Movie of the Year
Listing made from the year I was born; 1979 to date. I've decided to give also shout-out for four other movies, basically making this listing Top 5 movies of the year. I've also noted most memorable role performance(s) of each year, strictly my opinion of it. It might be lead role or supporting, actor or actress.
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- DirectorRidley ScottStarsSigourney WeaverTom SkerrittJohn HurtThe crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.Other nominees:
The Warriors
Life of Brian
Apocalypse Now
Mad Max
Most memorable role performance:
Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky (Mad Max)
Best Film not in English Language: - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsJack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny LloydA family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.Other nominees:
Friday the 13th
The Blues Brothers
The Big Red One
Täältä tullaan, elämä!
Most memorable role performance:
Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance (The Shining)
Best Film not in English Language:
Täältä tullaan, elämä! (Finland) - DirectorGeorge MillerStarsMel GibsonBruce SpenceMichael PrestonIn the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community get rid of a horde of bandits.Other nominees:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Das Boot
Under the Rainbow
The Bunker
Most memorable role performance:
Harrison Ford as Indy (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Best Film not in English Language:
Das Boot (West Germany) - DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsKurt RussellWilford BrimleyKeith DavidA research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.Other nominees:
Victor Victoria
Blade Runner
First Blood
The World According to Garp
Most memorable role performances:
Julie Andrews as Victoria Grant (Victor Victoria)
Best Film not in English Language:
Tenebre (Italy) - DirectorJohn BadhamStarsMatthew BroderickAlly SheedyJohn WoodA young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.Other nominees:
Scarface
Local Hero
Gorky Park
National Lampoon's Vacation
Most memorable role performance:
Al Pacino as Tony Montana (Scarface)
Best Film not in English Language: - DirectorRob ReinerStarsRob ReinerMichael McKeanChristopher GuestSpinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.Other nominees:
The Killing Fields
Ghost Busters
Once Upon a Time in America
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Most memorable role performance:
Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley (Beverly Hills Cop)
Best Film not in English Language:
Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä (Finland) - DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsMichael J. FoxChristopher LloydLea ThompsonMarty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.Other nominees:
The Breakfast Club
Fletch
Tuntematon sotilas
The Emerald Forest
Most memorable role performance:
Chevy Chese as Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher (Fletch)
Best Film not in English Language:
Tuntematon sotilas (Finland) - DirectorJames CameronStarsSigourney WeaverMichael BiehnCarrie HennDecades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.Other nominees:
Platoon
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Mosquito Coast
The Fly
Most memorable role performance:
Sigourney Weaver as Ripley (Aliens)
Best Film not in English Language:
Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (Finland) - DirectorJohn HughesStarsSteve MartinJohn CandyLaila RobinsA Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.Other nominees:
Predator
The Untouchables
Spaceballs
Full Metal Jacket
Most memorable role performance:
John Candy as Del Griffith (Planes, Trains & Automobiles)
Best Film not in English Language: - DirectorCharles CrichtonJohn CleeseStarsJohn CleeseJamie Lee CurtisKevin KlineIn London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool a very proper barrister.Other nominees:
Die Hard
Beetlejuice
Talk Radio
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Most memorable role performance:
Eric Bogosian as Barry (Talk Radio)
Best Film not in English Language:
Hotaru no haka (Japan) - DirectorPekka ParikkaStarsTaneli MäkeläVesa VierikkoTimo TorikkaIn 1939, two Finnish brothers are conscripted in the army to fight in the war between Finland and the Soviet Union.Other nominees:
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Chattahoochee
Field of Dreams
The War of the Roses
Most memorable role performance:
Sean Connery as Professor Henry Jones (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
Best Film not in English Language:
Talvisota (Finland) - DirectorKevin CostnerStarsKevin CostnerMary McDonnellGraham GreeneLieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.Other nominees:
