Monday, March 1, 2021

2020 JWD Awards

Previous Years: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 

I'm probably missing some things in here, but... 2020. Half the guild noms aren't even out yet!

Best Film:


First Cow
Babyteeth
Gunda
City Hall
Nomadland
Mouthpiece
Proxima
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Minari
Another Round

Best Popcorn Flick:


The Personal History of David Copperfield
Bad Education
Wolfwalkers
Summerland
Palm Springs
Hamilton
Emma
Dating Amber
Bloody Hell
Lucky

Film I'm Most Looking Forward To That I Missed:


Bacurau
Beanpole
Corpus Christie
Da 5 Bloods
The Assistant
Kajillionaire
Swallow
My Octopus Teacher
Jane Goodall: The Hope
Quo Vadis, Aida

Best Debut Film:


Palm Springs
Babyteeth
Emma
Sound of Metal
The Vast of Night 

Notable Omissions: His House, Los Lobos, Relic, Shithouse, Swallow, the True Adventures of Wolfboy, Tigertail, Apples, 

Best Actress:


Gemma Arterton - Summerland
Eliza Scanlen - Babyteeth
Eva Green - Proxima
Frances McDormand - Nomadland
Kate Winslet - Ammonite
Michelle Pfeiffer - French Exit
Odessa Young - Shirley
Rosa Ramirez - Forgotten Roads
Sidney Flanigan - Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Han Ye-ri - Minari

Notable Omissions: Andrea Riseborough - Luxor/Possessor, Holliday Grainger - Animals, Julia Garner - The Assistant, Kelly O'Sullivan - Saint Frances, Nicole Beharie - Miss Juneteenth, Rachel Brosnahan - I'm Your Woman, Vanessa Kirby - Pieces of a Woman, Andra Day - United States vs. Billie Holliday, Carrie Coon - The Nest, Haley Bennett - Swallow

Best Actor:


Dev Patel - the Personal History of David Copperfield
Hugh Jackman - Bad Education
John Magaro - First Cow
Kingsley Ben-Adir - One Night in Miami
Mads Mikkelsen - Another Round
Orion Lee - First Cow
Riz Ahmed - Sound of Metal
Steven Yuen - Minari

Notable Omissions: Delroy Lindo - Da 5 Bloods, Anthony Hopkins - The Father, Ben Affleck - The Way Back, Riz Ahmed - Mogul Mowgli, Tahar Rahim - The Mauritanian, Tom Hanks - News of the World, George Clooney - Midnight Sky

Best Supporting Actress:



Bolude Watson - Hearts & Bones
Amanda Seyfried - Mank
Essie Davis - Babyteeth
Elisabeth Moss - Shirley
Mia Goth - Emma
Molly Gordon - Shiva Baby
Talia Ryder - Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Toni Collette - I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Youn Yuh-jung - Minari
Valerie Mahaffey - French Exit
Rochenda Sandall - Mangrove

Notable Omissions: Olivia Colman - The Father, Debra Winger - Kajillionaire, Fiona Shaw - Kindred, Helena Zengel - News of the World, Maria Bakalova - Borat, Molly Parker & Ellen Burstyn - Pieces of a Woman

Best Supporting Actor:


Aldis Hodge - One Night in Miami
Ben Mendelsohn - Babyteeth
Lars Eidinger - Proxima
David Strathairn - Nomadland
David Thewlis - I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Gael Garcia Bernal - Ema
Paul Raci - Sound of Metal
Toby Jones - First Cow
Daniel Kaluuya - Judas and the Black Messiah
Shaun Parkes - Mangrove

Notable Omissions: Chadwick Boseman & Clarke Peters - Da 5 Bloods,  Frank Langella, Sacha Baron Cohen, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II & Jeremy Strong - Trial of the Chicago 7, Matthew Macfayden - The Assistant, D'Angelou Osei Kissiedu - Rocks, Barry Keoghan - Calm with Horses, Brian Denehy - Driveways

Best Ensemble:


One Night in Miami
Emma
Babyteeth
First Cow
Shirley
Shiva Baby
Malmkrog
Minari
Judas and the Black Messiah

Notable Omissions: Da 5 Bloods, Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Documentary:



Athlete A
Dick Johnson is Dead
Gunda
Time
City Hall
Public Trust
Bloody Nose Empty Pockets

Notable Omissions: The Mole Agent, My Octopus Teacher, Truffle Hunters, Acasa My Home, Feels Good Man, the Fight, the Go-Gos, Jane Goodall: The Hope, Mayor, David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet, Collective, All In, Welcome to Chechnya, 76 Days, the Painter and the Thief

Best Animated Film:


Wolfwalkers
World of Tomorrow 3

Notable Omissions: Soul

Best Foreign Film:


