Paddy Mulholland
Jan 7, 20222 min
On a busy day for awards announcements, the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle have risen bright and early to deliver the nominations for their 2021 awards to the world. It's a pretty predictable slate, all in all, given this group's typically strong, if safe, taste in movies - The Power of the Dog leads all movies with nine nods including Best Picture and Director; that's almost double what any of its Best Picture competitors managed. Next in line is Dune with six, though failing to score a mention in the top category. Lovely to see Drive My Car notch up five nominations as well. Winners are set to be announced on the 10th of January.
Best Picture
DRIVE MY CAR
THE GREEN KNIGHT
LICORICE PIZZA
THE POWER OF THE DOG
WEST SIDE STORY
Best Director
Jane Campion (THE POWER OF THE DOG)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (THE LOST DAUGHTER)
Hamaguchi Ryusuke (DRIVE MY CAR)
Steven Spielberg (WEST SIDE STORY)
Denis Villeneuve (DUNE)
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain (THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE)
Olivia Colman (THE LOST DAUGHTER)
Penelope Cruz (PARALLEL MOTHERS)
Kristen Stewart (SPENCER)
Tessa Thompson (PASSING)
Best Actor
Nicolas Cage (PIG)
Benedict Cumberbatch (THE POWER OF THE DOG)
Andrew Garfield (TICK, TICK...BOOM!)
Nishijima Hidetoshi (DRIVE MY CAR)
Will Smith (KING RICHARD)
Denzel Washington (THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH)
Best Supporting Actress
Jessie Buckley (THE LOST DAUGHTER)
Ariana DeBose (WEST SIDE STORY)
Kirsten Dunst (THE POWER OF THE DOG)
Marlee Matlin (CODA)
Ruth Negga (PASSING)
Best Supporting Actor
Bradley Cooper (LICORICE PIZZA)
Ciaran Hinds (BELFAST)
Troy Kotsur (CODA)
J. K. Simmons (BEING THE RICARDOS)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (THE POWER OF THE DOG)
Best Original Screenplay
BEING THE RICARDOS (Aaron Sorkin)
BELFAST (Kenneth Branagh)
C'MON C'MON (Mike Mills)
DON'T LOOK UP (Adam McKay and David Sirota)
LICORICE PIZZA (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Best Adapted Screenplay
DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi Ryusuke and Oe Takamasa)
DUNE (Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth)
THE LOST DAUGHTER (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
PASSING (Rebecca Hall)
THE POWER OF THE DOG (Jane Campion)
Best Cinematography
DUNE (Greig Fraser)
THE FRENCH DISPATCH (Robert D. Yeoman)
THE GREEN KNIGHT (Andrew Droz Palermo)
NIGHTMARE ALLEY (Dan Laustsen)
THE POWER OF THE DOG (Ari Wegner)
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (Bruno Delbonnel)
WEST SIDE STORY (Janusz Kaminski)
Best Film Editing
BELFAST (Una ni Dhonghaile)
DUNE (Joe Walker)
LICORICE PIZZA (Andy Jurgensen)
THE POWER OF THE DOG (Peter Sciberras)
WEST SIDE STORY (Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn)
Best Production Design
DUNE (Patrice Vermette)
THE FRENCH DISPATCH (Adam Stockhausen)
THE GREEN KNIGHT (Jade Healy)
NIGHTMARE ALLEY (Tamara Deverell)
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (Stefan Dechant)
Best Original Score
DUNE (Hans Zimmer)
THE FRENCH DISPATCH (Alexandre Desplat)
THE GREEN KNIGHT (Daniel Hart)
THE POWER OF THE DOG (Jonny Greenwood)
SPENCER (Jonny Greenwood)
Best Animated Feature
BELLE
ENCANTO
FLEE
LUCA
THE MITCHELLS VS THE MACHINES
Best Documentary Feature
FLEE
PROCESSION
THE RESCUE
SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED)
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
Best Foreign Language Film
DRIVE MY CAR
FLEE
A HERO
PARALLEL MOTHERS
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
Special Citation for Independent CInema
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