MAVOY MOVIE AWARDS 2021 - NOMINEES - Mavoy Music

I’m done with moaning about 2020 in cinema. I already listed all the films that were postponed and I won’t be repeating myself. But – judging by the list below, you absolutely wouldn’t say that it was a bad year for film. Bad year for the industry, bad year for the theaters – definitely, though I wouldn’t bet on the death of this particular art yet. Ironically, all the delays I mentioned helped me to focus this year on indie and international cinema – with absolutely delightful results. Three years ago, we didn’t even have “international film” category. Now these films are visible in majority of the categories! And we’re still very ahead of the Oscars in terms of diversity. Just in the director category alone, there’s only one white male nominee! Without even trying!

I’m introducing a few new categories and I hope I’ll be continuing them in the future. I finally had a chance to watch a lot new short films this year. There are also two special categories for films usually underappreciated by the awards – genre films (so, science fiction and horror, mostly) and comedies.

Our awards will be revealed on the evening of 16th April 2021, Central European time. After this specific social media year, I seriously considered doing Instagram stream, but it seems risky for multiple reasons. But, as always, we'll be live tweeting the results on our Twitter account @MavoyOfficial and also on my Instagram stories (@mavoy93), and then we'll premiere them in a separate post here.

Mavoy Movie Awards 2021 nominees

Best Picture

I’m Thinking Of Ending Things

Judas And The Black Messiah

Mogul Mowgli

Nomadland

One Night In Miami

Soul

The Invisible Life Of Euridice Gusmao

There Is No Evil

The Father

Weathering With You

Best Director

Bassam Tariq - Mogul Mowgli

Charlie Kaufman – I’m Thinking Of Ending Things

Chloe Zhao - Nomadland

Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman

Jasmila Żbanić – Quo Vadis Aida

Lee Isaac Chung – Minari

Mohammad Rasoulof – There Is No Evil

Regina King – One Night In Miami

Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods

Steve McQueen – Mangrove / Lovers Rock / Red White And Blue

Best Lead Actress

Atsuko Maeda – To The Ends Of The Earth

Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

Frances McDormand – Nomadland

Jasna Đuričić – Quo Vadis Aida

Jessie Buckley – I’m Thinking Of Ending Things / Fargo

Julia Stockler – The Invisible Life Of Euridice Gusmao

Lee Young-Ae – Bring Me Home

Natasa Stork – Preparations To Stay Together For An Unknown Period Of Time

Olivia Colman – The Father

Tilda Swinton – The Human Voice

Best Lead Actor

Anthony Hopkins – The Father

Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods

John Boyega – Red White And Blue

Kingsley Ben-Adir – One Night In Miami

Lakeith Stanfield – Judas And The Black Messiah

Mads Mikkelsen – Another Round / Riders Of Justice

Riz Ahmed – Mogul Mowgli / Sound Of Metal

Robert Tarango - Feeling Through

Steve Yeun – Minari

Best Supporting Actor

Ashton Sanders – All Day And A Night / Judas And The Black Messiah

Daniel Kaluuya – Judas And The Black Messiah

David Thewlis – I’m Thinking Of Ending Things

Kyle MacLachlan – Tesla

Leslie Odom Jr. - One Night In Miami

Mark Gatiss – The Father

Paul Raci - Sound Of Metal

Robert Pattinson - Tenet

Steve Toussaint – Red White And Blue

Thomas Bo Larsen – Another Round

Best Supporting Actress

Amanda Seyfried - Mank

Carol Duarte – Invisible Life

Han Ye-Ri - Minari

Lily Collins – Mank

Mahtab Sarvati – There Is No Evil

Olivia Williams – The Father

Olivia Cooke – Sound Of Metal

Tuppence Middleton – Mank

Youn Yuh-Jong – Minari

