Documentary: the year in movies

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1 Neil Affleck Cynthia Dale Jeremiah S. Chechik Country Joe McDonald +3 more

2 Ben Hardy

3 Nicole Beharie Florence Pugh Robert Loggia

4 George P. Cosmatos Greg Zola

5 Bradley Cooper Ronald F. Maxwell

6 Norman Reedus Eddie Redmayne

7 Nicolas Cage

8 Leap Year (2010) Leprechaun (1993) Gaby Hoffmann

9 J.K. Simmons Joey Lauren Adams Joan Baez David Johansen

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11 Kyle Richards Alfonso Arau Angela Paton Devin Ratray

12 Keith Knight

13 Michael Peña Patrick Dempsey

14 Michael Gwisdek Faye Dunaway Carl Weathers

15 Eddie Cahill

16 John Carpenter Josh Evans

17 Mark Jones Sofia Shinas James Earl Jones Betty White +3 more

18 Alexis Chikaeze Kevin Costner Britt McKillip

19 Donnie Darko (2001) Don Austen Damien Chazelle

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21 Michael Wincott Richie Havens

22 The Boondock Saints (1999) Jane Downs John Hurt

23 David Patrick Kelly Ewen Bremner

24 Ernest Borgnine

25 Jorge R. Gutierrez

26 Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) Herbert Siguenza Scott Glenn Edwin Hodge +2 more

27 Before Sunrise (1995) Donna Reed

28 Elijah Wood

29 Edward Burns John Forsythe

30 Christian Bale Gene Hackman

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February

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1 Brandon Lee

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3 Warwick Davis Blythe Danner

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5 Michael Mann Barbara Hershey Laura Linney Tom Wilkinson +1 more

6 Miracle (2004) John Sanderford Maria Simon Kathy Najimy

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8 Mary Steenburgen Jack Lemmon

9 Joe Pesci Ciarán Hinds

10 Valentine's Day (2010) Thibault de Montalembert Christopher Abbott

11 Groundhog Day (1993) My Bloody Valentine (1981) Jennifer Aniston Kim Stanley +1 more

12 Ajay Naidu Darren Aronofsky

13 Good Bye Lenin! (2003) Carol Lynley

14 Joan O'Brien

15 The Breakfast Club (1985)

16 Mahershala Ali John Cairney

17 Lou Diamond Phillips Hal Holbrook Michael Bay Brenda Fricker

18 Molly Ringwald John Hughes Louis Calhern

19 Jeff Daniels Quinn Lord

20 John Voldstad

21 Alan Rickman Themo Melikidze Anthony Daniels

22 Drew Barrymore Kyle MacLachlan

23 V for Vendetta (2005) Linda Cristal David Warshofsky Emily Blunt +1 more

24 Billy Zane So Yamamura

25 Neil Jordan Carl Marotte William Frawley Tony Oller

26 200 Cigarettes (1999) Shay Duffin Stephen Pearlman Dub Taylor

27 Kate Mara Timothy Spall Noah Emmerich

28 Rory Cochrane Charles Durning

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March

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1 The Doors (1991) Roger Daltrey Ron Howard Zach Cregger

2 John Cullum

3 Jessica Biel

4 Garth Jennings Henry Travers Catherine O'Hara Thayer David

5 Joan Shawlee

6 Rob Reiner

7 Larry Bagby John Heard James Broderick

8 Kendrick Sampson John Kapelos

9 Jack Smight Tobias Jelinek

10 Shin Koyamada

11 Peter Berg Thora Birch

12 Jerry Levine Aaron Eckhart

13 Emile Hirsch George MacKay Dana Delany Common

14 Jamie Bell Raymond J. Barry Michael Caine Billy Crystal +1 more

15 Renny Harlin Judd Hirsch

16 Florian Lukas

17 Kurt Russell José Garcia Casey Siemaszko Gary Sinise

18 Carl Gottlieb Emily Piggford

19 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Bruce Willis

20 Jack Kruschen

21 Gary Oldman Rosie O'Donnell Matthew Broderick

22 Guillermo Díaz Reese Witherspoon

23 Michelle Monaghan

24 Murray Hamilton Jessica Chastain Jim Parsons

25 Edgar Ramírez Bonnie Bedelia Roberts Blossom Sarah Jessica Parker

26 Woodstock (1970) Marita Geraghty James Caan

27 April Fool's Day (1986) Art Evans Emily Ann Lloyd

28 Richard Kelly Ken Howard

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30 Richard Dysart Kenneth Welsh Warren Beatty Tawny Moyer

31 Ewan McGregor Marc McClure Michelle Nicastro William Daniels

April

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1 Jane Adams David Oyelowo Toshirō Mifune

