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Genre-ary 2024: Musicals

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It is time for the second annual Genre-ary DailyView. It started last January 2023 with a DailyView of Science Fiction movies that I had never seen before. It went so well, I decided that this would be a regular event every January with different types of genres.

This year’s genre will be musicals. 

I generally consider musicals to be those films that have people break into song at times during the story and not a film that uses music as the backdrop of the story. So This is Spinal Tap is not a musical despite there being a bunch of songs. It is a movie about music. Yet, I will probably not hold to that definition during this DailyView. 

The DailyView for this Genre-ary will begin on January 1st. I have a list of musicals that could work for the month, but I have not yet determined which one will kick us off. 

This will be the running list of the movies watched during January. 

Genre-ary 2024

January 1: Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)

January 2: Kinky Boots: The Musical (2019)

January 3: Top Hat (1935)

January 4: Tommy (1975)

January 5: Dicks: The Musical (2023)

January 6: My Fair Lady (1964)

January 7:  Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

January 8: Eric Idle’s What About Dick? (2012)

January 9: Oliver! (1968)

January 10: Brigadoon (1954)

January 11: High School Musical (2006)

January 12: Hair (1979)

January 13: Man of La Mancha (1972)

January 14: Damn Yankees (1958)

January 15: The First Nudie Musical (1976)

January 16: Viva Las Vegas (1964)

January 17: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

January 18: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)

January 19: Cry-Baby (1990)

January 20: Yentl (1983)

January 21: Ray (2004)

      Taylor Swift-All Too Well: The Short Film (2021)

       Incest! The Musical (2011)

       Zombie Musical (2011)

January 22: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

January 23: Shrek: The Musical (2013)

January 24: Earth Girls are Easy (1989)

January 25: Bye Bye Birdie (1963)

January 26: Once (2007)

January 27: Fame (1980)

January 28: South Pacific (1958)

January 29: 42nd Street (1933)

January 30: Topsy Turvy (1999)

January 31: Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life

2023 The Liz Award

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The Liz Award

Previous Winners:  Frances McDormand (3 Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri), Viola Davis (Fences), Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road), Rosemund Pike (Gone Girl), Sandra Bullock (Gravity), Berenice Bejo (The Artist), Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn),  Yalitza Aparicio (Roma), Renee Zellweger (Judy), Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Rachel Zegler (West Side Story), Danielle Deadwyler (Till)

So this is the Liz… the Award EYG presents to the Best Actress in a movie. This year’s winner makes some history.

Top 11

#11. Storm Reid (Missing)

#10. Sophie Wilde (Talk to Me)

#9. Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla)

#8. Natalie Portman (May/December)

#7. Annette Benning (Nyad)

#6. Lily James (The Iron Claw)

#5. Fantasia Barrino (The Color Purple)

#4. Carey Mulligan (Maestro)

#3. Margot Robbie (Barbie)

#2. Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)

and the winner…

#1. Emma Stone (Poor Things)

Emma Stone gave the most amazing performance of the year. Her character Bella was one of the most bizarre characters in many years and she absolutely went for it.

Emma Stone has become the first actor to receive both The Liz and the The Hermione Granger/Furiosa/Rita Moreno Award. Of the acting awards, she joins a small group of actors who have received two acting EYG Awards. Robert Downey Jr (2 supporting), Viola Davis (2 Liz Awards), and Emma Stone are the three dual award winners.