This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2021

Gotham Award nominations kick off another illustrious year in year-end crap!

Best Feature
“The Green Knight”
“The Lost Daughter”
“Passing”
“Pig”
“Test Pattern”

Best Documentary Feature
“Ascension”
“Faya Dayi”
“Flee”
“President”
“Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”

Best International Feature
“Azor”
“Drive My Car”
“The Souvenir Part II”
“Titane”
“What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?”
“The Worst Person In The World”

Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Maggie Gyllenhaal for “The Lost Daughter”
Edson Oda for “Nine Days”
Rebecca Hall for “Passing”
Emma Seligman for “Shiva Baby”
Shatara Michelle Ford for “Test Pattern”

Best Screenplay
“The Card Counter,” Paul Schrader
“El Planeta,” Amalia Ulman
“The Green Knight,” David Lowery
“The Lost Daughter,” Maggie Gyllenhaal
“Passing,” Rebecca Hall
“Red Rocket,” Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch

Outstanding Lead Performance
Olivia Colman in “The Lost Daughter”
Frankie Faison in “The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain”
Michael Greyeyes in “Wild Indian”
Brittany S. Hall in “Test Pattern”
Oscar Isaac in “The Card Counter”
Taylour Paige in “Zola”
Joaquin Phoenix in “C’mon C’mon”
Simon Rex in “Red Rocket”
Lili Taylor in “Paper Spiders”
Tessa Thompson in “Passing”

Outstanding Supporting Performance
Reed Birney in “Mass”
Jessie Buckley in “The Lost Daughter”
Colman Domingo in “Zola”
Gaby Hoffmann in “C’mon C’mon”
Troy Kotsur in “CODA”
Marlee Matlin in “CODA”
Ruth Negga in “Passing”

Breakthrough Performer
Emilia Jones in “CODA”
Natalie Morales in “Language Lessons”
Rachel Sennott in Shiva Baby”
Suzanna Son in “Red Rocket”
Amalia Ulman in “El Planeta”

Middle of October! Nothing of note being released in the next two and bit months?

Still kind of waiting on the real-deal detrius, but I'm heartened to see that Passing is almost unanimously regarded as much-better-than-expected by all my favorite barometers.

Your less reliable barometer here says it was worse than expected.

In this case apparently as trustworthy as the World Almanac?

Spencer also worse than expected.

Nice to see Zola getting some attention (at least from the Gothams). That's a good 'un.

indeed

i did not like zola and liked spencer which makes me think i have to undergo deconditioning for white supremacy or something. tbh i just hate twitter

Don’t we all, and don’t we all.

Passing was fine. If this is what a prestige literary adaptation looks like in 2021, I'm pretty okay with that.

my list so far:
titane
venom: let there be carnage
pig
dune
lamb

need to see:
licorice pizza
malignant
censor
resident evil: welcome to raccoon city
zeroes and ones
nightmare alley
matrix resurrections

oh, also need to see c’mon c’mon, mike mills is so good

Highest year-end priorities on my list:

Drive My Car
Memoria
Zeros and Ones
A Hero
West Side Story (shut up)

i am totally gonna see west side story but my expectations are tempered. if it’s great i’ll be so thrilled

Zeros and Ones is a combo of director/leading actor who both annoy me badly, but somehow I feel like watching it.

I me mine:

Zola
Bergman Island
Shiva Baby
Malmkrog
About Endlessness
Summer of '85
Isaac

Tilda Swinton is no Jenjira Pongpas and Memoria isn't quite top tier Joe but it was still fantastic and right up there among my favourites of the year, along with Gunda, Ham on Rye, Malignant, Gaia and Another Round.

I watch it tomorrow.

I'd love to catch it again sometime

1. Titane
2. Annette
3. The card counter
4. Dune
5. Pig
6. The green knight
7. The last duel
8. Judas and the black messiah

dune
pig
evangelion 3+1

mandibules
the power of the dog
the last duel
no time to die
titane
the card counter
the suicide squad
spree

i really disliked shiva baby

i really disliked Titane

Favorite development of the year, even before having seen Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, is Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's unambiguous crowning as the new auteur superstar of the world.

i really disliked Titane

― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 29 November 2021 13:24 (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

same

With his own Criterion package too.

I'm watching Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy.

i really disliked Titane
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 29 November 2021 13:24 (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

same

― ignore the blue line (or something)

I can't fully embrace it because I simply don't care for that level of violence, but I found the rest an impressive tonal triumph. I was moved.

I found the other firefighters in the background a triumph of hot window dressing.

speaking of hot firefighters, I should watch Pig?

I keep thinking maybe I should re-watch Titane when I'm in a better mood but then again maybe not!

Cahiers appear to be first out of the gate this year, at least among the instutitons:

Top 10 2021 de la rédaction des Cahiers du cinéma pic.twitter.com/z3QH2VZx6C

— Cahiers du Cinéma (@cahierscinema) November 29, 2021

Love how loyal to Dumont Cahiers always are

Also quite responsive to flattery vis-a-vis the W. Anderson?

I guess the rest of the world got First Cow earlier this year?

The best movie two years in a row! Not bad.

boy i did not watch a lot of movies this year. i think these are my faves as of the end of November:

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020)
Jacinta (2021)
Joy Ride (2021)
Titane (2021)
The Truffle Hunters (2021)
Shiva Baby (2020)
Flora and Ulysses (2021)
Gunda (2020)
The Assistant (2020)
On-Gaku Our Sound (2019)
Good Timing with Jo Firestone (2021)

Good Timing with Jo Firestone (2021)

What's this? I like her.

it's fucking great: she did a zoom class teaching senior citizens stand up comedy during the pandemic and this is their last rehearsals in person before a one-time matinee performance. available for free on Peacock if you're willing to download the app and for this you should be. firestone is a real treasure.

Cool! I'll look into it if its available in Canada.

https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/good-timing-with-jo-firestone/8f11a07e-f054-3feb-a53c-25f509b78230

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIkJCrCgOAI

Tequila Minsky!

oh man i forgot about eva 3.0+1.0, that’s on my list

i also need to see annette

no one has sufficiently explained to me why they hate titane

Well world, looks like Mike Lane’s tapping back in. @hbomax pic.twitter.com/V9Ce62n710

— Channing Tatum (@channingtatum) November 29, 2021

looks like the best movie of 2023 is sewn up

I thought I hated Annette but it keeps growing on me.

i also just watched another round on the plane and that is a v v enjoyable film

lol i guess it’s thoroughly from last year oh well

I'll be honest and say I can't really put my finger on what about Titane that got on my bad side.

why don't you take a drive

i like titane a lot, if only for it's inexplicablity and immense self-assurance but for more than that tbh.

Annette has cooled on me since watching it; I guess I like it? I wouldn't want to see it again.

I consider every movie made between November 2019 and January 2022 to have been made this year. COVID is a time machine.

Oh, and Passing wasn't a revelation or anything, but yes, I fall on the "better than expected" side here, especially when it delves into the commonalities of living blackness and living queerness.

The general suckiness of the Sparks songs keeps me from loving Annette -- and its running time.

I started to think better of Passing once I considered that the non-Ruth Negga scenes were purposefully boring in that way that, say, a Merchant/Ivory film is "boring."

The songs in Annette are terrible, yes (I have no real relationship with Sparks), but aren't they mimicking the expository function of opera? I say this knowing very little about opera, of course, so I could be way off.

but even so those opera bits aren't supposed to dull

I started to think better of Passing once I considered that the non-Ruth Negga scenes were purposefully boring in that way that, say, a Merchant/Ivory film is "boring."

― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko),

reminds me of PBS.

alfred have you seen another round or is there an ilx thread where you’ve already discussed it lol

forks otm

alfred have you seen another round or is there an ilx thread where you’ve already discussed it lol

― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson)

I have! I'm still unsure if it's a study of toxic masculinity or an indulgence of it

idk what came out in the non-year 2021 but from the film festival we had here last week I loved Memoria, Titane & hit the road

I have! I'm still unsure if it's a study of toxic masculinity or an indulgence of it

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, November 29, 2021 11:53 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

uhhh my guess is it’s neither!

It’s an advert for sazerac

this is true

another round is a great film imo and, quite intentionally and unexpectedly for all concerned in the aftermath of the director's daughter's death, a painful meditation on irrevocable loss and how to get through

It did compel me to lay off bourbon for a couple days

I didn't even see it and I'm into month 9 of my year-long dry-out.

