1973 Cii Movie Awards

Top 10 Films of 1973
1.  The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
2.  Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)
3.  Electra Glide in Blue (William James Guercio)
4.  Badlands (Terrence Malick)
5.  Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
6.  The Sting (George Roy Hill)
7.  American Graffiti (George Lucas)
8.  The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
9.  Westworld (Michael Crichton)
10.  World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Honorable Mentions: Sleeper (Woody Allen), O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson), Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese), Fantastic Planet (René Laloux), Charlotte's Web (Charles A. Nicholas & Iwao Takamoto), The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)

1980 Cii Movie Awards

This list and awards compiled March 15, 2013.

                    For the criteria of choosing the awards, click here.

Top 10 Films of 1980

1.  American Gigolo (Paul Schrader)

2.  Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)

3.  Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

4.  Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)

5.  Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg)

6.  'Breaker' Morant (Bruce Beresford)

7.  The Changeling (Peter Medak)

8.  Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)

9.  Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)

10.  Popeye (Robert Altman)

Honorable Mentions: Coal Miner's Daughter (Michael Apted), Spetters (Paul Verhoeven), Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin), Mon Oncle D'Amerique (Alain Resnais), Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker & Jerry Zucker), Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino)

1998 Cii Movie Awards

This list and awards compiled March 2, 2013

                      For the criteria of choosing the awards, click here.

Top 10 Films of 1998

1. Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)
2. The Power of Kangwon Province (Hong Sang-soo)
3. Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
4. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen)
5. The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
6. The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
7. Primary Colors (Mike Nichols)
8. Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma)
9. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
10. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)

Honorable Mentions: Rushmore (Wes Anderson), Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson), Beloved (Jonathan Demme), Bulworth (Warren Beatty), Dark City (Alex Proyas)

Best Actor

Jeff Bridges – The Big Lebowski

Vincent Gallo – Buffalo ‘66

Ian McKellen – Gods & Monsters

* Edward Norton – American History X

Denzel Washington – He Got Game

Best Actress

* Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth

Cameron Diaz – There’s Something About Mary

Gwenyth Paltrow – Shakespeare in Love

Christina Ricci – The Opposite of Sex

Emily Watson – Hilary & Jackie

Best Supporting Actor

Matt Dillon – There’s Something About Mary

Bill Murray – Rushmore

Geoffrey Rush – Shakespeare in Love

Billy Bob Thornton – A Simple Plan

* Steve Zahn – Out of Sight

Best Supporting Actress

Joan Allen – Pleasantville

* Kathy Bates – Primary Colors

Kate Beckinsale – The Last Days of Disco

Brenda Blethyn – Little Voice

Lisa Kudrow – The Opposite of Sex

Best Director

Jonathan Demme – Beloved

* Vincent Gallo – Buffalo ‘66

Hong Sang-soo – The Power of Kangwon Province

Steven Soderbergh – Out of Sight

Tsai Ming-liang – The Hole

Best Screenplay

The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)

Buffalo ’66 (Vincent Gallo)

* Out of Sight (Scott Frank)

Primary Colors (Elaine May)

The Truman Show (Andrew Niccol)

Best Cinematography

Beloved (Tak Fujimoto)

* Buffalo ’66 (Lance Acord)

Pi (Matthew Libatique)

Saving Private Ryan (Janusz Kaminski)

The Thin Red Line (John Toll)

Best Editing

Enemy of the State (Chris Lebenzon)

* Out of Sight (Anne V. Coates)

Saving Private Ryan (Michael Kahn)

Snake Eyes (Bill Pankow)

The Thin Red Line (Leslie Jones, Saar Klein & Billy Weber)

Best Film Score

* Gods & Monsters (Carter Burwell)

Life is Beautiful (Nicola Piovani)

The Horse Whisperer (Thomas Newman)

The Truman Show (Burkhard von Dallwitz)

Best Production Design

* Dark City

Pleasantville

Shakespeare in Love

Snake Eyes

Velvet Goldmine

Best Ensemble Cast Performance

Beloved

* The Celebration

Out of Sight

Primary Colors

Rounders

1998 Movies Seen (127 features seen as of 03.02.2013)

Affliction (Paul Schrader, 1998)

American History X (Tony Kaye, 1998)

Another Day in Paradise (Larry Clark, 1998)

Apt Pupil (Bryan Singer, 1997)

Armageddon (Michael Bay, 1998)

The Avengers (Jeremiah S. Chechik, 1998)

Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller, 1998)

BASEketball (David Zucker, 1998)

Beloved (Jonathan Demme, 1998)

The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998)

Blade (Stephen Norrington, 1998)

A Bug’s Life (John Lasseter & Andrew Stanton, 1998)

Buffalo ’66 (Vincent Gallo, 1998)

Bulworth (Warren Beatty, 1998)

Can’t Hardly Wait (Harry Elfont & Deborah Kaplan, 1998)

The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)

Chairman of the Board (Alex Zamm, 1998)

City of Angels (Brad Siberling, 1998)

A Civil Action (Steven Zaillian, 1998)

Clay Pigeons (David Dobkin, 1998)

Clockwatchers (Jill Sprecher, 1998)

Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (Tim McCanlies, 1998)

Dangerous Beauty (Marshall Herskovitz, 1998)

Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998)

Dead Man on Campus (Alan Cohn ,1998)

Deep Impact (Mimi Leder, 1998)

Deep Rising (Stephen Sommers, 1998)

Desperate Measures (Barbet Schroeder, 1998)

Dirty Work (Bob Saget, 1998)

Dr. Dolittle (Betty Thomas, 1998)

Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur, 1998)

Enemy of the State (Tony Scott, 1998)

The Faculty (Robert Rodriguez, 1998)

Fallen (Gregory Hoblit, 1998)

Firestorm (Dean Semier, 1998)

The General (John Boorman, 1998)

The Gingerbread Man (Robert Altman, 1998)

Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon, 1998)

Godzilla (Roland Emmerich, 1998)

Great Expectations (Alfonso Cuarón, 1998)

Half Baked (Tamra Davis, 1998)

Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later (Steve Miner, 1998)

Happiness (Todd Solondz, 1998)

Hard Rain (Mikael Salomon, 1998)

He Got Game (Spike Lee, 1998)

High Art (Lisa Cholodenko, 1998)

Hilary & Jackie (Anand Tucker, 1998)

The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang, 1998)

Holy Man (Stephen Herek, 1998)

Home Fries (Dean Parisot, 1998)

Homegrown (Stephen Gyllenhaal, 1998)

Hope floats (Forest Whitaker, 1998)

The Horse Whisperer (Robert Redford, 1998)

How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Kevin Rodney Sullivan, 1998)

Hurlyburly (Anthony Drazan, 1998)

Hush (Jonathan Darby, 1998)

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Danny Cannon, 1998)

The Imposters (Stanley Tucci, 1998)

Jane Austen’s Mafia (Jim Abrahams, 1998)

Krippendorf’s Tribe (Todd Holland, 1998)

The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman, 1998)

Lethal Weapon 4 (Richard Donner, 1998)

Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni, 1998)

Little Voice (Mark Herman, 1998)

Living Out Loud (Richard LaGravenese, 1998)

Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie, 1998)

The Man in the Iron Mask (Randall Wallace, 1998)

The Mask of Zorro (Martin Campbell, 1998)

Meet Joe Black (Martin Brest, 1998)

Meeting People is Easy (Grant Gee, 1998)

Mercury Rising (Harold Becker, 1998)

The Mighty (Peter Chelsom, 1998)

Mulan (Tony Bancroft & Barry Cook, 1998)

My Giant (Michael Lehmann, 1998)

The Newton Boys (Richard Linklater, 1998)

One True Thing (Carl Franklin, 1998)

The Opposite of Sex (Don Roos, 1998)

Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh, 1998)

Patch Adams (Tom Shadyac, 1998)

A Perfect Murder (Andrew Davis, 1998)

Phantoms (Joe Chappelle, 1998)

Pi (Darren Aronofsky, 1998)

Pleasantville (Gary Ross, 1998)

The Power of Kangwon Province (Hong Sang-soo, 1998)

Practical Magic (Griffin Dunne, 1998)

Primary Colors (Mike Nichols, 1998)

The Prince of Egypt (Brenda Chapman & Steve Hickner, 1998)

Psycho (Gus Van Sant, 1998)

Ronin (John Frankenheimer, 1998)

Rounders (John Dahl, 1998)

