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The Favourite

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England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite. From TMDB

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Apr 19, 2025

    Tony McNamara (‘Poor Things’, ‘The Favourite’) is now writing the script for Taika Waititi’s ‘STAR WARS’ film. (Source: screenrant.com/star-wars-mo...)

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  • SpauldZILLA @spauldzilla.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 3, 2026

    Wild week 🎞️ If you liked The Favourite, The Draughtsman’s Contract, or Amadeus, this one is for you. 🎞️ It really is about the performances. 🎞️ A medical-horror flick with solid practical effects. 🎞️ Holy sunspots! I kind of love this film. #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky

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  • William Buchanan @williambuchanan93.bsky.socialBluesky · May 22, 2026

    Tonight's film The Favourite (2018)

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  • Ann Foster @vulgarhistory.bsky.socialBluesky · May 15, 2025

    Queen Anne had a moment a few years ago when the movie The Favourite came out. I investigate if her life was really that camp (spoiler: it was) open.substack.com/pub/vulgarhi...

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  • Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 10, 2025

    examples thereof: 5. Waiting for Guffman, Singin’ in the Rain, any Muppet movie 4. Bringing Up Baby, What’s Up Doc, Design for Living 3. Challengers, The Favourite 2. Support the Girls, The Meyerowitz Stories 1. Dog Day Afternoon, LA Confidential, Hustlers, Goodfellas, Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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  • AtomicPwrdRobot @atomicpwrdrobot.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2024

    Yorgos Lanthimos would make a goddamned *meal* out of a God Emperor of Dune movie. He arguably already made his proof-of-concept with The Favourite, which is all about the mortifying sex life of an ungracefully aging monarch and the constellation of people who all have to deal with their bullshit.

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  • Alonso Duralde @aduralde.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 11, 2024

    Just occurred to me that the last Best Actress who looked that gobsmacked to have won was Olivia Colman in another Lanthimos movie, The Favourite. #Oscars

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  • AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 17, 2025

    Nicolas Hoult is a different former child actor (was the boy in About A Boy), who was in the TV show Skins, the X-Men prequels, Warm Bodies, The Favourite, The Menu, and The Garfield Movie as Jon (yes really) He was also this guy in Fury Road

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  • Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vetBluesky · Sep 17, 2023

    I took a date to see The Favourite thinking it was like a sexy period film

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  • Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 20, 2025

    Tony McNamara is now writing the script for Taika Waititi’s ‘STAR WARS’ film. He wrote ‘Poor Things’, ‘The Favourite’ & ‘Cruella’ (via screenrant.com/star-wars-mo...)

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  • Katymo (She/They) @katymo.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 8, 2024

    Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just .gifs Day Eighteen: The Favourite

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  • MrsFishVEVO @willkellogg.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2026

    RuPaul’s song The Queendom was actually written for the 2018 film The Favourite but ended up being cut after director Yorgos Lanthimos feared the power of the song would overwhelm the rest of the film

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  • Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2025

    Maybe my new favorite Yorgos Lanthimos film. Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons are mesmerizing. I don’t know, I’m obsessed with Poor Things and The Favourite—loved Kinds of Kindness too, but this one is *special*

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  • Jörg Tittel @newjorg.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 26, 2025

    If games were treated like art instead of “content” for masses dumbed down by fascist algorithms, then HORSES would be an event like a new Yorgos Lanthimos film (THE FAVOURITE, POOR THINGS). Instead it’s banned from Steam, while military industrial AI slop like COD gets shoved down our throats.

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  • Ann Foster @vulgarhistory.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 26, 2025

    Anne, Queen of Great Britain, as portrayed by Olivia Colman in the film “The Favourite,” was assumed to have had a lesbian relationship with Sarah Churchill. Did she really? We unpack the truth from the gossip this week in a throwback episode of the Vulgar History podcast. pod.link/1489560920

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  • Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2025

    #TodayInQueerHistory August 30 (2018) Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite debuts at the Venice film festival. Starring Olivia Coleman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone, the film explores the relation between Queen Anne and her favourites, Sarah Churchill and Abigail Masham. Olivia won an Oscar for her role.

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  • Lady Andrea, Vampire Lord @dioptre-hertz.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2026

    his majesty is going to watch The Favourite, a movie about being the queen's the favorite. so i feel the need to remind everyone that *i'm* his the favourite. and i *will* kill to maintain that position

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  • Topher @tophr.orgBluesky · Oct 22, 2025

    Don't let me down, Yorgos! Poor Things and The Favourite are two of my favorite movies. The Lobster and Dogtooth are great. Kinds of Kindness... was a movie (sort of).

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  • The Paris Theater - NYC @paristheaternyc.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    A servant (Emma Stone) sends ripples through Queen Anne’s court in Yorgos Lanthimos’ THE FAVOURITE. See it Sat, Oct 10 in our series Queer, Period., curated in collaboration with LA BOLA NEGRA filmmakers Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi. Get tickets: paristheaternyc.com/film/the-fav...

