Sunday, June 11, 2023

2022 JWD Awards

Previous Years: 202120202019201820172016, 201520142013201220112010 

Since I both didn't see half of what I meant to see, and this is so late, I'm sure these are going to be missing a lot of things, because I just haven't had the time to devote to it this year. 

Best Film:
TÁR
Eight Mountains
Bones & All
Decision to Leave
Aftersun
Memoria
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Banshees of Inisherin
After Yang
Eternal Daughter
Benediction

Notable Omissions: Women King, Women Talking, The Fablemans, The Wonder, Corsage, Pinocchio, Holy Spider, No Bears, Kimi, armageddon time, playground, lost illusions, EO

Best Popcorn Flick:
RRR
Top Gun Maverick
Nope
The Menu
Glass Onion
Men
Bob's Burgers
Marcel the Shell

Film I'm Most Looking Forward To That I Missed:
Corsage
the Wonder
Three Thousand Years
Crimes of the Future
The Northman
Zero Fucks Given
The House
the Card Counter
Pleasure

Best Debut Film:
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Aftersun
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Barbarian
On the Count of Three

Notable Omissions: Joyland, Farha, the Quiet Girl, Night of the Coconut, Lullaby, 20th Century Girl, Hit the Road, Falcon Lake, Emily the Criminal, the Inspection, Murina, Saint Omer, Happening, Clara Sola, Rodeo, We're All Going to the World's Fair

Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett - TÁR
Tang Wei - Decision to Leave
Taylor Russell - Bones & All
Tilda - Memoria, Eternal Daughter
Keke Palmer - Nope
Michelle Yeoh - EEAAO
Lily McInerny - Palm Trees and Power Lines
Odessa Young - Mothering Sunday

Notable Omissions: Viola Davis - Woman King, Michelle Williams - the Fablemans, Andrea Riseborough - To Leslie, Margot Robbie - Babylon, Danielle Deadwyler - Till, Lesley Manville - Mrs. Harris, Dale Dickey - A Love Song, Alena Mikhaylova - Tchaikovsky's Wife, Rooney Mara - Women Talking, Vicky Krieps - Corsage, Zar Amir Ebrahimi - Holy Spider, Mia Goth - Pearl, Adele Exarchopoulos - Zero Fucks Given, Guslagie Malanda - Saint Omer, Zoe Kazan - She Said, Anna Diop - Nanny, Park Ji-Min - Return to Seoul

Best Actor:
Rory Kinnear - Men
Jonathan Tucker - Palm Trees & Power Lines
Luca Marinelli - Eight Mountains
Timothee Chalamet - Bones & All
Park Hae-il - Decision to Leave
Paul Mescal - Aftersun
Colin Farrell - Banshees
Colin Farrell - After Yang
Jack Lowden - Benediction
Cooper Raiff - Cha Cha Real Smooth

Notable Omissions: Paul Dano - the Fablemans, Bill Nighy - Living, Diego Calva - Babylon, Jeremy Pope - the Inspection, Hugh Jackman - the Son, Daniel Gimenez Cacho - Bardo, Eden Dambrine - Close, Song Kang-ho - Broker, Brendan Fraser - the Whale, Viggo Mortensen - Crimes of the Future, Franz Rogowski - Great Freedom, Benjamin Voisin - Lost Illusions, Freddie Gibbs - Down with the King, Jake Gyllenhaal - Ambulance

2021 JWD awards

Previous Years: 20202019201820172016, 201520142013201220112010 

This is 18 months late, so I barely remember the year. I'm sure a shocking amount of things are missing from the below. 


Best Film:
Power of the Dog
Tick Tick Boom
Worst Person in the World
Green Knight
Souvenir pt 2
Bergman Island
Spencer
Flee
Passing
Luzzu


Best Popcorn Flick:
CODA
Licorice Pizza
Matrix Resurrections
I'm Your Man
Sparks Brothers
In the Heights
Zola
French Dispatch

Film I'm Most Looking Forward To That I Missed:
Oh god so many
Drive My Car
The Rescue
Petite Maman
Riders of Justice
Red Rocket
Pig
Moffie
Cow
Lost Daughter
Bitterbrush
Card Counter (especially since I just learned it uses William Tell's Overture)
Quiet Part pt 2

Best Debut Film:
Passing
Shiva Baby (I have somehow included Shiva Baby on both my 2020 and 2021 lists??? What is time in the pandemic?? (I think it's because NBR, the Indie Spirits, and Sight & Sound have all listed it as a 2021 film, but I saw it in 2020. But I forgot to put it up for best debut and poster, so here I go in 2021. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)  
Censor
Wild Indian
Nine Days
Tick Tick Boom
Luzzu
Land

Notable Omissions: Lost Daughter, Pig, El Planeta, Test Pattern, Beginning, Identifying Features, Faya Dayi, Mass, the Novice, the Humans, the Inheritance, the Killing of Two Lovers, Last and First Men

Best Actress:
Tessa Thompson - Passing
Katherine Waterson - The World to Come
Kristen Stewart - Spencer
Honor Swinton Byrne - Souvenir pt 2
Renate Reinsve - Worst Person in the World
Taylour Paige - Zola
Vicky Krieps - Bergman Island
Maren Eggert - I'm Your Man
Michelle Pfeiffer - French Exit

Notable Omissions: Olivia Colman - Lost Daughter, Matha Plimpton - Mass, Marion Cotillard - Annette, Claire Rushbrook - Ali & Ava, Frances McDormand - Maccers, Katia Pascariu - Bad Luck Banging, Noomi Rapace - Lamb

Best Actor:
Benedict Cumberbatch - Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield - Tick Tick Boom
Dev Patel - Green Knight
Michael Greyeyes - Wild Indian
Demián Bichir - Land
Peter Dinklage - Cyrano

Notable Omissions: Simon Rex - Red Rocket, Clifton Collins - Jockey, Nicholas Cage - Pig, Oscar Isaac - Card Counter, Hidetoshi Nishijima - Drive My Car, Adeel Akhtar - Ali & Ava, Denzel - Maccers, Jason Isaacs - Mass, Udo Kier - Swan Song, Andrew Garfield - Mainstream


Best Supporting Actress:
Mia Wasikowska - Bergman Island
Ruth Negga - Passing
Vanessa Kirby - the World to Come
Caitíona Balfe - Belfast
Kirsten Dunst - Power of the Dog
Marlee Matlin - CODA
Tilda - Souvenir pt 2
Riley Keough - Zola
Ariana DeBose - West Side Story
Valerie Mahaffey - French Exit

Notable Omissions: Jessie Buckley/Dakota Johnson - Lost Daughter, Aunjanue Ellis - King Richard, Ann Dowd - Mass, Gaby Hoffman - C'mon C'mon, Kathryn Hunter - Maccers, Revika Anne Reustle - Pleasure, Clair Foy - Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Kotone Furukawa/Aoba Kawai - Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Park Yurim - Drive My Car