10th Annual Team Experience Award NOMINEES

From the Team...

Which movie does the Film Experience team like the best? Paul, Phil and Maria are all anxiously awaiting.Few people love awards as much as The Film Experience team does. That’s why we can’t resist having our own awards announcement. The 10th Annual Team Experience Awards nominations have been revealed. These nominees were voted on by all the writers at The Film Experience, sans Nathaniel (who will be revealing his own Film Bitch Awards separately). Three movies dominated our ballots, receiving 10 votes apiece – Dune, The Power of the Dog  and West Side Story. The team will be voting on the winners, which will be revealed next Wednesday, January 25th.

Check out the nominees after the jump...

All Best Picture nominees earned at least three nominations, such as CODA. The Sundance favorite is nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Troy Kotsur) and Best Adapted Screenplay.BEST PICTURE

• CODA
• Drive My Car
• Dune
• Flee
• The Lost Daughter
• Parallel Mothers
• The Power of the Dog
• Spencer
• West Side Story
• The Worst Person in the World

BEST DIRECTOR 

• Pedro Almodóvar - Parallel Mothers
• Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog
• Julia Ducournau - Titane
• Steven Spielberg - West Side Story
• Denis Villeneuve - Dune

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

• Drive My Car (Japan)
• Flee (Denmark)
• Parallel Mothers (Spain)
• Titane (France)
• The Worst Person in the World (Norway)

BEST ACTRESS

• Olivia Colman - The Lost Daughter
• Penélope Cruz - Parallel Mothers
• Jasna Đuričić - Quo Vadis, Aida?
• Renate Reinsve - The Worst Person in the World
• Kristen Stewart - Spencer

BEST ACTOR

• Nicolas Cage - Pig
• Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog
• Andrew Garfield - Tick, Tick... BOOM!
• Vincent Lindon - Titane
• Simon Rex - Red Rocket

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 

• Ariana DeBose - West Side Story
• Kirsten Dunst - The Power of the Dog
• Kathryn Hunter - The Tragedy of Macbeth
• Ruth Negga - Passing
• Martha Plimpton - Mass 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Anders Danielsen Lie - The Worst Person in the World
• Colman Domingo - Zola
• Mike Faist - West Side Story
• Troy Kotsur - CODA
• Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Power of the Dog

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• A Hero (Asghar Farhadi)
• Mass (Fran Kranz)
• Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
• Red Rocket (Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch)
• The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt) 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• CODA (Sian Heder)
• Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe)
• The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
• Passing (Rebecca Hall)
• The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Cruella (Jenny Beavan)
• Dune (Bob Morgan, Jacqueline West)
• The Green Knight (Malgosia Turzanska)
• Spencer (Jacqueline Durran)
• West Side Story (Paul Tazewell)

Flee pulled off the incredible feat of earning Picture, Documentary, Animated and International Feature nominations from the Film Experience team.BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

• Flee (Dir: Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
• Procession (Dir: Robert Greene)
• The Rescue (Dir: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi)
• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Dir: Questlove)
• The Velvet Underground (Dir: Todd Haynes)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE 

• Encanto (Dir: Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Charise Castro Smith)
• Flee (Dir: Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
• Luca (Dir: Enrico Casarosa)
• The Mitchells vs. The Machines (Dir: Michael Rianda, Jeff Rowe)
• Raya and the Last Dragon (Dir: Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, John Ripa)

BEST ENSEMBLE

• Drive My Car
• The Harder They Fall
• Mass
• The Power of the Dog
• West Side Story

BEST EDITING 

• Dune (Joe Walker)
• In the Heights (Myron Kerstein)
• The Lost Daughter (Affonso Goncalves)
• The Power of the Dog (Peter Sciberras)
• West Side Story (Sarah Broshar, Michael Kahn)

Both The Tragedy of Macbeth and Titane earned the most nominations (four apiece) without a corresponding Best Picture nomination.

