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Periodicals · 88

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Current journals · open access · 12

Active, open-access film journals. Copyright means they can’t be embedded here, so these cards link out to each journal’s official site.

Links to open-access journals; content is hosted on each publication’s own site.

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Library · 8

Public-domain film readings: theory, history and manuals from cinema’s early days, to read right here.

Glossary · 66 terms

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A short vocabulary to watch cinema more precisely: from the long take to the MacGuffin.

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Timeline

The great movements and eras that have shaped cinema, from the Lumière brothers to the present.

  1. 1895–1927

    Silent era

    From cinema's birth to the arrival of sound: the visual language is almost entirely invented in these three decades.

    The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)Un Chien Andalou (1929)
  2. 1919–1931

    German Expressionism

    Painted shadows, warped sets and tormented souls: cinema as a painting of the subconscious.

    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)Nosferatu (1922)Metropolis (1927)M (1931)
  3. 1924–1930

    Soviet montage

    Eisenstein and his contemporaries turn the cut into an ideological and emotional weapon.

    Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  4. 1930–1960

    Classical Hollywood

    The studio system and its genres perfect a clockwork narrative cinema that still dominates popular culture.

    Citizen Kane (1941)Casablanca (1943)Sunset Boulevard (1950)Vertigo (1958)
  5. 1945–1952

    Italian Neorealism

    Camera to the street, non-professional actors and the postwar as subject: reality bursts into fiction.

    Bicycle Thieves (1948)Rome, Open City (1945)
  6. 1958–1968

    French New Wave

    Young critics pick up the camera and reinvent cinema's grammar with freedom and irony.

    The 400 Blows (1959)Breathless (1960)Jules and Jim (1962)
  7. 1962–1982

    New German Cinema

    Fassbinder, Herzog and Wenders rebuild an auteur cinema on the moral ruins of the postwar.

    Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)Wings of Desire (1987)
  8. 1967–1980

    New Hollywood

    A Europe-influenced generation renews American cinema with authorial ambition and adult themes.

    The Godfather (1972)Taxi Driver (1976)Apocalypse Now (1979)
  9. 1990–presente

    New Asian cinema

    Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Iran or Thailand: the cinemas that have redefined contemporary arthouse film.

    In the Mood for Love (2000)Oldboy (2003)Parasite (2019)A Separation (2011)
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Awards

The films honoured by the major prizes: the Academy Award, the Cannes Palme d’Or and the Goya.

Academy Award for Best Picture

By ceremony year, since the first edition (1929). The film is usually from the previous year.

