The 28th Fangoria Chainsaw Awards was an award ceremony presented for horror films that were released in 2021. The nominees were announced on January 4, 2022.
Winners and nominees
Best Wide Release Best Limited ReleaseMalignant − Directed by James WanCandyman − Directed by Nia DaCosta Last Night in Soho − Directed by Edgar Wright The Night House − Directed by David Bruckner A Quiet Place Part II − Directed by John Krasinski | valign="top" |PG: Psycho Goreman − Directed by Steven KostanskiCome True − Directed by Anthony Scott Burns Hurt − Directed by Sonny Mallhi In the Earth − Directed by Ben Wheatley Werewolves Within − Directed by Josh Ruben |- ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Best International Movie ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Best Streaming Premiere |- | valign="top" |Titane − Directed by Julia DucournauDetention − Directed by John Hsu Lamb − Directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson The Queen of Black Magic − Directed by Kimo Stamboel The Feast − Directed by Lee Haven Jones | valign="top" |Fear Street Part Three: 1666 − Directed by Leigh JaniakThe Boy Behind the Door − Directed by Justin Powell and David Charbonier Lucky − Directed by Natasha Kermani The Power − Directed by Corinna Faith Violation − Directed by Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer |- ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Best Director ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Best First Feature |- | valign="top" |Edgar Wright − Last Night in Soho Prano Bailey-Bond − Censor David Bruckner − The Night House Anthony Scott Burns − Come True Julia Ducournau − Titane Rose Glass − Saint MaudSaint Maud − Directed by Rose GlassCensor − Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To − Directed by Jonathan Cuartas The Stylist − Directed by Jill Gevargizian The Vigil − Directed by Keith Thomas |- ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Best Lead Performance ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Best Supporting Performance |- | valign="top" |Yahya Abdul-Mateen II − Candyman as Anthony McCoy Niamh Algar − Censor as Enid Baines Morfydd Clark − Saint Maud as Katie/Maud Barbara Crampton − Jakob's Wife as Anne Fedder Rebecca Hall − The Night House as Beth Parchin Thomasin McKenzie − Last Night in Soho as Eloise "Ellie" Turner Agathe Rousselle − Titane as Alexia/Adrien Madeleine Sims-Fewer − Violation as Miriam Julia Sarah Stone − Come True as Sarah Anya Taylor-Joy − Last Night in Soho as Alexandra "Sandie" CollinsMillicent Simmonds − A Quiet Place Part II as Regan Abbott Luke David Blumm − Son as David Jennifer Ehle − Saint Maud as Amanda Köhl Larry Fessenden − Jakob's Wife as Pastor Jakob Fedder Vincent Lindon − Titane as Vincent Diana Rigg − Last Night in Soho as Ms. Collins Bill Sage − Wrong Turn as Venable/Ram Skull Jeremy T. Thomas − Antlers as Lucas Weaver Suzanne Voss − Dementia Part II as Suzanne Goldblum Best Screenplay Best ScoreThe Night House − Ben Collins and Luke PiotrowskiCensor − Prano Bailey-Bond and Anthony Fletcher Detention − John Hsu, Fu Kai-ling, and Chien Shih-keng Saint Maud − Rose Glass Violation − Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli | valign="top" |Halloween Kills − John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel DaviesCome True − Electric Youth and Pilotpriest Hurt − Tom Schraeder and CJ Johnson In the Earth − Clint Mansell The Night House − Ben Lovett |- ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Best Make-Up FX ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Best Creature FX |- | valign="top" |Halloween Kills − Christopher NelsonBlood Red Sky − Mark Coulier Hurt − Tara Brawley Kandisha − Oriane de Neve/CLSFX Atelier 69 Spiral: From the Book of Saw − Francois Dagenais | valign="top" |PG: Psycho Goreman − Steven Kostanski/MastersFXAntlers − Shane Mahan/Legacy Effects Black Friday − Robert Kurtzman The Green Knight − Barrie Gower V/H/S/94 − Magee FX/Gaslight Studio |- ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Best Costume Design ! style="width:50%; background:#EEDD82;" | Best Documentary |- | valign="top" |Last Night in Soho − Odile Dicks-MireauxBingo Hell − Eulyn Colette Hufkie Candyman − Lizzie Cook Prisoners of the Ghostland − Chieko Matsumoto Slumber Party Massacre − Neil McClean | valign="top" |Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched Mail Order Murder Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story Best Series Best Non-Fiction Series or MiniseriesMidnight Mass Brand New Cherry Flavor Chucky Creepshow I Know What You Did Last SummerThe Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs Elvira's 40th Anniversary, Very Scary, Very Special, Special The Boulet Brothers' Dragula Best KillThe Bread Slicer – Fear Street Part One: 1994
Presenters Harry Manfredini — presented Best Score Tiffany Shepis and Joe Lo Truglio — presented Best Supporting Performance Michael Varrati and Peaches Christ — presented Best First Feature Jim Cummings — presented Best Creature FX Diana Prince — presented Best Streaming Premiere Elric Kane and Rebekah McKendry — presented Best Non-Fiction Series or Miniseries The Boulet Brothers — presented Best Make-Up FX Harvey Guillén and Josh Ruben — presented Best Screenplay Misha Osherovich and Rachel True — presented Best Creature FX Alejandro Brugués — presented Best International Movie Tananarive Due and Bryan Fuller — presented Best Series Brea Grant — presented In Memorian Tracie Thoms — presented Best Limited Release Jeff Daniel Phillips and Daniel Roebuck — presented Best Lead Performance Dee Wallace and Joe Dante — presented Best Director Felissa Rose — presented Best Kill Chad Villella, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett — presented Best Wide Release
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