It’s been a few years since I’ve done this, and I’m technically two days late, but here we are all the same! A list of 100 different artists whose work made an impact on me in 2019. Some are local, but most are not. One has to remain anonymous for now, because life is silly.
In alphabetical order.
Pedro Almodóvar, for writing and directing Pain and Glory (2019, film) and Bad Education (2004, film);
Anonymous Playwright, for a play title whose name I can’t mention yet;
Will Arbery, for writing Heroes of the Fourth Turning (2019, play);
Frédéric Back, for making The Man Who Planted Trees (1987, animated short);
Antonio Banderas, for his performance in Pain and Glory (2019, film);
Ingmar Bergman, for writing and directing Scenes from a Marriage (1973, film) and Summer Interlude (1951, film);
Caty Bergmark, for directing Baby (2019, musical) and life;
Eli Bolin, for writing the music for Documentary Now: Co-Op (2019, television) and John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch (2019, television);
Bong Joon-ho, for writing and directing Parasite (2019, film) and Snowpiercer (2013, film);
Nicholas Britell, for his score for If Beale Street Could Talk (2018, film);
Bo Burnham, for writing and directing Eighth Grade (2018, film);
D’Arcy Carden, for her performance(s) in The Good Place (2018-19, television);
Carol Channing, for being a light in the dark;
Benjamin Christiensen, for directing Häxan (1922, film);
Toby Chu, for his score for Bao (2018, animated short);
Olivia Colman, for her performances in The Favourite (2018, film), Broadchurch (2013-17, television), and Fleabag (2018, television);
Willem Dafoe, for his performances in The Lighthouse (2019, film) and The Florida Project (2017, film);
Ana de Armas, for her performance in Knives Out (2019, film);
Donna Deitch, for directing Desert Hearts (1985, film);
Kaitlyn Dever, for her performance in Booksmart (2019, film);
Eugene Fedorenko, for directing Every Child (1979, animated short);
Beanie Feldstein, for her performance in Booksmart (2019, film);
Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (2019, musical);
Elsie Fisher, for her performance in Eighth Grade (2018, film);
Jennifer Garner, for her performances in Love, Simon (2018, film) and 13 Going on 30 (2004, film);
Greta Gerwig, for writing and directing Little Women (2019, film);
Brian David Gilbert, for Unraveled (2019, webseries);
Daniel Glenn, for Sixteenth Night (2019, play);
The Great British Bake Off (2019, television);
Adèle Haenel, for her performance in Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019, film);
Regina Hall, for her performance in Support the Girls (2018, film);
William Jackson Harper, for his performance in The Good Place (2018-19, television);
Jerry Herman, for his tremendous career;
Marin Hinkle, for her performance in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017-18, television);
Tom Hooper, for directing Cats (2019, film), the most fun I’ve had in the movies in forever;
Peter Jackson, for directing The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03, film);
Barry Jenkins, for writing and directing If Beale Street Could Talk (2018, film);
Carly Rae Jepsen, for a damn good concert;
Erland Josephson, for his performance in Scenes from a Marriage (1973, film);
Kunio Kato, for directing La Maison en Petits Cubes (2008, animated short);
Val Kilmer, for his performance in Tombstone (1992, film);
Tim Kov and Anna Hulkower, for My Little Tonys (2018-19 podcast);
Yayoi Kusama, for her Infinity Mirrors exhibit;
The Lemonheads, for their cover of “Frank Mills” (1992);
Dan Levy, for his performance in and producing Schitt’s Creek (2015-19, television);
Eugene Levy, for his performances in Schitt’s Creek (2015-19, television) and Waiting for Guffman (1996, film);
Lizzo, for Cuz I Love You (2019, album);
Billie Lourd, for her performance in Booksmart (2019, film);
Jonathan Majors, for his performance in The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019, film);
Dave Malloy, for writing Octet (2019, musical);
Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire, for writing Baby (1983, musical);
Djibril Diop Mambéty, for directing The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999, film) and Touki Bouki (1973, film);
Corinne Marchand, for her performance in Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962, film);
Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, for writing Six (2018, musical);
Mike Marshall, for his performance of “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” in The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019, film);
Elaine May, for writing, starring in, and directing A New Leaf (1971, film);
Noémie Merlant, for her performance in Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019, film);
Anaïs Mitchell, for writing Hadestown (2019, musical);
Hayao Miyazaki, for his entire body of work, but especially the films of his I watched for the first time this year: Porco Rosso (1992), Kiki’s Delivery Service (1988), The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), and Castle in the Sky (1986);
