Mark Rylance in the context of "69th British Academy Film Awards"

Don't Look Up is a 2021 American political satire black comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by Adam McKay from a story he co-wrote with David Sirota. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Kid Cudi, Cate Blanchett, and Meryl Streep. In the film, it tells the story of two astronomers attempting to warn humanity about an approaching comet that will destroy human civilization.

The movie's central comet impact event was used by McKay as an allegory for threats arising from climate change, and the film satirizes government, political, celebrity, and media indifference, in particular to the climate crisis, but with further synergy with regard to responses to science during the COVID-19 pandemic; Donna Lu of The Guardian notes that "[d]espite a stellar cast", the movie "received a frosty reception from many film critics", while being thoroughly lauded by climate activists.