Gothams are getting handed out … Drive My Car took best international feature

Full list of Gotham Award winners:

BEST FEATURE
“The Lost Daughter” (Netflix)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“Flee” (NEON)

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
“Drive My Car” (Sideshow and Janus Films)

BINGHAM RAY BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR AWARD
Maggie Gyllenhaal for “The Lost Daughter” (Netflix)

BEST SCREENPLAY
“The Lost Daughter,” Maggie Gyllenhaal (Netflix)

OUTSTANDING LEAD PERFORMANCE
Olivia Colman in “The Lost Daughter” (Netflix)
Frankie Faison in “The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain” (Gravitas Ventures)

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Troy Kotsur in “CODA” (Apple)

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER
Emilia Jones in “CODA” (Apple)

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SERIES
Ethan Hawke in “The Good Lord Bird” (Showtime)
Thuso Mbedu in “The Underground Railroad” (Amazon Studios)

BREAKTHROUGH SERIES — LONG FORM
“Squid Game” (Netflix)

BREAKTHROUGH SERIES — SHORT FORM
“Reservation Dogs” (FX)

BREAKTHROUGH NONFICTION SERIES
“Philly D.A.” (Topic, Independent Lens, PBS)

JURY AWARD FOR ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
“The Harder They Fall”

Oh I forgot I also loved wheel of fortune & fantasy. Didn’t get to drive my car, will have to wait till it’s out here but what’s up with murukami short stories being turned into acclaimed 3hr films these days?

I loved Wheel -- the last third wounded me.

Vanity Fair crix's top 10:

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/12/10-best-movies-2021

1. The Worst Person in the World
2. Drive My Car
3. The Power of the Dog
4. C’mon C’mon
5. Flee
6. The Souvenir Part II
7. The Humans
8. Mass
9. The Green Knight
10. Bergman Island

Of course, what we're all REALLY here for is this: https://www.artforum.com/print/202110/best-films-of-2021-john-waters-87205

JOHN WATERS’S BEST FILMS OF 2021

01. ANNETTE (Leos Carax)
02. SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) (Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson)
03. VORTEX (Gaspar Noé)
04. FRANCE (Bruno Dumont)
05. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD (Kristina Lindström, Kristian Petri)
06. MANDIBLES (Quentin Dupieux)
07. RED ROCKET (Sean Baker)
08. THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (Joel Coen)
09. SAINT-NARCISSE (Bruce LaBruce)
10. THE ONANIA CLUB (Tom Six)

MANDIBLES (Quentin Dupieux)
The stupidest art film of the year, directed by a Gallic auteur who specializes in one-joke dumbbell comedies, about a giant fly and two French stooges, is also one of the funniest and most charming.

Waters IS the cahier du cinema

weird that Waters wouldn't be into Titane

That took me by surprise as well.

The Human Centipede director tops himself

lol

An intriguing blurb in J. Hoberman's list...

4. ON THE ROYAL ROAD: THE BURGHER KING (Elfriede Jelinek, Seagull Books)
Nobel laureate Jelinek’s tragicomic satire, translated from German by Gitta Honegger, isn’t a movie, but it should be—a lengthy monologue delivered by the Muppet Miss Piggy, eyes bleeding à la Tiresias. Regarding the unnamed king: “He tells us that already earlier we thought like him that never thinks.”

Dece list:

Submitted for the Film Comment poll pic.twitter.com/2MgGlIllYx

— Jordan Cronk 🥀 (@JordanCronk) December 2, 2021

Do you even understand how cheap it makes your Best Of The Year list seem if it hits on December 1st. At least November 26th is a point of view.

— Jingleghost (@JeremyMonjo) December 1, 2021

More gross detrius:

Best Film: LICORICE PIZZA

Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, LICORICE PIZZA

Best Actor: Will Smith, KING RICHARD

Best Actress: Rachel Zegler, WEST SIDE STORY

Best Supporting Actor: Ciarán Hinds, BELFAST

Best Supporting Actress: Aunjanue Ellis, KING RICHARD

Best Original Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi, A HERO

Best Adapted Screenplay: Joel Coen, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH

Breakthrough Performance: Alana Haim & Cooper Hoffman, LICORICE PIZZA

Best Directorial Debut: Michael Sarnoski, PIG

Best Animated Feature: ENCANTO

Best Foreign Language Film: A HERO

Best Documentary: SUMMER OF SOUL (…OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED)

Best Ensemble: THE HARDER THEY FALL

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Bruno Delbonnel, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH

NBR Freedom of Expression Award: FLEE

Top Films (in alphabetical order)
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
Dune
King Richard
The Last Duel
Nightmare Alley
Red Rocket
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story

Top 5 Foreign Language Films (in alphabetical order)
Benedetta
Lamb
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
Titane
The Worst Person in the World

Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order)
Ascension
Attica
Flee
The Rescue
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order)
The Card Counter
C’mon C’mon
CODA
The Green Knight
Holler
Jockey
Old Henry
Pig
Shiva Baby
The Souvenir Part II

lots of period pieces in lists this year. cell phones exist, deal with it.

NYFCC obviously voting this morning, but also, man Sight & Sound loves Joanna Hogg:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/50-best-films-2021

01. The Souvenir Part II
02. Petite maman
03. Drive My Car
04. Memoria
05. Titane
06. The Power of the Dog
07. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
08. Summer of Soul
09. Annette
10. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

(First Cow all the way down at #17.)

And away we go!

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Kodi Smit-McPhee for "The Power of the Dog" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 3, 2021

The movie's best performance.

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM: "The Worst Person in the World" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 3, 2021

I can’t believe Joachim Trier of all people is hurting the chances of DRIVE MY CAR (and MEMORIA), the best position a standard-bearer arthouse film has had to being widely recognized as the best of the year since… TONI ERDMANN?

— Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tianxing (@swen_ryan) December 3, 2021

oh i do love joachim trier tho

I haven't watched Trier's film yet, but isn't it almost if not as acclaimed as Drive My Car?

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kathryn Hunter for "The Tragedy of Macbeth" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 3, 2021

^^^^ Have yet to see that one but it feels like a pretty inspired choice.

now watch them award Coen the Best Screenplay award.

BEST NON-FICTION FILM: "Flee" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 3, 2021

As much as I enjoyed Summer of Soul (and take it on faith that Haynes' VU doc was great), I'm happy to see a non-music-centric doc cited.

Um ...

BEST ACTRESS: Lady Gaga for "House of Gucci" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 3, 2021

The Oscars are gonna suck this year, huh?

Best actress is going to be a 5-deep slate of deep embarrassments, that seems more likely than not at this point.

Dear God

soemwhere edie falco is swearing loudly

I have it on good authority that BP is going to be a good choice, so this might be the revenge of the group's neo-Rex Reed no-taste bloc.

Lady Gaga winning feels like the critics' version of the "we're tired y'all" sentiment.

I.e. Biden winning the primary

If only Biden spoke with a Russian-Italian accent.

BEST ACTOR: Benedict Cumberbatch for "The Power of the Dog" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 3, 2021

The least interesting part of a good film but fine.

And in deep "who cares" territory...

BEST ANIMATED FILM: "The Mitchells vs. the Machines" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 3, 2021

supposed to be very good! i need to watch still.

Alfred otm.

The Mitchells vs. the Machines is a fun, ingenious, great-looking and quietly features a queer protagonist. Glad it won over any of the year's Disney offerings.

<s>a</s> fun

ugh--crypto vs. the machines

OK, maybe it is a sweep after all...

BEST DIRECTOR: Jane Campion for "The Power of the Dog" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 3, 2021

BEST SCREENPLAY: "Licorice Pizza" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 3, 2021

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: "West Side Story" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 3, 2021

BEST FILM: "Drive My Car" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 3, 2021

God that feels good.

so why is this one the Hamaguchi of choice?

Watched "The Power of the Dog" last night. Maybe it was my COVID booster fogging up my head, but I found it almost too nuanced and subtle to follow. I did appreciate the performances and cinematography. Kirsten Dunst and Kodi Smit-McPhee were great. Jesses Plemons is always winning in schlub mode. Kind of made me want to rewatch season 2 of Fargo.

I had to warm up to it too. Once Campion establishes the characters, it gets goin'.