Rush Hour (Brett Ratner, 1998)

Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)

Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998)

Shakespeare in Love (John Madden, 1998)

Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson, 1998)

The Siege (Edward Zwick, 1998)

Six Days Seven Nights (Ivan Reitman, 1998)

A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi, 1998)

Sliding Doors (Peter Howitt, 1998)

Small Soldiers (Joe Dante, 1998)

Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre, 1998)

Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma, 1998)

Soldier (Paul W.S. Anderson, 1998)

Sour Grapes (Larry David, 1998)

Sphere (Barry Levinson, 1998)

Still Crazy (Brian Gibson, 1998)

There’s Something About Mary (Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly, 1998)

The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)

The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)

Twilight (Robert Benton, 1998)

U.S. Marshals (Stuart Baird, 1998)

Urban Legend (Jamie Blanks, 1998)

Vampires (John Carpenter, 1998)

Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998)

Very Bad Things (Peter Berg, 1998)

The Waterboy (Frank Coraci, 1998)

Waking Ned Devine (Kirk Jones, 1998)

The Wedding Singer (Frank Coraci, 1998)

What Dreams May Come (Vincent Ward, 1998)

Why Do Fools Fall In Love (Gregory Nava, 1998)

Wide Awake (M. Night Shyamalan, 1998)

Wild Things (John McNaughton, 1998)

Without Limits (Robert Towne, 1998)

The X-Files (Rob Bowman, 1998)

You’ve Got Mail (Nora Ephron, 1998)

Your Friends & Neighbors (Neil LaBute, 1998)

Zero Effect (Jake Kasdan, 1998)

1997 Cii Movie Awards

This list and awards compiled February 28, 2013

                      For the criteria of choosing the awards, click here.

Top 10 Films of 1997

1. A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
4. Public Housing (Frederick Wiseman)
5. Face/Off (John Woo)
6. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog)
7. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris)
8. The Game (David Fincher)
9. Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
10. Contact (Robert Zemeckis)

Honorable Mentions: As Good As It Gets (James L. Brooks), Gattaca (Andrew Niccol), The Apostle (Robert Duvall), Amistad (Steven Spielberg), Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)

Best Actor

* Russell Crowe – L.A. Confidential

Dustin Hoffman – Wag the Dog

Samuel L. Jackson – Jackie Brown

Al Pacino – Donnie Brasco

Mark Wahlberg – Boogie Nights

Best Actress

Joan Allen – The Ice Storm

Jodie Foster – Contact

* Pam Grier – Jackie Brown

Helen Hunt – As Good As It Gets

Julia Roberts – My Best Friend’s Wedding

Best Supporting Actor

Robert Forster – Jackie Brown

Ray Liotta – Cop Land

John Malkovich – Con Air

John C. Reilly – Boogie Nights

Burt Reynolds – Boogie Nights

* Kevin Spacey – L.A. Confidential

Best Supporting Actress

Kim Basinger – L.A. Confidential

Joan Cusack – In & Out

Irma P. Hall – Soul Food

* Julianne Moore – Boogie Nights

Parker Posey – The House of Yes

Sigourney Weaver – The Ice Storm

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson – Boogie Nights

* Curtis Hanson – L.A. Confidential

Abbas Kiarostami – A Taste of Cherry

Frederick Wiseman – Public Housing

John Woo – Face/Off

Best Screenplay

* Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Donnie Brasco (Paul Attanasio)

Gattaca (Andrew Niccol)

L.A. Confidential (Brian Helgeland & Curtis Hanson)

Wag the Dog (Hilary Henkin & David Mamet)

Best Cinematography

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Robert Richardson)

The Game (Harris Savides)

The Ice Storm (Frederick Elmes)

* L.A. Confidential (Dante Spinotti)

A Taste of Cherry (Homayun Payvar)

Best Editing

Boogie Nights (Dylan Tichenor)

The Game (James Haygood)

Jackie Brown (Sally Menke)

L.A. Confidential (Peter Honess)

* A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)

Best Film Score

The Game (Howard Shore)

Kundun (Philip Glass)

L.A. Confidential (Jerry Goldsmith)

* Seven Years in Tibet (John Williams)

Titanic (James Horner)

