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2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]

The Top 10 of the Year


1. Inside Out - Pete Doctor, Ronaldo Del Carmen + Best Family Movie of the Year + Best American Movie of the Year


2. The Lobster - Yorgos Lanthimos + Best Animal Movie of the Year


3.  Brooklyn - John Crowley + Most Deserved Hit of the Year + Best Irish Movie of the Year + Best Period Movie of the Year + Best On-Screen Couple of the Year: Saoirse Ronan & Emory Cohen


4. Looking S2 - Michael Lannan, creator + Best LGBT Movie/TV-series of the Year + Best San Francisco Title of the Year + Most Underappreciated Title of the Year


5. Embrace of the Serpent/El Abrazo de la Serpiente - Ciro Guerra + Best Colombian Movie of the Year + Best Psychedelic Movie of the Year + Best B/W Movie of the Year + Best Poster of the Year


6. Carol - Todd Haynes + Best Romance of the Year + Best Adaptation of the Year



7. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation - Christopher McQuarrie + Best Action Movie of the Year


8. The Big Short - Adam McKay + Best Political Movie of the Year + Best New York Movie of the Year


9. Amy, documentary - Asif Kapadia


10. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - J.J. Abrams + Best Blockbuster of the Year + Best Shooting Star Actress of the Year: Daisy Ridley + Most Profitable Movie of the Year: 582.36 mil. $ range

Other great movies of the year (in alphabetical order):


A War/Krigen - Tobias Lindholm + Best War Movie of the Year


The Danish Girl - Tom Hooper + Best Drama of the Year


Jurassic World - Colin Trevorrow + Best 3D Movie of the Year + Best Action-Adventure of the Year


Mad Max: Fury Road -George Miller + Best Australian Movie of the Year + Best Comeback of the Year: George Miller

  Me and Earl and the Dying Girl - Alfonso Gomez-Rejon + Best Youth Movie of the Year

 

 

Men & Chicken/Mænd & Høns - Anders Thomas Jensen + Best Comedy of the Year + Best Danish Movie of the Year + Best Huge Flop Movie of the Year



Mennesker Bliver Spist - Erik Clausen + Best Dramedy of the Year

 


Spotlight - Tom McCarthy  + Best True-Crime Movie of the Year + Best Boston Movie of the Year


Spy - Paul Feig + Best Action-Comedy of the Year + Best Fight Scene of the Year: Melissa McCarthy's kitchen fight scene


Straight Outta Compton - F. Gary Gray + Best Music Movie of the Year


The Witch - Robert Eggers + Best Horror Movie of the Year + Best Debut Movie of the Year

Good, recommendable 2015 movies (in alphabetical order):


Ant-Man - Peyton Reed + Best Superhero movie of the Year


Green Room - Jeremy Saulnier


Irrational Man - Woody Allen


Klown Forever/Klovn Forever - Mikkel Nørgaard + Best Los Angeles Movie of the Year


Long Story Short/Lang Historie Kort - May el-Toukhy + Best Box Office Disaster of the Year



The Martian - Ridley Scott + Best Huge Hit Movie of the Year + Best Science-Fiction Movie of the Year

 

 

The Meddler - Lorene Scafaria 

 

 

Miles Ahead - Don Cheadle

 

 

Mortdecai - David Koepp + Most Expensive Flop of the Year: 41.12 mil. $ range



Spectre - Sam Mendes


Strangerland - Kim Farrant + Worst $ Return of the Year: 0.01 Times 


Trainwreck - Judd Apatow


Trumbo - Jay Roach

The Bottom 10 of the Year

 

1. Maggie - Henry Hobson + Career-Killer of the Year: Henry Hobson, John Scott 3 

 


2. Terminator Genisys - Alan Taylor


3. Life - Anton Corbijn + Most Deserved Flop of the Year


4. The 33 - Patricia Riggen



5. Slow West - David Maclean

 


6. The Elite/Eliten - Thomas Daneskov


7. Avengers: Age of Ultron - Joss Whedon + Most Undeserved Hit of the Year


8. Silicon Valley - season 2 - John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky, Mike Judge, creators + Worst Poster of the Year


9. Anomalisa - Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman


10. The Revenant - Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu + Most Overrated Movie of the Year

Other failed, poor and/or mediocre movies of the year (in alphabetical order):

Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Vinterberg
Magic Mike XXL - Gregory Jacobs + Best Dance Movie of the Year + Best Shooting Star Actor of the Year: Donald Glover
Max - Boaz Yakin + Best Dog Movie of the Year

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials - Wes Ball 

Minions - Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin
Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!, TV movie - Anthony C. Ferrante + Most Ridiculous Movie of the Year 
The Visit - M. Night Shyamalan + Best $ Return of the Year: 19.68 Times

[51 titles in total]


Notes:

10 more titles trot to the lists in this edition of 2015 in films and TV-series.

None of them breach the Top 10, which remains unchanged: Pete Doctor and Ronaldo Del Carmen's ingenious and insightful family animation Inside Out remains the first animated movie to top the Film Excess annual lists. It is followed by Yorgos Lanthimos' hilarious and poignant absurd-comedy The Lobster, with John Crowley's sensational period romance drama Brooklyn taking bronze. Following are Michael Lannan's second and regrettably already last season of the amazing Looking series, Ciro Guerra's transcendent Amazon excursion Embrace of the Serpent, Todd Haynes' sensational 1950s-set lesbian romance Carol, Christopher McQuarrie's flawless action jewel Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Adam McKay's indignant, inventive financial crisis movie The Big Short, Asif Kapadia's devastating Amy documentary and finally J. J. Abrams' inspired, tremendous Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Other fine films of the year include Paul Feig's hysterically funny Spy, Colin Trevorrow's terrific thrill-ride Jurassic World, Tobias Lindholm's forceful A War, George Miller's acclaimed actioner Mad Max: Fury Road, Anders Thomas Jensen's cuckoo crazy comedy Men & Chicken, Robert Eggers' mood-piece horror debut The Witch, Tom McCarthy's Catholic church pedophilia scandal drama Spotlight and Mikkel Nørgaard's laugh-coaster Klown Forever. Also among the year's highlights are: A fine transgender drama (The Danish Girl) and a poignant youth drama (Me and Earl and the Real Girl). Daniel Craig returned in another good Bond movie, explosive, fun Spectre, and Amy Schumer made her much-hyped big screen debut in the successful Trainwreck. The box office receipts were enormous for several of the year's top-grossing films.
The Bottom 10 list adds 2 titles in this edition and grows to pack a full 10: New turkey king of 2015 is Henry Hobson's awful apocalyptic zombie-downer Maggie; silver goes to another Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring dud, Alan Taylor's jumbled Terminator: Genisys, with Anton Corbijn's disastrously miscast, dull James Dean biopic Life taking bronze. The list goes on with Patricia Riggen's dismal mining accident movie The 33, new entry David Maclean's modern revisionist western indie Slow West, Thomas Daneskov's low-budgeted generational drama The Elite, another poor tentpole sequel, Joss Whedon's disappointing Avengers: Age of Ultron, the second season of John Altschuler Dave Krinsky and Mike Judge's Silicon Valley, in which the sitcom's towering quality plummeted; Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman's intricately designed and off-puttingly dispiriting Anomalisa, and finally Mexican master filmmaker Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu's critically acclaimed, hollowly violent, preachy and overlong The Revenant.
Among the other master filmmakers who churned out sub-par films in 2014 are Thomas Vinterberg (Far from the Madding Crowd) and M. Night Shyamalan (The Visit).

On the 2016 Oscars:

