Best 10 Films of 2020
Honorable mentions: Days (Tsai Ming-liang), Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg), Father Soldier Son…
2020
Frank Yan’s year in review
Films by week
Jan
Dec
- 218 Films watched
- 18.2 Average per month
- 4.2 Average per week
Milestones
First Film
Jan 1
Most Watched
3 times
twice
Last Film
Dec 31
Featured lists
Best 10 Original Score of 2020
10 films
2020 in Films
7 films
Genres, countries & languages
Breakdown
2020 Releases Older
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Directors
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Crew & studios
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Co-Directors
Kemp Powers 4.5
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Producers
Emma Thomas 5.0
Alessandro Manni 5.0
Gretel Twombly 5.0
Jenny Fumarolo 5.0
Thomas Hayslip 5.0
Chris Brigham 5.0
Elona Tsou 5.0
Kanjirô Sakura 5.0
Yoshikuni Taki 5.0
David Koplan 5.0
Oscar Boyson 5.0
Bruce Sharman 5.0
Gary Kurtz 5.0
Aaron Ryder 5.0
Christopher Ball 5.0
Jennifer Todd 5.0
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Writers
Yasujirō Ozu 5.0
Benny Safdie 5.0
Josh Safdie 5.0
Ronald Bronstein 5.0
Lawrence Kasdan 5.0
Leigh Brackett 5.0
Jonathan Nolan 5.0
David Koepp 5.0
Michael Crichton 5.0
Alan Mak 5.0
William Monahan 5.0
Bill Lancaster 5.0
John Houseman 5.0
Mollie Kent 5.0
Orson Welles 5.0
Roger Q. Denny 5.0
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Editors
Jennifer Lame 5.0
Lee Smith 5.0
Benny Safdie 5.0
Ronald Bronstein 5.0
Dody Dorn 5.0
Todd C. Ramsay 5.0
Robert Wise 5.0
Wong Ming-Lam 5.0
Alisa Lepselter 5.0
Billy Weber 5.0
Daniel Rezende 5.0
Hank Corwin 5.0
Jay Rabinowitz 5.0
Mark Yoshikawa 5.0
Valeriya Belova 5.0
Duwayne Dunham 5.0
W. Donn Hayes 5.0
Barbara McLean 5.0
Jean Ravel 5.0
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Cinematography
Wally Pfister 5.0
Darius Khondji 5.0
Dean Cundey 5.0
Yûharu Atsuta 5.0
Peter Suschitzky 5.0
Michael Ballhaus 5.0
Kwan Pung-Leung 5.0
Emmanuel Lubezki 5.0
Alexey Rodionov 5.0
Greig Fraser 5.0
Frederick Elmes 5.0
George Barnes 5.0
Milton Krasner 5.0
Chris Marker 5.0
Jean Chiabaut 5.0
Katsutoshi Sugai 5.0
Masaki Tamura 5.0
Eric Kress 5.0
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Production Design
Denis Shibanov 5.0
Nathan Crowley 5.0
Guy Hendrix Dyas 5.0
Sam Lisenco 5.0
Norman Reynolds 5.0
Patti Podesta 5.0
Rick Carter 5.0
Kristi Zea 5.0
John J. Lloyd 5.0
Anne Seibel 5.0
Jack Fisk 5.0
Viktor Petrov 5.0
Jeremy Hindle 5.0
Patricia Norris 5.0
Takeo Kimura 5.0
Tomoyuki Maruo 5.0
Merlin Ortner 5.0
Pao-Lin Lee 5.0
Hal Pereira 5.0
Tambi Larsen 5.0
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Art Direction
Lyle R. Wheeler 5.0
Tatsuo Hamada 5.0
Anni Lindal 5.0
Benjamin Nowicki 5.0
David Packard 5.0
Eggert Ketilsson 5.0
Erik Osusky 5.0
Jenne Lee 5.0
Kunal Sable 5.0
Liam Georgensen 5.0
Robert Aguirre 5.0
Tiiu-Ann Pello 5.0
Travis Witkowski 5.0
Triin Valvas 5.0
Abdellah Baadil 5.0
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Set Decoration
Hélène Dubreuil 5.0
Lisa Chugg 5.0
Darrell Silvera 5.0
Adam Kirby 5.0
Emmanuel Delis 5.0
Erica Facchini 5.0
Fante Zamora 5.0
Fred M. Ortiz 5.0
