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My favourite movie of the year in every year I've seen a feature-length movie.
Now featuring THE GRETHIWHA FILM AWARDS!!! for any year in which I've seen more than 50 movies (which is to say, 2001-2018, and, uh, '97, '88 and '73).
Now featuring THE GRETHIWHA FILM AWARDS!!! for any year in which I've seen more than 50 movies (which is to say, 2001-2018, and, uh, '97, '88 and '73).
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- DirectorChristopher McCullochStarsPatrick WarburtonJ.K. SimmonsClancy BrownDoc's latest invention will either bankrupt the Ventures or launch them to new heights.
- DirectorTom GormicanStarsNicolas CagePedro PascalTiffany HaddishMoviestar Nick Cage is channeling his iconic characters as he's caught between a superfan and a CIA agent.
- DirectorAdam McKayStarsLeonardo DiCaprioJennifer LawrenceMeryl StreepTwo low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.
- DirectorCharlie KaufmanStarsJesse PlemonsJessie BuckleyToni ColletteFull of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents' secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself.
- DirectorRobert EggersStarsRobert PattinsonWillem DafoeValeriia KaramanTwo lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
- DirectorPanos CosmatosStarsNicolas CageAndrea RiseboroughLinus RoacheThe enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.BEST PICTURE
The House That Jack Built
Mandy
Swing Kids
Violence Voyager
BEST DIRECTOR
Lars von Trier (The House That Jack Built)
Panos Cosmatos (Mandy)
Shin'ya Tsukamoto (Killing)
Ujicha (Violence Voyager)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Andhadhun (Arijit Biswa, Yogesh Chandekar, Sriram Raghavan, Hemanth M. Rao and Pooja Ladha Surti)
The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier and Jenle Hallund)
Killing (Shin'ya Tsukamoto)
Swing Kids (Kang Hyeong-cheol and Woo-Sung Jang)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Clint Eastwood (The Mule)
John C. Reilly (The Sisters Brothers)
Nicolas Cage (Between Worlds)
Nicolas Cage (Mandy)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Andrea Riseborough (Mandy)
Bruno Ganz (The House That Jack Built)
Linus Roache (Mandy)
Shin'ya Tsukamoto (Killing) - CreatorMark FrostDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanSheryl LeeMichael HorsePicks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered.BEST PICTURE
A Taxi Driver
Okja
Tokyo Vampire Hotel
Twin Peaks (MOTD)
BEST DIRECTOR
David Lynch (Twin Peaks)
Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)
Joon-ho Bong (Okja)
Love Lee (Real)
BEST SCREENPLAY
1987: When the Day Comes (Kyung-chan Kim)
A Taxi Driver (Yu-na Eom)
Okja (Joon-ho Bong and Jon Ronson)
Twin Peaks (Mark Frost and David Lynch)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Harry Dean Stanton (Lucky)
James Franco (The Disaster Artist)
Kang-ho Song (A Taxi Driver)
Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Jake Gyllenhaal (Okja)
Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water)
Shinnosuke Mitsushima (Tokyo Vampire Hotel)
Tilda Swinton (Okja) - DirectorLarry CharlesStarsNicolas CageRussell BrandWendi McLendon-CoveyAfter a personal visit by God himself, the eccentric construction worker Gary Faulkner takes the decision to embark on an adventure in the badlands of Pakistan to bring Al-Qaeda's leader Osama Bin Laden to justice.BEST PICTURE
Antiporno
Army of One
Salt and Fire
Terra Formars
BEST DIRECTOR
Alejandro Jodorowsky (Endless Poetry)
Johnnie To (Three)
Sion Sono (Antiporno)
Werner Herzog (Salt and Fire)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Antiporno (Sion Sono)
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo)
Crisis in Six Scenes (Woody Allen)
Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (Tae-hwa Eom)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Ami Tomite (Antiporno)
Andrew Garfield (Silence)
Nicolas Cage (Army of One)
Willem Dafoe (Dog Eat Dog)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Mariko Tsutsui (Antiporno)
Pamela Flores (Endless Poetry)
Ren Osugi (Shin Gojira)
Shin'ya Tsukamoto (Silence) - DirectorSion SonoStarsReina TriendlMariko ShinodaErina ManoA girl's life cascades into chaos as everyone around her suffers a gruesome fate while she becomes less certain of who she is and her once-once normal life.BEST PICTURE
Anomalisa
Love & Peace
The Lure
Tag
BEST DIRECTOR
Agnieszka Smoczynska (The Lure)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant)
Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa)
Sion Sono (The Whispering Star)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman)
Love & Peace (Sion Sono)
Seoul Searching (Benson Lee)
