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2023 in film

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2023 in film is an overview of events, including award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country- and genre-specific lists of films released, and notable deaths. Warner Bros. and Walt Disney Studios celebrated their 100th anniversaries this year. The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Barbie were the only two movies that made $1 billion in 2023.

A huge number of the year's films significantly underperformed at the box office, attributed to high budgets and low marketing due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes.[1]

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Evaluation of the year

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In his article highlighting the best movies of 2023, Richard Brody of The New Yorker said, "Though a year in movie releases is a small and arbitrary sample size, it's nonetheless clear that, at the moment, the art of cinema is in good shape in the United States. The overwhelming commercial success of two of the year's strangest big-budget films, Oppenheimer and Barbie, released on the same day this summer, is an obvious sign of the vigor of the cinemascape. But the more crucial indicator of vitality preceded their release by several years—namely, the moments when these projects got the green light from their respective studios. One has blown far beyond the billion-dollar mark, and the other is approaching it, at precisely the moment that the superhero-industrial complex seems to be tottering. However, the studios are hardly the artistic center of the American cinema; they're just one element in an environment that is fostering ongoing artistic progress. Deep-pocketed streaming services that can afford to compete with the studios—and even outbid them—have an incentive to prove themselves as purveyors not just of quantity but of quality, including by competing for awards. As for independent production companies, they can—and must—take chances on inexperienced filmmakers with big ideas and on audacious projects by acclaimed filmmakers with the name recognition to help sell them."[2][excessive quote]

The year saw an unusually large number of high-profile, big-budget films which subsequently under-performed at the box office, leading to the coining of the term "flopbuster".[3] Several of the most prominent tent-pole films of 2023 which under-performed include Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,[4] Shazam! Fury of the Gods,[5] Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,[6] Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,[7] The Flash,[8] Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,[9] Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,[10] Blue Beetle,[11] Expend4bles,[12] Haunted Mansion,[13] The Marvels,[14] and Wish.[15] Many reasons have been given for the phenomenon, with the most common being the high budgets (and thus increased thresholds for breaking even and making a profit), low marketing due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes, and a general perception that audiences had grown tired of the abundance of superhero-themed movies, a trend which came to be known as "superhero fatigue".[16]

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Highest-grossing films

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Events

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Awards

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More information Category, 81st Golden Globe Awards 7 January 2024 ...

Palme d'Or (76th Cannes Film Festival):

Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d'une chute), directed by Justine Triet, France

Golden Lion (80th Venice International Film Festival):

Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece

Golden Bear (73rd Berlin International Film Festival):

On the Adamant (Sur l'Adamant), directed by Nicolas Philibert, France

People's Choice Award (48th Toronto International Film Festival):

American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson, United States
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2023 films

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Deaths

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Notes

  1. From 2016 onward, the category was shifted from the Critics' Choice Awards to the ancillary Critics' Choice Documentary Awards.
  2. The day he went missing. It is unknown if he died on that day.
  3. It is unknown what day he died on in November.
  4. The day he went missing. It is unknown if he died on that day.
  5. The day she was found dead. She was last seen alive on 19 December 2023.

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