1. Inside Out - Pete Doctor and Ronaldo Del Carmen + Best Family Movie of the Year + Best American Movie of the Year
2. Looking S2 - Michael Lannan (creator) + Best LGBT Movie/TV-series of the Year + Best San Francisco Movie/TV-series of the Year + Most Underappreciated Movie/TV-series of the Year
3. 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
4. Carol - Todd Haynes + Best Period Movie of the Year + Best Romance of the Year + Best Adaptation of the Year
5. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation - Christopher McQuarrie + Best Action Movie of the Year
6. The Big Short - Adam McKay + Best Political Movie of the Year + Best New York movie of the Year
7. Amy, documentary - Asif Kapadia
8. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - J. J. Abrams + Best Blockbuster of the Year + Best Shooting Star Actress of the Year: Daisy Ridley
9. Spotlight - Tom McCarthy + Best True-Crime Movie of the Year + Best Boston Movie of the Year
10. Jurassic World - Colin Trevorrow + Best 3D Movie of the Year
Other great 2015 movies (in alphabetic order)
A War/Krigen - Tobias Lindholm + Best War Movie of the Year + Best Danish Movie of the Year
The Danish Girl - Tom Hooper + Best Drama 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
Spy - Paul Feig + Best Comedy of the Year
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 + Best New England Title of the Year
Other good 2015 movies (in alphabetic order)
Ant-Man - Peyton Reed + Best Superhero movie of the Year
Green Room - Jeremy Saulnier + Most Violent Movie of the Year
Irrational Man - Woody Allen
Klown Forever/Klovn Forever - Mikkel Nørgaard + Best Los Angeles Movie of the Year
Spectre - Sam Mendes
Strangerland - Kim Farrant + Best Mega-Flop Movie of the Year
Trainwreck - Judd Apatow
Trumbo - Jay Roach
The Worst of 2015
1. Terminator Genisys - Alan Taylor
2. The 33 - Patricia Riggen + Most Expensive Flop of the Year
3. Silicon Valley S2 - John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky, Mike Judge, creators + Worst Poster of the Year
4. The Revenant - Alejandro González Iñárritu + Most Overrated Movie of the Year
Failed, poor or mediocre 2015 movies:
Far from the Madding Crowd
Magic Mike XXL + Sexiest Movie of the Year + Best Dance Movie of the Year + Best Shoting Star Actor of the Year: Donald Glover
Minions
Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!, TV movie + Most Ridiculous Movie of the Year
The Visit
[34 titles in total]
Notes:
The first update of the 2015 lists adds 15 titles to the mix, bringing the tally up to 34, - still far from comprehensive.
On the best-of list, the year's best film remains Pete Doctor and Ronaldo Del Carmen's ingenious and insightful Inside Out, - the first animated movie to top the Film Excess annual lists. It is followed by 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 and Asif Kapadia's devastating Amy documentary, all masterpieces. The top 10 list is capped by two huge blockbusters; J. J. Abrams' inspired, tremendous Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Colin Trevorrow's majorly satisfying Jurassic World, as well as a smaller, adult and very recommendable one, Tom McCarthy's Spotlight. Leaving the top 10 this year are Paul Feig's hysterically funny Spy, Tobias Lindholm's forceful A War, George Miller's acclaimed Mad Max: Fury Road and finally Mikkel Nørgaard's laugh-coaster Klown Forever.
The year has been terrific especially from the major movie Hollywood front, which has given, - as the top 10 also reflects, - several spectacular films, most from existing franchises, which combats the often cited opinion that Hollywood's creative recycling and reworkings makes for poor storytelling and movies. But, of course, the year's worst film so far, - and more similar mega-movies will undoubtedly follow it, - is also a sequel in a decades old franchise.
Other great films of the year includes a fine transgender drama (The Danish Girl), a poignant youth drama (Me and Earl and the Real Girl) and a creepy religious period horror (The Witch). 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 worst-of list is crowned by Alan Taylor's Terminator: Genisys. It is followed by a dismal mining accident movie, Patricia Riggen's The 33, the second season of Silicon Valley, in which the sitcom's quality plummeted, and Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu's acclaimed, hollowly violent, preachy and overlong The Revenant.
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 draining months the so-called 'Oscars so white'-controversy regarding the few black faces to be nominated that year and in general, (not a movement for non-white people in general, the problem was, 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 try and pump some fun out of this, admitting Hollywood's racism while also attacking vocal protesting talents such as Will Smith and Spike Lee. 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). 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 has already happened more than once in the last few years.) 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 Geena Rowlands.
2015 titles still on the watchlist:
Joy, In the Heart of the Sea, The Funhouse Massacre, Rock the Kasbah, Goosebumps, Anomalisa, He Named Me Malala, Absolutely Anything, Pixels, Scream Queens (2015-), A Deadly Adoption, The Assassin, Dheepan, Youth, Sicario, Hitchcock/Truffaut, Son of Saul, Song of Lahore, Other Space (2015-), I Am Michael, Finders Keepers, People Places, Things, Mistress America, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Blackhat, Racing Extinction, Cartel Land, Cucumber (TV-series), High-Rise, The Colony, The Meddler, Krisha, Bone Tomahawk, Time to Choose, Walt Before Mickey, Bridge of Spies, Chronic, Room, Steve Jobs, 45 Years, Creed, The Hateful Eight, Ex Machina, Mustang, What Happened Miss Simone?, Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom, A Girl in the River - The Price of Forgivenes and Stutterer.
Previous annual lists:
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
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 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 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 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 I]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
What's your favorite and worst 2015 movie and TV-series experiences?
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