The Top 10 of the Year
1. The Way He Looks/Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho - Daniel Ribeiro + Best Brazilian Movie of the Year + Best Debut Movie of the Year + Best Romance of the Year
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2. Boyhood - Richard Linklater + Best Coming-of-Age Movie of the Year + Best Poster of the Year
3. Mommy - Xavier Dolan + Best Canadian Movie of the Year + Best Youth Movie of the Year
4. Winter Sleep/Kış Uykusu - Nuri Bilge Ceylan + Best Turkish Movie of the Year
5. The Look of Silence, documentary - Joshua Oppenheimer + Best Danish Movie of the Year
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson + Best Ensemble of the Year + Best Adventure Movie of the Year
7. American Sniper - Clint Eastwood + Best War Movie of the Year
8. The Normal Heart, TV movie - Ryan Murphy + Best TV Movie of the Year + Best Adaptation of the Year
9. Silicon Valley S1 - John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky, Mike Judge + Best New TV-series
10. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence/En Duva Satt På en Gren och Funderade på Tillvaron - Roy Andersson + Best Swedish Movie of the Year
Other great movies and TV-series (in alphabetic order):
Alive Inside/Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Mind, documentary - Michael Rossato-Bennett
The Babadook - Jennifer Kent + Best Horror Movie of the Year + Best Australian Movie of the Year
Before Midnight - Richard Linklater
Force Majeure/Turist - Ruben Östlund
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Godzilla - Gareth Edwards + Best Kaiju Movie of the Year + Best Screen Couple of the Year (Elizabeth Olsen & Aaron Taylor-Johnson)
The Good Lie - Philippe Falardeau + Best True-Story Movie of the Year
The Homesman - Tommy Lee Jones + Best Western of the Year
The Interview - Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen + Best Action Comedy of the Year + Best American Movie of the Year + Best Mega-flop Movie of the Year + Best Satire of the Year
Leviathan/Левиафан/Leviafan - Andrey Zvyagintsev + Best Russian Movie of the Year + Best Big Flop Movie of the Year + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year + Best Societal Critique of the Year
Looking season 1 - Michael Lannan + Best San Francisco Title of the Year
Magic in the Moonlight - Woody Allen + Best Romcom of the Year
Nightcrawler - Dan Gilroy
Non-Stop - Jaume Collet-Serra
Obvious Child - Gillian Robespierre + Best Independent Movie of the Year
Olive Kitteridge, TV miniseries - Lisa Chodolenko + Best Miniseries of the Year + Best Maine Title of the Year
Pride - Matthew Warchus + Best English Movie of the Year + Best LGBT Movie of the Year
Speed Walking/Kapgang - Niels Arden Oplev
Good, recommendable movies and TV-series (in alphabetic order):
A Most Wanted Man - Anton Corbijn
Birdman - Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu
Calvary - John Michael McDonagh + Best Irish Movie of the Year
The Duke of Burgundy - Peter Strickland + Sexiest Movie of the Year
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The Equalizer - Antoine Fuqua
Foxcatcher - Bennett Miller + Best Pennsylvania Movie of the Year + Best True-Crime Movie of the Year
Gone Girl - David Fincher + Best Thriller of the Year
Guardians of the Galaxy - James Gunn + Best Blockbuster of the Year
Heaven Knows What - Benny & Josh Safdie + Best Low-Budget Movie of the Year + Best New York Movie of the Year
House of Cards - season 2 - Beau Willimon
The Imitation Game - Morten Tyldum
In Real Life/Det Andet Liv - Jonas Elmer
Interstellar - Christopher Nolan + Best Science Fiction Movie of the Year
The Lego Movie - Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Love Is Strange - Ira Sachs
Maps to the Stars - David Cronenberg
Sabotage - David Ayer
The Salvation - Kristian Levring
