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Where to Watch: Award-winning Movies
By Rachelle / 12 Apr 2021 (Monday)
In a year of ongoing delays and stalled productions in the film and television industry, it's a surprise that award shows are still being carried out. First off the list for the year is the ever-controversial Golden Globes Awards. What's no surprise though is that this year’s Globes winners were dominated by streaming services.
Here's a consolidated list of where you can watch the award-winning films below:
Minari
Minari is drama film written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung. It stars Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Youn Yuh-jung, and Will Patton. A semi-autobiographical take on Chung's upbringing, the plot follows a family of South Korean immigrants who try to make it in rural America during the 1980s.
Award(s): Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture — Foreign Language, Critics' Choice for Best Foreign Language Film, Critics' Choice for Best Young Actor/Actress (Alan Kim), SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Youn Yuh-jung), BAFTA for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Youn Yuh-jung)
Minari is now showing in cinemas.
Nomadland
Nomadland is an American neo-Western drama film directed, written, edited, and produced by Chloé Zhao. It is based on the 2017 non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, and stars Frances McDormand as a woman who leaves her small town to travel around the American West. It also features David Strathairn, as well as real-life nomads Linda May, Swankie, Bob Wells, and Peter Spears as fictionalized versions of themselves.
Award(s): Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture — Drama, Golden Globe for Best Director — Motion Picture (Chloé Zhao), Critics' Choice for Best Picture, Critics' Choice for Best Director (Chloé Zhao), Critics' Choice for Best Adapted Screenplay, Critics' Choice Award for Best Cinematography, Producers Guild Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, BAFTA for Best Film, BAFTA for Best Direction (Chloé Zhao), BAFTA for Best Actress in a Leading Role, BAFTA for Best Cinematography
Nomadland is now showing in cinemas.
Promising Young Woman
Promising Young Woman is a black comedy thriller film written, produced, and directed by Emerald Fennell in her feature directorial debut. Carey Mulligan stars as a woman who seeks to avenge her best friend, who was a victim of rape. Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox, and Connie Britton co-star.
Award(s): Critics' Choice for Best Actress (Carey Mulligan), Critics' Choice for Best Original Screenplay, Writers Guild Award for Original Screenplay, BAFTA for Outstanding British Film
Promising Young Woman is now showing in cinemas.
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is a British-American mockumentary comedy film directed by Jason Woliner in his feature directorial debut. The film stars Sacha Baron Cohen as the fictional Kazakhstani journalist and television personality Borat Sagdiyev, and Maria Bakalova as his daughter Tutar, who is to be offered as a bride to Vice President Mike Pence during the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 presidential election. It is a sequel to 2006's Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
Award(s): Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy (Sacha Baron Cohen), Critics' Choice for Best Supporting Actress (Maria Bakalova), Writers Guild Award for Adapted Screenplay
Watch Borat Subsequent Moviefilm on Amazon Prime now.
Disney & Pixar's Soul
Soul is Disney and Pixar's second animated film released in 2020. Directed by Pete Docter and co-directed by Kemp Powers, the film stars the voices of Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Rachel House, Alice Braga, Richard Ayoade, Phylicia Rashad, Donnell Rawlings, Questlove, and Angela Bassett. The story follows a middle school music teacher named Joe Gardner, who seeks to reunite his soul and his body after they are accidentally separated, just before his big break as a jazz musician. Soul is the first Pixar film to feature an African-American protagonist.
Award(s): Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture — Animated, Golden Globe for Best Original Score (John Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross), Critics' Choice for Best Score, Producers Guild Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures, BAFTA for Best Animated Film, BAFTA for Best Original Music
Watch Disney & Pixar's Soul on Disney+ now.
The Trial of the Chicago 7
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is a historical legal drama film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. The film follows the Chicago Seven, a group of anti–Vietnam War protesters charged with conspiracy and crossing state lines with the intention of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It features an ensemble cast that includes Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Daniel Flaherty, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Eddie Redmayne, Noah Robbins, Mark Rylance, Alex Sharp, and Jeremy Strong.
