The 2021 BOFFY Awards - WINNER REVEAL STARTS ON PAGE 14

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Basically post-apocalyptic Pinocchio, Finch is both a meditative sci-fi drama about bracing for the inevitable and also a funny, uplifting story about hope, survival, growth, fatherhood, and that being a foot taller than Tom Hanks and made of metal has its benefits. It's not the most original sci-fi premise, and the movie sometimes struggles to balance its tone, but I think all the pieces here are rather solid and altogether make for a more compelling watch than some larger VFX films out this year that I could name.

 

Also, good doggy.

 

FYC:

Best Overlooked Feature - Didn't get a theatrical release (Universal was supposed to release it theatrically last year, but the pandemic killed those plans) nor appears to have any shot at any Oscar nominations now that the shortlists are out. I think it qualifies here.

Best Voice Performance - Caleb Landry Jones as Jeff, a bipedal automaton created by Tom Hanks's Finch to look after his dog once he's gone. Jeff is the heart of the film and Jones adds a sense of wide-eyed curiosity and youth-like spirit to his performance, despite being a tall robot unable to emote physically or speak with a natural human voice.

Best Visual Effects - Jeff is the best mo-cap of 2021 and the movie didn't even make the Oscar shortlist, wtf

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[filmlover]

FYC for Best Villain: Evan Hansen from Dear Evan Hansen.

[The Panda]

3 hours ago, filmlover said:

FYC for Best Villain: Evan Hansen from Dear Evan Hansen.

I will also allow you to simply nominate the movie for Best Villain

[The Panda]

FYC Best Villain

 

HBO Max - Dune, In the Heights, The Matrix: Resurrections, Malignant, The Conjuring 3, The Little Things, No Sudden Move, Space Jam 2, Mortal Kombat, Judas and the Black Messiah, Godzilla vs Kong, Tom & Jerry

 

Disney+ - Luca, Black Widow, Encanto

[CoolioD1]

this is what i got in the acting categories rn. subject to change but just a general fyc for these people

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BEST ACTOR

1. Lakeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah

2. Joaquin Phoenix, C'mon C'mon

3. Hidetoshi Nishijima, Drive My Car

4. Dev Patel, The Green Knight

5. Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

6. Will Smith, King Richard

BEST ACTRESS

1. Renata Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World

2. Yu Aoi, Wife of a Spy

3. Rebecca Hall, The Night House

4. Virginie Efira, Benedetta

5. Tessa Thompson, Passing

6. Morfydd Clark, Saint Maud

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Kodi Smit McPhee, The Power of the Dog

2. Jon Bernthal, King Richard

3. Anders Danielsen Lie, The Worst Person in the World

4. Sean Harris, The Green Knight

5. Lambert Wilson, Benedetta

6. Tony Leung, Shang Chi

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Katsuki Mori, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

2. Gaby Hoffman, C'mon C'mon

3. Charlotte Rampling, Benedetta

4. Ruth Negga, Passing

5. Alicia Vikander, The Green Knight

6. Saniyya Sidney, King Richard

BEST VOICE PERFORMANCE

1. Ray Chase, Malignant

 

 

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FYC for Best Villain:

 

 

TIFFANY HADDISH as TRINA MALONE, Bad Trip

[Cap]

On 12/27/2021 at 1:51 PM, The Panda said:

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

So what if the best original song is trapped in a Disney+ show? But it’s part of the MCU. It’s referenced in a movie that they do? So like I think we should count it. I just would like to STAN “Save The City” Cause it’s a proper banger, and so I’m just wondering how we can make that happen. Please, and thank you. As always.

[The Panda]

FYC

 

 

Picture, Ensemble, Supporting Actor (Elba), Original Screenplay, Sound Design, Soundtrack, Song (The Harder They Fall), Production Design, Stunt Ensemble, Villain (Elba, Lakeith Stanfield, Regina King)

 

It’s so good!!

Edited January 2, 2022 by The Panda

[The Panda]

On 12/31/2021 at 2:59 AM, Cap said:

So what if the best original song is trapped in a Disney+ show? But it’s part of the MCU. It’s referenced in a movie that they do? So like I think we should count it. I just would like to STAN “Save The City” Cause it’s a proper banger, and so I’m just wondering how we can make that happen. Please, and thank you. As always.

The song needs to be original from a qualifying movie. So while this can include movies that only released on streaming it still won’t extend to original songs for TV Shows and Miniseries.

 

(So Bo Burnham should be on the table if you count his Netflix special as movie. Which I personally do, pretty clear it’s a film about a comedian going insane trying to create comedy special without an audience or outside contact)

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Couple of FYCs for Worst Feature

 

 

Coming 2 America - The most boring comedy of the year, this decades later sequel wastes a talented cast (and Tracey Morgan) on a dull and overlong family conflict story that isn't so much exasperating as it is just limp and unfunny. Don't be fooled whenever Wesley Snipes shows up in an admittedly amusing villain turn, he's not in it very much.

