Sunday, June 11, 2023

2021 JWD awards

Previous Years: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 

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

Best Supporting Actor:
Troy Kotsur - CODA
Kodi Smit-McPhee - Power of the Dog
Jesse Plemons - Power of the Dog
Anders Danielsen Lie - Worst Person in the World
Andre Holland - Passing
Casey Affleck - the World to Come
Colman Domingo - Zola
Mike Faist - West Side Story
Anders Danielsen Lie - Bergman Island
Tim Roth - Bergman Island
Richard Ayoade - Souvenir pt 2

Notable Omissions: Reed Birney - Mass, Simon Helberg - Annette, JK Simmons - Being the Ricardos, Richard Jenkins - The Humans, Talid Ariss - After Love, Andrew Garfield - Eyes of Tammy Faye, Mark Rylance - Don't Look Up, Toni Servillo - Hand of God, Pablo Torre Nilsson - Azor

Best Ensemble:
Power of the Dog
Passing
Bergman Island
Worst Person in the World
Souvenir pt 2
Licorice Pizza
Zola
In the Heights
World to Come
Hmmm... tricky to say Harder They Fall at this point, but for Idirs, Zazie, Regina, Delroy & Lakeith (among others), let's still include it...

Notable Omissions: Mass, Drive My Car

Best Documentary:
Flee
The Sparks Brothers
All Light Everywhere
After Antarctica
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Searchers
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

Notable Omissions: Attica, Ascension, Faya Dayi, First Wave, In the Same Breath, Procession, the Rescue, Becoming Cousteau, Roadrunner, Loneliest Whale, Cow, the Velvet Underground

Best Animated Film:
Flee
Encanto

...

Notable Omissions: anything else?

Best Foreign Film:
Worst Person in the World
Luzzu 
Flee
I'm Your Man

Notable Omissions: Drive My Car, Lunana, Great Freedom, Compartment No 6, Lamb, Bad Luck Banging, Petite Maman, Riders of Justice

Best Director:
Rebecca Hall - Passing
Jane Campion - Power of the Dog
Mia Hansen-Love - Bergman Island
Steven Spielberg - WSS
David Lowery - Green Knight
Joanna Hogg - Souvenir pt 2
Janicza Bravo - Zola
Lin Manuel Miranda - Tick Tick Boom

Notable Omissions: Petite Maman, Lost Daughter, Pig, Pleasure, Annette

Best Screenplay - Original:
Worst Person in the World
Bergman Island
Last Night in Soho
Licorice Pizza

Notable Omissions: Card Counter, After Love, Mass, Azor, The Disciple, Preparations to be together for an unknown period of time, velvet underground, Annette, Hand of God, Parallel mothers,

Best Screenplay - Adapted:
Power of the Dog
Green Knight
Passing
Tick Tick Boom
Zola
Souvenir pt 2
I'm Your Man
Coda

Notable Omissions: Drive My Car, Lost Daughter, Maccers, last duel, prayers for the stolen,

Best Editing:
Power of the Dog
tick tick boom
souvenir pt 2
Zola
WSS

Notable Omissions: Cow, Annette, Lost Daughter

Best Cinematography:
Power of the Dog
Censor
Passing
Zola
Green Knight
WSS
Dune

Notable Omissions: Maccers, Cow, Boiling Point, Jockey, Pig

Best Costumes:
Passing

Notable Omissions: Cruella, Gucci, Benedetta, Electrical Life of Louis Wain

Best Makeup:
In the Heights
Dune
Last Night in Soho
French dispatch
WSS

Notable Omissions: Cruella

Best Production Design:
Passing
Dune
Power of the Dog
West Side Story
In the Heights
Souvenir pt II
Censor
French Dispatch
Cyrano

Notable Omissions: Lost Daughter, Last Duel, Boiling Point

Best Visual Effects:
Dune
Matrix Resurrections
Last Night in Soho

Notable Omissions: Suicide Squad, Venom, Candyman, Annette, Black Widow, Ghostbusters, Godzilla vs. Kong

Best Score:
Passing (as I recall, the score weaves in bits by Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou, whose work was also used in Time (2020))
Zola (I loved that in the theater I went... 'this is Mica Levi')

Notable Omissions: Annette, Bruised, Drive My Car, Pig, Lost Daughter, the book of vision, Luca, Ascension, The Scary of Sixty-First, Parallel Mothers, the reason I jump, Don't Look Up, Jakob's Wife, the Power, the Night House, the Velvet Queen, In the Earth, I Care a Lot, Misha and the Wolves, C'mon C'mon, Cruella, Card Counter, Last Duel

Best Song/Musical Moment:
What a GREAT year for musical moments:
This Town ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us - The Sparks Brothers (Here's just the performance)
I guess the Jets from WSS for featuring Mike Faist and not Ansel Elgort? the mixer? I feel pretty? Rita singing Somewhere?
        (Why not America? Here's the issue - I LOVE the version of America from the broadway revival (here's the full audio), so as much as I love the costumes and choreography, I hate the movie version. The changes don't make sense narratively (why does Anita start the song???). The mix makes the girls sound tinny. Honestly, the intro to In the Heights ends up being the better big street dance, even without the yellow dance.)

