2021 Blu-Ray Disc of the Year Awards

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Here it is...what no label has waited for and what every label wants to win...my Best of the Year Disc Awards for 2021! In this video I go through what I think represents the best Blu-ray disc titles I have purchased over the past year. I broke it down further into Candidates by Label and several other awards in various categories. I also covered some discs to avoid in my Worst of the Year section.
This is by no means a definitive list. I'm forced to go by the discs I have purchased myself as I am not provided with any review copies or screeners. Being a cinephile and classic film nerd I don't really go in for the newest releases so for that you'd have to look elsewhere. Many new titles were released at the very end of the year so there are some that I simply haven't purchased or received yet. (Several Warner Archive titles, Indicator's Mae West box, untold numbers of Kino discs) The pandemic also caused me to not buy as many titles from overseas as I would like to...well that and my ever shrinking wallet...

As usual I go into full details as much as possible so with each award I reserved my choice for the overall best of the best.

00:00 Intro
02:26 Roundup the Usual Suspects: Disc Candidates by Label
02:46 Arrow Video
03:30 Criterion
04:38 Eureka
05:31 Indicator
06:26 Kino Lorber
08:04 Warner Archive
13:46 Worst Awards
15:25 Worst of the year roll call
16:42 Defective Kino Silence of the Lambs 4K
19:28 Worst 4K UHD of the year: Indiana Jones Complete Adventures
23:43 Worst Blu-ray of the Year: Disney's Make Mine Music
26:04 Most Disappointing Transfer
27:40 Worst Packaging: Criterion Citizen Kane 4K
32:57 Best Awards
33:10 Best Restoration
34:49 Best Improvement over DVD
36:26 Best Improvement over Flawed Releases
39:40 Best Audio Quality
41:08 Best Picture Quality
45:37 Best Cover Art
46:37 Best Direct Upgrade from DVD
47:48 Best Extras and Special Features
58:19 Best Boxset
01:00:35 4K Boxset
01:02:47 Top 11 discs of 2021
01:03:40 Number 11
01:03:54 Number 10
01:04:06 Number 9
01:04:29 Number 8
01:04:42 Number 7
01:05:15 Number 6
01:06:00 Number 5
01:06:41 Number 4
01:07:00 Number 3
01:07:17 Number 2
01:08:10 Number 1
01:10:46 Outro