Most of the Oscar winners for 2014 will be showing for the first time over the next month or so (and I hope to see several of them), but here are the recent movies I’ve watched this year so far and liked.

The Great Beauty
her
Blackfish
Hava Nagila, The Movie
In A World
Fruitvale Station
Wadja
(Untitled), yes that’s really its title
Paul Williams Is Alive
12 Years A Slave
Inside Llewyn Davis
Cutie And The Boxer
Le Week-end
Ida
Chef
In Bruges
Boyhood
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Like Father, Like Son
Find Me Guilty
Ernest And Celestine
Birdman
Beware of Mr. Baker

The Stuey for Best Drama goes to The Great Beauty (best movie I’ve seen in years). The Stuey for Best Comedy goes to In A World. Best Documentary Stuey goes to Blackfish. Best Foreign Film Stuey goes to Ida (and yeah, I know The Great Beauty is a foreign film, too). Best American Drama Stuey goes to Boyhood. Best Animated Movie, Ernest And Celestine. Best Actor, Toni Servillo. Best Actress, Lindsay Duncan. All results tabulated by Pricewaterhouse Coopers.