The ceremony was hosted for the second time by Chris Rock, who faced a hard task in making the evening enjoyable after some mentally draining months of the so-called #OscarsSoWhite controversy, targeting the academy for the few black faces to be nominated that year and in general, (not a movement for non-white people in general, the problem was, curiously, according to the statements from everyone from execs to major stars, specifically the lack of black nominees and Oscar winners...) Rock tried and enlisted Whoopi Goldberg to pump some fun out of this, admitting Hollywood's racism while also attacking vocally protesting black talents such as Will Smith and Spike Lee for their stances. The night wasn't fun though, - probably among the least bearable Oscar nights in my memory. 
It didn't help that the biggest winners were the wrong films: Mad Max: Fury Road (6 Oscars) and The Revenant (3 Oscars) don't even make Film Excess' top 10 of the year.
Spotlight won Best Film and Original Screenplay (Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer). Revenant won Best Director (Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu thus became, ridiculously, the third of all time to win the award consecutively), Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki, also ridiculously, became the first to win the award three years in a row). Masterpiece Room won Best Actress (Brie Larson), and Mark Rylance won Best Supporting Actor for Bridge of Spies. Alicia Vikander won Best Supporting Actress for The Danish Girl. Adam McKay and Charles Randolph won Best Adapted Screenplay for The Big Short. Inside Out won Best Animation, Son of Saul Best Foreign Film (ahead of Embrace of the Serpent, Mustang, Theeb and A War) and Amy won Best Documentary. The short film Oscars went to A Girl in the River - The Price of Forgiveness (short doc.), Stutterer (short live-action) and Bear Story (short animation). Ennio Morricone won Best Score for The Hateful Eight, and Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith won Best Song for Writing's on the Wall (Spectre). Smith provided one of the evening's most embarrassing moments, when he stated that he was honored to be the first out gay person to win an Oscar, (which had already happened more than once in the few years preceding the 2016 show.) Mad Max: Fury Road took a batch of technical Oscars: Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Production Design and Costumes. Ex Machina won Best Visual Effects.
Honorary Oscars went to Spike Lee, Debbie Reynolds and Gena Rowlands.

IMDb's user-generated Top 10 most popular movies of 2015:

1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2. Pitch Perfect 2

3. Spectre
4. Avengers: Age of Ultron
5. Jurassic World
6. Fifty Shades of Grey
7. Sicario
8. The Hateful Eight
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
10. San Andreas 

Biggest flops of the year:

[The loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing spends and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
 
 

1. Mortdecai - 41.12 mil. $ range new entry
2. The 33 - 14.84 mil. $ range
3. Life - 12.02 mil. $ range

4. Strangerland - 9.95 mil. $ range

5. Miles Ahead - 6.46 mil. $ range new entry
6. Anomalisa - 5.76 mil. $ range

7. Trumbo - 5.44 mil. $ range
8. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl - 4.4 mil. $ range

9. A War - 3.92 mil. $ range 

10. Far from the Madding Crowd - 3.87 mil. $ range
 = Combined losses: 107.78 mil. $

Biggest hits of the year:

[The gain is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing spends and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
 


1.  Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 582.6 mil. $ range

2. Jurassic World - 516.16 mil. $ range

3. Minions - 389.76 mil. $ range

4. Avengers: Age of Ultron - 311.12 mil. $ range

5. Inside Out - 168.2 mil. $ range

6. The Martian - 144.04 mil. $ range new entry

7. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation - 123.08 mil. $ range

8. Spectre - 107.24 mil. $ range

9. The Revenant - 78.16 mil. $ range

10. Ant-Man - 76.52 mil. $ range

= Combined profits: 2,496.88 mil. $
 

2015 titles still on the watch-list:

The Funhouse Massacre, He Named Me Malala, Absolutely Anything, Pixels, Scream Queens (2015-), A Deadly Adoption, Hitchcock/Truffaut, Song of Lahore, Other Space (2015-), I Am Michael, Finders Keepers, People Places, Things, Mistress America, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Racing Extinction, Cartel Land, Cucumber (TV-series), The Colony, Krisha, Time to Choose, Walt Before Mickey, Chronic, Steve Jobs, What Happened Miss Simone?, Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom, A Girl in the River - The Price of Forgivenes, Stutterer, Ash vs Evil Dead (2015-), Behemoth, The Hunting Grown, The Devil Lives Here, Pitch Perfect 2, Fifty Shades of Grey, San Andreas, Tanna, Sense8 S1, The Hallow, Ip Man 3, True Story

Previous annual lists:
  
 

2019 in films - according to Film Excess 
2018 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2018 in films - according to Film Excess  
2017 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2017 in films - according to Film Excess
2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I] 
2016 in films - according to Film Excess

2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II] 
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess  

2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II] 
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2014 in films - according to Film Excess

2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED V]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I] 
2013 in films - according to Film Excess    

2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED V] 
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED IV]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2011 in films - according to Film Excess

2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess  

2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess   

2008 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II] 
2008 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2008 in films - according to Film Excess
2007 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2007 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2007 in films - according to Film Excess
2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess   
2005 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess  

2004 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess

2003 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I] 
2003 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess 

2002 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess 

2001 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess 

 2000 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess

  

What do you think of the lists?
What 2015 titles would make it to your top and bottom lists?
What worthwhile 2015 movies and TV-series are missing on the watch-list?

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