Tag (Sion Sono)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Hiroki Hasegawa (Love & Peace)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)
Megumi Kagurazaka (The Whispering Star)
Min-sik Choi (The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Esteban Ahn (Seoul Searching)
Kurt Russell (The Hateful Eight)
Motoki Fukami (Shinjuku Swan)
Toshiyuki Nishida (Love & Peace) - DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsKoji YakushoNana KomatsuSatoshi TsumabukiAs former detective Akikazu searches for his missing daughter, Kanako, he soon learns she has a mysterious secret life.BEST PICTURE
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
Force Majeure
Tokyo Tribe
The World of Kanako
BEST DIRECTOR
Hans Petter Moland (In Order of Disappearance)
Shin'ya Tsukamoto (Fires on the Plain)
Sion Sono (Tokyo Tribe)
Tetsuya Nakashima (The World of Kanako)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund)
In Order of Disappearance (Kim Fupz Aakeson)
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (David Zellner and Nathan Zellner)
Ode to My Father (Su-jin Park)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Johannes Kuhnke (Force Majeure)
Kôji Yakusho (The World of Kanako)
Shin'ya Tsukamoto (Fires on the Plain)
Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Denden (Tokyo Tribe)
Kristofer Hivju (Force Majeure)
Nana Seino (Tokyo Tribe)
Pål Sverre Hagen (In Order of Disappearance) - DirectorBong Joon HoStarsChris EvansJamie BellTilda SwintonIn a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges.BEST PICTURE
The Dance of Reality
Snowpiercer
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
The Wind Rises
BEST DIRECTOR
Ari Folman (The Congress)
Alejandro Jodorowski (The Dance of Reality)
Joon-ho Bong (Snowpiercer)
Sion Sono (Why Don't You Play in Hell?)
BEST SCREENPLAY
The Congress (Ari Folman)
The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Why Don't You Play in Hell? (Sion Sono)
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Brontis Jodorowsky (The Dance of Reality)
Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
Hiroki Hasegawa (Why Don't You Play in Hell?)
Mira Grosin (We Are the Best!)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Fumi Nikaidô (Why Don't You Play in Hell?)
Kang-ho Song (Snowpiercer)
Pamela Flores (The Dance of Reality)
Tilda Swinton (Snowpiercer) - DirectorDon HertzfeldtStarsSara CushmanDon HertzfeldtBill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.BEST PICTURE
Django Unchained
It's Such a Beautiful Day
Lesson of Evil
Masquerade
BEST DIRECTOR
Don Hertzfeldt (It's Such a Beautiful Day)
Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing)
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
Sion Sono (Bad Film)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)
The Land of Hope (Sion Sono)
Masquerade (Jo-yun Hwang and Chang-min Choo)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Denis Lavant (Holy Motors)
Mads Mikkelsen (The Hunt)
Megumi Kagurazaka (The Land of Hope)
Noomi Rapace (Prometheus)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)
James Franco (Spring Breakers)
Michael Fassbender (Prometheus)
Werner Herzog (Jack Reacher) - DirectorSion SonoStarsMiki MizunoMakoto TogashiMegumi KagurazakaA grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo - a love hotel district - a woman was found dead in a derelict apartment. Kazuko (Miki Mizuno) is a police officer called to investigate on this case, she will discover the story of two women who, despite appearing respectable on the outside have all manner of darkness hidden away.BEST PICTURE
Guilty of Romance
Himizu
Silenced
Source Code
BEST DIRECTOR
Dong-hyuk Hwang (Silenced)
Duncan Jones (Source Code)
Hyeong-Cheol Kang (Sunny)
Sion Sono (Guilty of Romance)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Guilty of Romance (Sion Sono)
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
Silenced (Dong-hyuk Hwang)
Source Code (Ben Ripley)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Jack Black (Bernie)
Megumi Kagurazaka (Guilty of Romance)
Shôta Sometani (Himizu)
Yoo Gong (Silenced)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Fumi Nikaidô (Himizu)
Hisako Ôkata (Guilty of Romance)
Makoto Togashi (Guilty of Romance)
Marion Cotillard (Midnight in Paris) - DirectorSion SonoStarsMitsuru FukikoshiDendenAsuka KurosawaThe lives of a bored suburban couple are changed forever when a seemingly nice old man gives their daughter a job at his fish store, and soon his gruesome hobbies are brought to light.BEST PICTURE
Cold Fish
Confessions
I Saw the Devil
Ocean Heaven
BEST DIRECTOR
Guy Moshe (Bunraku)
Kim Jee-woon (I Saw the Devil)
Sion Sono (Cold Fish)
Tetsuya Nakashima (Confessions)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Boy (Taika Waititi)
Cold Fish (Yoshiki Takahashi and Sion Sono)