Another Round
Babyteeth
Bait
Ema
Forgotten Roads
Malmkrog
Tragic Jungle
Wolfwalkers
Night of the Kings

Notable Omissions: Quo Vadis, Aida, Charlatan, And then we Danced, Bacurau, Beanpole, And Tomorrow the Entire World, Atlantis, My Little Sister, Vitalina Varela, Wet Season, Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time, 

Best Director:


Choe Zhao - Nomadland
Eliza Hittman - Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Kelly Reichardt - First Cow
Lee Isaac Chung - Minari
Thomas Vinterberg - Another Round
Charlie Kaufman - I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Shannon Murphy - Babyteeth
Josephine Decker - Shirley
Patricia Rozema - Mouthpiece
Alice Winocour - Proxima

Notable Omissions: Saint Frances, Swallow, Miss Juneteenth, I'm Your Woman, Beanpole, Da 5 Bloods, the 40-year old version

Best Screenplay - Original:
Minari
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Ammonite
Another Round
The Vast of Night
Palm Springs

Notable Omissions: Da 5 Bloods, Trial of the Chicago 7, Kajillionaire

Best Screenplay - Adapted:
Nomadland
First Cow
Bad Education
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Emma
Mouthpiece

Notable Omissions: White Tiger, News of the World, Midnight Sky

Best Editing:
Nomadland
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Time
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
First Cow
City Hall

Notable Omissions: Invisible Man, Residue, Tenet, The Father, Trial of the Chicago 7, Beanpole

Best Cinematography:


Nomadland
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Mangrove
Minari
Tragic Jungle
Mank
First Cow
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
The Vast of Night
Ammonite
Gunda
Ema
Emma
David Copperfield

Notable Omissions: She Dies Tomorrow, Bull, The Assistant, Beanpole, Da 5 Bloods, Painted Bird, Tenet, Vitalina Varela, Rocks, Saint Maud, She Dies Tomorrow

Best Costumes:


Notable Omissions: Rocks, Saint Maud, The Assistant, Swallow, Mulan

Best Makeup:


Harley Quinn
Emma
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Mank
Promising Young Woman
Ammonite

Notable Omissions: The Glorias, Jingle Jangle, Saint Maud, Rocks, Misbehaviour, US vs. Billie Holliday

Best Production Design:


Emma
Malkrog
David Copperfield
Proxima
Mank
Harley Quinn

Notable Omissions: Mulan, Tenet, Da 5 Bloods, Trial of the Chicago 7, News of the World, Beanpole, The Father

Best Visual Effects:


Birds of Prey
Mank
Proxima
World of Tomorrow 3

Notable Omissions: Midnight Sky, Mulan, One and Only Ivan, Tenet, Welcome to Chechnya

Best Score:
Wendy
Athlete A
Nomadland (ineligible for the oscars)

Notable Omissions: Driveways, Tenet, Da 5 Bloods, Jingle Jangle, Midnight Sky, News of the World, Soul, Trial of the Chicago 7, Truffle Hunters, Sylvie's love, Invisible Man, Calm with Horses, Eurovision, Kajillionaire

Best Song/Musical Moment:


Ema - sun dance
What A Life - Another Round
Turntables - All In (haven't seen, but was listening to the song before I knew it was from a film)
The Minari song
Love thy Neighbor - Prom (Andrew Rannells is so great)
Satisfied - Hamilton 
the ballet - I'm Thinking of Ending Things
The grocery store - Mouthpiece

Notable Omissions: Trial of the Chicago 7, Mulan, Jingle Jangle, Belly of the Beast, Mr. Soul!, Borat, Eurovision

Best Sound - both Editing & Mixing:
Proxima
Another Round
Nomadland
One Night in Miami
Sound of Metal
Ma Rainey's

Notable Omissions: Tenet, Soul, Jingle Jangle, News of the World, Midnight Sky, Da 5 Bloods, Invisible Man, Trial of the Chicago 7, Eurovision, the Forty-year -old version

Best Short - Live Action/Doc (limiting to what I saw this year, not just recent shorts, because I didn't see any proper shorts programs in 2020! I have already for 2021, tho...):
Drum Wave

Best Short - Animated:
Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess
Promising Young Woman (or this one)

Best Trailer:
Promising Young Woman (golden fleece award?)

umm... did I see other trailers? Since I wasn't seeing things in theaters...