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN 

• Dune (Patrice Vermette)
• The French Dispatch (Adam Stockhausen)
• Nightmare Alley (Tamara Deverell)
• The Tragedy of Macbeth (Stefan Dechant)
• West Side Story (Adam Stockhausen)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 

• Dune (Greig Fraser)
• The Power of the Dog (Ari Wegner)
• Passing (Eduard Grau)
• Spencer (Claire Mathon)
• The Tragedy of Macbeth (Bruno Delbonnel)

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

• Cruella
• Dune
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• The Green Knight
• Titane

BEST MUSIC (PRE-EXISTING OR ORIGINAL)

• Dune
• The Power of the Dog
• Spencer
• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
• West Side Story

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 

• Dune
• The Matrix Resurrections
• No Time To Die
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
• The Suicide Squad

BEST SOUND

• Dune
• The Humans
• Memoria
• The Tragedy of Macbeth
• West Side Story 

FUN FACTS 

• A total of 41 movies received at least one nomination during the Team Experience awards.
• Across the team’s Best Picture ballots, 64 movies in total were mentioned.
• All five of the nominees for BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE appear in either BEST PICTURE or BEST DIRECTOR.
• Four out of five of the BEST ACTRESS nominees were in films also nominated for BEST PICTURE. Only one of the five BEST ACTOR nominees is in a film nominated for BEST PICTURE.
• Women make up two out of five BEST DIRECTOR nominees and are a part of four of the ten writing teams for SCREENPLAY.
• BEST ENSEMBLE doesn’t necessarily mean “Best Standout Performance.” Two of the five nominees for BEST ENSEMBLE (The Harder They Fall, Drive My Car) did not earn a single nomination in any of the four acting categories.
• The BEST ENSEMBLE category also has zero overlap with the SAG Awards category for Outstanding Cast.
• FLEE managed to earn nominations in four feature categories – BEST PICTURE, BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, BEST ANIMATED FEATURE and BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE.
• Not all frontrunners are invincible. West Side Story may have led nominations, but it missed out in Best Cinematography. 

What do you think of the team's nominations? Who are you rooting for?

Comments

[sfenton24]

That's a great supporting actor lineup (if only AMPAS' would follow suit). And I love, love, the ensemble nomination for Drive My Car. Kudos to the team!

[Lynn Lee]

Kudos to my fellow team members for their excellent taste!

A few thoughts/reactions:

(1) This is a group that is very attuned to international films, which I love but also makes me even more regretful of the fact that I have not yet been able to see WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD, FLEE, or even PARALLEL MOTHERS and wasn't able to summon up the stomach to see TITANE or QUO VADIS, AIDA?

(2) The shutout for BEING THE RICARDOS and DON'T LOOK UP didn't surprise me, but I admit the lack of love for LICORICE PIZZA and NIGHTMARE ALLEY did, slightly. (I haven't seen either LP or NA, for the record, since I went into lockdown after the Christmas holidays.)

(3) Cheers for Nic Cage, a tear for Oscar Isaac (in THE CARD COUNTER). And more tears for the shutout of the cast of C'MON C'MON.

[Raul]

These are the best set of nominees I've seen this year so far. Bravo!

[pascal le]

Many interesting nominations but I wonder why the animation category is so conventional. Only blockbusters and Flee which is a very discussed film (for the best). Sad not to see more movies from outsde the US and there are great animated films eligible

[Gabe M.]

Not to get too self-congratulatory, but I'm right there with you, Lynn! Super impressed with my fellow team members, many movies/performances that did not make it to my top 5 feel like incredibly refreshing picks. I'm also behind on my International cinema, so it looks like I need to catch up on *Titane* and *Drive My Car*, especially.

My random thoughts:

*The Supporting Actress line-up the team came up with is fantastic. It is going to be a brutal choice for the Oscar voters. As nominations come out, I keep wondering why Olga Merediz, Dakota Johnson, Nina Arianda, and a couple others are not showing up on lists... then when it came time to make my own, I did not find room for any of them even though in my mind they were at the top of my list.