Best Child Actor or Actress

Alan Kim – Minari

Mariam Kanj - The Present

Tiara Richards – Buladó

Best Original Screenplay

Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman

Jack Fincher – Mank

Jasmila Żbanić - Quo Vadis Aida

Lili Horvat – Preparations To Stay Together For An Unknown Period Of Time

Michael Almereyda – Tesla

Mohammad Rassoulof - There Is No Evil

Radha Blank – The 40 Year Old Version

Riz Ahmed – Mogul Mowgli

Steve McQueen – Red White And Blue

Best Adapted Screenplay

Charlie Kaufman – I’m Thinking Of Ending Things

Chloe Zhao – Nomadland

Florian Zellner – The Father

Hareesh S. & R. Jayakumar – Jallikattu

Heiward Mak - Fagara

Kemp Powers - One Night In Miami

Murilo Hausner, Ines Bortagay, Karim Ainouz - The Invisible Life Of Euridice Gusmao

Naomi Kawase & Izumi Takashari - True Mothers

Ruben Santiago – Hudson - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Comedy

Fagara

Irresistible

Kajillionaire

Late Night

Riders Of Justice

Best Genre Film

Come True

La llorona

Saint Maud

Siberia

So What If The Goats Die

Tenet

Two Distant Strangers

The Invisible Man

The Call

Best Live Action Short

Feeling Through directed by Doug Roland

Good Night directed by Anthony Nti

I Am Easy To Find directed by Mike Mills

Nimic directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

So What If The Goats Die directed by Sofia Alaoui

The Letter Room directed by Elvira Lind

The Present directed by Farah Nabulsi

Two Distant Strangers directed by Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe

White Eye directed by Tomer Shushan.

Best Animated Short

Burrow directed by Madeline Sharafian

If Anything Happens I Love You directed by Michael Govier and Will McCormack

Kapaemahu directed by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson and Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

Best Cinematography

Arseni Khachaturan – Beginning

Ashkan Ashkani - There Is No Evil

Gianfranco Rosi - Notturno

Gireesh Gangadharan - Jallikattu

Helene Louvart – Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Joshua James Richards – Nomadland

Lachlan Milne - Minari

Łukasz Żal – I’m Thinking Of Ending Things

Tami Reiker - One Night In Miami

Yuta Tsukinaga – True Mothers

Best Editing

Andrew Mondshein – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Chloe Zhao – Nomadland

Deepu Joseph - Jallikattu

Frederick Thoraval – Promising Young Woman

Gabriel Rhodes - Time

Jennifer Lame – Tenet

Mark Towns - Saint Maud

Mikkel Nielsen – Sound Of Metal

Robert Frazen – I’m Thinking Of Ending Things

Tariq Anwan – One Night In Miami

Best Sound Editing

Eduardo Caceres Staackman – La llorona

Lewis Goldstein – I’m Thinking Of Ending Things

Nicolas Becker - Sound Of Metal

Paul Davies - Saint Maud

Renganaath Ravee - Jalllikattu

Best Music

Akira Kosemura - True Mothers

Adam Janota Bzowski - Saint Maud

Emile Mosseri – Kajillionaire / Minari

Jay Wadley – I’m Thinking Of Ending Things

Julia Holter – Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Ludwig Goransson – Tenet

Ludovico Einaudi – The Father

Pilotpriest – Come True

Terence Blanchard – One Night In Miami

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Mank / Soul

Best Song

Black Thought – Welcome 2 America

Electric Youth – The Seeker

Emile Mosseri, Han Ye-Ri – Rain Song

H.E.R. - Fight For You

Janelle Monae – Turntables

Laura Pausini – Io Si

Mary J. Blige – See What You’ve Done

Robert Glasper – Show Me Your Soul

Production Design

Daniel T. Dorrance - United States vs Billie Holiday

Donald Graham Burt – Mank

Mark Ricker - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Molly Hughes - I’m Thinking Of Ending Things

