (A Star Is Born)
Carrie Coon (Widows, Avengers: Infinity War)
Bill Duke (Mandy)
Kimiko Glenn (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse)
Omari Hardwick (Sorry To Bother You)
Oscar Isaac (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse)
Lily James (Sorry To Bother You)
Latin Lover (Roma)
John Mulaney (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse)
Liam Neeson (Widows)
Thandie Newton (Solo: A Star Wars Story)
Chris Pine (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse)
Trevante Rhodes (The Predator)
Lily Tomlin (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse)
Alan Tudyk (Ralph Breaks The Internet)
Jacki Weaver (Widows)

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