4th Annual Sinkies Awards

The **4th Annual Sinkie Awards** ceremony, presented by the **Everything But the Kitchen Sink** podcast and hosted by **Jimmy Nicholas** and **Kyle Wilson**, took place on April 26, 2021, in their apartment in Brooklyn. The ceremony presented Sinkie Awards in 24 categories. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the nominees followed the rules of that year's Academy Awards; any movie that had the *intent* to have a theatrical run from January 1, 2020, up until the cutoff date of February 28, 2021, was eligible.

***Borat Subsequent Moviefilm*** won five awards, beating ***Parasite***'s record for most wins in one ceremony. ***Nomadland*** won four awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included ***Minari*** and ***Sound of Metal*** with two wins, ***The Boys in the Band, Da 5 Bloods***, ***Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga***, ***First Cow, Hillbilly Elegy, I Care a Lot, Judas and the Black Messiah, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Promising Young Woman, Sonic the Hedgehog,*** and ***Tenet*** with one.

One new category was added this year: **Best Water**, for the best achievement by water in a film.

***Minari*** became the first (and still only) film to be nominated in all four major acting categories. To this day, it is the only film to be nominated in the seven major categories (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenplay, and Ensemble). **Frances McDormand** became the first actor to win two Sinkies in one of the four main acting categories, and the first to win the same award (**Best Actress**, in this case) twice. **Maria Bakalova** beat the record for most Sinkies won in a single ceremony, with four wins. She still holds the record, and is still the individual with the most total Sinkie wins. Her ***Borat Subsequent Moviefilm*** costar, **Sacha Baron Cohen**, holds the record for most nominations in a single ceremony for this year, with six. **James Corden** became the first performer nominated for **Worst Performance** two years in a row.

**Chadwick Boseman** became the first posthumous Sinkie nominee, honored here in multiple categories for his work in ***Da 5 Bloods*** and ***Ma Rainey's Black Bottom***. He was the second actor to be nominated in two of the four main acting categories in the same year (after **Florence Pugh**), and as of the date of this ceremony he was the most-nominated individual at the Sinkies ever.

## Winners and nominees

***I'm Thinking of Ending Things*** led all nominees with twelve nominations, winning none; ***Borat Subsequent Moviefilm*** came in second with eleven.

## Awards

Winners are listed first, highlighted in **boldface.**

## Jimmy & Kyle's Votes

Each year, hosts Jimmy Nicholas and Kyle Wilson announce their vote before they announce the winner. At this ceremony, Jimmy's pick won nine times, while Kyle's also won thirteen. They agreed on eight categories this year: Delroy Lindo in *Da 5 Bloods* for Best Actor, who lost to Riz Ahmed for *Sound of Metal;* Maria Bakalova in *Borat Subsequent Moviefilm* for Best Supporting Actress, who won; *Sound of Metal* for Best Original Screenplay, which lost to *Judas and the Black Messiah;* Maria Bakalova for Best Breakout Performance, who won; the Songalong from *Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga* for Best Musical Moment, which won; the backwards car chase from *Tenet*, which won; Chadwick Boseman & Taylor Paige in *Ma Rainey's Black Bottom* for Best Kiss, which won; and Jim Parsons in *The Boys in the Band* for Worst Performance, which won.