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Best Of 2023: a Summary of World Cinema

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2023 Film Festivals
Awarded Film	Event
Anatomy of a Fall	Cannes Film Festival	France
Poor Things	Venice Film Festival	Italy
On the Adamant	Berlin International Film Festival	Germany
The Rye Horn	San Sebastian Film Festival	Spain
American Fiction	Toronto Film Festival (TIFF)	Canada
A Thousand and One	Sundance Film Festival	USA
Motherland	Mar del Plata International Film Festival	Argentina
When Evil Lurks	Film Festival of Catalonia	Spain
The Permanent Picture	Seminci - International Film Festival	Spain

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2023 Awards
Awarded Film	Award
Oppenheimer	Oscars - Academy Awards	USA
Oppenheimer (Drama) Poor Things (Comedy)	Golden Globes Awards	USA
Anatomy of a Fall	European Film Awards (EFA)	Europe
Oppenheimer	BAFTA - British Academy Film Awards	G.B.
Anatomy of a Fall	Cesar Awards (France)	France
Coming soon	David di Donatello Awards (Italy)	Italy
Society of the Snow	Goya Awards (Spanish Academy Awards)	Spain
Coming soon	German Film Awards (Deutsche Filmpreis)	Germany
Paradise is Burning	Guldbagge Awards (Swedish Film Institute)	Sweden

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Critics' Association Awards 2023
Awarded Film	Awards
Killers of the Flower Moon	National Board of Review (NBR)	USA
Killers of the Flower Moon	New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC)	USA
The Zone of Interest	Los Angeles Film Critics Awards (LAFCA)	USA
Killers of the Flower Moon	Chicago Film Critics Association	USA
The Holdovers	Boston Society of Film Critics	USA
Oppenheimer	Critics' Choice Awards	USA

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Best Films of 2023 According to World Famous Film Critics:

David Fear, Senior Editor of Rolling Stone - Source Sorted by order of preference:
#	Country:	Film
1		Past Lives
2		The Zone of Interest
3		Killers of the Flower Moon
4		Poor Things
5		Showing Up
6		The Quiet Girl
7		Anatomy of a Fall
8		The Delinquents
9		All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
10		Barbie

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Manohla Dargis, Chief Critic of The New York Times - Source Sorted by order of preference:
#	Country:	Film
1		Killers of the Flower Moon
2		Oppenheimer
3		Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
4		Occupied City
5		A Thousand and One
6		Asteroid City
7		May December
8		Showing Up
9		Orlando, My Political Biography
10		Stonewalling

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Alissa Wilkinson, Critic of The New York Times - Source Sorted by order of preference:
#	Country:	Film
1		Killers of the Flower Moon
2		Past Lives
3		The Zone of Interest
4		Reality
5		A Still Small Voice
6		Oppenheimer
7		Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
8		Godland
9		The Eternal Memory
10		Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros

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Ann Hornaday, Chief Critic of Washington Post - Source Sorted by order of preference:
#	Country:	Film
1		American Fiction
2		The Holdovers
3		You Hurt My Feelings
4		Anatomy of a Fall
5		Barbie
5		Oppenheimer
6		Joan Baez: I Am A Noise
7		Past Lives
8		Reality
9		AIR
10		Origin

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David Ehrlich, Kate Erbland , Chief Critic of Indiewire - Source Sorted by order of preference:
#	Country:	Film
1		Past Lives
2		The Taste of Things
3		Asteroid City
4		The Boy and the Heron
5		May December
6		All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
7		Passages
8		Anatomy of a Fall
9		All of Us Strangers
10		The Zone of Interest

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Stephanie Zakarech , Chief Critic of Time - Source Sorted by order of preference:
#	Country:	Film
1		Fallen Leaves
2		Maestro
3		The Zone of Interest
4		Priscilla
5		Paris Memories
6		Past Lives
7		Killers of the Flower Moon
8		Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
9		Dreamin' Wild
10		Passages

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Luis Martínez, Chief Critic of El Mundo - Source Sorted by order of preference:
#	Country:	Film
1		The Zone of Interest
2		Killers of the Flower Moon
3		Anatomy of a Fall
4		Poor Things
5		Past Lives
6		Fallen Leaves
7		Oppenheimer
8		Rotting in the Sun
9		Barbie
10		Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part One

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Javier Ocaña, Critic of El País - Source Sorted by order of preference:
#	Country:	Film
1		Anatomy of a Fall
2		Monster
3		The Banshees of Inisherin
4		Killers of the Flower Moon
5		Oppenheimer
6		Babylon
7		A Brighter Tomorrow
8		TÁR
9		The Old Oak
10		Fallen Leaves

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Best TV Series of 2023 by World Famous Critics

James Poniewozik, Mike Hale, Margaret Lyons , TV Critic of The New York Times - Source
Country:	Film
	The Bear
	Beef
	The Curse
	Dead Ringers
	I'm a Virgo
	Jury Duty
	The Last of Us
	Somebody Somewhere
	Reservation Dogs
	South Side
	Succession

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Lili Loofbourow , TV Critic of Washington Post - Source Sorted by order of preference:
#	Country:	Film
1		Mrs. Davis
2		Beef
3		Succession
4		Reservation Dogs
5		The Bear
6		Somebody Somewhere
7		Jury Duty
8		Fellow Travelers
9		I'm a Virgo
10		Party Down

