Passing 2021

Essential movies covering people of the African diaspora.

Below is our updated running tally of the films most frequently mentioned by individual critics on the year-end Top Ten lists. Note that if a critic ranks more than the standard 10 films, we will not include films ranked 11th or worse. (We do include unranked lists of 11-20 titles, though each film gets just one-half of a point.) In case of a tie for first or second, each film will receive the full points for that position.
https://www.metacritic.com/feature/film-critics-pick-10-best-movies-of-2021
Updated: 2022-01-23

75th British Academy Film Awards - 2022 EE BAFTA Film Awards nominees and winners:
- Best Film: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05. | 01 - The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion).
- Best British Film of the Year: 02, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. | 02 - Belfast (Kenneth Branagh).
- Best Director: 01, 04, 15, 16, 17. | 01 - The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion).
- Best Leading Actor: 01, 05, 06, 09, 18, 19. | 18 - King Richard (Will Smith).
- Best Leading Actress: 04, 07, 10, 11, 20, 21. | 07 - After Love (Joanna Scanlan).
- Best Supporting Actor: 01, 01, 02, 20, 22, 23. | 20 - CODA (Troy Kotsur).
- Best Supporting Actress: 02, 11, 18, 23, 24, 25. | 23 - West Side Story (Ariana DeBose).
- Best Original Screenplay: 02, 04, 05, 18, 26. | 04 - Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson).
- Best Adapted Screenplay: 01, 03, 15, 20, 24. | 20 - CODA (Sian Heder).
- Best Cinematography: 01, 03, 12, 27, 28. | 03 - Dune (Greig Fraser).
- Best Editing: 02, 03, 04, 12, 43. | 12 - No Time to Die (Tom Cross, Elliot Graham).
- Best Film not in the English Language: 15, 21, 29, 30, 31. | 15 - Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi).
- Best Production Design: 03, 13, 23, 28, 32. | 03 - Dune.
- Best Costume Design: 03, 13, 28, 32, 33. | 33 - Cruella.
- Best Make Up/Hair: 03, 10, 13, 33, 34. | 34 - The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
- Best Original Score: 01, 03, 05, 26, 32. | 03 - Dune (Hans Zimmer).
- Best Sound: 03, 08, 12, 23, 35. | 03 - Dune.
- Best Special Visual Effects: 03, 12, 36, 37, 38. | 03 - Dune.
- Best Animated Film: 41, 41, 42, 43. | 42 - Encanto.
- Best Documentary: 41, 45, 46, 47, 48. | 45 - Summer of Soul.
- Best Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer: 06, 07, 11, 39, 49. | 39 - The Harder They Fall (Jeymes Samuel).
- EE Rising Star Award: 01, 12, 23, 36, 40. | 12 - No Time to Die (Lashana Lynch).
- Best Casting: 03, 06, 18, 23, 29. | 23 - West Side Story.
- Best British Short Film: 50, 51, 52, 53, 54. | 52 - The Black Cop.
- Best British Short Animation: 55, 56, 57. | 57 - Do Not Feed the Pigeons.

The Guardian's countdown of the best films released in the US during 2021

List compiled from: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/30/the-50-best-films-of-2021-in-the-us

Ranked as in the list (since there are 2 films at #11, the list actually includes 51 films)

1: The Power of the Dog
2: The Green Knight
3: Petite Maman
4: Drive My Car
5: Flee
6: Dune
7: Licorice Pizza
8: The Humans
9: Azor
10: The Lost Daughter
11: West Side Story
12: Belfast
13: Mass
14: The Souvenir Part II
15: The French Dispatch
16: No Time to Die
17: Quo Vadis, Aida?
18: Getting Away With Murder(s)
19: Summer of Soul
20: Limbo
21: Red Rocket
22: A Cop Movie
23: Passing
24: Identifying Features
25: Bergman Island
26: The Worst Person in the World
27: The Killing of Two Lovers
28: The World to Come
29: tick, tick … BOOM!
30: Procession
31: Rose Plays Julie
32: The Tragedy of Macbeth
33: I Care a Lot
34: House of Gucci
35: The Velvet Underground
36: About Endlessness
37: Never Gonna Snow Again
38: Censor
39: Annette
40: Pig
41: New Order
42: The Reason I Jump
43: C’mon C’mon
44: Shiva Baby
45: State Funeral
46: Titane
47: Last Night in Soho
48: Boiling Point
49: Worth
50: Sabaya
51: The First Wave