Yeah, the second half is def better.

Thought Kirsten Dunst came off worst tbh, not v convincing as a drunk

I'll see it in the next few days, either at a theatre or on TV. I have to say, that's such a clunky title.

I kinda wanna read the book first.

can i just say: benedetta

You’ve seen? I am intrigued

Memoria and Drive My Car are the ones I most want to watch, but can't see them coming my way anytime soon

can i just say: benedetta

― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, December 4, 2021 7:10 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Say it.

Is Virginie Efira in that? She is always good. Yes, I see that she is.

some critics have suggested it's a step down from elle but i think it's about as great. it's arthouse exploitation in the mode of verhoeven's previous two, and i also love that all of these movies focus on women who never fully give themselves away

it is also, imo, the lesbian nun movie i was promised

it's also soooo gross and fucking hilarious

Although really I have only seen two things on MUBI she starred in.

benedetta my most anticipated and brad’s post got me stoked anew. elle is one of my favs of the last decade for sure

It's good. Charlotte Rampling ftr

R. Brody's #1 is a choice...

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2021-in-review/the-best-movies-of-2021

1. “The French Dispatch”
2. “Licorice Pizza”
3. “Zola”
4. “I Was a Simple Man”
5. “In the Same Breath”
6. “C’mon C’mon”
7. “Passing”
8. “Pebbles” (“Koozhangal”)
9. “Petite Maman”
10. “Procession”

And J. Ro...

https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2021/10/sight-and-sound-ten-best-list-2021/

1. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
2. Her Socialist Smile (John Gianvito)
3. Tiong Bahru Social Club (Tan Bee Thiam)
4. Martin und Hans (Mark Rappaport)
5. John Farrow Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows (Claude Gonzalez & Frans Vanderburg)
6. While We Were Here (Sunčica Fradelić)
7. Letters from the Ends of the World (a dozen of the first graduates of Béla Tarr’s FilmFactory)
8. Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Saftie)
9. Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood)

An incomplete list of nine titles for an incomplete, pandemic year that cries out for updates and afterthoughts. That may help to explain why many items here are at least partially films/videos about films/videos (and at least one item, Letters…, is about the pandemic). Having to compile a so-called ‘2021’ list in October compels me to add Uncut Gems, seen too late in 2020 to make it onto last year’s list.

Petite Maman was underwhelming even given its running time, but I may need to give it another shot.

thought Uncut Gems was repulsive, but it stays in my memory

like Tony Blair

zola doesnt belong anywhere near these lists imo

hence its appearance on mine

Just aortic dissect me...

2021 WAFCA AWARD WINNER:
Best Actor: Andrew Garfield (tick, tick...BOOM!)https://t.co/vYa5JRtzuu #WAFCA #WAFCA2021 pic.twitter.com/8P1lBEixCI

— WAFCA (@WAFCA) December 6, 2021

Started watching it an hour ago while working out, bailed screaming after 15 minutes.

I'm sure I'll see a worst one as I deep dive into Oscar crap, but as of now the musical number pantomime of his fight with his girlfriend is the year's bar that'll have to be surpassed.

(Grudgingly admit that Garfield acts the shit out of the part, but in a way that makes one need to avert one's eyes.)

Grudgingly admit that Garfield acts the shit out of the part,

That's the trouble.

Here's the full DC crix winners:

Best Film:
Belfast

Best Director:
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)

Best Actor:
Andrew Garfield (tick, tick...BOOM!)

Best Actress:
Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

Best Supporting Actor:
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

Best Supporting Actress:
Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)

Best Acting Ensemble:
Mass

Best Youth Performance:
Woody Norman (C'mon C'mon)

Best Voice Performance:
Awkwafina (Raya and the Last Dragon)

Best Original Screenplay:
Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)

Best Animated Feature:
The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Best Documentary:
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Best International/Foreign Language Film:
Drive My Car

Best Production Design:
Patrice Vermette, Production Designer; Richard Roberts and Zsuzsanna Sipos, Set Decorators (Dune)

Best Cinematography:
Greig Fraser, ASC, ACS (Dune)

Best Editing:
Myron Kerstein, ACE; Andrew Weisblum, ACE (tick, tick...BOOM!)

Best Original Score:
Hans Zimmer (Dune)

An opinion.

NYT crix go for Drive My Car and Summer of Soul...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/movies/best-movies.html

Manohla Dargis
01. Drive My Car
02. The Power of the Dog
03. The Velvet Underground
04. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
05. Passing
06. Azor
07. The Card Counter
08. The Disciple
09. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
10. Spencer

A.O. Scott
01. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
02. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
03. The Power of the Dog
04. Petite Maman
05. Bring Your Own Brigade
06. Bergman Island
07. Drive My Car
08. Memoria
09. West Side Story
10. The Velvet Underground

Bad Luck Banging is made to be included on year-end lists, and may well be an accurate portrait of the times we live in, but I very much disliked it.

This guy ... https://variety.com/lists/2021-best-movies/owen-gleibermans-top-10-2/

Owen G's top 10

01. Spencer
02. House of Gucci
03. The Beatles: Get Back
04. Drive My Car
05. Cruella
06. Zola
07. King Richard
08. Zack Snyder's Justice League
09. CODA
10. Parallel Mothers

Just got my ILX film poll email BTW

Compiling it is gonna be interesting, my film watching the last couple years is barely limited to the year in which I’m watching

It said "2020" -- did I read it wrong?

I think we actually are just catching up to last year, no?

Which, great, I finally watched Days and it's my #1 of 2020!

huzzah!

Oh, is it for 2020? Cool!

Sight and Sound top 50:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/50-best-films-2021

NY Film Critics Online live:

ACTOR: In this corner of the multiverse, Benedict Cumberbatch's POWER OF THE DOG performance was the dominant favorite. pic.twitter.com/j9YWWXH7Zv

— NYFilmCriticsOnline (@NYFCOOfficial) December 12, 2021

ACTRESS: It's only appropriate that Tessa Thompson joined her PASSING co-star, Ruth Negga, in the winner's circle. pic.twitter.com/YFP47DCLgq

— NYFilmCriticsOnline (@NYFCOOfficial) December 12, 2021

They do have a fondness for The Power of the Dog.

Good to see Tessa Thompson get a citation tho!

They do have a fondness for _The Power of the Dog_.

Boston is bringing a few offbeat choices tho…

And the winner is...for Best Actress: Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza) pic.twitter.com/n8gC3wZae5

— Boston Society of Film Critics (@TheBSFC) December 12, 2021

And the winner is...for Best Actor: Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Car) pic.twitter.com/B4ZvTKOTlg

— Boston Society of Film Critics (@TheBSFC) December 12, 2021

They have decidedly moved into the National Society’s turf

Watched Annette with a college movie friend. We both thought it was kind of weird and unpleasant. That is how I also remember feeling about Holy Motors though, and that film has really stayed with me.

I would like to see all of these 2021 movies, but films like Memoria and Drive My Car I’m not expecting to see anytime soon

I guess the Golden Globes are back, which who cares.

pre-20th century: cyrano
20th century: the power of the dog, West Side Story, belfast, licorice pizza, king richard, Tick, Tick…Boom!
contemporary: coda, don't look up
fantasy: dune

Critics' groups that announce nominations first are irritatingly student council but Chicago didn't do too bad overall...

BEST PICTURE

Drive My Car
The Green Knight
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

BEST DIRECTOR

Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
David Lowery, The Green Knight
Steven Spielberg, West Side Story

BEST ACTOR

Nicolas Cage, Pig
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield, tick, tick...BOOM!
Hidetoshi Nishijima, Drive My Car
Simon Rex, Red Rocket

BEST ACTRESS

Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
Agathe Rousselle, Titane
Kristen Stewart, Spencer

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Bradley Cooper, Licorice Pizza
Colman Domingo, Zola
Mike Faist, West Side Story
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog
Jeffrey Wright, The French Dispatch

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Catriona Balfe, Belfast
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Riley Keough, Zola
Ruth Negga, Passing

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Drive My Car by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Haruki Murakami & Takamasa Oe
The Green Knight by David Lowery
The Lost Daughter by Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Power of the Dog by Jane Campion
West Side Story by Tony Kushner

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Card Counter by Paul Schrader
The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson
Licorice Pizza by Paul Thomas Anderson
Pig by Michael Sarnoski
Red Rocket by Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Flee
Procession
The Sparks Brothers
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
The Velvet Underground

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Drive My Car
A Hero
Petite Maman
Titane
The Worst Person in the World

I submitted my nominations to my critics group an hour ago.

