Buzzworthy Suggestions for Other Miscellaneous Film Genres

A catch-all section for film genres that do not have subgenres we were interested in exploring.

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Favorite Animated Film of All Time

Awarded to the hand-painted or digitally animated film deemed by Cosmo voters to have been the best of all time, as well as Claymation, stop-motion, and other forms of animation. Voters may decide for themselves whether films that are partially animated and partially live action (like Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) are eligible. Note that Fantasia won the award at the first Cosmos and is ineligible to be inducted again.

Not Eligible: Fantasia (1940)

Buzzworthy: Abominable (2019) • The Addams Family (2019) • Aladdin (1992) • Alice in Wonderland (1951) • The Aristocats (1970) • Arthur Christmas (2011) • Bambi (1942) • Beauty and the Beast (1991) • Big Hero 6 (2014) • The Boxtrolls (2014) • Brave (2012) • A Bug’s Life (1998) • Cars (2006) • A Christmas Carol (2009) • Cinderella (1950) • Coco (2017) • Coraline (2009) • Corpse Bride (2005) • Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) • The Croods (2013) • The Croods: A New Age (2020) • Demon Slayer: Mugen Train (2020) • Despicable Me (2010) • Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019) • Enchanted (2007) • Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) • Ferdinand (2017) • Finding Nemo (2003) • Free Birds (2013) • Frozen (2013) • Frozen II (2019) • Grave of the Fireflies (1988) • The Grinch (2018) • Hercules (1997) • How to Train Your Dragon (2010) • Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) • Ice Age (2002) • The Incredibles (2004) • Incredibles 2 (2018) • Inside Out (2015) • The Iron Giant (1999) • Isle of Dogs (2018) • Klaus (2019) • The Lion King (1994) • The Lion King (2019) • The Little Mermaid (1989) • Moana (2016) • Monsters, Inc. (2001) • Mulan (1998) • The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) • Onward (2020) • Pinocchio (1940) • The Polar Express (2004) • The Princess and the Frog (2009) • Princess Mononoke (1997) • Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) • Ratatouille (2007) • Rise of the Guardians (2012) • Sausage Party (2016) • The Secret Life of Pets (2016) • Shrek (2001) • Shrek 2 (2004) • Shrek the Third (2007) • Sing (2016) • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) • Soul (2020) • Space Jam (1996) • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) • Spirited Away (2001) • Tangled (2010) • Toy Story (1995) • Toy Story 3 (2010) • Toy Story 4 (2019) • Trolls (2016) • Trolls World Tour (2020) • Up (2009) • WALL·E (2008) • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) • Wreck-It Ralph (2012) • Zootopia (2016)

Best Documentary Film of All Time

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to “document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.” Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of “a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries.”

