ALL MUST HAVE PRIZES : Jigsaw Lounge’s films & performances of the year (1930-)
year / best film /// best performance
1930 L’Age d’Or (Bunuel) /// Peter Lorre (M)
1931 Monkey Business (McLeod) /// Sylvia Sidney (Street Scene)
1932 The Old Dark House (Whale) /// Groucho Marx (Horse Feathers)
1933 Duck Soup (McCarey) /// Greta Garbo (Queen Christina)
1934 It Happened One Night (Capra) /// Clark Gable (It Happened One Night)
1935 Bride of Frankenstein (Whale) /// Ernest Thesiger (Bride of Frankenstein)
1936 Fury (Lang) /// Sylvia Sidney (Fury)
1937 Grand Illusion (Renoir) /// Jean Gabin (Grand Illusion)
1938 The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock) /// Michael Redgrave (The Lady Vanishes)
1939 Midnight (Leisen) /// Claudette Colbert (Midnight)
1940 The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch) /// Margaret Sullavan (The Shop Around the Corner)
1941 Hold Back the Dawn (Leisen) /// Herbert Marshall (The Little Foxes)
1942 Casablanca (Curtiz) /// Bette Davis (Now, Voyager)
1943 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell & Pressburger) /// Roger Livesey (The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp)
1944 A Canterbury Tale (Powell & Pressburger) // Freddie Steele (Hail the Conquering Hero)
| Best film [50m+] (director) | best performance | |
| 1945 | Leave Her To Heaven (Stahl) | Ann Savage, Detour |
| 1946 | The Big Sleep (Hawks) | Victor Mature, My Darling Clementine |
| 1947 | Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger) | David Farrar, Black Narcissus |
| 1948 | Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges) | Barbara Stanwyck, Sorry, Wrong Number |
| 1949 | The Third Man (Reed) | Trevor Howard, The Third Man |
| 1950 | Orphée (Cocteau) | Gloria Swanson, Sunset Blvd. |
| 1951 | Strangers On A Train (Hitchcock) | Gene Evans, The Steel Helmet |
| 1952 . |
The Importance of Being Earnest (Asquith) |
Gene Evans, Park Row . |
| 1953 . |
Tokyo Story (Ozu) AND Niagara (Hathaway) |
Gloria Grahame, The Big Heat . |
| 1954 | Johnny Guitar (Ray). | Brenda de Banzie, Hobson’s Choice AND Toshiro Mifune, Seven Samurai |
| 1955 | All That Heaven Allows (Sirk) | Franco Fabrizi, Il Bidone |
| 1956 | The Killing (Kubrick) | Rock Hudson, Written on the Wind |
| 1957 . |
The Man on the Track (Munk) . |
Aldo Ray, Men In War AND Kazimierz Opalinski, The Man on the Track |
| 1958 | Some Came Running (Minnelli) | Kinuyo Tanaka, Equinox Flower |
| 1959 | Ride Lonesome (Boetticher) | Pernell Roberts, Ride Lonesome |
| 1960 | The Hole (Le Trou) (Becker) | Anthony Perkins, Psycho |
| 1961 | Lola (Demy) | Peter Sellers, Lolita |
| 1962 | The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel) | Alberto Sordi, Mafioso |
| 1963 | The Birds (Hitchcock) | Tatsuya Nakadai, High and Low |
| 1964 | Dog Star Man (Brakhage) | ‘Tippi’ Hedren, Marnie |
| 1965 . |
Repulsion (Polanski) . |
Patricia Gozzi, Rapture AND Catherine Deneuve, Repulsion |
| 1966 | Cul de Sac (Polanski) | Lionel Stander, Cul de Sac |
| 1967 | Dont Look Back (Pennebaker) | L M Kit Carson, David Holzman’s Diary |
| 1968 …. |
Profound Desires of the Gods (Imamura) |
Ruth Gordon, Rosemary’s Baby AND Christopher Lee, The Devil Rides Out |
| 1969 … |
Dillinger is Dead (Ferreri) … |
Rudolf Hrušínský, The Cremator AND Michel Piccoli, Dillinger is Dead |
| 1970 | The Honeymoon Killers (Kastle) | Shirley Stoler, The Honeymoon Killers |
| 1971 | The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich) | Delphine Seyrig, Daughters of Darkness |
| 1972 ….. |
Bad Company (Benton) & Red Psalm (Jancsó) |
Scott Anthony & Dorothy Tutin, Savage Messiah |
| 1973 | American Graffiti (Lucas) | Jean-Pierre Léaud, The Mother and the Whore |
| 1974 …. |
Chinatown (Polanski) {+ Penda’s Fen (Clarke) [TV]} |
Faye Dunaway, Chinatown …. |
| 1975 | Nashville (Robert Altman) | Margarita Terekhova, Mirror |