Goodfellas
Europa Europa
Misery
Nikita
Most memorable role performance:
Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes (Misery)
Best Film not in English Language:
Europa Europa (Germany / France / Poland) - DirectorJames CameronStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerLinda HamiltonEdward FurlongA cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.Other nominees:
The Silence of the Lambs
The Commitments
The Doors
Thelma & Louise
Most memorable role performance:
Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter ( The Silence of the Lambs)
Best Film not in English Language:
Delicatessen (France) - DirectorMichael MannStarsDaniel Day-LewisMadeleine StoweRussell MeansThree trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.Other nominees:
Reservoir Dogs
My Cousin Vinny
Scent of Woman
A League of Their Own
Most memorable role performance:
Robert Downey Jr. as Charles Spencer Chaplin (Chaplin)
Best Film not in English Language:
El mariachi (Mexico / USA) - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.Other nominees:
Falling Down
Groundhog Day
A Perfect World
The Fugitive
Most memorable role performance:
Michael Douglas as D-Fens (Falling Down)
Best Film not in English Language:
Stalingrad (Germany) - DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTim RobbinsMorgan FreemanBob GuntonOver the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.Other nominees:
Pulp Fiction
Léon
Clerks
Forrest Gump
Most memorable role performance:
Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction)
Best Film not in English Language:
Nattevagten (Denmark) - DirectorDavid FincherStarsMorgan FreemanBrad PittKevin SpaceyTwo detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.Other nominees:
The Usual Suspects
Twelve Monkeys
Braveheart
Kids
Most memorable role performance:
Kevin Spacey as Verbal (The Usual Suspects)
Best Film not in English Language:
La Haine (France)
Best documentary:
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie - DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsWilliam H. MacyFrances McDormandSteve BuscemiMinnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.Other nominees:
Trainspotting
The English Patient
Tesis
Swingers
Most memorable role performance:
Steve Buscemi as Carl Showalter (Fargo)
Best Film not in English Language:
Tesis (Spain)
Best documentary: - DirectorCurtis HansonStarsKevin SpaceyRussell CroweGuy PearceAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.Other nominees:
Jackie Brown
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Cube
Cop Land
Most memorable role performance:
Mike Myers as Austin Powers / Dr. Evil (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery)
Best Film not in English Language:
Abre los ojos (Spain / France / Italy)
Best documentary: - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMatt DamonTom SizemoreFollowing the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.Other nominees:
Savior
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Pentagon Wars
One True Thing
Most memorable role performance:
Edward Norton as Derek Vinyard (American History X)
Best Film not in English Language:
Crna macka, beli macor (Yugoslavia / France / Germany)
Best documentary:
Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows - DirectorSam MendesStarsKevin SpaceyAnnette BeningThora BirchA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.Other nominees:
The Green Mile
I Kina spiser de hunde
Ravenous
Go
Most memorable role performances:
Gary Cole as Bill Lumbergh (Office Space)
Kevin J. O'Connor as Beni Gabor (The Mummy)
Best Film not in English Language:
I Kina spiser de hunde (Denmark)
Best documentary:
Buena Vista Social Club - DirectorChristopher NolanStarsGuy PearceCarrie-Anne MossJoe PantolianoA man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.Other nominees:
Chocolat
Animal Factory
Amores Perros
Requiem for a Dream
Most memorable role performance:
Eric Bana as Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read (Chopper)
Best Film not in English Language:
Amores Perros (Mexico)
Best documentary:
Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel - DirectorTim Blake NelsonStarsDavid ArquetteVelizar BinevDavid ChandlerA Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral gray zone.Other nominees:
Conspiracy
A Beautiful Mind
Black Hawk Down
Ocean's Eleven
Most memorable role performance:
Gene Hackman as Royal Tenenbaum (Royal Tenenbaum)
Best Film not in English Language:
Siu Lam juk kau (Hong Kong / China)
Best documentary:
Joutilaat - DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsJames NesbittTim Pigott-SmithNicholas FarrellA dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.Other nominees:
