12th Goresy Awards
Welcome to the twelfth annual Goresy Awards, a personal selection of the best in 2021 cinema! Eligibility required a commercial U.S. release date, digital or theatrical, between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021 (which includes films of that obnoxious, exclusive one-week “Oscar qualifying” release strategy).
FILM
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
HONORABLE MENTION: Joanna Hogg, The Souvenir Part II | Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Memoria | Denis Villeneuve, Dune | Céline Sciamma, Petite Maman | Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza | Joachim Trier, The Worst Person in the World | Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car | Steven Spielberg, West Side Story | Sean Baker, Red Rocket | Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch | Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Wife of a Spy
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ACTRESS
Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World
HONORABLE MENTION: Honor Swinton Byrne, The Souvenir Part II | Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza | Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter | Virginie Efira, Benedetta | Jodie Comer, The Last Duel | Léa Seydoux, France | Natasa Stork, Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time | Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers | Jasna Đuričić, Quo Vadis, Aida? | Tilda Swinton, Memoria | Taylour Paige, Zola
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ACTOR
Simon Rex, Red Rocket
HONORABLE MENTION: Oscar Isaac, The Card Counter | Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog | Hidetoshi Nishijima, Drive My Car | Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Back Messiah | Clifton Collins, Jr., Jockey | Joaquin Phoenix, C’mon C’mon | Nicolas Cage, Pig | Matt Damon, Stillwater | Don Cheadle, No Sudden Move | Dev Patel, The Green Knight
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SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Charlotte Rampling, Benedetta
HONORABLE MENTION: Rebecca Ferguson, Dune | Harriet Sansom Harris, Licorice Pizza | Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog | Toko Miura, Drive My Car | Ruth Negga, Passing | Ariana DeBose, West Side Story | Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter | Suzanna Son, Red Rocket | Tilda Swinton, The Souvenir Part II | Abigail Breslin, Stillwater | Riley Keough, Zola | Kathryn Hunter, The Tragedy of Macbeth
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SUPPORTING ACTOR
Vincent Lindon, Titane
HONORABLE MENTION: Anders Danielsen Lie, The Worst Person in the World | Bradley Cooper, Licorice Pizza | Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog | Richard Ayoade, The Souvenir Part II | Mike Faist, West Side Story | Masaki Okada, Drive My Car | Richard Jenkins, The Humans | Colman Domingo, Zola | Woody Norman, C’mon C’mon | Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Riders of Justice
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ENSEMBLE
Licorice Pizza
HONORABLE MENTION: Dune | Drive My Car | The Power of the Dog | The Souvenir Part II | The French Dispatch | Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy | Red Rocket | Zola | No Sudden Move | Passing | The Humans | The Worst Person in the World | Benedetta
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ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Joachim Trier & Eskil Vogt, The Worst Person in the World
HONORABLE MENTION: Céline Sciamma, Petite Maman | Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza | Sean Baker, Red Rocket | Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy | Asghar Farhadi, A Hero | Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Memoria | Pedro Almodóvar, Parallel Mothers | Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch
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ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe, Drive My Car
HONORABLE MENTION: Joanna Hogg, The Souvenir Part II | Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, & Eric Roth, Dune | Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog | Nicole Holofcener, Ben Affleck, & Matt Damon, The Last Duel
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EDITING
Julien Lacheray, Petite Maman
HONORABLE MENTION: Peter Sciberras, The Power of the Dog | Helle le Fevre, The Souvenir Part II | Olivier Bugge Coutté, The Worst Person in the World | Sarah Broshar & Michael Kahn, West Side Story | Sean Baker, Red Rocket | Bob Eisenhardt, The Rescue
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CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ari Wegner, The Power of the Dog
HONORABLE MENTION: Janusz Kaminski, West Side Story | Faraz Fesharaki, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? | Paul Thomas Anderson & Michael Bauman, Licorice Pizza | Linus Sandgren, No Time to Die | Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw, The Truffle Hunters | Kasper Tuxen, The Worst Person in the World | Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Memoria | Bruno Delbonnel, The Tragedy of Macbeth | Greig Fraser, Dune | Tatsunosuke Sasaki, Wife of a Spy
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PRODUCTION DESIGN
Patrice Vermette, Dune
HONORABLE MENTION: Adam Stockhausen, The French Dispatch | Stefan Dechant, The Tragedy of Macbeth | Jade Healy, The Green Knight | Tamara Deverell, Nightmare Alley | Florian Sanson, Annette | Florencia Martin, Licorice Pizza
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EFFECTS + STUNTS
No Time to Die
HONORABLE MENTION: Dune | The Green Knight | Old | Spider-Man: No Way Home
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COSTUMES + HAIR + MAKEUP
The Green Knight
HONORABLE MENTION: Dune | The French Dispatch | Cruella | Nightmare Alley | Old
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SOUND DESIGN
Memoria
HONORABLE MENTION: The Humans | Dune | No Time to Die | West Side Story | The Green Knight | The Tragedy of Macbeth
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ORIGINAL SCORE
Dan Deacon, All Light, Everywhere
HONORABLE MENTION: Jonny Greenwood, The Power of the Dog | Dickon Hinchliffe, The Lost Daughter | Gábor Keresztes, Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time | Hans Zimmer, Dune | Clint Mansell, In the Earth
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ORIGINAL SONG
“Drive” - Anna Calvi, The Souvenir Part II
HONORABLE MENTION: “So May We Start” - Sparks, Annette | “La Musique du Futur - Mon Coeur” - Para One, Petite Maman
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COMPILED SOUNDTRACK
Licorice Pizza
HONORABLE MENTION: The Worst Person in the World | The Souvenir Part II | Titane | The Suicide Squad | Last Night in Soho
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DOCUMENTARY
All Light, Everywhere
HONORABLE MENTION: The Rescue | The Truffle Hunters | The Velvet Underground
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Worst Person in the World
HONORABLE MENTION: Memoria | Drive My Car | Petite Maman | Wife of a Spy | Benedetta
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ANIMATED FILM
Luca
HONORABLE MENTION: The Summit of the Gods | Flee | The Mitchells vs. the Machines
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