The Whiskies Year Two Winners

For the second year, we have gathered critics from across the globe to announce our second annual ‘The Whiskies’ nominations. We have categories that range from ‘The Whisky Award,’ a movie you need to have a drink to get through, to the Best Film of the Year.

We had our live show this past Sunday, and you can check it out here.

• Our List of Critics: Kenzie Vanunu (MCDI), Jacob Thornberry (MCDI), Christian Eulinberg (Film Optix), Matthew Fox (Fantasy Football Roundtable), Eric Lankford (This Film Not Rated), Amanda Guarragi (CandidxCinema), Cainan and Dom (Geek Vibes Nation), Brandon Vick (Sobros Movies), Sam and Jordan (Now Showing Podcast), Kolby (KolbyToldMe), M.N. Miller (Ready Steady Cut),

Geek Vibes Nation Award (Best Action Film)

Tenet – Winner
Bad Boys For Life
Extraction
Birds of Prey
Project Power

The Whiskey Award (Best Drinking Movie)

Palm Springs – Winner
The Way Back
Borat 2
On the Rocks
The Kings of Staten Island

The Drive-In Award (Movie That Needed to be seen in theaters)

Tenet – Winner
Wonder Woman 1984
Promising Young Woman
Saint Maud
Sound of Metal

Hangover Award (Best Comedy)

Palm Springs – Winner
Borat 2
The King of Staten Island
Eurovision
The Binge

Nashville Noise Award (Best Score)

Soul – Winner
Tenet
Mank
Minari
Da 5 Bloods

Boozy Award (Movie you need to have a Drink to get through)

Fantasy Island – Winner
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
She Dies Tomorrow
First Cow
Hillbilly Elegy

For the Second Year in a row, we gave out the award for Best Breakthrough Performance of the Year. This year we gave the award to star of the film Rent-A-Pal, Amy Rutledge. She was gracious enough to accept the award and you can hear that in the live show.

Breakthrough Performance of the Year

Best Supporting Actor

• Leslie Odom Jr., “One Night in Miami” – Winner
• Bill Murray, “On the Rocks”
• Sacha Baron Cohen, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
• Paul Raci, “Sound of Metal”
• Mark Rylance, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”

Best Supporting Actress

• Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” – Winner
• Cristin Milioti, “Palm Springs”
• Olivia Colman, “The Father”
• Amanda Seyfried, “Mank”
• Yuh-jung Youn, “Minari”

Best Director

• Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman” – Winner
• Florian Zeller, “The Father”
• Spike Lee, “Da 5 Bloods”
• Christopher Nolan, “Tenet”
• David Fincher, “Mank”

Best Actor

• Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” – Winner
• Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal”
• Delroy Lindo, “Da 5 Bloods”
• Anthony Hopkins, “The Father”
• Gary Oldman, “Mank”

Best Actress

• Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman” – Winner
• Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
• Vanessa Kirby, “Pieces of a Woman”
• Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”
• Andrea Riseborough, “Possessor”

The Whiskies Best Film of the Year

• Promising Young Woman – Winner
• Soul
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Nomadland
• Sound of Metal