IndieWire ‘100 Best Movies of the Decade’ List Features Six Client Projects
As part of their week-long celebration of the best films of the 2010s, IndieWire released a list of the '100 Best Movies of the Decade,' which features six different GreenSlate production payroll client projects, including Moonlight as the number one movie.
1. MOONLIGHT
Moonlight, 2017 Oscar winner for Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, and Best Adapted Screenplay, chronicles the childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood of a young, African American, gay man growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
Director:
Barry Jenkins
Writers:
Barry Jenkins (screenplay by), Tarell Alvin McCraney (story by)
Stars:
Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes | See full cast & crew »
Learn more about Moonlight on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4975722/
7. CAROL
2016 Oscar nominee Carol tells the story of a forbidden affair between a wealthy married woman and a female department store clerk in 1950s New York that leads to both heartache and liberating joy.
Director:
Todd Haynes
Writers:
Phyllis Nagy (screenplay), Patricia Highsmith (novel)
Stars:
Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson | See full cast & crew »
Learn more about Carol on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2402927
23. O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA
O.J. Made in America, 2017 Oscar winner for Best Documentary Feature and 2017 Emmy winner for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming and Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program, chronicles the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.
Director:
Ezra Edelman
Stars:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mike Albanese, Muhammad Ali |See full cast & crew »
Learn more about O.J.: Made in America on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5275892
29. FIRST REFORMED
2019 Oscar nominee First Reformed tells the story of a minister of a small congregation in upstate New York as he grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns, and a tormented past.
Director:
Paul Schrader
Writer:
Paul Schrader
Stars:
Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer | See full cast & crew »
Learn more about First Reformed on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6053438
87. HER SMELL
In Her Smell, a self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
Director:
Alex Ross Perry
Writer:
Alex Ross Perry
Stars:
Elisabeth Moss, Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens | See full cast & crew »
Learn more about Her Smell on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7942742
88. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
We Need to Talk About Kevin chronicles a mother’s struggle to love her strange child, Kevin, despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.
Director:
Lynne Ramsay
Writers:
Lynne Ramsay (screenplay), Rory Stewart Kinnear (screenplay)
Stars:
Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller | See full cast & crew »
Learn more about We Need to Talk About Kevin on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242460/
For the full list of ‘The 100 Best Movies of the Decade,’ visit indiewire.com.
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