*Woot Mike Faist *and* Colman Domingo! These are some of the best performances I saw this year, surprising at every turn.

*That editing nomination for The Lost Daughter brightened my day as did seeing Almodóvar get cited for director (even if Maggie should've been in there too!).

[ScottC]

Just from reacting to scrolling down - that set of Costume nominees leading in to that set of Documentary nominees - well done! Such good sets. And yeah, The Lost Daughter in editing - love that nomination. And fun/good picks for Make Up and Hairstlyling. Finally, it makes me smile that this very Actressexual team produced the most interesting set of Best Actor nominees I've seen this year.

[Kris]

Darn... I just realized, that my 5 favorite films of 2021 were all not-in-English-language... The only one in my TOP10 that is also your nominee for best picture is CODA.... Where is Licorice pizza and Belfast? :)
One of my favourites across many categories was from last year's Sundance - One for the road... but I guess it wasn't released at all in US... and also the german film "Copilot" (from Berlinale), about the wife of the only 9/11 terrorist, who should have had a reason to live through her (all others were bachelors).
And the best Russian film of the year - Siege diary. About the Leningrade Blocade... It always makes me wonder... Ok, you live in hunger a day, a week, a month... But to live without food (or heat in the harshest winters recorded there) for 900 days in a row... when would one die? 1.5 million people did... But I wonder how many more would have, had the known how long this will last. The film had also a female cinematographer, who won all major russian awards, because it was all so realistic... horrifying and beautiful at the same time....So sad that Russia didn't send it to the Oscars...
But my favourite lead and supporting actresses are nominated (Olivia Colman and Kirsten Dunst) + favourite lead actor (Benedict)... but not my favourite supporting actor of the year - THE CRAZY Benicio in Wes Anderson's movie :)
Happy to see the amazing role by Kathryn Hunter nominated by you guys and I share the love for Troy Kotsur and Simon Rex and The worst person in the world across the boards... But I don't share the love for West Side Story (except for Ariana DeBose). But why oh why have you looked pass Belfast all together? Not even the excellent screenplay nor fantastic Caitrona Balfe... And Licorice pizza is criminally missing in many places, but especially from screenplay category... this is kind of weird, isn't it?! THE best PTA movie ever to my mind...

[NATHANIEL R]

pascal le -- i cant speak for the team since i didnt see the ballots but i'm guessing it's because the access to non-mainstream animated films hasn't been great since the pandemic starte unless you think to seek them out at festivals.And some of the films that are Oscar eliibgle are only just seeing release now so people will be late cateching up to them (like Belle and Poupelle of Chimney Town).

everyone -- i love the supporting actor list too and SPOILER ALERT it's so close to mine that i think it might be identical (i'll have to double check) which is weird because these rarely line up exactly with what i love since i dont' get to vote ;)

[Dan H]

This is actually VERY close to what I would have come up with, so once again I’m reminded about why I love this group of people.

I would have probably thrown a bit of love at NIGHTMARE ALLEY (cinematography, art direction, costumes), LICORICE PIZZA (screenplay, director, picture, editing), and, in cinematography and only cinematography, THE FRENCH DISPATCH (the photography, particularly but not limited to the black and white, is its signature achievement and I don’t get how people aren’t voting for it in awards bodies).

What would I take out to make room for those? DUNE, DUNE, DUNE, DUNE, the RED ROCKET screenplay (great but not as great as LICORICE PIZZA) and the only excellent, hardly "best five" cinematography of SPENCER.