Best Quote:
"Do you ever have nightmares after eating cheese? You might've eaten a ghost!" - Extra Ordinary
"I love this man beyond measure and reason. He’s not my ‘boyfriend.’ He’s all and he’s more." - The Old Guard
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions. Their lives a mimicry. Their passions a quotation." - I'm Thinking of Ending Things
"Let's pray for a boy. The world is too cruel to girls." - Shirley
"Don't be gay in Indiana" - The Prom
"History isn't here yet. It's coming, but maybe this time we can take it on our own terms." - First Cow
"I'll see you down the road" - Nomadland
"You know the quickest way of getting rid of me?" "Tie you up. Dump you in that river." - Miss Fisher
"I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him." - Emma
"Hair tie?" - Birds of Prey
"If I ever go to the electric chair, I'd like him to be sitting in my lap." - Mank
"You know what you can do for the elderly? You can bugger off" - Summerland
"Oh my goodness." "What's wrong Cash?" "What? Cash, What is it?" "Why am I sooo pretty?" - One Night in Miami
"This is the worst possible parenting I can imagine." - Babyteeth
"And it’s ours, David, to go wherever we choose. No, not down there. Creditors make that road impassable. Two tailors, and a most unreasonable muffin man." - David Copperfield
"Razz my berries" -The Vast of Night

Unforgettable Moment (Arr. There be spoilers here:)
the oily cakes - First Cow
the draft - Emma.
the hike - Spinster
the closet - Dick Johnson is Dead
the ending - Shirley
the questionnaire - Never Rarely
the cave - World of Tomorrow 3
the tracking shot - Vast of Night
the dinner - I'm Thinking of Ending Things
the cannabis dispensary - City Hall
leaving for the last time - Bloody Nose Empty Pockets
the final scene - Gunda

Other superlatives:
Best trailer for a 2021 film: I'm... not going to do this one this year, because too many 2020 films got pushed out
2021 Film I'm Most Looking Forward to: The Banshees of Inisheer (Runners up: In the Heights, Nadia Butterfly, Nightmare Alley, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, the Dig, Last Night in Soho, Little Fish)
Movie You Wanted to Love but Just Couldn't: Ammonite. I *liked* it. 
Most Wasted Potential of an Idea: Promising Young Woman. *sigh*
Best surprise director: Robert Zemekis
Best Superhero: Joe, The Old Guard. A gay, muslim, romantic - and the best superhero in ages!
Best Villain: I mean - so many ways to go with this category in 2020. You've got Men in Lucky, capitalism in Nomadland/First Cow/Bait/Public Trust, America in Time/Never Rarely/I Carry You With Me/Athlete A, humans in Gunda, alcoholism in Another Round/Bloody Nose/Mank, racism in Mangrove/One Night/Ma Rainey/Time, plus just so many films about grief! So I think this year we'll need to just go traditional with Uriah Heep in David Copperfield. *shudder*
Best Female Action Star: Miss Fisher
Best Action Scene: the police station - Birds of Prey
Biggest Waste of a Cast: mmm - Prom? Less James Corden?
Best Music Cue: Toxic - Promising Young Woman
Most WTF: Imma go ahead and assume whoever decided to cast Christopher Walken as Irish. No, I didn't see it, but I presume I'm right. 
Best scene in an otherwise okay film: the ending - Wendy
Actor Having the Most Fun While Earning a Paycheck: Chris Pine - WW84
Best Kiss: Emma
Best Cat: French Exit
Best dog: I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Best Pig: Gunda
Best Cow: FIRST COW
Best food: the oily cakes - First Cow
Best unexpected dinosaur: Palm Springs
Best New to Me: Columbus, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Dishonored, In a Lonely Place, Night of the Hunter, Dial M for Murder
Best Hair: Charlize Theron - Old Guard
Best Wig: Promising Young Woman (runner up: Babyteeth)
Worst Wig: Meryl Streep - Prom
Best Hat: Peter Capaldi - David Copperfield
Best sciencing: Proxima
Best sidekick: Detective Inspector Jack Robinson
Prettiest landscape: Cowboys
Worst scene in an otherwise great film: Sarah showing Stella the rocket
Worst song: Who boy. We've got most of Daffodils (and I love Rose McIver and Kimbra!) and Stage Mother (Jacki Weaver is a treasure, truly, and I mean no disrespect), but I think this one clearly has to go to James Corden with Tonight Belongs to You in The Prom
Best Cameo: Ummm... WW84? I heard Mulan had one? This is what happens when almost all the big films get pushed
Best Breakthrough: Kingsley Ben-Adir - One Night in Miami
Best Ending (the McKayla Maroney award): Tie: Another Round and Gunda (although really, Proxima, Dick Johnson is Dead, Babyteeth - all amazing)
Best opening: David Copperfield. (Or Hamilton)
Best credits: I literally don't remember any that stood out this year.... Birds of Prey?
Most overrated: Promising Young Woman

Best TV Show: STILL HANNIBAL.
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