Over the past week, we’ve been releasing our winners for the 2021 Golden Cages and now all awards have been given out. We’ve had some laughs, some tears, some digs at Jared Leto, and in general, given you, dear reader, a steady stream of excellent movies for you to watch. You would expect us to say that we wish we could have given every movie nominated an award, but sadly, we must be strict with our awards. Only the best of the best can win a Golden Cage. Any film that doesn’t have one is immediately inferior to the ones that do. That’s just plain science.
So as we wind this yearly tradition down and we begin to stew and mull over the 2022 crop of films, we can only hope that 2022 will be another excellent year of movies. So far it hasn’t been anything special, but that’ll be something to look back on in another 365 days. Until then, here is the complete list of the categories, nominees, and winners of the 2021 Golden Cages with links to each of their respective pieces.
Best Picture
Drive My Car
Dune
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Best Actor
Dev Patel (The Green Knight)
Nicolas Cage (Pig)
Tom Holland (Spider-Man: No Way Home)
Best Actress
Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza)
Kristen Stewart (Spencer)
Thomasin Mackenzie (Last Night in Soho)
Best Supporting Actor
Bradley Cooper (Licorice Pizza)
David Alvarez (West Side Story)
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings)
Best Supporting Actress
Arianna DeBose (West Side Story)
Anya Taylor-Joy (Last Night in Soho)
Meryl Streep (Don’t Look Up)
Best Cinematography
Dune
The French Dispatch
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Best Director
Denis Villeneuve (Dune)
Edgar Wright (Last Night in Soho)
Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)
Best Screenplay
Dune
Judas and the Black Messiah
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Best Animated Movie
Encanto
My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Worst Movie
Don’t Look Up
House of Gucci
The Suicide Squad
Best Score
Dune
No Time To Die
Spencer
Best Documentary
A Cop Movie
The Beatles: Get Back
The Sparks Brothers
Best Action
No Time To Die
Spider-Man: No Way Home
The Suicide Squad
Best Horror
Halloween Kills
Last Night in Soho
Malignant
Most Overrated
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Most Underrated
Copshop
How it Ends
Pig
Biggest “Oh Shit” Moment
Gabriel’s Identity (Malignant)
The Death of Bond. James Bond (No Time To Die)
All the Spider-Man (Spider-Man: No Way Home)
