Inside Llewyn Davis 2013
The Coen Brothers pick, chosen over the more decorated No Country for Old Men. Oscar Isaac plays a Greenwich Village folk singer modeled on Dave Van Ronk, a man stuck being the other guy while Bob Dylan takes off. Shot by Bruno Delbonnel rather than Roger Deakins, scored by T Bone Burnett and Marcus Mumford, with Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, and Justin Timberlake. Two Oscar nominations, no box office; New York Times critics' poll No. 83, readers' No. 95. Sean and Amanda call it their last Coen masterpiece, and say A Complete Unknown plays like its answer a decade later.