The Top 10 Films of 1921 and Awards

1. Destiny (Lang)
2. The Parson's Widow (Dreyer)
3. The Wildcat (Lubitsch)
4. Eldorado (L'Herbier)
5. Leaves from Satan's Book (Dreyer)
6. Scherben (Pick)
7. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Ingram)
8. Sappho (Buchowetzki)
9. The Kid (Chaplin)
10. Manhatta (Sheeler & Strand)

BEST DIRECTOR
Fritz Lang, Destiny
Marcel L'Herbier, Eldorado
Ernst Lubitsch, The Wildcat
Lulu Pick, Scherben

Victor Sjöström, The Phantom Carriage

runner-up: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Leaves from Satan's Book

BEST ACTOR 
Richard Barthelmess, Tol'able David

Werner Krauss, Scherben

Max Linder, Seven Years Bad Luck
Harold Lloyd, Among Those Present and A Sailor-Made Man
Victor Sjöström, The Phantom Carriage

runner-up: Douglas Fairbanks, The Three Musketeers

BEST ACTRESS

Pola Negri, Sappho and The Wildcat

Asta Nielsen, Hamlet

Mary Pickford, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Through the Back Door and The Love Light

Alice Terry, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Lois Wilson, Miss Lulu Bett

runner-up: Henny Porten, Backstairs and Ève Francis, Eldorado

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Lon Chaney, The Ace of Hearts

Jackie Coogan, The Kid

Bernhard Goetzke, Destiny

Victor Janson, The Wildcat

Fred Thomson, The Love Light

runner-up: Claude Gillingwater, Little Lord Fauntleroy

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Gertrude Astor, Through the Back Door

Bebe Daniels, The Affairs of Anatol

Aggie Herring, Among Those Present

Margaret McWade, The Blot

Edith Posca, Scherben

runner-up: Gloria Swanson, The Affairs of Anatol