It is reported that the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures that is an American organization about the awards film, filmmakers, actors, and also actresses from every year, have been revealed the list of the best film of 2021’s.
Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s coming of age move Licorice Pizza has been adjudged as the best film in the year. It is also in the top 10 list that is Kenneth Branagh’s autobiographical movie Belfast. Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, Ridley Scott’s historical drama The Last Duel, Joel Coen’s Shakespeare adaptation The Tragedy of Macbeth among the others.
1. Licorice Pizza
2. Belfast
3. Don’t Look Up
4. Dune
5. King Richard
6. The Last Duel
7. Nightmare Alley
8. Red Rocket
9. The Tragedy of Macbeth
10. West Side Story
Licorice Pizza features Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits Bradley Cooper, and Benny Safdie. It’s all just about Alana Kane and Gary Valentine, that is a couple who have grown up and also fall in love in 1970’s California.
Licorice pizza is definitely the first film if, after Phantom Thread, that has been marked as the legendary actor Daniel Da-Lewis’s final appearance on the screen before the retirement.
This movie has mainly held a 92 percent rating on the review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. In this the critical consensus has read, “Licorice Pizza finds Paul Thomas Anderson shifting into a surprisingly comfortable gear and also getting the potentially star-making performance out of his fresh-faced leads.”
Here are all the winners in other categories:
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, LICORICE PIZZA
Best Actor: Will Smith, KING RICHARD
Best Actress: Rachel Zegler, WEST SIDE STORY
Best Supporting Actor: Ciarán Hinds, BELFAST
Best Supporting Actress: Aunjanue Ellis, KING RICHARD
Best Original Screenplay: Joel Coen, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
Best Adapted Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi, A HERO
Breakthrough Performance: Alana Haim & Cooper Hoffman, LICORICE PIZZA
Best Directorial Debut: Michael Sarnoski, PIG
Best Animated Feature: ENCANTO
Best Foreign Language Film: A HERO
Best Documentary: SUMMER OF SOUL (…OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED)
Best Ensemble: THE HARDER THEY FALL
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Bruno Delbonnel, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
Top 5 Foreign Language Films (in alphabetical order)
Benedetta
Lamb
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
Titane
The Worst Person in the World
Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order)
Ascension
Attica
Flee
The Rescue
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order)
The Card Counter
C’mon C’mon
CODA
The Green Knight
Holler
Jockey
Old Henry
Pig
Shiva Baby
The Souvenir Part II
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