December 01, 2014

Best Pictures part two

1921. La terre
1922. Nosferatu
1923. Couer fidele
1924. He Who gets Slapped
1925. Battleship Potemkin
1926. Mother
1927. October
1928. The Passion of Joan of Arc
1929. Lands End
1930. Earth
1931. Marius
1932. Boudu Saved from Drowning
1933. Liebelei
1934. A Story of Floating Weeds
1935. An Inn in Tokyo
1936. Sisters of the gion
1937. Make Way for Tomorrow
1938. The Lady Vanishes
1939. The Rules of the Game

Best Pictures part one

1901. History of a Crime
1902. A Trip to the Moon
1903. A Kingdom of Fairies
1905. The Impossible Voyage
1906. The Merry Frolics of Satan
1908. L'arlessienne
1910. A Corner in Wheat
1911. The Fall of Troy
1912. The Ant and the Grasshopper
1913. Germinal
1915. Silent Witnesses
1916. Assunta Spina
1917. The Girl from Stormycroft
1918. The Outlaw and his Wife
1919. Sir Arnes Treasure
1920. The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

August 30, 2014

best films 2014

Goodbye to language  (Switzerland/France)  Jean Luc Godard
Hill of freedom  (Korea)  Hong Sang Soo
Juaja  (Denmark/Argentina)  Lisandro Alonso
Leviathan  (Russia)  Andrey Zvyagiintsev
Lil quinquin  (France)  Bruno Dumont
Mr turner  (Britain)  Mike Leigh
Rams  (Iceland)  Grimur Hakonarson
The tribe  (Ukraine)  Myroslav Slaboshpytski

Two days one night
Winter sleep  (Turkey) Nuri Ceylan


The Golden Gongs

Best film:  Hill of Freedom
Best director:  Bruno Dumont

Achievement Award:  Lisandro Alonso

March 16, 2014

best films 2013

A touch of sin  (China)  Jia Zhangke

Before midnight (Usa)  Richard Linklater
Closed curtain  (Iran)  Jafar Panahi
Stray dogs  (Taiwan/Malaysia)  Tsai Ming Liang
The end of history  (Philippines)  Lav Diaz
The grandmaster  (Hong Kong/China) Wong Kar Wai
The great beauty  (Italy)  Paulo Sorrentino

The immigrant  (Usa) James Gray
The strange little cat  (Germany/Switzerland)  Ramon Zurcher


The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture: Closed Curtain
Best Director:  Tsai Ming Liang

Achievement Award:  Paulo Sorrentino






best films 2012

Barbara  (Germany)  Christian Petzold
Beyond the hills  (Romania)  Cristian Mungiu
Cosmopolis  (Canada)  David Cronenberg

Django unchained (Usa) Quentin Tarantino
Holy motors  (France) Leos Carax
In another country  (Korea)  Hong Sang Soo
Leviathan  (Usa/Switzerland)  Verena Paravel
Moonrise kingdom  (Usa)  Wes Anderson
Neighbouring sounds  (Brazil)  Kleber Filho
Tabu  (Portugal)  Miguel Gomes



The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture:  Moonrise Kingdom
Best Director:  Leos Carax

Achievement Award:  Cristian Mungui

best films 2011

A seperation  (Iran) Asghar Farhadi
Le havre  (Finland)  Aki Kaurismaki
Old dog  (China/Tibet) Pema Tseden
Once upon a time in anatolia  (Turkey)  Nuri Ceylan
On the day he arrives  (Korea)  Hong Sang Soo
The deep blue sea  (Britain)  Terence Davies

The skin I live in  (Spain)  Pedro Aldomovar
The tree of life  (Usa) Terence Malick
The turin horse  (Hungary)  Bela Tarr
This is not a film  (Iran)  Jafar Panahi


The Golden Gongs:

Best Picture:  This is not a film
Best Director:  Nuri Ceylan

Achievement Award:  Pedro Aldomovar

March 15, 2014

best films 2010

Another year  (Britain) Mike Leigh
Aurora  (Romania)  Cristi Puiu
Certified copy  (France/Iran)  Abbas Kiarostami
Hahaha  (Korea)  Hong Sang Soo
My joy  (Ukraine/Belarus) Sergei Loznitsa
Mysteries of lisbon  (Portugal/Chile)  Raul Ruiz
The social network  (Usa)  David Fincher

Tuesday after christmas (Romania) Radu Muntean
Uncle boonmee  (Thailand)  Apichatpong Weerasethakul 


Winter vacation  (China) Li Hongqi



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Uncle Boonmee
Best Director:  Abbas Kiarostami

Achievement Award:  David Fincher

 

The Hall of Fame 


Alfred Hitchcock 34

Eric Rohmer  34

Howard Hawks  29

Victor Sjostrom  28

Kenji Mizoguchi  28

Robert Bresson  28

Jean Luc Godard  27

Abbas Kiarostami 27

Georges Melies  26
Yasujiro Ozu  26

Carl Dreyer 25
Albert Capellani  24

Jean Renoir  24

Luis Bunuel  24

Yevgeni Bauer  21 

Manoel Oliviera  21

Roberto Rossellini  21

Stanley Kubrick  20

Reiner Fassbinder  20

Terence Malick  19
Hao Hsiao Hsien 19

Sergei Eisenstein  18 

Mikio Naruse  18

Satyajit Ray  17

Andrei Tarkovsky  17

Jacques Rivette  17

DW Griffiths  16

Orson Welles  16

Max Ophuls  16 

Michael Powell  16

Josef Sternberg  15

John Ford  15
Michaelangelo Antonioni 15

Wong Kar Wai  15

Edward Yang  15

Jean Epstein  14

John Cassavetes  14
Clint Eastwood  14

Charlie Chaplin  13

FW Murnau  13

Fritz Lang  13

Ernst Lubitsch  13

Alexander Dovshenko  13
Billy Wilder  13

Nicholas Ray  13

Werner Herzog  13

Frederic Fellini  12 

Jim Jarmusch  12

Ferdinand Zecca  11

Alain Resnais  11 

Maurice Pialat 11

Alexander Sukorov  11

Apichatpong Weeresathul  11

Leo Mccarey  10

Luchino Visconte  10

Andrsej Wajda  10

Krystoff Kieslowski  10 

Terence Davies  10

Tsai Ming Liang  10

Jia Zhangke  10


Cine-o-meter: Usa 287  France 168  Japan 74  Germany 50  Russia 48  Britain 47  Italy 43  India 27  Sweden 22  Taiwan 20  China  18  Portugal  17  Iran 16  Hong kong 16  Korea 10  Denmark 9  Poland 9  Spain  9

best films 2009

Bright star  (Australia/New Zealand)  Jane Campion
Dogtooth  (Greece)  Yorgos Lanthimos
Everybody else  (Germany)  Maren Ade
Fantastic mr fox  (Usa)  Wes Anderson
Hadewych  (France)  Bruno Dumont
I am love  (Italy)  Luca Guadagnino

Mother (Korea) Boon Jong Ho
Oxhide 2  (China) Liu Jiayin
Police adjective  (Romania)  Cornelius Porumboiu
The limits of control  (Usa) Jim Jarmusch



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Police adjective
Best Director:  Luca Guadagnino

Achievement Award:  Boon Jong Ho

March 14, 2014

best films 2008

A christmas tale  (France)  Arnaud Deschlepin

Extraordinary stories (Argentina) Mariano Llinas
Fine totally fine  (Japan)  Yoseke Fujita
Gran torino (Usa) Clint Eastwood
Liverpool  (Argentina)  Lisandro Alonso
Our beloved month of august  (Portugal)  Miguel Gomes
Sparrow  (Hong kong)  Johnny To
The headless woman   (Argentina)  Lucrecia Martel
Tokyo sonata  (Japan)  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Two lovers  (Usa)  James Gray



The Golden Gongs


Best Picture: A christmas tale
Best Director: Lucretia Martel

Achievement Award:  Johnnie To

March 12, 2014

best films 2007

Adfrift in tokyo  (Japan) Satoshi Miki
Eastern promises  (Britain/Canada)  David Cronenberg
Flight of the red balloon  (France/China)  Hao Hsiao Hsien
Four months three weeks two days  (Romania) Cristian Mungiu
In the city of sylvia  (Spain) Jose Guerin
Silent light  (Mexico)  Carlos Reygadas
The darjeeling limited  (Usa)  Wes Anderson
The romance of astrea and celadon  (France)  Eric Rohmer
The trap (Britain) Adam Curtis
Yella  (Germany)  Christian Petzold


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
Best Director:  Carlos Reygedas

Achievement Award: Wes Anderson

March 06, 2014

best films 2006

12:08 east of bucharest  (Romania)  Corneliu Porumboiu
Climates  (Turkey)  Nuri Ceylan
Colossal youth (Portugal) Pedro Costa
Deja vu  (Usa/Britian)  Tony Scott
Longing  (Germany) Valeska Grisebach

Miami vice  (Usa) Michael Mann
Private fears in public spaces  (France)  Alain Resnais
Still life  (China)  Jia Zhangke
Syndromes and a century  (Thailand)  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Woman on the beach  (Korea) Hong Sang Soo



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Syndromes and a Century
Best Director: Alain Resnais

Achievement Award:  Pedro Costa

March 04, 2014

best films 2005

A history of violence  (Usa/Canada)  David Cronenberg
At five in the afternoon  (Iran)  Samira Makhalmaf
Cache  (France/Austria)  Michael Hanake
L'enfant  (Belgium)  Luc Dardenne
Linda linda linda  (Japan)  Nobuhiro Yamashita
Oxhide  (China)  Liu Jiayin
The death of mr lazerescu  (Romania)  Cristi Puiu
The new world  (Usa)  Terence Malick
The sun  (Russia)  Alexander Sukurov
Three times  (Taiwan/China)  Hao Hsiao Hsien



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  The new world
Best Director:  Cristi Puiu

Achievement Award:  Liu Jiayin

February 25, 2014

best films 2004

2046  (Hong kong/China)  Wong Kar Wai
A taste of tea  (Japan)  Katsuhito Ishii
Before sunset  (Usa) Richard Linklater
Collateral  (Usa)  Michael Mann
Innocence  (France)  Lucile Hadzihalilovic

Kings and queens  (France) Arnaud Deschlepin
L'intrus  (France)  Claire Denis
Los muertos  (Argentina)  Lisandro Alonso
Million dollar baby  (Usa)  Clint Eastwood
The consequences of love  (Italy)  Paulo Sorrentino
The world  (China)  Jia Zhangke
Tropical malady  (Thailand)  Apichatpong Weerasethakul


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: 2046
Best Director:  Jia Zhangke

Achievement Award: 

best films 2003

A talking picture  (Portugal)  Manoel Oliviera
Ana and the others  (Argentina)  Celina Murga
Crimson gold  (Iran)  Jafar Panahi
Doppelganger  (Japan)  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Goodbye dragon inn  (Taiwan/Malaysia)  Tsai Ming Liang
Last life in the universe  (Thailand)  Pen Ek Ratanruang