2 Edin Hasanović Alec Guinness

3 Robert Hy Gorman Alf Humphreys Angela Featherstone Marlon Brando +4 more

4 Barry Pepper Bob Marley Robert Downey Jr. David Cross +1 more

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6 Michael Rooker

7 Alan J. Pakula Russell Crowe

8 Taylor Kitsch

9 All the President's Men (1976) Dennis Quaid Ward Bond

10 Barkhad Abdi Brian Setzer

11 Alexa Gerasimovich Tedde Moore

12 Jay Baker

13 Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) William Sadler Ron Perlman

14 Rod Steiger Anthony Michael Hall John Gielgud

15 Thomas F. Wilson

16 Peter Billingsley Claire Foy

17 George Seaton

18 Maria Bello Kenny Ortega

19 James Franco Kate Hudson Hayden Christensen Tim Curry

20 Veronica Cartwright Leslie Phillips Crispin Glover

21 Andie MacDowell

22 Bastille Day (2016) Ken Olandt

23 Ronald Neame Jaime King

24 Shirley MacLaine Aidan Gillen Richard Donner

25 Al Pacino Talia Shire Renée Zellweger

26 Channing Tatum

27 Anna Chancellor

28 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) United 93 (2006) Mary McDonnell Jessica Alba +4 more

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30 Mean Girls (2004) Kirsten Dunst Johnny Galecki Burt Young

May

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1 Glenn Ford

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3 Beulah Bondi Amy Steel

4 David Della Rocco Paul Gleason Howard Da Silva

5 Lisa Jane Persky

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7 Alexander Ludwig Darren McGavin

8 Michel Gondry

9 Daniel Franzese

10 Dallas Roberts Sally Phillips David Mackenzie

11 The Crow (1994) Aaron Hilmer Denver Pyle Frances Fisher +1 more

12 Scott Schwartz Stephen Baldwin Rami Malek Emilio Estevez

13 Michael Mantenuto Tim Pigott-Smith

14 Natasha Ryan Amber Tamblyn Robert Zemeckis Tim Roth +1 more

15 James Mason Joseph Cotten Brigitte Bako

16 Henry Fonda

17 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) Bill Paxton Corey Johnson Rochelle Aytes

18 Frank Capra Allen Leech

19 Pete Townshend Jessica Fox Nora Ephron Peter Mayhew +2 more

20 James Watkins Joe Cocker Tony Goldwyn James Stewart +2 more

21 Pearl Harbor (2001)

22 Ginnifer Goodwin

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24 Jim Broadbent James Cosmo

25 Star Wars (1977) Back to the Future Part III (1990) Ethan Suplee Cillian Murphy +2 more

26 John Wayne Helena Bonham Carter Peter Cushing Margaret Colin +1 more

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28 Jesse Bradford John Payne

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30 Stephen Tobolowsky Omri Katz Michael J. Pollard

31 The Purge (2013) Clint Eastwood Tom Berenger Lea Thompson +3 more

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1 John Randolph Powers Boothe David Rudman Morgan Freeman +1 more

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4 Julius Caesar (1953) Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Sean Gullette James Callis

5 Mark Wahlberg Barkhad Abdirahman

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7 Trading Places (1983) Pamela Susan Shoop

8 Troy Duffy Pat Laffan

9 Michael J. Fox Johnny Depp Natalie Portman

10 Jonathan Bennett

11 Gene Wilder

12 Beulah Garrick

13 Ally Sheedy Aaron Taylor-Johnson

14 Rochelle Davis Faizon Love

15 Ice Cube Rick Rosenthal

16 Daniel Brühl Laurie Metcalf Jack Albertson Valerie Mahaffey

17 Ralph Bellamy

18 Midway (1976) E.G. Marshall Richard Madden Carol Kane

19 Zoe Saldaña

20 Jaws (1975) John Goodman James Tolkan

21 The Apartment (1960) Juliette Lewis Meredith Baxter

22 Wolfgang Becker Billy Wilder

23 Joel Edgerton

24 Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Alexander Beyer Anand Tucker

25 John Benjamin Hickey Samia Shoaib Sidney Lumet

26 Luis Valdez Leo Rossi

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28 Kathy Bates

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30 Apollo 13 (1995) Lizzy Caplan Mark Waters Rupert Graves +1 more

July

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1 Public Enemies (2009) Andre Braugher Dan Aykroyd

2 Independence Day (1996) Hanno Pöschl Lindsay Lohan

3 A Night to Remember (1958) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Back to the Future (1985) Die Hard 2 (1990) +3 more

4 Gloria Stuart

5 Claudia Wells

6 Geoffrey Rush Sylvester Stallone William Lee Scott Gloria Gifford

7 Shelley Duvall Ross Malinger

8 Lori Hallier Kevin Bacon Billy Crudup

9 Tom Hanks Jimmy Smits

10 Pi (1998) Thomas Mitchell Jerry Nelson

11 Connor Paolo Stephen Lang Faysal Ahmed

12 When Harry Met Sally... (1989) Jamey Sheridan

13 Harrison Ford

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15 Die Hard (1988) Patrick Wayne Jeffrey Kramer

