2024 Posties!

my annual film awards are here

Before the Oscars every year, I release a series of Top Ten lists for the major categories as I judge them (along with 8 Special Awards). This year, I saw 51 Oscar-eligible films. See my ranking of all 51 films here! From that pool of movies, I put together the lists that make up The Posties Awards. This is my favorite post of the year. Here we go!!

1. Nosferatu

2. Wicked

3. Monkey Man

4. Maria

5. The Piano Lesson

6. Flow

7. Dune: Part Two

8. Nickel Boys

9. The Last Showgirl

10. Thelma

1. Dev Patel for Monkey Man

2. Robert Eggers for Nosferatu

3. Denis Villeneuve for Dune: Part Two

4. Gints Zilbalodis for Flow

5. Pablo Larraín for Maria

6. RaMell Ross for Nickel Boys

7. Gia Coppola for The Last Showgirl

8. Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez

9. Ryusuke Hamaguchi for Evil Does Not Exist

10. Uberto Pasolini for The Return

1. Winnie Holzman & Dana Fox for Wicked

2. Robert Eggers for Nosferatu

3. Virgil Williams & Malcolm Washington for The Piano Lesson

4. Josh Margolin for Thelma

5. Drew Pearce for The Fall Guy

6. Jon Watts for Wolfs

7. Denis Villeneuve & Jon Spaihts for Dune: Part Two

8. Kate Gersten for The Last Showgirl

9. Dev Patel, Paul Angunawela & John Collee for Monkey Man

10. John Collee, Edward Bond & Uberto Pasolini for The Return

1. Keith Kupferer in Ghostlight

2. Ralph Fiennes in The Return

3. Bill Skarsgård in Nosferatu

4. Dev Patel in Monkey Man

5. Timothée Chalomet in Dune: Part Two

6. Colman Domingo in Sing Sing

7. Ryan Gosling in The Fall Guy

8. Andrew Garfield in We Live in Time

9. Joaquin Phoenix in Joker: Folie à Deux

10. Brad Pitt in Wolfs

1. Simon McBurney in Nosferatu

2. Javier Bardem in Dune: Part Two

3. Clarence Maclin in Sing Sing

4. Fred Hechinger in Thelma

5. Nicholas Hoult in Nosferatu

6. Jonathan Bailey in Wicked

7. Richard Roundtree in Thelma

8. Pierfrancesco Favino in Maria

9. Jaquel Spivey in Mean Girls

10. Dave Bautista in The Last Showgirl

1. Angelina Jolie in Maria

2. Maya Hawke in Wildcat

3. Lupita Nyong’o in A Quiet Place: Day One

4. Lily-Rose Depp in Nosferatu

5. Juliette Binoche in The Return

6. Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl

7. Lady Gaga in Joker: Folie à Deux

8. June Squibb in Thelma

9. Florence Pugh in We Live in Time

10. Katherine Mallen Kupferer in Ghostlight

1. Laura Linney in Wildcat

2. Zoe Saldaña in Emilia Pérez

3. Auli’i Cravalho in Mean Girls

4. Tara Mallen in Ghostlight

5. Jamie Lee Curtis in The Last Showgirl

6. Ariana Grande in Wicked

7. Dolly DeLeon in Ghostlight

8. Rebecca Ferguson in Dune: Part Two

9. Aubrey Plaza in My Old Ass

10. Catherine O’Hara in Argylle

1. Ghostlight

2. The Last Showgirl

3. Wicked Little Letters

4. Sing Sing

5. Nosferatu

6. Maria

7. Thelma

8. Wicked

9. Argylle

10. Anora

1. Dune: Part Two

2. The Return

3. Mean Girls

4. Wicked

5. Emilia Pérez

6. Evil Does Not Exist

7. Nosferatu

8. Maria

9. The Last Showgirl

10. Nickel Boys

1. Dune: Part Two

2. Flow

3. Nosferatu

4. Maria

5. The Wild Robot

6. Blitz

7. Wicked

8. Wildcat

9. Megalopolis

10. Emilia Pérez

1. Nosferatu

2. Dune: Part Two

3. Evil Does Not Exist

4. Monkey Man

5. Nickel Boys

6. The Return

7. Emilia Pérez

8. Wicked

9. Maria

10. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

1. Dune: Part Two

2. Megalopolis

3. Nosferatu

4. Wicked

5. The Wild Robot

6. A Quiet Place: Day One

7. The Fall Guy

8. Nickel Boys

9. Monkey Man

10. Blitz

(1-7 are truly bad. The final three are simply the bottom of my ranking of the rest.)

1. Deadpool & Wolverine

2. Between the Temples

3. Memoir of a Snail

4. The Idea of You

5. Moana 2

6. Nightbitch

7. Joker: Folie à Deux

8. Red One

9. Didi

10. Conclave