Memories of murder (Korea) Joon Ho Bong

Mystic river (Usa) Clint Eastwood
The story of marie and julien  (France)  Jacques Rivette

Zatoichi  (Japan) Takeshi Kitano




The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Goodbye Dragon Inn
Best Director:  Clint Eastwood

Achievement Award:  Celina Murga

best films 2002

Bright future  (Japan)  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Eight women  (France)  Francois Ozon
La cienaga  (Argentina)  Lucretia Martel
Man without a past  (Finland)  Aki Kaurismaki 

Russian ark  (Russia) Alexander Sukurov
Spider  (Britain/Canada)  David Cronenberg
Talk to her  (Spain)  Pedro Aldomovar
The son  (Belgium)  Luc Dardennes

The 25th hour  (Usa) Spike Lee

Tie xi qu  (China) Wang Bing



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Spider
Best Director:  Alexnader Sukorov

Achievement Award:  Kiyoshi Kurosawa




best films 2001

Artificial intelligence (Usa) Stephen spielberg

I'm going home  (France/Portugal)  Manuel Oliviera
Millenium mambo  (Taiwan/China)  Hao Hsiao Hsien
Mulholland drive  (Usa)  David Lynch
Pistol opera  (Japan)  Seijun Suzuki
Spirited away  (Japan) Hayao Miyazaki
The fast runner  (Canada/Inuit)  Zacharias Kunuk
The lady and the duke  (France)  Eric Rohmer
The royal tenenbaums  (Usa) Wes Anderson
Va savoir  (France)  Jacques Rivette




The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Mulholland Drivr
Best Director:  Manoel Oliviera

Achievement Award: Seijun Suzuki

February 24, 2014

best films 2000

Eureka  (Japan)  Shinji Aoyama
In the mood for love  (Hong kong/China)  Wong Kar Wai
Platform  (China)  Jia Zhangke
Songs from the second floor  (Sweden)  Roy Andersson
The circle  (Iran)  Jafar Panahi
The house of mirth  (Britain)  Terence Davies
The virgin stripped bare by her bachelors  (Korea) Hong Sang Soo
Werckmeister harmonies  (Hungary)  Bela Tarr
Wonder boys  (Usa)  Curtis Hanson
Yi yi  (Taiwan/China)  Edward Yang


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Platform
Best Director:  Edward Yang

Achievement Award:  Jafar Panahi


The Hall of Fame

Alfred Hitchcock 38

Howard Hawks 29

Eric Rohmer 28

Robert Bresson 28

Kenji Mizoguchi  28

Victor Sjostrom 28

Jean Luc Godard 27
Yasujiro Ozu  26

Georges Melies 26

Carl Dreyer 25

Luis Bunuel 24
Jean Renoir 24

Albert Capellani 24
Abbas Kiarostami 23
Roberto Rosselini 21
Yevgeni Bauer 21

Rainer Fassbinder 20

Stanley Kubrick 19
Hao Hsiao Hsien 18

Sergei |Eisenstein 18 

Mikio naruse 18

Satyajit Ray  17

Andrei tarkovsky 17

Dw griffiths 16

Manoel Oliviera 16

Max Ophuls 16

Michael Powell 16

Orson Welles 16
Michaelangelo Antonioni 15

Edwarg Yang 15

Josef Sternberg 15

Jacques Rivette 15 

John Ford  15

Jean Epstein 14

John Cassavetes 14

Terence Malick 14
Billy Wilder 13

Nicholas Ray 13

Ernst Lubitsch 13

Werner Herzog 13

Alexander Dovshenko 13

FW Murnau 13

Fritz Lang 13
Frederic Fellini 12
Mauritz Stiller 12
Ferdinand Zecca 11

Jim Jarmush 11

Clint Eastwood 11

Maurice Pialat 11
Wong Kar Wai 10
Terence Davies 10

Krystoff Kieslowski 10
Andrsej Wajda 10

Luchino Visconte 10

Leo Mccarey 10

Cine-o-meter: Usa 269 France 154 Japan 64 Germany 47 Russia 46 Britian 42 Italy 41 India 27 Sweden 22 Taiwan 17 Iran 14 Hong kong 14 China 13 Portugal 12 Denmark 9  Poland 9

February 19, 2014

best films 1999

A time for drunken horses  (Iran) Bahman Ghodabi

Beau travail  (France) Claire Denis
Clouds of may  (Turkey)  Nuri Ceylan
Eyes wide shut  (Britain/Usa)  Stanley Kubrick
Ghost dog  (Usa)  Jim Jarmusch
Magnolia  (Usa)  Paul Anderson
Rosetta  (France/Belgium)  Jean Dardenne

The mission  (Hong kong)  Johnnie To
The wind will carry us  (Iran)  Abbas Kiarostami
Time regained  (France/Chile)  Raul Ruiz


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Eyes Wide Shut
Best Director:  Claire Denis

Achievement Award:  Jean Dardenne

best films 1998

After life  (Japan)  Hirokazu Koreeda

An autumn tale  (France) Eric Rohmer
Dil se  (India)  Mani Ratnam
Enemy of the state  (Usa/Britain)  Tony Scott
Flowers of shanghai  (Taiwan/China)  Hou Hsiao Hsien
Inquietude  (Portugal)  Manoel Oliviera
Rushmore  (Usa)  Wes Anderson
The hole  (Taiwan/Malaysia)  Tsai Ming Liang
The power of kangwon province  (Korea)  Sang Soo Hong
The thin red line  (Usa)  Terence Malick


The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture: The Thin Red Line
Best Director:  Hirokazu Koreeda

Achievement Award: Sang Soo Hong

best films 1997

A taste of cherry  (Iran)  Abbas Kiarostami
Affliction  (Usa) Paul Schrader
Cure  (Japan)  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Fragments  (Israel)  Ron Havilio
Hana bi  (Japan)  Takeshi Kitano
La confidential  (Usa)  Curtis Hanson
Mother and son  (Russia)  Alexander Sukurov
Ossos  (Portugal)  Pedro Costa
The mirror  (Iran)  Jafar Panahi
The river  (Taiwan/Malaysia)  Tsai Ming Liang




The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture:  A taste of cherry
Best Director:  Alexander Sukurov

Achievement Award:  Tsai Ming Liang

February 17, 2014

best films 1996

A moment of innocence  (Iran)  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Aprile  (Italy) Nina Moretti
Breaking the waves  (Denmark)  Lars Von Trier
Crash  (Canada)  David Cronenberg
Drifting clouds  (Finland)  Aki Kaurismaki
Goodbye south goodbye  (Taiwan/China)  Hao Hsiao Hsien
How i got into an argument  (France)  Arnaud Desplechin

Le voleurs (France) Andre Techine
The portrait of a lady  (Australia/New Zealand)  Jane Campion
Tierra  (Spain) Julio Medem



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Goodbye South Goodbye
Best Director:  Jane Campion

Achievement Award: David Cronenberg

best films 1995

Before sunrise  (Usa)  Richard Linklater
Dead man  (Usa)  Jim Jarmusch
Fallen angels  (Hong kong/China)  Wong Kar Wai
Haut bas fragile  (France)  Jacques Rivette
Heat  (Usa)  Michael Mann
La ceremonie  (France)  Claude Chabrol

Secrets and lies (Britain) Mike Leigh
The convent  (Portugal)  Manoel Oliviera
The white balloon  (Iran)  Jafar Panahi
Whisper of the heart  (Japan)  Yoshifumi Kondo


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Dead Man
Best Director:  Wong Kar Wai

Achievement Award: Richard Linklater

February 16, 2014

best films 1994

Chunking express  (Hong kong/China)  Wong Kar Wai
Exotica  (Canada/Armenia)  Atom Egoyen

Pulp fiction  (Usa) Quentin Tarantino
Satantango  (Hungary)  Bela Tarr
Take care of your scarf tatyana  (Finland)  Aki Kaurismaki
The bridges of madison county  (Usa)  Clint Eastwood
Through the olive trees  (Iran)  Abbas Kiarostami

To Live (China ) Zhang Yimou
Vive l'amour  (Taiwan/Malaysia)  Tsai Ming Liang
Whispering pages  (Russia)  Aleksander Sukurov


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Satantango
Best Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Achievement Award:  Atom Egoyan

best films 1993

A perfect world  (Usa)  Clint Eastwood
Abrahams valley  (France/Portugal)  Manoel Oliviera
Cold water  (France)  Oliver Assayas
Dazed and confused  (Usa)  Richard Linklater

D'est (Belgium/France) Chantal Ackerman
Jlg/Jlg  (France)  Jean Luc Godard
Naked  (Britain)  Mike Leigh
Sonatine  (Japan)  Takeshi Kitano

The blue kite (China) Tian Zhaungzhuang
The puppetmaster  (Taiwan/China)  Hou Hsiao Hsien


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Abrahams Valley
Best Director:  Mike Leigh

Achievement Award:  Takeshi Kitano



best films 1992

Calendar  (Canada/Armenia) Atom Egoyen
Centre stage  (Hong kong)  Stanley Kwan
Groundhog day  (Usa)  Harold Ramis
Life and nothing more  (Iran)  Abbas Kiarostami
Quince tree sun  (Spain) Victor Erice
Seopyonje  (Korea)  Im Kwon Taek
Simple men  (Usa)  Hal Hartley
The age of innocence  (Usa)  Martin Scorsese
The long day closes  (Britain)  Terence Davies
The player (Usa) Robert Altman




The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  The Long Day Closes
Best Director:  Abbas Kiarostami

Achievement Award:  Stanley Kwan

best films 1991

A brighter summers day (Taiwan/China)  Edward Yang
A scene at the sea  (Japan)  Takeshi Kitano

Defending your life  (Usa) Albert Brooks
Guelwaar  (Senegal)  Ousbene Sembene
Hyenas  (Senegal)  Djibril Mambety
La belle noiseuse (France)  Jacques Rivette
Only yesterday  (Japan)  Isao Takahata

The double life of veronique  (France/Poland)  Krzysztof Kieslowski
The stranger  (India) Satyajit Ray
Van gogh  (France)  Maurice Pialat


The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture: La Belle Noiseuse
Best Director: Edward Yang

Achievement Award:  Albert Brooks

February 15, 2014

best films 1990

An angel at my table  (Australia/New Zealand)  Jane Campion
Boiling point  (Japan)  Takeshi Kitano
Close up  (Iran)  Abbas Kiarostami
Days of being wild  (Hong kong/China)  Wong Kar Wai

Ju dou (China)  Zhang Yimou
Life is sweet  (Britain)  Mike Leigh
Nouvelle vague  (France) Jean Luc Godard
The second circle (Russia)  Aleksandr Sukurov
To sleep with anger  (Usa)  Charles Burnett
White hunter black heart  (Usa)  Clint Eastwood


