BAM Awards: Best Picture Winners

Here is the first of a series of articles in which I hope to chronicle, once and for all, the winners of my own personal film awards, the BAM Awards. I may not be able to ever post everyone I ever nominated as my record keeping has been faulty and fragmentary but I hope I can at least try to re-post all my winners and give them their due.

I created the BAM Awards when I was 15 as a reaction to the fact that many films, performances and so on that I liked were overlooked by major awards. At the time I didn’t know of top 10 lists and the like so I went full boar and much further than most. Later I tried to retroactively create BAMs all the way back to 1981 and earlier, however, for now I will confine myself to the “Live Era,” wherein I chose my favorites at the end of every year so most, if not all lists will begin in 1996.

Without further ado, the best picture winners (sans commentary by me) in reverse chronological order:

2023 Close

2022 Crimes of the Future

2021 Ghostbusters: Afterlife

2020 Abe

2019 Us

2018 Eighth Grade

2017 It

2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

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2015 Krampus

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2014 The Way He Looks

The Way He Looks (2014, Strand Releasing)

2013 Ender’s Game

Ender's Game (2013, LionsGate)

2012 Django Unchained

Django Unchained (2012, The Weinstein Company)

2011 Hugo

Hugo (Paramount)

2010 Inception

Inception (Warner Bros.)

2009 Where the Wild Things Are

2008 Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)

Let the Right One In (Magnet Releasing)

2007 Day Watch

2006 Wah-Wah

Wah Wah ( 2006, Roadside Attractions/Samuel Goldwyn Films)

2005 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (2005, Disney)

2004 Mean Creek

Mean Creek (Paramount Classics)

2003 Peter Pan

Peter Pan (2003, Universal)

2002 Star Wars: Episode II- Attack of the Clones

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002, 20th Century Fox)

2001 Artificial Intelligence: A.I.

Artificial Intelligence: A.I. (2001, DreamWorks)

2000 Titus

1999 The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense (1999, Touchstone Pictures)

1998 Central Station (Central do Brasil)

Central Station (1998, Sony Pictures Classics)

1997 Sling Blade

Sling Blade (1996, Miramax)

1996 Mulholland Falls

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