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Ben Travers, TV Critic of Indiewire - Source Sorted by order of preference:
#	Country:	Film
1		Succession
2		Dead Ringers
3		The Curse
4		The Bear
5		The Last of Us
6		Reservation Dogs
7		The Other Two
8		I Think You Should Leave (with Tim Robinson)
9		Barry
10		I'm a Virgo

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Judy German, TV Critic of Time - Source Sorted by order of preference:
#	Country:	Film
1		Succession
1		Reservation Dogs
3		I'm a Virgo
4		Rain Dogs
5		Beef
6		The Curse
7		Telemarketers
8		Dead Ringers
9		The Other Two
10		Poker Face

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Jen Chaney, Roxana Hadadi, Kathryn VanArendonk , TV Critic of Vulture - Source Sorted by order of preference:
#	Country:	Film
1		Succession
2		The Bear
3		Reservation Dogs
4		The Other Two
5		Mrs. Davis
6		Somebody Somewhere
7		Party Down
8		Barry
9		The Last of Us
10		Beef

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The Highest Grossing Films of 2023:

The Highest Grossing Films of 2023 Worldwide
#	Film	Genre	Producer	Box Office:
1	Barbie	Comedy	Warner / Heyday / Mattel / LuckyChap	$1.441.800.000
2	Super Mario Bros.: The Movie	Animation	Illumination / Nintendo / Universal	$1.361.977.000
3	Oppenheimer	Drama	Universal / Atlas / Syncopy / Gadget	$950.686.000
4	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3	Sci-Fi	Marvel / Walt Disney	$845.556.000
5	Fast X	Action	Original / One Race / Universal	$704.710.000
6	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	Animation	Sony / Marvel/ Lord Miller / Pascal / Arad	690.517.000
7	The Little Mermaid	Animation	Lucamar / Marc Platt / Walt Disney / 5000 Broadway / Xm2 Pursuit	$569.626.000
8	Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part One	Thriller	Paramount / Skydance / TC Productions	$567.535.000
9	Elemental	Animation	Pixar / Walt Disney	$495.497.000
10	Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania	Sci-Fi	Marvel / Walt Disney / Truenorth	$476.071.000

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The Highest Grossing Films of 2023 in the US
#	Film	Genre	Producer	Box Office:
1	Barbie	Comedy	Warner / Heyday / Mattel / LuckyChap	$636.201.000
2	Super Mario Bros.: The Movie	Animation	Illumination / Nintendo / Universal	$574.934.000
3	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	Animation	Sony / Marvel/ Lord Miller / Pascal / Arad	391.311.000
4	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3	Sci-Fi	Marvel / Walt Disney	358.996.000
5	Oppenheimer	Drama	Universal / Atlas / Syncopy / Gadget	325.388.000
6	The Little Mermaid	Animation	Lucamar / Marc Platt / Walt Disney / 5000 Broadway / Xm2 Pursuit	$298.172.000
7	Avatar: The Way of Water	Sci-Fi	20th Century / Lightstorm / TSG / Walt Disney	$283.068.000
8	Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania	Sci-Fi	Marvel / Walt Disney / Truenorth	$214.505.000
9	John Wick: Chapter 4	Action	Lionsgate / Thunder Road / Summit / 87Eleven	$187.132.000
10	Sound of Freedom	Thriller	Santa Fé Films	$184.175.000

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The Highest Grossing Films of 2023 in their Country of Origin
Film	Genre	Producer	Box Office:
Rehragout Rendezvous	Comedy	Degeto / Bayerischer Rundfunk / Constantin / Praesens	13.001.000€
Campeonex	Comedy	Morena Films / Películas Pendelton	11.837.000€
Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom	Comedy	Les Editions Albert René / Les Enfants Terribles / Pathé / Trésor	32.810.000€
Detective Conan: The Black Iron Submarine	Animation	TMS Entertainment / Nippon TV / ShoPro / TOHO Animation	$96.401.000
Infelices para siempre	Comedy	Nodancingtoday	$5.592.000
Roald Dahl's Matilda: the Musical	Fantasy	Working Title / Netflix / TriStar / Sony	$9.553.000

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The Best Films of 2023 According to Filmaffinity Users

The Best Films of 2023 according to Filmaffinity Users
Ranking order obeys to several criteria: films with a high number of votes, films released in various countries, etc.
Rating	Country:	Film
7.9		Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
7.6		Fallen Leaves
7.6		Oppenheimer
7.5		Monster
7.5		Anatomy of a Fall
7.4		Past Lives
7.3		Saben aquell
7.3		El mestre que va prometre el mar
7.2		Close Your Eyes
7.2		Killers of the Flower Moon
7.2		The Boy and the Heron
7.2		20,000 Species of Bees
7.1		Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

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The Best TV Series of 2023 according to Filmaffinity Users
Rating	Country:	TV Series
8.3		Blue Eye Samurai
7.9		This World Can't Tear Me Down
7.7		The Last of Us
7.7		Pluto
7.6		The Messiah
7.5		Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Swordsmith Village
7.5		A Small Light
7.4		One Piece
7.4		Stranger Things 4
7.3		Jury Duty
7.2		Poquita fe
7.2		Nada

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