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Close Up
Best Director:  Wong Kar Wai

Achievement Award: Clint Eastwood


The Hall of Fame

Alfred Hitchcock 38

Howard Hawks 29
Robert Bresson 28

Kenji Mizoguchi 28

Victor Sjostrom 28

Eric Rohmer 27
Yasujiro Ozu 26

George Melies 26

Jean Luc Godard 26

Carl Dreyer 26
Jean Renoir 24
Luis Bunuel 24

Albert Capellani 24
Roberto Rosselini 21
Yevgeni Bauer  21

Reiner Fassbinder 20

Sergei Eisenstein 18 

Mikio Naruse 18

Andrei Tarkovsky 17

Satyajit Ray 16
Max Ophuls 16
Michael Powell 16

Orson Welles 16

DW Griffiths 16

Stanley Kubrick 15

Michaelangelo Antonioni 15

Josef Sternberg 15

John Ford 15
Jean Epstein 14

John Cassavetes 14

Ernst Lubitsch 13

Nicholas Ray 13

Alexander Dovshenko 13

FW Murnau 13

Werner Herzog 13

Billy Wilder 13

Fritz Lang 13
Charlie Chaplin 12
Frederic Fellini 12
Mauritz Stiller 12
Hao Hsiao Hsien 12
Ferdinand Zecca 11

Manoel Oliviera 11
Andrsej Wajda 10

Luchino Visconte 10

Maurice Pialat 10

Leo Mccarey 10
King Vidor  9
Ingmar Bergman 9
Abbas Kiarostami 9
Krystoff Kieslowski  9
Maurice Tourneur 9
Ladislas Starevich 9
Jacques Rivette 9        

Terence Malick 9                   

cine-0-meter: Usa 248 France 141 Japan 56 Germany 47 Russia 44 Italy 40 Britain 37 India 25 Sweden 21 China 10 Hong Kong 9 Poland 9 Taiwan 9 Denmark 8

best films 1989

A city of sadness  (Taiwan)  Hao Hsaou Hsien
Bashu the little stranger  (Iran)  Bahram Bayzai
Mest  (Russia/Kazakhstan)  Ermek Chinarbaev
O sangue  (Portugal)  Pedro Costa
Recollections of the yellow house  (Portugal)  Jaoa Cesar Monteiro
Say anything  (Usa)  Cameron Crowe
The asthenic syndrome  (Russia/Romania)  Kira Muratova
The gang of four  (France)  Jacques Rivette
The match factory girl  (Finland)  Aki Kaurismaki
The vainglory of command  (Portugal)  Manoel Oliviera

The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  A city of sadness
Best Director:  Jacques Rivette

Achievement Award:  Aki Kaurismaki

February 12, 2014

best films 1988

A tale of the wind (France/Holland) Joris Ivens

Ariel  (Finland)  Aki Kaurismaki
Damnation  (Hungary)  Bela Tarr
Dead ringers  (Canada)  David Cronenberg
Decalogue (Poland) Krzystoff Kieslowski
Distant voices still lives  (Britain)  Terence Davies
Landscape in the mist  (Greece)  Theodorous Angelopoulos
My neighbour totoro  (Japan)  Hayao Miyazaki
Rouge  (Hong kong)  Stanley Kwan
The thin blue line (Usa)  Errol Morris



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Decalogue
Best Director:  Terence Davies

Achievement Award:  Theodorous Angelopolous

best films 1987

Empire of the sun  (Usa) Stephen Spielberg
Hope and glory  (Britain)  John Boorman

Housekeeping (Usa/Britain) Bill Forsyth
King of the children  (China)  Chen Kaige
My girlfriend's boyfriend  (France)  Eric Rohmer
The dead  (Britain/Usa)  John Huston
Under the sun of satan  (France)  Maurice Pialat
Where is the friends house  (Iran)  Abbas Kiarostami
Wings of desire  (Germany)  Wim Wenders
Yeelen  (Mali)  Souleymane Cisse


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Yeelen
Best Director:  Abbas Kiarostami

Achievement Award:  Chen Kaige

best films 1986

A better tomorrow  (Hong Kong/China) John Woo
Blue velvet  (Usa)  David Lynch
Down by law  (Usa)  Jim Jarmusch
Dust in the wind  (Taiwan/China)  Hou Hsiao Hsien

Manhunter (Usa) Michael Mann
Peking opera blues  (Hong kong/Vietnam)  Hark Tsui
Terrorizers  (Taiwan/China)  Edward Yang
The green ray  (France)  Eric Rohmer
The horse thief  (China) Tian Zhuangzhuang
The sacrifice  (Sweden/Russia)  Andrei Tarkovsky


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  The Horse Thief
Best Director:  Eric Rohmer

Achievement Award: Michael Mann

best films 1985

Back to the future  (Usa) Robert Zemeckis

Lost in america (Usa) Albert Brooks
Mishima a life in four chapters  (Usa)  Paul Schrader
No end  (Poland)  Krzysztof Kieslowski
Rendezvous  (France)  Andre Techine
Shoah  (France)  Claude Lanzmann
Taipei story  (Taiwan/China)  Edward Yang
The runner  (Iran)  Amir Naderi

The time to live, the time to die  (Taiwan/China)  Hou Hsiao Hsien
Vagabond  (France) Agnes Varda



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Taipei story
Best Director:  Hou Hsiao Hsien

Achievement Award:  Kryzstof  Kieslowski

best films 1984

A sunday in the country  (France)  Bertrand Tarvernier
Full moon in paris  (Eric Rohmer)
Love streams  (Usa)  John Cassavetes
My friend ivan lapshin  (Russia)  Alexei Guerman
Once upon a time in america  (Usa/Italy)  Sergei Leone
Summer at grandpas  (Taiwan/China)  Hou Hsiao Hsien
Stranger than paradise  (Usa)  Jim Jarmusch
Streets of fire  (Usa)  Walter Hill
The long am of the law  (Hong kong)  Johnny Mak
Yellow earth  (China)  Kaige Chen


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Love streams
Best Director:  Jim Jarmusch

Achievement Award:  Sergio Leone

best films 1983

A nos amours  (France)  Maurice Pialat
L'argent  (France)  Robert Bresson
My brothers wedding  (Usa)  Charles Burnett
Nostalgia  (Russia)  Andrei  Tarkovsky
Pauline at the beach  (France)  Eric Rohmer
Razia sultan  (India)  Kamal Amrohi
That day on the beach  (Taiwan/China)  Edward Yang
Three crowns of the sailor  (France/Chile)  Raul Ruiz
Voyage to cythera (Greece) Theodorus Angelopolous
Wheels on meals  (Hong Kong)  Sammo Hung





The Golden Gongs
 
Best Picture:  L'argent
Best Director:  Maurice Pialat

Achievement Award: Charles Burnett

best films 1982

A good marriage  (France)  Eric Rohmer
Danton  (France/Poland)  Andrzej Wajda
Dimensions of dialogue  (Czechoslovakia)  Jan Svankmayer
Finye  (Mali)  Souleymane Cisse

Le pont du nord (France) Jacques Rivette
Moonlighting  (Britain/Poland)  Jerzy Skolimowski
Passion  (France)  Jean Luc Godard
Nomad  (Hong Kong)  Patrick Tam
The king of comedy  (Usa)  Martin Scorsese

Veronika voss (Germany) Rainer Fassbinder




The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  A Good Marriage
Best Director: Jean Luc Godard

Achievement Award: Jan Svankmeyer

February 11, 2014

best films 1981

Blind chance  (Poland)  Kyrzystof Kieslowski
Fanny and alexander  (Sweden)  Ingmar Bergman
Francisca  (Portugal)  Manuel Oliviera
Lola  (Germany)  Reiner Fassbinder
Man of iron  (Poland)  Andrsej Wajda
Modern romance  (Usa)  Albert Brooks
On top of the whale  (Denmark/Chile)  Raul Ruiz
The aviators wife  (France)  Eric Rohmer
The prodigal son  (Hong kong)  Sammo Hung
Thief  (Usa)  Michael Mann



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Man of Iron
Best Director:  Ingmar Bergman

Achievement Award: Raul Ruiz

best films 1980

Berlin alexanderplatz  (Germany)  Reiner Fassbinder
Bronco billy  (Usa)  Clint Eastwood

Germany pale mother (Germany) Helma Brahms
Loulou  (France)  Maurice Pialat
Mandala  (Korea) Im Kwon Taek
Melvin and howard  (Usa)  John Demme
My american uncle  (France)  Alain Resnais
The big red one  (Usa)  Sam Fuller
The shining  (Britain/Usa)  Stanley Kubrick
Gregorys girl (Britain) Bill Forsyth


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Berlin Alexanderplatz
Best Director:  Stanley Kubrick

Achievement Award:  Maurice Pialat


The Hall of Fame

Alfred Hitchcock 38

Howard Hawks 29

Kenji Mizoguchi 28

Victor Sjostrom 28

Yasujiro Ozu 26

Georges Melies 26

Carl Dreyer 25

Luis Bunuel 24
Jean Renoir 24

Albert Capellani 24
Robert Bresson 23
Roberto Rossellini 21
Jean Luc Godard 21
Yevgeni Bauer 21

Sergei Eisenstein 18

Reiner Fassbinder 18

Mikio Naruse 18

Satyajit Ray 16
Michael Powell 16
Maz Ophuls 16

DW Griffiths 16 

Orson Welles 16

Andrei Tarkovsky 15

Stanley Kubrick 15

Michaelangelo Antonioni 15

Josef Sternberg 15

John Ford  15
Jean Epstein 14
Eric Rohmer 14

Charlie Chaplin 13
Ernst Lubitsch 13

Nicholas Ray 13

Alexander Dovshenko 13

FW Murnau 13

Fritz Lang 13

Billy Wilder 13
Frederic Fellini 12
Mauritz Stiller 12
Werner Herzog 12
Ferdinand Zecca 11

Luchino Visconte 10

Leo Mccarey 10
King Vidor 9
John  Cassavetes 9

Terence Malick 9
Maurice Tourneur 9
Ladislas Starevich 9

cine-o-meter: Usa 229 Fra 122 Jap 54 Ger 44 Ita 40  Rus 39 Bri 33 Ind 23 Swe 19 Den 7 Mex 7 Cze 6 Chi 6

best films 1979

Alexandria why  (Egypt)  Youseff Chahine
Ekdin pratidin  (India)  Mrinal Sen

From the clouds to the resistance (Italy/France) Jean marie Straub
My brilliant career  (Australia)  Gillian Armstrong
Stalker  (Russia)  Andrei Tarkovsky
Tale of tales  (Russia)  Yuri Norstein
Ten  (Usa)  Blake Edwards
The hypothesis of the stolen painting  (France/Chile)  Raul Ruiz 
The marriage of maria braun  (Germany)  Rainer Fassbinder
Vengeance is mine  (Japan)  Shohei Imamura




The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Stalker
Best Director: Rainer Fassbinder

