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2021 Movie Awards: Every Ceremony, Winner & Nominee

15 award ceremonies and festivals from February to December 2021, with 803 nominations and 149 winners. Nomadland won the most, 18 awards at 6 ceremonies. At the Oscars, Nomadland won Best Picture. Below: every ceremony and top prize, the most-awarded films and the people who won the most.

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Top prizes

The Top Prize at Every 2021 Ceremony

Nomadland took the top prize at 6 ceremonies (Golden Globes, Critics' Choice, BAFTA, DGA Awards, Spirit Awards and Oscars). The other 4 went to 4 films. 5 ceremonies have no top prize winner in the database.

Most awarded

The Most-Awarded Films of 2021

Nomadland won 18 awards from 30 nominations at the 2021 ceremonies. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom was next with 10 wins. The logos show where each film won.

  1. Nomadland (2020) movie poster
    Nomadland 18 / 30
    2020 · Drama · 18 wins from 30 nominations
  2. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) movie poster
    Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 10 / 27
    2020 · Drama, Music · 10 wins from 27 nominations
  3. Sound of Metal (2020) movie poster
    Sound of Metal 9 / 22
    2020 · Drama, Music · 9 wins from 22 nominations
  4. Soul (2020) movie poster
    Soul 9 / 11
    2020 · Adventure, Sci-Fi · 9 wins from 11 nominations
  5. Nitram (2022) movie poster
    Nitram 8 / 13
    2022 · Drama, Thriller · 8 wins from 13 nominations
  6. Promising Young Woman (2020) movie poster
    Promising Young Woman 7 / 27
    2020 · Drama, Thriller · 7 wins from 27 nominations
  7. Minari (2020) movie poster
    Minari 5 / 32
    2020 · Drama · 5 wins from 32 nominations
  8. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) movie poster
    The Trial of the Chicago 7 5 / 24
    2020 · Drama, History · 5 wins from 24 nominations
  9. Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) movie poster
    Judas and the Black Messiah 5 / 16
    2021 · Biography, Drama · 5 wins from 16 nominations
  10. Mank (2020) movie poster
    Mank 4 / 40
    2020 · Biography, Drama · 4 wins from 40 nominations
People

Who Won the Most Awards in 2021

Chloé Zhao won 8 awards at the BAFTAs, the Critics' Choice Awards, the DGA Awards, the Golden Globes, the Oscars and the Spirit Awards. Only prizes that name a person count here; Best Picture goes to the film.

  1. Chloé Zhao, 8 wins from 12 nominations in 2021
    Chloé Zhao 8 wins from 12 nominations
    8 /12
  2. Daniel Kaluuya, 5 wins from 5 nominations in 2021
    Daniel Kaluuya 5 wins from 5 nominations
    5 /5
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    Emerald Fennell 3 wins from 9 nominations
    3 /9
  4. Chadwick Boseman, 3 wins from 8 nominations in 2021
    Chadwick Boseman 3 wins from 8 nominations
    3 /8
  5. Frances McDormand, 2 wins from 6 nominations in 2021
    Frances McDormand 2 wins from 6 nominations
    2 /6
  6. Anthony Hopkins, 2 wins from 5 nominations in 2021
    Anthony Hopkins 2 wins from 5 nominations
    2 /5
  7. Carey Mulligan, 2 wins from 5 nominations in 2021
    Carey Mulligan 2 wins from 5 nominations
    2 /5
  8. DM
    Darius Marder 2 wins from 3 nominations
    2 /3
  9. Riz Ahmed, 1 win from 6 nominations in 2021
    Riz Ahmed 1 win from 6 nominations
    1 /6
  10. Sacha Baron Cohen, 1 win from 5 nominations in 2021
    Sacha Baron Cohen 1 win from 5 nominations
    1 /5
Month by month

Every 2021 Award Ceremony

15 ceremonies in date order from February to December 2021. Each links to its full list of winners and nominees.

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Movie Awards by Year

98 years of results, from 1929 to 2026. The busiest season is 2025, with 19 ceremonies; 2021 has 15. Each year collects its ceremonies, top prizes and biggest winners.

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2021 Movie Awards: Questions & Answers

The most-awarded film, the most-awarded person, Best Picture at the Oscars and every ceremony of 2021, answered from the results on this page.

Which movie won the most awards in 2021?

Nomadland (2020) won the most awards at the 2021 ceremonies: 18 wins from 30 nominations, at the BAFTAs, the Critics' Choice Awards, the DGA Awards, the Golden Globes, the Oscars and the Spirit Awards. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom was next with 10 wins.

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Who won the most awards in 2021?

Chloé Zhao won 8 awards in 2021, at the BAFTAs, the Critics' Choice Awards, the DGA Awards, the Golden Globes, the Oscars and the Spirit Awards: the most of anyone named in a category.

Chloé Zhao's awards

What won Best Picture at the 2021 Oscars?

Nomadland (2020) won Best Picture at the 93rd Academy Awards (2021) on April 25, 2021.

2021 Oscar winners

Which award ceremonies took place in 2021?

The database has 15 ceremonies for 2021: 78th Golden Globe Awards, 8th Feroz Awards, 26th Critics' Choice Awards, 13th Gaudí Awards, 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, 74th British Academy Film Awards, 73rd Directors Guild of America Awards, 36th Artios Awards, 48th Annie Awards, 36th Film Independent Spirit Awards, 93rd Academy Awards, 17th Irish Film & Television Academy Awards, TIFF Awards 2021, 46th Saturn Awards and 11th AACTA Awards.