| 1976 | Harlan County, USA (Barbara Kopple) |
David Carradine, Bound For Glory |
| 1977 | Suspiria (Argento) | Gena Rowlands, Opening Night |
| 1978 … |
The Shout (Skolimowski) … |
Nick Nolte, Who’ll Stop the Rain (aka Dog Soldiers) AND Geneviève Bujold, Coma |
| 1979 | Manhattan (Allen) | Mariel Hemingway, Manhattan |
| 1980 . |
The Elephant Man (Lynch) . |
Jim Thompson, ‘Breaker’ Morant AND Joe Pesci, Raging Bull |
| 1981 . |
An American Werewolf In London (Landis) AND The Territory (Ruiz) |
Nicol Williamson, Excalibur . |
| 1982 | Veronika Voss (Fassbinder) | Sissy Spacek, Missing |
| 1983 | The Dead Zone (Cronenberg) | Sandrine Bonnaire, À nos amours |
| 1984 | Starman (Carpenter) | Albert Finney, Under the Volcano |
| 1985 | Hail Mary (Godard) | Mieko Harada, Ran |
| 1986 | Routine Pleasures (Gorin) | Jeff Goldbum, The Fly |
| 1987 . |
In Georgia (Böttcher) . |
Christine Lahti, Housekeeping AND David Keith, White of the Eye |
| 1988 | Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies) | Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, The Vanishing |
| 1989 | Drugstore Cowboy (Van Sant) | Nuno Ferreira, O Sangue |
| 1990 | GoodFellas (Scorsese) | Alexia Keogh, An Angel at My Table |
| 1991 | Happy Days (Balabanov) | John Goodman, Barton Fink |
| 1992 . |
The Quince Tree Sun (Erice) . |
Benoît Poelvoorde, Man Bites Dog AND David Morrissey, Framed [TVM version] |
| 1993 | Six Degrees of Separation (Schepisi) | Sean Penn, Carlito’s Way |
| 1994 | London (Keiller) | Paul Scofield, London |
| 1995 | Heat (Mann) | Al Pacino, Heat |
| 1996 | Irma Vep (Assayas) | Vincent D’Onofrio, The Whole Wide World |
| 1997 | The Game (Fincher) | Kathy Burke, Nil By Mouth |
| 1998 | Festen (Vinterberg) | Jason Schwartzman, Rushmore |
| 1999 | Being John Malkovich (Jonze) | John Malkovich, Being John Malkovich |
| 2000 | La Commune (Paris 1871) (Watkins) … |
the ensemble, La Commune (Paris 1871) AND Oliver Reed, Gladiator |
| 2001 | Los (Benning) | Asano Tadanobu, Ichi the Killer |
| 2002 | Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson) | Steven Sperling, School Trip |
| 2003 . |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Weir) |
Russell Crowe, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
| 2004 . 2005 . 2006 . 2007 . 2008 . 2009 . 2010 . 2011 . 2012 . 2013 . 2014 . 2015 . 2016 . 2017 . 2018 . 2019 . 2020 . 2021 . 2022 . 2023 . 2024 . 2025 . |
Dead Man’s Shoes . (Meadows) A History of Violence . (Cronenberg) United 93 . (Greengrass) casting a glance . (Benning) The Wrestler . (Aronofsky) Symbol . (Matsumoto) Archipelago . (Hogg) Innocent Saturday . (Mindadze) Me Too . (Balabanov) Stray Dogs . (Tsai) It Follows . (Mitchell) Toponymy . (Perel) Miss Kiet’s Children . (Lataster-Czisch & Lataster) Araby . (Dumans/ Uchôa) Cold War . (Pawlikowski) The Beach Bum . (Korine) Nemesis . (Imbach) Looking For Venera . (Sefa) Riders . (Mencej) Samsara . (Patiño) Better Man . (Gracey) Habibi Hussein . (Bakri) |
Paddy Considine, . Dead Man’s Shoes Viggo Mortensen . A History of Violence Olivier Barthelemy, Sheitan . Sam Riley, Control . Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler . Sharlto Copley, District 9 . Kate Fahy / Christopher Baker . Archipelago Anna Paquin, Margaret . Greta Gerwig, . Frances Ha Adèle Exarchopoulos, . Blue is the Warmest Colour Timothy Spall, . Mr Turner Sharlto Copley, . CHAPPiE Liu Degui, . One Hundred and Fifty Years of Life Joe Cole, . A Prayer Before Dawn Clive Standen, . In Like Flynn Tom Burke, . The Souvenir Elisabeth Moss, . The Invisible Man Luca Sabin, . Întregalde Austin Butler, Elvis AND Benoît Magimel, Pacifiction Thomas Schubert, . Afire Jonno Davies, . Better Man Aleksandr Filippenko, . Two Prosecutors |
bold = best-of-decade
Hall of Fame : films rated 9/10 or higher
Diorama of Dishonour: films rated 2/10 or lower
Top 25s, compiled 1993 & 2003