The Films of 2023. The 24th annual FiLM BiTCH Awards
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BEST PICTURE
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ANATOMY OF A FALL
Justine Triet (Neon) Oct |
BARBIE Greta Gerwig (Warner Bros) July 21 |
JOYLAND |
PAST LIVES Celine Song (A24) June 2 |
POOR THINGS
Yorgos Lanthimos (Searchlight) December 8 |
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Finalists: Asteroid City, The Taste of Things Semi Finalists: Fallen Leaves, Maestro, The Holdovers, The Zone of Interest, Oppenheimer |
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BEST DIRECTOR
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| Greta Gerwig BARBIE |
Tran Anh Hung THE TASTE OF THINGS |
Jonathan Glazer THE ZONE OF INTEREST |
Yorgos Lanthimos POOR THINGS |
Celine Song PAST LIVES |
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Finalists: Saim Sadiq Joyland; Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall; and Aki Kaurismaki Fallen Leaves; Semi Finalists: Chris Nolan for Oppenheimer; Wes Anderson for Asteroid City; Todd Haynes May December;Alexander Payne for The Holdovers |
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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
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| ANATOMY OF A FALL Justine Triet |
ASTEROID CITY Wes Anderson |
THE HOLDOVERS David Hemingson |
MAY DECEMBER Sammy Burch & Alex Mechanik |
PAST LIVES Celine Song |
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Finalists: Aki Kaurismaki's delightfully minimalist Fallen Leaves; Nicole Holofcener gives contemporary human-scale comedy like only she can with You Hurt My Feelings ; Saim Saddiq's daring deeply felt trans romance debut Joyland Semi-Finalists: Goran Stolevski's painful coming of age romance Of An Age; Georgia Oakley's Thatcher era lesbian drama Blue Jean; A.V. Rockwell's involving mother/son urban drama A Thousand and One; and Alex Convery's corporate dramedy Air. |
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BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
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| ALL OF US STRANGERS Andrew Haigh |
AMERICAN FICTION Cord Jefferson |
BARBIE Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach |
POOR THINGS Tony McNamara |
THE ZONE OF INTEREST |
| Queered up from the ghostly novel of the same name by Taichi Yamada about a writer and his dead parents |
Based on the novel "Erasure" by Percival Everett with its book within a book 'My Pafology' | Gerwig and Baumbach create new cloth from very old material... the iconic toyline from Mattel |
McNamara's loose adaptation of the Frankenstein-inspired novel by Alasdair Gray |
A visual reinvention but thematically faithful adaptation of the novel by Martin Amis |
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Finalists: Are You There God? It's Me Margaret. Kelly Fremon Craig taking on the 'why hasn't it been filmed yet?' YA classic by Judy Blume and doing it beautiful justice; Oppenheimer Chris Nolan adapting from the non-fiction book "American Prometheus"; Semi Finalists: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse from Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Dave Callahan having great fun (and feeling for) the comic book characters from Marvel. The Taste of Things by Tran Anh Hung, cinematically adapted from the novel by Marcel Rouffe; Killers of the Flower Moon by Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, inspired by the non-fiction book by David Grann which is more focused on the investigation itself; Theater Camp expanded from the short film of the same name; and Robot Dreams Pablo Berger's gorgeous animated feature based on the comic by Sara Varon |
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| ROBOT DREAMS Pablo Berger (NEON) Qualifying |
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K Thompson (Sony) June 2 |
SUZUME Makoto Shinkai (Crunchyroll / Toi Studios) April 14 |
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| Berger proves, as he did with Blancanieves, that he doesn't need dialogue just the image train. Wonderful, weird, and wistful... particular in its titular sequences. Bonus points for that surprisingly adult undertow and perfect ending. |
Incredible visuals, emotional depth, and better action sequences than most live-action films. Our only real reservation (but a sizeable reservation) is that it's just half of a movie; Cliffhangers are for TV shows! |
Shinkai has been on a roll (Your Name, Weathering With You) and this dimension opening ime travelling adventure with a impish cat and the year's best animate inanimate object in the form of a three-legged chair is his best yet. |
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Finalist: I only have three nominations in this category per year but this year I was tempted to go to five to include Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron and the delightfully restless Nimona (which I also loved in webcomic form). |
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