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The Killing of Two Lovers 2021

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2020 Sundance Film Festival:
- 01-20: Premieres
- 21-27: Spotlight
- 28-43: U.S. Dramatic Competition
- 44-55: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- 56-64: Next
- 65-73: Midnight
- 74-77: New Frontier
- 78-80: Sundance Kids
- 81-96: U.S. Documentary Competition
- 97-108: World Cinema Documentary Competition
- 109-122: Documentary Premieres
- 123-157: Shorts Programs
- 158-163: Shorts Preceding Features
- 164-171: Midnight Shorts Program
- 172-178: New Frontier Shorts Program
- 179-186: Animation Spotlight Shorts Program
- 187-195: Documentary Shorts Programs
- 196-202: Special Events.

Awards:
- Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: 01 - Tesla (Michael Almereyda).
- U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: 28 - Minari (Lee Isaac).
- U.S. Dramatic Audience Award: 28 - Minari (Lee Isaac).
- U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: 29 - The 40-Year-Old Version (Radha Blank).
- U.S. Dramatic Screenwriting Award: 30 - Nine Days (Edson Oda).
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast: 31 - Charm City Kings.
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Auteur Filmmaking: 32 - Shirley (Josephine Decker).
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Neorealism: 33 - Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman).
- World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: 44 - Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness (Massoud Bakhshi).
- World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: 45 - Identifying Features (Fernanda Valadez).
- World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: 46 - Cuties (Maimouna Doucoure).
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: 47 - Surge (Ben Whishaw).
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Screenplay: 45 - Identifying Features (Fernanda Valadez).
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Visionary Filmmaking: 48 - This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese).
- Next Audience Award: 56 - I Carry You With Me (Heidi Ewing).
- Next Innovator Award: 56 - I Carry You With Me (Heidi Ewing).
- U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize: 81 - Boys State (Jesse Moss, Amanda McBaine).
- U.S. Documentary Audience Award: 82 - Crip Camp (Nicole Newnham and Jim Lebrecht).
- U.S. Documentary Directing Award: 83 - Time (Garrett Bradley).
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking: 84 - The Fight (Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman and Eli Despres).
- U.S. Documentary Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker: 85 - Feels Good Man (Arthur Jones for).
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing : 86 - Welcome to Chechnya (Tyler H. Walk).
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Innovation in Nonfiction Storytelling: 87 - Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirsten Johnson).
- World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: 97 - Epicentro (Hubert Sauper).
- World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: 98 - The Reason I Jump (Jerry Rothwell).
- World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: 99 - The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (Iryna Tsilyk).
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Storytelling: 100 - The Painter and the Thief (Benjamin Ree).
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography : 101 - Acasa, My Home (Mircea Topoleanu and Radu Ciorniciuc).
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: 102 - Softie (Mila Aung-Thwin, Sam Soko and Ryan Mullins).
- Short Film Grand Jury Prize: 123 - So What If The Goats Die (Sofia Alaoui).
- Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing: 164 - Valerio’s Day Out (Michael Arcos).
- Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction: 125 - Ship: A Visual Poem (Terrance Daye).
- Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: 126 - The Devil’s Harmony (Dylan Holmes Williams).
- Short Film Jury Award: Non-Fiction: 127 - John Was Trying to Contact Aliens (Matthew Killip).
- Short Film Jury Award: Animation: 179 - Daughter (Daria Kashcheeva).

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NEON is an independent film and television studio specializing in US film distribution. The company is one of the two top independent film distributors in the United States.

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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

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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

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2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominees and winners:
- Best Feature: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05. | 01 - Nomadland
- Best First Feature: 06, 07, 08, 09, 10. | 06 - Sound of Metal.
- Best Director: 01, 02, 04, 05, 11. | 01 - Nomadland (Chloé Zhao).
- Best Male Lead: 02, 03, 06, 12, 13. | 06 - Sound of Metal (Riz Ahmed).
- Best Female Lead: 01, 03, 04, 09, 11, 14. | 05 - Promising Young Woman (Carey Mulligan).
- Best Supporting Male: 03(2), 05, 06, 08. | 06 - Sound of Metal (Paul Raci).
- Best Supporting Female: 02(2), 04, 09, 15. | 13 - Minari (Yuh-Jung Youn).
- Best Screenplay: 02, 04, 11, 16, 17. | 05 - Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell).
- Best First Screenplay: 09, 14, 18, 19, 20. | 18 - Palm Springs (Andy Siara).
- Best Cinematography: 01, 04, 13, 14, 21. | 01 - Nomadland (Joshua James Richards).
- Best Editing: 01, 04, 10, 22, 23. | 01 - Nomadland (Chloé Zhao).
- Best International Film: 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. | 25 - Quo vadis, Aida?.
- Best Documentary: 29, 30, 31, 32, 33. | 30 - Crip Camp.
- Robert Altman Award (ensemble cast, dir. and casting dir.): 34. | 34 - One Night in Miami.
- John Cassavetes Award (Best Feature Under $500,000): 23, 35, 36, 37, 38. | 23 - Residue.
- Truer Than Fiction Award: 39, 40, 41. | 40 - Pier Kids.
- Someone to Watch Award: 13, 42, 43. | 43 - Farewell Amor (Ekwa Msangi).

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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.

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HollyWood Movies based on Popularity

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This list will be updated frequently throughout the year as contenders rise and fall.

Updated on 3/15/21 - Completed final update for this award season. This list now includes all of the films nominated for Oscars, Spirit Awards, Golden Globes, and SAG awards. Everything else has been removed as it wasn't nominated.

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All 2021 English Language with:
Runtime: +45 Minutes
IMDB Rating +4.0 AND 100 Votes

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Source: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/2021-best-movies/

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https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/2021-best-movies/

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

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

Ranked as in the list (since there are 2 films at #17, the list actually includes 51 films)

1: The Power of the Dog
2: The Green Knight
3: Petite Maman
4: Drive My Car
5: Nomadland
6: Dune
7: West Side Story
8: Azor
9: The Lost Daughter
10: The Tragedy of Macbeth
11: The Father
12: First Cow
13: No Time to Die
14: Dear Comrades!
15: Minari
16: Quo Vadis, Aida?
17: Getting Away with Murder(s)
18: The Humans
19: Summer of Soul
20: Limbo
21: After Love
22: The Story of Looking
23: Passing
24: Identifying Features
25: Palm Springs
26: The Killing of Two Lovers
27: The World to Come
28: tick, tick … BOOM!
29: Procession
30: The Nest
31: Ammonite
32: Rose Plays Julie
33: I Care a Lot
34: House of Gucci
35: The Velvet Underground
36: Never Gonna Snow Again
37: Censor
38: Annette
39: New Order
40: The Reason I Jump
41: Souad
42: Black Bear
43: Martin Eden
44: C’mon C’mon
45: Shiva Baby
46: State Funeral
47: Titane
48: Last Night in Soho
49: Natural Light
50: Boiling Point
51: Promising Young Woman

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