Sex Tape - Jake Kasdan
The Skeleton Twins - Craig Johnson
St. Vincent - Theodore Melfi
Timbuktu - Abderrahmane Sissako + Best Political Movie of the Year + Best Mauritanian Movie of the Year
True Detective - season 1 - Nic Pizzolatto
Tusk - Kevin Smith + Strangest Movie of the Year
The Two Faces of January - Hossein Amini
Wild Tales/Relatos Salvajes - Damián Szifron + Best Argentinian Movie of the Year + Best Anthology of the Year
The Bottom 10 of the Year
1. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Peter Jackson + Most Undeserved Hit of the Year
2. The Expendables 3 - Patrick Hughes
3. The Monuments Men - George Clooney
4. 300: Rise of an Empire - Noam Murro
5. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Marc Webb + Worst Poster of the Year
7. Neighbors - Nicholas Stoller + Most Overrated Movie of the Year
8. Before I Go to Sleep - Rowan Joffe
9. Sharknado 2: The Second One, TV movie - Anthony C. Ferrante
10. The Rover - David Michôd
Other failed, poor and/or mediocre movies:
22 Jump Street - Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Annabelle + Best Mega-Hit Movie of the Year
As Above, So Below - John Erick Dowdle + Best Mockumentary of the Year + Best Paris Movie of the Year
Blind - Eskil Vogt
Department Q: The Absent One/The Absent One/Fasandræberne - Mikkel Nørgaard
Girls - season 3 - Lena Dunham
Grace of Monaco - Olivier Dahan
Hannibal - season 2 - Bryan Fuller
Hercules - Brett Ratner
How to Train Your Dragon 2 - Dean DeBlois
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - Francis Lawrence
It Follows - David Robert Mitchell
Mr. Peabody & Sherman - Rob Minkoff
Pompeii - Paul W.S. Anderson + Most Deserved Flop of the Year + Most Expensive Flop of the Year: 42.88 mil. $ range
Saint Laurent - Bertrand Bonello
She's Funny that Way - Peter Bogdanovich
They Came Together + Best New York Movie of the Year
Unbroken - Angelina Jolie
When Animals Dream/Når Dyrene Drømmer - Jonas Alexander Arnby
While We're Young
X-Men: Days of Future Past
[88 titles in total]
Notes:
The 5th update adds 20 titles to the annual total, though regrettably none that enter the Top 10 but 3 that go to the Bottom 10 and 10 more that head to the list of 'failed, poor and/or mediocre movies'.
The Top 10 contains 7 masterpieces: Brazilian Daniel Ribeiro's youth romance debut is the year's best; the stirring The Way He Looks; it is followed by Richard Linklater's phenomenal, many years in the making coming-of-age drama Boyhood taking silver and Xavier Dolan's propulsive Mommy bronze. The list continues with Nuri Bilge Ceylan's weighty drama Winter Sleep, which jumps up from the list of 'great films'; Joshua Oppenheimer's deeply compelling documentary The Look of Silence; Wes Anderson's fabulous The Grand Budapest Hotel; Clint Eastwood's riveting American Sniper; John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky and Mike Judge's hilarious, clever Silicon Valley S1; Ryan Murphy's strong The Normal Heart TV movie; and now with Roy Andersson's poignant, original A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence rounding off the list. Falling off in this edition is Tommy Lee Jones' grueling, marvelous western The Homesman.
Other noteworthy, great titles this year include Michael Lannan's San Francisco drama series Looking S1, Andrey Zvyagintsev's great drama Leviathan, John Michael McDonagh's religious crime drama Calvary, Woody Allen's marvelous romcom Magic in the Moonlight, Dan Gilroy's eerie crime thriller Nightcrawler, Antoine Fuqua's effective revenge actioner The Equalizer, Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen's outrageous scandal comedy The Interview, Gareth Edwards' fantastic Godzilla, Philippe Falardeau's hope-inspiring, great The Good Lie and Lisa Chodolenko's profoundly moving Olive Kitteridge adaptation miniseries.
