Best of 2019 and Academy Awards Poll

[flip]

Now that the Academy Awards nominations are up, it's time for our dual "best of the year" and "Oscars" polls.

For the "Best of 2019" poll:

- post a list of your favourite films from 2019. You can list up to ten films (please only vote for things you think deserve votes) except:

-- if you have seen between 40 and 59 feature films from last year: then you can list up to eleven films
-- if you have seen 60 or more feature films from last year: then you can list up to twelve films

This is to give lesser-seen films (that only those who have seen a lot of 2019 movies might have seen) more of a chance.

- ranked ballots are *strongly* encouraged (if you aren't sure how to rank, maybe rank in reverse-order of letterboxd views, to give less-seen films more weight). Unless you tell me otherwise, I'll assume your ballot is ranked.
- scoring for ranked ballots will be on a 1-2-3-4-...-maximum scale (so a three-film ranked ballot will award 3, 2 and 1 points to the three films)
- unranked ballots will award the same total points as a ranked one would, but of course awarding an equal number of points to each film. So a ten-film unranked ballot, say, will award 5.5 points per film

- you can post a ballot now and edit it later - no need to let me know about changes unless you make changes on the day of the deadline. I won't start tallying until Feb 7 - as usual, I post the results on Academy Award day, which is Feb 9 this year

deadline: Feb 7, 2019 (or maybe Feb 8)


For the never-very-popular Academy Awards poll, using the official nominations, you can vote in any category you like. The rules:

- if you have not seen at least half of the nominees in a category, you can't vote in that category
- for Best Pic, if you have seen 4-5 films, you can post a top two, if you have seen 6-7 films, you can post a top three, and if you have seen eight or all nine, you can post a top four
- for the other categories, you can post a top two list if you have seen 3-4 films, or a top three if you have seen every nominee
- ballots must be ranked, scoring as in the poll above
- for any category that garners two or more ballots, I'll tally the results and we'll award the SCFZ alternative Oscars accordingly

[flip]

so far seen 40 films from 2019, top eleven for now:

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Celine Sciamma)
2. Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi)
3. The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers)
4. Uncut Gems (Safdies)
5. Richard Jewell (Clint Eastwood)
6. Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
7. 1917 (Sam Mendes)
8. Good Boys (Gene Stupnitsky)
9. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
10. Triple Frontier (JC Chandor)
11. Parasite (Joon-ho Bong)


oscars ballot, don't expect to see any more nominees, watched too many as it is:

Best Picture (seen all of them, listing them all in order) :

1. Jojo Rabbit
2. 1917
3. The Irishman
4. Parasite
____
5. Ford v Ferrari
6. Joker
7. Little Women
8. Marriage Story
9. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Director (seen all of them)
1. Joon-ho Bong / Parasite
2. Sam Mendes / 1917
3. Martin Scorsese / The Irishman

Best Actor (seen three, hated two) :
1. Joaquin Phoenix / Joker

Best Actress (seen three)
1. Charlize Theron / Bombshell
2. Saoirse Ronan / Little Women

Best Supporting Actor (seen three)
1. Joe Pesci / The Irishman

Best Supporting Actress (seen all of them)
1. Scarlett Johansson / Jojo Rabbit
2. Margot Robbie / Bombshell
3. Laura Dern / Marriage Story

Best Original Screenplay (seen all of them)
1. Knives Out
2. Parasite
3. 1917

Best Adapted Screenplay (seen four)
1. Jojo Rabbit
2. The Irishman

Best Original Score (seen four)
1. Joker
2. 1917

Best Sound Editing (seen four)
1. Ford v Ferrari
2. 1917

Best Sound Mixing (seen five)
1. Ford v Ferrari
2. Ad Astra
3. 1917

Best Production Design (seen all of them)
1. 1917
2. Parasite
3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Editing (seen all of them)
1. Ford v Ferrari
2. Parasite
3. The Irishman

Best Cinematography (seen five)
1. The Lighthouse
2. 1917
3. Joker

Best Costume Design (seen five)
1. Joker
2. Jojo Rabbit
3. Little Women

Best Makeup (seen three)
1. Bombshell
2. Joker

[Umbugbene]

Seen 10 from 2019. Not a promising bunch, but I was surprised to like Parasite so much.

