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2021 Oklahoma Film Critics Circle awards: Licorice Pizza & The Power of the Dog win big


Alana Haim, Sean Penn, Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson, Oklahoma Film Critics Circle
Alana Haim and Sean Penn in Licorice Pizza

Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza may be one of 2021's biggest critical hits, but its awards season run has thus far been one of repeated failures in the Best Picture category, beaten, as every other movie has been, by Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog. Not so with the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle, who've crowned PTA's latest their top pick for the year, also awarding it prizes for Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay. Campion's film goes well-rewarded too, winning an impressive six here, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, both for Campion herself. Check out all the results below.


Best Picture

1 LICORICE PIZZA

2 THE POWER OF THE DOG

3 WEST SIDE STORY

4 THE GREEN KNIGHT

5 SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED)

6 THE FRENCH DISPATCH

7 TICK, TICK...BOOM!

8 C'MON C'MON

9 DUNE

10 NIGHTMARE ALLEY

PIG

RED ROCKET


Best Director

Jane Campion (THE POWER OF THE DOG)

Runner-up: Paul Thomas Anderson (LICORICE PIZZA)


Best Actress

Alana Haim (LICORICE PIZZA)

Runner-up: Jessica Chastain (THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE)


Best Actor

Benedict Cumberbatch (THE POWER OF THE DOG)

Runner-up: Andrew Garfield (TICK, TICK...BOOM!)


Best Supporting Actress

Kirsten Dunst (THE POWER OF THE DOG)

Runner-up: Ariana DeBose (WEST SIDE STORY)


Best Supporting Actor

Kodi Smit-McPhee (THE POWER OF THE DOG)

Runner-up: Ciaran Hinds (BELFAST)


Best Original Screenplay

LICORICE PIZZA (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Runner-up: THE FRENCH DISPATCH (Wes Anderson)


Best Adapted Screenplay

THE POWER OF THE DOG (Jane Campion)

Runner-up: DUNE (Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth)


Best Cinematography

DUNE (Greig Fraser)

Runner-up: THE POWER OF THE DOG (Ari Wegner)


Best Score

THE POWER OF THE DOG (Jonny Greenwood)

Runner-up: DUNE (Hans Zimmer)


Best Ensemble

THE FRENCH DISPATCH

Runner-up: LICORICE PIZZA

THE POWER OF THE DOG


Best Animated Film

THE MITCHELLS VS THE MACHINES

Runner-up: ENCANTO


Best Documentary

SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED)

Runner-up: THE FIRST WAVE


Best Foreign Language Film

DRIVE MY CAR (Japan)

Runner-up: THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Norway)


Best First Feature

THE LOST DAUGHTER (Maggie Gyllenhaal)

Runner-up: TICK, TICK...BOOM! (Lin-Manuel Miranda)


Best Body of Work

Lin-Manuel Miranda (ENCANTO / IN THE HEIGHTS / TICK, TICK...BOOM! / VIVO)

Runner-up: Andrew Garfield (THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE / SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME / TICK, TICK...BOOM!)


Most Disappointing Film

DON'T LOOK UP

Runner-up: HALLOWEEN KILLS

SPENCER

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