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2021 ballot for Noel Murray

Best Picture

  • The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun 20
  • Pig 15
  • Red Rocket 15
  • West Side Story 15
  • A Hero 10
  • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn 5
  • The Card Counter 5
  • Licorice Pizza 5
  • Nightmare Alley 5
  • The Power of the Dog 5

Best Director

  • Steven Spielberg, West Side Story 30
  • Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun 10
  • Guillermo Del Toro, Nightmare Alley 10
  • Michael Sarnoski, Pig 10
  • Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog 10
  • Sean Baker, Red Rocket 10
  • Radu Jude, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn 5
  • David Lowery, The Green Knight 5
  • Edgar Wright, Last Night in Soho 5
  • Céline Sciamma, Petite Maman 5

Best Actress

  • Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter 20
  • Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza 15
  • Virginie Efira, Benedetta 10
  • Isabelle Fuhrman, The Novice 10
  • Rosamund Pike, I Care a Lot 10
  • Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World 10
  • Rachel Sennott, Shiva Baby 10
  • Katia Pascariu, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn 5
  • Tessa Thompson, Passing 5
  • Rachel Zegler, West Side Story 5

Best Actor

  • Nicolas Cage, Pig 15
  • Simon Rex, Red Rocket 15
  • Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth 15
  • Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog 10
  • Andrew Garfield, Tick, Tick… Boom! 10
  • Oscar Isaac, The Card Counter 10
  • Amir Jadidi, A Hero 10
  • Bradley Cooper, Nightmare Alley 5
  • Cooper Hoffman, Licorice Pizza 5
  • Hidetoshi Nishijima, Drive My Car 5

Best Supporting Actor

  • Mike Faist, West Side Story 20
  • Jeffrey Wright, The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun 15
  • Ben Affleck, The Last Duel 10
  • Bradley Cooper, Licorice Pizza 10
  • Simon Helberg, Annette 10
  • Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog 10
  • Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog 10
  • Peter Dinklage, I Care a Lot 5
  • Richard Jenkins, The Humans 5
  • David Strathairn, Nightmare Alley 5

Best Supporting Actress

  • Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter 25
  • Ariana DeBose, West Side Story 10
  • Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog 10
  • Kathryn Hunter, The Tragedy of Macbeth 10
  • Ruth Negga, Passing 10
  • Molly Parker, Jockey 10
  • Suzanna Son, Red Rocket 10
  • Dakota Johnson, The Lost Daughter 5
  • Anya Taylor-Joy, Last Night in Soho 5
  • Alicia Vikander, The Green Knight 5

Best Screenplay

  • Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun 20
  • Asghar Farhadi, A Hero 20
  • Michael Sarnoski, Pig 15
  • Paul Schrader, The Card Counter 10
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter 10
  • Jon Spaihts & Denis Villeneuve & Eric Roth, Dune: Part One 5
  • Edgar Wright & Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Last Night in Soho 5
  • Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza 5
  • Guillermo Del Toro & Kim Morgan, Nightmare Alley 5
  • Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog 5

Best Scene

  • "So May We Start", Annette 30
  • "96,000", In the Heights 10
  • "America", West Side Story 10
  • Eurydice, Pig 10
  • Holding cell massacre, Malignant 10
  • Pause, The Worst Person in the World 10
  • All downhill from here, Licorice Pizza 5
  • "Bye Bye Bye" (piano version), Red Rocket 5
  • Post-credits scene ("this is part of the movie by the way"), Zeros and Ones 5
  • "Sunday Brunch", Tick, Tick… Boom! 5

Top Ten List

  • 1. The French Dispatch
  • 2. Red Rocket
  • 3. Pig
  • 4. West Side Story
  • 5. A Hero
  • 6. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
  • 7. The Power of the Dog
  • 8. The Card Counter
  • 9. Nightmare Alley
  • 10. Licorice Pizza