Achievement Award: Youssef Chahine

best films 1978

An unmarried woman (Usa)  Paul Mazursky
Days of heaven  (Usa)  Terence Malick
Doomed love  (Portugal)  Manuel Oliviera
Fedora  (Germany/Austria)  Billy Wilder

Graduate first  (France)  Maurice Pialat
Halloween  (Usa)  John Carpenter 

Meetings of anna (France/Belgium) Chantal Ackerman
Perceval  (France)  Eric Rohmer
The driver  (Usa)  Walter Hill
Violette noziere  (France)  Claude Chabrol




The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Days of heaven
Best Director: Manoel Oliviera

Achievement Award:  Walter Hill

February 10, 2014

best films 1977

Amar akbar anthony  (India)  Manmahan Desai
Camouflage  (Poland)  Krystoff Zanussi
Ceddo  (Senegal)  Ousmane Sembene
Killer of sheep  (Usa)  Charles Burnett
Man of marble  (Poland)  Andrsej Wajda
Providence  (France)  Alain Resnais

Shift (Usa) Ernie Gehr
That obscure object of desire  (France/Spain)  Luis Bunuel
The chess players  (India)  Satyajit Ray
The gauntlet (Usa) Clint Eastwood







The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture:  Providence
Best Director: Satyajit Ray

Achievement Award: Andrsej Wajda

best films 1976

Drunken master (Hong Kong/China)  Yuen Woo Ping
Duelle (France) Jacques Rivette
Heart of glass  (Germany)  Werner Herzog

In the realm of the senses (Japan) Nagisa Oshima
Insaing  (Philippines) Lino Brocka
Nuts in may  (Britain)  Mike Leigh
The killing of a chinese bookie  (Usa) John Cassavetes
The marquise of o  (Germany/France)  Eric Rohmer
The outlaw josey wales  (Usa)  Clint Eastwood

The shootist  (Usa) Don Siegel



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Heart of Glass
Best Director: John Cassavetes

Achievement Award: Jacques Rivette

best films 1975

Barry lyndon  (Britain/Usa)  Stanley Kubrick
Hard times  (Usa)  Walter Hill 

India song (France) Marguerite Duras
Love among the ruins  (Britain/Usa)  George Cukor
Manila in the claws of neon  (Philippines)  Lino Brocka

Messiah  (Italy) Roberto Rossellini
The hedgehog in the fog  (Russia)  Yuri Norstein
The mirror  (Russia)  Andrei Tarkovsky
The passenger (Italy)  Michelangelo Antonioni
The travelling players  (Greece)  Theodorus Angelopolous



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Barry Lyndon
Best Director:  Andrei Tarkovsky

Achievement Award:  Lino Brocka

best films 1974

A woman under the influence  (Usa)  John Cassavetes
Ali fear eats the soul  (Germany)  Rainer Fassbinder
Alice in the cities  (Germany) Wim Wenders
Arabian nights  (Italy)  Pier Pasolini
Celine and julie go boating  (France) Jacques Rivette
Effi briest  (Germany) Rainer Fassbinder
Lancelot du lac  (France)  Robert Bresson
The enigma of kasper hauser  (Germany)  Werner Herzog
Weighed but found wanting  (Phillippines) Lino Brocka

World on a wire (Germany) Reiner Fassbinder


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: The enigma of kasper hauser
Best Director:  Robert Bresson

Achievement Award:  Wim Wenders

best films 1973

A river called titas  (India)  Ritwik Ghatak
Badlands  (Usa)  Terence Malick
F is for fake  (France/Usa)  Orson Welles
La maman et la putain  (France) Jean Eustache
Moses and aaron (Germany/France) Jean Marie Straub
Spirit of the beehive  (Spain)  Victor Erice
The age of the medici  (Italy)  Roberto Rossellini
The long goodbye  (Usa)  Robert Altman
Touki bouki  (Senegal)  Djibril Mambety
Travels with my aunt  (Usa)  George Cukor


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Spirit of the beehive
Best Director:  Terence Malick

Achievement Award: Jean Marie Straub

best films 1972

Aguirre the wrath of god  (Germany)  Werner Herzog
Avanti  (Usa/Austria)  Billy Wilder
Chloe in the afternoon  (France) Eric Rohmer
Duvidha (India) Mani Kaul
Frenzy  (Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Pakeezah  (India)  Kamal Amrohi
Solaris  (Russia)  Andrei Tarkovsky
The bitter tears of petra van kant  (Germany)  Reiner Fassbinder
The merchant of four seasons  (Germany) Reiner Fassbinder
The discreet charm of the bourgeoise (France/Spain)  Luis Bunuel




The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture: Pakeezah
Best Director:  Reiner Fassbinder
Best Performer: 

Achievement Award: Werner Herzog

February 08, 2014

best films 1971

A touch of zen  (Taiwan/China)  King Hu
Dirty harry (Usa)  Don Siegel
Fear of the penalty kick (Germany) Wim Wenders
Four nights of a dreamer  (France) Robert Bresson
Get carter  (Britain)  Mike Hodges
Love  (Hungary)  Karolly Makk
Mccabe and mrs miller  (Usa)  Robert Altman
The ceremony  (Japan) Nagasi Oshima
The house in the woods  (France)  Maurice Pialat
Ulzanas raid  (Usa) Robert Aldrich



The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture:  Mccabe and mrs miller
Best Director: Karolly Makk

Achievement Award:   King Hu

February 07, 2014

best films 1970

A swedish love story  (Sweden)  Roy Andersonn
Appointment in bray  (France/Belgium)  Andre Delvaux
Claire's knee  (France)  Eric Rohmer
La boucher  (France)  Claude Chabrol
La cercle rouge  (France)  Jean Melville
Lived once a songthrush (Russia/Georgia)  Otar Iosseliani
The conformist  (Italy)  Bertrand Bertolucci
The little theatre of jean renoir  (France)  Jean Renoir
The private life of sherlock holmes  (Britain/Austria)  Billy Wilder
Tristana  (Spain)  Luis Bunuel


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Claires Knee
Best Director:  Luis Bunuel

Achievement Award:  Claude Chabrol


The Hall of Fame

Alfred Hitchcock 37

Howard Hawks 29

Kenji Mizoguchi 28

Victor Sjostrom 28
Yasujiro Ozu 26

George Melies 26

Carl Dreyer 25
Jean Renoir 24
Albert Capellani 24

Luis Bunuel 22

Yevgeni Bauer 21

Jean Luc Godard 20
Roberto Rosselini  19

Robert Bresson 19

Sergei Eisenstein 18

Mikio Naruse 18

Dw Griffiths 16

Michael Powell 16

Max Ophuls 16

Josef Sternberg 15

Orson Welles 15

John Ford 15
Michaelangelo Antonioni 14

Jean Epstein 14
Nicholas Ray 13
Ernst Lubitsch 13
FW Murnau 13
Alexander Dovshenko 13

Fritz Lang 13

Charlie Chaplin 13

Satyajit Ray 12
Mauritz Stiller 12
Frederic Fellini 12
Billy Wilder 11
Ferdinand Zecca 11
Eric Rohmer 11

Leo Mccarey 10

Luchino Visconte 10
King Vidor 9

Maurice Tourneur 9

Ladislas Starevich 9

Edwin Porter 8

Erich Stronheim 8

cineometer 1970: Usa 206, Fra 107, Jap 51, Ita 36, Rus 36, Ger 29, Bri 26, Swe 19, Ind 18, Den 7, Mex 7, Cze 6, Chi 6

February 06, 2014

best films 1969

A gentle woman  (France) Robert Bresson
Boy  (Japan) Nagisa Oshima
Katzelmacher  (Germany)  Rainer Fassbinder
Kes  (Britain)  Ken Loach
My night at mauds  (France)  Eric Rohmer
The land  (Egypt)  Youssef Chahine
The night of counting the years  (Egypt)  Shadi Salam
The structure of crystal  (Poland)  Krystof Zanussi
The unfaithful wife  (France)  Claude Chabrol
Wavelength  (Canada)  Michael Snow



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: My night at mauds
Best Director:  Robert Bresson

Achievement Award: Nagisa Oshima

best films 1968

2001 a space odyssey  (Britian/Usa)  Stanley Kubrick
A man vanishes  (Japan)  Shohei Imamura
Carry on up the khybur  (Britain) Gerald Thomas
Death by hanging  (Japan)  Nagisa Oshima
Faces  (Usa)  John Cassavetes
Memories of underdevelopment  (Cuba)  Tomas Alea
Targets  (Usa)  Peter Bogdanovich 
The chronicles of anna bach  (Germany/France) Jean Marie Straub
The colour of pomegranates  (Russia/Armenia)  Sergei Parajanov
Witchfinder general  (Britain)  Michael Reeves


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  2001
Best Director:  John Cassavetes

Achievement Award:  Shohei Imamaru

best films 1967

Belle de jour  (France/Spain)  Luis Bunuel
Dragon gate inn  (Taiwan/China)  King Hu
La collectioneuse  (France)  Eric Rohmer
Mouchette  (France)  Robert Bresson
Playtime  (France)  Jacques Tati
Scattered clouds  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse
The jewel thief  (India)  Vijay Anand
The red and white  (Hungary) Miklos Jansco
The young girls of rochefort  (France)  Jacques Demy
Two or three things i know about her  (France)  Jean luc Godard


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Two or three things i know about her
Best Director:  Jacques Demy


Achievement Award: Vijay Anand

February 05, 2014

best films 1966

Andrei rublev  (Russia)  Andrei Tarkovsky
Au hasard balthazar  (France)  Robert Bresson
Blow up  (Britain/Italy)  Michelangelo Antonioni

Chelsea girls  (Usa) Andy Warhol
Closely observed trains  (Czechoslovakia)  Jiri Menzel
Daisies  (Czechoslovakia) Vera Chitylova
Dog man star  (Usa)  Stanley Brakhage
Games with stones  (Czechoslovakia)  Jan Svankmeyer
The rise to power of louis the fourteenth  (France/Italy)  Roberto Rossellini
Tokyo drifter  (Japan)  Seijun Suzuki


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Andrei Rublev
Best Director:  Michaelangelo Antonioni
Best Performer: 

Achievement Award: Vera Chitylova

best films 1965

Bunny lake is missing  (Britain/Austria)  Otto Preminger
Chimes at midnight  (Spain/Usa)  Orson Welles

For a few dollars more  (Italy)  Sergio Leone 

Intimate lighting (Czechoslovakia) Ivan Passer
Le bonheur  (France/Belgium)  Agnes Varda
Loves of a blonde  (Czechoslovakia)  Milos Forman
Pierrot le fou  (France)  Jean luc Godard
Shadows of forgotten ancestors (Russia/Armenia)  Sergei Paranov
The golden thread  (India)  Ritwik Ghatak
The guide (India)  Vijay Anand



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Pierrot le Fou
Best Director:  Agnes Varda
Best Performer: Robert Morley