1. Parasite
2. Cats
3. Atlantique
4. Knives Out
5. The Two Popes

I'm qualified to vote in two Oscars categories:

Best Supporting Actor:
1. Anthony Hopkins

Best Original Screenplay:
1. Parasite
2. Knives Out

Hope this link to Wikipedia's list of nominees is helpful:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/92nd_Acad ... s#Nominees

[brian d]

i've seen 8 from 2019, which is a lot for me.

1 midsommar (ari aster)
2 parasite (bong joon-ho)
3 us (jordan peele)

unfortunately, the lighthouse seemed one of the lesser lighthouse movies that i've seen. knives out is the only thing that's relatively mainstream that i'm thinking about watching.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Yay! At the mo, I've seen 22 films from 2019, but only 10 features - am I still allowed to post up to 10 favourites? I hope to see several more features before close, but I doubt I'll get to 20 features seen in all.

1. FORM FILM (Frances Arpaia)
2. 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (Johannes Roberts)
3. The Image in the Stone (Eva Kolcze)
4. When You’re Lost in the Rain (Sky Hopinka)
5. John Ford, The Man Who Invented America (Jean-Christophe Klotz)
6. Avengers: Endgame (Marvel Studios)
7. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
8. Domino (Brian De Palma)
9. Long Shot (Liz Hannah and Dan Sterling)

Now seen 25. Final list above.

[therouxxx]

Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie)
The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine (Takahisa Zeze)
High Flying Bird (Steven Soderbergh)
Chasing Dream (Johnnie To)
Peranbu (Ram)

Richard Jewell (Clint Eastwood)
Enai Noki Paayum Thota (Gautham Menon)
Atlantics (Mati Diop)
Kalank (Abhishek Varman)
Nathicharami (Mansore)

[flip]

Yay! At the mo, I've seen 22 films from 2019, but only 10 features - am I still allowed to post up to 10 favourites? I hope to see several more features before close, but I doubt I'll get to 20 features seen in all.

Yes, I changed the rules this year (last year you would have needed to see 20+ features to vote for ten), so you can vote for ten films if you like, and even though I mention features in the intro post, shorts and tv movies are all eligible for the poll (though not tv series).

[Silga]

Final ballot:

I've seen 68 from 2019 (including some titles that have 2018 on IMDb, but were released to wide audiences in 2019).

Best of 2019

1. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
2. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
3. The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine)
4. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
5. Ad Astra (James Gray)
6. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams)
7. Avengers: Endgame (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo)
8. Luce (Julius Onah)
9. High Flying Bird (Steven Soderbergh)
10. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
11. Rojo (Benjamin Naishtat)
12. Joker (Todd Phillips)

Oscars

Best Picture (seen 4)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Irishman

Best Actor (seen 3)

Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)

No one asked, but I still feel compelled to share the 10 Worst films of 2019

1. Trauma Center (Matt Eskandari)
2. Domino (Brian De Palma)
3. Stuber (Michael Dowse)
4. High Life (Claire Denis)
5. Shazam (David F. Sandberg)
6. Glass (M. Night Shyamalan)
7. Crawl (Alexandre Aja)
8. Murder Mystery (Kyle Newacheck)
9. The Curse of La Llorona (Michael Chaves)
10. 6 Underground (Michael Bay)

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Yay! At the mo, I've seen 22 films from 2019, but only 10 features - am I still allowed to post up to 10 favourites? I hope to see several more features before close, but I doubt I'll get to 20 features seen in all.

Yes, I changed the rules this year (last year you would have needed to see 20+ features to vote for ten), so you can vote for ten films if you like, and even though I mention features in the intro post, shorts and tv movies are all eligible for the poll (though not tv series).

Awesome, thanks for the clarification, flip !

