The Bob Awards!

This year’s Oscar field is maybe the most uninspiring I can remember and for the second year in a row I feel absolutely no desire to watch the telecast. I’m even more indifferent to slogging through it given the disrespect the Academy and ABC are showing to the nominees in several categories. So save yourself some time and misery by reading the winners of this year’s Bob Awards which are far more important and obviously the correct choices anyway because I made them. Enjoy!

Cinematography

The French Dispatch – Robert Yeoman

Costume Design

Last Night in Soho – Odile Dicks-Mireaux

Film Editing

The French Dispatch – Andrew Weisblum

Makeup

Dune

Original Score

No Sudden Move – David Holmes

Original Song

The French Dispatch – “Aline” by Jarvis Cocker

Production Design

The French Dispatch – Adam Stockhausen, Stephan Cressend, Rena DeAngelo

Sound

Dune

Visual Effects

Dune

Animated Film

Luca

Supporting Actor

Alex Wolff – Pig

Supporting Actress

Kathryn Hunter – The Tragedy of Macbeth

Actor

Nicolas Cage – Pig

Actress

Ann Dowd – Mass

Ensemble Cast

Mass

Adapted Screenplay

CODA – Sian Heder

Original Screenplay

Riders of Justice – Anders Thomas Jensen & Nikolaj Arcel

Director

Michael Sarnoski – Pig

Top 10 Movies of 2021

10. Luca

9. Val

8. Spider-Man: No Way Home

7. Belfast

6. Boiling Point

5. The French Dispatch

4. Licorice Pizza

3. Mass

2. Riders of Justice

Best Picture

Pig

And now the fun stuff…

Best Opening: Licorice Pizza

Best Opening Credits Sequence: The Suicide Squad

Most Entertaining Movie: Riders of Justice

Funniest Movie: The French Dispatch

Bill Murray Award for Funniest Performance: Nicolas Bro – Riders of Justice

Funniest Scene: Comparing injuries – Spider-Man: No Way Home

Best Quote: “Just try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose.” – Arthur Howitzer, Jr. (Bill Murray) – The French Dispatch

Best Fight Scene: Bus beatdown – Nobody

Best Car Chase: Baby driver – Gunpowder Milkshake

Best Shootout: Last stand – Riders of Justice

Worst Movie I Subjected Myself To: American Night

Most Obnoxious Movie: Don’t Look Up

Withnail & I Award for Best Friendship: Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman – Licorice Pizza

Uncut Gems Award for Most Anxiety Inducing Movie: Boiling Point

Best Cameos: Ana de Armas – No Time to Die; Bradley Cooper – Licorice Pizza

Best Family Film: Luca

Best Horror Movie: Censor

Most Terrifying Film: It’s not feature length and it was made nearly 50 years ago so I can’t really put it in the mix with other movies but George Romero’s finally released The Amusement Park is an absolutely chilling look at the horrors of how society treats the elderly. It’s even more horrifying when one realizes that if anything, it’s only become worse since the film was made in 1973. As a Romero fan, getting to watch one last unseen work was a gift and a testament to how special and unique he was as a filmmaker.

Best Movie in a Pre-Existing Franchise & Best Comic Book Film: Spider-Man: No Way Home

Best Ending: Mass