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Dazzies 2021 (My Awards for 2021)

My awards picks for the films of 2021.

Only eligible films are ones released in the US in 2021 (using IMDb & other sources to check). Releases can be streaming, theatrical, or home media, just not film festival exclusives. My categories are my own, not all are Oscar categories. Unlike the Oscars, all 2021 releases count, even films from January and February.

Previous Dazzies: 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020

All eligible films are listed below. The notes lists each nomination and win. My complete ranking of the films is here.

Each category has 1 winner, 5 nominees, and 5 honourable mentions. Nominees and mentions listed alphabetically.


Best Film:

Drive My Car - WINNER
Dune
Flee
Memoria
Quo…

Block or Report
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  • Drive My Car
  • Dune
  • Spencer
  • West Side Story
  • Titane
  • Flee
  • The Lost Daughter
  • Red Rocket
  • Judas and the Black Messiah
  • About Endlessness
  • The Rescue
  • Licorice Pizza
  • Memoria
  • Quo Vadis, Aida?
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth
  • Annette
  • Belle
  • The Worst Person in the World
  • The Green Knight
  • Nightmare Alley
  • The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
  • Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
  • No Time to Die
  • Azor
  • The Souvenir: Part II
  • Wife of a Spy
  • The Woman Who Ran
  • Pig
  • Downstream to Kinshasa
  • Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
  • The Velvet Underground
  • The Summit of the Gods
  • In the Earth
  • Nobody
  • Boiling Point
  • Luca
  • Censor
  • Godzilla vs. Kong
  • The United States vs. Billie Holiday
  • Old
  • Cruella
  • The Matrix Resurrections
  • Ghostbusters: Afterlife
  • Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
  • Last Night in Soho
  • Mass
  • The Harder They Fall
  • Never Gonna Snow Again
  • Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)
  • The Last Duel
  • Faya Dayi
  • The Power of the Dog
  • Parallel Mothers
  • Eternals
  • Genus Pan
  • Air Conditioner
  • Petite Maman
  • The Card Counter
  • Saint Maud
  • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
  • Atlantis
  • The Sparks Brothers
  • White on White
  • You Will Die at Twenty
  • Procession
  • Sabaya
  • I Am Samuel
  • The Suicide Squad
  • Riders of Justice
  • The Mitchells vs. the Machines
  • King Richard
  • Encanto
  • CODA
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
  • Candyman
  • The Mauritanian
  • House of Gucci
  • Raya and the Last Dragon
  • Bombay Rose
  • A Quiet Place Part II
  • New Gods: Nezha Reborn
  • Army of the Dead
  • Cry Macho
  • PVT Chat
  • Notturno
  • I Care a Lot
  • F9
  • Earwig and the Witch
  • Free Guy
  • The King's Man
  • Chaos Walking
  • The Fisherman's Diary
  • Coming 2 America
  • Malcolm & Marie
  • Zack Snyder's Justice League
  • Cherry
  • Halloween Kills
  • American Skin
  • Music
  • God's Not Dead: We The People