The 2021 San Diego Film Critics Society award nominations were led last week by Kenneth Branagh's Belfast, but the award winners are today led by Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog. It wins both Best Picture and Director, though otherwise takes only a Body of Work prize for Jonny Greenwood, shared between his three original scores from the year. Dune wins three also, all in technical categories, and there's a few characteristically bizarre picks from the SDFCS, like Caitriona Balfe's joint Best Actress win for Belfast (alongside Parallel Mothers' Penelope Cruz), and a win for In the Heights in Editing. Check it all out below.
Best Picture
THE POWER OF THE DOG
Runner-up: BELFAST
Best Director
Jane Campion (THE POWER OF THE DOG)
Runner-up: Kenneth Branagh (BELFAST)
Best Actress
Caitriona Balfe (BELFAST)
Penelope Cruz (PARALLEL MOTHERS)
Best Actor
Nicolas Cage (PIG)
Runner-up: Andrew Garfield (TICK, TICK...BOOM!)
Best Supporting Actress
Ruth Negga (PASSING)
Runner-up: Ariana DeBose (WEST SIDE STORY)
Best Supporting Actor
Jason Isaacs (MASS)
Runner-up: Ben Affleck (THE TENDER BAR)
Best Original Screenplay
Fran Kranz (MASS)
Runner-up: Kenneth Branagh (BELFAST) / Adam McKay (DON'T LOOK UP)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Jane Campion (THE POWER OF THE DOG)
Runner-up: Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan (NIGHTMARE ALLEY)
Best Cinematography
Greig Fraser (DUNE)
Runner-up: Bruno Delbonnel (BELFAST)
Best Editing
Myron Kerstein (IN THE HEIGHTS)
Runner-up: Una ni Dhonghaile (BELFAST)
Best Production Design
Tamara Deverell (NIGHTMARE ALLEY)
Runner-up: Adam Stockhausen and Rena DeAngelo (THE FRENCH DISPATCH)
Best Costumes
Jenny Beavan (CRUELLA)
Runner-up: Antoinette Messam (THE HARDER THEY FALL)
Best Sound Design
DUNE
Runner-up: BELFAST / THE POWER OF THE DOG / A QUIET PLACE PART II
Best Visual Effects
DUNE
Best Use of Music
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO
Runner-up: BELFAST / IN THE HEIGHTS / WEST SIDE STORY
Best Ensemble
DON'T LOOK UP
Best Animated Film
LUCA
Runner-up: FLEE
Best Documentary
SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED)
Runner-up: FLEE
Best Foreign Language Film
PARALLEL MOTHERS
Runner-up: I'M YOUR MAN
Breakthrough Artist Award
Emilia Jones (CODA)
Runner-up: Jude Hill (BELFAST)
Best Comedic Performance
Bradley Cooper (LICORICE PIZZA)
Runner-up: David Harbour (BLACK WIDOW)
Best Youth Performance
Jude Hill (BELFAST)
Runner-up: Mckenna Grace (GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE) / Saniyya Sidney (KING RICHARD)
Body of Work Award
Jonny Greenwood (LICORICE PIZZA / THE POWER OF THE DOG / SPENCER)