Buzzworthy: 20 Feet from Stardom (2013) • 24 Hours on Craigslist (2005) • 5B (2019) • Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2017) • Albert Schweitzer (1957) • American Dream (1990) • American Factory (2019) • American Mullet (2002) • Amy (2015) • An Inconvenient Truth (2006) • The Anderson Platoon (1967) • Anne Frank Remembered (1995) • Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life (1969) • Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got (TIE) (1986) • Batkid Begins (2015) • The Battle of Midway (1942) • Best Boy (1979) • Black Fox (1962) • Blackfish (2013) • Born into Brothels (2004) • Born to Be (2020) • Bowling for Columbine (2002) • Boys State (2020) • Bridegroom (2013) • Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2016) • Broadway: The Golden Age (2004) • Broken Rainbow (1985) • Bully (2012) • Capturing the Friedmans (2003) • Citizenfour (2014) • The Cockettes (2002) • Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) • The Cove (2009) • Crip Camp (2020) • Cutie and the Boxer (2013) • Daybreak in Udi (1949) • The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017) • Desert Victory (1943) • Design for Death (1947) • The Eagle Huntress (2016) • The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965) • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) • Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) • Faces Places (2017) • Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) • The Fighting Lady (1944) • Finding Vivian Maier (2014) • Fire at Sea (2016) • The Fog of War (2003) • Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig (2006) • Free Solo (2018) • From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1980) • Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (2019) • Games People Play: New York (2004) • Gay Chorus Deep South (2019) • Genocide (1981) • Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015) • The Great American Cowboy (1973) • The Great Hack (2019) • Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) • He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin’ (1983) • Hearts and Minds (1974) • Helen Keller in Her Story (1955) • The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971) • Hitler’s Children (2012) • The Horse with the Flying Tail (1960) • Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988) • How to Survive a Plague (2012) • I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School (1993) • I Am Divine (2013) • Icarus (2017) • In the Shadow of the Stars (1991) • Inside Job (2010) • The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) • Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000) • The Invisible War (2012) • Iris (2015) • Jackass 3D (2010) • Jackass: The Movie (2002) • Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s World without Sun (1964) • Jesus Camp (2006) • Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010) • Jodorowsky’s Dune (2014) • Journey into Self (1968) • Just Another Missing Kid (1982) • Kokoda Front Line! (1942) • Kon-Tiki (1951) • The Last Days (1998) • Last Men in Aleppo (2017) • Le Ciel et la Boue (Sky Above and Mud Beneath) (1961) • Life Itself (2014) • The Living Desert (1953) • The Long Way Home (1997) • Lost in La Mancha (2003) • Man on Wire (2008) • The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975) • March of the Penguins (2005) • Marjoe (1972) • Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994) • McQueen (2018) • Moscow Strikes Back (1942) • Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001) • Murderball (2005) • My Octopus Teacher (2020) • O.J.: Made in America (2016) • One Day in September (1999) • Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism (2004) • The Panama Deception (1992) • Prelude to War (1942) • RBG (2018) • Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World (1963) • Scared Straight! (1978) • Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street (2019) • The Sea Around Us (1952) • Searching for Sugar Man (2012) • The Secret Land (1948) • Serengeti Shall Not Die (1959) • Shut Up and Sing (2006) • The Silent World (1956) • Small Town Gay Bar (2006) • Spellbound (2003) • Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002) • Stories We Tell (2013) • Strong Island (2017) • Super Size Me (2004) • Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) • The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table (1987) • Three Identical Strangers (2018) • Tickled (2016) • Time (2020) • The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) • The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950) • To Be Takei (2014) • Trekkies 2 (2004) • The True Glory (1945) • Undefeated (2011) • The Vanishing Prairie (1954) • Waiting for ‘Superman’ (2010) • The War Game (1966) • Welcome to Chechnya (2020) • What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015) • When We Were Kings (1996) • Where to Invade Next? (2015) • White Helmets (2016) • White Wilderness (1958) • Whitney (2018) • Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (1977) • The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005) • Winged Migration (2003) • Won’t You Be My Neighbor (2018) • Woodstock (1970) • Wordplay (2006)

Favorite Mocumentary Film of All Time

A mockumentary (a blend of mock and documentary) or docucomedy is a type of film or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary. These productions are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictional setting, or to parody the documentary form itself. While mockumentaries are usually comedic, pseudo-documentaries are their dramatic equivalents. Both are included in this award, and for that reason we placed it here rather than with Comedy awards. Pseudo-documentaries should not be confused with docudramas, a fictional genre in which dramatic techniques are combined with documentary elements to depict real events. Also, docudrama is different from docufiction; a genre in which documentaries are contaminated with fictional elements. Mockumentaries are often presented as historical documentaries, with B roll and talking heads discussing past events, or as cinéma vérité pieces following people as they go through various events. Examples emerged during the 1950s when archival film footage became available. A very early example was a short piece on the “Swiss Spaghetti Harvest” that appeared as an April Fools’ prank on the British television program Panorama in 1957. The term “mockumentary”, which originated in the 1960s, was popularized in the mid-1980s when This Is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner used it in interviews to describe that film.

