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First Dottie Awards (2021)

Best Picture

Raging Bull – Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff‡
- Dog Day Afternoon – Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand
- Memento – Suzanne and Jennifer Todd
- Pleasantville – Gary Ross, Jon Kilik, Robert J. Degus and Steven Soderbergh
- Rosemary's Baby – William Castle
- The Conversation – Francis Ford Coppola
- The Deer Hunter – Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino and John Peverall
- The Godfather – Albert S. Ruddy

Best Director

Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull‡
- Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather
- Sidney Lumet – Dog Day Afternoon
- Roman Polanski – Rosemary's Baby
- Orson Welles – Citizen Kane

Best Actor

Robert De Niro – Raging Bull as Jake LaMotta‡
- Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Levee Green
- Marlon Brando – The Godfather as Vito Corleone
- Al Pacino – Dog Day Afternoon as Sonny Wortzik
- Orson Welles – Citizen Kane as Charles Foster Kane

Best Actress

Mia Farrow – Rosemary's Baby as Rosemary Woodhouse‡
- Joan Allen – Pleasantville as Betty Parker
- Frances McDormand – Fargo as Marge Gunderson
- Hayley Mills – Whistle Down the Wind as Kathy Bostock
- Sharon Stone – Casino as Ginger McKenna

Best Supporting Actor

John Cazale – Dog Day Afternoon as Sal Naturile‡
- Steve Buscemi – Fargo as Carl Showalter
- Al Pacino – The Godfather as Michael Corleone
- Joe Pesci – Raging Bull as Joey LaMotta
- Christopher Walken – The Deer Hunter as Nikanor Chevotarevich

Best Supporting Actress

Meryl Streep – The Deer Hunter as Linda‡
- Toni Collette – I'm Thinking of Ending Things as Mother
- Ruth Gordon – Rosemary's Baby as Minnie Castevet
- Diane Keaton – The Godfather as Kay Adams
- Agnes Moorehead – Citizen Kane as Mary Kane

Best Original Screenplay

Pleasantville – Gary Ross‡
- Adaptation – Charlie Kaufman
- Citizen Kane – Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles
- Memento – Christopher and Jonathan Nolan
- The Deer Hunter – Michael Cimino, Louis A. Garfinkle, Quinn Redeker and Deric Washburn

Best Adapted Screenplay

Raging Bull – Mardik Martin and Paul Schrader; based on the autobiography by Jake LaMotta‡
- Rosemary's Baby – Roman Polanski; based on the novel by Ira Levin
- The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo; based on the novel by Mario Puzo
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Ruben Santiago-Hudson; based on the play by August Wilson
- Whistle Down the Wind – Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse; based on the novella by Mary Hayley Bell

Best Score

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Branford Marsalis‡
- Citizen Kane – Bernard Herrmann
- Pleasantville – Randy Newman
- The Deer Hunter – Stanley Myers
- The Godfather – Nino Rota

Best Sound

The Conversation – Walter Murch and Art Rochester‡
- Citizen Kane – John O. Aalberg and Clem Portman
- Dunkirk – Alex Gibson and Richard King
- Saving Private Ryan – Gary Rydstrom
- The Deer Hunter – Darin Knight, William McCaughey, Richard Portman and Aaron Rochin

Best Visual Effects

Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott R. Fisher‡

Best Production Design

Interstellar – Nathan Crowley and Gary Fettis‡
- Edward Scissorhands – Bo Welch
- Gladiator – Arthur Max and Crispian Sallis
- Pleasantville – Jay Hart and Jeannine Oppewall
- Saving Private Ryan – Lisa Dean and Thomas E. Sanders

Best Cinematography

Raging Bull – Michael Chapman‡
- Citizen Kane – Gregg Toland
- Memento – Wally Pfister
- The Deer Hunter – Vilmos Zsigmond
- The Godfather - Gordon Willis

