Drive My Car wins another major critics' prize today with the results of voting on the National Society of Film Critics' 2021 awards. In fact, it wins four, taking Best Picture, Director (alongside helmer Hamaguchi's other 2021 release, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy), Actor, and Screenplay, and placing as runner-up in none of the group's other categories. That's also a full half of the NSFC's competitive categories this year, meaning Drive My Car is also the only movie to win multiple awards. All the results below.
Best Picture
1 DRIVE MY CAR - 48 points
2 PETITE MAMAN - 25 points
3 THE POWER OF THE DOG - 23 points
Best Director
1 Hamaguchi Ryusuke (DRIVE MY CAR / WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY) - 46 points
2 Jane Campion (THE POWER OF THE DOG) - 36 points
3 Celine Sciamma (PETITE MAMAN) - 28 points
Best Actress
1 Penelope Cruz (PARALLEL MOTHERS) - 55 points
2 Renate Reinsve (THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD) - 42 points
3 Alana Haim (LICORICE PIZZA) - 32 points
Best Actor
1 Nishijima Hidetoshi (DRIVE MY CAR) - 63 points
2 Benedict Cumberbatch (THE POWER OF THE DOG) - 44 points
3 Simon Rex (RED ROCKET) - 30 points
Best Supporting Actress
1 Ruth Negga (PASSING) - 46 points
2 Ariana DeBose (WEST SIDE STORY) - 22 points
3 Jessie Buckley (THE LOST DAUGHTER) - 21 points
Best Supporting Actor
1 Anders Danielsen Lie (THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD) - 54 points
2 Vincent Lindon (TITANE) - 33 points
3 Mike Faist (WEST SIDE STORY) - 26 points
Kodi Smit-McPhee (THE POWER OF THE DOG) - 26 points
Best Screenplay
1 Hamaguchi Ryusuke and Oe Takamasa (DRIVE MY CAR) - 46 points
2 Pedro Almodovar (PARALLEL MOTHERS) - 22 points
3 Paul Thomas Anderson (LICORICE PIZZA) - 20 points
Best Cinematography
1 Andrew Droz Palermo (THE GREEN KNIGHT) - 52 points
2 Ari Wegner (THE POWER OF THE DOG) - 40 points
3 Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (MEMORIA) - 35 points
Best Nonfiction Film
1 FLEE - 41 points
2 PROCESSION - 28 points
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - 28 points
Film Heritage Award
Peter Bogdanovich and Bertrand Tavernier, distinguished critic-filmmakers who never lost their passion for other people's movies and film history
Maya Cade for the Black Film Archive, which expands knowledge of and access to Black films made between 1915 and 1979, and includes her critical essays that define the project and consider the films in relation to each other and to the cinema overall
Special Citation for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution
RETURNING TO REIMS (Jean-Gabriel Periot)