The only scuttlebutt: Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar will do better than expected, and I hope Jamie Dornan gets the nod for it instead of Belfast.

They really didn’t like King Richard, did they?

Legit who did tho?

I stopped watching three more minutes more than Tick Tick.

Spencer
Belfast
Dune
King Richard
West Side Story
House of Gucci
tick tick…Boom!

haven’t seen most of them and am not looking forward to them. watched part of King Richard, about 45 minutes, which was all I needed to see of that movie (two and a half hours long!), and sat through the film about Jonathan Larson with Andrew Garfield playing him in a disconcertingly aggressive way

how does West Side Story translate to 2021

as far as 2021 musicals go, In the Heights is lovely

i suppose i will be seeing west side story with my gal in the theaters on christmas. We did little women when it came out and it made her very happy; methinks this will be much the same vibe of my just drinking my soda and radiating neutrality.

The Independent Spirit Awards go back to their roots, ignoring Oscar movies almost entirely…

Best Feature

“A Chiara”
“C’mon C’mon”
“The Lost Daughter”
“The Novice”
“Zola”

Best Director

Janicza Bravo, “Zola”
Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Lost Daughter”
Lauren Hadaway, “The Novice”
Mike Mills, “C’mon, C’mon”
Ninja Thyberg, “Pleasure”

Best First Feature

“7 Days”
“Holler”
“Queen of Glory”
“Test Pattern”
“Wild Indian”

Best Female Lead

Isabelle Fuhrman, “The Novice”
Brittany S. Hall, “Test Pattern”
Patti Harrison, “Together Together”
Taylour Paige, “Zola”
Taylor Reece, “Catch the Fair One”

Best Male Lead

Clifton Collins, Jr., “Jockey”
Frankie Faison, “The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain”
Michael Greyeyes, “Wild Indian”
Udo Kier, “Swan Song”
Simon Rex, “Red Rocket”

Best Supporting Female

Jessie Buckley, “The Lost Daughter”
Amy Forsyth, “The Novice”
Ruth Negga, “Passing”
Revika Anne Reustle, “Pleasure”
Suzanna Son, “Red Rocket”

Best Supporting Male

Colman Domingo, “Zola”
Meeko Gattuso, “Queen of Glory”
Troy Kotsur, “CODA”
Will Patton, “Sweet Thing”
Chaske Spencer, “Wild Indian”

Best Screenplay

“C’mon, C’mon”
“The Lost Daughter”
“Swan Song”
“Together Together”
“Zola”

Best First Screenplay

“Cicada”
“Mass”
“Pig”
“Test Pattern”
“Wild Indian”

Best Cinematography

“A Chiara”
“Blue Bayou”
“The Humans”
“Passing”
“Zola”

Best Editing

“A Chiara”
“The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain”
“The Novice”
“The Nowhere Inn”
“Zola”

Robert Altman Award

The Director, Cast, and Casting Director of “Mass”

Best Documentary

“Ascension”
“Flee”
“In the Same Breath”
“Procession”
“Summer of Soul”

Best International Film

“Compartment No. 6”
“Drive My Car”
“Parallel Mothers”
“Pebbles”
“Petite Maman”
“Prayers for the Stolen”

Colman Domingo!

but fuck Swan Song, ugh

So I’m clear, Barb and Star not eligible here right?

No idea what that movie is, but love seeing Frankie Faison get a nod.

some of these titles are truly unknown to me

haven't seen it yet, but A Chiara is the third in a series of films about residents of a Calabrian town, following Mediterranea and A Ciambra. I thought those were both interesting films

surprised I'm not seeing The Souvenir Part II mentioned, despite its reviews.

in awards, that is

i suppose i will be seeing west side story with my gal in the theaters on christmas. We did little women when it came out and it made her very happy; methinks this will be much the same vibe of my just drinking my soda and radiating neutrality.

― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, December 13, 2021 9:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I'm considering seeing WSS for my first movie in theaters since Little Women on New Year's Day 2020. My wife loved LW, but has no interest in WSS, so I expect I'll be going alone.

Side note: has anyone ever bought a DVD or DVD set from dvdcoming.com?

My group:

Alright folks, it's time to announce our collection of nominees for 2021. A complete list will be available on our site soon and the winners will be announced next week! pic.twitter.com/l84VHcnrO0

— Florida Film Critics (@FLFilmCritics) December 15, 2021

I wash my hands of anyone who voted for the Lucy farrago

Is there a story behind why some categories have only three or four nominees?

Speaking of washing hands of things ...

ANNOUNCEMENT: The nominations for the Minnesota Film Critics Alliance Awards will be presented Jan. 28, 2022. The awards will then be presented Feb. 13, 2022.#AwardSeason #AwardsSeason #FilmTwitter #MNFCA

— The Minnesota Film Critics Alliance (@MNCritics) December 14, 2021

I am not affiliated with this group and will not answer for the image they give Minnesota.

Lack of run-offs.

xpost

I DO see your hands all over the preference for the other Hamaguchi movie tho.

https://media.giphy.com/media/cwLsS6PzQf8A0/giphy.gif

https://www.screenslate.com/articles/best-movies-2021-first-viewings-discoveries-and-individual-ballots

Including a ballot from our own obscurist Tape Store!

First Viewings:
“Strike City” (Tom Griffin and John Douglas, 1967)
"I Don't Know" (Penelope Spheeris, 1970)
The Selection (Gyula Gazdag, 1970)
The Resolution (Judit Ember & Gyula Gazdag, 1972)
“Sea Space” (William Farley, 1972)
"A Day More" (Vlatko Gilić, 1972)
Pictures of the Old World (Dušan Hanák, 1972)
"Children of the Fields" (Robert M. Young, 1973)
We’re Not the Jet Set (Robert Duvall, 1977)
Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford, 1983)
Smooth Talk (Joyce Chopra, 1985)
Mix-Up (Francoise Romand, 1986)
Just Like Weather (Allen Fong, 1986)
Kamikaze Hearts (Juliet Bashore, 1986)
Motel (Christian Blackwood, 1989)
Strangers in Good Company (Cynthia Scott, 1990)
These Hands (Flora M'mbugu-Schelling, 1992)
Double-Blind (Sophie Calle & Greg Shepard, 1992)
Ruby In Paradise (Victor Nuñez, 1993)
“The Trained Chinese Tongue” (Laurie Wen, 1994)
Goshogaoka (Sharon Lockhart, 1997)
Bubble (Steven Soderbergh, 2005)
"Daga’a" (Shadi Habib Allah, 2015)

Film Comment is counting down the year-end poll results:

Welcome to our official Best of 2021 Countdown! Follow along as FC Co-Deputy Editors Clinton Krute and @devikagirgayi discuss the results of our year-end critics’ poll with @bealoayza, @BilgeEbiri, & @edogoesboating. pic.twitter.com/oaNVowFWoM

— Film Comment Magazine (@FilmComment) December 17, 2021

Here's FC's full list:

01. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Colombia/Thailand/UK/France/Germany/Mexico/Qatar)
02. Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Japan)
03. The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg, UK)
04. Annette (Leos Carax, France)
05. Days (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France)
06. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion, Australia/New Zealand)
07. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Japan)
08. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze, Georgia/Germany)
09. Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven, France/Netherlands)
10. Undine (Christian Petzold, Germany/France)
11. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude, Romania/Luxembourg/Czech Republic/Croatia)
12. The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes, USA)
13. Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve, France/Germany/Belgium/Sweden)
14. El Planeta (Amalia Ulman, Spain)
15. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
16. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
17. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader, USA/UK/China)
18. The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili, USA)
19. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
20. Titane (Julia Ducournau, France)

Pretty shit year for American movies, based on the evidence of this poll and Sight & Sound's.

Not much love for Wes Anderson’s new one; I gather it is just finally too much?

it's actually grown on me in memory, but it's certainly the wes andersoniest wes anderson movie i've ever seen

its stunning use of color and black and white and the different ways the images fill the frame are the attractions and the elements that really linger

I like the Film Comment list more than any of the others, and remember feeling that way for the last several years

Los Angeles weighs in, and between then, N.Y. and Boston (and in all likelihood the Nat'l Society), it's a clean sweep for Drive My Car.

