Best Of 2021: a Summary of World Cinema

2021 Film Festivals

Awarded Film	Event
Titane	Cannes Film Festival	France
Happening	Venice Film Festival	Italy
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn	Berlin International Film Festival	Germany
Blue Moon	San Sebastian Film Festival	Spain
Belfast	Toronto Film Festival (TIFF)	Canada
CODA	Sundance Film Festival	USA
Hit the Road	Mar del Plata International Film Festival	Argentina
#dogpoopgirl	Moscow International Film Festival	Russia
Lamb	Film Festival of Catalonia	Spain
Last Film Show	Seminci - International Film Festival	Spain

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2021 Awards

Awarded Film	Award
CODA	Oscars - Academy Awards	USA
The Power of the Dog (Drama) West Side Story (Comedy)	Golden Globes Awards	USA
Quo Vadis, Aida?	European Film Awards (EFA)	Europe
The Power of the Dog	BAFTA - British Academy Film Awards	G.B.
Lost Illusions	Cesar Awards (France)	France
The Hand of God	David di Donatello Awards (Italy)	Italy
The Good Boss	Goya Awards (Spanish Academy Awards)	Spain
Dear Thomas	German Film Awards (Deutsche Filmpreis)	Germany
Clara sola	Guldbagge Awards (Swedish Film Institute)	Sweden

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Critics' Association Awards 2021

Awarded Film	Awards
Licorice Pizza	National Board of Review (NBR)	USA
Drive My Car	New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC)	USA
Drive My Car	Los Angeles Film Critics Awards (LAFCA)	USA
The Power of the Dog	Chicago Film Critics Association	USA
Drive My Car	Boston Society of Film Critics	USA
The Power of the Dog	Critics' Choice Awards	USA

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David Fear, Senior Editor of Rolling Stone - Article Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		Drive My Car
2		The Human Voice
3		Beginning
4		The Viewing Booth
5		The Souvenir. Part II
6		Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
7		Shiva Baby
8		The Velvet Underground
9		Quo Vadis, Aida?
10		Licorice Pizza

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A. O. Scott, Chief Critic of The New York Times - Article Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2		Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
3		The Power of the Dog
4		Petite maman
5		Bring Your Own Brigade
6		Bergman Island
7		Drive My Car
8		Memoria
9		West Side Story
10		The Velvet Underground

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Manohla Dargis, Co-Chief Critic of The New York Times - Article Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		Drive My Car
2		The Power of the Dog
3		The Velvet Underground
4		Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
5		Passing
6		Azor
7		The Card Counter
8		The Disciple
9		Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
10		Spencer

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Ann Hornaday, Chief Critic of The Washington Post - Article Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		Parallel Mothers
2		I Carry You with Me
3		Zola
4		The Water Man
5		CODA
6		Candyman
7		Mass
8		Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
9		The Power of the Dog
10		Cyrano

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Eric Kohn, Chief Critic of IndieWire - Article Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		The Power of the Dog
2		Licorice Pizza
3		Drive My Car
4		Flee
5		Titane
6		Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
7		Memoria
8		The Card Counter
9		The Green Knight
10		Parallel Mothers

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James Poniewozik, Mike Hale & Margaret Lyons, Critics of The New York Times - Article (Sorted by alphabetical order)

Country:	Film
	Bo Burnham: Inside
	Dickinson
	The Good Fight
	Hacks
	Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
	Reservation Dogs
	It's a Sin
	Philly D.A.
	Station Eleven
	Succession
	The Underground Railroad

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Alan Sepinwall, TV Critic of Rolling Stone - Article Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		For All Mankind
2		Reservation Dogs
3		Only Murders in the Building
4		The Underground Railroad
5		Station Eleven
6		It's a Sin
7		Succession
8		Maid
9		The White Lotus
10		WandaVision

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Hank Stuever, TV Critic of The Washington Post - Article Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		The Lady and the Dale
2		It's a Sin
3		Bo Burnham: Inside
4		Succession
5		Maid
6		Hacks
7		Reservation Dogs
8		Nuclear Family
9		You