Year Film
2026 One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
2025 Anora Sean Baker
2024 Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan
2023 Everything Everywhere All at Once Dan Kwan
2022 CODA Siân Héder
2021 Nomadland Chloé Zhao
2020 Parasite Bong Joon-ho
2019 Green Book Peter Farrelly
2018 The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro
2017 Moonlight Barry Jenkins
2016 Spotlight Tom McCarthy
2015 Birdman Alejandro González Iñárritu
2014 12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen
2013 Argo Ben Affleck
2012 The Artist Michel Hazanavicius
2011 The King's Speech Tom Hooper
2010 The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow
2009 Slumdog Millionaire Loveleen Tandan
2008 No Country for Old Men Joel Coen
2007 The Departed Martin Scorsese
2006 Crash Paul Haggis
2005 Million Dollar Baby Clint Eastwood
2004 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Peter Jackson
2003 Chicago Rob Marshall
2002 A Beautiful Mind Ron Howard
2001 Gladiator Ridley Scott
2000 American Beauty Sam Mendes
1999 Shakespeare in Love John Madden
1998 Titanic James Cameron
1997 The English Patient Anthony Minghella
1996 Braveheart Mel Gibson
1994 Schindler's List Steven Spielberg
1993 Unforgiven Clint Eastwood
1992 The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme
1991 Dances with Wolves Kevin Costner
1990 Driving Miss Daisy Bruce Beresford
1989 Rain Man Barry Levinson
1988 The Last Emperor Bernardo Bertolucci
1987 Platoon Oliver Stone
1986 Out of Africa Sydney Pollack
1985 Amadeus Miloš Forman
1984 Terms of Endearment James L. Brooks
1983 Gandhi Richard Attenborough
1982 Chariots of Fire Hugh Hudson
1981 Ordinary People Robert Redford
1980 Kramer vs. Kramer Robert Benton
1979 The Deer Hunter Michael Cimino
1978 Annie Hall Woody Allen
1977 Rocky John G. Avildsen
1976 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Miloš Forman
1975 The Godfather Part II Francis Ford Coppola
1974 The Sting George Roy Hill
1973 The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola
1972 The French Connection William Friedkin
1971 Patton Franklin J. Schaffner
1970 Midnight Cowboy John Schlesinger
1969 Oliver! Carol Reed
1968 In the Heat of the Night Norman Jewison
1967 A Man for All Seasons Fred Zinnemann
1966 The Sound of Music Robert Wise
1965 My Fair Lady George Cukor
1964 Tom Jones Tony Richardson
1963 Lawrence of Arabia David Lean
1962 West Side Story Robert Wise
1961 The Apartment Billy Wilder
1960 Ben-Hur William Wyler
1959 Gigi Vincente Minnelli
1958 The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean
1957 Around the World in 80 Days Michael Anderson
1956 Marty Delbert Mann
1955 On the Waterfront Elia Kazan
1954 From Here to Eternity Fred Zinnemann
1953 The Greatest Show on Earth Cecil B. DeMille
1952 An American in Paris Vincente Minnelli
1951 All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1950 All the King's Men Robert Rossen
1949 Hamlet Laurence Olivier
1948 Gentleman's Agreement Elia Kazan
1947 The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler
1946 The Lost Weekend Billy Wilder
1945 Going My Way Leo McCarey
1944 Casablanca Michael Curtiz
1943 Mrs. Miniver William Wyler
1942 How Green Was My Valley John Ford
1941 Rebecca Alfred Hitchcock
1940 Gone with the Wind Victor Fleming
1939 You Can't Take It With You Frank Capra
1938 The Life of Emile Zola William Dieterle
1937 The Great Ziegfeld Robert Z. Leonard
1936 Mutiny on the Bounty Frank Lloyd
1935 It Happened One Night Frank Capra
1934 Cavalcade Frank Lloyd
1932 Grand Hotel Edmund Goulding
1931 Cimarron Wesley Ruggles
1930 All Quiet on the Western Front Lewis Milestone
1930 The Broadway Melody Harry Beaumont
1929 Wings Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast

Palme d'Or · Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival’s top prize, by year. In some years it was not awarded.

