The Films of 2021. The 22nd annual FiLM BiTCH Awards
PICTURE | ACTING | VISUALS | AURALS | EXTRAS | SPECIAL | SCENES
AND THE WINNERS ARE
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Best Original Score
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DUNE Industrial menace, alien shimmer, and those trademark deep Zimmer vibrations. |
THE FRENCH DISPATCH
Desplat does it again, the full orchestra, like another set of quirky unforgettable characters offscreen. Jean-Yves Thibaudet on piano. |
THE GREEN KNIGHT
Earthy and alien simultaneously. Expertly deployed echoes, choral exclamations, and wood-wind instruments |
POWER OF THE DOG
The cello plays a banjo in this instantly iconic insinuating score. |
ZOLA A playful avante-garde but never twee soundscape, full of chirps, trills, and trap-infused music box melody. |
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Finalists: Carter Burwell for The Tragedy of Macbeth, Dickon Hinchliffe for The Lost Daughter, Bryce and Aaron Dressner Cmon Cmon , Semi Finalists: Albert Iglesias for Parallel Mothers, Henry Gregson-Williams for The Last Duel, Anne Dudley for Benedetta, Eiko Ishibashi for Drive My Car |
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Best Original Song
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"So May We Start"
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"U" An involving driving cacophonous banger to open the movie. Like "So May We Start" it's so strong how do you chase it? |
"Surface Pressure"
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"We Don't Talk About Bruno"
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"No Time To Die" A dirge but not an inexpressive one. Bond songs get lots of attention, sometimes for good reason. |
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Finalists: "A Million Miles" with its 'lalalala' choral responses provides Belle with a beautiful reverent climax (of sorts), "Jim Crowe Count" is a miniscule banger in The Harder They Fall , introducing Stagecoach Mary and making you wish the whole film were the musical it actually wants to be, "Just Look Up" is a camp power ballad highlight within Don't Look Up ... deliciously dumb while also sounding like an actual hit power ballad. Semi Finalists: "Keep the Beat" Vivo, "Dos Oruguitas" Encanto, "This Was Me" Everybody's Talking About Jamie |
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Best Sound
Considering the whole soundscape: Mixing, Editing, Effects, and Overall Design. |
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DUNE
Inventive, alien and foreboding world-building. "Use the voice!" |
THE GREEN KNIGHT
Eery quiet, moody scoring, and medieval fantasy |
IN THE HEIGHTS
Movie musical heaven - high energy and clarity. |
THE POWER OF THE DOG
The comb. The piano & banjo wars. That score. A sublime mix. |
WEST SIDE STORY Movie musical heaven - gorgeous vocals! |
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Finalists: The ragged flopsweat of last-chance music-making in tick, tick...BOOM!, an intriguing soundscape of whimsical scoring, twitter chirping, loud diegetic songs, and character quirk in Zola |
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Best Adapted Score, Combination Score, or Song Score
*not an Oscar correlative traditional category - anything song heavy or that uses both old & original music * |
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CODA Marius de Vries (score) and various artists (songs). Performed by Emilia Jones and Ferdia Wasl-Peelo |
IN THE HEIGHTS
Lin-Manuel Miranda (songs) Performed by Anthony Ramos, Olga Merediz and more |
TICK TICK BOOM
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UNITED STATES VS BILLIE HOLIDAY Billie Holiday songs performed by Andra Day |
WEST SIDE STORY
Leonard Bernstein's iconic score performed by Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler and more |
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Finalists: Encanto (Germaine Franco (score) and Lin-Manuel Miranda (songs), Annette (the Sparks) |
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NOMINATION TALLIES FOR OSCAR-ADJACENT CATEGORIES*
37 FILMS RECOGNIZED ACROSS 18 CATEGORIES
the film bitch awards have 5 less traditional categories as we do not have short film categories,
doc feature, or international feature categories
10 nominations
POWER OF THE DOG (5 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze)
7 nominations
DUNE (4 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
ZOLA (2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
6 nominations
PASSING (1 gold, 1 bronze)
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (1 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze)
5 nominations
THE GREEN KNIGHT (1 gold, 2 silver)
4 nominations
IN THE HEIGHTS (1 silver)
WEST SIDE STORY
3 nominations
ENCANTO (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
THE FRENCH DISPATCH (1 silver, 1 bronze)
MASS
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (1 silver)
2 nominations
CRUELLA (1 gold)
DRIVE MY CAR (1 bronze)
1 nomination
ANNETTE (1 bronze)
BARB AND STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR (1 bronze)
BELLE
CMON CMON (1 bronze)
CODA
ETERNALS
THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE (1 silver)
FLEE (1 gold)
FREE GUY (1 bronze)
GODZILLA VS KONG (1 silver)
KING RICHARD
LICORICE PIZZA
THE LOST DAUGHTER (1 gold)
LUCA (1 silver)
MASS
NO TIME TO DIE
PARALLEL MOTHERS
PETITE MAMAN (1 silver)
RED ROCKET
SHIVA BABY
SPENCER
TICK TICK BOOM (1 silver)
TITANE (1 bronze)
continue on to "extra" performance categories