Picture: DRIVE MY CAR
Director: Jane Campion, THE POWER OF THE DOG
Actor: Simon Rex, RED ROCKET
Actress: Penélope Cruz, PARALLEL MOTHERS
Supporting Actor: Vincent Lindon, TITANE and Kodi Smit-McPhee, THE POWER OF THE DOG (tie)
Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose, WEST SIDE STORY
Screenplay: Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe, DRIVE MY CAR
Cinematography: Ari Wegner, THE POWER OF THE DOG
Production Design: Steve Saklad, BARB AND STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR
Editing: Joshua L. Pearson, SUMMER OF SOUL
Music Score: Alberto Iglesias, PARALLEL MOTHERS
Foreign-Language Film: PETITE MAMAN
Non-Fiction Film: SUMMER OF SOUL
Animation: FLEE
New Generation Award: Shatara Michelle Ford, TEST PATTERN and Tatiana Huezo, PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN
Career Achievement Award: Mel Brooks
The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award: THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN)

From some site telling me where I can see it: "If you’re looking for an introspective, character-driven road drama, director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest film, Drive My Car, checks all of the boxes." Geez, I did a whole poll of such films. So I really want to see it--but can't, yet, as far as I can tell.

Love that Production Design win for BARB AND STAR

I'm considering seeing WSS for my first movie in theaters since Little Women on New Year's Day 2020. ...
― jaymc, Tuesday, December 14, 2021 11:38 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol @ this cockamamie idea. hopefully it comes to streaming before too long.

Good on them for recognizing Lindon too.

LAFCC loves hairpin turns with acting wins -- Penelope Cruz!

Someone from the CBC--don't know a thing about him.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/best-films-2021-1.6287609

He was doing fine until the last seven or eight.

I quite liked French Dispatch - I'd put it in the top 50% of his movies. But it wouldn't sway anyone who doesn't already like his style

Because Oscars are detrius, the Oscar shortlists...

https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/94th_oscars_shortlists.pdf

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“Ascension”
“Attica”
“Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry”
“Faya Dayi”
“The First Wave”
“Flee”
“In the Same Breath”
“Julia”
“President”
“Procession”
“The Rescue”
“Simple as Water”
“Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”
“The Velvet Underground”
“Writing with Fire”

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
“Águilas”
“Audible”
“A Broken House”
“Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis”
“Coded: The Hidden Love of J. C. Leyendecker”
“Day of Rage”
“The Facility”
“Lead Me Home”
“Lynching Postcards: “Token of a Great Day””
“The Queen of Basketball”
“Sophie & the Baron”
“Takeover”
“Terror Contagion”
“Three Songs for Benazir”
“When We Were Bullies”

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Austria, “Great Freedom”
Belgium, “Playground”
Bhutan, “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom”
Denmark, “Flee”
Finland, “Compartment No. 6”
Germany, “I’m Your Man”
Iceland, “Lamb”
Iran, “A Hero”
Italy, “The Hand of God”
Japan, “Drive My Car”
Kosovo, “Hive”
Mexico, “Prayers for the Stolen”
Norway, “The Worst Person in the World”
Panama, “Plaza Catedral”
Spain, “The Good Boss”

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
“Coming 2 America”
“Cruella”
“Cyrano”
“Dune”
“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”
“House of Gucci”
“Nightmare Alley”
“No Time to Die”
“The Suicide Squad”
“West Side Story”

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
“Being the Ricardos”
“Candyman”
“Don’t Look Up”
“Dune”
“Encanto”
“The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun”
“The Green Knight”
“The Harder They Fall”
“King Richard”
“The Last Duel”
“No Time to Die”
“Parallel Mothers”
“The Power of the Dog”
“Spencer”
“The Tragedy of Macbeth”

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
“So May We Start?” from “Annette”
“Down To Joy” from “Belfast”
“Right Where I Belong” from “Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road”
“Automatic Woman” from “Bruised”
“Dream Girl” from “Cinderella”
“Beyond The Shore” from “CODA”
“The Anonymous Ones” from “Dear Evan Hansen”
“Just Look Up” from “Don’t Look Up”
“Dos Oruguitas” from “Encanto”
“Somehow You Do” from “Four Good Days”
“Guns Go Bang” from “The Harder They Fall”
“Be Alive” from “King Richard”
“No Time To Die” from “No Time to Die”
“Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)” from “Respect”
“Your Song Saved My Life” from “Sing 2”

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
“Affairs of the Art”
“Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman’s Apprentice”
“Bad Seeds”
“Bestia”
“Boxballet”
“Flowing Home”
“Mum Is Pouring Rain”
“The Musician”
“Namoo”
“Only a Child”
“Robin Robin”
“Souvenir Souvenir”
“Step into the River”
“Us Again”
“The Windshield Wiper”

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
“Ala Kachuu - Take and Run”
“Censor of Dreams”
“The Criminals”
“Distances”
“The Dress”
“Frimas”
“Les Grandes Claques”
“The Long Goodbye”
“On My Mind”
“Please Hold”
“Stenofonen”
“Tala’vision”
“Under the Heavens”
“When the Sun Sets”
“You’re Dead Helen”

SOUND
“Belfast”
“Dune”
“Last Night in Soho”
“The Matrix Resurrections”
“No Time to Die”
“The Power of the Dog”
“A Quiet Place Part II”
“Spider-Man: No Way Home”
“tick, tick...BOOM!”
“West Side Story”

VISUAL EFFECTS
“Black Widow”
“Dune”
“Eternals”
“Free Guy”
“Ghostbusters: Afterlife”
“Godzilla vs. Kong”
“The Matrix Resurrections”
“No Time to Die”
“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”
“Spider-Man: No Way Home”

Titane not even getting this far is the non-surprise of the season.

Our winners about to be announced.

The songs in Annette are terrible, but it would delight me to no end if one of them scored an Oscar nod.

Belfast getting onto the shortlist for best sound is a grim bellwether.

Shall we start surely will and I expect it to win

Beyonce and Jay-Z will cancel each other out, allowing Brian Wilson to win.

I'd love to see The Velvet Underground win, my own minor reservations aside. But it won't beat Summer of Soul (which I still haven't seen).

Memoria has leaked. Hell yeah dude.

i will likely cheat but watching weeraseethakul anywhere but the theater misses the point imo

I really liked the performances in Passing and The Lost Daughter, and those films were both interesting

Two lists for a niche cinema concern:

https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-best-action-scenes-of-2021
https://www.polygon.com/22859125/best-action-movie-scenes-2021

It's "better than" list time ...

Movie culture reached a turning point in 2021 where the glut of content, streaming or in theaters, overwhelmed concerns about quality, craft, and the destructive messages being sold to us. Film artists competed with virtue-signaling, and political distraction was confused with emotional and visual satisfaction.

This year’s Better-Than List is, more than ever, a reminder of the standards we must hold to keep our sanity and to maintain culture that preserves our humanity and morality. Every Better-Than choice offers alternatives to deceit, ineptitude, and nihilism.

About Endlessness > Dune, The Green Knight
Roy Andersson’s series of comic-tragic tableaux depict the modern Christian quest for salvation that is abandoned by Denis Villeneuve’s inexpressive sci-fi and David Lowery’s fractured mythology. Most sci-fi movies, like pseudo-myths, are about meaninglessness.

Annette > West Side Story
Leos Carax’s ravishing existential opera addresses artistic crisis, that creative challenge that Steven Spielberg’s remake turns into no-hope social-justice platitudes.

Coming 2 America > Judas and the Black Messiah
Eddie Murphy and Craig Brewer’s superior sequel hilariously corrects Hollywood’s fashionable, insulting race hustle. The year’s best Hollywood movie is a welcoming diaspora comedy.

Shoplifters of the World > Licorice Pizza
Stephen Kijak’s tribute to The Smiths captures the inextinguishable flame of pop-culture fraternity, going deeper than Paul Thomas Anderson’s clever ’70s period piece.

France > Drive My Car
Bruno Dumont’s media heroine reveals contemporary psychic turmoil while Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Chekhov imitation distracts from it. Dumont mixes genres to pungent effect while Hamaguchi tells the wrong story and lards it with “art.”