16 Hocus Pocus (1993) Scott Derrickson Dave Goelz Will Ferrell

17 Jason Clarke P. J. Soles

18 James Brolin Chill Wills Vin Diesel Kelly Reilly +1 more

19 Oppenheimer (2023) Mark Holton Richard Jordan Benedict Cumberbatch +2 more

20 Natalie Wood Dominik Castell Frank Whaley

21 Robin Williams Josh Hartnett Arija Bareikis Lance Guest

22 Willem Dafoe Jaime Camil Terence Stamp

23 Philip Seymour Hoffman

24 La Bamba (1987) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Chris Sarandon Anna Paquin

25 Renée Victor

26 Jean Shepherd Jason Robards Kate Beckinsale

27 The Amityville Horror (1979)

28 Charles Cyphers

29 Stephen Dorff

30 Richard Linklater William Atherton Gina Rodriguez Christopher Nolan +2 more

31 Richard Griffiths Michael Biehn

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1 Sam Mendes

2 Edward Furlong

3 Martin Sheen John Landis

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5 Mark Strong Bob Clark Clayton Rohner

6 De'voreaux White Robert Mitchum

7 John Glover

8 Richard Anderson Michael Chernus Lee Unkrich Earl Boen +1 more

9 World Trade Center (2006) Eric Bana Sam Elliott Perry Crawford +2 more

10 Antonio Banderas Ken Annakin

11 Stuart Rosenberg Anna Gunn Ian McDiarmid

12 Casey Affleck

13 Bonnie and Clyde (1967) John Slattery Paul Greengrass

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15 Ben Affleck

16 Reginald VelJohnson Donovan Leitch James Cameron Lorraine Gary +1 more

17 Maureen O'Hara Rajiv Surendra

18 Christian Slater Shelley Winters Robert Redford Glenn Plummer

19 Kyra Sedgwick Kevin Dillon

20 Amy Adams

21 Albrecht Schuch

22 Colm Feore Honor Blackman

23 Keith Moon

24 Dave Chappelle Ava DuVernay Kenny Baker Castulo Guerra +2 more

25 David Alan Basche Tom Hollander Sean Connery

26 Dylan O'Brien Macaulay Culkin Delphi Harrington Chris Pine

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28 Daniel Stern

29 George Macready

30 Fred MacMurray

31 Joshua Close James Coburn Takahiro Tamura

September

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1 Don Stroud Susan Backlinie

2 Rosanna DeSoto Austin Abrams

3 Holt McCallany

4 Domiziana Giordano Charlotte Le Bon

5 Carice van Houten Bob Newhart

6 Outlaw King (2018) Idris Elba

7 Sully (2016) Dean-Charles Chapman

8 Martin Freeman Thomas Kretschmann

9 The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) Cliff Robertson Hugh Grant

10 James Duval Ryan Phillippe Kate Burton Colin Firth +2 more

11 Taraji P. Henson

12 Paul Walker Robert John Burke Joe Pantoliano

13 Walk the Line (2005) Burghart Klaußner

14 K.C. Martel

15 Oliver Stone Tommy Lee Jones Wendie Jo Sperber

16 Resident Evil (2026)

17 Kyle Chandler Roddy McDowall Bryan Singer Andrea Eckert

18 Beth Grant Anna Thomson Frankie Avalon James Gandolfini +2 more

19 Felix Kammerer

20 Kenneth More Leah Pinsent

21 Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Bill Murray Joseph Mazzello

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23 Alex Proyas Anthony Gonzalez Elizabeth Peña

24 Dazed and Confused (1993) Michael Wadleigh Steve Whitmire Sean McCann

25 The Longest Day (1962) Miss Juneteenth (2020) Caroline Kava Mark Hamill +2 more

26 Paul Kelman Ben Shenkman Edmund Gwenn Linda Hamilton

27 Arthur Penn

28 Deepwater Horizon (2016) Janeane Garofalo

29 Greer Garson

30 Marion Cotillard John Finn Lacey Chabert Deborah Kerr

October

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1 The Book of Life (2014) Laurence Harvey Chulpan Khamatova Esai Morales +3 more

