SPOILER Magazine TV & Movie Awards 2021

There’s no other medium like film.

It’s a fixed product where a single story begins and ends in around 2 hours (more or less). Sure, sequels and prequels add to those stories (or detract from them), but the time you dedicate to a single movie’s consumption is, for all intents and purposes, finite.

Unlike stage plays, where elements such as perspective and setting are more limited, cinema allows us to get lost in the scope of a world in a way that no other medium is capable of. Unlike a TV show, which is reliant on a timeline of episodes—and whose longevity is determined by a

network—each individual film is locked in place forever; we will always have its concluded plot at the very least.

Theoretically, film has no creative limitations. It’s possible to make a movie with a singular vision, unhindered (again, theoretically) by money or the powers-that-be. And because of that, you get an array of offerings each year. While the ones with a bigger marketing campaign will usually garner more eyes on them, it’s very possible for smaller films to get noticed just as well.

On a cultural level, movies gauge where we are and where we’ve been. Modern content reflects our present society and, if we look back, older films offer the most accurate depiction of where we came from and what we had to say.

Recognizing the best in film from January through October of 2021, we present to you our movie awards...