Buzzworthy: 2gether (2000) • 7 Days in Hell (2015) • AIC 23 (2013) • The Atomic Cafe (1982) • Auditions (1978) • BabaKiueria (1986) • The Baby Formula (2009) • Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2005) • Believe (2007) • Best in Show (2000) • The Big Tease (1999) • Bob Roberts (1992) • Borat (2006) • Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) • The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down (2006) • Brick Madness (2020) • Brothers of the Head (2005) • Brüno (2009) • Bucky and the Squirrels (2016) • Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) • The Calcium Kid (2004) • The Canadian Conspiracy (1985) • CB4 (1993) • Chalk (2007) • The Clowns (1970) • Comic Book: The Movie (2004) • Confessions of a Porn Addict (2008) • Confetti (2006) • C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004) • Dark Side of the Moon (2002) • David Holzman’s Diary (1967) • Day for night (1973) • A Day Without a Mexican (2004) • Death to 2020 (2020) • The Delicate Art of Parking (2003) • Dick Ho: Asian Male Porn Star (2006) • Dill Scallion (1999) • District 9 (2009) • Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) • The Falls (1980) • Farce of the Penguins (2007) • Fear of a Black Hat (1994) • Fellowship of the Dice (2005) • Finishing the Game (2007) • Fire-Up (2020) • First on the Moon (2005) • The Flying Scissors (2009) • For Your Consideration (2006) • Forgotten Silver (1995) • FUBAR (2002) • Fudge 44 (2005) • G-SALE (2003) • Gamers: The Movie (2006) • Get Ready to be Boyzvoiced (2000) • The Gods Must be Crazy (1980) • Good Arrows (2009) • Hard Core Logo (1996) • A Hard Day’s Night (1964) • The Heavenly Kings (2006) • A Hole in My Heart (2004) • I’m Still Here (2010) • Incident at Loch Ness (2004) • Interview with the Assassin (2002) • It’s All Gone Pete Tong (2004) • Jackie’s Back (1999) • Kenny (2006) • Killing Gunther (2017) • The Last Polka (1985) • LolliLove (2004) • The Making of ‘…And God Spoke’ (1994) • Man Bites Dog (1992) • Man of the Year (1995) • Mascots (2016) • Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful (1992) • A Mighty Wind (2003) • Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001) • Morris: A Life with Bells On (2009) • The Mother of Invention (2009) • Mutant Swinger from Mars (2009) • Never Been Thawed (2005) • The Old Negro Space Program (2004) • The Nona Tapes (1995) • On the Ropes (2011) • Paranormal Entity (2009) • Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) • Punishment Park (1971) • Real Life (1979) • Reboot Camp (2020) • Shooting Bokkie (2003) • Sons of Provo (2004) • State of Bacon (2013) • Steamin’ and Dreamin’: The Grandmaster Cash Story (2009) • Street Thief (2006) • Sweet and Lowdown (1999) • Take the Money and Run (1969) • Tanner ’88 (1988) • This Is Spinal Tap (1984) • Tour de Pharmacy (2017) • The Tunnel (2011) • Waiting for Guffman (1996) • We Make Movies (2017) • What We Do in the Shadows (2014) • World War III (1998)

Favorite Film About Friendly Animals

We covered films about scary animals under Horror. This is for live action films about friendly cats, dogs, dolphins, horses, and other animal friends, be they pets or friendly feral.

Buzzworthy: Adventures of Rusty (1945) • Air Bud (1997) • Almost Human (1927) • Any Which Way You Can (1980) • Babe (1995) • Beethoven (1992) • Ben (1972) • Benji (1974) • Benji: Off the Leash! (2004) • Best in Show (2000) • Beware of Blondie (1950) • Black Beauty (1946) • Black Beauty (1971) • Black Beauty (1994) • The Black Stallion (1978) • Borderline (2021) • Born Free (1966) • The Cat from Outer Space (1978) • Copacabana (1947) • Dizzy Dames (1935) • Dolphin Tale (2011) • Ed (1996) • Every Which Way but Loose (1978) • Flicka (2006) • For the Love of Benji (1977) • Free Willy (1993) • Going Ape! (1981) • Good Boy (2003) • Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996) • Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) • International Velvet (1978) • It’s Showtime (1976) • Jock: A True Tale of Friendship (1994) • K-9 (1989) • Larger Than Life (1996) • The Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island (1999) • Monkey Up (2016) • MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000) • National Velvet (1944) • Oh Heavenly Dog (1980) • Old Yeller (1957) • The Order of the Black Eagle (1987) • Paws (1997) • Quest for Zhu (2011) • Quick, Before It Melts (1964) • Running Free (2000) • Rusty Leads the Way (1948) • Rusty’s Birthday (1949) • Scarecrows (1988) • The Shaggy D.A. (1976) • The Shaggy Dog (1959) • Soccer Dog: The Movie (1999) • Son of Lassie (1945) • The Son of Rusty (1947) • The Sun Comes Up (1949) • Tarzan’s Peril (1951) • That Darn Cat (1997) • That Darn Cat! (1965) • Tijuana Makes Me Happy (2007) • Top Dogs: Little Heroes 3 (2002) • Turner & Hooch (1989) • White Fang (1991) • White God (2014) • Willard (1971)

