ICYMI - Best of May

The multiverse fever of May breaks very soon and in its place, whatever June brings. But what will that be... beside birthday gifts for me (haha) But let's look back quickly at May in case you missed these highlights. You've been quiet as mice in the comments but we hope you're still enjoying. We do take requests if you have any. (May was very light outside of Cannes coverage we're aware but June will be jam-packed. Gird your loins)

A Dozen May Highlights
• FYC Honorary Oscars - 20 suggestions
• Anthony Hopkins full casting circle - from CS Lewis to Sigmund Freud
• Best Shot: Happy Together - what a ravishment to revisit
• Nostalgia via The Breakfast Club - Baby Clyde revisited from a British kid-at-the-time perspective
• On Alexander Skarsgård - Matt says he's a character actor in hunk body
• Multiverse of Madness - Raves for The Scarlet Witch, otherwise... eh
• Returning Show Bottleneck - Chris wondered what will happen at the Emmys since they like to repeat themselves but ALL of their favs are returning (so they won't be able to to)
• Support Everything Everywhere All At Once - Eurocheese argued it's a cant-miss big screen event. Lots of people agreed to leggy box office results 

and of course our Cannes coverage with 1 of us (Elisa) in the South of France and 2 of us (Nathaniel and Cláudio) typing away from our homes...

• Cannes Winners - with links to all of Elisa's reviews
• Cannes at Home: The Square and 4 Month 3 Weeks and 2 Days - It's hard to pick just one of Cláudio's retros to share but both of these films are so fascinating so it was great to revisit mentally if not by actual screenings
• Cannes Fashion - Your last chance to vote on these 11 rounds of Cannes gowns. Who were the greatest actress fashionistas this edition?

COMING IN JUNE

New films: Baz Luhrmann's Elvis, Joel Kim Booster in Fire Island, David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future, Pixar prequel Lightyear, Fabulous Emma Thompson in Good Luck to you Leo Grande, and tiny Marcel the Shell with Shoes On; Retro celebrations: Judy Garland Centennial, Eleanor Parker Centennial, and the last episodes of "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" including Titanic, Yentl, and Klute; And More: Emmy FYCs, new interviews, Tony Awards coverage, and at the end of the month the "Halfway Mark" lists for Best Cinematic Achievements Thus Far in 2022. Plus the new SUPPORTING ACTRESS SMACKDOWN schedule. 

April. It's a Wrap

You guys. It's the first monthly wrap of the film year (given that last year's awards season showed itself the door just one month ago). I'll be the first to admit that the site has been unusually quiet this month but it's the refractory period! We're (almost) ready to come roaring back. 

A Dozen April Highlights ICYMI
• April Foolish Oscar Predictions [ALL NEW CHARTS] -an annual too-early tradition
• Touring The First Lady Suites - A unique promo for the starry miniseries
• Wicked (2024/2025) in Two Parts - What a uniquely terrible idea!
• Almost There [S4] - Nicole Kidman in The Paperboy (2012)
• One for Them, One For Me [S2] - Natalie Portman's 2011
• Hit Me With Your Best Shot [S8]- The Godfather (1972)
• 50 Greatest RomComs - A list covering 1932-1989
• Heartstoppers Thought Experiment - What if Olivia Colman didn't exist?
• Crimes of the Future - Cronenberg's tease
• Barbie (2023) - first promo image
• And The Runner Up is - On the 1947 Best Actress Race
• Doris Day [MINISERIES] - a three part retrospective
• Hou Hsiao-hsien [MINISERIES] a four part retrospective
 

Coming in May
Coverage of the Cannes Film Festival, the Tony nominations, a look back at Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2 and Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together for our "Best Shot" series, and the schedule for the new season of Supporting Actress Smackdown. We'll also cover a bevy of new films including Downton Abbey 2, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Men, Top Gun Maverick, and The Bob's Burgers Movie. At month's end we kick off 12 episode Judy Garland Centennial Miniseries!

That's a wrap on the 2021/2022 film awards season!

Another film year has wrapped up here at The Film Experience. Though we go by the calendar year for all awards purposes, when it comes to the film year, we think of it as as running from the day after the Oscars through to the next Oscar night. So Happy 2022 to all of you. We're about to start all over again.