Year Film
2026 Fjord Cristian Mungiu
2025 It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
2024 Anora Sean Baker
2023 Anatomy of a Fall Justine Triet
2022 Triangle of Sadness Ruben Östlund
2021 Titane Julia Ducournau
2019 Parasite Bong Joon-ho
2018 Shoplifters Hirokazu Koreeda
2017 The Square Ruben Östlund
2016 I, Daniel Blake Ken Loach
2015 Dheepan Jacques Audiard
2014 Winter Sleep Nuri Bilge Ceylan
2013 Blue Is the Warmest Colour Abdellatif Kechiche
2012 Amour Michael Haneke
2011 The Tree of Life Terrence Malick
2010 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2009 The White Ribbon Michael Haneke
2008 The Class Laurent Cantet
2007 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Cristian Mungiu
2006 The Wind That Shakes the Barley Ken Loach
2005 The Child Jean-Pierre Dardenne
2004 Fahrenheit 9/11 Michael Moore
2003 Elephant Gus Van Sant
2002 The Pianist Roman Polanski
2001 The Son's Room Nanni Moretti
2000 Dancer in the Dark Lars von Trier
1999 Rosetta Jean-Pierre Dardenne
1998 Eternity and a Day Thodoros Angelopoulos
1997 Taste of Cherry Abbas Kiarostami
1997 The Eel Shohei Imamura
1996 Secrets & Lies Mike Leigh
1995 Underground Emir Kusturica
1994 Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino
1993 Farewell My Concubine Chen Kaige
1993 The Piano Jane Campion
1992 The Best Intentions Bille August
1991 Barton Fink Joel Coen
1990 Wild at Heart David Lynch
1989 Sex, Lies, and Videotape Steven Soderbergh
1988 Pelle the Conqueror Bille August
1987 Under the Sun of Satan Maurice Pialat
1986 The Mission Roland Joffé
1985 When Father Was Away on Business Emir Kusturica
1984 Paris, Texas Wim Wenders
1983 The Ballad of Narayama Shohei Imamura
1982 Missing Costa-Gavras
1982 Yol Yılmaz Güney
1981 Man of Iron Andrzej Wajda
1980 All That Jazz Bob Fosse
1980 Kagemusha Akira Kurosawa
1979 Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola
1979 The Tin Drum Volker Schlöndorff
1978 The Tree of Wooden Clogs Ermanno Olmi
1977 Padre Padrone Paolo Taviani
1976 Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese
1975 Chronicle of the Years of Fire Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
1974 The Conversation Francis Ford Coppola
1973 The Hireling Alan Bridges
1972 The Mattei Affair Francesco Rosi
1972 The Working Class Goes to Heaven Elio Petri
1971 The Go-Between Joseph Losey
1970 MASH Robert Altman
1969 If.... Lindsay Anderson
1967 Blowup Michelangelo Antonioni
1966 A Man and a Woman Claude Lelouch
1966 The Birds, the Bees and the Italians Pietro Germi
1965 El knack... y cómo lograrlo Richard Lester
1964 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jacques Demy
1963 The Leopard Luchino Visconti
1962 O Pagador de Promessas Anselmo Duarte
1961 The Long Absence Henri Colpi
1961 Viridiana Luis Buñuel
1960 La Dolce Vita Federico Fellini
1959 Black Orpheus Marcel Camus
1958 The Cranes Are Flying Mikhail Kalatozov
1957 Friendly Persuasion William Wyler
1956 The Silent World Jacques Cousteau
1955 Marty Delbert Mann
1953 The Wages of Fear Henri-Georges Clouzot
1952 Othello Orson Welles
1952 Two Cents Worth of Hope Renato Castellani
1951 Miss Julie Alf Sjöberg

Goya Award for Best Film

By ceremony year, since the first edition (1987). Honours the previous year’s Spanish cinema.

Year Film
2026 Los domingos Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
2025 El 47 Marcel Barrena
2025 La infiltrada Arantxa Echevarría
2024 La sociedad de la nieve Juan Antonio Bayona
2023 As bestas Rodrigo Sorogoyen
2022 El buen patrón Fernando León de Aranoa
2021 Las niñas Pilar Palomero
2020 Dolor y gloria Pedro Almodóvar
2019 Campeones Javier Fesser
2018 La librería Isabel Coixet
2017 Tarde para la ira Raúl Arévalo
2016 Truman Cesc Gay
2015 La isla mínima Alberto Rodríguez
2014 Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados David Trueba
2013 Blancanieves Pablo Berger
2012 No habrá paz para los malvados Enrique Urbizu
2011 Pan negro Agustí Villaronga
2010 Celda 211 Daniel Monzón
2009 Camino Javier Fesser
2008 La soledad Jaime Rosales
2007 Volver Pedro Almodóvar
2006 La vida secreta de las palabras Isabel Coixet
2005 Mar adentro Alejandro Amenábar
2004 Te doy mis ojos Icíar Bollaín
2003 Los lunes al sol Fernando León de Aranoa
2002 Los otros Alejandro Amenábar
2001 El Bola Achero Mañas
2000 Todo sobre mi madre Pedro Almodóvar
1999 La niña de tus ojos Fernando Trueba
1998 La buena estrella Ricardo Franco
1997 Tesis Alejandro Amenábar
1996 Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto Agustín Díaz Yanes
1995 Días contados Imanol Uribe
1994 Todos a la cárcel Luis García Berlanga
1993 Belle Époque Fernando Trueba
1992 Amantes Vicente Aranda
1991 ¡Ay, Carmela! Carlos Saura
1990 El sueño del mono loco Fernando Trueba
1989 Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios Pedro Almodóvar
1988 El bosque animado José Luis Cuerda
1987 El viaje a ninguna parte Fernando Fernán Gómez