The 2021 Buttered Popcorn Movie Awards

Best Sound Design:
Hamilton
Jallikattu
​Sound of Metal
The Vast of Night

​Best Animation Design:
Kill It and Leave This Town
Onward
Soul
Wolfwalkers

​​Best Visual Design:
Kill It and Leave This Town
Labyrinth of Cinema
Mank
Martin Eden

​Best Costume Design:
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Black is King
Emma.
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

​Best Production Design:
Black is King
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
A Mermaid in Paris
The Personal History of David Copperfield
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​Best Makeup & Hairstyling:
Black is King
Emma.
Kajillionaire
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

​Best Visual Effects:
Love and Monsters
Mank
Sputnik
Wonder Woman 1984

​Best Film Editing:
Da 5 Bloods
The Father
The Five Rules of Success
Labyrinth of Cinema

​Best Cinematography:
Last and First Men
Mogul Mowgli
Nomadland
The Truffle Hunters

​Best Original Song:
Brand New Story (Ride Your Wave)
Carried Me With You (Onward)
Never Break (Giving Voice)
Only the Young (Miss Americana)
Staring at a Mountain (Never Rarely Sometimes Always)
Turntables (All In: The Fight for Democracy)

​Best Score:
Let Them All Talk
Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul
The Photograph
Soul

Best Short Film:
Cops and Robbers
Felt Love
If Anything Happens I Love You
Kapaemahu
Loop
Out

Best Breakthrough Performance:
Gavin Naquin (Wendy)
Jayme Lawson (Farewell Amor)
Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño (I'm No Longer Here)
Oto Brantevics (Blizzard of Souls)
Tiffany Tenille (Jezebel)
Vaya O'Donnell (Survival Skills)

Best Solo Directorial Debut:
Arthur Jones (Feels Good Man)
Bassam Tariq (Mogul Mowgli)
Florian Zeller (The Father)
Illum Jacobi (The Trouble With Nature)
Numa Perrier (Jezebel)
Quinn Armstrong (Survival Skills)

​Best Foreign Language Feature:
Asia
La llorona
Life: Untitled
New Order
Me and the Cult Leader
Woman of the Photographs

​Best Documentary Feature:
Circus of Books
Curtain Up!
Feels Good Man
Hopper/Welles
Me and the Cult Leader
​On the Record

​Best Animated Feature:
Kill It and Leave This Town
Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul
Onward
Ride Your Wave
Soul
Wolfwalkers

​Best Youth Performance:
Gavin Naquin (Wendy)
Jahi Di' Allo Winston (Charm City Kings)
Lucas Bond (Summerland)
Rhys Stone (Sorry We Missed You)
Roohollah Zamani (Sun Children)
Yelizar Nazarenko (Rival)

​Best Voiceover Performance:
Ben Schwartz (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Chris Pratt (Onward)
Eva Whittaker (Wolfwalkers)
Jamie Foxx (Soul)
Rina Kawaei (Ride Your Wave)
Tom Holland (Onward)

​Best Ensemble:
The Boys in the Band
Da 5 Bloods
Hamilton
Kajillionaire
Shirley
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Bad Education
The Father
Hamilton
Nomadland
One Night in Miami
Pieces of a Woman

Best Original Screenplay:
The Five Rules of Success
Kajillionaire
Onward
Sorry We Missed You
The Trouble With Nature
Woman of the Photographs

Best Supporting Actress:
Amanda Seyfried (Mank)
Cristin Milioti (Palm Springs)
Dianne Wiest (Let Them All Talk)
Olivia Colman (The Father)
Phillipa Soo (Hamilton)
Shira Haas (Asia)

Best Supporting Actor:
Daveed Diggs (Hamilton)
Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods)
Michael Benjamin Washington (The Boys in the Band)
Michael Stuhlbarg (Shirley)
RJ Mitte (The Oak Room)
​Robin de Jesús (The Boys in the Band)

Best Actress:
Alena Yiv (Asia)
​​Aubrey Plaza (Black Bear)
Elisabeth Moss (Shirley)
Evan Rachel Wood (Kajillionaire)
Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
Viola Davis (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)

Best Actor:
Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
Eli Goree (One Night in Miami)
Jim Parsons (The Boys in the Band)
Jude Law (The Nest)
Luca Marinelli (Martin Eden)
Santiago Segura (The Five Rules of Success)

Best Director:
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
Darius Marder (Sound of Metal)
Michel Franco (New Order)
Miranda July (Kajillionaire)
Orson Oblowitz (The Five Rules of Success)
Spike Lee (Da 5 Bloods)

​Best Picture:
The Father
Feels Good Man
Kajillionaire
Nomadland
On the Record
Onward