Well award season has been in full swing for some time. Nominations for the 94th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, February 8. It’s been announced that 276 feature films (those with running time more than 40-minutes) are eligible for this year’s Oscars, with nomination voting set to began yesterday, Jan 27, until Tuesday, Feb 1.
Well, I thought this year I’m starting FlixChatter’s unofficial ‘awards’ based on 2021 movies I managed to catch last year and the past few weeks of January, so obviously not meant to be a comprehensive list. As the title says, a bunch of the categories are completely random and in the spirit of fun, so with that… here. we. go!
Best Picture: The Power of the Dog
Best Director: Jane Campion – The Power Of the Dog
Best Original Screenplay: Belfast – Kenneth Branagh
Best Adapted Screenplay: CODA – Siân Heder
Best Cinematography: DUNE – Greig Fraser
Best Score: DUNE – Hans Zimmer
Best Sound Design: DUNE
Best Costume Design: House of Gucci – Janty Yates
Best Makeup/Hairstyling: Nightmare Alley
Best Art Direction/Production Design: (tie) Nightmare Alley + The Green Knight
Best Visual Effects: DUNE
Best Breakthrough Female Performer: Emilia Jones – CODA
Best Breakthrough Male Performer: Robin de Jesus – Tick, Tick… Boom!
Best Scene Stealer (Male): Harish Patel in Eternals
Best Scene Stealer (Female): Ana de Armas in No Time To Die
Best Kid Actor in a first film role (Male): Jude Hill in Belfast
Best Kid Actor in a first film role (Female): Joséphine Sanz in Petite Maman
Best Lead Female Performance snubbed by Golden Globes/SAG: Jodie Comer – The Last Duel
Best Lead Male Performance snubbed by Golden Globes/SAG: Adam Driver – Annette
Best Supporting Female Performance snubbed by Golden Globes/SAG: Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
Best Supporting Male Performance snubbed by Golden Globes/SAG: Jason Isaacs – MASS
Best Movie Song: La Musique du Futur – Mon Coeur – Petite Maman
Best First Movie by a Female Director: The Lost Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal
Best First Movie by a Male Director: Pig – Michael Sarnoski
Best First Screenplay: MASS – Fran Kranz
Best Ensemble Cast: The Harder They Fall
Best Surprise Cameo: Chris Evans – Don’t Look Up
Best Foreign Language Feature by a Female Director: Petite Maman – Céline Sciamma
Best Foreign Language Feature by a Male Director: Drive My Car – Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Best Opening Sequence: Annette
Best Black & White Movie: Belfast
Best Documentary: Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It
Best Dressed Female Character: Cate Blanchett’s Dr. Lilith Ritter – Nightmare Alley
Best Dressed Male Character: Adam Driver’s Maurizio Gucci – House of Gucci
Best Movie Car: Red Saab 900 Turbo – Drive My Car
Best Superhero Duo: Scarlett Johansson + Florence Pugh – Black Widow
Best Superhero Trio: Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield + Tom Holland – Spider-Man: No Way Home
Best Movie Rewatch in 2021: Crazy Rich Asians
Best Car Chase: Chase through Matera – No Time To Die
Best Whoa Moment at the Movies: When the trio Spideys showed up in Spider-Man: No Way Home
Best Non-Human Performance: Baby Annette
Best Movie with Virtually No Dialog: The Man in the Hat
Best Movie Villain: Tony Leung as Xu Wenwu – Shang-Chi
Best Fight Scene (period): Jousting + hand-to-hand combat – The Last Duel
Best Fight Scene (contemporary) – Bus Fight – Shang-Chi
Best Actor-Singing-for-real: Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick… Boom!
Best Movie Robot: (tie) I’m Your Man – Dan Stevens + Finch – Caleb Landry Jones (voice)
Best Sports Scene: Tennis matches in King Richard
Best Minimalistic Film: The Tragedy of Macbeth
Best Underrated Gem: Riders Of Justice
Best Pleasant Surprise Movie: Pig
Best 2021 Trailer: House of Gucci
Best Trailer Song: Heart Of Glass – Blondie (House of Gucci)
MISCELLANEOUS NOTABLE CATEGORIES
Most Bonker Movie: Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Worst Movie: Red Notice (Netflix)
Most Wasted Actor: Paul Giamatti – Jungle Cruise
Movie I Stop Watching Halfway Through: Sounds Like Love (Netflix)
Most Drool-Worthy Actor of the Year: Adam Driver – Annette, The Last Duel, House of Gucci
Worst Surprise Cameo: (tie) Ed Sheeran – Red Notice + Ariana Grande – Don’t Look Up
Craftiest Way To Murder Someone: The Power Of the Dog
Most Cringe-worthy Sex Scene: Richard Madden + Gemma Chan in Eternals
Most Disappointing Highly-Anticipated Movie: Eternals
Most Disappointing Sequel: The Matrix Ressurrections
If only Keanu could dodge terrible movies from being made 😀
Yay for Ed Sheeran for worst cameo. I hate that guy. He’s a fucking racist piece of shit.
Well I don’t know anything about his personal life or even his music, but that cameo is utterly stupid! But then again the whole movie is just idiotic.
My mother and her friends saw it and… oh man…
I know! It’s just atrocious, an insult to injury as the movie is already soooo awful! 🤬
You’ve came up with a lot categories there! I haven’t seen that many films last year, so I’ll just agree with everything you had Dune won in.
Ahah, well you saw No Time To Die and Spider-Man: No Way Home too right? But yeah, I LOVE Dune, glad one of my most anticipated movies did meet my expectations!
Yup, I enjoyed both No Time To Die and SpiderMan but I don’t know if those films deserves any awards.
No, not REAL awards no, but I think it has some fun moments that warrants an ‘award’ from this wee blog 😆
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Ha, ha, hey Flixy, LOVE all your new award categories! You get the award for coming up with some many Best new categories, LOL 🙂
Ahah thanks Becky! I actually started my notes on my iPhone like a week ago and just kept adding different categories, this was fun to do 😀
I can’t even express how much I love these awards! So many great movies in here, and I can’t believe Barb & Star was a 2021 movie, it feels like so long ago!
Glad you enjoyed the award list, it was fun to work on it!
Yeah Barb & Star seems like it’s been released ages ago. I gotta say Jamie Dornan is quite versatile to go from his quirky role in B&S to the more reflective one in Belfast!!
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