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Pleasantville – Susan A. Cabral and Werner Keppler‡
- Citizen Kane – Mel Berns, Layne Britton and Maurice Seiderman
- Edward Scissorhands – Ve Neill and Stan Winston
- Mank – Colleen LaBaff, Kimberley Spiteri and Gigi Williams
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson

Best Costume Design

Pleasantville – Judianna Makovsky‡
- Citzen Kane – Edward Stevenson
- Edward Scissorhands – Colleen Atwood
- Mank – Trish Summerville
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Ann Roth

Best Film Editing

Memento – Dody Dorn‡
- Citizen Kane – Robert Wise
- Good Time – Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie
- Raging Bull – Thelma Schoonmaker
- The Godfather – William Reynolds and Peter Zinner

Second Dottie Awards (2022)

Maxim Gaudette, Best Supporting Actor winner

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).^[1]

Best Picture

Polytechnique – Don Carmody and Maxime Rémillard‡
- A Place in the Sun – George Stevens
- Brief Encounter – Noël Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, and Ronald Neame
- Boyz n the Hood – Steve Nicolaides
- East of Eden – Elia Kazan
- Faust – Erich Pommer
- Johnny Guitar – Herbert J. Yates
- Network – Howard Gottfried
- Solaris – Vyacheslav Tarasov
- Waterloo Bridge – Sidney Franklin

Best Director

F.W. Murnau – Faust‡
- Sidney Lumet – Network
- John Singleton – Boyz n the Hood
- George Stevens – A Place in the Sun
- Andrei Tarkovsky – Solaris

Best Actor

James Dean – East of Eden as Caleb Trask‡
- Montgomery Clift – A Place in the Sun as George Eastman
- Gösta Ekman – Faust as Faust
- Peter Finch – Network as Howard Beale
- Emil Jannings – Faust as Mephisto

Best Actress

Camilla Horn – Faust as Gretchen‡
- Jeanne Eagels – The Letter as Leslie Crosbie
- Celia Johnson – Brief Encounter as Laura Jesson
- Vivien Leigh – Waterloo Bridge as Myra Lester
- Sophia Loren – Two Women as Cesira

Best Supporting Actor

Maxim Gaudette – Polytechnique as The Killer‡
- John Cazale – The Godfather Part II as Fredo Corleone
- James Dean – Giant as Jett Rink
- William Dieterle – Faust as Valentin
- Robert Mitchum – The Night of the Hunter as Harry Powell

Best Supporting Actress

Luise Rainer – The Great Ziegfeld as Anna Held‡
- Joan Blondell – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn as Aunt Sissy
- Natalya Bondarchuk – Solaris as Hari
- Yvette Guilbert – Faust as Marthe Schwerdtlein
- Vera Miles – The Wrong Man as Rose Balestrero

Best Original Screenplay

Polytechnique – Jacques Davidts and Denis Villeneuve‡
- Boyz n the Hood – John Singleton
- Charade – Peter Stone
- Eraserhead – David Lynch
- Network – Paddy Chayefsky

Best Adapted Screenplay

Solaris – Fridrikh Gorenshtein and Andrei Tarkovsky; based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem‡
- A Place in the Sun – Harry Brown and Michael Wilson; based on An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- Brief Encounter – Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean and Ronald Neame; based on Still Life by Noël Coward
- Faust – Hans Kyser; based on the folklore
- The Night of the Hunter – James Agee; based on the novel by Davis Grubb

Best Animated Feature Film

Perfect Blue – Satoshi Kon‡

Best International Feature Film

Solaris (Russia) in Russian – directed by Andrei Tarkovsky‡
- Faust (Germany) in German – directed by F.W. Murnau
- Rome, Open City (Italy) in Italian – directed by Roberto Rossellini
- Who Killed Captain Alex? (Uganda) in Swhaili – directed by Nabwana I.G.G.