Ratings

  • 12 Mighty Orphans 2.0
  • 7 Prisoners 2.5
  • About Endlessness 2.5
  • Agnes 2.5
  • All Light, Everywhere 3.0
  • America: The Motion Picture 2.0
  • Annette 3.0
  • Arlo the Alligator Boy 2.0
  • Army of Thieves 2.0
  • Attica 3.5
  • Awake 2.0
  • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn 3.5
  • Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar 2.5
  • Beckett 2.5
  • Becoming Cousteau 3.0
  • Belfast 3.0
  • Benedetta 3.5
  • The Big Scary ’S’ Word 1.5
  • Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry 2.5
  • Bingo Hell 1.5
  • Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James 2.0
  • Black as Night 2.0
  • Bliss 2.0
  • Bloody Hell 2.0
  • Body Brokers 2.5
  • Boogie 2.0
  • Boss Level 2.0
  • Burning 3.0
  • The Card Counter 3.5
  • Censor 2.5
  • Cherry 1.5
  • CODA 2.5
  • Come From Away 3.0
  • Come True 2.0
  • Concrete Cowboy 3.0
  • A Cop Movie 3.0
  • The Courier 2.0
  • Crack 3.0
  • Cryptozoo 1.5
  • The Disciple 3.0
  • The Djinn 2.5
  • Don’t Breathe 2 3.0
  • Don’t Look Up 2.0
  • Drive My Car 3.0
  • Dune: Part One 3.0
  • Earwig and the Witch 1.5
  • The Empty Man 3.0
  • Encanto 2.5
  • Fear Street: Part One—1994 1.5
  • The Feast 3.0
  • Finch 2.5
  • Flee 3.0
  • The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun 4.0
  • A Glitch in the Matrix 2.5
  • Godzilla vs. Kong 2.0
  • The Green Knight 3.0
  • The Harder They Fall 2.0
  • Held 1.0
  • A Hero 3.5
  • Homeroom 2.5
  • The Humans 2.5
  • I Care a Lot 3.0
  • In & of Itself 2.5
  • In the Heights 3.0
  • In the Same Breath 2.5
  • Jockey 2.5
  • Judas and the Black Messiah 3.0
  • Julia 2.5
  • Kate 2.0
  • Last Night in Soho 3.0
  • Licorice Pizza 3.5
  • Listening to Kenny G 3.0
  • The Little Things 2.0
  • The Lost Daughter 3.5
  • Malcolm & Marie 1.5
  • Malignant 3.0
  • Mandibles 2.5
  • The Many Saints of Newark 2.5
  • Markie in Milwaukee 3.0
  • The Matrix Resurrections 3.0
  • The Mauritanian 2.5
  • Memoria 3.0
  • The Misfits 1.0
  • The Mitchells vs the Machines 3.0
  • MLK/FBI 2.5
  • Moby Doc 1.5
  • Moxie 1.5
  • Munich: The Edge of War 2.0
  • National Champions 1.5
  • Nightmare Alley 3.5
  • Night Raiders 2.0
  • Nine Days 2.0
  • No Sudden Move 2.5
  • The Novice 3.0
  • The Nowhere Inn 1.5
  • Old Henry 2.0
  • Operation Varsity Blues 3.0
  • Oxygen 2.0
  • Palmer 2.0
  • Passing 3.0
  • Pelé 3.0
  • Petite Maman 3.0
  • Pig 3.5
  • The Power of the Dog 3.5
  • The Power 1.5
  • Prisoners of the Ghostland 2.5
  • Procession 3.0
  • Red Rocket 3.5
  • The Rescue 2.0
  • Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain 2.5
  • Saint Maud 2.5
  • The Scary of Sixty-First 1.5
  • Settlers 2.5
  • The Seventh Day 1.5
  • Shadow in the Cloud 2.5
  • Shiva Baby 3.0
  • Silo 2.0
  • The Sparks Brothers 3.0
  • Spiral 1.5
  • Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 3.5
  • Summertime 2.0
  • There’s Someone Inside Your House 1.5
  • Things Heard & Seen 1.5
  • Those Who Wish Me Dead 2.5
  • Tick, Tick… Boom! 3.0
  • Tina 3.0
  • Tiny Tim: King for a Day 2.5
  • Titane 2.5
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth 3.0
  • Under the Volcano 2.5
  • The Unholy 1.5
  • The United States vs. Billie Holiday 2.0
  • Val 3.0
  • The Velvet Underground 3.5
  • The Viewing Booth 3.5
  • The Vigil 2.5
  • The Violent Heart 2.0
  • Vivo 2.0
  • Voyagers 1.5
  • Werewolves Within 2.5
  • West Side Story 3.5
  • WeWork, or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn 2.5
  • Wife of a Spy 3.0
  • The Woman in the Window 2.5
  • The Worst Person in the World 3.0
  • Worth 2.0
  • Zeros and Ones 3.0
  • @Zola 2.0