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2022
Books
Samarkand | Amin Maalouf |
Second Place | Rachel Cusk |
The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life ● | Boyd Varty |
Líbano, Labirinto ● | Alexandra Lucas Coelho |
Shows
Russian Doll II ● | Natasha Lyonn, Leslye Headland & Amy Poehler |
Love, Death and Robots III | (Various) |
Ozarks IV ● | Bill Dubuque & Mark Williams |
Seinfeld I-IX ● | Jerry Seinfeld & Larry David |
Stand-Up
Speshy Weshy ● | Chris DiStefano |
This Year's Material | Joe List |
Speakeasy | Ronny Chieng |
The Dying Of A Last Breed | Doug Standhope |
Lubricant | Russel Howard |
Don Wong | Ali Wong |
Growing Shame ● | Ian Lara |
His Dark Material | Jimmy Carr |
Comedy Monster | Jim Gaffigan |
Movies
The Batman | Matt Reeves |
The Windshield Wiper ● | Alberto Mielgo |
Drive My Car ● | Ryûsuke Hamaguchi |
The Worst Person in the World | Joachim Trier |
The Matrix Resurrections | Lana Wachowski |
A Hero ● | Asghar Farhadi |
Las Madres Paralelas ● | Pedro Almodóvar |
Le Doulos ● | Jean-Pierre Melville |
Boiling Point ● | Philip Barantini |
È stata la mano di Dio | Paolo Sorrentino |
Captain Fantastic | Matt Ross |
The French Dispatch | Wes Anderson |
Don't Look Up | Adam Mckay |
2021
Books
Idiotas Úteis e Inúteis ● | Ricardo Araújo Pereira |
First Person Singular: Stories | Haruki Murakami |
The Elephant Vanishes | Haruki Murakami |
Caderno Afegão ● | Alexandra Lucas Coelho |
Coventry ● | Rachel Cusk |
Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain |
The Death of Ivan Ilych | Leo Tolstoi |
Wrong about Japan | Peter Carey |
The Outlaw Ocean ● | Ian Urbina |
How Music Works ● | David Byrne |
Shows
Get Back ● | Peter Jackson |
Arcane ● | Pascal Charrue, Arnaud Delord & Jérôme Combe |
For All Mankind I & II ● | Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert & Ben Nedivi |
Foundation ● | David S. Goyer & Josh Friedman |
La Casa de Papel IV | Álex Pina |
The Chair | Amanda Peet & Annie Julia Wyman |
Mare of Easttown ● | Brad Ingelsby |
The White Lotus ● | Mike White |
Ted Lasso II | Jason Sudeikis & Bill Lawrence |
Invincible ● | Robert Kirkman |
The Good Place | Michael Schur |
Stand-Up
The Closer | Dave Chapelle |
Live in Austin | Shane Gillis |
Ice Thickners | Emily Heller |
Whiskey Fists ● | Rosebud Baker |
The Greatest Average American ● | Nate Bargatze |
To Catch a D*ck | London Hughes |
Total Blackout | Chris Rock |
Upon on the Roof ● | Sam Morril |
Movies
Chungking Express | Wong Kar-Wai |
Le Sommet des Dieux ● | Patrick Imbert |
Finch | Miguel Sapochnik |
Lamb | Valdimar Jóhannsson |
No Time to Die | Cary Joji Fukunaga |
The Card Counter | Paul Schrader |
Dune | Denis Villeneuve |
The Truffle Hunters ● | Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw |
The Green Knight | David Lowery |
Free Guy | Shawn Levy |
The Sound of Metal | Darius Marder |
Druk ● | Thomas Vinterberg |
Cruella | Craig Gillespie |
To Rome with Love ● | Woody Allen |
Malcom & Marie | Sam Levinson |
A Family ● | Michihito Fujii |
Minamata | Andrew Levitas |
À bras ouverts | Philippe de Chauveron |
Tenet ● | Christopher Nolan |
Nobody | Ilya Naishuller |
Sorry to Bother You | Boots Riley |
Night in Paradise ● | Park Hoon-jung |