Ocean Heaven (Xiaolu Xue)
Troll Hunter (André Øvredal)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Jet Li (Ocean Heaven)
Mitsuru Fukikoshi (Cold Fish)
Shinobu Terajima (Caterpillar)
Zhang Wen (Ocean Heaven)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Choi Min-sik (I Saw the Devil)
Denden (Cold Fish)
Riisa Naka (Zebraman 2)
Taika Waititi (Boy) - DirectorLee Hae-junStarsJeong Jae-yeongJung Ryeo-wonYeong-seo ParkA failed suicide attempt leads a heartbroken man to live a life in the wilderness.BEST PICTURE
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Castaway on the Moon
Knowing
A Serious Man
BEST DIRECTOR
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (A Serious Man)
Joon-ho Bong (Mother)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Werner Herzog (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Castaway on the Moon (Hae-jun Lee)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
Knowing (Ryne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden and Stiles White)
Mary and Max (Adam Elliot)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Hye-ja Kim (Mother)
Larry David (Whatever Works)
Michael Stuhlberg (A Serious Man)
Nicolas Cage (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Fred Melamed (A Serious Man)
Ha-kyun Shin (Thirst)
Ryeowon Jung (Castaway on the Moon) - DirectorSion SonoStarsTakahiro NishijimaHikari MitsushimaSakura AndôA bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.BEST PICTURE
The Chaser
Love Exposure
Revolutionary Road
Synecdoche, New York
BEST DIRECTOR
Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche, New York)
Hayao Miyazaki (Ponyo)
Hong-jin Na (The Chaser)
Sion Sono (Love Exposure)
BEST SCREENPLAY
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Eric Roth)
Departures (Kundô Koyama)
Love Exposure (Sion Sono)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Synecdoche, New York)
Yoon-seok Kim (The Chaser)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Brad Pitt (Burn After Reading)
Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges)
Hikari Mitsushima (Love Exposure)
Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road) - DirectorSion SonoStarsChiaki KuriyamaMegumi SatôTsugumiAbout hair extensions that attack the women that wear them.BEST PICTURE
Control
Encounters at the End of the World
Exte: Hair Extensions
Mad Detective
BEST DIRECTOR
Harmony Korine (Mister Lonely)
Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai (Mad Detective)
Makoto Shinkai (5 Centimeters Per Second)
Quentin Tarantino (Death Proof)
BEST SCREENPLAY
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Kelly Masterson)
Exte: Hair Extensions (Sion Sono, Masaki Adachi and Makoto Sanada)
Mad Detective (Wai Ka-Fai and Kin-Yee Au)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Ching Wan Lau (Mad Detective)
Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Kurt Russell (Death Proof)
Sam Riley (Control)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz)
Quentin Tarantino (Sukiyaki Western Django)
Ren Osugi (Hair Extensions)
Zoë Bell (Death Proof) - DirectorJohnnie ToStarsNick CheungAnthony Chau-Sang WongFrancis NgA friendship is formed between an ex-gangster, and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.BEST PICTURE
Balloon Club Revisited
Exiled
Letters from Iwo Jima
Rescue Dawn
BEST DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood (Letters from Iwo Jima)
Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth)
Johnnie To (Exiled)
Sion Sono (Balloon Club Revisited)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Babel (Guillermo Arriaga)
Balloon Club Revisited (Sion Sono)
Letters from Iwo Jima (Iris Yamashita)
Pan's Laybrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Kang-ho Song (The Host)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond)
Nicolas Cage (The Wicker Man)
Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights)
Jack Nicholson (The Departed)
Suet Lam (Exiled)
Woody Allen (Scoop) - DirectorSion SonoStarsJoe OdagiriJai WestMotoki FukamiFaced by a society of criminals, these three youths avenge their rights.BEST PICTURE
Grizzly Man
Hazard (MOTD)
Noriko's Dinner Table
Strange Circus
BEST DIRECTOR
Jee-woon Kim (A Bittersweet Life)
Ming-Liang Tsai (The Wayward Cloud)
Sion Sono (Hazard)
Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Into a Dream (Sion Sono)
Noriko's Dinner Table (Sion Sono)
The President's Last Bang (Sang-soo Im)
Strange Circus (Sion Sono)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Byung-hun Lee (A Bittersweet Life)
Joe Odagiri (Hazard)
Kazue Fukiishi (Noriko's Dinner Table)
Takeshi Kitano (Takeshis')
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Issei Ishida (Strange Circus)
Jai West (Hazard)