Achievement Award: Sergei Paranov

best films 1964

A bande aparte  (France)  Jean luc Godard
Charulata  (India) Satyajit Ray
Diary of a chambermaid  (France/Spain)  Luis Bunuel
Gertrud  (Denmark)  Carl Dreyer
Intentions of murder  (Japan)  Shohei Imamaru
Marnie  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock

The enchanted desna  (Russia) Yulia Solntseva
The gospel according to st matthew  (Italy)  Pier Pasolini
The umbrellas of cherbourg  (France)  Jacques Demy
Yearning  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse


The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture: Gertrud
Best Director: Mikio Naruse

Achievement Award:  Pier Pasolini

best films 1963

Contempt  (France)  Jean luc Godard
Dry summer  (Turkey)  Metin Erksan
I fidanzati  (Italy) Ermanno Olmi
Muriel  (France)  Alain Resnais
Shock corridor  (Usa) Sam Fuller
The big city  (India) Satyajit Ray
The birds  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
The house is black  (Iran)  Forough Farrokhzad
The leopard  (Italy)  Luchino Visconti
Winter light  (Sweden)  Ingmar Bergman


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Contempt
Best Director:  Satyajit Ray

Achievement Award:  Ermanno Olmi

best films 1962

Autumn afternoon  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Cleo from 5 to 7  (France/Belgium)  Agnes Varda
Exterminating angel  (Mexico/Spain)  Luis Bunuel
Hatari  (Usa) Howard Hawks
Jules et jim  (France)  Francois Truffaut
L'eclisse  (Italy)  Michelangelo Antonioni
Mamma roma  (Italy)  Pier Pasolini
My life to live  (France)  Jean luc Godard
Sahib bibi aur gulam  (India)  Abrar Alvi

The housemaid  (Korea) Kim Ki Young


The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture:  L'eclisse
Best Director:  Howard Hawks

Achievement Award:  Francois Truffaut

February 04, 2014

best films 1961

A wife confesses  (Japan)  Yasuzo Masumura
A woman is a woman  (France)  Jean luc Godard
Accatone  (Italy)  Pier Pasolini
Girl with a suitcase  (Italy) Valerio Zurlini
Il posto  (Italy) Ermanno Olmi
La notte  (Italy) Michelangelo Antonioni
Lola  (France)  Jacques Demy
The aimless bullet  (Korea)  Yu Hyun Mok
The end of summer  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Through a glass darkly  (Sweden)  Ingmar Bergman
Viridiana  (Spain)  Luis Bunuel


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Viridiana
Best Director:  Jean Luc Godard
Best Performer:  Claudia Cardinale

Achievement Award:  Ingmar Bergman

February 03, 2014

best films 1960

Alyonka (Russia)  Boris Barnet
L'aventurra  (Italy)  Michelangelo Antonioni
La dolce vita  (Italy)  Frederic Fellini
Mother joan of the angels  (Poland)  Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Peeping tom  (Britain) Michael Powell
Psycho  (Usa/Britain) Alfred Hitchcock
The apartment  (Usa/Austria)  Billy Wilder
The cloud capped star  (India)  Ritwik Ghatak
The savage innocents  (Italy/Usa)  Nicholas Ray
When a woman ascends the stairs  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse
Wild river  (Usa)  Elia Kazan


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  La dolce vita
Best Director:  Michaelangelo Antonioni

Achievement Award: Ritwik Ghatak


The Hall of Fame

Alfred Hitchcock 35

Kenji Mizoguchi  28

Victor Sjostrom  28

Georges Melies  26
Yasujiro Ozu  24

Albert Capellani  24
Jean Renoir  23

Howard Hawks  23
Yevgeni Bauer  21

Carl Dreyer  20
Roberto Rossellini  18

Sergei Eisenstein  18

DW Griffiths  17
Max Ophuls  16
Michael Powell  16

Josef Sternberg 15

John Ford  15
Jean Epstein  14

Orson Welles  14

Mikio Naruse  14
Robert Bresson 13
Ernst Lubitsch  13
Nicholas Ray  13
Alexander Dovshenko 13

FW Murnau  13

Chralie Chaplin  13

Fritz Lang  13
Frederic Fellini 12
Mauritz Stiller  12
Ferdinand Zecca  11

Leo Mccarey  10

Luis Bunuel  10

Billy Wilder  10
King Vidor  9
Ladislas Starevich  9

Maurice Tourneur  9

Luchino Visconte  9

Edwin Porter 8

Erich Stronheim  8 

Satyajit Ray  7

Marcus Pagnol 7
Frank Borzage  7

GW Pabst  7 

Vsevelod Pudovkin  7

Raoul Walsh  7

James Whale  7

Louis Feuillade  7

Michel Carne  7 

Jacques Tourneur  7

John Stahl  7

cinemeter 1960: Usa 198, Fra 75, Jap 42, Rus 31, Ger 26, Ita 25, Bri 20, Swe 16, Ind 12, Mex 6, Den 6, Chi 6

January 30, 2014

best films 1959

Anatomy of a murder  (Usa/Austria)  Otto Preminger
Floating weeds  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Imitation of life  (Usa/Germany)  Douglas Sirk
Kaagaz ke phool  (India) Guru Dutt
Nazarin  (Mexico/Spain)  Luis Bunuel
North by northwest  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Pickpocket  (France) Robert Bresson
Rio bravo  (Usa)  Howard Hawks
The 400 blows  (France)  Francois Truffaut
The world of apu  (India)  Satyajit Ray


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: North by northwest
Best Director:  Luis Bunuel

Achievement Award:  Otto Preminger

best films 1958

Ashes and diamonds  (Poland)  Andrsej Wajda
Big deal on madonna street (Italy) Mario Monicelli
Cairo station  (Egypt)  Youssef Chahine

Cranes are flying (Russia) Mikhael Kalatzov
Madhumati  (India)  Bimal Roy
Mon oncle  (France)  Jacques Tati
Rally round the flag boys  (Usa)  Leo Mccarey
Some came running  (Usa)  Vincente Minnelli
The music room  (India)  Satyajit Ray
Vertigo  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Vertigo
Best Director: Vincente Minnelli
Best Performer:  Burt Ives 

Achievement Award:  Jacques Tati

best films 1957

An affair to remember (Usa) Leo Mccarey
Forty guns  (Usa)  Sam Fuller
Le notti bianche  (Italy)  Luchino Visconti
Nights of cabiria  (Italy) Frederic Fellini
Pyassa  (India)  Guru Dutt
The sweet smell of success  (Usa/Britain)  Alexander Mackendrick
Throne of blood  (Japan)  Akira Kuroswawa
Wild strawberries  (Sweden)  Ingmar Bergman
Will success spoil rock hunter  (Usa)  Frank Tashlin
Witness for the prosecution  (Usa/Austria)  Billy Wilder



The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture: Le notti bianche
Best Director:  Frederic Fellini
Best Performer:  Marcello Mastroianni

Achievement Award: Akira Kurosawa

best films 1956

A man escaped  (France)  Robert Bresson
Bigger than life  (Usa)  Nicholas Ray
Crazy fruit  (Japan)  Ko nakahira
Early spring  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Flowing  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse
The girl cant help it  (Usa)  Frank Tashlin
The killing  (Usa)  Stanley Kubrick
The red balloon (France)  Albert Lamorisse

The searchers  (Usa)  John Ford

Written on the wind  (Usa/Germany)  Douglas Sirk


The Golden Gongs 

Best Film:  A man escaped
Best Director: Nicholas Ray
Best Performer: Elisha Cook jr

Achievement Award: Frank Tashlin


January 29, 2014

best films 1955

All that heaven allows  (Usa/Germany)  Douglas Sirk
Death of a cyclist  (Spain)  Juan Bardem
Floating clouds  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse
Kiss me deadly  (Usa)  Robert Aldrich
Lola montes  (France/Germany) Max Ophuls

Mr Arkadin (Spain/Usa) Orson Welles
Ordet  (Denmark)  Carl Dreyer
Pather panchali  (India)  Satjayit Ray
The criminal life of archiboldo de cruz  (Mexico/Spain)  Luis Bunuel
The night of the hunter  (Usa/Britain)  Charles Laughton



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Pather Panchali
Best Director:  Carl Dreyer
Best Performer:  Jay C Flippen

Achievement Award:  Douglas Sirk

best films 1954

A star is born  (Usa)  George Cukor
French cancan  (France)  Jean Renoir
Johnny guitar  (Usa)  Nicholas Ray
Rear window  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Sansho the bailiff  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi
Sound of the mountain  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse
The seven samurai  (Japan)  Akira Kurosawa
Track of the cat  (Usa) William Wellman
Voyage in italy  (Italy)  Roberto Rosselini

Wagonmaster (Usa) John Ford



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Rear Window
Best Director:  Roberto Rosselini
Best Performer:  Thomas Mitchell

Achievement Award:  William Wellman

best films 1953

Gentlemen prefer blondes  (Usa)  Howard Hawks
I vitelloni  (Italy)  Frederic Fellini
Late chrysanthemums  (Japan) Mikio Naruse
Monsiuer hulots holiday  (France)  Jacques Tati
Roman holiday  (Usa)  William Wyler
The earrings of madame de .. (France/Germany)  Max Ophuls
The golden coach  (France) Jean Renoir
The naked spur  (Usa)  Anthony Mann
Tokyo story  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Ugetsu  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi




The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Ugetsu
Best Director:  Jean Renoir
Best Performer:  Robert Mitchum

Achievement Award:  Frederic Fellini


best films 1952

Bend of the river  (Usa)  Anthony Mann
El  (Mexico/Spain)  Luis Bunuel
Europa 51  (Italy)  Roberto Rosselini
Le plaisir  (France/Germany)  Max Ophuls
Lightning  (Japan) Mikio Naruse
Limelight  (Usa/Britain)  Charles Chaplin
Monkey business  (Usa)  Howard Hawks
The life of oharu  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi
The prowler  (Usa)  Joseph Losey 

The thing from another world (Usa) Christian Nyby



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: The Life of Oharu
Best Director:  Mikio Naruse
Best Performer:  Michael Redgrave

Achievement Award:  Anthony Mann

January 28, 2014

best films 1951

Ace in the hole  (Usa/Austria)  Billy Wilder
Awaara  (India)  Raj Kapoor
Diary of a country priest  (France) Robert Bresson
Early summer  (Japan) Yasijuro Ozu
Fixed bayonets  (Usa)  Sam Fuller
On dangerous ground  (Usa)  Nicholas Ray
Steel helmet  (Usa) Sam Fuller
Strangers on a train  (Usa/Britain) Alfred Hitchcock
The kaiser's lackey  (Germany)  Wolfgang Staudte
The lavender hill mob  (Britain)  Charles Crichton
The man in the white suit  (Britain)  Alexander Mckendrick
The river  (India/France)  Jean Renoir