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Ben Travers, TV Critic of IndieWire - Article Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		The Underground Railroad
2		Succession
3		I Think You Should Leave (with Tim Robinson)
4		Hacks
5		The White Lotus
6		Dave
7		Ted Lasso
8		Reservation Dogs
9		Mythic Quest
10		Tuca & Bertie

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The Highest Grossing Films of 2021 Worldwide

#	Film	Genre	Producer	Box Office:
1	Spider-Man: No Way Home	Fantasy	Pascal / Marvel / Columbia	$1.057.457.000
2	The Battle at Lake Changjin	Action	August First / Bona Film	$902.538.000
3	Hi, Mom	Drama	China Film / Tianjin Maoyan Weiying Culture Media	$822.010.000
4	No Time to Die	Thriller	Danjaq / EON Productions / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$774.034.000
5	F9: The Fast Saga	Action	Universal Pictures / Original Film / One Race	726.230.000
6	Detective Chinatown 3	Comedy	Wanda Pictures	$686.258.000
7	Venom: Let There Be Carnage	Fantasy	Sony Pictures / Marvel Entertainment / Pascal	$521.027.000
8	Godzilla vs. Kong	Action	Legendary Pictures / Warner Bros.	$467.863.000
9	Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings	Fantasy	Marvel / Walt Disney / Fox	$432.230.000
10	Eternals	Fantasy	Marvel / TSG	$400.597.000

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The Highest Grossing Films of 2021 in the US

#	Film	Genre	Producer	Box Office:
1	Spider-Man: No Way Home	Fantasy	Pascal / Marvel / Columbia	$470.357.000
2	Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings	Fantasy	Marvel / Walt Disney / Fox	$224.546.000
3	Venom: Let There Be Carnage	Fantasy	Sony Pictures / Marvel Entertainment / Pascal	$212.527.000
4	Black Widow	Action	Marvel / Truenorth / Walt Disney	183.652.000
5	F9: The Fast Saga	Action	Universal Pictures / Original Film / One Race	173.006.000
6	Eternals	Fantasy	Marvel / TSG	$164.416.000
7	No Time to Die	Thriller	Danjaq / EON Productions / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$160.772.000
8	A Quiet Place: Part II	Horror	Paramount / Buffalo / Platinum Dunes	$160.072.000
9	Free Guy	Fantasy	Berlanti / 20th Century/ 21 Laps	$121.627.000
10	Ghostbusters: Afterlife	Fantasy	The Montecito / Columbia / Ghostcorps	$120.450.000

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The Highest Grossing Films of 2021 in their Country of Origin

Film	Genre	Producer	Box Office:
Kaiserschmarrndrama	Comedy	Constantin Film	9.049.000€
A todo tren. Destino Asturias	Comedy	Bowfinger / Atresmedia / Buendía	8.309.000€
Kaamelott: First Installment	Adventure	SND Films	19.280.000€
Case Closed: The Scarlet Bullet	Animation	Shogakukan-Shueisha / TMS	$61.110.000
Instructions for Su	Comedy	La Palma de Oro / Mota Films	$3.163.000
No Time to Die	Thriller	Danjaq / EON Productions / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$127.093.000

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The Best Films of 2021 according to Filmaffinity Users
Ranking order obeys to several criteria: films with a high number of votes, films released in various countries, etc.

Rating	Country:	Film
7.6		Spider-Man: No Way Home
7.5		Drive My Car
7.5		The Good Boss
7.5		West Side Story
7.5		Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
7.5		The Worst Person in the World
7.4		Maixabel
7.3		Dune
7.3		The Hand of God
7.3		Happening

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The Best TV Series of 2021 according to Filmaffinity Users

Rating	Country:	TV Series
8.7		The Beatles: Get Back
8.4		Arcane: League of Legends
8.2		Tear Along the Dotted Line
7.8		La Familia
7.8		It's a Sin
7.7		Mare of Easttown
7.7		Invincible
7.6		Time
7.6		G.E.O. Más allá del límite
7.4		Maid

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Best Of 2021: a Summary of World Cinema

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