Elisabeth Moss, for her performance in Us (2019, film);
John Mulaney, for writing and starring in Documentary Now: Co-Op (2019, television) and John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch (2019, television);
Annie Murphy, for her performance in Schitt’s Creek (2015-19, television);
Bill Nelson and Joseph Trefler, for writing Men with Money (2019, musical);
Tim Blake Nelson, for his performance in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018, film);
Rosemary Newcott, for directing The Wizard of Oz (2019, musical) and A Christmas Carol (2019, play) at the Alliance Theatre;
Griffin Newman, David Sims, and Ben Hosley, for Blank Check with Griffin and David (2015-2019, podcast);
Yuri Norstein, for directing Hedgehog in the Fog (1975, animated short) and Tale of Tales (1979, animated short);
Lupita Nyong’o, for her performance in Us (2019, film);
Catherine O’Hara, for her performances in Schitt’s Creek (2015-19, television), Waiting for Guffman (1996, film), and Home Alone (1990, film);
ozello, for pronouns, but especially “caleb” (2019, album and song);
Nick Park, for writing and directing Creature Comforts (1989, animated short), A Grand Day Out (1989, animated short), The Wrong Trousers (1993, animated short), and A Close Shave (1995, animated short);
Dolly Parton, for her body of work;
Robert Pattinson, for his performance in The Lighthouse (2019, film);
Paula Pell, for her performance in Documentary Now: Co-Op (2019, television);
Joe Pesci, for his performance in The Irishman (2019, film);
Christopher Plummer, for his performances in Knives Out (2019, film) and The Man Who Planted Trees (1987, animated short);
Hal Prince, for everything;
Florence Pugh, for her performance in Little Women (2019, film);
Marjane Satrapi, for writing and directing Persepolis (2007, film);
Céline Sciamma, for writing and directing Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019, film);
Andrew Scott, for his performance in Fleabag (2018, television);
William Shakespeare, for his body of work, but especially Macbeth;
Domee Shi, for directing Bao (2018, animated short);
Stephen Sondheim, for everything;
Emma Stone, for her performance in The Favourite (2018, film);
Jan Svankmajer, for directing Alice (1988, film);
Jeanine Tesori, for writing Fun Home (2015, musical), Shrek (2009, musical), and Caroline, or Change (2003, musical);
Alfred Uhry, for writing The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997, play);
Liv Ullmann, for her performance in Scenes from a Marriage (1973, film);
Agnès Varda, for directing Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962, film) and Faces Places (2017, film);
Vernal & Sere Theatre Co., for their production of Spirits to Enforce (2019, play);
Alicia Vikander, for her performance in I Am Easy to Find (2019, film);
Paula Vogel, for writing Indecent (2017, play);
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, for writing and starring in Fleabag (2017-18, television);
Lulu Wang, for writing and directing The Farewell (2019, film);
Rachel Weisz, for her performances in The Favourite (2018, film) and Disobedience (2017, film);
Orson Welles, for directing The Other Side of the Wind (2018, film) and Macbeth (1948, film);
Lina Wertmüller, for directing Seven Beauties (1975, film);
Chloé Zhao, for directing The Rider (2017, film);
and Zhao Shuzhen, for her performance in The Farewell (2019, film).
PhotoVogue’s Local Open Call ‘Latin America Panorama’
Muy emocionado de ser parte de esta selección de talentosos artistas del #PanoramaLatinoAmericano @photovogue y de la 9a edición del Festival #PhotoVogue en Milán, Italia en marzo del 2025.
Se siente bonito compartir estas experiencias y procesos, con amigxs fotógrafxs que admiro y cuyo trabajo me llena el corazón. Muchas gracias querida @alessiaglaviano y al jurado de esta edición.
-¡Descubre la selección de 100 artistas de #PanoramaLatinoAmericano!
@PhotoVogue ha anunciado los 100 mejores artistas de su convocatoria local.
Con más de 27.000 impresionantes propuestas, la lista de finalistas muestra talentos extraordinarios de América Latina.
El trabajo de estos destacados artistas será parte de una presentación de diapositivas presente en la novena edición del Festival #PhotoVogue en Milán en @BaseMilano del 6 al 9 de marzo de 2025. La diversa gama de arte resalta una rica y multicultural comunidad.
Felicitaciones a los artistas preseleccionados y muchas gracias al comprometido jurado que ha hecho posible esta selección.
Credits:
GIF by @alessandro_lanfrancotti and @gaz.zeneli.studio - @studio__jam
PhotoVogue Presents the 100 most remarkable artists from the local open call.
I think I am going to start a fun challenge for myself and post a countdown of my top 100 musicians according to my last.fm account and post the most listened to song starting today. I will post without shame one song each day! Play along if you want.
