We watched a lot fewer new films than usual this year. Amid the wider atmosphere of horror and sorrow and grim foreboding in the world, it felt like a dispiriting year for popular cinema, the first big stumble since Tom Cruise resuscitated its prospects in 2022. Still, don’t let that take away from the films we loved enough to celebrate, because they’d all be great films in any year. A frenetic sports epic about table tennis? Pynchon as Terminator 2 in the key of stoner comedy? Rapid-cut montages of Irish news footage? These are the things that movie dreams are made of!
As with every year, we gave one award for each of the eight major Oscars: we care about most of the others (except for the fake awards like Best Original Song) but this post would be absurdly long if we picked those too. We each did out our personal nominees and then selected the winner by consensus, so the winners only come from films that both of us have seen and nominated, but we’ve each picked a personal runner-up regardless of whether the other has seen or nominated it. We also each gave a Special Achievement Award for something that doesn’t fit our other categories.
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