[greennui]

2019-ish list:

1. Transit (Christian Petzold)
2. Knife+Heart (Yann Gonzalez)
3. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (Radu Jude)
4. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
5. The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine)
6. Uncut Gems (Josh/Benny Safdie)
7. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
8. Pain & Glory (Pedro Almodovar)
9. Hotel by the River (Hong Sang-soo)
10. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)

[DT.]

1. It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman)
2. Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé (Beyoncé Knowles-Carter)
3. The Invisible Life of Eurydíce Gusmão (Karim Aïnouz)
4. Les Misérables (Ladj Ly)
5. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
6. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
7. Öndög (Wang Quan'an)
8. By the Grace of God (François Ozon)
9. Deerskin (Quentin Dupieux)
10. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
11. The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine)

[...]

I've only seen five movies from 2019 so far, and none worth voting for so I'll sit this one out unless I see something more impressive before the deadline.

[thoxans]

petta (karthik subbaraj)
a home with a view (herman yau)
the irishman (martin scorsese)
the forest of love (sion sono)
super deluxe (thiagarajan kumararaja)
game over (ashwin saravanan)

*seen twelve (so far; ballot will more than likely change by the deadline)

[ofrene]

thus far...

Vitalina Varela
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The Irishman
Varda by Agnes
Moving On
Ford v Ferrari
Marriage Story
Atlantics
Moonlit Winter
Parasite
Sibyl
Delphine and Carole

gonna watch anticipating 2019 stuff next few weeks so there will be more edit...)

[nrh]

to the ends of the earth (kiyoshi kurosawa)
the traitor (marco bellocchio)
atlantics (mati diop)
chasing dream (johnnie to)
a home with a view (herman yau)
asuran (vetri maaran)
mehandi circus (saravana rejendran)
sibyl (justine triet)
kumbalangi nights (madhu c. narayanan)
jallikattu (lijo jose pessary)

this is where imdb release dates complicate things - peranbu, in my room and (to a much lesser extent) high life would all be top ten contenders for me but are technically 2018 due to festival premieres. top two are kind of far ahead of everything else.seen about 38 so far.

[john ryan]

Seen 119
1. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
2. Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
3. The Lonely Island: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience (Akiva Shaffer, Mike Diva)
4. The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers)
5. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
6. Midsommar (Ari Aster)
7. Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
8. The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
9. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
10. Ready or Not (Bettinelli-Olpin, Gillett)
11. Us (Jordan Peele)
12. The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Joe Talbot)



Oscar voting (to be continuously updated until the night before the ceremony)

Best Picture (9/9):
1. Parasite
2. Little Women
3. Marriage Story
4. The Irishman

Lead Actor (5/5):
1. Leonardo DiCaprio in Once upon a Time in Hollywood
2. Adam Driver in Marriage Story
3. Antonio Banderas in Pain and Glory

Lead Actress (5/5):
1. Saoirse Ronan in Little Women
2. Scarlett Johansson in Marriage Story
3. Cynthia Erivo in Harriet

Supporting Actor (5/5):
1. Brad Pitt in OuaTiH
2. Joe Pesci in The Irishman

Supporting Actress (5/5):
1. Florence Pugh in Little Women
1. Laura Dern in Marriage Story

Director (5/5):
1. Bong Joon-ho for Parasite
2. Martin Scorsese for The Irishman
3. Quinten Tarantino for OuaTiH

Original Screenplay (5/5):
1. Parasite
2. Knives Out
3. Marriage Story

Adapted Screenplay (5/5):
1. Little Women
2. The Irishman

Animated Feature (5/5):
1. Missing Link
2. I Lost My Body
3. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

Best Documentary Feature (5/5):
1. Honeyland
2. For Sama
3. American Factory

Original Score (5/5):
1. Little Women
2. Joker

Cinematography (5/5):
1. The Lighthouse
2. OuaTiH
3. The Irishman

Editing (5/5):
1. Parasite
2. The Irishman
3. Ford v Ferrari

Production Design (5/5):
1. Parasite
2. 1917
3. The Irishman

Costume Design (5/5):
1. Little Women
2. OuaTiH
3. The Irishman

Makeup and Hairstyling (5/5):
1. Judy
2. Bombshell
3. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Original Song (4/5):
I hated all these songs

International Film (3/5):
1. Parasite
2. Honeyland

Sound Mixing (5/5):
1. Ad Astra
2. Ford v Ferrari
3. OuaTiH

Sound Editing (5/5)
1. Ford v Ferrari
2. OuaTiH
3. 1917

Visual Effects (5/5):
1. 1917
2. Avengers: Endgame

Documentary Short Film (4/5):
1. In the Absence
2. Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)

Live-Action Short (3/5):
1. Nefta Football Club
2. Brotherhood

[grabmymask]

what qualifies as a “2019” release for this poll?

