Awards Season 2021

[Never Cursed]

And here’s The French Dispatch atop Brody’s top 35 of the year

Don't read this if you don't want spoilers for Petite Maman or (to a lesser extent) Titane

[MongooseCmr]

I don’t know what could be a spoiler for Petite Maman that isn’t readily obvious from the premise, or even a poor assumption of what that title means in English

[therewillbeblus]

That's true, but it's still a film best entered as blind as possible

[yoloswegmaster]

National Board of Review Winners + Top 10 Films of the Year

[therewillbeblus]

National Board of Review Winners + Top 10 Films of the Year

How does Licorice Pizza win Best Film but fail to be recognized in (either) Top Ten of the year?

[knives]

I don’t know what could be a spoiler for Petite Maman that isn’t readily obvious from the premise, or even a poor assumption of what that title means in English

I haven’t seen the movie and don’t know the spoiler in question, but little mama is a pretty common term of endearment across languages with no additional meaning to it.

[Dr Amicus]

National Board of Review Winners + Top 10 Films of the Year

How does Licorice Pizza win Best Film but fail to be recognized in (either) Top Ten of the year?

Because it is in the top ten, it’s not clearly stated but the top film list shown has 9 films as Licorice Pizza is actually one of the top ten but is not shown on that list. If that makes sense!

[therewillbeblus]

Yep, strange to list nine films in a top ten- I didn't even bother counting

[DarkImbecile]

They’ve also got the Adapted and Original screenplay winners swapped, which made me do a double-take:



Could’ve sworn I had read something about this Macbeth person before this year.

[Pavel]

I know the National Board of Review isn't a huge Oscar precursor, but definitely hope the Red Rocket nom leads to a path to the Oscars (likewise Farhadi for Screenplay and PTA beating Belfast). Hinds definitely looks good in terms of Oscar chances, and he was my favorite part of Belfast, so I'm happy.

[swo17]

National Board of Review Winners + Top 10 Films of the Year

How does Licorice Pizza win Best Film but fail to be recognized in (either) Top Ten of the year?

Because it is in the top ten, it’s not clearly stated but the top film list shown has 9 films as Licorice Pizza is actually one of the top ten but is not shown on that list. If that makes sense!

Don't they always do that?

[Walter Kurtz]

They’ve also got the Adapted and Original screenplay winners swapped, which made me do a double-take:
Could’ve sworn I had read something about this Macbeth person before this year.

With this fantastic writing accolade, he might get cocky and next do an adaptation of Borges' Pierre Menard.

[DarkImbecile]

NYFCC Awards

[Never Cursed]

It'll be a good season if Campion and Anderson are the big winners, but gosh do I fail to understand what anyone likes about Kathryn Hunter in the Coen. The Actress pick is one of the most blatant examples of "give it to the contender we want most at the gala" I can recall.

[hearthesilence]

Sight & Sound's annual poll of the top 50 films (as always, it adheres to the UK release schedule)

[hearthesilence]

NYFCC Awards

Pleasantly surprised to see Drive My Car take Best Film. I ranked my list like everyone else but honestly ranking the top 3 was negligible - Drive My Car was on par with Memoria and Days.

[Pavel]

Golden Globe nominations

[hearthesilence]

Golden Globe nominations

My first thought when I glanced through that list was "weren't there better movies than this?" only to realize most of what I had in mind weren't American or British. But even then, I would have preferred more nominations for Passing and the absent C'mon C'mon and The Card Counter along with Mills, Schrader and most of their cast over many of those nominees.

[therewillbeblus]

The C'mon C'mon snubs for the two key supporting parts are unfortunate and hopefully not reflective of Oscar picks, though the most puzzling is the absence of Bradley Cooper for Licorice Pizza, which I expect to be a shoe-in nom (and deservedly so- let us return to days of rewarding minimal screentime scene-stealers!) Giving two noms to Belfast in that latter category makes it all the worse

[soundchaser]

Although I haven't seen it, the lack of The Worst Person in the World in Non English-Language is confusing. Unless its qualifying run didn't count for the Globes?

[Pavel]

Although I haven't seen it, the lack of The Worst Person in the World in Non English-Language is confusing. Unless its qualifying run didn't count for the Globes?

I used to think Worst Person was the frontrunner for the Oscar, but it actually looks like Drive My Car is the film to most consistently show up at award bodies so far.

The Globes like to over-nominate musicals, so I would've loved to see Mike Faist, my favorite performance in the wonderful new WSS, get in

[Pavel]

Oh, and here are the very similar Critics Choice nominations. Cage is a nice enough surprise but the fact that Simon Rex can't even get in here (or GG Comedy/Musical) is disappointing

[therewillbeblus]

Yeah I'd love to see Cage get a left-field nom for Pig, but in ain't happening- though Adam Arkin's perf is even more deserving (but far less likely) at nabbing a supporting actor nom for selling the perversity of the material-tone relationship with sincerity. I'm still gobsmacked they were able to pull that off in the final act, and it's all riding on Arkin

[hearthesilence]

The Power of the Dog tops IndieWire's Critics Poll for 2021.

[DarkImbecile]

Paul Schrader’s top 10 of the year, with the #1 you’d expect and one really disappointing choice: