That's a wrap on the 2021/2022 film awards season!

Another film year has wrapped up here at The Film Experience. Though we go by the calendar year for all awards purposes, when it comes to the film year, we think of it as as running from the day after the Oscars through to the next Oscar night. So Happy 2022 to all of you. We're about to start all over again.

THE BIG SHOW
• The Ceremony Reviewed
• The Slap
• Best Dressed Polls
• 5 Best Speeches
• Top 10 Fashions
• On the 3 Hosts: Amy, Regina, and Wanda
• Ranking the Clips
• Appeal to the Academy re: Lady Gaga
• Podcast Discussion

EXTRAS
• Chris James' Fabulous Annual Oscar Party
• The Help as Good Luck Charm
• Records & Trivia
• What's Next for the Directors
• What's Next for the Actors
• What's Next for the Actresses
• Winners List & Charts

And of course there was a lot before that as well if you click on any tag for various actors and films!

Best of 2021 - Off-Oscar

• Nathaniel's Top 12 - from Flee to The Power of the Dog
• 22nd Annual Film Bitch Awards - Our annual celebratory medals party in 40 categories from the Oscar parallels to Diva of the Year, Best Cameos, Musical Sequences, and more.
• 10th Annual Team Experience Awards - Voted on by all of our contributors
• Year in Review Lists - Entertainer of the Year, etc...

Previous Highlights
May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Feb 2022

WHAT'S NEXT?
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COMING THIS SUMMER IF YOU'LL BE HERE TO SUPPORT US

✅ Supporting Actress Smackdown Season (and companion 'year of the month' festivities for 1951, 1997, 2004) - dates TBA

✅ Emmy Coverage - we're hoping to do more than we've ever done (the budget thing again -- gotta sell more advertisements!) so let us know what series you'd to see more on right here. Which are 'most cinematic' to you?

✅ CINEMA: Cannes Film Festival, Elvis, The Northman, Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen, BROS, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, and Mrs Harris Goes to Paris among others.

✅ "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" weekly film club -- join in!

✅ Centennial Parties: Doris Day (early April), Judy Garland (early June), and Eleanor Parker (late June)

✅ And much randomness. You know how we do 'off season'

Film Bitch Awards: Gold, silver, and bronze medals in 40 categories!

Hello dear readers. My own pet project each year is, as you know, the Film Bitch Awards. I take them so seriously (though they're meant to be fun) and I'm deeply appreciative that so many of you have have enjoyed them over the years. There are 40 categories and it takes awhile but they're all up now.

The two new and final pages involve memorable characters of the year (divas, heroes, villains, sexpots) and favourite minutes from the film year whether that be musical moments, action setpieces, sex scenes, credit sequences. Hope you enjoy.

Once all categories were tabulated, Power of the Dog and The Green Knight led the nominations with 13 and 12 citations, respectively. In these "extra" categories, due to their nature, we always see increases from the more extroverted pictures if you will (action, fantasy, comedy, musicals, etcetera) which is how The Green Knight made such a leap forward. So click on over to see how Zola, Cruella, Dune, Shang-Chi, In the Heights, Worst Person in the World, and many more fared. 

Oscar parallel categories
Page 1  Picture, Director, Screenplay, Animated Feature
Page 2  Lead and Support Acting.
Page 3  Visual Categories
Page 4  Sound Categories
"Extras"
Page 5  More acting prizes plus two new categories this year: Vocal Performances and Stunts
Page 6 "Character Prizes" Heroes, Villains, etc...
Page 7 Favourite Scenes (many types)

Best Limited Performances, Breakthrough Actors, and more...

by Nathaniel R

I'm currently in a mad-dash effort to wrap up the 2021 film year before the Oscars. This means our own awards need to be completed. On the Film Bitch Award pages you've already seen the Oscar parallel categories but now the "Extra" Acting categories are complete...

• Best Actress in a Limited Role
• Best Actor in a Limited Role
• Breakthrough Performer
• Best Juvenile Performance (Under 18)
• Best Vocal of MoCap Performance (new category)
• Best Ensemble
• Best Casting 

So click on over for odes to Vanessa Bayer, Ana de Armas, Harriet Samson Harris, Moses Ingram, Britne Oldford, David Clavel, Bradley Cooper, Barry Keoghan, Chris Messina, Channing Tatum, Stephanie Beatriz, Mike Rianda, Woody Norman, David Alvarez, Simu Liu, and many more...

Film Bitch Award Medalists (aka If I magically chose all the Oscars)

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

Film Bitch Awards ~ Oscar Parallel Categories Complete!

by Nathaniel R

The Oscar-adjacent portion of our annual Film Bitch Awards is complete (i.e. if Nathaniel had a ballot)... 

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