On the Bottom 10 list, new entry Peter Jackson's intensely off-putting trilogy-ending epic The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies takes turkey gold; with Patrick Hughes' action malarkey The Expendables 3 getting silver, moving down many steps in this edition from a previous erroneous position as 'good, recommendable'; and George Clooney's awful The Monuments Men bronze. The list goes on with Noam Murro's CGI-stuffed, off-putting 300: Rise of an Empire; Marc Webb's stupendously expensive and still awfully boring The Amazing Spider-Man 2; new entry Stiles White's sleep-inducing horror Ouija; Nicholas Stoller's brain-stomping, unfunny raunch comedy, new entry Neighbors; Rowan Joffe's yawn-inducing memory loss thriller Before I Go to Sleep; Anthony C. Ferrante's Sharknado 2: The Second One and now with David Michôd's depressing, boring The Rover rounding off the list. Leaving it in this edition are Eskil Vogt's depressing and artsy Blind, Rob Minkoff's insipid Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's headache-inducing 22 Jump Street and Angelina Jolie's failed epic Unbroken.
Other great filmmakers that disappointed this year with sub-par output include Bobby & Peter Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber To), Brett Ratner (Hercules), Peter Bogdanovich (She's Funny that Way), Noah Baumbach (While We're Young), David Wain (They Came Together) and Bryan Singer (X-Men: Days of Future Past).
Among the creatives with a highly satisfying year, Richard Linklater (critical and commercial hits Boyhood and Before Midnight) meddles with stars Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 and X-Men: Days of Future Past), Bradley Cooper (American Sniper), Matthew McConaughey (Interstellar), Dylan O'Brien (The Maze Runner) and Seth Rogen, making up for The Interview's massive flop with the awful but highly lucrative Neighbors.
And in the other end, stars who failed at the box office in 2014 include Kit Harrington and Kiefer Sutherland (Pompeii), Arnold Schwarzenegger (Sabotage), Nicole Kidman in no less than 2 of the year's biggest money-losers, Grace of Monaco and Before I Go to Sleep; Reese Witherspoon (The Good Lie), Tobey Maguire (Pawn Sacrifice), Steve Carell (Foxcatcher) and Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones (The Homesman).
On the 2015 Oscars:
As so often the case the academy missed most of the year's best films pretty adamantly this year, as it threw most of its love on the just good Birdman:
Birdman won 4 awards, for Best Picture, Director (Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu), Original Screenplay and Cinematography (Emanuel Lubezki). The other Best Picture nominees were American Sniper, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Whiplash, The Theory of Everything, Boyhood, The Imitation Game and Selma.
Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor for The Theory of Everything; Julianne Moore Best Actress for Still Alice. J. K. Simmons won Best Supporting Actor for Whiplash, which also won the sound mixing and editing Oscars. Patricia Arquette won Boyhood's only Oscar as Best Supporting Actress.
Predicted favorite The Imitation Game only won Best Adapted Screenplay (Graham Moore). The Grand Budapest Hotel won for Costumes, Hairstyling and Makeup, Score (Alexandre Desplat) and Production Design, equaling Birdman's 4 wins, though in lesser categories. American Sniper, another of the year's absolute best films, won only one award, for sound mixing. Interstellar won for visual effects and Selma for Best Song (Glory).
Best Animated Short was Feast, Live-Action The Telephone Call, Documentary Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1. Best Feature Documentary was Citizenfour. Best Foreign Film, ahead of Tangerines, Leviathan, Wild Tales and Timbuktu, was Poland's Pawel Pawlikowski's great Ida. Disney won Best Animated Feature for Big Hero 6.
Honorary awards went to Hayao Miyazaki, Maureen O'Hara, Jean-Claude Carrière and Harry Belafonte.
Neil Patrick Harris
hosted the show for the first time, and 37 mil. Americans tuned in. Harris wasn't nearly as funny or as classy as most people had
hoped. All in all the 2015 Oscars were very unmemorable.
IMDb's user-generated Top 10 most popular movies of 2014:
1. Interstellar
2. Guardians of the Galaxy
3. Transformers: Age of Extinction
4. Whiplash
5. The Theory of Everything
6. Gone Girl
7. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
8. The Expendables 3
9. Paddington
10. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The 2014 Cannes Film Festival:
The year's jury was headed by Jane Campion. Olivier Dahan's ridiculed Grace of Monaco opened the fest, and the year's official poster featured a picture of Marcello Mastroianni from Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963).
