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It is once again time for the ButteredPopcorn Movie Awards! Celebrating the best releases of 2020 (NOT including any 2021 releases), this is a strictly fun exercise to give attention to the incredible talent that battled through one of the most challenging years in recent memory and still produced some incredible work! Without further ado, here are the official Winners for the 2021 ButteredPopcorn Movie Awards!


​Best Sound Design:

  • Hamilton
  • Jallikattu
  • ​Sound of Metal (WINNER)
  • The Vast of Night


​Best Animation Design:

  • Kill It and Leave This Town
  • Onward
  • Soul
  • Wolfwalkers (WINNER)


​​Best Visual Design:

  • Kill It and Leave This Town
  • Labyrinth of Cinema (WINNER)
  • Mank
  • Martin Eden


​Best Costume Design:

  • Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (WINNER)
  • Black is King
  • Emma.
  • Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey


​Best Production Design:

  • Black is King
  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  • A Mermaid in Paris (WINNER)
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield

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​Best Makeup & Hairstyling:

  • Black is King
  • Emma.
  • Kajillionaire (WINNER)
  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom


​Best Visual Effects:

  • Love and Monsters
  • Mank
  • Sputnik (WINNER)
  • Wonder Woman 1984


​Best Film Editing:

  • Da 5 Bloods (WINNER)
  • The Father
  • The Five Rules of Success
  • Labyrinth of Cinema


​Best Cinematography:

  • Last and First Men
  • Mogul Mowgli
  • Nomadland (WINNER)
  • The Truffle Hunters


​Best Original Song:

  • Brand New Story (Ride Your Wave)
  • Carried Me With You (Onward) (WINNER)
  • 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 (WINNER)
  • Soul


Best Short Film:

  • Cops and Robbers (WINNER)
  • 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) (WINNER)
  • Vaya O'Donnell (Survival Skills)


Best Solo Directorial Debut:

  • Arthur Jones (Feels Good Man)
  • Bassam Tariq (Mogul Mowgli)
  • Florian Zeller (The Father) (WINNER)
  • 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 (WINNER)
  • Woman of the Photographs


​Best Documentary Feature:

  • Circus of Books
  • Curtain Up!
  • Feels Good Man (WINNER)
  • 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 (WINNER)
  • Ride Your Wave
  • Soul
  • Wolfwalkers


​Best Youth Performance:

  • Gavin Naquin (Wendy) (WINNER)
  • 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) (WINNER)


​Best Ensemble:

  • The Boys in the Band
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • Hamilton (WINNER)
  • Kajillionaire
  • Shirley
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7


Best Adapted Screenplay:

  • Bad Education
  • The Father
  • Hamilton
  • Nomadland
  • One Night in Miami (WINNER)
  • Pieces of a Woman


Best Original Screenplay:

  • The Five Rules of Success
  • Kajillionaire (WINNER)
  • 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) (WINNER)
  • Phillipa Soo (Hamilton)
  • Shira Haas (Asia)


Best Supporting Actor:

  • Daveed Diggs (Hamilton) (WINNER)
  • 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) (WINNER)
  • Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
  • Viola Davis (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)


Best Actor:

  • Anthony Hopkins (The Father) (WINNER)
  • 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) (WINNER)
  • 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 (WINNER)
  • On the Record
  • Onward