Monday, May 24, 2021

JWD Award winners

Top 35 here

What can I say - I was lazy on a lot of the below and the answers are obvious!

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 (VERY close 2nd)
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 

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

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

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

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

Best Ensemble:


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

Best Documentary:



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

Best Animated Film:


Wolfwalkers
World of Tomorrow 3

Best Foreign Film:


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

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

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

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

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

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

Best Costumes:


Best Makeup:


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

Best Production Design:


Emma
Malkrog
David Copperfield
Proxima
Mank
Harley Quinn

Best Visual Effects:


Birds of Prey
Mank
Proxima
World of Tomorrow 3

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

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

This one is so hard! It should have been Satisfied, but I really didn't love the edit they did on Hamilton. For straight up song, probably Queen Bee, but the scene puts Another Round over the top.  

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

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 (close 2nd)
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

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