The Palme d'Or went to Nuri Bilge Ceylan's great Winter Sleep. Other main prizes went to Kornél Mundruczó's White God (Un Certain Regard), Annie Silverstein's Skunk (Cinéfondation), Simón Mesa Soto's Leidi (Short Film Palm d'Or), Alice Rohrwacher's The Wonders (Grand Prix), Bennett Miller (Best Director, Foxcatcher), Julianne Moore (Best Actress, Maps to the Stars) and Timothy Spall (Best Actor, Mr. Turner) among others.
The 18 films in the main competition were:
The
Captive, Clouds of Sils Maria, Foxcatcher, Goodbye to Language, The
Homesman, Jimmy's Hall, Leviathan, Maps to the Stars, Mommy, Mr. Turner,
Saint Laurent, The Search, Still the Water, Timbuktu, Two Days, One
Night, Wild Tales, Winter Sleep, The Wonders.
Highest-grossing films of the year globally:
1. Transformers: Age of Extinction - 1,104 mil. $
2. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - 962.2 mil. $
3. Guardians of the Galaxy - 772.7 mil. $
4. Maleficent - 758.4 mil. $
5. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - 755.3 mil. $
6. X-Men: Days of Future Past - 746 mil. $
7. Captain America: The Winter Soldier - 714.4 mil. $
8. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - 710.6 mil. $
9. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - 708.9 mil. $
10. Interstellar - 677.8 mil. $
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. Pompeii - 42.88 mil. $ range
2. The Interview - 39.32 mil. $ range
3. Mr. Peabody & Sherman - 37.52 mil. $ range
4. Sabotage - 28 mil. $ range
5. Grace of Monaco - 18.96 mil. $ range
6. The Good Lie - 18.72 mil. $ range
7. Pawn Sacrifice - 16.8 mil. $ range
8. Foxcatcher - 16.32 mil. $ range
9. Before I Go to Sleep - 14.96 mil. $ range
10. The Homesman - 14.6 mil. $ range
= Combined losses: 248.08 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. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - 162.12 mil. $ range
2. American Sniper - 160.16 mil. $ range
3. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - 134.88 mil. $ range
4. The Lego Movie - 127.24 mil. $ range
5. Interstellar - 105.96 mil. $ range
6. The Maze Runner - 105.32 mil. $ range
7. How to Train Your Dragon 2 - 103.6 mil. $ range
8. X-Men: Days of Future Past - 99.12 mil. $ range
9. Annabelle - 96.22 mil. $ range
10. Neighbors - 90.24 mil. $ range
= Combined profits: 1,186.84 mil. $
2014 titles still on the watch-list:
Rob the Mob, Kick, Hector and the Search for Happiness, Sex Ed, Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead, The Humbling, Zero Motivation, Six Dance LEssons in Six Weeks, Welcome to Me, Big Game, Backcountry, Wild Canaries, Ride, Adult Beginners, Iris, To Be Takei, Break Point, Boys, Goodnight Mommy, The Boxtrolls, Last Days in Vietnam, Salem, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Exodus: Gods and Kings, I Origins, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, The Other Woman, The Purge: Anarchy, The Raid 2, White Bird in a Blizzard, '71, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Muppets Most Wanted, Samba, Theeb, Bear Story, Idiotsitter, The Wonders, Still the water, The Search, Goodbye to Language, The Captive, Catch Hell, Little Accidents, Li'l Quinquin, Tom in America, Dear White People
Previous annual lists:
2023 in films - according to Film Excess
2022 in films - according to Film Excess
2021 in films - according to Film Excess
2020 in films - according to Film Excess
2019 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
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 IV]
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 and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED VI]
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 IV]
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 III]
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 III]
2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
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 [UPDATED I]
2005 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2004 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2004 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
2003 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
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 [UPDATED I]
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
1999 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
1998 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
1997 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
1996 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
1995 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess1993 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
1992 in films - according to Film Excess
1991 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
1990 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
What do you think of the lists?
What 2014 titles would make it to your Top and Bottom lists?
Which important 2014 titles are missing on my watch-list?
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