AWARDS: Our 2021 Winners

Nicolas Cage and Alex Wolff in PIG; courtesy of Neon.

The ballots have been counted for the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association’s fourth annual end-of-year Film Awards. We’ve chosen the below films as our collective favorites after engaging in a weighted scale voting process for Best Picture and fifteen other major categories. Potential titles/artists were restricted to those films released theatrically in the United States during the 2021 calendar year.

Leading the way are PIG (3 wins, including Best Picture), THE POWER OF THE DOG (3 wins), JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (2 wins), and SPENCER (2 wins).

The 2021 GWNYFCA Film Awards WINNERS:

BEST PICTURE:

A scene from FLEE; courtesy of Neon

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

Drive My Car (Japan) – **WINNER**
Flee (Denmark)
Parallel Mothers (Spain)
Titane (France)
The Worst Person in the World (Norway)

BEST ANIMATED FILM:

Belle
The Boss Baby: Family Business
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs the Machines – **WINNER**

BEST DOCUMENTARY:

Flee
No Ordinary Man
Procession
The Sparks Brothers
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) – **WINNER**

BEST DIRECTOR:

Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog – **WINNER**
Pablo Larraín, Spencer
Ridley Scott, The Last Duel
Michael Sarnoski, Pig
Denis Villeneuve, Dune

(L-R) Danny McBride as “Rick Mitchell”, Abbi Jacobson as “Katie Mitchell”, Mike Rianda as “Aaron Mitchell”, and Maya Rudolph as “Linda Mitchell” in THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES. Cr: ©2021 SPAI. All Rights Reserved.

LEAD ACTOR:

Nicolas Cage, Pig – **WINNER**
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield, tick, tick … BOOM!
Joaquin Phoenix, C’mon C’mon
Will Smith, King Richard

LEAD ACTRESS:

Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Jodie Comer, The Last Duel
Emilia Jones, CODA
Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World
Kristen Stewart, Spencer – **WINNER**

SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Robin de Jesús, tick, tick … BOOM!
Mike Faist, West Side Story
Jason Isaacs, Mass
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah – **WINNER**
Troy Kotsur, CODA

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ariana Debose, West Side Story
Ann Dowd, Mass
Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
Ruth Negga, Passing – **WINNER**

Agathe Rousselle in TITANE; courtesy of Neon.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Judas and the Black Messiah (Will Berson & Shaka King / story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenneth Lucas & Keith Lucas) – **WINNER**
Titane (Julia Ducournau)
Mass (Fran Kranz)
C’mon C’mon (Mike Mills)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

The Last Duel (Ben Affleck, Matt Damon & Nicole Holofcener)
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion) – **WINNER**
The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
Passing (Rebecca Hall)
West Side Story (Tony Kushner)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

The Tragedy of Macbeth (Bruno Delbonnel)
The Green Knight (Andrew Droz Palermo) – **WINNER**
Dune (Greig Fraser)
Spencer (Claire Mathon)
The Power of the Dog (Ari Wegner)

BEST EDITING:

The Power of the Dog (Peter Sciberras) – **WINNER**
Spencer (Sebastián Sepúlveda)
The Last Duel (Claire Simpson)
Dune (Joe Walker)
The French Dispatch (Andrew Weisblum)

BEST SCORE:

The Tragedy of Macbeth (Carter Burwell)
The Power of the Dog (Jonny Greenwood)
Spencer (Jonny Greenwood) – **WINNER**
Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias)
Dune (Hans Zimmer)

Kristen Stewart in SPENCER; courtesy of Neon.

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE:

Mike Faist, West Side Story
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones, CODA
Agathe Rousselle, Titane
Rachel Sennott, Shiva Baby – **WINNER**

BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR:

Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Rebecca Hall, Passing
Fran Kranz, Mass
Michael Sarnoski, Pig – **WINNER**
Emma Seligman, Shiva Baby