Greetings, Glancers! So, older readers of my Oscars posts may recall that I tried to give some stats at the end of the year. It became too difficult to gather metrics and I become too lazy, and lo the posts migrated to the Hades Of Blogs like so many before. The same will likely happen to these summary posts – where I give some ‘interesting’ stats on my favourite films of each decade. It doesn’t mean anything, you won’t gain any insight or pleasure from reading them, and they will be painful to write. Why do it? Well shucks, I’ve always had a thing for hurting myself. ‘Enjoy’!
Note – I wrote this before realizing I’d missed Pan’s Labyrinth, and I’m too lazy to update the figures now. Yay!
Number Of Best Picture Nominees: (Out of a possible fifty) Six
Number Of Best Picture Winners: (Out of a possible ten) Three
Number Of Movies In The Top Ten Grossing of The Year: (Out of a possible one hundred) Eleven
Number Of Movies Which Were The Top Grosser: (Out of a possible ten) Two
The number of films nominated for Best Picture this year, and the number or Top Grossing films, are way down this year. If anything, the Noughties was the decade I just stopped caring what The Academy was picking (and my interest in the first place was fairly low anyway) and by the end of the decade I wasn’t really going to the Cinema on a regular basis anymore. The number of sequels and of comic book and animated movies earning big bucks increased, while on the flip side I started to watch and enjoy less of those movies. The Academy was playing it too safe, picking your standard dramas, one off hits, or gimmick films and avoiding actual quality, daring, film-making. Making the Academy numbers look marginally worse is the fact that in 2009 they finally increased the numbers of nominees from five to ten – that year I still only picked one of the nominees. I assume this trend will continue into the next decade, though the number of films I’ve seen from 2010 onwards is much lower. This will likely be the last Stats post I do until I get caught up with more movies from 2010 onwards.
Movies By Country In My Top 10:
USA: Fifty Eight
UK: Fifteen
Japan: Eleven
France: Thirteen
Germany: Eight
Poland: Two
Brazil: One
Italy: Three
New Zealand: Two
Hungary: One
Spain: Two
China: Three
Hong Kong: Five
Singapore: One
South Korea: Seven
Mexico: One
Czech Republic: One
Taiwan: One
Denmark: Two
Liberia: One
Sweden: Two
Canada: Three
Thailand: One
Norway: One
Australia: One
The USA dominates again although the numbers are drastically decreased from previous decades.
Movies By Director:
Quentin Tarantino: xxxxx
Jean Pierre Jeunet: xxx
Chan Wook Park: xxx
Takashi Shimizu: xx
Zhang Yimou: xx
Peter Jackson: xx
Robert Rodriguez: xx
Frank Darabont: xx
Christopher Nolan: xx
Sam Raimi: xx
Takashi Miike: xx
Christopher Guest: xx
Lars Von Trier: xx
Kim Jee Woon: xx
Shusuke Kaneko: x
Disney: x
David Lynch: x
Luc Besson: x
Zach Snyder: x
David Slade: x
Oren Peli: x
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo: x
Kong Su Chang: x
Martin Scorsese: x
Christopher Smith: x
Kevin Lima: x
Jaume Balaguero: x
Paco Plaza: x
Pierre Morel: x
John hoo Bong: x
Jean-Stephane Sauvaire: x
Bruce McDonald: x
Matt Reeves: x
Sylvester Stallone: x
Wilson Yip: x
Tomas Alfredson: x
Yojiro Takita: x
Pascal Laugier: x
Sion Sono: x
Tommy Wirkola: x
Satoshi Kon: x
Frank Miller: x
George Lucas: x
Judd Apatow: x
Mike Judge: x
Edgar Wright: x
Stephen Sommers: x
Bill Paxton: x
Larry Clark: x
Alfonso Cuaron: x
Alexandre Aja: x
Roman Polanski: x
James Wan: x
The Pang Brothers: x
Jaume Collet Serra: x
Andrew Lau: x
Alan Mak: x
George A Romero: x
Hideo Nakata: x
Fernando Meirelles: x
Bernardo Bertolucci: x
Len Wiseman: x
Mel Gibson: x
Kurt Wimmer: x
Yoji Yamada: x
Danny Boyle: x
Eli Roth: x
Shane Black: x
Ridley Scott: x
Tim Burton: x
Cameron Crowe: x
Karyn Kusama: x
Michael Dougherty: x
Gore Verbinski: x
Larry Charles: x
Martin Campbell: x
Craig Brewer: x
Neil Marshall: x
Takeshi Kitano: x
Brad Anderson: x
Kinji Fukasaku: x
James Wong: x
Ang Lee: x
Bryan Singer: x
David Twohy: x
M Night Shyamalan: x
One hundred films, 86 directors. Tarantino is the clear front runner, which surprises me more than you. I’m by no means a Tarantino super-fan and Reservoir Dogs is still my favourite of his, but it looks like this was a great decade for him. Disney had a bit of a shocker – the mainstay of my lists each decade only grabbing a single vote here. Elsewhere it’s foreign films which garner the most multiple votes with my only two triple votes being outside of the US and six or seven of my double votes being beyond Hollywood. Those getting single votes range from newbs and a wide array of past masters who have received multiple votes over multiple decades.
As always, check out my individual year posts and let me know what your favourites are in the comments!
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