Best Score

Solaris – Eduard Artemyev‡
- Anatomy of a Murder – Duke Ellington
- East of Eden – Leonard Rosenman
- Faust – Werner R. Heymann
- The Night of the Hunter – Walter Schumann

Best Sound

All Quiet on the Western Front – C. Roy Hunter‡
- From Here to Eternity – John P. Livadary
- Eraserhead – David Lynch and Alan Splet
- Polytechnique – Pierre Blain, Christian Rivest and Claude Beaugrand
- Whiplash – Ben Wilkins, Craig Mann and Lauren Hadway

Best Cinematography (Black and White)

The Night of the Hunter – Stanley Cortez‡
- A Place in the Sun – William C. Mellor
- Eraserhead – Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell
- Faust – Carl Hoffmann
- The Innocents – Freddie Francis

Best Production Design

Faust – Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig‡
- All Quiet on the Western Front – Charles D. Hall and William R. Schmidt
- Eraserhead – David Lynch
- The Great Ziegfeld – Cedric Gibbons and Eddie Imazu
- The Night of the Hunter – Hilyard M. Brown

Best Cinematography (Color)

Charade – Charles Lang‡
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – William H. Daniels
- East of Eden – Ted McCord
- Johnny Guitar – Harry Stradling
- To Catch a Thief - Robert Burks

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Johnny Guitar – Bob Mark‡
- Charade – Alberto De Rossi and John O'Gorman
- Faust – Waldemar Jabs
- The Great Ziegfeld – Norbert A. Myles and Robert J. Schiffer
- Some Like it Hot – Emile LaVigne and Allan Snyder

Best Costume Design

Johnny Guitar – Sheila O'Brien‡
- Charade – Hubert de Givenchy
- Faust – Robert Herlth, Walter Röhrig and Georges Annenkov
- The Great Ziegfeld – Adrian Adolph Greenberg
- Nightmare Alley – Bonnie Cashin

Best Film Editing

Faust – Elfi Böttrich‡
- Eraserhead – David Lynch
- Polytechnique – Richard Comeau
- The Innocents – Jim Clark
- Whiplash – Tom Cross

Third Dottie Awards (2023)

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).^[2]

Best Picture

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger‡
- An Elephant Sitting Still – Dongyan Fu and Wang Xiaoshuai
- Design for Living – Ernst Lubitsch
- A Letter to Three Wives – Sol C. Siegel
- Make Way for Tomorrow – Leo McCarey and Adolph Zukor
- Mildred Pierce – Jerry Wald
- My Man Godfrey – Charles R. Rogers
- Rocco and His Brothers – Goffredo Lombardo
- Singin' in the Rain – Arthur Freed
- Tokyo Twilight – Shizuo Yamanouchi

Best Director

Yasujirō Ozu – Tokyo Twilight‡
- Ingmar Bergman – Through a Glass Darkly
- Hu Bo – An Elephant Sitting Still
- Ernst Lubitsch – Design for Living
- Leo McCarey – Make Way for Tomorrow

Best Actor

Roger Livesey – The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp as Clive Candy‡
- Alain Delon – Rocco and His Brothers as Rocco Parondi
- John Garfield – We Were Strangers as Tony Fenner
- Anders Danielsen Lie – Oslo, August 31st as Anders
- William Powell – My Man Godfrey as Godfrey

Best Actress

Carole Lombard – My Man Godfrey as Irene Bullock‡
- Ineko Arima – Tokyo Twilight as Akiko Sugiyama
- Joan Crawford – Mildred Pierce as Mildred Pierce
- Miriam Hopkins – Design for Living as Gilda Farrell
- Deborah Kerr – The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp as Edith Hunter / Barbara Wynne / Angela "Johnny" Cannon

Best Supporting Actor

Anton Walbrook – The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp as Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff‡
- Lew Ayres – Holiday as Ned Seton
- Montgomery Clift – Red River as Matthew Garth
- Donald O'Connor – Singin' in the Rain as Cosmo Brown
- Orson Welles – The Third Man as Harry Lime