Summer of 85 > Belfast
François Ozon revisits ’80s AIDS-era innocence for a bold cultural confession, while Kenneth Branagh turns Irish ethnic conflict into totally inauthentic pop nostalgia.

Sin > Benedetta, House of Gucci
Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky’s awesome Michelangelo biopic explores the price and sacrifice of achieving greatness. Paul Verhoeven and Ridley Scott exploit the business of religion and fashion for shameless Euro-trash.

Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Army of the Dead, Army of Thieves > No Time to Die
Snyder finally got his chance to fulfill the visionary possibilities of pop myths, but the James Bond franchise-holders kill off the formerly fun, expressive brand.

Georgetown > The Card Counter
Christoph Waltz’s unsparing Beltway satire is more humane than Paul Schrader’s wallow in way-late recriminations about the Iraq War.

Love Is Love Is Love > Passing, The Lost Daughter
Eleanor Coppola’s wisdom about female experience is missing from Rebecca Hall’s and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s miserable tales about racial and gender identity. Coppola doesn’t fit the feminist model, she transcends it.

Saint-Narcisse > The Power of the Dog
Bruce LaBruce dares explore the mystique of sexual identity, creating his own, rich mythology, but Jane Campion demeans the Western genre as if to justify the misandry and homophobia of pseudo-feminism.

Sublet > Parallel Mothers
Eytan Fox forces a haughty New York Times journalist in Israel to rethink his place in the world, but Almodóvar’s bisexual melodrama turns his usual charm into a pretext for lamenting Spain’s Fascist past. Remarkable compassion vs. embarrassing guilt.

Licorice Pizza > The Worst Person in the World
Anderson’s wild, evocative anecdotes about freewheeling youth best Joachim Trier’s exploits that tirelessly defend self-obsessed Millennials. It’s the difference between romance and cynicism.

Dear Comrades! > The Tragedy of Macbeth
Konchalovsky’s view of recent Soviet history (featuring a powerful performance by Yuliya Vysotskaya) parallels the contemporary U.S. Communist threat, but Joel Coen traduces Shakespeare to flatter contemporary U.S. political trends. A vibrant history lesson vs. a lesson in thespian vanity.

Pig > King Richard
Nicolas Cage’s artisan-avenger makes Michael Sarnoski’s folktale a fable about personal conviction, but Will Smith misses the point in his latest egotistical biopic.

my eyes

So, Shoplifters of the World > Licorice Pizza > The Worst Person in the World?

Also, Pig > King Richard is nowhere near the bold critical stance that Armond seems to think it is.

Neither tbh are

Saint-Narcisse > The Power of the Dog
Summer of 85 > Belfast
About Endlessness > Dune, The Green Knight

or even

France > Drive My Car

The Hand of God was totally a Fellini homage, the big difference being the tragedy in the middle of the film, which was very understated

Most of the performances were voluble and very emotive, but Filippo Scotti as Fabietto, a teenager who becomes an adult over the course of the film, gave a subtle and fantastic performance

National Society makes it unanimous ...

Best Picture: DRIVE MY CAR (48 points)

Runners-up:
PETITE MAMAN (25 points)
THE POWER OF THE DOG (23 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 8, 2022

Best Actress: Penélope Cruz, PARALLEL MOTHERS (55 points)

Runners-up:
Renate Reinsve, THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (42 points)
Alana Haim, LICORICE PIZZA (32 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 8, 2022

Best Actor: Hidetoshi Nishijima, DRIVE MY CAR (63 points)

Runners-up:
Benedict Cumberbatch, THE POWER OF THE DOG (44 points)
Simon Rex, RED ROCKET (30 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 8, 2022

Best Supporting Actress: Ruth Negga, PASSING (46 points)

Runners-up:
Ariana DeBose, WEST SIDE STORY (22 points)
Jessie Buckley, THE LOST DAUGHTER (21 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 8, 2022

Best Supporting Actor: Anders Danielsen Lie, THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (54 points)

Runners-up:
Vincent Lindon, TITANE (33 points)
Mike Faist, WEST SIDE STORY, and Kodi Smit-McPhee, THE POWER OF THE DOG (26 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 8, 2022

Best Screenplay: Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe, DRIVE MY CAR (46 points)

Runners-up:
Pedro Almodóvar, PARALLEL MOTHERS (22 points)
Paul Thomas Anderson, LICORICE PIZZA (20 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 8, 2022

(Best Director still to be chosen.)

Anders Danielsen Lie is the Hottest Man in the World.

Best Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, DRIVE MY CAR and WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY (46 points)

Runners-up:
Jane Campion, THE POWER OF THE DOG (36 points)
Céline Sciamma, PETITE MAMAN (28 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 8, 2022

Anders Danielsen Lie is the Hottest Man in the World.

Up there. Just discovered Jonathan Bailey, who cuts a similar silouette, in the last week.

Anders Danielson Lie was very appealing in Reprise and Olso, August 31st, am looking forward to seeing Bergman Island and The Worst Person In the World

I never know how they make these determinations, but how is Ruth Negga a supporting actress in Passing? Wasn't she in almost every scene? Maybe I'm not remembering right.

she and Tessa Thompson were both great in that film, but hers did feel like the supporting role

I should have checked before posting--I have their names backwards.

Yeah, remind me to stay far away from Better Than (or whatever that was)

Knowing a "not his kind of movie" swept the critics awards, I had to see what the gargoyle JW was saying in NSFC's wake. Was not disappointed.

Drive My Car is a morose, slow-paced film about coping with grief and long-festering guilt (i.e., the trials and tribulations of grief monkeys). It’s strictly an art-house sauna movie for elite, ivory-tower critics — a respectable effort by any measure, but a movie that resides in its own cave and doesn’t begin to even try to capture or engage with or reflect anything about mainstream life in the years 2020 or ’21. It could have been made in 1957 or ’63 or ’86 or ’92.

NextBestPicture‘s Matt Neglia recently had the temerity to suggest that Drive My Car, having won Best Picture trophies from NSFC, LAFCA and the NYFCC, is cut from the same cloth as Goodfellas, Schindler’s List, L.A. Confidential, The Hurt Locker, The Social Network and Spotlight. Neglia is one of those film nerd types who lives on his own planet, or, if you will, inside his own rectum. There’s no reasoning with guys like this.

Even better, with shades of Hedda and Louella:

https://www.showbiz411.com/2022/01/08/three-hour-japanese-drive-my-car-wins-national-society-of-film-critics-group-seeks-to-make-awards-even-more-irrelevant

I wish I knew what the point was of all this: the National Film Society of Critics voted Best Picture to “Drive My Car,” an almost three hour Japanese film that most people know nothing about. It’s a very good film, and a long one, but it was already named Best Picture by the New York and Los Angeles film critics groups. So what’s the point?

Frankly, this was a big “f-you” to American and British filmmakers and films made in English. It was the same to the larger film going audience. The NSFC could have shaped the conversation about a group of films headed to the Oscars and struggling at the box office. But the message is “We’re so cool we don’t have to like anything you’re being offered.” So why should anyone bother going to theaters if the critics say forget it?

I’m not talking about giving awards to blockbusters like “Spider Man” or “No Time to Die.” With good movies from Spielberg, Branagh, Campion, PTA, Joel Coen, Villeneuve, Miranda, Sorkin, not mention “CODA,” and so on, it’s kind of insulting to thumb your nose at your own business. (I’m not supposed to say this, but the film critics still don’t get if they don’t support the movie business, they will be out of jobs.)

I know there’s a Film Twitter feeling that “Drive My Car” will be “Parasite,” win Best Picture and really up-end the film business. If that’s how the Oscars seem like they’re going, no one will watch the broadcast on March 27th. This is what’s happened to the Emmy Awards: the statues go to shows with small audiences, minuscule, no one watches the Emmys as a result. If the point is to make all this irrelevant, we’re headed in that direction very fast.

Neglia is one of those film nerd types who lives on his own planet, or, if you will, inside his own rectum. There’s no reasoning with guys like this.

People who live in glass rectums shouldn't throw farts.

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wish I knew what the point was of all this: the National Film Society of Critics voted Best Picture to “Drive My Car,” an almost three hour Japanese film that most people know nothing about. It’s a very good film, and a long one, but it was already named Best Picture by the New York and Los Angeles film critics groups. So what’s the point?

I thought the point was that the critics' group liked the movie.

Little of column A, little of column B ...