Favorite “Found Footage” Film

Found footage is a film subgenre in which all or a substantial part of the work is presented as if it were discovered film or video recordings. The events on screen are typically seen through the camera of one or more of the characters involved, often accompanied by their real-time, off-camera commentary. For added realism, the cinematography may be done by the actors themselves as they perform, and shaky camera work and naturalistic acting are routinely employed. The footage may be presented as if it were “raw” and complete or as if it had been edited into a narrative by those who “found” it. The most common use of the technique is in horror films (e.g., Cannibal Holocaust, The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity, Diary of the Dead, REC, Cloverfield, Trollhunter), where the footage is purported to be the only surviving record of the events, with the participants now missing or dead. It has also been used in science-fiction (e.g., Chronicle, Project Almanac, Europa Report), drama (e.g., Zero Day, Exhibit A), comedy (e.g., Project X) and family (e.g., Earth to Echo) films.

Buzzworthy: Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made (2018) • Apollo 18 (2011) • Area 51 (2015) • As Above, So Below (2014) • Blair Witch (2016) • The Blair Witch Project (1999) • Cannibal Holocaust (1980) • Chronicle (2012) • Cloverfield (2008) • Creep (2014) • Creep 2 (2017) • Dawn of the Dead (2004) • Devil’s Pass (2013) • End of Watch (2012) • Europa Report (2013) • The Fourth Kind (2009) • Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018) • Grave Encounters (2011) • A Haunted House (2013) • Hell House LLC (2015) • Host (2020) • Into the Storm (2014) • Lake Mungo (2008) • The Last Exorcism (2010) • Man Bites Dog (1992) • Megan Is Missing (2011) • One Cut of the Dead (2017) • Paranormal Activity (2007) • Paranormal Activity 2 (2010) • Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) • Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021) • Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015) • Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014) • The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007) • Profile (2018) • Project Almanac (2015) • Project X (2012) • Quarantine (2008) • Ratter (2015) • REC (2007) • Searching (2018) • Sinister (2012) • Spree (2020) • The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014) • Time Trap (2017) • Trollhunter (2010) • Unfriended (2014) • Unfriended: Dark Web (2018) • V/H/S (2012) • V/H/S/2 (2013) • V/H/S/94 (2021) • The Visit (2015) • Willow Creek (2013)

Favorite Road Trip Film

A road movie is a film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday lives. Road movies often depict travel in the hinterlands, with the films exploring the theme of alienation and examining the tensions and issues of the cultural identity of a nation or historical period; this is all often enmeshed in a mood of actual or potential menace, lawlessness, and violence, a “distinctly existential air” and is populated by restless, “frustrated, often desperate characters”. The setting includes not just the close confines of the car as it moves on highways and roads, but also booths in diners and rooms in roadside motels, all of which helps to create intimacy and tension between the characters. Road movies tend to focus on the theme of masculinity (with the man often going through some type of crisis), some type of rebellion, car culture, and self-discovery. The core theme of road movies is “rebellion against conservative social norms”. There are two main narratives: the quest and the outlaw chase. In the quest-style film, the story meanders as the characters make discoveries (e.g., Two-Lane Blacktop from 1971). In outlaw road movies, in which the characters are fleeing from law enforcement, there is usually more sex and violence (e.g., Natural Born Killers from 1994). Road films tend to focus more on characters’ internal conflicts and transformations, based on their feelings as they experience new realities on their trip, rather than on the dramatic movement-based sequences that predominate in action films. Road movies do not typically use the standard three-act structure used in mainstream films; instead, an “open-ended, rambling plot structure” is used. The road movie keeps its characters “on the move”, and as such the “car, the tracking shot, [and] wide and wild open space” are important iconography elements, similar to a Western movie. As well, the road movie is similar to a Western in that road films are also about a “frontiersmanship” and about the codes of discovery (often self-discovery). Road movies often use the music from the car stereo, which the characters are listening to, as the soundtrack and in 1960s and 1970s road movies, rock music is often used. While early road movies from the 1930s focused on heterosexual couples, in post-World War II films, usually the travelers are male buddies, although in some cases, women are depicted on the road, either as temporary companions, or more rarely, as the protagonist couple (e.g., Thelma & Louise from 1991). The genre can also be parodied, or have protagonists that depart from the typical heterosexual couple or buddy paradigm, as with The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), which depicts a group of drag queens who tour the Australian desert. Other examples of the increasing diversity of the drivers shown in 1990s and subsequent decades’ road films are The Living End (1992), about two gay, HIV-positive men on a road trip; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), which is about drag queens, and Smoke Signals (1998), which is about two Indigenous men. While rare, there are some road movies about large groups on the road (Get on the Bus from 1996) and lone drivers (Vanishing Point from 1971).

