The Golden Tomato Awards have some surprising winners

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Winners of 23rd yellow tomato The award has been announced. These awards, run by the movie review website Rotten Tomatoes, which honors the best-rated movies and TV shows of the past year. These awards are ranked based on their reviews on the popular review aggregator, which means they reflect the views of many critics from around the world.

With 2021 being the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, film and TV releases have been messy, with many films trying out new release models or postponing premieres. However, despite this, the awards yielded desirable and unexpected results.

Most notably, it was a Marvel banner year with Spider-Man: There’s no way home get Best Movie and Best Comic Movie. Disney series + WandaVision sweeping TV categories, including Best Television, Best Limited Series, and Best Superhero Series.

However, Disney’s success doesn’t just stop at Marvel Raya and the last dragon Won the award for Best Animated Feature. And Searchlight Pictures, another Disney subsidiary, won Best Documentary Feature due to high ratings Summer of the Soul (… Or, when the revolution can’t be televised) documentary.

However, this does not mean that there are not as many diverse awards as Nicolas Cage’s unique TV series Pig Won Best Limited Release Film and Best Drama Series. Western psychological critics The power of the dog also landed an award, winning Best Streaming Movie.

One of the biggest surprises was the lack of prizes for Squid fishing game. Although the series is a pop culture phenomenon, it placed 15th in the Best New Film category, losing to Steve Martin-fronted. There is only Murder in the Building. It just shows how many great shows have been released this year.

The Golden Tomato Awards show that, while the big superhero blockbusters still prevail in the hearts of the public, people have enjoyed various movies and shows in 2021. It also shows that the development online and social media can lead to less advertised releases reaching larger audiences.

The main winners are:

• Best Film: Spider-Man: There’s no way home
• Best wide release film: Spider-Man: There’s no way home
• Best Limited Release Movie: Pig
• Best Movies Released Online: The power of the dog
• Best TV series: WandaVision
• Best new series: There are only murders in the building
• Best Returning Series: Ted Lasso
• The best limiter line: WandaVision