Contemporary
Streamers fund the auteurs the studios won't. Parasite wins Best Picture. International films break through. Barbenheimer briefly suggests cinemas have a future.
Part of Films
34 moments in this segment.
- — Mad Max: Fury Road. George Miller, 70. Two hours of one chase. Charlize Theron's Furiosa is the actual hero. The best action film of the 2010s; mostly practical effects; a master class in how to direct kinetic cinema.
- — Mad Max: Fury Road - Official Main Trailer [HD]. ] · 00:02:32
- — Spotlight. Tom McCarthy. Boston Globe journalists investigate Catholic Church sexual-abuse cover-up. Won Best Picture. A throwback procedural in the spirit of All the President's Men.
- — Spotlight TRAILER 1 (2015) - Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton Movie HD. · 00:02:29
- — Moonlight. Barry Jenkins. Three-act portrait of a Black gay man growing up in Liberty City, Miami. Won Best Picture in the most chaotic Oscar moment ever (after La La Land was wrongly announced).
- — Moonlight | Official Trailer HD | A24. · 00:01:56
- — Arrival. Denis Villeneuve, from Ted Chiang. Amy Adams as a linguist contacting heptapod aliens. The thinking-person's sci-fi film of the decade.
- — Arrival Trailer (2016) - Paramount Pictures. · 00:02:25
- — Get Out. Jordan Peele's directorial debut. Made for $4.5M, grossed $255M. Reinvented Black-American social horror as a commercial genre. Best Original Screenplay.
- — Get Out Official Trailer 1 (2017) - Daniel Kaluuya Movie. · 00:02:33
- — The Shape of Water. Guillermo del Toro. Won Best Picture. Sally Hawkins as a mute janitor in love with a fish-man. Mainstreamed monster-romance as Academy-respectable cinema.
- — THE SHAPE OF WATER | Official Trailer | FOX Searchlight. · 00:02:31
- — Lady Bird. Greta Gerwig's solo directorial debut. Saoirse Ronan in Sacramento. Helped open mainstream Hollywood to women-directed coming-of-age films.
- — Lady Bird | Official Trailer HD | A24. · 00:02:33
- — Roma. Alfonso Cuarón. Mexico City 1970-71 in black-and-white 65mm. First Netflix film nominated for Best Picture — the streaming-vs-cinema fight crystallised here.
- — ROMA | Official Trailer | Netflix. · 00:02:15
- — Parasite. Bong Joon-ho. First non-English film to win Best Picture in 92 years of Oscars. Class warfare comedy-thriller; the basement scene. The Korean film industry's coronation moment.
- — Parasite - Official Trailer (2019) Bong Joon Ho Film. · 00:02:17
- — Nomadland. Chloé Zhao. Frances McDormand among the real-life van-dwelling itinerant workers of the American West. Won Best Picture in the COVID-virtual-ceremony year; Zhao the first woman of colour to win Best Director.
- — NOMADLAND | Official Trailer | Searchlight Pictures. · 00:02:06
- — Drive My Car. Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, from Murakami. Three-hour film about grief, theatre, and the long drive between work and home. Won Best International Feature; nominated for Best Picture.
- — Drive My Car - Official Trailer. · 00:02:01
- — Everything Everywhere All at Once. Daniels (Kwan + Scheinert). Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan. Won 7 Oscars including Best Picture. The most successful indie maximalism film since the 2000s.
- — Everything Everywhere All At Once | Official Trailer HD | A24. · 00:02:42
- — Tár. Todd Field. Cate Blanchett as a conductor cancelled at the height of her career. Field's third film in 21 years — and his masterpiece.
- — TÁR - Official Trailer [HD] - In Select Theaters October 7. · 00:02:46
- — Past Lives. Celine Song. Two childhood friends, Seoul and New York, 24 years apart. Quiet, restrained, devastating. Best Picture nominee on a tiny A24 budget.
- — Past Lives | Official Trailer HD | A24. · 00:02:25
- — The Zone of Interest. Jonathan Glazer. The Auschwitz commandant's family in their idyllic house next to the camp wall. The sound design — the camp always there, never seen — is the film. Best International Feature.
- — The Zone of Interest | Official Trailer HD | A24. · 00:01:01
- — Anatomy of a Fall. Justine Triet. Sandra Hüller's novelist on trial for the death of her husband. Won the Palme d'Or and Best Original Screenplay.
- — Anatomy of a Fall Trailer #1 (2023). ) · 00:02:18
- — Oppenheimer. Christopher Nolan. Won Best Picture and Best Director. Three hours of physicists arguing, with the Trinity test in the middle. Released the same day as Barbie — "Barbenheimer" briefly made cinemas relevant again.
- — Oppenheimer | New Trailer. · 00:03:07
