PRESS RELEASE: DECEMBER 28, 2021
North Carolina Film Critics Association Announces Nominees for Best of 2021
Dune, The Power of the Dog and West Side Story lead nominations
The North Carolina Film Critics Association is pleased to announce its nominations for the tenth annual awards for achievements in film. Dune, The Power of the Dog and West Side Story lead with 32 combined nominations.
The NCFCA consists of fifty-five film critics living and/or working in North Carolina.
Winners will be announced on January 5, 2022. Recognition will be given to nominees in the following categories:
BEST NARRATIVE FILM
Drive My Car
Dune
The French Dispatch
The Green Knight
Licorice Pizza
Mass
Pig
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
The Worst Person in the World
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Flee
The Sparks Brothers
Summer of Soul
Val
The Velvet Underground
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Drive My Car
A Hero
Riders of Justice
Titane
The Worst Person in the World
BEST DIRECTOR
David Lowery (The Green Knight)
Denis Villeneuve (Dune)
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
BEST ACTOR
Andrew Garfield (tick, tick… BOOM!)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
Dev Patel (The Green Knight)
Nicolas Cage (Pig)
Will Smith (King Richard)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alex Wolff (Pig)
Jason Isaacs (Mass)
Jeffrey Wright (The French Dispatch)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)
Woody Norman (C'mon C'mon)
BEST ACTRESS
Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza)
Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
Kristen Stewart (Spencer)
Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)
Ann Dowd (Mass)
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
Ruth Negga (Passing)
BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE IN ANIMATION OR MIXED MEDIA
Abbi Jacobson (The Mitchells vs. The Machines)
Danny McBride (The Mitchells vs. The Machines)
Jacob Tremblay (Luca)
Kelly Marie Tran (Raya and the Last Dragon)
Stephanie Beatriz (Encanto)
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Dune
The French Dispatch
Licorice Pizza
Mass
The Power of the Dog
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
C'mon C'mon
The French Dispatch
Licorice Pizza
Mass
Pig
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Drive My Car
Dune
The Green Knight
Passing
The Power of the Dog
BEST EDITING
Dune
The French Dispatch
The Last Duel
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Dune
The Green Knight
The Matrix Resurrections
Spider-Man: No Way Home
The Suicide Squad
BEST STUNT COORDINATION
Black Widow
The Matrix Resurrections
No Time To Die
Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Cruella
Dune
Last Night in Soho
Nightmare Alley
Spencer
BEST HAIR & MAKE-UP
Cruella
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
Nightmare Alley
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Dune
The French Dispatch
The Green Knight
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story
BEST SCORE
Don’t Look Up
Dune
No Time To Die
The Power of the Dog
Spencer
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Every Letter (Cyrano)
Guns Go Bang (The Harder They Fall)
Just Look Up (Don’t Look Up)
No Time To Die (No Time To Die)
So May We Start (Annette)
BEST SOUND DESIGN
Dune
Nightmare Alley
No Time To Die
tick, tick… BOOM!
West Side Story
BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT
Fran Kranz (Mass)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (tick, tick… BOOM!)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter)
Michael Sarnoski (Pig)
Rebecca Hall (Passing)
BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza)
Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza)
Emilia Jones (CODA)
Woody Norman (C’Mon C’Mon)
Rachel Zegler (West Side Story)
KEN HANKE MEMORIAL TAR HEEL AWARD
Anthony Mackie (Falcon and the Winter Soldier; Synchronic; Outside the Wire; The Woman in the Window) – Studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story; Schmigadoon) - From Raleigh, North Carolina
Brian Tyree Henry (Eternals; The Woman in the Window; Godzilla vs. Kong) – From Fayetteville, North Carolina
Jonathan Majors (The Harder They Fall, Loki) – Studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Stephen McKinley Henderson (Dune; Bruised) – Studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Multiple Nominations:
Dune (13)
The Power of the Dog (10)
West Side Story (9)
Licorice Pizza (7)
The French Dispatch (6)
The Green Knight (6)
Mass (6)
Nightmare Alley (5)
Pig (5)
C'mon C'mon (3)
Drive my Car (3)
Spencer (3)
The Mitchells vs. The Machines (3)
Passing (3)
The Worst Person in the World (3)
tick, tick… BOOM! (3)
Cruella (2)
Encanto (2)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2)
Flee (2)
The Harder They Fall (2)
King Richard (2)
The Lost Daughter (2)
Luca (2)
The Matrix Resurrections (2)
Raya and the Last Dragon (2)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2)