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Diary of a Country Priest
Best Director:  Billy Wilder
Best Performer:  Ward Bond

Achievement Award: Sam Fuller

best films 1950

All about eve  (Usa)  Joseph Mankiewicz
Gun crazy (Usa) Joseph Lewis
Harvey  (Usa/Germany)  Henry Koster
La ronde  (France/Germany)  Max Ophuls
Los olvidados  (Mexico/Spain) Luis Bunuel
In a lonely place  (Usa)  Nicholas Ray
Stars in my crown  (Usa/France) Jacques Tourneur
Sunset boulevard  (Usa/Austria) Billy Wilder
The flowers of st francis  (Italy)  Roberto Rosselini
White heat (Usa) |Raoul Walsh



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  In a lonely place
Best Director:  Roberto Rosselini
Best Performer:  Karl Malden

Achievement Award:  Billy Wilder


Hall of Fame

Victor Sjostrom 28

Georges Melies 26

Albert Capellani 24

Yevgeni Bauer 21


Yasujiro Ozu 20

Howard Hawks 20
Alfred Hitchcock 19

Sergei Eisenstein 18
Jean Renoir 17

Kenji Mizoguchi 17 

Dw Griffiths 16

Michael Powell 15

Josef Sternberg 15

Carl Dreyer 15
Roberto Rosselini 14
Jean Epstein 14

Ernst Lubitsch 13

Alexander Dovshenko 13

Orson Welles 13

John Ford 13

Max Ophuls 13

FW Murnau 13

Fritz Lang 13
Maurtitz Stiller 12
Charles Chaplin 12

Ferdinand Zecca 11
King Vidor  9
Maurice Tourneur 9
Ladislas Starevich 9
Edwin Porter 8

Erich Stronheim 8

Leo Mccarey 8
Raoul Walsh 7
Vsevelod Pudovkin 7
GW Pabst 7
Frank Borzage 7
James Whale 7

Michel Carne 7
Jacques Tourneur 7
Marcus Pagnol 7
Louis Feuillade7
John Stahl 7

Lucien Nonguet

Giovanni Pastrone

Francesco Bertlini

Leonce Perret

Robert Weine

Andre Antoine

Hiroshi Shimizu

Nicholas Ray

Mario Caserini

Gustavo Serena

Harold Lloyd

Sadao Yamanaka

Mikio Naruse

Michael Curtiz

Mitchell Liesen

Preston Sturges

George Cukor

cineometer 1950: Usa 158, Fra 65, Rus 29, Jap 26, Ger 26, Bri 17, Swe 15, Ita 13, Chi 6, Den 5, Ind 3, Mex 3,

best films 1949

Andaz  (India)  Mehboob Khan
Beyond the forest  (Usa)  King Vidor
Crows and sparrows  (China)  Zheng Junli
I was a male war bride  (Usa) Howard Hawks
Kind hearts and coronets  (Britain)  Robert Hamer
Late spring  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Mahal  (India) Kamal Amrohi
Rendezvous in july  (France)  Jacques Becker
The reckless moment  (Usa/Germany)  Max Ophuls
The third man  (Britain)  Carol Reed


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Late Spring
Best Director: Max Ophuls
Best Performer:  Millard Mitchell

Achievement Award:  Jacques Becker

best films 1947 - 1948

1947

Antoine and antoinette  (France)  Jacques Becker
Black narcissus  (Britain)  Michael Powell
Daisy kenyon  (Usa/ Austria)  Otto Preminger
Monsieur verdoux  (Usa/Britain)  Charlie Chaplin 

Out of the past (Usa/France) Jacques Tourneur
Panique  (France)  Julien Duvivier
Phoenix  (Japan) Keisuke Kinoshita
Record of a tenement gentleman  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
The loves of sumako the actress  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi
The unsuspected  (Usa/Hungary)  Michael Curtiz

1948

Bicycle thieves  (Italy)  Vittoria de Sica 

Children of the beehive (Japan) Hiroshi Shimizu

Fort apache (Usa) John Ford
Germany year zero  (Italy)  Roberto Rosselini
Inspiration  (Czechoslovakia)  Karel Zeman
La terra trema  (Italy) Luchino Visconte
Letter from an unknown woman  (Usa/Germany)  Max Ophuls
Spring in a small town  (China)  Fei Mu
The red shoes  (Britain)  Michael Powell
They live by night  (Usa)  Nicholas Ray


The Golden Gongs

Best Pictures:  Monsieur Verdoux, Spring in a small town
Best Director:  Michael Powell, Max Ophuls
Best Performer:  Richard Widmark

Achievement Award: Michael Curtiz, Luchino Visconte

best films 1945 - 1946

1945

Children of paradise  (France)  Marcel Carne
Detour  (Usa/Austria) Edgar Ulmer
I know where i'm going  (Britain) Michael Powell

Leave her to heaven (Usa/Azerbijan) John Stahl
Les dames du bois des boulogne  (France)  Robert Bresson
Mildred Pierce  (Usa/Hungary)  Michael Curtis
Rome open city  (Italy)  Roberto Rosselini
Scarlet street  (Usa/Germany)  Fritz Lang
The killers  (Usa/Germany)  Robert Siodmak
They were expendable  (Usa) John Ford

1946

A matter of life and death  (Britain)  Michael Powell

Beauty and the beast  (France)  Jean Cocteau
Canyon passage  (Usa/France)  Jacques Tourneur
Cluny Brown  (Usa/Germany)  Ernst Lubitsch
Gilda  (Usa/Hungary) Charles Vidor
My darling clementine  (Usa)  John Ford
Notorious  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Paisan  (Italy)  Roberto Rosselini
The best years of our lives  (Usa)  William Wyler
Utamaro and his five women  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi



The Golden Gongs

Best Pictures: Open City, A matter of life and death
Best Directors:  Marcel Carne, Roberto Rossellini
Best Performer:  Anna Magnani

Achievement Award:  John Stahl, WIlliam Wyler

best films 1944

At land (Usa/Ukraine) Maya Dern

A canterbury tale  (Britain)  Michael Powell
Curse of the cat people  (Usa)  Robert Wise
Double indemnity  (Usa/Austria)  Billy Wilder
Ivan the terrible  (Russia)  Sergei Eisenstein
Laura  (Usa/Austria)  Otto Preminger
Lifeboat  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Maria candelaria  (Mexico)  Emilio Fernandez
The miracle of morgan's creek  (Usa) Preston Sturges
To have and have not  (Usa)  Howard Hawks


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Ivan the Terrible
Best Director: Howard Hawks
Best Performer: Walter Brennan

Achievement Award: Emilio Fernandez

January 27, 2014

best films 1943

Air force  (Usa)  Howard Hawks

Day of wrath  (Denmark)  Carl Dreyer
Flor silvestre  (Mexico) Emilio Fernandez
Heaven can wait  (Usa/Germany)  Ernst Lubitsch
I walked with a zombie  (Usa/France)  Jacques Tourneur
Les anges des peches  (France)  Robert Bresson 
Obsessione  (Italy)  Luchino Visconte
Shadow of a doubt  (Usa/Britian)  Alfred Hitchcock
The life and death of colonel blimp  (Britain)  Michael Powell
The seventh victim  (Usa) Mark Robson


The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture:  Day of Wrath
Best Director:  Michael Powell
Best Performer:  Charles Lane

Achievement Award:  Jacques Tourneur

best films 1942

Aniki bobo  (Portugal)  Manuel Oliviera
Cat people  (Usa/France)  Jacques Tourneur
Gentleman jim  (Usa)  Raoul Walsh
Men of the mountain  (Hungary)  Istvan Szots
The magnificent ambersons  (Usa)  Orson Welles
The man who came to dinner  (Usa) William Keighley
The palm beach story  (Usa)  Preston Sturges
There was a father  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
To be or not to be  (Usa/Germany) Ernst Lubitsch
Went the day well  (Britain/Brazil)  Alberto Cavalcanti


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: The Magnificent Ambersons
Best Director: Orson Welles
Best Performer:  Monty Woolley

Achievement Award:  Manoel Oliviera

best films 1940 - 1941

1940

Foreign correspondent  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
His girl friday  (Usa)  Howard Hawks

London can take it  (Britain) Humphrey Jennings

Pinnochio  (Usa) Walt Disney
Rebecca  (Usa/Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Remember the night  (Usa)  Mitchell Liesen
Remorques (France) Jean Gremillon
The philadelphia story  (Usa)  George Cukor
The mortal storm  (Usa)  Frank Borzage
The shop around the corner  (Usa/Germany)  Ernst Lubitsch


1941

Citizen kane  (Usa)  Orson Welles
Hellzapoppin  (Usa)  HC Potter
Hold back the dawn  (Usa)  Mitchell Liesen
How green was my valley  (Usa)  John Ford
Ornamental hairpin  (Japan)  Hiroshi Shimizu
Sullivans travels  (Usa)  Preston Sturges
Suspicion  (Usa/Britain) Alfred Hitchcock
The devil and daniel webster  (Usa/Germany)  William Dieterle

The great dictator  (Usa/Britain)  Charlie Chaplin
The shanghai gesture  (Usa/Austria) Josef Sternberg


The Golden Gongs

Best Pictures: His Girl Friday, Citizen Kane
Best Directors:  George Cukor, John Ford
Best Performers:  Jane Darwel, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Collinge

Achievement Awards:  Mitchell Liesen, Preston Sturges


The Hall of Fame

Victor Sjostrom 28
George Melies   26
Albert Capellani 24
Yevgeni Bauer    21

Jean Renoir 17

DW Griffiths  16 

Kenji Mizoguchi  15
Alfred Hitchcock  14

Howard Hawks  14
Jean Epstein 14

Josef Sternberg  14
Yasujiro Ozu 13
Alexander Dovshenko  13
Sergei Eisenstein 13
FW Murnau  13

Fritz Lang  13
Mauritz Stiller  12

Ferdinand Zecca  11
Ernst Lubitsch  10
Carl Dreyer  10

Maurice Tourneur 9

Ladislas Starevich 9

Edwin Porter  8

Leo Mccarey 8

Erich Stronheim 8
GW Pabst 7

|Frank Borzage  7 

Vsevelod Pudovkin 7

King Vidor 7 

James Whale 7

Marcus Pagnol  7

Louis Feuillade 7

John Ford 6
Andre Antoine 6
Charlie Chaplin 6
Leonce Perret  6
Robert Weine 6

Lucien Nonguet 6
Mario Caserini 5
Francesca Bertilini 5
Giovanne Pastrone 5
Mikio Naruse  5
Sadao Yamanaka  5

George Cukor 5

Raoul Walsh 5

Harold Lloyd 5
Gustava Serena  5

cineometer 1940: Usa 104, Fra 56, Ger 26, Rus 26, Jap 18, Swe 15, Ita 9, Bri 8, Chi 4, Den 4