[thoxans]

iirc flip goes off of imdb/letterboxd release dates, i.e., go to your boxd account > films > sort by decade > 2019 (at least this is how i went about it)

[josiahmorgan11]

2019.
1. Marriage Story
2. High Flying Bird
3. Us
4. Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
5. Monos
6. Parasite
7. Glass
8. The Lighthouse
9. Under the Silver Lake
10. Uncut Gems

BEST PICTURE
1. Marriage Story
2. Parasite
3. Little Women

BEST ACTOR - LEADING
1. Adam Driver, Marriage Story
2. Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes

BEST ACTRESS - LEADING
1. Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
2. Saoirse Ronan, Little Women

ACTOR - SUPPORTING
1. Joe Pesci, The Irishman
2. Al Pacino, The Irishman

ACTRESS - SUPPORTING
1. Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
2. Florence Pugh, Little Women

CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. The Lighthouse
2. The Irishman

COSTUME DESIGN
1. Joker
2. Little Women
3. The Irishman

DIRECTING
1. Parasite
2. The Irishman
3. Joker

EDITING
1. The Irishman
2. Jojo Rabbit

SCORE
1. Little Women

PRODUCTION DESIGN
1. Parasite
2. Once Upon A Time In....Hollywood

SOUND EDITING
1. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker [a truly execrable film, but an admirable audio job]
2. Joker

SOUND MIXING
1. Ad Astra
2. Joker

VISUAL EFFECTS
1. The Irishman

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1. The Irishman
2. Little Women
3. The Two Popes

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. Parasite
2. Knives Out

[Umbugbene]

Just edited my 2019 list to include Cats... and I'm not ashamed. I cannot join the bandwagon of mockery for that movie. It's far from flawless, but does it really deserve a 2.8 average score on the IMDb? Once you get past the general weirdness, it's no harder to accept the cat suits than it is when Bert Lahr's wearing one. The railroad tap dancing scene was glorious, and so was the ending. If the movie weren't so unrelentingly dark I'm sure it'd be a bit more popular.

[Curtis, baby]

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Sciamma)
2. Life on the Mississippi (Bill Brown)
3. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
4. Booksmart (Olivia Wilde)
5. Marriage Story (Baumbach)
6. Little Women (Gerwig)
7. Guest of Honour (Egoyan)
8. Uncut Gems (Safdie bros)
9. The Irishman (Scorsese)
10. The Lighthouse (Eggers)

[oscarwerner]

Have seen 58 films of 2019. My top list is:
---------------------------------------------------
1. "Parasite" - Bong Joon Ho
2. „The Irishman“ - Martin Scorsese
3. „Joker“ - Todd Phillips
4. „Pain and Glory“- Pedro Almodóvar
5. „J'accuse“ - Roman Polanski
6. "Sorry We Missed You“ - Ken Loach
7. „A Hidden Life“ - Terrence Malick
8. „Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood“ - Quentin Tarantino
9. "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" - Céline Sciamma
10. „Marriage Story" - Noah Baumbach
11. 1917 -Sam Mendes
---------------------------
Oscars:
Best picture
1. The Irishman
Best Best Foreign Language Film
2.Parasite
Best leading actor:
1. Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)

Best leading actress
1. Renée Zellweger (Judy)

Best supporting actor
1. Joe Pesci (The Irishman)

Best supporting actress
1. Laura Dern (Marriage Story)

[thoxans]

i really don't care for malick (esp late career prolific malick), but i hadn't even heard of a hidden life, so i googled it, and to my surprise i was pleased to find out that there's an arthouse theatre about an hour away from me! not only that, but bellocchio's the traitor will be playing there in the near future! might have to make a little day trip out of it. so thx malick (read: oscarwerner)!