DRIVE MY CAR isn't my choice for movie of the year, but it's the perfect choice for movie of the year that will flummox people who think the role of critics awards is to shape the Oscars race.

— A.A. Dowd (@AADowd) January 9, 2022

Theory about why Drive My Car gets critics'-group awards, look at critics' year-end lists, imagine the Venn diagram: it brings together various artistic tendencies that other films isolate. Not a consensus film by design but by accident.

— Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) January 9, 2022

I know we're all ignoring the Golden Globes this year and, with mercy, from here on out.

BUT ... I also celebrate every time Belfast doesn't win.

The winners are unexpectedly...fine? I liked the Lucy film more than I expected, maybe Sorkin's best script? And Kidman did evoke the rather sour late middle-aged grand dame on '70s talk shows.

This may surprise you: I finished Tick on Saturday and, after surviving the first eight minutes, thought Garfield fine.

I don't blame Garfield. TTB is the worst of Jonathan Larsen + the worst of Lin-Manuel put together in a perfect shitstorm. Garfield is proper playing an annoying artiste.

BAFTA longlists ... the big scandal being that they completely ignored The Souvenir Part II. Oh, and pretty much any performances not in the English language.

BEST FILM

Being The Ricardos
Belfast
CODA
Don’t Look Up
Dune
House of Gucci
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
No Time To Die
The French Dispatch
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
tick tick…BOOM!
West Side Story

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

After Love
Ali & Ava
Belfast
Benediction
Boiling Point
The Colour Room
Cruella
Cyrano
The Duke
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
House of Gucci
The King’s Man
Last Night in Soho
Mothering Sunday
Munich- The Edge of War
No Time To Die
Operation Mincemeat
Passing
Spencer

FILM NOT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

A Hero
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Compartment No. 6
Drive My Car
Flee
The Hand of God
I’m Your Man
Lamb
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
Parallel Mothers
Paris, 13th District
Petite Maman
Riders of Justice
Titane
The Worst Person in the World

DOCUMENTARY

14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible
Becoming Cousteau
Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry
Cow
Flee
JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass
Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story
The Lost Leonardo
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
The Real Charlie Chaplin
The Rescue
The Sparks Brothers
Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Tina
The Velvet Underground

DIRECTOR

After Love
Belfast
CODA
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
First Cow
The Hand of God
Happening
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
The Lost Daughter
Passing
Petite Maman
The Power of the Dog
The Souvenir Part II
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Titane
West Side Story
Zola

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

After Love
Being The Ricardos
Belfast
The Card Counter
C’mon C’mon
Don’t Look Up
The Duke
The French Dispatch
The Hand of God
King Richard
Last Night in Soho
Licorice Pizza
Parallel Mothers
Petite Maman
The Worst Person in the World

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

CODA
Cyrano
Drive My Car
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
The Green Knight
House of Gucci
The Last Duel
The Lost Daughter
No Time To Die
Passing
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
tick tick…BOOM!
West Side Story

LEADING ACTRESS

Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Lady Gaga, House of Gucci
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
Jennifer Hudson, Respect
Emilia Jones, CODA
Nicole Kidman, Being The Ricardos
Jennifer Lawrence, Don’t Look Up
Frances McDormand, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World
Claire Rushbrook, Ali & Ava
Joanna Scanlan, After Love
Kristen Stewart, Spencer
Tessa Thompson, Passing
Rachel Zegler, West Side Story

LEADING ACTOR

Riz Ahmed, Encounter
Adeel Akhtar, Ali & Ava
Mahershala Ali, Swan Song
Javier Bardem, Being The Ricardos
Daniel Craig, No Time To Die
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Leonardo DiCaprio, Don’t Look Up
Peter Dinklage, Cyrano
Adam Driver, House of Gucci
Andrew Garfield, tick tick…BOOM!
Stephen Graham, Boiling Point
Cooper Hoffman, Licorice Pizza
Joaquin Phoenix, C’mon C’mon
Will Smith, King Richard
Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Caitríona Balfe, Belfast
Cate Blanchett, Don’t Look Up
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ana de Armas, No Time To Die
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Ann Dowd, Mass
Judi Dench, Belfast
Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
Kathryn Hunter, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Rita Moreno, West Side Story
Ruth Negga, Passing
Vinette Robinson, Boiling Point
Meryl Streep, Don’t Look Up
Anya Taylor-Joy, Last Night in Soho

SUPPORTING ACTOR

David Alvarez, West Side Story
Bradley Cooper, Licorice Pizza
Benicio del Toro, The French Dispatch
Jamie Dornan, Belfast
Ciarán Hinds, Belfast
Mike Faist, West Side Story
Andrew Garfield, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Troy Kotsur, CODA
Jared Leto, House of Gucci
Woody Norman, C’mon C’mon
Al Pacino, House of Gucci
Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
Mark Rylance, Don’t Look Up
J.K. Simmons, Being The Ricardos
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog

The Souvenir Part II is listed under director (weird that they list the film titles).

These longlists paired with the SAG nominations this morning indicate things are definitely back to normal after last year's "no really, yay diversity!" blip.

Cast in a Motion Picture
Belfast (Focus Features)
CODA (Apple Original Films)
Don’t Look Up (Netflix)
House of Gucci (MGM/United Artists Releasing)
King Richard (Warner Bros)

Female Actor in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
Lady Gaga (House of Gucci)
Jennifer Hudson (Respect)
Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)

Male Actor in a Leading Role
Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick … Boom!)
Will Smith (King Richard)
Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Caitríona Balfe (Belfast)
Cate Blanchett (Nightmare Alley)
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
Ruth Negga (Passing)

Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Ben Affleck (The Tender Bar)
Bradley Cooper (Licorice Pizza)
Troy Kotsur (CODA)
Jared Leto (House of Gucci)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

Online Film Critics Society nods ... could be worse.

Best Picture
Belfast
Drive My Car
Dune
The Green Knight
Licorice Pizza
Pig
The Power of the Dog
Titane
West Side Story
The Worst Person in the World

Best Animated Feature
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
Steven Spielberg – West Side Story
Denis Villeneuve – Dune

Best Actor
Nicolas Cage – Pig
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield – tick, tick…BOOM!
Oscar Isaac – The Card Counter
Hidetoshi Nishijima – Drive My Car

Best Actress
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza
Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World
Agathe Rousselle – Titane
Kristen Stewart – Spencer

Best Supporting Actor
Mike Faist – West Side Story
Ciaran Hinds – Belfast
Troy Kotsur – CODA
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog
Jeffrey Wright – The French Dispatch

Best Supporting Actress
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Ann Dowd – Mass
Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard
Ruth Negga – Passing

Best Original Screenplay
Belfast
A Hero
Licorice Pizza
Mass
Pig

Best Adapted Screenplay
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
Passing
The Power of the Dog

Best Editing
Belfast
Dune
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Best Cinematography
Dune
The Green Knight
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story

Best Original Score
Dune
Encanto
The French Dispatch
The Power of the Dog
Spencer

Best Production Design
Dune
The French Dispatch
The Green Knight
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story

Best Costume Design
Cruella
Dune
The French Dispatch
Spencer
West Side Story

Best Visual Effects
Dune
The Green Knight
The Matrix Resurrections
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home

Best Debut Feature
Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter
Rebecca Hall – Passing
Fran Kranz – Mass
Michael Sarnoski – Pig
Emma Seligman – Shiva Baby

Best Film Not in the English Language
Drive My Car
Flee
A Hero
Titane
The Worst Person in the World

Best Documentary
Flee
Procession
The Rescue
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
The Velvet Underground

All three of Aaron Sorkin's films that he's directed have earned PGA nominations: Molly's Game, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and now Being the Ricardos https://t.co/1ApQc6F8TI

— Erik Anderson (@awards_watch) January 27, 2022

the presence of Belfast is really the only bleh thing xpost

CODA too.

I dislike BELFAST, TICK TICK BOOM and KING RICHARD more than CODA, but I at least understand the appeal the other three have over the cliche nothingness that is CODA.