Best Supporting Actress

Marlene Dietrich – The Blue Angel as Lola Lola‡
- Alice Brady – My Man Godfrey as Angelica Bullock
- Luise Rainer – Big City as Anna Benton
- Debbie Reynolds – Singin' in the Rain as Kathy Selden
- Dorothea Wieck – Mädchen in Uniform as Governess Fräulein von Bernburg

Best Original Screenplay

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger‡
- A Letter to Three Wives – Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Chinatown – Robert Towne
- Through a Glass Darkly – Ingmar Bergman
- Tokyo Twilight – Yasujirō Ozu and Kogo Noda

Best Adapted Screenplay

An Elephant Sitting Still – Hu Bo; based on his novel, The Huge Crack‡
- Design for Living – Ben Hecht; based on the play by Noël Coward
- Make Way for Tomorrow – Viña Delmar; based on The Years Are So Long by Josephine Lawrence and the play by Helen and Noah Leary
- Mildred Pierce – Herschel Daugherty and Ranald MacDougall; based on the novel by James M. Cain
- My Man Godfrey – Eric S. Hatch and Morrie Ryskind; based on 1101 Park Avenue by Eric S. Hatch

Best Animated Feature Film

Paprika – Satoshi Kon‡

Best International Feature Film

An Elephant Sitting Still (China) in Mandarin – directed by Hu Bo‡
- The Blue Angel (Germany) in German – Directed by Josef von Sternberg
- Oslo, August 31st (Norway) in Norwegian – directed by Joachim Trier
- Rocco and His Brothers (Italy) in Italian – directed by Luchino Visconti
- Tokyo Twilight (Japan) in Japanese – directed by Yasujirō Ozu

Best Score

Breathless – Martial Solal‡
- Chinatown – Jerry Goldsmith
- Far from Heaven – Elmer Bernstein
- The Sea Wolf – Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- The Third Man – Anton Karas

Best Sound

Come and See – Viktor Mors‡
- An Elephant Sitting Still – Sam Fan and Lou Kun
- The Sea Wolf – Oliver S. Garretson
- Strangers on a Train – Dolph Thomas
- Tokyo Twilight – Yoshisaburo Senoo

Best Cinematography (Black and White)

Tokyo Twilight – Yûharu Atsuta‡
- M – Fritz Arno Wagner
- The Set-Up – Milton Krasner
- The Third Man – Robert Krasker
- The Wind – John Arnold

Best Production Design

Singin' in the Rain – Randall Duell and Cedric Gibbons‡
- Come and See – Viktor Pretrov
- Far from Heaven – Mark Friedberg, Miguel López-Castillo, Jeffrey D. McDonald and Peter Rogness
- The Heiress – Harry Horner
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp – Alfred Junge

Best Cinematography (Color)

An Elephant Sitting Still – Fan Chao‡
- Come and See – Aleksei Rodionov
- Leave Her to Heaven – Leon Shamroy
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp – Georges Périnal
- Tea and Sympathy – John Alton

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

The Heiress – Hal Lierly and Wally Westmore‡
- Far from Heaven – Hildie Ginsberg and Elaine L. Offers
- Letter from an Unknown Woman – Carmen Dirigo and Bud Westmore
- Singin' in the Rain – William J. Tuttle

Best Costume Design

Singin' in the Rain – Walter Plunkett‡
- All That Heaven Allows – Bill Thomas
- The Heiress – Edith Head and Gile Steele
- Letter from an Unknown Woman – Travis Banton
- Pride & Prejudice – Jacqueline Durran and Charlotte Finaly

Best Film Editing

Swing Kids – Nam Na-young‡
- Breathless – Cécile Decugis
- The Set-Up – Roland Gross
- Strangers on a Train – William Ziegler

Fourth Dottie Awards (2024)