Don’t get me wrong, DUNE could turn out to be a towering classic. But, in its first half, the cinematography, script, direction, art direction aren’t THAT spectacular in a film that, by design, ends before it can shift into high gear. Villeneuve didn’t even try to tackle the one great scene in the first half of the book, the big banquet scene—of course Lynch didn’t either—so what we have is a promising first half to a slow burn film with admirably muted but hardly brilliant cinematography; convincing, but hardly jaw dropping, art direction; professional, but hardly Soviet-silent level, editing. There’s evidence that Villeneuve will bring the plane in for a perfect landing, but it’s hardly a done deal. All the tough stuff is yet to come. In a perfect world, the entire 5.5 hour DUNE would have been filmed and released in the same year and shown in halves on alternate nights at the theater, like Bertolucci's 5.25 hour 1900 was in Europe. As is, it’s half a film and I wouldn’t give it any votes until the damn thing was done. An exception would be for actors whose character died in PART 1, if I thought they were good enough, but none of them were.

Beyond that, I’m so grateful to see a bunch of nominations that are smart, international, and un-beholden to industry/social media pressures. Great job.

[Tyler]

Glad to see that 'Spencer' is beloved by the team!

[Ryan T.]

Great, great set of nominees. No real complaints except to say it's a bit depressing that for a banner year for musicals, there was just room for 3 measly nominations for non-West SIde Story musicals in the bunch and that's counting ENCANTO. Is WEST SIDE STORY really THAT much better than any other musical this year or is it the NAME the HISTORY the RECENCY?

[Christopher James]

Thanks everyone for your great comments!! I'll try and shed a light on some of the snubs/ballots (in broad strokes, gotta keep some secrecy).

@Lynn/Kris/Dan:Surprisingly, Licorice Pizza was not among many ballots, though Nightmare Alley was a player in more craft categories than just Production Design. Belfast has some supporters too, but not across all categories.

@Kris: Siege diary seems really interesting. Thank you so much for the recommendation. Will have to be on the lookout.

@Nathaniel: Love that your Supporting Actor will be so similar! Lots of great, true supporting performances this year. There were tons of others that got votes here and there as well.

@Ryan: While West Side Story was the dominant musical for sure, there was plenty of support for Tick, Tick... Boom, In The Heights and Encanto across all categories. I think the musical vote was split quite a few ways and West Side Story came out on top.

[Jésus Alonso]

Happy to see Parallel Mothers with 5 key noms. I miss it in Score, though

[Dave in Hollywood]

So Nathaniel always tells us how many people are involved in these "critics/journalist group" nominations and awards, so how many people are we talking about here? Ten or 50 or something in between?

And though I'm missing a few of my favorites here, I'd say generally these are very thoughtful nominations.

[Glenn Dunks]

Looks like a very solid batch of nominees. Which is great because I still haven't seen many of them! Unfortunately a lot of the international stuff like Parallel Mothers, A Hero, Drive My Car is still on my to-watch list (I prefer theatrical). Likewise Spencer, which was only released over here this week. But I have seen it now at least for voting on the winners. I just refuse to watch a new Almodovar or a three-hour talky subtitled drama on my tv at home. I just do.

Pascal, unfortunately animation is one of those weird cases where the academy's branch do get better access to what's available. BELLE screeners were only sent out quite late (and may as well just be a 2022 release). I put CRYPTOZOO and BOB SPIT on my ballot because I don't think ENCANTO is good and found the animation of RAYA very off-putting. Unfortunately many of the smaller, international animations are just so hard to see for many and (it's sad but true) not the highest of priorities for me.

Ryan, I don't think I had any WEST SIDE STORY on my ballot as I'm cooler on it than most. I definitely nominated TICK TICK BOOM for Picture and *i think* supporting actor? I also wasn't as big on IN THE HEIGHTS as others although I put it down for choreography on my Online Film Critics Society's special technical achievement awards. If we had an original song category, "This Was Me" from EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE would definitely be there. A real shame it wasn't on the Oscar shortlist given how prominent it is in the movie.

Also, BARB AND STAR was ineligible so that cut down on the musical content, too!