Film Bitch Award Medalists (aka If I magically chose all the Oscars)
Monday, March 21, 2022 at 3:09PM by Nathaniel R
The Gold Medalists for acting this year: Colman, Cumberbatch, Negga, Domingo
The Film Bitch Awards are now in their 22nd year (gulp). While I don't normally track the stats of my own awards the way we all delight in tracking Oscar stats, I did notice that for the first time in all of those years the Picture/Director fields were an exact match. The nomination portion is more fun than the virtual medal ceremony since I've always believed that nominations are wins and spreading the wealth is more artistically accurate! The Power of the Dog emerged as the big winner (no surprise) with 5 Gold Medals. Dune and Zola were the only other films that picked up multiple gold medals in the Oscar parallel categories. (NOTE: The "extra" categories are not yet complete but we'll try to wrap them up before Oscar night).
See the Oscar parallel winners
Page 1 Picture, Director, Screenplay, Animated Feature
Page 2 Lead and Support Acting.
(Half of the 12 medalists -- gold, silver, and medal -- were not Oscar-nominated which is fairly typical. If I could choose only one "Performance of the Year" across all categories, it would be Ruth Negga for Passing. )
Page 3 Visual Categories
Page 4 Sound Categories
Dune, FYC, Film Bitch Awards, Ruth Negga, The Power of the Dog, Zola
Reader Comments (7)
love your awards, even if we're not in total agreement on a few films. love that you have colman winning; though she's been nominated everywhere, i feel like a lot of the conversation has ignored how actually great she is in the film (in my corner of twitter, at least).
in future years we'll wonder how supporting actress had such a sweep by someone who wasn't named ruth negga. for my money hers was the performance of the year.
I appreciate the love for United States vs Billie Holiday. I forgot that it snuck in last year because of the extended eligibility period.
I'm actually a little shocked. I thought Chastain was gonna gold in Actress, given your love for the performance, but I'm also not mad because Colman is FANTASTIC.
Also, if you had a "FB Award clip" for each of your nominees, what would this year's crop be?
Agreed what clips would you choose.
Love your winners - intrigued by the Colman gold - I finally watched The Lost Daughter on Sat and it was - good? It didn't wow me - I thought Colman was great but it added up to less than the sum of its parts.
Mind you, I had just switched over from yellowjackets so maybe that wasn't the best idea :D Buckley is even more of a headscratcher of an Oscar nom than Dench for me... Dagmara Domninczyck was RIGHT THERE.
Thank you for the hard work, love and effort you put into these - still my personal Oscars, especially given the way the current ones are going :D
Also, please finish the limited role categories - my favourite category each year :)
Your actor lineup is one for the ages - a lineup I co-sign wholeheartedly, where anyone who wins I will be delighted (not really as delirious as the rest of TFE on awards but I get excited when the ones I like end up winning -- which is not often). I can't rank these actors but if I am forced to do it, this is the ranking with nano-tiny margins between each one: Nishijima, Rex, Isaacs, Garfield, Cumberbatch.
The supporting actor is also a solid lineup although I have yet to see Zola (and Shiva Baby for that matter) so my preference might be more: Lie, Faist, Kotsur and McPhee, again with a hair between these ranked performances.
The supporting actress lineup is one I love for bringing in Negga and Hunter together. In my world they should be battling in that category and would love a tie. I have always loved Dunst (Is there a performance of hers where she is not magnetic? Even in Wag the Dog, she nearly eclipsed the leads) but her Rose Gordon comes after Clare Kendry and the witches.
For the lead actress, I guess I am in the minority who thought the Oscar non-nominees were the best: Reinsve, Haim, Thompson. But for the lineup, I lean towards Chastain because I thought her Tammy Faye occupies that liminal space between caricature and hommage - hers is more lived-in and empathetic; actorly when needed, non-cloying, ultimately captivating.
My idea of the year's best picture (in alphabetical order):
Drive My Car
Passing
Petite Maman
The Worst Person in the World