Oscars 2021 Predictions: Who Will Win?

It's what it says on the box! Starting with the categories where I haven't seen all the nominees...

Best Animated Short: "Robin Robin" (though look for "Bestia" to possibly spoil)

Best Documentary Short: "The Queen of Basketball"

Best Live Action Short: "The Long Goodbye"

Best Animated Feature: Encanto (it's peaking at the right time and has love outside this category)

Best Documentary Feature: Summer of Soul (or, when the revolution could not be televised)

Best International Feature: Drive My Car (tho' The Worst Person in the World is probably not far behind in votes, Drive My Car is a Best Picture/Director/Adapted Screenplay nominee, so there's a lot of love for it - this seems to be the most logical place to award it)

Best Costume Design: Cruella

And moving on to the ones I have seen...after the jump.

Oscar's Nominees Are In!

OK! The nominations are in! Compare to my predictions yesterday - to help, I've bolded the nominees in each category that I did not predict. 

But first, pour it out for the very deserving films who did not have the votes to make it today. I think especially of Passing, the best film of the year (that qualified for this year's Oscars, I mean); In the Heights, the best musical of the year; and The Green Knight.

 

And the Academy Award nominees are...

The 2021 Hollmann Awards: The Winners, Part One

From 120 films, I nominated 32 films in 18 categories. These are the first nine categories - and believe it or not, not all the winners are from my Top Ten.

The 2021 Hollmann Awards: The Nominees Are...

You know the 120 films that qualified, you've read my Top Films of 2021. Now, the nominees for this year's Hollmann Awards:

Top Films of 2021

With 120 films screened, I am finally ready to present my favorite films of 2021.

Each year I present my Top Ten alphabetically, for two reasons. One is to maintain some level of suspense for the Hollmann Awards, whose Best Picture category only allows for five nominees. The other reason: I usually don't know what my ranking is until I have to choose those five. Alphabetical buys me time. 

This was a particularly difficult year to narrow down. And so, I present...my Top Eleven Films of the Year: