Golden Brick Award
Criteria
Reviewed/recommended by at least one host.
Not a mainstream/highly publicized movie.
Made by new or an emerging filmmaker.
Shows a clear directorial vision/artistic ambition.
(Criteria fully established in 2014)
View the complete list of every finalist on Letterboxd.
2024
We Grown Now (#964)
Frida (#959)
How to Have Sex (#955)
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (#954)
2023
LISTENERS’ CHOICE: Rye Lane (#921)
Skinamarink (#905)
Theater Camp (#943)
WINNER: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (#943)
Four Daughters (#947)
Shortlist: The Artifice Girl, Earth Mama, Rodeo
2022
WINNER & LISTENERS’ CHOICE: Aftersun
In theaters
Bad Axe
VOD
Fire of Love
Disney+
Hit the Road
VOD
Nanny
In theaters
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
VOD
Short List: Master, Neptune Frost
2021
WINNER: Identifying Features
Prime l Apple l YouTube l Google Play l Vudu
The Killing of Two Lovers
Hulu l Prime l Apple l YouTube
Nine Days
Prime l Apple l YouTube
Saint Maud
Hulu l Prime l Sling
LISTENERS’ CHOICE: Shiva Baby
Hulu l Prime l Apple l YouTube
Short List: Lamb, Test Pattern
2020
WINNER & LISTENERS’ CHOICE: Sound of Metal
Amazon Prime
The Vast of Night
Amazon Prime
The Painter and the Thief
Amazon Prime l Hulu l Google Play l YouTube
Blow The Man Down
Amazon Prime
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Amazon Prime l Xfinity l Google Play l Vudu
The Assistant
Amazon Prime l YouTube l Google Play
Time
Amazon Prime
Short List: Selah and the Spades, Clementine, Feels Good Man, Shithouse, Possessor
2019
WINNER & LISTENERS’ CHOICE: The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Amazon l YouTube l Google Play l Vudu
The Art of Self Defense
Amazon, YouTube, Google Play, Hulu, Vudu
Atlantics
Netflix
Honeyland
Amazon l YouTube l Google Play l Vudu
Other candidates: Diane; Lynch: A History; Wild Rose; Starfish; Burning Cane; Combat Obscura; Black Mother; Our Time Machine
2018
WINNER & LISTENERS’ CHOICE: Minding the Gap
Hulu l Theatrical l Official Site
The Rider
Amazon Video l iTunes l Official Site
Shirkers
Netflix l Official Site
2017
Raw
Amazon Video l iTunes
Brigsby Bear
Amazon Video l iTunes
WINNER & LISTENERS’ CHOICE: Columbus
Amazon Video l Hulu l iTunes
Lady MacBeth
Amazon Video l iTunes
Loving Vincent
Amazon Video l Vudu l iTunes
Other candidates: Band Aid, Lemon, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki, Whose Streets?
2016
WINNER & LISTENERS’ CHOICE: The Fits
Krisha
The Witness
Tower
Cameraperson
Other candidates: Born to Be Blue, The Phenom, Morris from America, Southside with You, Rams, Under the Shadow, The Edge of Seventeen
2015
The Duke of Burgundy
LISTENERS’ CHOICE: What We Do in the Shadows
Buzzard
WINNER: Tangerine
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Other candidates: Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine, Slow West, Love & Mercy, The Tribe, Meru, Phoenix, The Mend, Heart of a Dog
2014
WINNER & LISTENERS’ CHHOICE: Blue Ruin
Calvary
Dear White People
The One I Love
Starred Up
Other candidates: 20,000 Days on Earth (AK), The Congress (JL), The Double (JL), Finding Vivian Maier (AK), Listen Up Philip, Locke (AK), Mistaken for Strangers (AK), Memphis (JL), Whiplash
2013
WINNER & LISTENERS’ CHOICE: The Act of Killing
Beyond the Hills
Prince Avalanche
Short Term 12
Stories We Tell
Other candidates: Fruitvale Station (JL), In a World... (AK), Leviathan (JL), Like Someone in Love, Much Ado About Nothing (JL), The Spectacular Now
2012
Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Color Wheel
Cosmopolis
The House I Live In
The Loved Ones
LISTENERS’ CHOICE: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Oslo, August 31st
WINNER: Wuthering Heights
2011
WINNER: The Arbor
Certified Copy
The Interrupters
Meek's Cutoff
LISTENERS’ CHOICE: Take Shelter
Other candidates: Another Earth, Bill Cunningham New York, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Project Nim, Win Win
2010
Easy A
A Film Unfinished
WINNER: Dogtooth
Four Lions
The Freebie
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Please Give
The Tillman Story
Tiny Furniture
Note: 2010 list was heavy on movies that even we overlooked initially and did not review.
2009
Anvil: The Story of Anvil
Food, Inc.
Humpday
WINNER: Moon
Summer Hours
World's Greatest Dad