Buzzworthy: The Adventures Of Priscilla Queen of the Desert (1994) • Alice in the Cities (1974) • Almost Famous (2000) • Badlands (1973) • The Blues Brothers (1980) • Bonnie and Clyde (1967) • Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) • The Cannonball Run (1981) • Down By Law (1986) • Due Date (2010) • Duel (1971) • Dumb and Dumber (1994) • Easy Rider (1969) • The End of the Tour (2015) • Faster ,Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) • Flirting With Disaster (1996) • Gerry (2002) • Happy Together (1997) • The Hitch-Hiker (1953) • Into the Wild (2007) • It Happened One Night (1934) • Joy Ride (2001) • La Strada (1954) • Little Miss Sunshine (2006) • Logan (2017) • Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) • Magic Mike XXL (2015) • Midnight Run (1988) • The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) • The Muppet Movie (1979) • My Own Private Idaho (1991) • National Lampoon’s European Vacation (1985) • National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983) • Near Dark (1987) • O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) • On the Road (2012) • Over the Top (1987) • The Palm Beach Story (1942) • Paris, Texas (1984) • The Passenger (1975) • Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) • Pierrot Le Fou (1965) • Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) • Rain Man (1988) • Road to Bali (1952) • The Road to Hong Kong (1962) • Road to Morocco (1942) • Road to Rio (1947) • Road to Singapore (1940) • Road to Utopia (1946) • Road to Zanzibar (1941) • Road Trip (2000) • Smokey and the Bandit (1977) • Stagecoach (1939) • Stagecoach (1939) • The Straight Story (1999) • Stranger Than Paradise (1984) • Sullivan’s Travels (1941) • The Sure Thing (1985) • Thelma & Louise (1991) • Thieves Like Us (1974) • To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) • Tommy Boy (1995) • True Romance (1993) • Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) • Vagabond (1985) • Vanishing Point (1971) • Wendy and Lucy (2008) • Wild Strawberries (1957) • Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) • Zombieland (2009)

Favorite Buddy Film

The buddy film is a subgenre of adventure and comedy film in which two people—often both men—are put together and on an adventure, a quest, or a road trip. The two often contrast in personality, which creates a different dynamic onscreen than a pairing of two people of the opposite gender. The contrast is sometimes accentuated by an ethnic difference between the two. The buddy film is commonplace in American cinema; unlike some other film genres, it endured through the 20th century with different pairings and different themes. A buddy film portrays the pairing of two people, often the same sex, historically men. A friendship between the two people is the key relationship in a buddy film. The two people often come from different backgrounds or have different personalities, and they tend to misunderstand one another. Through the events of the buddy film, they gain a stronger friendship and mutual respect. Buddy films often deal with crises of masculinity, especially related to class, race, and gender. American Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia explains, “[Buddy films] offer male movie–going audiences an opportunity to indulge in a form of male bonding and behavior usually discouraged by social constraints.” Ira Konigsberg wrote in The Complete Film Dictionary, “Such films extol the virtues of male comradeship and relegate male–female relationships to a subsidiary position.” A female buddy film is similar to a buddy film except that the main characters are female, and it is centered on their situation. The cast may be mainly female depending on the plot. “The female buddy film is a recent trend in mainstream cinema. However, Thelma and Louise in the early ‘90s had a similar popular impact to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, paving the way for onscreen female friendships such as those in Waiting to Exhale and Walking and Talking, and the relationship between Evelyn Couch and Ninny Threadgoode in Fried Green Tomatoes. Buddy films are often hybridized with other film genres, such as road movies, Westerns, comedies, and action films featuring cops. The “threats to [the] masculinity” of the male–male relationship depend on the genre: women in comedies, the law in films about outlaw buddies, and criminals in action films about cop buddies.

