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

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/