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  • Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.comBluesky · Sep 22, 2026

    Saw the trailer for the new Sense and Sensibility and developing a theory that The Favourite may be the most influential film of the last decade.

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  • The Hollywood Theatre @hollywoodtheatre.orgBluesky · Oct 8, 2025

    Opening Friday, November 7th, we’re bringing you the new film from Yorgos Lanthimos (POOR THINGS, THE FAVOURITE), BUGONIA! Tickets: hollywoodtheatre.org/show/bugonia

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  • Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 1, 2025

    #TodayInQueerHistory August 1 (1714) Queen Anne, the last of the UK's Stuart monarchs died #OTD. Anne had close, possibly romantic, relationships with Sarah Churchill, the Duchess of Marlborough and Abigail Masham. You might be familiar with Anne's story from the film The Favourite.

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  • georgia-lux @georgialux.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2024

    wondering if THE FAVOURITE would withstand a rewatch, i adored it at the time and while the performances were stellar i don't know that there's too many layers to peel through here lol. its largely just my brain but rewatching some types of film feel unfair if it already "worked" once

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  • Jason Takes Man-Adams @jamnpp.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2026

    Oh lordy they're doing a series of period-set queer films at @paristheaternyc.bsky.social starting in October! The Handmaiden, The Favourite, Carol, Querelle, Maurice and on and on!!!

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  • Alonso Duralde @aduralde.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 19, 2026

    Before the weekend, get your tickets for next week's Hollywood Pride x INT. Movie Theatre screenings in LA of Deathtrap, The Favourite, and Seed of Chucky, with special guests Bryan Fuller, Andrew Ahn, and Vera Drew & Don Mancini. #filmsky 📽️

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  • History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.ukBluesky · Aug 1, 2025

    OTD in 1714, Queen Anne, the last Stuart ruler of England, died at age 49. In an article from our archive, Karen Harvey ‪(@kharveyhistory.bsky.social) considers the role of women's bodies in Queen Anne's court, drawing from the historical film, The Favourite (2018). www.historyworkshop....

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  • Evelyn (comms open) @evelynknightart.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2024

    #promosky Things I love💖 🌟Mononoke 🌟Bllk 🌟Dungeon Meshi 🌟Perfect Blue 🌟BJD 🌟Ciikawa 🌟Nagono friends 🌟Chicago(movie) 🌟The Favourite 🌟Hannibal 🌟Derry girls 🌟Tamagotchi 🌟BL visual novel games 🌟Ace attorney 🌟Baldur's Gate 3

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  • Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.comBluesky · Oct 30, 2025

    I asked three women to be quiet at the Pictureville in Bradford during The Favourite. At the end of the film, they strode up to me as one and told me they thought I was very rude

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  • American Cinematheque @amcinematheque.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2026

    Originally planned as a pre-recorded introduction, filmmaker/screenwriter Andrew Ahn was able to join us in-person at LF3 last Thursday to present THE FAVOURITE (2018) as part of our ‘Hollywood Pride Presents INT. Movie Theatre’ series! 🌈🎬

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  • Putte / Pia Lykke Wise @pialykke80.eurosky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2025

    Film nr. 41 i #PuttesFilmBingo er The Favourite Krav: Fave actress - Olivia Colman. Ok, jeg har snydt, for jeg har set denne mange gange før. Skør og skøn dramakomedie, med vidunderlige Colman, Rachel Weisz og Emma Stone, som alle tre blev nomineret til en Oscar for deres roller - Colman vandt.

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  • Jaime “Nightmare” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2025

    real shit I had no idea that chess leagues and tourneys were segregated by gender and when I found that out I felt like we were still in the movie The Favourite and using humors to diagnose medical conditions like "melancholy" and "flux"

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  • vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 22, 2025

    The Favourite too. why is every movie that reasonates with me super hard lately about depraved nobles?

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  • Evie 🎃 @reptvswifties.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 17, 2025

    Wicked movie soundtrack won the 'FAVOURITE SOUNDTRACK' award at the iHeart awards!

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  • The Portal Bookshop @portalbookshop.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2025

    Coming up on Friday, we've got a movie night here! The theme this week will be LGBTQ+ History Suggestions so far are: Pride The Favourite Paris Is Burning Hit me up with suggestions and votes :) Will we see you there? #LGBTplusHM25

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  • J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2024

    Wednesday Night Movie: The Favourite (2018)

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  • J. Marshall Freeman @jmarshallfreeman.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2024

    @dansavage.bsky.social On today’s “Lovecast,” you mentioned the term “cunt-struck” and gave its origin as the film “The Favourite.” I first heard it in Alan Bennett’s play and subsequent film, “The History Boys,” as spoken by the great Frances de La Tour to describe the derangement of the boys.

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  • Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 15, 2026

    Saw the film Savage House today: a little bit Barry Lyndon, a little bit The Favourite, a little bit The Draftmans Contract. Not quite those films equal but Clare Foy and Jack Farthing are compelling

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  • The Brad That Dreaded Sundown @bradmilne79.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    This movie feels like it would pair well with The Favourite, but this is like it’s made by its very gay cousin.

