ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY AND AWARD NEWS  NOVEMBER 26, 2019 The Best Movies and TV Shows of the Decade It was the decade that included both Moonlight and Mad Max: Fury Road, both the waning years of Mad Men and Breaking Bad and the beginnings of Atlanta and BoJack Horseman. The 2010s may be best remembered as the era of Peak Content, a time when there were just as many great movies as ever and way more great TV shows, to the point that even the professionals struggled to keep up. And yet, our three critics managed it anyway. Today Richard Lawson and K. Austin Collins shared their lists of the best films of the decade, from tiny foreign films to best-picture winners to giant action spectacles. And Sonia Saraiya shared her best tv shows of the decade, plus a slew of honorable mentions, making room for everything from Steven Universe to 30 Rock’s “Queen of Jordan” episode. As the decade comes to a close, there’s a lot of catching up and revisiting to do. Dig in. Elsewhere in HWD, Anthony Breznican gets the scoop on how The Mandalorian’s Baby Yoda conquered the world, including winning a very ardent fan in Werner Herzog; Chris Heath talks to Jojo Rabbit and Marriage Story star Scarlett Johansson about her two major awards-season contenders, and some of the controversies she’s encountered in the last year; and Yohana Desta reveals an exclusive look behind the scenes of the Downton Abbey movie. And one last note: We’ll be taking a Thanksgiving break beginning tomorrow. Go see Knives Out or Queen & Slimor A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, go catch up with our critics’ favorites from the decade, and we’ll see you next Monday.

The 10 Best Movies of the Decade “The 10 films listed below are the ones that, for a variety of reasons, really stuck with me throughout this turbulent decade,” writes Richard Lawson. “They’ve been continuing sources of amusement, enlightenment, comfort, and shock. These films speak to our past, our present, or our future with unique vision.” READ MORE » Or, How About the 30 Best Movies of the Decade? From K. Austin Collins: the shocking documentary that captured the unthinkable, a late-career masterpiece that is, unfortunately, deeply fun, and 28 more. READ MORE » The 10 Best TV Shows of the Decade, and Then Some Writes Sonia Saraiya, “The following is not indicative, necessarily, of the TV that caused the most conversation, or even the TV shows that I thought or wrote about the most. But they’re the shows I look back on and see a complete vision, an honest reckoning, a joyful romp.” READ MORE » It’s Baby Yoda’s World Now When Werner Herzog got word, on the set of The Mandalorian,that the creators might replace the Baby Yoda puppet with CGI in postproduction, the famed director had one response: “You are cowards. Leave it.” READ MORE » Scarlett’s Season “I definitely am the type of person who’s always waiting for the other shoe to drop,” Scarlett Johansson told Chris Heath for the cover story for Vanity Fair’s latest awards extra. “But I’m learning to change that habit.” READ MORE » Inside Downton Abbey In a new featurette, which debuted exclusively on VF.com today, get a glimpse at the expansive camera crews who captured all the drama, as well as the hair, costume, and makeup team who worked tirelessly to maintain the finicky period aesthetic of the late 1920s. READ MORE »