Ken Mitsuishi (Noriko's Dinner Table)
Motoki Fukami (Hazard) - DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsUma ThurmanDavid CarradineMichael MadsenThe Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.BEST PICTURE
2046
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Shaun of the Dead
The White Diamond
BEST DIRECTOR
Johnnie To (Throw Down)
Kar-Wai Wong (2046)
Masaaki Yuasa and Kôji Morimoto (Mind Game)
Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)
BEST SCREENPLAY
2046 (Kar-Wai Wong)
Incident at Loch Ness (Zak Penn)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
Team America: World Police (Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Pam Brady)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Bruno Ganz (Downfall)
Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead)
Uma Thurman (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)
Will Ferrell (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
David Carradine (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)
Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)
Michael Madsen (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)
Yoshiyuki Morishita (Survive Style 5+) - DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsUma ThurmanDavid CarradineDaryl HannahAfter awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.BEST PICTURE
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Memories of Murder
Mystic River
BEST DIRECTOR
Joon-ho Bong (Memories of Murder)
Ki-duk Kim (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring)
Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill: Vol. 1)
Takashi Miike (Gozu)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong and Sung-bo Shim)
Oldboy (Chan-wook Park, Chun-hyeong Lim and Jo-yun Hwang)
Save the Green Planet! (Joon-Hwan Jang)
A Tale of Two Sisters (Jee-woon Kim)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Kang-ho Song (Memories of Murder)
Min-sik Choi (Oldboy)
Nicolas Cage (Matchstick Men)
Will Ferrell (Elf)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Benicio Del Toro (21 Grams)
Mame Yamada (9 Souls)
Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation)
Tim Robbins (Mystic River) - DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsAdam SandlerEmily WatsonPhilip Seymour HoffmanSocially frustrated Barry Egan calls a phone-sex line to curb his loneliness. Little does he know it will land him in deep trouble and will jeopardize his burgeoning romance with the mysterious Lena.BEST PICTURE
Adaptation.
Lilya 4-ever
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Punch-Drunk Love
BEST DIRECTOR
Chan-wook Park (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance)
Lukas Moodysson (Lilya 4-ever)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch-Drunk Love)
Roman Polanski (The Pianist)
BEST SCREENPLAY
About Schmidt (Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor)
Adaptation. (Charlie Kaufman)
Hollywood Ending (Woody Allen)
Spider (Patrick McGrath)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Adam Sandler (Punch-Drunk Love)
Jack Nicholson (About Schmidt)
Kyoung-gu Sul (Oasis)
Oksana Akinshina (Lilya 4-ever)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
Kathy Bates (About Schmidt)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Punch-Drunk Love)
So-ri Moon (Oasis) - DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKenji SawadaKeiko MatsuzakaShinji TakedaA family moves to the country to run a rustic mountain inn when, to their horror, the customers begin befalling sudden and unlikely fates.BEST PICTURE
Ghost World
The Happiness of the Katakuris
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Mulholland Dr.
BEST DIRECTOR
David Lynch (Mulholland Dr.)
Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away)
Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko)
Takashi Miike (The Happiness of the Katakuris)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Ghost World (Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff)
No Man's Land (Danis Tanovic)
The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
Suicide Club (Sion Sono)
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Billy Bob Thornton (The Man Who Wasn't There)
Naomi Watts (Mulholland Dr.)
Tadanobu Asano (Ichi the Killer)
Thora Birch (Ghost World)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Kiyoshirô Imawano (The Happiness of the Katakuris)
Rolly (Suicide Club)
Steve Buscemi (Ghost World)
Tetsurô Tanba (The Happiness of the Katakuris) - DirectorChristopher NolanStarsGuy PearceCarrie-Anne MossJoe PantolianoA man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
- DirectorSam MendesStarsKevin SpaceyAnnette BeningThora BirchA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.