{"id":24080,"date":"2022-01-10T13:59:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=24080"},"modified":"2022-01-10T13:59:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:59:27","slug":"2021-san-diego-film-critics-society-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=24080","title":{"rendered":"2021 San Diego Film Critics Society Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, it was an incredibly tight year, with the group voting through online ballots. The results were incredibly close in all of the major categories and tiebreakers were equally difficult to determine, but here are the final results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Picture:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BELFAST \u2013 Runner Up
CODA
DUNE
MASS
THE POWER OF THE DOG – Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Director:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kenneth Branagh, BELFAST \u2013 Runner Up
Jane Campion, THE POWER OF THE DOG – Winner<\/strong>
Guillermo del Toro, NIGHTMARE ALLEY
Maggie Gyllenhaal, THE LOST DAUGHTER
Denis Villeneuve, DUNE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Actor:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicolas Cage, PIG – Winner<\/strong>
Benedict Cumberbatch, THE POWER OF THE DOG
Peter Dinklage, CYRANO
Andrew Garfield, TICK, TICK\u2026BOOM! \u2013 Runner Up
Jude Hill, BELFAST<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Actress:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caitriona Balfe, BELFAST – Winner (tie)
<\/strong>Olivia Colman, THE LOST DAUGHTER
Penelope Cruz, PARALLEL MOTHERS – Winner (tie)
<\/strong>Emilia Jones, CODA
Kristen Stewart, SPENCER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Supporting Actor:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ben Affleck, THE TENDER BAR \u2013 Runner Up
Ciaran Hinds, BELFAST
Jason Isaacs, MASS – Winner<\/strong>
Troy Kotsur, CODA
Kodi Smit-McPhee, THE POWER OF THE DOG <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Supporting Actress:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cate Blanchett, NIGHTMARE ALLEY
Arian DeBose, WEST SIDE STORY \u2013 Runner Up
Ann Dowd, MASS
Ruth Negga, PASSING – Winner<\/strong>
Martha Plimpton, MASS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Comedic Performance:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bradley Cooper, LICORICE PIZZA – Winner<\/strong>
Leonardo DiCaprio, DON\u2019T LOOK UP
Jamie Dornan, BARB AND STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR
David Harbour, BLACK WIDOW \u2013 Runner Up
Simon Rex, RED ROCKET<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Youth Performance (Performers under the age of 16):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mckenna Grace, GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE \u2013 Runner Up (tie)
Jude Hill, BELFAST – Winner
<\/strong>Daniel Ranieri, THE TENDER BAR
Saniyya Sidney, KING RICHARD \u2013 Runner Up (tie)
Demi Singleton, KING RICHARD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Original Screenplay:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pedro Almodovar, PARALLEL MOTHERS
Kenneth Branagh, BELFAST \u2013 Runner Up (tie)
Fran Kranz, MASS\u00a0–\u00a0Winner<\/strong>
Adam McKay, DON\u2019T LOOK UP \u2013 Runner Up (tie)
Michael Sarnoski, PIG<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Adapted Screenplay:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jane Campion, THE POWER OF THE DOG – Winner<\/strong>
Joel Coen, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
Guillermo del Toro, Kim Morgan, NIGHTMARE ALLEY \u2013 Runner Up
Rebecca Hall, PASSING
Sian Heder, CODA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Documentary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FLEE \u2013 Runner Up
MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY
SUMMER OF SOUL – Winner<\/strong>
VAL
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Animated Film:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENCANTO
FLEE \u2013 Runner Up
LUCA – Winner<\/strong>
THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES
RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Foreign Language Film:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DRIVE MY CAR
I\u2019M YOUR MAN \u2013 Runner Up
LAMB
PARALLEL MOTHERS – Winner<\/strong>
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Editing:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00dana N\u00ed Dhonghalle, BELFAST – Runner Up
Paula Huidobro, CODA
Myron Kerstein, IN THE HEIGHTS<\/strong> – Winner<\/strong>
Joshua L. Pearson, SUMMER OF SOUL
Joe Walker, DUNE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Cinematography:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alice Brooks, IN THE HEIGHTS
Bruno Delbonnel, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH \u2013 Runner Up
Greig Fraser, DUNE – Winner<\/strong>
Dan Laustsen, NIGHTMARE ALLEY
Ari Wegner, THE POWER OF THE DOG<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Production Design:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim Clay, BELFAST
Tamara Deverell, NIGHTMARE ALLEY<\/strong> – Winner
Grant Major, THE POWER OF THE DOG
Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo, THE FRENCH DISPATCH \u2013 Runner Up
Patrice Vermette, Richard Roberts, Zsuzsanna Sipos, DUNE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Visual Effects:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DUNE – Winner<\/strong>
THE GREEN KNIGHT \u2013 Runner Up (4-way tie)
NIGHTMARE ALLEY \u2013 Runner Up (4-way tie)
SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS \u2013 Runner Up (4-way tie)
SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME \u2013 Runner Up (4-way tie)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Costumes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jenny Beavan, CRUELLA – Winner<\/strong>
Odile Dicks-Mireaux, LAST NIGHT IN SOHO
Antionette Messam, THE HARDER THEY FALL \u2013 Runner Up
Jacqueline West, Bob Morgan, DUNE
Janty Yates, HOUSE OF GUCCI<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Sound Design:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Adaahl, A QUIET PLACE PART II \u2013 Runner Up (tie)
Simon Chase, James Mather, BELFAST
Theo Green, Dave Whitehead, DUNE – Winner<\/strong>
Nathan Robitaille, NIGHTMARE ALLEY
Dave Whitehead, THE POWER OF THE DOG \u2013 Runner Up (tie)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Use of Music:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BELFAST \u2013 Runner Up (3-way tie)
CRUELLA
IN THE HEIGHTS \u2013 Runner Up (3-way tie)
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO – Winner<\/strong>
WEST SIDE STORY \u2013 Runner Up (3-way tie)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breakthrough Artist:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alana Haim, LICORICE PIZZA
Jude Hill, BELFAST \u2013 Runner Up
Emilia Jones, CODA – Winner<\/strong>
Fran Kranz, MASS
Anthony Ramos, IN THE HEIGHTS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Ensemble:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DON\u2019T LOOK UP<\/strong> – Winner<\/strong>
DUNE
THE HARDER THEY FALL
IN THE HEIGHTS \u2013 Runner Up
MASS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Body of Work (this award given to one person in the film industry who delivered exceptional work in three on more films over the past year):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

JONNY GREENWOOD – for his scores on the films LICORICE PIZZA, THE POWER OF THE DOG and SPENCER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Garfield \u2013 Runner Up (for THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE, SPIDERMAN: NO WAY HOME and TICK, TICK…BOOM!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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