 

 

Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Despite being less than an hour long, this felt like an eternity. The book-accurate character designs are done dirty by cheap and terrible animation that would be below par for a television series (littered with clipping issues and poor frame rates) and looks even worse in film format, and the story is a lacking and mean-spirited retelling of the first book where Greg comes across as more selfish and cruel than he's ever been, and he somehow drags Rowley down with him. Disney rushed this out to capitalize on the brand, and it shows.

 

 

America: The Motion Picture - Presumably limited by budget (the Archer studio probably wasn't the best fit to animate this, since despite superior character animation it suffers from flat backgrounds and poor frame rates during action scenes), but even more so by grating fratboy humor and a lack of having much funny or ultimately meaningful to say. This probably isn't going to be on many people's worst ballots since it was quietly dumped on Netflix this past summer, but the cavalcade of talent both behind the scenes and in the voice cast should've produced something better than this. Diary of a Wimpy Kid was doomed from inception, while America had some promise and squandered all of it.

 

 

Malcolm & Marie - A hundred-and-five minutes of Zendaya and John David Washington arguing in circles where the point is made after the first half hour or so, but then it just keeps going. I rarely check my watch while watching a film, but while viewing Malcolm & Marie, the minutes couldn't go by any slower once the film ran out of anything new or interesting to say. The infamous scene where JDW rants about a female critic's review of his film (not sounding like director Sam Levinson is holding any grudges at all, no sir) is its own can of worms.

 

 

Space Jam: A New Legacy - A poorly conceived advertisement for Warner Bros. IP, this is just a worse version of Ready Player One (and if you disliked RPO already, well...). Even beyond the titular basketball game in the last half, the film has no rules or consistency in place, becoming a chaotic yet staggeringly dull mess where the egregious IP exploitation somehow isn't the worst part. The Looney Tunes are hardly utilized, and when they are, it's sometimes in the worst way possible. This is my absolute worst film of the year, and HBO MAX nuking its box office hopefully spares us from more of this nonsense.

Edited January 5, 2022 by cookie

[SLAM!]

@Ezen Baklattan @The Panda I have an eligibility question. Would an anthology film comprising a collection of short films count for feature film categories?

Edited January 6, 2022 by SLAM!

[The Panda]

3 hours ago, SLAM! said:

@Ezen Baklattan @The Panda I have an eligibility question. Would an anthology film comprising a collection of short films count for feature film categories?

 

Yeah, an anthology film is just one movie, if you're talking about something like The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.

[The Panda]

Consider this thread my full FYC!

 

 

[FilmFincher]

I'm just gonna focus on pushing nominees in short list categories for now.

 

FYC

 

BEST BREAKTHROUGH (filmmaker, actor, writer, etc.)

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Shaka King (Director) - Judas and the Black Messiah 

 

Ariana DeBose (Actress) - West Side Story

 

Mike Faist (Actor) - West Side Story 

 

Daniela Melchior (Actress) - The Suicide Squad

 

Michael Sarnoski (Director) - Pig 

 

Saniyya Sidney (Actress) - King Richard 

 

 

BEST YOUTH PERFORMANCE (any actor under 20 y/o when film was shot)

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Millicent Simmonds - A Quiet Place Part II

 

Thomasin McKenzie - Last Night in Soho

 

Saniyya Sidney - King Richard 

 

 

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Spoiler

 

 

We Don’t Talk About Bruno - Encanto 

 

Be Alive - King Richard 

 

Welcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham: Inside

 

 

BEST OVERLOOKED FEATURE (Film without “serious” awards consideration and made under 25m at the Box Office DOM)

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Pig

 

The Card Counter

 

Last Night in Soho

 

The Night House 

 

Saint Maud

 

The Last Duel

 

The Green Knight 

 

The Humans 

 

Stillwater 

 

 

[FilmFincher]

Some more categories

 

FYC

 

BEST COMEDY FEATURE

Spoiler

 

Don’t Look Up

 

Mitchell’s vs the Machines

 

Werewolves Within

 

Bo Burnham: Inside 

 

 

BEST MUSICAL FEATURE

Spoiler

West Side Story

 

In the Heights 

 

Encanto 

 

Tick Tick Boom 

 

Bo Burnham: Inside 

 

BEST HORROR FEATURE

Spoiler

The Night House 

 

Saint Maud 

 

A Quiet Place Part II 

 

Malignant 

 

Candyman

 

BEST TV SHOW/MINISERIES - DRAMA

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Arcane

 

Mare of Easttown

 

Midnight Mass

 

Yellowjackets

 

The North Water 

 

Squid Game

 

Invincible 

 

The Underground Railroad

 

Wandavision

[FilmFincher]

We're into the fun categories!

Let's take a look at Hero's and Villains! 

Also I'll add an extra spoiler tag to anything Spider-Man related.