Award(s): Golden Globe for Best Screenplay — Aaron Sorkin, Critics' Choice for Best Acting Ensemble, SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Watch The Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix now.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 2020 American drama film directed by George C. Wolfe and written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, based on the play of the same name by August Wilson. The film, and its source play, focus on Ma Rainey, an influential blues singer, and dramatizes a turbulent recording session in 1920s Chicago.
Produced by Denzel Washington, Todd Black, and Dany Wolf, the film stars Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman, with Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, and Michael Potts in supporting roles.
Award(s): Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama (Chadwick Boseman), Critics' Choice for Best Actor (Chadwick Boseman), Critics' Choice for Best Costume Design, Critics' Choice for Best Hair and Makeup, SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role (Chadwick Boseman), SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role (Viola Davis), BAFTA for Best Costume Design, BAFTA for Best Makeup and Hair
Watch Ma Rainey's Black Bottom on Netflix now.
I Care A Lot
I Care A Lot is a dark comedy thriller film written and directed by J Blakeson. The film stars Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage, Eiza González, Chris Messina, Macon Blair, Alicia Witt, Damian Young, with Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Dianne Wiest. It follows a court-appointed guardian who seizes the assets of elderly people for her own, only for her to get mixed up with a dangerous gangster.
Award: Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy (Rosamund Pike)
Watch I Care A Lot on Netflix.
The Mauritanian
The Mauritanian is a legal drama film directed by Kevin Macdonald from a screenplay written by M.B. Traven, Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani. The film is based on the 2015 memoir Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Salahi, a true story of Salahi's experience of being held for fourteen years without charge in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. The film stars Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim, Shailene Woodley, and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Award: Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture (Jodie Foster)
The Mauritanian is now showing in cinemas.
Mank
Mank is a biographical drama film about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his development of the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). Directed by David Fincher, based on a screenplay by his late father Jack Fincher, the film was produced by Ceán Chaffin, Douglas Urbanski, and Eric Roth. It stars Gary Oldman in the title role, alongside Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossmann, and Charles Dance.
Award(s): Critics' Choice for Best Production Design, BAFTA for Best Production Design
Stream Mank on Netflix now.
One Night in Miami
One Night in Miami is a drama film directed by Regina King in her feature film directorial debut with a screenplay by Kemp Powers based on his stage play of the same name. The film is about a fictionalized meeting of Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke in a room at the Hampton House in February 1964, celebrating Ali's surprise title win over Sonny Liston. It stars Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, and Leslie Odom Jr. in the lead roles, with Lance Reddick, Joaquina Kalukango, Nicolette Robinson, and Beau Bridges in supporting roles.
Award: Critics' Choice for Best Song ("Speak Now")
Watch One Night in Miami on Amazon Prime now.
Judas and the Black Messiah
Judas and the Black Messiah is biographical drama film about the betrayal of Fred Hampton (played by Daniel Kaluuya), chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in late-1960s Chicago, at the hands of William O'Neal (played by Lakeith Stanfield), an FBI informant. Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback, Ashton Sanders, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Lil Rel Howery, Algee Smith, Dominique Thorne, and Martin Sheen also star. The film is directed and produced by Shaka King, who wrote the screenplay with Will Berson, based on a story by the pair and Kenny and Keith Lucas.
Award(s): Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture (Daniel Kaluuya), Critics' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor (Daniel Kaluuya), SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role (Daniel Kaluuya), BAFTA for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role (Daniel Kaluuya)
Judas and the Black Messiah is now showing in cinemas now.
The Father
The Father is a drama film co-written and directed by Florian Zeller, based on his 2012 play Le Père. The film stars Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss, Imogen Poots, Rufus Sewell, and Olivia Williams, and follows an aging man who must deal with his progressing memory loss.
Award(s): BAFTA for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Anthony Hopkins), Best Adapted Screenplay
Watch The Father when it opens in cinemas on April 18.
Click here for the full list of winners at the 78th Golden Globe Awards or here for the list of winners of the 26th Critics' Choice Awards.