
#TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2019 TV#
Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. The annual AFI Awards luncheon (January 3) is a lovely untelevised gathering that brings the film and television industries together to celebrate the best of the year. The juries included actors John Amos and Delroy Lindo, directors Betty Thomas and Lesli Linka Glatter, and writer Callie Khouri, alongside film scribes, academics, and film historian Leonard Maltin, as well as the AFI Board of Trustees, among others.
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'The Lord of the Rings': Everything You Need to Know About Amazon's Big Money AdaptationĪmong the Oscar hopefuls that were left out of the Film Top 10 are “Bombshell,” “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” “Dark Waters,” “Dolemite Is My Name,” “Ford v Ferrari,” “Harriet,” “A Hidden Life,” “Honey Boy,” “The Lighthouse,” “The Peanut Butter Falcon,” “The Report,” “Rocketman,” “The Two Popes,” and “Waves.”Ĭheck out the full list of honorees for both film and television below.Īs usual, this year’s juries - one for film and one for television - were chaired by AFI Board of Trustees Vice Chairs Tom Pollock (former Vice Chairman of MCA, Chairman of Universal Pictures) for film and Richard Frank (former Chairman of Walt Disney Television, President of Walt Disney Studios, President of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences) for television. 'Bridgerton' Season 2: Everything You Need to Know About the Netflix Hit Lists Included 867 Top Critics’ Lists Included 281. Oscars 2022: Best International Feature Film Predictions 'Titane' Wins Tight Race to Become France's Official Oscar Submission On the TV side, newcomers “Watchmen,” “Fosse/Verdon,” and “Chernobyl” joined returning shows like “The Crown,” while “The Marvelous Mrs. This year’s crop is diverse, with films from lauded veterans Clint Eastwood, Sam Mendes, Martin Scorsese, Noah Baumbach, and Quentin Tarantino alongside relative newcomers to the awards conversation like Todd Phillips, Taika Waititi, and Rian Johnson.Įight of the ten films were directed by men, with two women, Greta Gerwig (“Little Women”) and Lulu Wang (“The Farewell”), also on deck for the honor. Given their international provenance, Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” and Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “Fleabag” landed Special Awards from the American Film Institute film juries, as “Roma” did last year. The two juries - which are a mix of critics, academics, and film professionals - always celebrate the best of American cinema and television. Put another way, in the words of Fails, “you don’t get to hate unless you love it.The American Film Institute’s annual lists highlighting the top 10 movies and TV shows of the year include multiple awards frontrunners. The Last Black Man in San Francisco is about Fails’ attempt to reclaim his grandfather’s house in the Fillmore district, but it’s also a heartbreaking look at the quest to claim space. The tech industry is never mentioned directly, but the impact it’s had on the city is obvious in the shuttle buses in the streets and the passing references to landlord fires. That includes most of the family of Jimmie Fails (played by Jimmie Fails, from a script he cowrote with director Joe Talbot), who have been forced to the edges of the city amid the real-estate boom.

See festival award winners, discover new talent, and immerse yourself in diverse stories. As the Bay Area, once home to the “Harlem of the West,” is forced through changes faster than it can adapt to them-take, for example, the Compton’s Cafeteria riot, the gay rights movement, or the Beats-lost a lot of what made it brilliant. Thankfully, 2019 has a spate of drama movies in the pipeline featuring many of our favorite Hollywood stars, including Anne Hathaway, Keira Knightly, and Taraji P. Sydney Film Festival brings the best of world cinema to Australia. For this list, we’re taking a look at movies that received wide release. The Last Black Man in San Francisco encapsulates a lot of things-erasure of history and identity, the realities of gentrification, the transcendent nature of friendship under duress-but it makes its point in its title. None of these movies have the words Endgame, Skywalker, or Joker in the title.