Buzzworthy: 2 Guns (2013) • 21 Jump Street (2012) • 48 Hrs. (1982) • The 51st State (2001) • Bad Boys (1995) • Beverly Hills Cop (1984) • Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) • The Blues Brothers (1980) • The Boss Baby (2017) • Cop Out (2010) • Dead Heat (1988) • Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995) • Drive Hard (2014) • Dumb and Dumber (1994) • The Emperor’s New Groove (2000) • The Flying Deuces (1939) • The Hard Way (1991) • Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) • Home (2015) • Hop (2011) • Hot Fuzz (2007) • The Land Before Time (1988) • The Last Boy Scout (1991) • Lethal Weapon (1987) • Mallrats (1995) • Midnight Run (1988) • Monsters, Inc. (2001) • National Security (2003) • The Nice Guys (2016) • The Other Guys (2010) • The Pebble and the Penguin (1995) • Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) • Point Break (1991) • Red Heat (1988) • Ride Along (2014) • The Road to El Dorado (2000) • Running Scared (1986) • Rush Hour (1998) • Se7en (1995) • The Secret Life of Pets (2016) • Shanghai Noon (2000) • Sherlock Holmes (2009) • Shoot to Kill (1988) • Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) • Showtime (2002) • Shrek (2001) • Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) • Stakeout (1987) • Tango & Cash (1989) • Top Dog (1995) • Toy Story (1995) • Trading Places (1983) • Trolls (2016) • Turner & Hooch (1989) • Twins (1988) • Up (2009) • Wayne’s World (1992) • Wedding Crashers (2005) • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) • Zootopia (2016)

Favorite Sports Film

American football. Basketball. Baseball. Bobsleds. Dodgeball. Figure skating. Ice hockey. Soccer. Cheerleading. Rugby. Volleyball. Boxing. Martial arts. Tennis. Motor sports racing. Horse racing. Track and field. Male, female, mixed. Pee Wee and Little League. High School, College. Amateur, Olympics, Professional. Biopics or complete fiction. Whatever the sport, whatever the level of play, whatever the type of story, if the film is focused on any sort of individual or team sporting event, this is the award to recognize it.

Buzzworthy: 1:54 (2016) • 42 (2013) • Bend It Like Beckham (2002) • Berlin ’36 (2009) • Blades of Glory (2007) • The Blind Side (2009) • Breaking Away (1979) • Bull Durham (1988) • Caddyshack (1980) • Chariots of Fire (1981) • Chasing the Breath (2017) • The Color of Money (1986) • Cool Runnings (1993) • Creed (2015) • Creed II (2018) • The Cutting Edge (1992) • Damn Yankees (1958) • Dangal (2016) • Diamantino (2018) • Discin’ (2014) • Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) • Draft Day (2014) • Eddie the Eagle (2016) • Field of Dreams (1989) • Funke! (2018) • The Grizzlies (2018) • Hoosiers (1986) • The Hustler (1961) • I, Tonya (2017) • Ice Castles (1978) • International Velvet (1978) • Invictus (2009) • Jerry Maguire (1996) • Lames Ultramarines (2016) • The Last Gold (2016) • A League of Their Own (1992) • March Comes in Like a Lion (2017) • McFarland, USA (2015) • Mickey Thompson: Man in the Steel Cage (1985) • Million Dollar Baby (2004) • Miracle (2004) • Molly’s Game (2017) • National Velvet (1944) • Numinous (2017) • Pailwaan (2019) • Personal Best (1982) • The Pride of the Yankees (1942) • Raging Bull (1980) • Rocky (1976) • Rocky Balboa (2006) • Rocky II (1979) • Rocky III (1982) • Rocky IV (1985) • Rocky V (1990) • Seabiscuit (2003) • Ski School (1990) • Ski School 2 (1994) • Supps: The Movie (2019) • Tainted Blood: The Untold Story of the 1984 Olympic Blood Doping Scandal (2018) • Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) • Through the Fire (2018) • Twelve (2019) • White Blessing (2017) • Williams (2017) • Willie (2019) • Without Me (2014)

Buzzworthy Suggestions for Other Awards

• Best Overall Awards
• Acting Awards
• Action Film Awards
• Comedic Film Awards
• Crime Film Awards
• Historical and Pseudo-Historical Film Awards
• Holiday Movie Awards
• Horror Film Awards
• LGBTQ+ Film Awards
• Musicals and Music Film Awards
• Science Fiction & Fantasy Film Awards
• War Film Awards
• Western Film Awards
• Other Miscellaneous Film Genre Awards