CODA was a conventional coming of age movie and was very clichéd, yes, but watching it felt like a relief from all of the dysphoria of 2021, and the story got to me in the end

Marlee Matlin, Daniel Durant and Emilia Jones and Troy Kotsur were all pretty great and the family seemed real

I saw it in August and wondered why the hell Matlin wasn't cast in other movies besides one in which she plays a Deaf mom. I would've loved her as Lucille Ball

from what I've read Matlin made an effort to assemble the actors she wanted to work with in that film

I've never watched a film about a deaf family before

BAFTA nods inject some drama into the race…

BEST FILM
BELFAST Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik, Tamar Thomas
DON'T LOOK UP Adam McKay, Kevin Messick
DUNE Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Denis Villeneuve
LICORICE PIZZA Sara Murphy, Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner
THE POWER OF THE DOG Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
AFTER LOVE Aleem Khan, Matthieu de Braconier
ALI & AVA Clio Bernard, Tracy O’Riordan
BELFAST Kenneth Branagh, Laura Berwick, Becca Kovacik, Tamar Thomas
BOILING POINT Philip Barantini, Bart Ruspoli, Hester Ruoff, James Cummings
CYRANO Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Guy Heely, Erica Schmidt
EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE Jonathan Butterell, Peter Carlton, Mark Herbert, Tom MacRae
HOUSE OF GUCCI Ridley Scott, Mark Huffam, Giannina Scott, Kevin J Walsh, Roberto Bentivegna, Becky Johnston
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO Edgar Wright, Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner, Nira Park, Krysty Wilson-Cairns
NO TIME TO DIE Cary Joji Fukunaga, Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, Neal Pervis, Robert Wade, Phoebe Waller-Bridge
PASSING Rebecca Hall, Margot Hand, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
AFTER LOVE Aleem Khan (Writer/Director)
BOILING POINT James Cummings (Writer), Hester Ruoff (Producer) [also written by Philip Barantini and produced by Bart Ruspoli]
THE HARDER THEY FALL Jeymes Samuel (Writer/Director) [also written by Boaz Yakin]
KEYBOARD FANTASIES Posy Dixon (Writer/Director), Liv Proctor (Producer)
PASSING Rebecca Hall (Writer/Director)

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
DRIVE MY CAR Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Teruhisa Yamamoto
THE HAND OF GOD Paolo Sorrentino, Lorenzo Mieli
PARALLEL MOTHERS Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar
PETITE MAMAN Céline Sciamma, Bénédicte Couvreur
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD Joachim Trier, Thomas Robsahm

DOCUMENTARY
BECOMING COUSTEAU Liz Garbus, Dan Cogan
COW Andrea Arnold, Kat Mansoor
FLEE Jonas Poher Rasmussen. Monica Hellström
THE RESCUE Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, John Battsek, P. J. van Sandwijk
SUMMER OF SOUL (OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, David Dinerstein, Robert Fyvolent, Joseph Patel

ANIMATED FILM
ENCANTO Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino, Clarke Spencer
FLEE Jonas Poher Rasmussen. Monica Hellström
LUCA Enrico Casarosa, Andrea Warren
THE MITCHELLS VS THE MACHINES Mike Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller

DIRECTOR
AFTER LOVE Aleem Khan
DRIVE MY CAR Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
HAPPENING Audrey Diwan
LICORICE PIZZA Paul Thomas Anderson
THE POWER OF THE DOG Jane Campion
TITANE Julia Ducournau

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BEING THE RICARDOS Aaron Sorkin
BELFAST Kenneth Branagh
DON'T LOOK UP Adam McKay
KING RICHARD Zach Baylin
LICORICE PIZZA Paul Thomas Anderson

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
CODA Siân Heder
DRIVE MY CAR Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
DUNE Denis Villeneuve
THE LOST DAUGHTER Maggie Gyllenhaal
THE POWER OF THE DOG Jane Campion

LEADING ACTRESS
LADY GAGA House of Gucci
ALANA HAIM Licorice Pizza
EMILIA JONES CODA
RENATE REINSVE The Worst Person in the World
JOANNA SCANLAN After Love
TESSA THOMPSON Passing

LEADING ACTOR
ADEEL AKHTAR Ali & Ava
MAHERSHALA ALI Swan Song
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The Power of the Dog
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Don’t Look Up
STEPHEN GRAHAM Boiling Point
WILL SMITH King Richard

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
CAITRÍONA BALFE Belfast
JESSIE BUCKLEY The Lost Daughter
ARIANA DEBOSE West Side Story
ANN DOWD Mass
AUNJANUE ELLIS King Richard
RUTH NEGGA Passing

SUPPORTING ACTOR
MIKE FAIST West Side Story
CIARÁN HINDS Belfast
TROY KOTSUR CODA
WOODY NORMAN C’mon C’mon
JESSE PLEMONS The Power of the Dog
KODI SMIT-MCPHEE The Power of the Dog

ORIGINAL SCORE
BEING THE RICARDOS Daniel Pemberton
DON'T LOOK UP Nicholas Britell
DUNE Hans Zimmer
THE FRENCH DISPATCH Alexandre Desplat
THE POWER OF THE DOG Jonny Greenwood

CASTING
BOILING POINT Carolyn McLeod
DUNE Francine Maisler
THE HAND OF GOD Massimo Appolloni, Annamaria Sambucco
KING RICHARD Rich Delia, Avy Kaufman
WEST SIDE STORY Cindy Tolan

CINEMATOGRAPHY
DUNE Greig Fraser
NIGHTMARE ALLEY Dan Laustsen
NO TIME TO DIE Linus Sandgren
THE POWER OF THE DOG Ari Wegner
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH Bruno Delbonnel

EDITING
BELFAST Úna Ní Dhonghaíle
DUNE Joe Walker
LICORICE PIZZA Andy Jurgensen
NO TIME TO DIE Tom Cross, Elliot Graham
SUMMER OF SOUL (OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) Joshua L. Pearson


PRODUCTION DESIGN
CYRANO Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
DUNE Patrice Vermette, Zsuzsanna Sipos
THE FRENCH DISPATCH Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo
NIGHTMARE ALLEY Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau
WEST SIDE STORY Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo

COSTUME DESIGN
CRUELLA Jenny Beavan
CYRANO Massimo Cantini Parrini
DUNE Robert Morgan, Jacqueline West
THE FRENCH DISPATCH Milena Canonero
NIGHTMARE ALLEY Luis Sequeira

MAKE UP & HAIR
CRUELLA Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne
CYRANO Alessandro Bertolazzi, Siân Miller
DUNE Love Larson, Donald Mowat
THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram, Justin Raleigh
HOUSE OF GUCCI Frederic Aspiras, Jane Carboni, Giuliano Mariana, Sarah Nicole Tanno

SOUND
DUNE Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Doug Hemphill, Theo Green, Ron Bartlett
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO Colin Nicolson, Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, Dan Morgan
NO TIME TO DIE James Harrison, Simon Hayes, Paul Massey, Oliver Tarney, Mark Taylor
A QUIET PLACE PART II Erik Aadahl, Michael Barosky, Brandon Proctor, Ethan Van Der Ryn
WEST SIDE STORY Brian Chumney, Tod Maitland, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
DUNE Brian Connor, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Gerd Nefzer
FREE GUY Swen Gillberg, Brian Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis, Daniel Sudick
GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE Aharon Bourland, Sheena Duggal, Pier Lefebvre, Alessandro Ongaro
THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS Tom Debenham, Hew J Evans, Dan Glass, J. D. Schwaim
NO TIME TO DIE Mark Bokowski, Chris Corbould, Joel Green, Charlie Noble

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
AFFAIRS OF THE ART Joanna Quinn, Les Mills
DO NOT FEED THE PIGEONS Jordi Morera
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DREAD Ida Melum, Danielle Goff, Laura Jayne Tunbridge, Hannah Kelso

BRITISH SHORT FILM
THE BLACK COP Cherish Oleka
FEMME Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping, Sam Ritzenberg, Hayley Williams
THE PALACE Jo Prichard
STUFFED Theo Rhys, Joss Holden-Rea
THREE MEETINGS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY COMMITTEE Michael Woodward, Max Barron, Daniel Wheldon

EE RISING STAR AWARD
ARIANA DEBOSE
HARRIS DICKINSON
LASHANA LYNCH
MILLICENT SIMMONDS
KODI SMIT-MCPHEE

Maybe drama overstates, but ditching Branagh in director and Kidman and Stewart and Chastain in actress is 👏

2021's Oscar Nominees

Literally not one of the BAFTA nominees carried over to Oscar.

Some fun lists:

https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/film-at-lincoln-center-staff-share-top-10-of-2021-lists/