We Were Soldiers
In This World
Big Trouble
28 Days Later...
Most memorable role performance:
Adrien Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman (The Pianist)
Best Film not in English Language:
Ju-on (Japan)
Best documentary:
Bowling for Columbine - DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsChoi Min-sikYoo Ji-taeKang Hye-jeongAfter being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.Other nominees:
Mystic River
Love Actually
Ong-bak
Stuck on You
Most memorable role performance:
Min-sik Choi as Dae-su Oh (Oldeuboi)
Best Film not in English Language:
Oldeuboi (South Korea)
Best documentary:
Touching the Void - DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsJavier BardemBelén RuedaLola DueñasThe factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 28-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.Other nominees:
Crash
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Saw
The Woodsman
Most memorable role performance:
David Carradine as Bill (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)
Best Film not in English Language:
Mar adentro (Spain / France / Italy)
Best documentary:
Super Size Me - DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsJasper PääkkönenMikko LeppilampiPamela TolaOne bad event begins a chain reaction of misery as problems transfer from one person to another. It starts when a schoolteacher is fired and projects his issues onto his teenage son.Other nominees:
Caché
Lord of War
Sin City
Everything Is Illuminated
Most memorable role performance:
Ellen Page as Hayley Stark (Hard Candy)
Best Film not in English Language:
Paha maa (Finland)
Best documentary:
Earthlings - DirectorJonathan DaytonValerie FarisStarsSteve CarellToni ColletteGreg KinnearA family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.Other nominees:
The Prestige
Fast Food Nation
Bobby
The Da Vinci Code
Most memorable role performance:
Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin (The Last King of Scotland)
Best Film not in English Language:
El laberinto del fauno (Spain / Mexico / USA)
Best documentary:
Cocaine Cowboys - DirectorSean PennStarsEmile HirschVince VaughnCatherine KeenerAfter graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.Other nominees:
No Country for Old Men
Tropa de Elite
The Simpsons Movie
Once
Most memorable role performance:
Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh (No Country for Old Men)
Best Film not in English Language:
Tropa de Elite (Brazil)
Best documentary:
The King of Kong - DirectorCyrus NowrastehStarsShohreh AghdashlooJim CaviezelMozhan NavabiA story told by Zahra to a French journalist of her niece Soraya Manutchehri, a 35-year-old married woman, who received capital punishment and stoned to death because of false accusations in the remote village of Kuhpayeh, Iran, in 1986.Other nominees:
Nordwand
Martyrs
Burn After Reading
Vals Im Bashir
Most memorable role performance:
Brad Pitt as Chad Feldheimer (Burn After Reading)
Best Film not in English Language:
Nordwand (Germany / Austria / Switzerland)
Best documentary:
Anvil: The Story of Anvil - DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsBrad PittDiane KrugerEli RothIn Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.Other nominees:
Zombieland
District 9
Avatar
Away We Go
Most memorable role performance:
Christoph Waltz as Col. Hans Landa (Inglourious Basterds)
Best Film not in English Language:
Død snø (Norway)
Best documentary:
Home - DirectorChristopher NolanStarsLeonardo DiCaprioJoseph Gordon-LevittElliot PageA thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.Other nominees:
Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora é Outro
True Grit
The King's Speech
En familie
Most memorable role performance:
Colin Firth as King George VI (The King's Speech)
Best Film not in English Language:
Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora é Outro
(Brazil)
Best documentary:
Reindeerspotting - pako Joulumaasta - DirectorJ.C. ChandorStarsZachary QuintoStanley TucciKevin SpaceyFollows the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.Other nominees:
The Descendants
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
50/50
A Better Life
Most memorable role performance:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Adam (50/50)
Best Film not in English Language:
Serbuan maut (Indonesia / France / USA)
Best documentary:
Pearl Jam Twenty - DirectorSam MendesStarsDaniel CraigJavier BardemNaomie HarrisJames Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.Other nominees:
Prometheus
The Sessions
Django Unchained
Silver Linings Playbook
Most memorable role performance:
John Hawkes as Mark (The Sessions)
Best Film not in English Language:
Hannah Arendt (Germany / Luxembourg / France / Israel)
Best documentary:
Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet - DirectorDavid AyerStarsBrad PittShia LaBeoufLogan LermanA grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945.Other nominees:
Edge of Tomorrow
The Imitation Game
Calvary
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Most memorable role performances:
Ralph Fiennes as M. Gustave (The Grand Hotel Budapest)
Brendan Gleeson as Father James (Calvary)
Michael Fassbender as Frank (Frank)
Best Film not in English Language:
La isla mínima (Spain)
Best documentary:
Autolla Nepaliin - unelmien elokuva - DirectorGeorge MillerStarsTom HardyCharlize TheronNicholas HoultIn a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper and a drifter named Max.Other nominees:
The Revenant
The Martian
Beasts of No Nation
Inside Out
Most memorable role performances:
Deanna Dunagan as Nana (The Visit)
Tom Hardy as John Fitzgerald (The Revenant)
Abraham Attah as Agu (Beast of No Nation)
Best Film not in English Language:
Saul fia (Hungary)
Best documentary:
Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief - DirectorMel GibsonStarsAndrew GarfieldSam WorthingtonLuke BraceyWorld War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, serving during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.Other nominees:
Deadpool
The Siege of Jadotville
The Fundamentals of Caring
Hell or High Water
Most memorable role performances:
Hugo Weaving as Tom Doss (Hacksaw Ridge)
Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson / Deadpool (Deadpool)
Craig Roberts as Trevor (The Fundamentals of Caring)
Best Film not in English Language:
Eshtebak (Egypt / France / Germany)
Best documentary:
Forever Pure - DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsEero AhoJohannes HolopainenJussi VatanenA film adaptation of Väinö Linna's best selling novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and the novel's unedited manuscript version, Sotaromaani.Other nominees:
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Wind River
Dunkirk
The Death of Stalin
Most memorable role performances:
Sam Rockwell as Dixon (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Eero Aho as Rokka (Tuntematon sotilas)
Thomas Jane as Wilfred James (1922)
Best Film not in English Language:
Tuntematon Sotilas (Finland / Belgium / Iceland)
Best documentary:
Pearl Jam: Let's Play Two - DirectorJohn KrasinskiStarsEmily BluntJohn KrasinskiMillicent SimmondsA family struggles for survival in a world where most humans have been killed by blind but noise-sensitive creatures. They are forced to communicate in sign language to keep the creatures at bay.Other nominees:
Deadpool 2
Game Night
Summer of 84
El fotógrafo de Mauthausen
Most memorable role performances:
Mario Cassas as Francesc Boix (El fotógrafo de Mauthausen)
Jesse Plemons as Gary (Game Night)
Best Film not in English Language:
El fotógrafo de Mauthausen (Spain)
Best documentary:
Bobby Robson: More Than a Manager - DirectorAnthony RussoJoe RussoStarsRobert Downey Jr.Chris EvansMark RuffaloAfter the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos' actions and restore balance to the universe.Other nominees:
Joker
The Highwaymen
Captain Marvel
Once Upon Time in... Hollywood
Most memorable role performances:
Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck (Joker)
Zachary Levi as Shazam (Shazam!)
Woody Harrelson as Maney Gault (The Highwaymen)
Best Film not in English Language:
Best documentary:
The Great Hack - DirectorJean-Marc ValléeStarsMatthew McConaugheyJennifer GarnerJared LetoIn 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.Other nominees:
Blue Ruin
The Conjuring
Despicable Me 2
Gravity
Most memorable role performances:
Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof (Dallas Buyers Club)
Robert Redford as Our Man (All Is Lost)
Jim Carrey as Steve Gray (The Incredible Burt Wonderstone)
Best Film not in English Language:
Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann (Sweden / Russia / UK / France / Spain)
Best documentary:
Dirty Wars