The Film Stage has been gradually rolling out its Best Of lists for the year over the past few weeks. With the addition of a Best Film top 50, the full slate of categories is now ready for posting here! Some are ranked, others are not, but the diversity among their choices is impressive, their tastes laudable as ever. Have a look below:
Best Film
Best Film
1. Mad Max: Fury Road (George
Miller)
2. Carol (Todd Haynes)
3. Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
4. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
5. Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
6. Son of Saul (Nemes László)
7. Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German)
8. Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
9. Chi-Raq (Spike Lee)
10. Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
11. Inside Out (Pete Docter)
12. Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs)
13. World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt)
14. Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve)
15. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
16. Heaven Knows What (Benny Safdie and Josh
Safdie)
17. The Mend (John Magary)
18. Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle)
19. The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
20. The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
21. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
22. Tangerine (Sean Baker)
23. Mistress America (Noah Baumbach)
24. Anomalisa (Duke Johnson and Charlie
Kaufman)
25. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
26. In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)
27. Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
28. Taxi (Jafar Panahi)
29. Arabian Nights: Volume 1 –
The Restless One
/ Arabian Nights: Volume 2 – The
Desolate One / Arabian Nights:
Volume 3 – The Enchanted One (Miguel Gomes)
30. 88:88 (Isiah Medina)
31. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang Soo)
32. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)
33. Shaun the Sheep Movie (Mark Burton and Richard
Stanczak)
34. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (Spike Lee)
35/ Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
36. Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
37. Youth (Paolo Sorrentino)
38. Room (Lenny Abrahamson)
39. Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan)
40. Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra)
41. Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler)
42. The Forbidden Room (Evan Johnson and Guy
Maddin)
43. Creed (Ryan Coogler)
44. James White (Josh Mond)
45. Ballet 422 (Jody Lee Lipes)
46. Amy (Asif Kapadia)
47. Sunset Song (Terence Davies)
48. The Sky Trembles and the
Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Ben Rivers)
49. Mississippi Grind (Anna Boden and Ryan
Fleck)
50. The Big Short (Adam McKay)
Best Cinematography
Adam
Arkapaw (Macbeth)
Sean
Baker and Radium Cheung (Tangerine)
Christian
Berger (By the Sea)
Charlotte
Bruus Christensen (Far from the Madding
Crowd)
Roger
Deakins (Sicario)
Stuart
Dryburgh (Blackhat)
Sofian
el Fani (Timbuktu)
Erdély
Mátyá (Son of Saul)
Martin
Gschlacht (Amour Fou)
Vladimir
Ilin and Yuriy Klimenko (Hard to Be a
God)
Benjamin
Kasulke and Stéphanie Anne Weber Biron (The
Forbidden Room)
Nicholas
D. Knowland (The Duke of Burgundy)
Edward
Lachman (Carol)
Lee
Ping Bin (The Assassin)
Emmanuel
Lubezki (The Revenant)
Sean
Porter (Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter)
Robert
Richardson (The Hateful Eight)
Robbie
Ryan (Slow West)
Timo
Salminen (Jauja)
John
Seale (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Sebastian
Schipper (Victoria)
André
Turpin (Tom at the Farm)
Best Score / Soundtrack
1. Carter Burwell (Carol)
2. Ennio
Morricone (The Hateful Eight)
3. Shye
Ben Tzur and Jonny Greenwood (Junun)
4. Rich
Vreeland (It Follows)
5. Eden
6. Keegan
DeWitt (Queen of Earth)
7. Jóhann
Jóhannsson (Sicario)
8. Britta
Phillips and Dean Wareham (Mistress
America)
9. Tom
Holkenborg (Mad Max: Fury Road)
10. Chi-Raq
11. Jed
Kurzel (Slow West)
12. Michael
Giacchino (Inside Out)
13. Daniel
Pemberton (Steve Jobs)
14. Atticus
Ross and Brian Wilson (Love & Mercy)
15. John
Williams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
16. 17. Michael
Brook (Brooklyn)
18. Michael
Giacchino (Jupiter Ascending)
19. Carter
Burwell (Anomalisa)
20. Faris
Badwan and Rachel Zeffira (The Duke of
Burgundy)
21. Magic Mike XXL
22. Jed
Kurzel (Macbeth)
23. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
24. Dan
Romer (Beasts of No Nation)
25. Howard
Shore (Spotlight)
26. Geoff
Barrow and Ben Salisbury (Ex Machina)
27. Bryce
Dessner, Carsten Nicolai and Sakamoto Ryûichi (The Revenant)
28. Ryan
Figg, Josh Lambert, Yvonne Lambert, Toto Miranda and Dominique Preyer (Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter)
29. Johnny
Jewel (Lost River)
30. Tangerine
31. Joe
Kraemer (Mission: Impossible – Rogue
Nation)
32. Craig
Armstrong (Far from the Madding Crowd)
33. Michael
Giacchino (Tomorrowland)
34. Entertainment
35. Patrick
Doyle (Cinderella)
Daniel
Pemberton (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
Best Ensemble
The Assassin
Carol
Chi-Raq
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Magic Mike XXL
Mistress America
Mustang
Sicario
Spotlight
Best Documentary
Amy (Asif Kapadia)
Ballet 422 (Jody Lee Lipes)
Best of Enemies (Robert Gordon and Morgan
Neville)
Call Me Lucky (Bobcat Goldthwait)
Cartel Land (Matthew Heineman)
Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen)
Democrats (Camilla Nielsson)
Finders Keepers (Bryan Carberry and J.
Clay Tweel)
Going Clear: Scientology
and the Prison of Belief (Alex Gibney)
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Kent Jones)
The Hunting Ground (Kirby Dick)
In My Father’s House (Ricki Stern and Anne
Sundberg)
Iris (Albert Maysles)
Junun (Paul Thomas Anderson)
In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)
Listen to Me Marlon (Stevan Riley)
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
The Pearl Button (Patricio Guzmán)
The Russian Woodpecker (Chad Gracia)
The Salt of the Earth (Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
and Wim Wenders)
Stray Dog (Debra Granik)
We Come as Friends (Hubert Sauper)
Welcome to Leith (Michael Beach Nichols and
Christopher K. Walker)
What Happened, Miss Simone? (Liz Garbus)
The Wolfpack (Crystal Moselle)
Most Overlooked Film
10,000km (Carlos Marques)
Amour Fou (Jessica Hausner)
Appropriate Behaviour (Desiree Akhavan)
Arabian Nights: Volume 1 –
The Restless One
/ Arabian Nights: Volume 2 – The Desolate
One / Arabian Nights: Volume 3 – The
Enchanted One (Miguel Gomes)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf)
Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler)
Buzzard (Joel Potrykus)
Christmas, Again (Charles Poekel)
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (Spike Lee)
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve)
Entertainment (Rick Alverson)
Experimenter (Michael Almereyda)
Faults (Riley Stearns)
The Forbidden Room (Evan Johnson and Guy
Maddin)
Gangs of Wasseypur (Anurag Kashyap)
Girlhood (Céline Sciamma)
Güeros (Alonso Ruizpalacios)
Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German)
Heaven Knows What (Ben Safdie and Joshua
Safdie)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
James White (Josh Mond)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (David Zellner)
Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
Man from Reno (Dave Boyle)
The Mend (John Magary)
Mississippi Grind (Anna Boden and Ryan
Fleck)
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch
Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson)
Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry)
Respire (Mélanie Laurent)
Results (Andrew Bujalski)
Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
She’s Funny That Way (Peter Bogdanovich)
Sleeping with Other People (Leslye Headland)
Slow West (John MacLean)
The Summer of Sangaile (Alanté Kavaïté)
Spring (Justin Benson and Aaron Scott
Moorhead)
Tangerine (Sean Baker)
Taxi (Jafar Panahi)
Time Out of Mind (Oren Moverman)
Tokyo Tribe (Sono Sion)
The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy)
Tu Dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur)
Unexpected (Kris Swanberg)
Victoria (Sebastian Schipper)
The Voices (Marjane Satrapi)
When Marnie Was There (Yonebayashi Hiromasa)
Best Directorial Debut
’71 (Yann Demange)
Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler)
Christmas, Again (Charles Poekel)
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
Faults (Riley Stearns)
The Gift (Joel Edgerton)
Güeros (Alonso Ruizpalacios)
James White (Josh Mond)
The Mend (John Magary)
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
Partisan (Ariel Kleiman)
Son of Saul (Nemes László)
Slow West (John MacLean)
Uncle John (Steven Piet)
Best Breakthrough
Performance
Christopher
Abbott (James White)
Abraham
Attah (Beasts of No Nation)
Rebecca
Ferguson (Mission: Impossible – Rogue
Nation)
Arielle
Holmes (Heaven Knows What)
Teyonah
Parris (Chi-Raq)
Bel
Powley (The Diary of a Teenage Girl)
Daisy
Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
Kitana
Kiki Rodriguez (Tangerine)
Röhrig
Géza (Son of Saul)
Mark
Rylance (Bridge of Spies)
Mya
Taylor (Tangerine)
Jacob
Tremblay (Room)
Best Double Feature
99 Homes / The Big Short
Amour Fou / A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Arabian Nights: Volume 1 –
The Restless One
/ Arabian Nights: Volume 2 – The
Desolate One / Arabian Nights:
Volume 3 – The Enchanted One / Li’l
Quinquin
Bone Tomahawk / The Hateful Eight
Cartel Land / Sicario
Chi-Raq / Tokyo Tribe
Hard to Be a God / Mad Max: Fury Road
Heaven Knows What / Time Out of Mind
Room / The Wolfpack
Shaun the Sheep Movie / The Tribe
Best Poster
1. Shelter (CHIPS)
2. Cop Car
3. It Follows (Palaceworks)
4. Wild Canaries (Corey Holms)
5. The Revenant
6. Carol
7. Sicario (LA)
8. Tangerine (P+A)
9. The Forbidden Room (Galen Johnson)
10. Magic Mike XXL (Concept Arts)
11. Welcome to Me
12. The Hateful Eight
13. By the Sea
14. Far from the Madding Crowd
15. Hyena
16. Love
17. Horse Money
18. Brooklyn
19. Felt
20. Focus
21. The Age of Adaline
22. The Seventh Fire
23. The Assassin
24. Freeheld
25. The Visit
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