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  • David Waywell @davidwaywell.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2025

    Fantastic film. Up there with 'The Favourite'. Better even than 'Poor Things' which was bloated and 'Kinds if Kindness' which was patchy.

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  • Scott Ramsay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💀🎃👻 @darthstatto.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2025

    Listen. Green Book was mawkish bullshit and didn’t deserve to win, I think we can all agree on that. BlaKKKlansman, Roma and The Favourite are all much better films. But, this sentiment that Paddington 2 is anything other than a very good kids film needs to stop.

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  • Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.ukBluesky · Aug 29, 2025

    The way some Online Film People started talking about Yorgos after The Favourite you'd think he murdered their family lmao

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  • IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 19, 2025

    “DOGTOOTH is like a car crash. You cannot look away.” - @ebertvoices.bsky.social The breakout second film from director Yorgos Lanthimos (POOR THINGS, THE FAVOURITE) returns to the big screen in stunning new 4K from @kinolorber.com Opens Friday!

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  • new roses 🌹🎸 @newroses.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2025

    #Tayhistory This Little Lies “rooms on fire” dress from 2024 reminds us of this black and red moment from September 2018 when Taylor attended the film screening of “The Favourite.”

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  • Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.comBluesky · Aug 21, 2026

    I’d have put Paddington 2, The Favourite and the original Bridget Jones movie on there (with content notes)

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  • Jesse @jesse.idBluesky · Jun 20, 2026

    #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday Attack the Block Hoppers Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion The Favourite #MovieSky #Filmsky 📽 I follow back :) letterboxd.com/jesse_id/

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  • 🌠 Caine @ikiaika.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 19, 2026

    #12 Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite (2018) 🟢 This movie really has everything. I was supposed to draw at the same time but didn't get much done because my eyes were NAILED on the movie and the costuming looks amazing. I love drama

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  • metacritic @metacritic.comBluesky · Apr 20, 2025

    The Favourite [91] is a Metacritic Must-See ($4 VOD) www.metacritic.com/movie/the-fa... #11pmspecial "A farce with teeth, a costume drama with sharp political instincts and an aggressive sense of the absurd." - A.O. Scott, The New York Times

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  • Morgana Bourggraff, Writer @morganabourggraff.comBluesky · Nov 9, 2024

    Introduce yourself with: 📚 one book: The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff 🍿one movie: The Favourite 🎼 one album: Hozier by Hozier 📺 one tv show: The Decameron 👾 one game: Civilization

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  • K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2024

    The movie The Favourite was a grim portrayal of this, too.

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  • dr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 2, 2024

    Oh my god when I was living in Oxford I kept running into things like that, esp. historical film sets. Funniest was when I was reading & writing about Queen Anne's War in the Bodleian Library and then stumbled outside into the filming of THE FAVOURITE

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  • nico @nicodelort.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    i should've added Tar because it's easily my favorite movie since the Favourite

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  • Jillianne Hamilton 🦇 @jilly.caBluesky · Sep 5, 2026

    This movie is insane (in a chaotic sort of way). And kinda gross (in a bodily fluids sort of way). Richard E. Grant is a delight to watch (in a “Damn, that man is extra af with a tinge of darkness underneath” sort of way). Hated the lighting (in a The Favourite sort of way). #perioddramas #movies

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  • Da Scary Rose @modernmodron.itch.ioBluesky · Jul 31, 2026

    Saw The Favourite last night, phenomenal movie. mean lesbians

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  • Sophie Hall @sophlouisehall.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 15, 2026

    They were chatting before about Yorgos movies before and one of them hadn't seen The Favourite and it's like why are you on a MOVIE PANEL

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  • show me a chicken @myrioddity.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 14, 2026

    Bugonia. Bold and weird and memorable, though remembering it makes me feel like I need a shower, which was also my review of the only other Lanthimos movie I saw (The Favourite). A game of "Is this Unpleasant BS or Am I Not Artistic Enough For It." Emma Stone was amazing.

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  • trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 14, 2026

    Watching THE FAVOURITE and trying to decide if I can fit it into my queer film challenge boxd.it/RaurO

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  • Kelzor @bloodlesscoup.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 11, 2025

    Every so often, I watch the wrong movie under the wrong circumstances. One time, it was The Favourite while being a little too drunk and having the spins, and last night, it was Mickey 17 while goofed up on Nyquil.

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  • Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 10, 2025

    He’s a very Greek director who makes movies that can be all over the place, but I will cape for The Favourite as a very good period film about people that super fucking hate each other.

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  • kyle 中和 turner @tylekurner.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2025

    personally devastating to watch Yorgos lose the sauce with each successive film since POOR THINGS. (What’s going on with these scripts?) the last *great* one he did was for me THE FAVOURITE.

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  • Philip Beattie @pbeattie.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2025

    Choose one film a day from a great director. Name the film and director, and provide a still. Keep going for as long as you like. The Favourite (2018) Yorgos Lanthimos #Filmsky #MovieSky #MovieChallenge #FilmChallenge

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Queen Anne
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