Nathan Crowley – Tenet

Page Buckner – One Night In Miami

Peter Francis - The Father

Paulina Rzeszowska- Saint Maud

Yong Ok Lee – Minari

Costumes

Ann Roth - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Francine Jamison-Tanchuk - One Night In MIami

Melissa Toth - I’m Thinking Of Ending Things

Nancy Steiner - Promising Young Woman

Paolo Nieddu - United States Vs Billie Holiday

Trish Summerville - Mank

Best Foreign Film:

Another Round (Denmark) (directed by Thomas Vinterberg)

Jallikattu (India) (directed by Lilo Jose Pelissery)

Labyrinth Of Cinema (Japan) (directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi)

Quo Vadis Aida (Bosnia) (directed by Jasmila Żbanić)

Preparations To Stay Together For An Unknown Period Of Time (Hungary) (directed by Lili Horvath)

There Is No Evil (Iran) (directed by Mahmoud Rassoulof)

The Invisible Life Of Euridice Gusmao (Brasil) (directed by Karim Aïnouz)

True Mothers (Japan) (directed by Naomi Kawase)

To The Ends Of Earth (Uzbekistan) (directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

Weathering With You (Japan) (directed by Makoto Shinkai)

Best Animated Film

Over The Moon

Our Seven Day War

Raya And The Last Dragon

Soul

Weathering With You

Best Documentary

Andrey Tarkovsky - A Cinema Prayer (directed Andrei A. Tarkovsky)

All In – A Fight For Democracy (directed Liz Garbus, Lisa Cortes )

For Sama (directed by Waad Al-Kateab)

John Lewis – Good Trouble (directed by Dawn Porter)

MLK/FBI (directed by Sam Pollard)

Notturno (directed by Gianfranco Rosi)

Stray (directed by Elizabeth Lo )

Time (directed by Garrett Bradley)

The Mole Agent (directed by Maite Alberdi)

White Noise (directed by Daniel Lombroso)

Best TV Drama

Dark

Devs

Fargo

I May Destroy You

The Comey Rule

The Queen’s Gambit

The Third Day

Best TV Comedy

Kidding

The Boys

The Good Lord Bird

Truth Seekers

WandaVision

Wellington Paranormal

What We Do In The Shadows

Leading Actor in A Drama TV Series

Anthony Mackie – Falcon And The Winter Soldier

Ben Mendelsohn – The Outsider

Chris Rock - Fargo

Dietrich Hollinderbaumer – Dark

Jeff Daniels – The Comey Rule

Jude Law – The Third Day

Nick Offerman – Devs

Sebastian Stan – Falcon And The Winter Soldier

Leading Actor In A Comedy TV Series

Anthony Starr – The Boys

Ethan Hawke – The Good Lord Bird

Hugh Laurie – Avenue 5

Jim Carrey – Kidding

Kayvan Novak – What We Do In The Shadows

Matt Berry – What We Do In The Shadows

Mike Minogue – Wellington Paranormal

Nick Frost – Truth Seekers

Supporting Actor in A Drama TV Series

Ben Whishaw - Fargo

Brendan Gleeson – The Comey Rule

Daniel Brühl – Falcon And The Winter Soldier

Glynn Turman – Fargo

Jack Huston - Fargo

Jason Schwartzman - Fargo

Stephen McKinley Henderson – Devs

Timothy Olyphant - Fargo

Winfried Glatzeder - Dark

Supporting Actor In A Comedy TV Series

Daveed Diggs – The Good Lord Bird

Frank Langella – Kidding

Cole Allen – Kidding

Joshua Caleb Johnson – The Good Lord Bird

Justin Kirk – Kidding

Maaka Pohatu – Wellington Paranormal

Mark Proksch – What We Do In The Shadows

Malcolm McDowell – Truth Seekers

Leading Actress in A Drama TV Series

Anya Taylor-Joy – The Queen’s Gambit

Cynthia Erivo – The Outsider