Best Production Design

Boogie Nights

Gattaca

Kundun

* L.A. Confidential

Titanic

Best Ensemble Cast Performance

* Boogie Nights

Cop Land

Jackie Brown

L.A. Confidential

My Best Friend’s Wedding

1997 Movies Seen (91 features as of 03.02.2013)

Absolute Power (Clint Eastwood, 1997)

Addicted to Love (Griffin Dunne, 1997)

Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997)

Alien Resurrection (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997)

Amistad (Steven Spielberg, 1997)

Anaconda (Luis Llosa, 1997)

Anastasia (Don Bluth & Gary Goldman, 1997)

The Apostle (Robert Duvall, 1997)

As Good As It Gets (James L. Brooks, 1997)

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (Jay Roach, 1997)

Batman & Robin (Joel Schumaker, 1997)

Bean (Mel Smith, 1997)

Beverly Hills Ninja (Dennis Dugan, 1997)

Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)

Breakdown (Jonathan Mostow, 1997)

The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan, 1997)

Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith, 1997)

Clockwatchers (Jill Sprecher, 1997)

Con Air (Simon West, 1997)

Conspiracy Theory (Richard Donner, 1997)

Contact (Robert Zemeckis, 1997)

Cop Land (James Mangold, 1997)

Cube (Vincenzo Natali, 1997)

Dante’s Peak (Roger Donaldson, 1997)

Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen, 1997)

The Devil’s Advocate (Taylor Hackford, 1997)

The Devil’s Own (Alan J. Pakula, 1997)

Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell, 1997)

The Edge (Lee Tamahori, 1997)

Event Horizon (Paul W.S. Anderson, 1997)

Face/Off (John Woo, 1997)

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris, 1997)

Father’s Day (Ivan Reitman, 1997)

The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997)

Flubber (Les Mayfield, 1997)

For Richer or Poorer (Bryan Spicer, 1997)

The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo, 1997)

The Game (David Fincher, 1997)

Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997)

Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1997)

Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage, 1997)

Hercules (Ron Clements & John Musker, 1997)

Hoodlum (Bill Duke, 1997)

I Know What You Did Last Summer (Jim Gillespie, 1997)

The Ice Storm (Ang Lee, 1997)

In & Out (Frank Oz, 1997)

The Jackal (Michael Canton-Jones, 1997)

Jungle 2 Jungle (John Pasquin, 1997)

Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)

Kiss the Girls (Gary Fleder, 1997)

Kundun (Martin Scorsese, 1997)

L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)

Liar Liar (Tom Shadyac, 1997)

Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog, 1997)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1997)

Love and Death on Long Island (Richard Kwietniowski, 1997)

The Man Who Knew Too Little (Jon Amiel, 1997)

Masterminds (Roger Christian, 1997)

Men in Black (Barry Sonenfeld, 1997)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Clint Eastwood, 1997)

Mimic (Guillermo del Toro, 1997)

Money Talks (Brett Ratner, 1997)

Murder at 1600 (Dwight H. Little, 1997)

My Best Friend’s Wedding (P.J. Hogan, 1997)

Nothing to Lose (Steve Oedekerk, 1997)

The Peacemaker (Mimi Leder, 1997)

Public Housing (Frederick Wiseman, 1997)

The Rainmaker (Francis Ford Coppola, 1997)

Red Corner (Jon Avnet, 1997)

The Relic (Peter Hyams, 1997)

Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion (David Mirkin, 1997)

Rosewood (John Singleton, 1997)

The Saint (Phillip Noyce, 1997)

Scream 2 (Wes Craven, 1997)

Selena (Gregory Nava, 1997)

Seven Years in Tibet (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1997)

She’s So Lovely (Nick Cassavetes, 1997)

Soul Food (George Tillman, Jr., 1997)

Speed 2: Cruise Control (Jan de Bont, 1997)

Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)

Suicide Kings (Peter O’Fallon, 1997)

The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997)

A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)

Titanic (James Cameron, 1997)

Tomorrow Never Dies (Roger Spottieswoode, 1997)

U-Turn (Oliver Stone, 1997)

Ulee’s Gold (Victor Nunez, 1997)

Vegas Vacation (Stephen Kessler, 1997)

Volcano (Mick Jackson, 1997)

Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson, 1997)

The Wings of the Dove (Iain Softley, 1997)