Best Picture Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles – Guy Cavagnac, Alain Dahan, Corinne Jenart, Liliane de Kermadec, Evelyne Paul and Paul Vecchiali‡ Gone With the Wind – David O. Selznick High Sierra – Mark Hellinger Kitty Foyle – David Hempstead Marie Antoinette – Hunt Stromberg and Irving Thalberg Morocco – Hector Turnbull Random Harvest – Sidney Franklin The Reckless Moment – Walter Wanger Red-Headed Woman – Albert Lewin and Irving Thalberg Where the Sidewalk Ends – Otto Preminger and Frank P. Rosenberg	Best Director Chantal Akerman – Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles‡ George Cukor, Victor Fleming and Sam Wood - Gone with the Wind Mervyn LeRoy – Random Harvest Max Ophüls – The Reckless Moment Douglas Sirk - All I Desire
Best Actor *James Mason – The Reckless Moment* as Martin Donnelly*‡ Dana Andrews – Where the Sidewalk Ends* as Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon Humphrey Bogart – High Sierra as Roy Earle Ronald Colman – Random Harvest as Charles Rainier Cary Grant – An Affair to Remember as Nickie Ferrante	Best Actress *Ginger Rogers – Kitty Foyle* as Kitty Foyle*‡ Joan Bennett – The Reckless Moment* as Lucia Harper Jean Harlow – Red-Headed Woman as Lillian "Lil"/"Red" Andrews Legendre Vivien Leigh – Gone with the Wind as Scarlett O'Hara Norma Shearer – Marie Antoinette as Marie Antoinette
Best Supporting Actor *Edward G. Robinson – Key Largo* as Johnny Rocco*‡ Leslie Howard – Gone with the Wind* as Ashley Wilkes Robert Morley - Marie Antoinette as King Louis XVI James Stewart – Wife vs. Secretary as Dave Spencer Tracy – Test Pilot as Gunner Morse	Best Supporting Actress *Ida Lupino – High Sierra* as Marie*‡ Lucille Ball – Dance, Girl, Dance* as Bubbles Greer Garson – Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Katherine Gladys George – Marie Antoinette as Madame du Barry Ruth Hussey - Tender Comrade as Barbara Thomas
Best Screenplay The Reckless Moment – Henry Garson, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding and Robert Soderberg‡ Gone With the Wind – John Van Druten, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Ben Hecht, Sidney Howard and Jo Swerling High Sierra – W.R. Burnett and John Huston Kitty Foyle – Dalton Trumbo Marie Antoinette – Donald Ogden Stewart, Ernest Vajda and Claudine West	Best Cinematography Marie Antoinette – William Daniels, George Folsey and Leonard Smith‡ All I Desire – Carl E. Guthrie Gone with the Wind – Lee Garmes and Ernest Haller Kitty Foyle – Robert De Grasse Random Harvest – Joseph Ruttenberg

Fifth Dottie Awards (2025)

Best Picture	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress *Norma Shearer – Romeo and Juliet* as Juliet**‡
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Best Screenplay The Reckless Moment – Henry Garson, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding and Robert Soderberg‡ Gone With the Wind – John Van Druten, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Ben Hecht, Sidney Howard and Jo Swerling High Sierra – W.R. Burnett and John Huston Kitty Foyle – Dalton Trumbo Marie Antoinette – Donald Ogden Stewart, Ernest Vajda and Claudine West	Best Cinematography Marie Antoinette – William Daniels, George Folsey and Leonard Smith‡ All I Desire – Carl E. Guthrie Gone with the Wind – Lee Garmes and Ernest Haller Kitty Foyle – Robert De Grasse Random Harvest – Joseph Ruttenberg

^ "The 93rd Academy Awards | 2021". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on March 15, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
^ "The 93rd Academy Awards | 2021". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on March 15, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

[1] "The 93rd Academy Awards | 2021". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on March 15, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

[2] "The 93rd Academy Awards | 2021". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on March 15, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.

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