AFI Top 10 Includes Silver Linings, Django, Les Miz, Lincoln, Argo, Zero Dark
The American Film Institute jury has chosen their top ten films for 2012. I have to say I can’t disagree with any of their picks. It’s a good group, and it accurately represents the year. I do think they missed on “The Master,” but they may not have wanted to give one film company–TWC– three spots on the top 10. I know from sources that the group also really liked Dustin Hoffman’s “Quartet,” which I think is going to be the sleeper hit of the season. Also not on the list are “Hitchcock,” “The Sessions,” and “Cloud Atlas.” The AFI included “The Dark Knight Rises,” which I’m not sure will make it to the Oscars. It’s nice also to see “The Life of Pi,” which has a 50/50 shot at an Oscar vote.
As for the TV winners: they’re all the same. It’s all the same as it is all the time. In TV, once your show is chosen for one batch of awards it just continues until it’s almost over. I don’t like or understand “Modern Family,” but it just goes on and on. No love for “Episodes,” the wittiest show on TV. And the AFI can’t pick “Downton Abbey,” because it’s British. ZZzzzzzz……
AFI MOVIES OF THE YEAR
ARGO
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
DJANGO UNCHAINED
LES MISÉRABLES
LIFE OF PI
LINCOLN
MOONRISE KINGDOM
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
ZERO DARK THIRTY
AFI TV PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR
AMERICAN HORROR STORY
BREAKING BAD
GAME CHANGE
GAME OF THRONES
GIRLS
HOMELAND
LOUIE
MAD MEN
MODERN FAMILY
THE WALKING DEAD
Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News. Friedman previously wrote the Intelligencer column at New York Magazine, He writes for Parade magazine and has written for Details, Vogue, the New York Times, Post, and Daily News and many other publications. He is the writer and co-producer of a film about R&B Music called “Only the Strong Survive,” which was released by Miramax in 2003 and was a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals.
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easywind
zerodarkthirty will be announced as the winner in fantasy.
Stick
Thank God for Moonshiners and the NFL. Jeebus this list stinks.
David James
Dark Knight being on here is BS. No way it was better than Skyfall.
P Pies
I saw Life Of Pi and it was one of my favorite movies ever. . I’m so happy it is listed and I will actually watch the Academy Awards for a change, rooting for this fine, deep movie. The acting was superb.
B. Real
What’s happened to films in the last 3 years? “Social Network”, Clooney’s “Up In the Air”, “A Single Man”, “ARGO”, etc etc etc.
All of these are mediocre films – at best. Yet they’re named as best pictures?
All seems like a big sham.
Lez Miz will rack up the awards as it nailed the formula: respectable leading actor in a new role, big budget, artistic and not only of interest to people with taste but semi-palatable for the common movie-going imbecile.
Roguewave
If “Justified” is not on their list, then the list is crapola.
TexGal46
If it weren’t for old movies, History Channel or Discovery Channel or HGTV and news, my TV wouldn’t even be turned on. These shows are all mindless crap1
Mickey
I haven’t seen any of the movies, and the only two on the list I’d care to see are Dark Knight and Les Miz, and not on the list Skyfall. And I don’t watch any of the TV shows listed. When is Hollywood going to start making movies and TV shows that are actually worth watching? Let alone paying to see. It’s gotten to the point that if it weren’t for news and sports, I wouldn’t watch TV at all.
BigR2
Only 6 “occurances” will inspire me to purchase a movie ticket. (1) Russell Crowe (2) John Travolta (3) Nicolas Cage(4) James Cameron (5) Ridley Scott and (6) All things Star Trek. Simple but a really good bang for the buck.
Steve
Not one of the TV shows is worth watching. The best show on TV, The Big Bang Theory, isn’t listed. Ridiculous.
Lincoln is a fantastic movie. Life of Pi not too bad. The others are garbage.
whosiwhatzit
I plan to use the AFI list as a “movies and TV shows to avoid” list. Complete garbage.
Savvydude
‘Game Change’? Are you kidding? One of the ten best? A bigger piece of crapola has never been filmed. But, hey, it won an Emmy and it mocked Sarah Palin so I guess that makes it great.
Very bad choice, AFI.
TerryCSA
Quite frankly I wouldn’t kick a dog in the behind for any of the movies listed, let alone spend money to go see them.
As for the TV shows, well…2 1/2 isn’t bad I guess, Homeland is a definate, along with The Walking Dead. American Horror Story, well, it’s different. A little bizarre, but it has it’s moments.
The rest of their selections are garbage. All indicative of the mindless drivel and perverted lack of intellect that exists on the left coast.
They really missed out in the selections. Much better are:
Sons of Anarchy
Justified
Being Human
Merlin
Revolution
Lost Girl
Roger Friedman
Get to the movies! It’s a great year.
Roger Friedman
We all love old movies. But we have to embrace the new, too!
char51
I haven’t heard of a single one of these….
Who am I?
What am I?
WHY am I.
Roger
I hate to disappoint you, but I prefer Casablanca, Josey Wales, It’s a Wonderful Life, Hoosiers, Rudy, The Natural, The Guns of Navarone and other ‘old school’ movies that reflected the greatness of the American spirit.
I also prefer a fuel injected, dual quad, positraction 409 to a double droid, pentium facebook compatible iPhone.
tom wright
yawn.
Zip Code
In the Fantasy category? Makes Harry Potter seam realistic . . .
Jeff
You want to know what the people like…….. Follow the money! These boobs who like to honor themselves for doing there job (making movies and tv shows) look like a bunch of (!)’s who want you to think like they do. You can see it in the line up they have laid out here. I can honestly say I haven’t watched more than ten minutes of any of the tv shows or had a desire to see the crap they endorse.