It’s that time of year again. It’s been a weird year for everyone but there have been some great films released.
| Best Film |
| Birds of Prey |
| The King of Staten Island |
| Bad Education |
| Calm With Horses |
| Never Rarely Sometimes Always |
| Tenet |
| Eternal Beauty |
| Relic |
| Farewell Amor |
| Mangrove |
| Rebecca |
| Nocturne |
| Rocks |
| Judas and the Black Messiah |
| The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| Best Director |
| Andrew Patterson – The Vast of Night |
| Christopher Nolan – Tenet |
| Ciro Guerra – Waiting for the Barbarians |
| Mark Jenkin – Bait |
| David Fincher – Mank |
| Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| Johannes Nyholm – Koko-Di Koko-Da |
| Gerard Johnson – Muscle |
| Best Lead Actor |
| Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal |
| Ben Affleck – The Way Back |
| Cosmo Jarvis – Calm With Horses |
| Mark Rylance – Waiting for the Barbarians |
| Paul Bettany – Uncle Frank |
| David Thewlis – Eternal Beauty |
| Jake Ryan – Savage |
| Ralph Fiennes – The Dig |
| Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah |
| Adarsh Gourav – White Tiger |
| Riz Ahmed – Mogul Mowgli |
| Colin Firth – Supernova |
| Steven Yeun – Minari |
| Best Actress |
| Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man |
| Felicity Huffman – Tammy’s Always Dying |
| Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Downhill |
| Julia Garner – The Assistant |
| Lesley Manville – Ordinary love |
| Sally Hawkins – Eternal Beauty |
| Annette Bening – Hope Gap |
| Frances McDormand – Nomadland |
| Morfydd Clark – Saint Maud |
| Clare Dunne – Herself |
| Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always |
| Bukky Bakray – Rocks |
| Sydney Sweeney – Nocturne |
| Tsai Chin – Lucky Grandma |
| Kate Winslet – Ammonite |
| Best Supporting Actor |
| Samuel L. Jackson – The Banker |
| Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| Craig Fairbrass – Muscle |
| LaKeith Stanfield – Judas and the Black Messiah |
| Edward Rowe – Bait |
| Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine – Farewell Amor |
| Patrick Schwarzenegger – Daniel Isn’t Real |
| Best Supporting Actress |
| Essie Davis – True History of the Kelly Gang |
| Anastasia Phillips – Tammy’s Always Dying |
| Helena Zengel – News of the World |
| Kosar Ali – Rocks |
| Youn Yuh-jung – Minari |
| Robyn Nevin – Relic |
| Madison Iseman – Nocturne |
| Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm |
| Jayme Lawson – Farewell Amor |
| Best Visual Effects |
| Tenet |
| Love and Monsters |
| Wonder Woman 1984 |
| Best Cinematography |
| Vivarium |
| The Platform |
| Never Gonna Snow Again |
| News of the World |
| Tenet |
| The Windermere Children |
| Mank |
| Sound of Metal |
| Best Animated Film |
| The Willoughbys |
| Whethering With You |
| Wolfwalkers |
| Away |
| Soul |
| Over the Moon |
| A Whisker Away |
| The Wolf House |
| Best Documentary |
| Why I Jump |
| Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets |
| The Booksellers |
| Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb |
| The Painter and the Thief |
| MLK/FBI |
| My Octopus Teacher |
| Rose Island |
| Best Foreign Language Film |
| The White Tiger |
| The Whistlers |
| Only the Animals |
| A White White Day |
| Sputnik |
| Koko-Di Koko-Da |
| Peninsula: Train to Busan 2 |
| Lucky Grandma |
| Minari |
Here are the best films and performances i have seen over the past 12 months. Let me know whether you agree or not.
Pronoia Film and Fiction 