Film Excess - Free Ukraine - Stop Putin - End the war NOW!!: 1993 in films and TV-series

The Top 10 of the Year

1. Farewell My Concubine/霸王別姬/Bàwáng Bié Jī - Chen Kaige + Best Historical Drama of the Year + Best Hong Kong Movie of the Year + Best Period Movie of the Year

2. Mrs. Doubtfire - Chris Columbus + Best American Movie of the Year + Best Family Movie of the Year + Best Mega-hit Movie of the Year + Best Poster of the Year + Most Profitable Movie of the Year: 151.48 mil. $ range + Best San Francisco Movie of the Year

3. Frasier - season 1 - David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee + Breakthrough of the Year, Male: Kelsey Grammer + Best New TV-series of the Year + Shooting Star of the Year, Male: David Hyde Pierce + Best Sitcom of the Year + Best Washington Title of the Year

4. Three Colors: Blue/Trois Couleurs: Bleu - Krzysztof Kieslowski + Breakthrough of the Year, Female: Juliette Binoche + Best Drama of the Year + Best French Movie of the Year

5. Falling Down - Joel Schumacher + Best Los Angeles Movie of the Year + Best Societal Critique of the Year + Best Thriller of the Year

6. The Piano - Jane Campion + Best $ Return of the Year: 20 times the cost + Best Erotic Movie of the Year + Best New Zealand Movie of the Year + Best On-screen Couple of the Year: Holly Hunter & Harvey Keitel + Best Romance of the Year

7. Groundhog Day - Harold Ramis + Best Comedy of the Year + Most Deserved Hit of the Year + Best Pennsylvania Movie of the Year

8. Philadelphia - Jonathan Demme + Best Courtroom Movie of the Year + Best Ensemble of the Year: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas, Charles Napier, Jason Robards, Roger Corman, Mary Steenburgen + Best Huge Hit Movie of the Year + Best Philadelphia Movie of the Year + Best True-Story Movie of the Year

9. Carlito's Way - Brian De Palma + Best Adaptation of the Year + Best Gangster Movie of the Year + Best New York Movie of the Year + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year

10. Hot Shots! Part Deux - Jim Abrahams + Best Big Hit Movie of the Year + Best Spoof of the Year

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

Amos & Andrew - E. Max Frye + Best Huge Flop of the Year + Best Satire of the Year

Dazed and Confused - Richard Linklater + Best Texas Movie of the Year

The Scent of Green Papaya/Mùi đu đủ Xanh/L'Odeur de la Papaye Verte - Tran Anh Hung + Best Vietnamese Movie of the Year

Recommendable, good titles of the year (in alphabetical order):

Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, TV movie - Christopher Guest + Best Arizona Movie of the Year + Most Under-appreciated Title of the Year

Demolition Man - Marco Brambilla + Best Action Movie of the Year

Stolen Spring/Det Forsømte Forår - Peter Schrøder + Best Copenhagen Movie of the Year + Best Danish Movie of the Year + Best Youth Movie of the Year

The Bottom 5 of the Year

1. Body Snatchers - Abel Ferrera

2. Heaven & Earth - Oliver Stone + Most Expensive Flop of the Year: 28.6 mil. $ range + Worst $ Return of the Year: 0.33 times the cost

3. The Firm - Sydney Pollack

4. The Fugitive - Andrew Davis + Most Overrated Movie of the Year

5. The Age of Innocence - Martin Scorsese + Most Deserved Flop of the Year

[21 titles in total]

Notes:

A slim first list of the best and worst of 1993 includes 4 masterpieces and no grade zero slush.

The Top 10 opens with Chen Kaige's rare, beautiful historical drama, Farewell My Concubine. Chris Columbus' family dramedy favorite Mrs. Doubtfire takes silver, and David Angell, Peter Casey and David Lee's new sitcom masterpiece Frasier bronze. The list goes on with Krzysztof Kieslowski's grief drama masterpiece Blue, Joel Schumacher's modern angry man thriller Falling Down, Jane Campion's Maori period romance The Piano, Harold Ramis' high concept comedy masterpiece Groundhog Day, Jonathan Demme's stirring AIDS drama Philadelphia, Brian De Palma's thrilling gangster drama Carlito's Way; and with Jim Abrahams' spoof laugh-fest Hot Shots! Part Deux rounding off the list.

On the Bottom 5 list of the year, master filmmaker Abel Ferrera's Body Snatchers, an uncalled for and un-spectacular update of the sci-fi classic takes gold. Oliver Stone's dubious Vietnam prostitute drama Heaven & Earth gets silver, and Sydney Pollack's groan-worthy, epic-lengthed thriller The Firm bronze. Andrew Davis' massive hit actioner The Fugitive follows, and master filmmaker Martin Scorsese's marriage-inspecting period romance The Age of Innocence rounds off the list.

The year held spectacular hits for Robin Williams and Sally Field (Mrs. Doubtfire), Harrison Ford (The Fugitive), Tom Cruise (The Firm), Tom Hanks & Denzel Washington (Philadelphia), Charlie Sheen (Hot Shots! Part Deux), Jane Campion (The Piano) and Bill Murray (Groundhog Day).

The embarrassing flops of the year cling to Oliver Stone (Heaven & Earth), Nicolas Cage and Samuel L. Jackson (Amos & Andrew) and Martin Scorsese (The Age of Innocence).

Future updates will expand the number of titles on the lists.

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]