The Non-Criterion Boutique Label Battle Royale: There Can Only Be (202)1

[swo17]

*Battle Royale not actually nominated for anything

BEST OVERALL RELEASES OF 2021

01 Shawscope Vol. 1 (Arrow)
02 Columbia Noir #2-4 (Indicator)
03 Sátántangó (Arbelos)
04 All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (Severin)
05 Twentieth Century (Indicator)
06 Hungarian Masters (Second Run)
07 Irezumi (Arrow)
08 The Dungeon of Andy Milligan (Severin)
09 I Start Counting! (BFI)
10 Cinema of Discovery: Julien Duvivier in the 1920s (Flicker Alley)
11 Collaborations: The Cinema of Zhang Yimou & Gong Li (Imprint)
12 Son of the White Mare (Arbelos)
13 The Bitter Stems (Flicker Alley)
14 Giants & Toys (Arrow)
15 Viy (Masters of Cinema)
16 Out of the Blue (BFI)
17 Jeremy (Fun City)
18 The Hands of Orlac (Masters of Cinema)
19 Francisca (Grasshopper)
20 Tih-Minh (Gaumont)

BEST UPGRADES

01 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Kino)
02 Fury (Warner Archive)
03 The Naked Spur (Warner Archive)
04 The Servant (StudioCanal)
05 Deep Red (Arrow)
06 A Clockwork Orange (WB)
07 Good News (Warner Archive)
08 The Howling (StudioCanal)
09 Some Came Running (Warner Archive)
10 Baby Doll (Warner Archive)

BEST BOXSETS

01 Shawscope Vol. 1 (Arrow)
02 All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (Severin)
03 Hungarian Masters (Second Run)
04 Collaborations: The Cinema of Zhang Yimou & Gong Li (Imprint)
05 Cinema of Discovery: Julien Duvivier in the 1920s (Flicker Alley)
06 Columbia Noir #2-4 (Indicator)
07 The Dungeon of Andy Milligan (Severin)
08 Ken Jacobs Collection (Kino)
09 Nobuhiko Obayashi's Anti-War Trilogy (Third Window)
10 Cartoon Saloon's Irish Folklore Trilogy (GKIDS)

BEST ARBELOS RELEASE

Runner-up: Son of the White Mare

BEST ARROW RELEASE

Runner-up: Irezumi

BEST EUREKA RELEASE

Runner-up: Viy

BEST IMPRINT RELEASE

Runner-up: The Straight Story

BEST INDICATOR RELEASE

Runner-up: Twentieth Century

BEST KINO RELEASE

Runner-up: Ken Jacobs Collection

BEST SECOND RUN RELEASE

Runner-up: Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea

BEST SEVERIN RELEASE

Runner-up: The Dungeon of Andy Milligan

BEST LABEL

Runner-up: Severin

BEST COMMENTARY: Irene González-López

Runner-up: Michael Brooke (Viy, Masters of Cinema)

BEST BONUS FILM

Runner-up: India: Matri Bhumi (The River, BFI)

BEST COLLECTION OF SHORT FILMS
All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (Severin)

BEST OTHER ON-DISC EXTRA
Extremities: Video essay by filmmakers David Cairns and Fiona Watson (The Hands of Orlac, Masters of Cinema)

BEST BOOK


BEST COVER

Runner-up: Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (Second Run)

WORST COVER


BEST PACKAGING

Runner-up: Her Smell (Gunpowder & Sky)

BEST LATE DISCOVERY

Runner-up: The Wolf House (Kimstim, 2020)

BEST ALTERNATIVE TO A CRITERION RELEASE

Runner-up: The Seventh Seal (BFI)

[therewillbeblus]

Thanks for the hard work in compiling and flexibility around timelines for this, swo! It also looks like there are more fans of I Start Counting! and Jeremy out there, which is great

[JamesF]

A big thanks to everyone who voted for Shawscope Vol One (as well as the Masumuras, on behalf of my colleague Jasper Sharp)! Trophies are in the post, right?

(Cheers also due to swo for voting for my Crimewave commentary way back on the first page, even if it didn’t get any follow-up votes.)

[MichaelB]

And I was hugely flattered to be voted runner-up for my Viy commentary, so a genuinely heartfelt thanks for that - it was a lot of fun to research and record.

(Us commentators get pitifully little feedback most of the time, both pre-release and afterwards, so stuff like this really does make a difference.)

[Finch]

Thank you for compiling all of this, swo! Nice to see Bitter Stems making the top 15!

[swo17]

I might mention that MichaelB did not cast a vote, though he would have been welcome to.

(Cheers also due to swo for voting for my Crimewave commentary way back on the first page, even if it didn’t get any follow-up votes.)

I wasn't even just kissing up! It's a legitimately entertaining and informative commentary

[Maltic]

Post your ballots here, folks, I'm curious.

Swo - good work. How many did you receive?

[swo17]

14

[Bikey]

We (Second Run) are delighted and touched to have been voted 'Best Label' and to have such a presence in the poll. Thank you!

[therewillbeblus]

Will there be a 2022 version where Mekas and Jancso battle for the title?

[Maltic]

I hope I'm not out of line here, as a relatively "new" user and this being the criterionforum, but have you considered merging the Criterion awards with the non-Criterion awards? Criterion doesn't hold the position it once had, and I thought it would be interesting for it to "compete" with all the others. And perhaps more users would participate if there was just the one poll.