Have you not seen “Nausicaa” or did you accidentally leave it off your list?

1) Grave of Fireflies
2) Princess Mononoke
3) Spirited Away
4) Howl’s Moving Castle
5) The Tale of Princess Kaguya
6) Kiki’s Delivery Service
7) Only You
8) Ponyo
9) The Wind Rises
10) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
11) Pom Poko
12) Castle in the Sky
13) Porco Rosso
14) The Cat Returns
15) Arrietty
16) My Neighbor Totoro
17) From Up On Poppy…[Read more]

1) Natalie Portman
2) Cate Blanchett
3) Olivia Colman
4) Jennifer Lawrence
5) Brie Larson
6) Renee Zellweger
7) Emma Stone
8) Julianne Moore
9) Frances McDormand
10) Meryl Streep

1) Daniel Day Lewis (and yet my favorite performance of that year was Joaquin Phoenix in “The Master”)
2) Matthew McConaughy
3) Casey Affleck
4) Colin Firth
5) Jean Dujardin
6) Joaquin Phoenix
7) Gary Oldman
8) Leonardo DiCaprio
9) Eddie Redmayne
10) Rami Malek (I just don’t get this win. Especially over Bradley Copper and his nominations in…[Read more]

1. Her
2. Spotlight
3. Midnight in Paris
4. Parasite
5. Django Unchained
6. Manchester by the Sea
7. The King’s Speech
8. Get Out
9. Green Book
10. Birdman

1) The Social Network
2) Moonlight
3) Call Me By Your Name
4) The Big Short
5) Jojo Rabbit
6) The Descendants
7) Argo
8) BlaKkKlansman
9) The Imitation Game
0) 12 Year a Slave

Jane Fonda (Klute)
Liza Minelli
Diane Keaton
Ellen Burstyn
Faye Dunaway
Louise Fletcher
Sally Field
Glenda Jackson (Women in Love)
Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class)
Jane Fonda (Coming Home)

I have seen all the winners and all but a few of the best picture nominees.

1) Eyes Wide Shut

2) Birth

3) Dogville

Great Kidman performances but all three are films I would never really want to see again.

As much as I love his James Bond films I am going with…

1) The Offense

2) The Untouchables

3) Indiana Jones and the Last Cruade

2007:
1. No Country for Old Men & There Will Be Blood
2. Persepolis & The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2006:
1. Letters from Iwo Jima & Pan’s Labyrinth
2. Marie Antoinette & The Squid and the Whale

2013
1. Gravity & Her
2. Rush & Mud

2012
1. The Master & Lincoln
2. Moonrise Kingdom & Skyfall

2011
1. Th Artist & Moneyball
2. Drive & A Separation

2010
1. The Social Network & The Kids Are All Right
2. Scott Pilgrim vs the World & Kick-Ass

2009:
1. A Serious Man & Inglourious Basterds
2. Revolutionary Road & The Princess and the…[Read more]

2015:
1) Mad Max: Fury Road & Spotlight
2) The Tribe & Ex-Machina (These were my choices as the 1 and 2 best films of the year.)

2014:
1) The Grand Budapest Hotel & Whiplash
2) Nightcrawler & Ida

Best Picture: Days of Heaven
Best Director: Terrence Mallick- Days of Heaven
Best Actor: Robert DeNiro- The Deer Hunter
Best Actress: Jill Clayburgh- An Unmarried Woman
Best Supporting Actress: Maureen Stapleton- Interiors
Best Supporting Actor: Bruce Dern- Coming Home
Best Original Screenplay: An Unmarried Woman
Best Adapted Screenplay: None. I…[Read more]

“Coming Home” was a movie that generally disappointed me when I finally saw it. Except for Bruce Dern’s performance I find the whole thing pretty damn phony and that goes double for Jane Fonda’s performance. Her hair getting frizzier over the course of the film does a lot of the work for her.

P.S. I also lover her performance in “Klute” and…[Read more]

“Paterson” is a very cool pick. If it still playing on Amazon Prime people should definitely take advantage.

2017:
1) Call Me By Your Name & Phantom Thread
2) Atomic Blonde & Spiderman: Homecoming

2016:
1) La La Land & Moonlight
2) Sing Street & Kubo and the Two Strings

2019:
1) Little Women & Marriage Story
2) The Last Black Man in San Francisco & Portrait of a Lady On Fire

2018:
1) A Star Is Born & Cold War
2) Eighth Grade & Isle of Dogs

F. Murray Abraham- Amadeus
Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Jeff Bridges- Crazy Heart (though “The Big Liebowski” is close but he gets extra points for singing)
Claudette Colbert – It Happened One Night
Olivia Colman- The Favourite (I couldn’t think of a better cinematic perform…[Read more]

I still need to finally see “Portrait of a Lady On Fire” which starts near, or at least nearish, me this weekend but for now the list goes…

1) Little Women
2) Marriage Story
3) A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
4) Jojo Rabbit
5) Parasite
6) Uncut Gems
7) The Last Black Man in San Francisco
8) 1917
9) Ford vs Ferrari
10) The Farewell