"What makes a movie beautiful? Some films gain recognition for the inherent beauty in their subject matter, such as sprawling landscapes or majestic movements of wildlife, while other films make aesthetic use of more unsightly subject matter by transforming things like death and decay into art using cinematic technique.
Though an undeniably subjective metric by which to judge a piece of art, beauty in cinema can be distilled into some less nebulous parameters such as framing, lighting, color coding, blocking, and set design to name a few. While some may argue that beauty is an aesthetic phenomenon, there is a strong case to be made that the beauty found in movement, lighting, and composition lends itself to the subject matter and has the potential to bring depth and complexity to the thematic elements of a film."