List compiled from (article and podcast): https://www.filmspotting.net/top-5-lists-archive/2021/12/22/854-855-top-10-films-of-2021

Four Top 10 lists - from Adam, Josh, Dana Stevens and Michael Phillips

Ranked by number of consensus Top 10 selections (most Top 10 selections first), then average place from all the lists

1: Summer of Soul (Adam, Josh, Dana, Michael)
2: The Power of the Dog (Adam, Josh, Dana)
3: Licorice Pizza (Adam, Dana, Michael)
4: The Green Knight (Josh, Dana, Michael)
5: Petite Maman (Adam, Josh)
6: West Side Story (Dana, Michael)
7: Drive My Car (Adam, Michael)
8: Passing (Josh, Michael)

Besides the 8 consensus movies, there are some outliers that only made it to one Top 10 list

Adam:
9: The Worst Person in the World
10: Pig
11: The Killing of Two Lovers
12: The Card Counter
13: Annette

Josh:
14: Identifying Features
15: The French Dispatch
16: Zola
17: Memoria
18: About Endlessness

Dana:
19: Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
20: The Velvet Underground
21: A Hero
22: Parallel Mothers
23: The Disciple

Michael:
24: The Underground Railroad
25: It's a Sin
26: A Night of Knowing Nothing
27: The Lost Daughter

2021 Sundance Film Festival:
- 01-10: U.S. Dramatic Competition
- 11-20: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- 21-30: U.S. Documentary Competition
- 31-40: World Cinema Documentary Competition
- 41-49: Next
- 50-64: Premieres
- 65-66: Spotlight
- 67-72: Midnight
- 73-118: Short Films Program

Awards:
- U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: 01 - CODA (Sian Heder).
- U.S. Dramatic Audience Award: 01 - CODA (Sian Heder).
- U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: 01 - CODA (Sian Heder).
- U.S. Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: 02 - On the Count of Three (Ari Katcher, Ryan Welch).
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: 03 - Jockey (Clifton Collins Jr.).
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast: 01 - CODA.
- World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: 11 - Hive (Blerta Basholli).
- World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: 11 - Hive (Blerta Basholli).
- World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: 11 - Hive (Blerta Basholli).
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: 12 - Luzzu (Jesmark Scicluna).
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: 13 - One for the Road (Baz Poonpiriya).
- U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize: 21 - Summer of Soul (Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson).
- U.S. Documentary Audience Award: 21 - Summer of Soul (Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson).
- U.S. Documentary Directing Award: 22 - Users (Natalia Almada).
- U.S. Documentary Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: 23 - Homeroom (Kristina Motwani, Rebecca Adorno).
- U.S. Documentary Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker: 24 - Cusp (Parker Hill, Isabel Bethencourt).
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Nonfiction Experimentation: 25 - All Light, Everywhere (Theo Anthony).
- World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: 31 - Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen).
- World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: 32 - Writing With Fire (Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh).
- World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: 33 - Sabaya (Hogir Hirori).
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking: 34 - President (Camilla Nielsson).
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact for Change: 32 - Writing With Fire (Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh).
- Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: 41 - Son of Monarchs (Alexis Gambis).
- Next Audience Award: 42 - Ma Belle, My Beauty (Marion Hill).
- Next Innovator Award: 43 - Cryptozoo (Dash Shaw).
- Short Film Grand Jury Prize: 73 - Lizard (Akinola Davies).
- Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction: 74 - The Touch of the Master's Hand (Gregory Willis Barnes).
- Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: 75 - Bambirak (Zamarin Wahdat).
- Short Film Jury Award: Non-Fiction: 76 - Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma (Topaz Jones, Rubberband).
- Short Film Jury Award: Animation: 77 - Souvenir, Souvenir (Bastien Dubois).
- Short Film Special Jury Prize for Acting: 78 - Wiggle Room (Deanna Gibson).
- Short Film Special Jury Prize for Screenwriting: 79 - The Criminals (Serhat Karaaslan).
- Short Filmmaking Award International: 80 - We're Not Animals (Noé Debré).

HollyWood Movies based on Popularity

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Latest releases with IMDB score 6.7+ and minimum votes 10000+

Pulled from Rotten Tomatoes Top Movies section:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/?year=2021

UPDATED: 3/21/22

NOTE: It appears Rotten Tomatoes has not been refreshing this list. I will keep checking and update the Trakt list once RT resumes updates.

Updated at 2024-05-31

This list include all movies on the yearly Barack Obama's favorite movies lists.