Made You Look | Barry Avrich |
I Care a Lot | J Blakeson |
Voyage to Greenland | Sébastien Betbeder |
Minari | Lee Isaac Chung |
The White Tiger ● | Ramin Bahrani |
Soul ● | Pete Docter |
Ghost in the Shell ● | Mamoru Oshii |
Lupin III : The Castle of Cagliostro | Hayao Miyazaki |
Documentaries
Full Capacity | Sam Morril |
Shiny_Flakes ● | Eva Müller |
AlphaGo ● | Greg Kohs |
2020
Books
Earthlings ● | Sayaka Murata |
Kissa by Kissa ● | Craig Mod |
What I Talk about When I Talk about Running: A Memoir | Haruki Murakami |
Exciting Times | Naoise Dolan |
Almost Transparent Blue | Ryu Murakami |
In The Miso Soup | Ryu Murakami |
The Night Manager ● | John Le Carré |
Convenience Store Woman ● | Sayaka Murata |
Utopia for Realists ● | Rutger Bregman |
Men without Women | Haruki Murakami |
Transit ● | Rachel Cusk |
Outline | Rachel Cusk |
The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism | Kyle Chayka |
Kudos ● | Rachel Cusk |
Weather ● | Jenny Offil |
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | Haruki Murakami |
Last Things ● | Jenny Offil |
Dept. of Speculation ● | Jenny Offil |
Killing Commendatore | Haruki Murakami |
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Carlo Rovelli |
Sapiens ● | Yuval Noah Harari |
Agent Running in The Field | John le Carré |
Shows
Song Exploder ● | Hrishikesh Hirway |
Fargo IV ● | Noah Hawley |
Ted Lasso I ● | Jason Sudeikis & Bill Lawrence |
Raised by Wolves | Aaron Guzikowski |
The Boys | Eric Kripke |
Ozarks I, II, III ● | Bill Dubuque & Mark Williams |
The Eddy ● | Jack Thorne |
The Kominsky Method I & II | Chuck Lorre |
Westworld III | Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy |
La Casa de Papel IV | Álex Pina |
After Life ● | Ricky Gervais |
10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki ● | Kaku Arakawa |
Giri/Haji | Joe Barton |
Fleabag I & II ● | Phoebe Waller-Bridge |
Stand-Up
Out to Lunch ● | Mark Normand |
I Got This ● | Sam Morril |
Middleditch & Schwartz ● | Ryan Polito |
Double Negative | Ari Shaffir |
Ball Hog | Tom Segura |
Hey Big Boy | Burt Kreischeir |
Quarter-Life Crisis | Taylor Tomlinson |
You’re Doing Great | Tom Papa |
Equanimity ● | Dave Chapelle |
Overthinker ● | Demetri Martin |
Sweet & Salty | Fortune Feimster |
A Speak of Dust | Sarah Silverman |
Joke Show ● | Michele Wolf |
Asian Comedian Destroys America! ● | Ronny Chieng |
The New One | Mike Burbuglia |
Movies
On The Rocks | Sofia Coppola |
Divines ● | Houda Benyamina |
Shoplifters ● | Hirokazu Koreeda |
Das 5 Bloods | Spike Jonze |
The King of Comedy ● | Martin Scorcese |
This Magnificent Cake! | Emma de Swaef & Marc James Roel |
Elisa & Marcela | Isabel Coixet |
Dick Tracy | Warren Beauty |
In the Mood for Love ● | Wong Kar-Wai |
Lovebirds | Michael Showalter |
Ya no estoy aqui ● | Fernando Frías de la Parra |
Zimna Wojna ● | Pawel Pawlikowski |
Marie Antoinette | Sofia Coppola |
Mon Oncle d’Amérique ● | Alain Resnais |
Blue Jasmine ● | Woddy Allen |
My Happy Family ● | Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Gross |
La Verité ● | Hirokazu Koreeda |
Basquiat ● | Julian Schnabel |
Julian Schnabel : A Private Portrait | Pappi Corsicato |
The Wind rises | Hayao Miyazaki |