January 24, 2014

best films 1939

Love affair  (Usa)  Leo Mccarey
Midnight  (Usa) Michell Leisen
Ninotchka  (Usa/Germany)  Ernst Lubitsch
Stagecoach (Usa) John Ford
The roaring twenties  (Usa)  Raoul Walsh
The rules of the game  (France)  Jean Renoir
The story of the last chrysanthemums  (Japan) Kenji Mizoguchi
The whole family works  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse 

When tomorrow comes (Usa) John Stahl
Young mr lincoln  (Usa) John Ford


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: The rules of the game
Best Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Best Performer: Claudette Colbert

Achievement Award:  John Ford

best films 1938

Alexander nevsky  (Russia)  Sergei Eisenstein
Bringing up baby  (Usa)  Howard Hawks
Flowers have fallen  (Japan) Tamizo Ishida
Four daughters  (Usa/Hungary) Michael Curtiz
La bete humaine  (France)  Jean Renoir

Quai des brumes (France) Michel Carne
Stella dallas  (Usa)  King Vidor
The lady vanishes  (Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
The bakers wife  (France) Marcus Pagnol
Two masseurs and a woman  (Japan)  Hiroshi Shimizu



The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture: Bringing up baby
Best Director:  Alfred Hitchcock
Best Performers:  Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne

Achievement Award:  Michel Carne

January 22, 2014

best films 1937

Holiday (Usa) George Cukor

Humanity and paper balloons  (Japan) Sadao Yamanaka
Make way for tomorrow  (Usa) Leo Mccarey
Stage door  (Usa)  Gregory La Cava 
Street angel  (China)  Yuan Muzhi
The awful truth  (Usa)  Leo Mccarey
The grand illusion  (France)  Jean Renoir
The great garrick  (Usa/Britain)  James Whale

Way out west  (Usa) James Horne
Young and innocent  (Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Make way for tomorrow
Best Director:  Sadao Yamanaka
Best Performer: Barbara Stanwyck

Achievement Award: James Horne

January 20, 2014

best films 1936

A day in the country  (France)  Jean Renoir
By the bluest of blue seas  (Russia) Boris Barnet
Modern times  (Usa/Britain)  Charlie Chaplin
Mr thank you  (Japan)  Hiroshi Shimizu
Osaka elegy  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi
Rose hobart  (Usa)  Joseph Cornell
Sisters of the gion  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi
The crime of monsieur lange  (France)  Jean Renoir
The only son (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
The story of a cheat (France) Sacha Guitry

The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Sisters of the gion
Best Director:  Boris Barnet
Best Performer: Paul Robeson

Achievement Award: Hiroshi Shimizu

best films 1935

An inn in tokyo  (Japan)  Yusijiro  Ozu
Bride of frankenstein  (Usa/Britain)  James Whale
Crime and punishment  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
Little man what now  (Usa)  Frank Borzage
Pot worth a million ryo  (Japan)  Sadao Yamanaka
Ruggles of red gap  (Usa)  Leo Mccarey
Steamboat round the bend  (Usa) John Ford
The devil is a woman  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
The downfall of osen  (Japan)  Kenji Mizoguchi
The thirty nine steps (Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Three sisters with maiden hearts  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse
Wife be like a rose  (Japan)  Mikio Naruse


The Golden Gongs:

Best Picture:  The downfall of osen
Best Director:  Josef Sternberg
Best Performer:  Edward Arnold

Achievement Award:  Mikio Naruse

January 19, 2014

best films 1934

A story of floating weeds  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Imitation of life  (Usa) John Stahl
It happened one night  (Usa/Italy) Frank Capra
Judge priest  (Usa) John Ford
L'atalante  (France)  Jean Vigo
La signora di tutti  (Italy/Germany)  Max Ophuls
Masquerade (Austria) Willi Forst
Our neighbour miss yae  (Japan)  Yasujiro Shimazu
Shen nu  (China)  Wu Yonggang
The man who knew too much  (Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
The scarlet empress  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
The thin man  (Usa)  WS Van Dyke
Twentieth century  (Usa)  Howard Hawks


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: A Story of Floating Weeds
Best Director:  Jean Vigo
Best Performer: Ruan Lingyu

Achievement Award:  Alfred Hitchcock

January 17, 2014

best films 1933

Bombshell  (Usa)  Victor Fleming
Daybreak  (China)  Sun Yu

42nd St (Usa) Lloyd Bacon
Hallelujah i'm a bum  (Usa)  Lewis Milestone
Liebelei  (Germany) Max Ophuls
Mans castle  (Usa) Frank Borzage
Passing fancy  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Only yesterday  (Usa)  John  Stahl
Sons of the desert (Usa) William Seiter
The invisible man  (Usa/Britain)  James Whale
Topaze  (Usa/Argentina)  Harry D'arrast


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: The invisible man
Best Director: Max Ophuls
Best Performer: Una O Connor

Achievement Award:  Frank Borzage

best films 1931

An american tragedy  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
Blonde crazy  (Usa)  Roy del Ruth
Dishonoured  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
Kameradschaft  (Germany) George Pabst
La chienne  (France)  Jean Renoir
M  (Germany)  Fritz Lang
Marius  (France/Hungary)  Alexander Korda/Marcus Pagnol
The champ  (Usa)  King Vidor
The peach girl  (China)  Bu Wancang 

The public enemy (Usa) William Wellman


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Marius
Best Director:  Fritz Lang
Best Performer:  Wallace Beery

Achievement Award:  William Wellman

best films 1932

Back street  (Usa/Azerbijan)  John Stahl
Boudu saved from drowning  (France)  Jean Renoir
Fanny  (France)  Marcus Pagnol
I was born but  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu
Me and my gal  (Usa)  Raoul Walsh
Night at the crossroads  (France)  Jean Renoir
Scarface  (Usa)  Howard Hawks
Trouble in paradise  (Usa/Germany)  Ernst Lubitsch
Vampyr  (Germany/Denmark)  Carl Dreyer
Where now are the dreams of youth  (Japan)  Yasujiro Ozu


Best Picture:  Boudu saved from drowning
Best Director:  Yasujiro Ozu
Best Performer:  Raimu

Achievement Award:  Howard Hawks

best films 1930

Au bonheur des dames  (France)  Julien Duvivier
Earth  (Russia)  Alexander Dovshenko
L'age d'or  (France/Spain)  Luis Bunuel
Laughter  (Usa/Argentina)  Harry D'arrast
Morocco  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
Prix de beaute  (France/Italy)  Augusto Genina
The blue angel  (Germany/Austria)  Josef Sternberg 
The dawn patrol  (Usa)  Howard Hawks
The tale of the fox  (France/Russia)  Ladislas Starevich
Westfront 1918  (Germany)  GW Pabst


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Earth
Best Director: Alexander Dovshenko
Best Performer:  Marlene Dietrich

Achievement Award:  Luis Bunuel


The Hall of Fame 

Victor Sjostrom           
Georges Melies           
Albert Capellani           
Yevgeni Bauer   
Jean Epstein        
DW Griffiths              
Alexander Dovshenko
FW Murnau
Mauritz Stiller
Sergei Eisenstein           
Ferdinand Zecca
Carl Dreyer
Ernst Lubitsch
Andre Antoine
Maurice Tourneur
Ladislas Starevich
Edwin Porter
Vsevelod Pudovkin
King Vidor
Leonce Perret
Josef Sternberg
GW Pabst
Fritz Lang
Robert Weine
Mario Caserini
Giovanne Pastrone
Francesca Bertilini
Lucien Nonguet
Charlie Chaplin
Erich Stronheim
Gustavo Serena
Louis Feuillade
Abel Gance
Alfred Hitchcock
Harold Lloyd
Marcel L'Herbier
Cecil B Demille
Max Linder                  

cineometer 1930: Usa 48, Fra 42, Rus 26, Ger 22, Swe 15, Ita 8, Den 4, Bri 2, Oz 1, Ind 1
                                            

January 15, 2014

best films 1929

Arsenal  (Russia)  Alexander Dovshenko
Blackmail  (Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
Hallelujah  (Usa) King Vidor
Lands end  (France/Poland)  Jean Epstein
Lucky star  (Usa)  Frank Borzage
Pandora's box  (Germany)  GW Pabst
Rails  (Italy)  Mario Camerini
Sunnyside up  (Usa)  David Butler
The general line  (Russia)  Sergei Eisenstein
The wonderful lie of nina petrovna  (Germany)  Hans Schwartz


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Lands End
Best Director: Alexander Dovshenko
Best Performer:  Louise Brooks

Achievement Award:  GW Pabst

January 12, 2014

best films 1928

Abwege  (Germany)  GW Pabst
Beggars of life  (Usa)  William Wellman
Homecoming  (Germany/Austria)  Joe May
Storm over asia  (Russia)  Vsevelod Pudovkin
The docks of new york  (Usa/Austria) Josef Sternberg
The fall of the house of usher  (France)  Jean Epstein
The magical clock  (France/Russia)  Ladislas Starevich
The passion of joan of arc  (France/Denmark) Carl Dreyer
Zvenigora  (Russia)  Alexander Dovshenko


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  The Passion of Joan of Arc
Best Director:  Jean Epstein
Best Performer:  Janet Gaynor

Achievement Award:  Josef Sternberg

best films 1927

Bed and sofa  (Russia)  Abram Room
Napoleon (France) Abel Gance
October  (Russia)  Sergei Eisenstein
Show people  (Usa)  King Vidor
S.v.d  (Russia)  Grigori Kozintsev
The end of st petersburg  (Russia)  Vsevelod Pudovkin
Underworld  (Usa/Austria)  Josef Sternberg
Women of ryazan  (Russia)  Olga Preobrazhenskaya


The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture:  October
Best Director:  Abel Gance

Achievement Award: Grigori Kozintsev

best films 1926

Faust  (Germany)  Fw Murnau
Metropolis  (Germany)  Fritz Lang
Mother  (Russia)  Vsevelod Pudovkin

The general (Usa) Buster Keaton

The kid brother (Usa) Harold Lloyd
The lodger  (Britain)  Alfred Hitchcock
The overcoat  (Russia)  Grigori Kozintsev
The student prince of old heidelberg  (Usa/Germany)  Ernst Lubitsch


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Mother
Best Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Best Performer: John Gilbert

Achievement Award:  Buster Keaton

January 11, 2014

best films 1925

Battleship potemkin  (Russia)  Sergei Eisenstein
Stella dallas  (Usa)  Henry King
Strike  (Russia)  Sergei Eisenstein
The big parade  (Usa)  King Vidor
The freshman  (Usa)  Harold Lloyd
The joyless street  (Germany) G W Pabst
The scarlet letter  (Usa/Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom
Visage d'enfants  (France/Belgium)  Jacques Feyder


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Battleship Potemkin
Best Director: King Vidor
Best Performer: Belle Bennett

Achievement Award:  Harold Lloyd

best films 1924

Greed  (Usa/Austria)  Erich von Stronheim
He who gets slapped  (Usa/Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom
Lady windermeres fan  (Usa/Germany) Ernst Lubitsch
Lazybones  (Usa)  Frank Borzage
Mikael  (Germany/Denmark)  Carl Dreyer

