Mr Turner (2014 Mike Leigh & scr)

Well Cannes got it right by awarding Timothy Spall best actor - the film was severely overlooked by the usual Academies. His grunts are tremendously expressive.

Dick Pope's cinematography is tremendous - and not just in the vistas (though in my mind John Alcott in Barry Lyndon has yet to be bettered for his candlelit scenes).

And of course it's marvellously written and acted. Lesley Manville has a terrific Scottish accent, Paul Jesson is his beloved dad, Dorothy Atkinson is the sore-ridden maid; with Ruth Sheen, Martin Savage, Peter Wight and Karl Johnson - and Marion Bailey (Mike Leigh's other half) pretty much steals the film as Turner's landlady / lover.