Best Sound - both Editing & Mixing:
Passing
Power of the Dog
Coda
World to Come
Dune
tick tick boom
Matrix Resurrections
In the heights

Notable Omissions: Cow, Boiling Point, Maccers, Quiet Place pt 2, Annette

Best Short - Doc:

Best Short - Live Action:
Yoruga

Best Short - Animated:
KKUM
the animated section in French Dispatch

Best poster:
Censor

Best Trailer:
WSS teaser 

Best Quote:
"Honestly, I don't want to see this movie. I don't want to learn too much about them. I'll watch it... because I'm in it." - The Sparks Brothers
"What is the point of money, if you're not gonna spend it on the people that you love?" - Tick Tick Boom
"I'm sure you can understand why our beloved parent company, Warner Bros., has decided to make a sequel to the trilogy." - Matrix Resurrections
"That’s the problem with guns. They give insecure men the illusion of power." - On the Count of Three
"Do it." - Zola
"Send us niggas with good credit. 840!" - Zola
"I use too much teeth when I suck dick." - Zola

Unforgettable Moment (Arr. There be spoilers here:)
The drive in neutral - Licorice Pizza
the last scene with Askel (or time freezing) - Worst Person in the World
Stefani's perspective - Zola
Flash-forward - Green Knight

Other Superlatives:
Wardrobe I wish I'd had as a teen: Marvelous and the Black Hole
Prettiest landscape: Land
Worst Casting: Ansel Elgort - West Side Story. I mean - talk about dragging an entire movie down. What were they thinking?
Best Opening: 30/90 - Tick Tick Boom (Runners up: In the Heights, Titane (a film that I'd suggest should have just been this as a music video, except that the actual music video for this song is one of my all-time favorites.))
Best Cameo: John C. Reilly - Licorice Pizza (Or Anne Boleyn in Spencer?)
Best Female Action Star: Trinity
Best/Worst one-upping of Cameron Diaz in The Counselor: Titane
Best Giants: Green Knight
Most surprising inclusion of a character named Jessica: Dune (given how popular our name is, there are SHOCKINGLY few Jessicas in film. Jessica Rabbit, Merchant of Venice, the Incredible Jessica James..... that's all I know. Wikipedia tells me there are THREE more (Prancer, Queen of the Damned and Cheaper by the Dozen.) (TV has more: Jessica Jones, Jess Day, Jessica Fletcher, and Jessica Hamby (True Blood). According to Wikipedia, there are another 12 on things like Soap, The Electric Company, and Heroes.) 
Best Depiction Of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction: Mothering Sunday
Biggest Waste of a Cast: John and the Hole
Biggest Waste of a director (& cast): the Eternals
Best Pearls: Spencer
Most Wasted Potential of an Idea: Operation Mincemeat (Runner up: Cryptozoo)
Best Ending (the McKayla Maroney award): Souvenir pt. II (Runner up: Power of the Dog, The Dry (total gatsby ending))
Easiest to Guess Ending: Silent Night (every time I go to spell that movie, I spell it Silent Knight, which was the name of one of the blind sea lions at the SF Zoo)
Best Music Cue: There Must Be an Angel (Playing With My Heart)” by Eurythmics - Souvenir pt. 2
Most ridiculously, stupidly entertaining music cue: Last Resort - On the Count of Three
Best cumshot: Green Knight
Best Animal: Baku - Cryptozoo
Actor Having the Most Fun While Earning a Paycheck: Mia Goth - Mayday (Runner up: Matthew Goode - Silent Night)
Actor having the least fun: Daniel Craig - No Time to Die
Best performance from that Timothée Chalamet son-of-a-bitch: French Dispatch (sorry, Dune)
Best performance from that Timothée Chalamet son-of-a-bitch's hair: Also French Dispatch, but it's a close-run thing
Best New to Me: M
Best Scarf: Power of the Dog (Runner up: Green Knight)
Best travelogue: French Dispatch
Most WTF (bad): Titane
Most WTF (good): Zola
Best Entrance: Cyrano
Best Action Scene: Trinity flies - Matrix Resurrections 
Best Chase: the swarm chase - Matrix Resurrections
Best Cat: French Exit (Tracey Letts)
Best Dog: You'd think it would be Power of the Dog, but it's After Antarctica 
Best Sheep: The Last Autumn
Best Worms: Dune
Best Fox: Green Knight
Best Seagull: Barb & Star
Best Bird: Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Best Scarecrow: Eight for Silver
Best Breakthrough: Renate Reinsve - Worst person (Runner up: Emilia Jones - Coda)
Best Surprise Better Off Ted actor: Marvelous and the Black Hole
Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldn't: Titane (Runner up: Dune. It was fine?)
Most Overrated: (Could go with the above as well) Summer of Soul. I'm sorry. I didn't get it. I was so bored. I would have rather re-watched What Happened, Miss Simone?
Best argument against funding the police: All Light Everywhere
Best breakdown of SF transit in a 2021 action piece: Mack on Shang-Chi
Prettiest San Francisco: Matrix Resurrections
Best mid-credits scene: Sparks Brothers facts
Best post-credits scene: the Catrix
Most 'Brave Little Toaster' object trauma: Luzzu
Best reflection of the pandemic: Inside


Best TV Show: STILL HANNIBAL.
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