 

FYC

 

BEST VILLAIN

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Rasputin - The King’s Man 

 

Gabriel - Malignant 

 

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Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin - Spider-Man: No Way Home

 

Phil Burbank - The Power of the Dog 

 

Jacques Le Gris - The Last Duel

 

Baron Harkonnen - Dune  

 

Silco - Arcane 

 

Bev Keane - Midnight Mass 

 

Nolan Grayson/Omni-Man - Invincible 

 

Agatha Harkness - Wandavision 

 

 

 

BEST HERO

Spoiler

 

Duncan Idaho - Dune

Swashbuckling, charming and Jason Momoa turning in a career best. Duncan Idaho injects Dune with a captivating energy and a sincere loyalty to those closest to him.

 

Rick Flag - The Suicide Squad 

If you told me Rick Flag was going to be one of my favourites going into The Suicide Squad I would have laughed in your face. Gunn really turned the character around and injected him with the ideologies that make him a hero worthy of this list. 

 

Yelena Belova - Black Widow 

Completely outshining and outperforming the rest of the cast, Florence Pugh's Yelena is easily the best addition to the MCU in the last year. Her infectious sense of fun makes her magnetic anytime she's on screen 

 

Vi - Arcane 

Hardened by life, Vi is probably the most badass but also imperfect character on this list. With a number of jaw dropping fight scenes up her sleeve, it’s Vi’s emotional drive to reconnect with her sister Powder that will tug on your heart. 

 

Guy - Free Guy 

While the movie was just pretty good. I cannot deny that I was won over by the absolute innocent sincerity of Ryan Reynolds’ Guy as he sets to not just be the the good guy but the GREAT guy and save his little slice of home that he’s come to love.

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Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield) - Spider-Man: No Way Home

Let’s be honest Andrew Garfield absolutely stole the show and provides the most emotionally carthatic scene in the film. His arrival gives the film a kick up the ass as he continues to pop off the screen. 

 

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James Bond - No Time to Die

Craigs final outing is a worthy one. He finds new facets to the character playing him as aloof and playful in a way he hasn’t tapped into before. Backed by an extremely personal motivation that is fresh for Bond and 100% works.

 

Kate Bishop - Hawkeye 

Hailee Steinfeld is and always has been a movie star. Her Kate Bishop exudes the same effortless charm and haphazard energy that she consistently excels at. Now get her into the films where she belongs Marvel. 

 

Sherrif Hassan - Midnight Mass 

Already on the back foot, Sherrif Hassan is surrounded by those who look at him different and are quick to judge. Although he’s slow to get there as the towns cult like behaviour continues to escalate he continues to provide a voice of reason and do what is right. 

 

Mark Grayson - Invincible 

No matter how beaten down, or how broken he gets Mark continues to persist in his efforts to be a hero and live up to his Dad’s example. He exudes the same qualities as Spider-Man as he struggles to balance his personal and superhero life, always choosing the latter.

 

[CJohn]

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[The Panda]

Just to clarify, TV Shows are only eligible in the two TV categories. Hero and Villain need to connected to a film or multiple (even if it’s something like Todd Phillips for Joker in 2019)

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A highly polarizing film, but given its low box office and seemingly low Oscar chances (GoldDerby predicts an outside chance at cinematography, maybe production design, and not much else), I think it could use a FYC post. The Green Knight, as a new take on Arthurian legend, is a story about bravery as much as it is about cowardice, the journey of one man whose desperate craving for honor and glory causes him to make a reckless decision that puts him on the path of an inevitable fate, but one he must fulfill for it is what an honorable knight would do. Dev Patel's Sir Gawain's quest takes him across strange lands with even stranger encounters, pushing him to his physical and emotional limits, and leading him to ask if whether he should stay the course to preserve his integrity and good spirit, or seek of a way out of his obligations to escape his fate.

 

FYC:

Best Feature

Best Overlooked Feature - Grossed less than $19m worldwide, and as said earlier, unlikely to get much awards recognition.

Best Actor - Dev Patel as Sir Gawain, who carries this film to the bitter end. With films like Lion and The Personal History of David Copperfield, Patel has been slowly building his acting renaissance after initially breaking out with Slumdog Millionaire, and his performance here is the most compelling he's been yet, conveying youthful innocence; hotheaded arrogance; mortal fright; a slow descent into darkness; and in the film's closing moments, a gained sense of maturity, wisdom, and acceptance, all impeccably performed even in the long stretches of the film where he has no other human to interact with.

Best Supporting Actress - Alicia Vikander as Essel and The Lady. Vikander plays two roles in this film, first as Gawain's starry-eyed lover Essel waiting for him back home, and later as a seductive woman who offers Gawain a way out in exchange of Gawain accepting her advances.

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Scene - 

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The entire ending vision, including the lead-up (Gawain hesitating when the Green Knight repeatedly tries to off his head, which is a very tense scene on its own) and the twist in the film's closing moments.

 

Bonus FYC for a certain, uh... sticky encounter, if you know what I mean 

Best Cinematography

Best Editing

Best Costume Design

Best Production Design

Best Hair and Makeup

Edited January 10, 2022 by cookie

[Ethan Hunt]

Gotta say. I know they technically qualify or whatever but I think things like Pig or Green Knight would be silly to nominate for overlooked features. Those were widely discussed features among thisn community and it would seem silly to label them as overlooked imo.