Best of 2019 and Academy Awards Poll

[grabmymask]

Best of 2019 (basing on US release dates, rule out anything you think shouldn't be here):
1. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
2. The Irishman
3. Uncut Gems
4. Little Women
5. Sunset
6. Dragged Across Concrete
7. Knives and Skin
8. Dark Waters
9. Luce
10. Avengers: Endgame
11. Possum

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Oscars Poll:
Best Pic (seen all):
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Irishman
Little Women
Parasite

Best Director (seen all):
Tarantino / Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Scorsese / The Irishman
Bong Joon Ho / Parasite

Best actor (seen three):
Joaquin Phoenix / Joker

Only seen two of the best actress noms :/

Supporting actor (seen four):
Brad Pitt / Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Joe Pesci / The Irishman

Supporting Actress (seen three):
Florence Pugh / Little Women

Original Screenplay (seen all):
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Knives Out
Parasite

Adapted Screenplay (seen four):
Little Women
The Irishman

Original Score (seen all):
Joker
Little Women
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Sound editing (seen all):
Ford v Ferrari
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Sound mixing (seen four):
Ford v Ferrari
1917

Production Design (seen all):
Once upon a Time in Hollywood
The Irishman
1917

Editing (seen all):
The Irishman
Joker
Parasite

Cinematography (seen all):
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Irishman
The Lighthouse

Costume Design (seen all):
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Little Women
The Irishman

Only seen two of best makeup noms :/

Visual Effects (seen four):
Avengers: Endgame
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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Seeing Jojo tomorrow

if you're able to update your ballot tomorrow, i should be able to factor in the changes, probably will tabulate this starting in about 24-28 hours, though might not finalize the results until sunday morning/afternoon

and a reminder to everyone else to get ballots or edits done very soon, poll closing imminently!

[grabmymask]

I actually ended up watching Jojo basically right after posting that (my roommate asked me to lol) so I will be updating my ballot right now!

[nrh]

updated list, sorry shyamalan fans but jallikattu pushed glass out of the top ten

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i've now started tallying this, so if anyone wants to edit their ballot, please do not edit your post in this thread. instead, quote your earlier ballot in a new post, along with your brand new ballot. that way i can compare the old and new ballots to see what has changed, and correctly update the tally if i've already incorporated your earlier ballot in it. thanks!

got nrh's changes just fine btw, so no need to do anything nrh!

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tally is complete, so i'll be posting the results in the next few minutes. to me this poll is a bit of an anticlimax after our best-of-the-2010s opus. keeping up with the most recent cinema isn't something a lot of people seem to do around here (myself included), and our end-of-year polls almost always feature some very widely known films at the top (usually best picture candidates), with the more interesting discoveries buried down the list. oh well, hopefully the results are worthwhile to some people.

first up though, our Academy Awards:

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SCFZ Does the Oscars:

Best Animated Short: Memorable (Bruno Collet)
Best Live Action Short: Nefta Football Club (Yves Piat)
Best Documentary Short: In the Absence (Yi Seung-Jun)

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Best Makeup: Bombshell
Best Costume Design: Little Women
Best Production Design: 1917
Best Visual Effects (tie) : Avengers: Endgame and 1917
Best Sound Mixing: Ford v Ferrari
Best Sound Editing: Ford v Ferrari
Best Original Score: Little Women
Best Editing: The Irishman
Best Cinematography: The Lighthouse

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Best International Film: Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
Best Animated Film: Missing Link (Chris Butler)
Best Documentary Film: For Sama (Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts)

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Best Original Screenplay: Parasite
Best Adapted Screenplay: Little Women

Best Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci / The Irishman
Best Supporting Actress: Scarlett Johansson / Jojo Rabbit

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Best Actress: Scarlett Johansson / Marriage Story
Best Actor: Adam Driver / Marriage Story

Best Director: Bong Joon-ho / Parasite

... and scfz gives the academy award for best picture to...

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Best Picture: The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)

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the betting favorite for best pic is apparently 1917, which came in 7th in our vote, so scfz differed from the ostensible consensus. every nominee got at least one vote besides joker, though ford v ferrari only got one point, so it was almost shut out too. second place went to little women and third place to parasite.

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and scfz's top 50 films of 2019:


1. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
2. Parasite (Joon-ho Bong)
3. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Celine Sciamma)
4. Uncut Gems (Josh and Benny Safdie)
5. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
6. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
7. Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
8. The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine)
9. The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers)
10. High Flying Bird (Steven Soderbergh)
11. Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodovar)
12. Atlantique (Mati Diop)
13. Ad Astra (James Gray)
14. Chasing Dream (Johnnie To)
15. Varda par Agnes (Agnes Varda)
16. Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
17. Joker (Todd Phillips)
18. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
19. Richard Jewell (Clint Eastwood)
20. Glass (M Night Shyamalan)
21. Avengers: Endgame (Anthony and Joe Russo)
22. A Home With a View (Herman Yau)
23. It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman)
24. Domino (Brian De Palma)
25. Us (Jordan Peele)
26. Only One Day in Berlin (Malte Wirtz)
27. To the Ends of the Earth (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
28. Transit (Christian Petzold)
29. The Lonely Island: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience (Akiva Shaffer, Mike Diva)
30. Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé (Beyoncé Knowles-Carter)
31. Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi)
32. Midsommar (Ari Aster)
33. Life on the Mississippi (Bill Brown)
34. FORM FILM (Frances Arpaia)
35. The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine (Takahisa Zeze)
36. The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)
37. The Invisible Life of Eurydíce Gusmão (Karim Aïnouz)
38. Knife+Heart (Yann Gonzalez)
39. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (Radu Jude)
40. For Sama (Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts)
41. 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (Johannes Roberts)
42. Les Misérables (Ladj Ly)
43. Luce (Julius Onah)
44. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams)
45. The Image in the Stone (Eva Kolcze)
46. J'accuse (Roman Polanski)
47. Sunset (Laszlo Nemes)
48. Where'd You Go, Bernadette? (Richard Linklater)
49. Booksmart (Olivia Wilde)
50. When You’re Lost in the Rain (Sky Hopinka)

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a few notes:

- a film needed 7 points or more to make the top fifty, so any film ranked fourth or higher on a ten-film ballot should be in the list. one high-ranking vote was definitely enough to make the top fifty

- i think a couple of films are from 2018, but i didn't want to exclude anything that got votes

- i just guessed, for now, at the tiebreaking (there were no ties near the top of the list though), so when i actually look up letterboxd views, films might move up or down a spot or two

- the irishman had 71 points, and a full 13 point lead on parasite, which was 11 points ahead of portrait of a lady on fire, so there was some clear separation at the top. of course there were lots of ties later on

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i miscounted, i only had 49 films on the first version of the list, so i added the least-seen film with six points. i've also broken all ties correctly and posted to letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... scfz-poll/

[thoxans]

it's all rigged!

[thoxans]

on a separate note: is joker supposed to be on the list, or is joker supposed to be on the list, cuz i thought that people had voted for joker, and not for joker, but now i'm confused...?

disregard! i got this thread/poll confused with something else we did recently, where raju murugan's joker was getting a bunch of votes, and then in researching that confusion, i subsequently confused raju murugan with radu muntean, who for some reason made me think of corneliu porumboiu (idkw i guess all romanians look the same to me, or something), and then i got even more confused, and then i spent way more time than necessary figuring out how dumb i am, and now i swear to christ, i get why my boy kanafani quit the forum... fml