THE BIG SHOW
• The Ceremony Reviewed
• The Slap
• Best Dressed Polls
• 5 Best Speeches
• Top 10 Fashions
• On the 3 Hosts: Amy, Regina, and Wanda
• Ranking the Clips
• Appeal to the Academy re: Lady Gaga
• Podcast Discussion

EXTRAS
• Chris James' Fabulous Annual Oscar Party
• The Help as Good Luck Charm
• Records & Trivia
• What's Next for the Directors
• What's Next for the Actors
• What's Next for the Actresses
• Winners List & Charts

And of course there was a lot before that as well if you click on any tag for various actors and films!

Best of 2021 - Off-Oscar

• Nathaniel's Top 12 - from Flee to The Power of the Dog
• 22nd Annual Film Bitch Awards - Our annual celebratory medals party in 40 categories from the Oscar parallels to Diva of the Year, Best Cameos, Musical Sequences, and more.
• 10th Annual Team Experience Awards - Voted on by all of our contributors
• Year in Review Lists - Entertainer of the Year, etc...

Previous Highlights
May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Feb 2022

WHAT'S NEXT?
If you've ever considered subscribing (see right hand sidebar --> ) now would be a perfect time. The site operates on the barest of shoestrings and it's been really tough for a few years now. We'd like to keep going until our 25th anniversary but we need help. 

COMING THIS SUMMER IF YOU'LL BE HERE TO SUPPORT US

✅ Supporting Actress Smackdown Season (and companion 'year of the month' festivities for 1951, 1997, 2004) - dates TBA

✅ Emmy Coverage - we're hoping to do more than we've ever done (the budget thing again -- gotta sell more advertisements!) so let us know what series you'd to see more on right here. Which are 'most cinematic' to you?

✅ CINEMA: Cannes Film Festival, Elvis, The Northman, Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen, BROS, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, and Mrs Harris Goes to Paris among others.

✅ "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" weekly film club -- join in!

✅ Centennial Parties: Doris Day (early April), Judy Garland (early June), and Eleanor Parker (late June)

✅ And much randomness. You know how we do 'off season'

Film Bitch Awards: Gold, silver, and bronze medals in 40 categories!

Hello dear readers. My own pet project each year is, as you know, the Film Bitch Awards. I take them so seriously (though they're meant to be fun) and I'm deeply appreciative that so many of you have have enjoyed them over the years. There are 40 categories and it takes awhile but they're all up now.

The two new and final pages involve memorable characters of the year (divas, heroes, villains, sexpots) and favourite minutes from the film year whether that be musical moments, action setpieces, sex scenes, credit sequences. Hope you enjoy.

Once all categories were tabulated, Power of the Dog and The Green Knight led the nominations with 13 and 12 citations, respectively. In these "extra" categories, due to their nature, we always see increases from the more extroverted pictures if you will (action, fantasy, comedy, musicals, etcetera) which is how The Green Knight made such a leap forward. So click on over to see how Zola, Cruella, Dune, Shang-Chi, In the Heights, Worst Person in the World, and many more fared. 

Oscar parallel categories
Page 1  Picture, Director, Screenplay, Animated Feature
Page 2  Lead and Support Acting.
Page 3  Visual Categories
Page 4  Sound Categories
"Extras"
Page 5  More acting prizes plus two new categories this year: Vocal Performances and Stunts
Page 6 "Character Prizes" Heroes, Villains, etc...
Page 7 Favourite Scenes (many types)

Best Limited Performances, Breakthrough Actors, and more...

by Nathaniel R

I'm currently in a mad-dash effort to wrap up the 2021 film year before the Oscars. This means our own awards need to be completed. On the Film Bitch Award pages you've already seen the Oscar parallel categories but now the "Extra" Acting categories are complete...

• Best Actress in a Limited Role
• Best Actor in a Limited Role
• Breakthrough Performer
• Best Juvenile Performance (Under 18)
• Best Vocal of MoCap Performance (new category)
• Best Ensemble
• Best Casting 

So click on over for odes to Vanessa Bayer, Ana de Armas, Harriet Samson Harris, Moses Ingram, Britne Oldford, David Clavel, Bradley Cooper, Barry Keoghan, Chris Messina, Channing Tatum, Stephanie Beatriz, Mike Rianda, Woody Norman, David Alvarez, Simu Liu, and many more...