The 2020 Back Rowsie Awards: The Best Movies of the Decade

The Academy Awards may have come and gone but Back Rowsies are just being rolled out! That’s right, it’s the second annual podcast awards episode for those of you who couldn’t give a shit about awards shows. Join Dan, Carlo, Jenna and Veronica as they dole out awards for the best of the 2010s–from Best Picture to Best Movie I Thought Sucked But Later Realized Was Phenomenal. Laugh, cry, appreciate the lack of Eminem and enjoy the fabulous Back Rowsies.

Spoilers below:

Best Picture of the Decade

• Jenna

  • The Love Witch

  • The Skin I Live In

  • Moonlight

  • Inside Llewyn Davis

  • Synonyms
    

• Dan

  • Green Room

  • Shirkers

  • Paddington

  • The Innkeepers

  • My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea
    

• Vern

  • Good Time

  • A Fantastic Woman

  • Vox Lux

  • The Incident

  • Tangerine / The Florida Project
    

• Carlo

  • Beauty is Embarrassing

  • One Cut of the Dead

  • The Tale of Princess Kaguya

  • Ingrid Goes West

  • Shoplifters

Best Performance of the Decade

• Christopher Plummer (Beginners)

• Everyone (Moonlight)

• Aubrey Plaza (Ingrid Goes West)

• Jake Gyllenhaal (Prisoners)

• Oscar Issac (Inside Llewyn Davis)

• Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name)

• Elizabeth Moss (Her Smell)

• Sakura Ando (Shoplifters)

Best Foreign Language

• Il sud è niente (South Is Nothing)

• Endless Poetry

• We Are The Flesh

• Shoplifters

Best Movie Based On Old Shit (aka remake/sequel/already existed category)

• Mad Max: Fury Road

• Dredd

• Alita: Battle Angel

• Creed

• Alan Partridge

Best Movie Under Appreciated on Letterboxd

• The Intruder

• Wizard Mode

• Filmed in Supermarionation

• The Little Hours

Best Big Budget Blockbuster  

• War for the Planet of the Apes

• The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

• Skyfall

• Mad Max: Fury Road

Best On Screen Death

• Anything from Green Room

• The Final Destination franchise

• Hereditary

• Climax

Best Movie I Thought Sucked But Later Realized Was Phenomenal

• Magic Mike

• Ex Machina

• Man of Tai Chi

• Prometheus

A new episode of Notes From the Back Row will be released every other week. If you have a new movie premiering, drop us a line – we might be interested in setting something up with you too!

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