 | Screen Actors Guild:Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, 1995-2024 |
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The Screen Actors Guild formed in 1933 as a union to represent actors in movies and television. In 2012, they merged with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) to form SAG-AFTRA. Since 1995, they have given out an award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The most recent ceremony was held on February 23, 2025.
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 | Producers Guild of America:Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture, 1989-2024 |
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The Producers Guild of America is a trade association formed in 1950 which represents television and film producers in the United States. Since 1989, they have given out an annual award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture. The most recent ceremony was held February 8, 2025.
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 | Directors’ Guild of America:Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film, 1948-2024 |
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The Directors Guild of America offers annual awards recognizing directorial achievements in feature films, documentaries, television, and commercials. The 77th awards (honoring 2024 nominees) were held on February 8, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Below are the annual winners since 1948 for feature films.
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 | Golden Globes:Best Drama/Best Musical or Comedy (1943-2024) |
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The Golden Globe Awards recognize film and television, domestically and foreign. They have been given annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association since 1944. This page specifically notes the movies which have won Golden Globe Awards for Best Drama (first awarded in 1943) and Best Musical or Comedy (first awarded in 1951). The 82nd Golden Globe Awards (honoring 2024 nominees) were held on January 5, 2025.
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 | Dave’s Movie Database:Movie of the Year, 1919-2024 |
These are the top movies for each year from 1915 to 2024 based on their overall standing in Dave’s Movie Database. You can also click on a year to see the top ten movies for that year.
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This page offers lists of the top 25 movies of the decade as determined by two different metrics. The first list is based on box office and the second is based on critics’ picks. |
 | Box Office:Top 25 of the 2020sThese are the top 25 movies of the decade as determined by worldwide box office gross. The first number indicates dollars made in millions. |
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1. 2320.25: Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) 2. 1952.71: Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) 3. 1698.86: Inside Out 2 (2024) 4. 1495.28: Top Gun: Maverick (2022) 5. 1447.04: Barbie (2023)
6. 1338.07: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
11. 969.13: Despicable Me 4 (2024)
16. 845.56: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
21. 727.84: Wicked (2024) |
 | Critics’ Picks:Top 25 of the 2020sThese are the top 25 movies of the decade as determined by a combination of the movies’ ratings points and awards points. |
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1. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) 2. Nomadland (2020) 3. Oppenheimer (2023) 4. The Power of the Dog (2021) 5. Anora (2024)
6. Coda (2021)
11. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
16. Poor Things (2023)
21. Nickel Boys (2024) |
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 | Dave’s Movie Database:Top 10 Movies of 2023These are the top 10 movies of the year based on their overall status in Dave’s Movie Database. |
| #1: OppenheimerIMDB.com: “A dramatization of the life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who had a large hand in the development of the atomic bombs that brought an end to World War II.” Won 7 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director (Christopher Nolan), Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), and Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.). Winner of the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) for Best Picture, Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, Golden Globe for Best Drama, Producers Guild of America – Best Picture, Screen Actors Guild – Outstanding Cast. See DMDB page. |
| #2: BarbieIMDB.com: “Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.” Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling portray the famous dolls. Directed by Greta Gerwig. 2023 box office champ. Oscar-nominated for Best Picture. |
| #3: The Super Mario Bros. MovieAnimated movie based on the classic video game. IMDB.com: “Brooklyn plumbers Mario and Luigi are warped to the magical Mushroom Kingdom, and Mario must team up with Princess Peach, Toad, and Donkey Kong to save Luigi from the evil Bowser.” Voice work from Chris Pratt and Anya Taylor-Joy. |
| #4: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseIMDB.com: “Traveling across the multiverse, Miles Morales meets a new team of Spider-People, made up of heroes from different dimensions. But when the heroes clash over how to deal with a new threat, Miles finds himself at a crossroads.” Sequel to 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature. |
| #5: Poor ThingsIMDB.com: “An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.” A reimagining of the classic Frankenstein tale. Golden Globe winner for Best Comedy or Musical. Oscar-nominated for Best Picture. Emma Stone won an Oscar for Best Actress. |
| #6: Killers of the Flower MoonIMDB.com: “When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one - until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.” Directed by Martin Scorese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert DeNiro, and Lily Gladstone. Winner of National Board of Review – Best Picture. 10 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. |
| #7: The HoldoversIMDB.com: “A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England school remains on campus during Christmas break. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school's cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.” Winner for Writers Guild of America – Best Original Screenplay. Oscar-nominated for Best Picture. Da'Vine Joy Randolph won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. |
| #8: WonkaIMDB.com: “With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.” Timothée Chalamet plays a young Willy Wonka in this prequel to the movies Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, based on the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. |
| #9: Guardians of the Galaxy 3IMDB.com: “Still reeling from the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill rallies his team to defend the universe and one of their own – a mission that could mean the end of the Guardians if not successful.” |
| #10: Past LivesIMDB.com: “Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.” Oscar-nominated for Best Picture. |
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| OppenheimerReleased: July 11, 2023 Studio: Universal Pictures Genre: drama/biopic Box Office (numbers in millions):Domestic: 329.86 Worldwide: 976.80 Adjusted for Inflation:Domestic: -- Worldwide: -- |
Directing: Christopher Nolan Screenwriting: Christopher Nolan Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr. Review:Oppenheimer is a biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who led the research effort to develop the first atomic bomb. It is based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus. Even at a three-hour running time, director Christopher Nolan’s “skill in telling the story is such that it never seems to drag.” AT “Nolan has gifted us a truly unique, unflinching, nuanced portrait of the enigmatic, complicated man who spearheaded the Manhattan Project.” AT The bombs developed by the project and dropped on Japan “killed between 100,000 and 200,000 people,” AT an act for which “Oppenheimer never publicly expressed regret for.” AT “As he says in the film, his thinking was that it would be better to make dropping the first nuclear weapon so horrifying that nobody would ever want to use them again.” AT The movie shows Oppenheimer’s early years as a graduate student and college professor and his subsequent role in leading the Manhattan project. However, the movie also shows his downfall when his early Communist connections make him a victim of the McCarthy era. Robert Downey Jr. plays Lewis Strauss who, as the former chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, was instrumental in stripping Oppenheimer of his security clearance. His controversial role in taking down Oppenheimer led to the Senate rejected his nomination for Secretary of Commerce under Eisenhower. Emily Blunt “shines in a relatively small role as Kitty Oppenheimer, who suffered from depression and had a volatile relationship with her philandering husband, but remained fiercely loyal to him.” AT It became both the highest-grossing World War II-related film and highest-grossing biographical film of all time. WK It garnered thirteen Oscar nominations (winning 7), won five Golden Globe Awards, and seven British Academy Film Awards. Sources:
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Oscars:Wins: 7: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Murphy), Best Supporting Actor (Downey Jr.), Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score Nominations: 13: Best Supporting Actress (Blunt), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Production Design, Best Sound |