Sherlock jr (Usa) Buster Keaton
Siegfried  (Germany)  Fritz Lang
The last laugh  (Germany)  FW Murnau
The marriage circle  (Usa/Germany)  Ernst Lubitsch
The thief of baghdad  (Usa)  Raoul Walsh



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: He Who Gets Slapped
Best Director: Erich Stronheim
Best Performance:  Adolphe Menjou

Achievement Award: Ernst Lubitsch


best films 1923

Couer fidele  (France)  Jean Epstein
Gosta berling  (Sweden/Finland)  Mauritz Stiller
L'inhumaine  (France)  Marcel L'Herbier
Norrtullsligan  (Sweden)  Per Lindberg
Raskalnikov  (Germany)  Robert Wiene
Safety last/Girl shy  (Usa)  Harold Lloyd
The covered wagon  (Usa)  James Cruze
The ten commandments  (Usa)  Cecil B Demille


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Couer Fidele
Best Director: Jean Epstein
Best Performer: Tora Teje


Achievement Award: Marcel L'Herbier


best films 1922

Burning soil  (Germany) Fw Murnau
Crainquebille  (France/Belgium)  Jacques Feyder
Foolish wives  (Usa/Austria)  Erich von Stronheim
Love's crucible  (Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom
Nanook of the north  (Usa)  Robert Flaherty
Nosferatu  (Germany)  Fw Murnau
Phantoms  (Germany)  Fw Murnau
The dark road  (Germany)  Fw Murnau


The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture: Nosferatu
Best Director: FW Murnau
Best Performer: Jenny Hasselqvist

Achievement Award: Robert Flaherty

January 10, 2014

best films 1921

Destiny  (Germany)  Fritz Lang
El dorado  (France)  Marcel L'Herbier
High and dizzy/Never weaken  (Usa)  Hal Roach
Johan  (Sweden/Finland)  Mauritz Stiller
La terre  (France)  Andre Antoine
Scherben  (Germany/Romania)  Lupu Pick
The four horsemen of the apocalypse  (Usa/Ireland) Rex Ingram
The phantom carriage  (Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom


 The Golden Gongs 

Best Picture: La Terre
Best Director: Fritz Lang
Best Performer:  Harold Lloyd

Achievement Award:  Hal Roach


best films 1920

Last of the mohicans  (Usa/France)  Maurice Tourneur
Seduction (Sweden/Finland)  Mauritz Stiller
The cabinet of dr caligari  (Germany)  Robert Wiene
The flapper  (Usa)  Alan Crosland
The golem  (Germany) Paul Wegener
The monastery of sendomir  (Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom
The parson's widow  (Sweden/Denmark)  Carl Dreyer
The swallow and the titmouse  (France)  Andre Antoine


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  The cabinet of dr caligari
Best Director:  Maurice Tourneur
Best Performer: Olive Thomas

Achievement Award:  Carl Dreyer


The Hall of Fame 

George Melies                                
Albert Capellani                            
Yevgeni Bauer                                
Victor Sjostrom                      
DW Griffith                    
Mauritz Stiller                 
Ferdinand Zecca             
Maurice Tourneur
Edwin Porter       
Leonce Perret
Ladislas Starevich     
Giovanne Pastrone              
Francesca Bertilini
Robert Weine               
Lucien Nonguet
Charlie Chaplin         
Gustavo Serena
Louis Feuillade
Mario Caserini
Andre Antoine
Max Linder
Lucien Nonguet
Cecil B Demille
Benjamin Christensen
Harold Shaw
Alice Guy Blanche
Vincent Hellbron
James Williamson
Carl Dreyer
Paul Wegener
Erich Stronheim
Raymond Longford
Holger Madsen
Dadasaheb Phalke
Enrico Guazanni
Urban Gad
August Blom 

cineometer 1920: Fra 27, Usa 18, Rus 12, Swe 10, Ita 7, Ger 4, Den 4, Oz 1, Ind 1, Bri 1
              

January 09, 2014

best films 1919

Blind husbands  (Usa/Austria)  Erich von stronheim
Broken blossoms  (Usa)  DW Griffiths
Sir arne's treasure  (Sweden/Finland)  Mauritz Stiller
Song of the scarlet flower  (Sweden/Finland)  Mauritz Stiller
The president  (Denmark)  Carl Dreyer
The sentimental bloke  (Australia)  Raymond Longford
The sons of ingmar  (Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom
Way down east  (Usa)  DW Griffiths


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture:  Sir Arnes Treasure
Best Director:  Mauritz Stiller

Achievement Award: Erich Stronheim

best films 1916-1918

1916-1917

A life for a life  (Russia) Yvgeni Bauer
A man there was  (Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom
Pride of the clan  (Usa/France)  Maurice Tourneur
The dying swan  (Russia)  Ygveni Bauer
The girl from stormycroft  (Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom
The tramp  (Usa/Britain)  Charlie Chaplin

Best Picture:  The Girl from Stormycroft
Best Director:: Victor Sjostrom
Best Performer: Greta Almroth

Achievement Award:  Maurice Tourneur

1917-1918

Amarilly of clothes line alley  (Usa)  Marshall Neilan 

Police (Usa/Britain) Charlie Chaplin
Stella maris  (Usa)  Marshall Neilan
The king of paris  (Russia)  Yvgeni Bauer
The outlaw and his wife  (Sweden)  Victor Sjostrom
The immigrant  (Usa/Britain)  Charlie Chaplin



The Golden Gongs

Best Film: The Outlaw and his Wife
Best Director:  Victor Sjostrom
Best Performance: Mary Pickford

Achievement Award:  Charlie Chaplin

January 08, 2014

best films 1915-1916

After death  (Russia) Yvgeni Bauer
Assunta spina  (Italy) Francesca Bertini, Gustavo Serena
Carmen  (Usa)  Cecil B Demille
Children of the age  (Russia)  Yvgeni Bauer
Dreams  (Russia)  Yvgeni Bauer
Tigre reale (Italy)  Giovanni Pastrone



The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Assunta Spina
Best Director: Yvgeni Bauer
Best Performer: Lyda Borelli

Achievement Award:  Cecil B Demille




best films 1914-1915

Lay down your arms  (Denmark)  Holger Madsen
Mysterious x  (Denmark)  Benjamin Christensen
Silent witnesses  (Russia)  Ygveni Bauer
The curse of greed  (France)  Leonce Perret
The happiness of eternal night  (Russia) Ygveni Bauer
The wishing ring  (Usa/France)  Maurice Tourneur 


The Golden Gongs

Best Picture: Silent Witnesses
Best Director:  Ygveni Bauer
Best Performer:  Vera Kholodnaya

Achievement Award:  Benjamin Christensen

best films 1913

Germinal  (France) Albert Capellani
Ma l'amor mio non muore  (Italy) Mario Caserini
Ingeborg holm  (Sweden) Victor Sjostrom
Raja harishchandra  (India) Dadasaheb Phalke
Twilight of a woman's soul  (Russia) Yevgeni Bauer
The child of paris  (France) Leonce Perret
The last days of pompei  (Italy) Mario Caserini
The student of prague  (Germany) Paul Wegener


Best Picture:  Germinal
Best Director: Mario Caserini
Best Performer: Lyda Borelli

Achievement Award:  Yevgeni Bauer


best films 1912

A romany spy  (Germany/Denmark) Urban Gad
The ant and the grasshopper  (Russia)  Ladislas Starevich
The cameraman's revenge  (Russia) Ladislas Starevich
The heart and money  (France) Leonce Perret, Louis Feuillade
The insects christmas  (Russia)  Ladislas Starevich
The land beyond the sunset  (Usa)  Harold Shaw
The rocks of kador  (France) Leonce Perret
Quo vadis  (Italy)  Enrico Guazzoni


Best Picture: The ant and the grasshopper
Best Director: Leonce Perret
Best Performer: Asta Nielsen

Achievement Award:  Harold Shaw

January 07, 2014

best films 1909 - 1911

1909-1910

A corner in wheat(Usa)  Dw Griffith
Fairy of the surf  (France)  Louis Feuillade
The unchanging sea  (Usa) DW Griffith
In the border states  (Usa) DW Griffith

Best Picture: A corner of wheat
Best Director: DW Griffith
Best Performer:  Charles West

Achievement Award:  Louis Feuillade


1911

Enoch arden  (Usa)  DW Griffith
Max and the mother in law (France)  Max Linder, Lucien Nonguet
The ballet dancer  (Denmark)  August Blom
The fall of troy  (Italy) Giovanni Pastrone
The odyssey  (Italy)  Francesco Bertolini

Best Picture:  The Fall of Troy
Best Director: DW Griffith
Best Performer:  Linda Arvidson

Achievement Award:  Max Linder, Lucien Nonguet 

cineometer 1910:

France 20, Usa 4, Bri 1


best films 1906 -1908

1906

Alladin and his wonder lamp  (France) Albert Capellani
L'age du couer  (France) Albert Capellani
Mortelle idylle  (France)  Albert Capellani
Pauvre mere  (France) Albert Capellani
The merry frolics of satan  (France) George Melies

Best Picture: The merry frolics of satan
Best Director:  Albert Capellani

Achievement Award:  Albert Capellani

1907-1908

L'arlessienne  (France)  Albert Capellani
L'assommoir  (France)  Albert Capellani
The skaters debut/his first cigar  (France) Max Linder
The white gloves (France)  Albert Capellani
Un heroine de quatre ans  (France)  Louis Feulillade, Alice Guy

Best Picture:  L'arlessiene
Best Director: Albert Capellani
Best Performer: Max Linder

Achievement Award:  Alice Guy Blanche, Louis Feuillade

1901 - 05

1901

Fire!  (Britain) James Williamson
History of a crime  (France) Ferdinand Zecca
The peeping tom  (France) Ferdinand Zecca

Best Picture: History of a Crime
Best Director: Ferdinand Zecca

Achievement Award:  James Williamson

1902

A trip to the moon  (France) George Melies
Ali baba and the forty thieves  (France)  Ferdinand Zecca
Jack and the beanstalk  (Usa)  Edwin Porter

Best Picture: A Trip to the Moon
Best Director: George Melies

Achievement Award: Edwin Porter

1903

A kingdom of fairies  (France)  George Melies
The great train robbery  (Usa)  Edwin Porter
William Tell  (France)  Lucien Nongue, Ferdinand Zecca

Best Picture:  A kingdom of fairies
Best Director:  Edwin Porter

Achievement Award:  Lucien Nonguet 

1904/1905

Christopher columbus  (France) Vincent Lorant Heilbronn
The impossible voyage  (France) George Melies
The night before christmas  (Usa)  Edwin Porter

Best Picture:  The impossible voyage
Best Director:  George Melies

Achievement Award:  Vincent Lorant Heilbronn