J’Accuse | Roman Polanski |
Motherless Brooklyn | Edward Norton |
Shirkers | Sandi Tan |
Holmes & Watson | Etan Cohen |
Tigertail | Alan Yang |
Heart of Sky ● | Jenny Moussallem |
Pom Poko ● | Isao Takahata |
Ponyo ● | Hayao Miyazaki |
Matrimonio all’Italiana ● | Vittorio di Sicca |
Nausicaä | Hayao Miyazaki |
The Gentlemen | Guy Ritchie |
Onward | Dan Scanlon |
Whale Valley | Gudmundur Arnar Gudmunsson |
Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu ● | Céline Sciamma |
Mudbound | Dee Rees |
The Drug King | Woo Min-ho |
Call me Dolemite ● | Craig Brewer |
Mononoke Princess ● | Hayao Miyazaki |
Queen & Slim ● | Melina Matsoukas |
Spirited Away ● | Hayao Miyazaki |
Little Women | Greta Gerwig |
Porco Rosso ● | Hayao Miyazaki |
37 Seconds | Hikaru |
Where’d you go Bernardette | Richard Linklater |
Uncut Gems ● | Josh & Ben Safdie |
1917 | Sam Mendes |
Hustlers | Lorene Scafaria |
Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang ● | Kevin MacDonald |
2001: A Space Odyssey ● | Standley Kubrick |
Knives Out | Rian Johnson |
Two Popes | Fernando Meirelles |
The Irishman | Martin Scorcese |
Parasite ● | Bong Joon Ho |
Ad Astra ● | James Gray |
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ● | Quentin Tarantino |
Joker | Todd Phillips |
The Art of Self-Defence | Riley Stearns |
Dolor y Gloria ● | Pedro Almodóvar |
2019
Books
1Q84 ● | Haruki Murakami |
A Wild Sheep Chase ● | Haruki Murakami |
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ● | Haruki Murakami |
Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami |
A Perfect Spy ● | John le Carré |
The Little Drummer Girl ● | John le Carré |
The Russia House | John le Carré |
The Looking Glass War | John le Carré |
Smiley’s People | John le Carré |
Walkscapes: Walking as an Aesthetic Practice | Francesco Careri |
Shark Drunk ● | Morten Stroksnes |
Tokyo Totem ● | Gardner & Fruneaux |
Shows
La Casa de Papel I, II & III ● | Álex Pina |
Russian Doll ● | Leslye Headland (& others) |
Game of Trones | Benioff & Weiss |
The Night Manager ● | Susanne Bier |
The Bodyguard | Jed Mercurio |
Escape at Dannemora ● | Ben Stiller |
Glow ● | Flahive & Mensch |
Stand-Up
Fire in the Maternity Ward ● | Anthony Jeselnick |
Thank God for Jokes | Mike Burbuglia |
Tamborine ● | Chris Rock |
Sticks and Stones ● | Dave Chapelle |
Paper Tiger | Bill Burr |
Disgraceful ● | Tom Segura |
Mostly Stories | Tom Segura |
Kid Gorgeous ● | John Mulhaney |
Comeback Kid ● | John Mulhaney |
Movies
The Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach |
The Meyerowitz Stories ● | Noah Baumbach |
Dunkirk | Christopher Nolan |
Blade Runner 2047 | Denis Villeneuve |
Blade Runner ● | Ridley Scott |
Bohemian Rhapsody | Graham King |
Always Be my Maybe | Nahnatchka Khan |
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ● | Bob Persichetti |
The Green Book | Peter Farrelly |
Black Panther | Kevin Feige |
Logan Lucky ● | Steven Soderbergh |
BlacKkKlansman | Spike Lee |
The Death of Stalin | Armando Iannucci |
Roma ● | Alfonso Cuarón |
Toy Story 4 | Josh Cooley |
The Killing of a Sacred Deer ● | Yorgos Lanthimos |
Incredibles 2 | Brad Bird |
Isle of Dogs ● | Wes Anderson |
The Lobster ● | Yorgos Lanthimos |
Paterson ● | Jim Jarmush |