2. A Star Is Born - Bradley Cooper + Best American Movie of the Year + Best Debut Movie of the Year: Bradley Cooper + Best Musical of the Year + Best Remake of the Year + Best Dog Performance of the Year: Charlie + Best Mega-hit Movie of the Year
3. Stan & Ollie - Jon S. Baird + Best Dramedy of the Year + English Movie of the Year + Best Homage of the Year + Best Period Movie of the Year + Best Shooting Star Actress of the Year: Nina Arianda
4. Mission: Impossible - Fallout - Christopher McQuarrie + Best Action Movie of the Year + Best Fight Scene of the Year: Bathroom fight scene + Best Car Chase of the Year: Paris chase + Best Big Hit Movie of the Year
5. I Feel Pretty - Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein + Best Comedy of the Year + Best New York Movie of the Year
6. Green Book - Peter Farrelly + Best Road Movie of the Year
7. A Quiet Place - John Krasinski + Best Horror Movie of the Year + Best Apocalyptic Movie of the Year + Best Screen Couple of the Year: John Krasinski & Emily Blunt
8. Aquaman - James Wan + Best Action-Adventure of the Year + Best Huge Hit Movie of the Year + Best Superhero Movie of the Year + Breakthrough Actor of the Year: Jason Momoa
9. The White Crow - Ralph Fiennes + Best Biopic of the Year + Best Dance Movie of the Year + Best Paris Movie of the Year + Best Political Movie of the Year
10. The Nun - Corin Hardy + Best Religious Horror Movie of the Year + Breakthrough Actress of the Year: Taissa Farmiga
Other great movies of 2018 (in alphabetic order):
Tully - Jason Reitman + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year
Other good, recommendable movies of 2018 (in alphabetic order):
Black Panther - Ryan Coogler + Most Overrated Movie of the Year
Cold War - Pawel Pawlikowski + Best B/W Movie of the Year + Polish Movie of the Year
The Favourite - Yorgos Lanthimos
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - J.A. Bayona
Shoplifters/万引き家族 (Manbiki kazoku) - Hirokazu Kore-eda + Best Japanese Movie of the Year + Best Tokyo Movie of the Year
Failed, mediocre and/or poor films (in alphabetical order):
A Fortunate Man/Lykke-Per - Bille August + Best Shooting Star Actor of the Year: Esben Smed
Border/Gräns - Ali Abbasi
The House that Jack Built - Lars Von Trier
[19 titles in total]
Notes:
This first update of the 2018 summary adds 7 titles to the mix, 5 of them broaching the Top 10 and none bad, which makes it still impossible to start 2018's Bottom 10 list: Where there no bad films made in 2018? Yes, there were, and those reviews are coming.
Topping the year is new entry Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra's fantastic drug drama Birds of Passage, which pushes Bradley Cooper's sensational musical surprise smash remake A Star Is Born to 2nd place. They are followed by new entry Jon S. Baird's spectacular comedy duo homage Stan & Ollie as the year's 3rd best. The list goes on with Christopher McQuarrie's second suspenseful action blessing, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein's uplifting body image romcom I Feel Pretty, new entry Peter Farrelly's surprising period road movie dramedy and popular smash Green Book, John Krasinski's tight survival horror A Quiet Place, new entry James Wan's action-adventure popcorn-pushing blessing Aquaman, new entry Ralph Fiennes' anti-Communist ballet maestro biopic The White Crow and finally Corin Hardy's Gothic religious horror The Nun. Pushed from the Top 10 list in this update are Jason Reitman's birth depression dramedy Tully, Hirokazu Kore-eda's insightful Tokyo-set social realism Shoplifters, J.A. Bayona's major box office dino actioner Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Ryan Coogler's hyperboled superhero escapade Black Panther.
Great filmmakers who made underwhelming films in 2018 include Lars Von Trier (The House that Jack Built) and Bille August (A Fortunate Man).
Biggest flops of the year:
[The loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. The House that Jack Built - 7.7 mil. $ range
2. Tully - 5.76 mil. $ range
3. A Fortunate Man - 5.33 mil. $ range
= Combined losses: 18.79 mil. $
Biggest hits of the year:
[The gain is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - 353.36 mil. $ range
2. Black Panther - 338.76 mil. $ range
3. Aquaman - 259.24 mil. $ range
4. Mission: Impossible - Fallout - 138.44 mil. $ range
5. A Star Is Born - 137.92 mil. $ range
6. The Nun - 124.2 mil. $ range
7. A Quiet Place - 119.36 mil. $ range
8. Green Book - 105.68 mil. $ range
9. The Favourite - 23.36 mil. $ range
10. Shoplifters - 16.2 mil. $ range
= Combined profits: 1,616.52 mil. $
On the 2019 Oscars:
The 91st Academy Awards were the first since 1989 to have no host, a solution that followed months of troubles following the lowest-rated Oscars to date in 2018 with host Jimmy Kimmel. Several attempts to change the show's format, including a Best Popular Film category, having less Best Song nominees perform and having technical Oscars be given during commercial breaks, were effectively shot down by angered industry heads, and the show was consequently not much shorter than is normal.
Most nominated of the year were Roma and The Favourite with 10 each, but the night's biggest winner in number of statuettes was scandalized directed Bryan Singer's Bohemian Rhapsody with 4.
Green Book won Best Picture, Original Screenplay (Nick Vallelonga, Brian Curie and Peter Farrelly) and Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali). Alfonso Cuarón won Best Director for Netflix's Roma, which also won Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography (Cuarón). Rami Malek won Best Actor for Bohemian Rhapsody, which also won Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Editing. Olivia Colman won Best Actress for The Favourite; Regina King Best Supporting Actress for If Beale Street Could Talk. BlacKkKlansman won Best Adapted Screenplay (Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Wilmott and Spike Lee). Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won Best Animation, and the short film Oscars went to Period. End of Sentence. (doc.), Skin (live action) and Bao (animated). Ludwig Göransson won Best Score for Black Panther, which also won Best Production Design and Costume Design. A Star Is Born won only Best Song (Shallow), with Vice winning Best Makeup and Hairstyling and First Man winning Best Visual Effects. Honorary awards went to Cicely Tyson, Lalo Schifrin, Marvin Levy, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall. The viewership increased 12 % from the catastrophic 2018 ceremony to 29.6 mil. in the US, still among the lowest-rated Oscars to date.
2018 titles on the watch-list:
Johnny English Strikes Again, Early Man, Beautiful Boy, Sicario: Fay of the Soldado, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Isle of Dogs, Unsane, Searching, Wildlife, Burning, The Tale, Alpha, Blaze, Finale, Boy Erased, The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, The Front Runner, Mandy, Assassination Nation, The Happy Prince, Never Look Away, Roma, Long Way Back Home, The Other Side of the Wind, Eight Grade, Free Solo, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Vice, The Sisters Brothers, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, The Mule, Annihilation, Jane Fonda in Five Acts, Welcome to Marwen, Bird Bo, Arctic, At Eternity's Gate, RBG, Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Poppins Returns, First Man, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, Christopher Robin, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Mirai, Incredibles 2, Period. End of Sentence., Lifeboat, Skin, Fauve, Detainment, One Small Step, Bao, Animal Behavior, End Game, Black Sheep, Minding the Gap, Bohemian Rhapsody
Previous annual lists:
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 - 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
What do you think of the 2018 list?
Which 2018 titles are at the top and bottom of your lists?
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