2 Jeffrey Weissman

3 Ériq Ebouaney Alanna Ubach Lena Headey

4 John Larch Charlton Heston

5 Donald Pleasence Guy Pearce Tom Hooper Kate Winslet +2 more

6 Jerome Cowan Elisabeth Shue

7 All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) Dylan Baker

8 Gettysburg (1993) Chevy Chase Jeremy Davies Matt Damon +2 more

9 John Entwistle Sam Spruell

10 Captain Phillips (2013) First Man (2018) Ali Suliman Bai Ling +1 more

11 Sean Patrick Flanery

12 Hiroyuki Sanada James DeMonaco Hugh Jackman Deborah Foreman

13 Strange Days (1995) Melinda Dillon Sacha Baron Cohen

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15 Paul Walter Hauser

16 Gerard Parkes

17 Margot Kidder Brian Andrews

18 Joe Morton

19 Flags of Our Fathers (2006) Michael Gambon David Lewis John Lithgow +1 more

20 The Right Stuff (1983) Danny Boyle

21 Carrie Fisher Andrew Scott Ken Watanabe Glen Powell +1 more

22 Derek Jacobi Christopher Lloyd Shelby Lynne Carmen Ejogo +1 more

23 The Alamo (1960) Philip Kaufman Katrin Sass Kate del Castillo

24 Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

25 Halloween (1978) Adam Goldberg

26 Anthony Rapp Cary Elwes Roger Allam

27 Coco (2017) Theodore Melfi Patrick Fugit

28 Dennis Franz Joaquin Phoenix Jane Alexander Bernhard Wicki +2 more

29 Ben Foster Richard Dreyfuss

30 Halloween II (1981) Michael Beach Clémence Poésy

31 Stephen Rea Brian Doyle-Murray Mike O'Malley

November

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1 Helene Udy Alex Wolff Max Burkholder Mary Kate Schellhardt +1 more

2 Ray Walston Tatsuya Mihashi

3 Brian Henson

4 Matthew McConaughey Doris Roberts Jihmi Kennedy Martin Balsam

5 Sam Rockwell J.D. Evermore Sam Shepard Robert Patrick +1 more

6 Thandiwe Newton Wiley Wiggins Ethan Hawke

7 Elf (2003) Holmes Osborne Jason London Liz Mikel

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9 1776 (1972) Eric Dane Billy Howle

10 Roland Emmerich Roy Scheider Richard Burton

11 Interview with the Vampire (1994) Adam Beach Robert Ryan Leonardo DiCaprio

12 127 Hours (2010) Anne Hathaway Ryan Gosling

13 Garry Marshall

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15 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) Beverly D'Angelo Ed Asner

16 Home Alone (1990) Maggie Gyllenhaal Burgess Meredith

17 Rachel McAdams Leslie Bibb

18 A Christmas Story (1983)

19 Meg Ryan Kathleen Quinlan

20 Rhys Wakefield Estelle Parsons

21 Jena Malone Harold Ramis

22 Back to the Future Part II (1989) Scrooged (1988) Jamie Lee Curtis Mark Ruffalo

23 Franco Nero

24 Billy Connolly Gwilym Lee Shirley Henderson

25 Jerry Ferrara Matt Clark Christina Applegate

26 The King's Speech (2010) Mark Margolis Evans Evans

27 Kathryn Bigelow William Fichtner

28 Alexander Godunov Judd Nelson Ed Harris Colman Domingo +2 more

29 Chadwick Boseman Diane Ladd Tom Sizemore

30 National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) Sasha Jenson Gael García Bernal Hope Holiday +2 more

December

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1 The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Treat Williams Janelle Monáe Bette Midler

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3 Rocky (1976) Barbara Garrick Amanda Seyfried

4 Gemma Jones

5 The Last Samurai (2003) Armando Riesco

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7 C. Thomas Howell Jennifer Carpenter

8 Frank Faylen John Cazale Richard Fleischer

9 Trick 'r Treat (2007) John Malkovich

10 Hidden Figures (2016) Kenneth Branagh

11 The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) Yasiin Bey Robert Ayres

12 Patriots Day (2016) Bill Nighy Kenneth Cranham Ana Alicia

13 Jamie Foxx Tony Curran

14 Patrick O'Brien Demsey Sully Boyar

15 Glory (1989)

16 Benjamin Bratt James Mangold Ronald Allen Gretchen Palmer

17 Ernie Hudson Giovanni Ribisi Ian Petrella Bill Pullman +2 more

18 Titanic (1997) Les Misérables (2012) Brad Pitt Steven Spielberg +1 more

19 Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Jake Gyllenhaal Nancy Kyes Roy Ward Baker +1 more

20 Born on the Fourth of July (1989) JFK (1991) It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

21 Danielle von Zerneck Julie Delpy John G. Avildsen Samuel L. Jackson

22 Héctor Elizondo Ralph Fiennes

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24 Lone Survivor (2013) Gavin O'Connor

25 Selma (2014) 1917 (2019) Valkyrie (2008) Tombstone (1993) +1 more

26 Richard Widmark

27 John Amos

28 Black Hawk Down (2001) Denzel Washington André Holland

29 Jennifer Ehle Patricia Clarkson Diego Luna James McTeigue

30 Fred Ward

31 Val Kilmer