[oscarwerner]

i really don't care for malick (esp late career prolific malick), but i hadn't even heard of a hidden life, so i googled it, and to my surprise i was pleased to find out that there's an arthouse theatre about an hour away from me! not only that, but bellocchio's the traitor will be playing there in the near future! might have to make a little day trip out of it. so thx malick (read: oscarwerner)!

I also liked Mallick from XX Century. The tree of life was still ok for me. Later he dissapointed me greatly. But Hidden Life is again more concrete story, topic. For me it is the best Mallick film after The tree of life.

[pabs]

My favourite films that were released in 2019:

[flip]

just a reminder that this poll closes in two days, so anyone planning to vote should do so soon!

[pabs]

Just remembered an image from an excel file isn't going to work for tallying! Sorry, I'll do it the long way asap.

[pabs]

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Sciamma)

The Beach Bum (Korine)
Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (Tarantino)
Parasite (Bong)
Varda par Agnes (Varda)
Anima (PT Anderson)
Celle que vous croyez (Nebbou)
The Farewell (Wang)
Ford v Ferrari (Mangold)
Pain and Glory (Almodovar)
The Rise of Skywalker (Abrams)

[wba]

My Top 10 for 2019

have seen some 50+

release dates are usually for Germany, of course


01. Only One Day in Berlin (Malte Wirtz, Germany)
02. Domino (Brian De Palma, Denmark/France/Italy/Belgium/Netherlands)
03. Glass (M. Nigh Shyamalan, USA)
04. Ad Astra (James Gray, USA/China/Brazil)
05. Happy Death Day 2U (Christopher Landon, USA/Japan)
06. 6 Underground (Michael Bay, USA)
07. Joker (Todd Phillips, USA/Canada)
08. Serenity (Steven Knight, UK/USA)
09. The Old Man & the Gun (David Lowery, USA)
10. Between Worlds (Maria Pulera, Spain)

[ofrene]

seen 87

Vitalina Varela
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The Irishman
Uncut Gems
For Sama
Varda by Agnes
Little Women
Moving On
Pain and Glory
Marriage Story
Ford v Ferrari
Atlantics

and Oscar voting

Best Picture (9/9)
1. The Irishman
2. Little Women
3. Marriage Story
4. Ford v Ferrari
5. Parasite

Best Leading Actor (5/5)
1. Antonio Banderas
2. Adam Driver
3. Joaquin Phoenix

Best Leading Actress (3/5)
1. Scarlett Johansson
2. Saoirse Ronan

Best Supporting Actor (4/5)
1. Joe Pesci
2. Al Pacino

Best Supporting Actress (3/5)
1. Laura Dern
2. Scarlett Johansson

Best Director (5/5)
1. Martin Scorsese
2. Bong Joon Ho

Best Screenplay (5/5)
1. Marriage Story
2. Parasite
3. Knives Out

Best Adapted Screenplay (4/5)
1. Little Women
2. The Irishman

Best Cinematography (5/5)
1. 1917
2. The Lighthouse
3. The Irishman

Best Editing (4/5)
1. Ford v Ferrari
2. Parasite

Best Production Design (4/5)
1. 1917
2. The Irishman

Best Costume Design (4/5)
1. Little Women
2. The Irishman

Best Makeup and Hairstyling (3/5)
1. Joker

Best Original Score (5/5)
1. Little Women
2. Marriage Story

Best Sound Mixing (5/5)
1. Ford v Ferrari

Best Sound Editing (5/5)
1. Ford v Ferrari

Best Visual Effects (4/5)
1. 1917

Best Documentary (4/5)
1. For Sama
2. American Factory

Best Animation (4/5)
1. Klaus
2. Toy Story 4

Best Short Animation (3/5)
1. Memorable
2. Kitbull

Best International Feature (4/5)
1. Pain and Glory
2. Parasite