Kathy Lucas 5.0
Kil Won Yu 5.0
Letizia Santucci 5.0
Luis G. Hoyos 5.0
Michael Garcia 5.0
Paul Mugavero 5.0
Ryan Steffen 5.0
Scott Jones 5.0
Antonio Nogueira 5.0
Aric Cheng 5.0
Brett C. Smith 5.0
Douglas A. Mowat 5.0
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Visual Effects
Andrew Lockley 5.0
Andrew Jackson 5.0
Adam Hammond 5.0
Alexandre Millet 5.0
Brandon Seifert 5.0
David Sanger 5.0
Dominic Carus 5.0
Erik Tvedt 5.0
George Plakides 5.0
Gurel Mehmet 5.0
Ian Hunter 5.0
Joe Thornley 5.0
John P. Cazin 5.0
Kim Wiseman 5.0
Mahesh Kumar 5.0
Matthew Plummer 5.0
Miodrag Colombo 5.0
Nicola Hoyle 5.0
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Composers
Franz Waxman 5.0
Ludwig Göransson 5.0
Daniel Lopatin 5.0
David Julyan 5.0
Howard Shore 5.0
Alan Howarth 5.0
John Carpenter 5.0
Bernard Herrmann 5.0
Michael Galasso 5.0
Oleg Yanchenko 5.0
Chris Isaak 5.0
Hans Sommer 5.0
Joseph Nussbaum 5.0
Louis Forbes 5.0
Alfred Newman 5.0
Urban Thielmann 5.0
Trevor Duncan 5.0
Keiichi Suzuki 5.0
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Sound
Richard King 5.0
Ken Fischer 5.0
Richard Hymns 5.0
Alex Joseph 5.0
Andy Walker 5.0
Rob Walker 5.0
Stefan Smith 5.0
Joseph Fraioli 5.0
Mark Larry 5.0
Randy Torres 5.0
Bryan O. Watkins 5.0
Gary Rizzo 5.0
Karym Ronda 5.0
Nourdine Zaoui 5.0
Bonnie Koehler 5.0
Gregg Landaker 5.0
Richard Burrow 5.0
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Costumes
Jeffrey Kurland 5.0
Edith Head 5.0
Irina Tsvetkova 5.0
Olga Bekritskaya 5.0
Emily Dominguez 5.0
John Casey 5.0
Lily Scott 5.0
Mark Avery 5.0
Scott R. Hankins 5.0
Bob Morgan 5.0
Caroline Delaney 5.0
Ciara McArdle 5.0
David Fernandez 5.0
Elizabeth Frank 5.0
Frances Sweeney 5.0
Heather Moore 5.0
Kelly Porter 5.0
Ken Crouch 5.0
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Make-Up
Luisa Abel 5.0
Aisling Nairn 5.0
Jay Wejebe 5.0
Jessica Brooks 5.0
Liisi Roht 5.0
Maurizio Nardi 5.0
Yasmin Rogers 5.0
Aya Yabuuchi 5.0
Maggie Elliott 5.0
Sonia Akouz 5.0
Rick Baker 5.0
Christina Smith 5.0
Donald Mowat 5.0
Ken Chase 5.0
Phyllis Newman 5.0
Layne Britton 5.0
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Studios
Syncopy 5.0
A24 5.0
IAC Films 5.0
Team Todd 5.0
Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) 5.0
Block 2 Pictures 5.0
Orly Films 5.0
Paradis Films 5.0
Frank’s most liked review
DAU. Degeneration 2020
Though the presentation of violence and sex is not as explicit and as dense as in Natasha, make no mistake that Degeneration is more hardcore. Through the 6-hour runtime, the audience falls into the abyss of chaos with the institution on the screen. The authoritarianism created a monster that even…
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Some honorable mentions:
悲兮魔兽 / Behemoth, 2015, directed by Zhao Liang
桃姐 / A Simple Life, 2011, directed by Ann Hui
十年 / Ten Years, 2015, directed by Jevons Au Man-Kit, Kiwi Chow, Zune Kwok, Wong Fei-Pang, Ng Ka-Leung
賽德克·巴萊 / Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq…
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4.6
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2.3
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