3rd NDFS Awards Dates Set; New Categories Added
BY SCOTTIE KNOLLIN
The North Dakota Film Society will bestow its best-of prizes for the 2021 cinema season on Monday, January 17, 2022. Nominations will be announced the previous Monday, January 10, 2022.
To be eligible, a film must meet at least one of these three eligibility requirements:
Must be released in a cinema in Bismarck, Fargo, or Grand Forks between January 1 and December 31, 2021.
Must be released on a major streaming platform between January 1 and December 31, 2021.
Must qualify for the Academy Awards and made available to screen to members of NDFS between January 1 and December 31, 2021.
In addition to the confirmed dates, the 3rd NDFS Awards will include 4 new categories:
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
BEST SOUND
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
With the addition of the new categories, the annual NDFS Awards celebrate achievements in film in 19 categories (previous winners noted in parenthesis):
BEST PICTURE (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood;” “Nomadland”)
BEST DIRECTOR (Bong Joon Ho, “Parasite;” Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”)
BEST ACTRESS (Florence Pugh, “Midsommar;” Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”)
BEST ACTOR (Joaquin Phoenix, “Joker;” Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal”)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Laura Dern, “Marriage Story;” Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (Willem Dafoe, “The Lighthouse;” Sacha Baron Cohen, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”)
BEST SCREENPLAY (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood;” “Promising Young Woman”)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (“The Lighthouse;” “Nomadland”)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood;” “Mank”)
BEST FILM EDITING (“The Lighthouse;” “Nomadland”)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS (new category)
BEST SOUND (new category)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN (new category)
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING (new category)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (“Joker;” “Mank”)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG (Glasgow, “Wild Rose;” Wuhan Flu, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”)
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE (“Parasite;” “And Then We Danced”)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (“Honeyland;” “All In: The Fight for Democracy”)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE (“I Lost My Body;” “Soul”)
