Precursor: 10th North Carolina Critics Nominations & Awards (2021)

North Carolina’s film critics released their nominations and winners today without any really huge surprises. The top two nominees came in first and second in the win count, though in reverse order with The Power of the Dog losing out to Dune by three nominations, but then topping it by one win.

Nominations Tallies

(13) Dune
(10) The Power of the Dog
(9) West Side Story
(7) Licorice Pizza
(6) The French Dispatch, The Green Knight, Mass
(5) Nightmare Alley, Pig
(4) No Time to Die
(3) C’mon C’mon, Drive My Car, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Passing, Spencer, tick, tick…BOOM!, The Worst Person in the World

Awards Tallies

(6) The Power of the Dog
(5) Dune
(2) Licorice Pizza, Mass

The Nominations & Awards

Best Picture

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 Animated Feature

Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
David Lowery – The Green Knight
Steven Spielberg – West Side Story
Denis Villeneuve – Dune

Best Actor

Nicolas Cage – Pig
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield – tick, tick…BOOM!
Dev Patel – The Green Knight
Will Smith – King Richard

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza
Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World
Kristen Stewart – Spencer

Best Supporting Actor

Jason Isaacs – Mass
Woody Norman – C’mon C’mon
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog
Alex Wolff – Pig
Jeffrey Wright – The French Dispatch

Best Supporting Actress

Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Ann Dowd – Mass
Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard
Ruth Negga – Passing

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 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 Editing

Dune
The French Dispatch
The Last Duel
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Best Cinematography

Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story

Best Production Design

Dune
The French Dispatch
The Green Knight
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story

Best Costume Design

Cruella
Dune
Last Night in Soho
Nightmare Alley
Spencer

Best Hair & Makeup

Cruella
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
Nightmare Alley

Best Sound Design

Dune
Nightmare Alley
No Time to Die
tick, tick…BOOM!
West Side Story

Best Special Effects

Dune
The Green Knight
The Matrix Resurrections
Spider-Man: No Way Home
The Suicide Squad

Best Foreign Language Film

Drive My Car
A Hero
Riders of Justice
Titane
The Worst Person in the World

Best Documentary

Flee
The Sparks Brothers
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Val
The Velvet Underground

Best Directorial Debut

Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter
Rebecca Hall – Passing
Fran Kranz – Mass
Lin-Manuel Miranda – tick, tick…BOOM!
Michael Sarnoski – Pig

Best Acting Ensemble

Dune
The French Dispatch
Licorice Pizza
Mass
The Power of the Dog

Best Vocal Performance in an Animation or Mixed Media

Stephanie Beatriz – Encanto
Abbi Jacobson – The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Danny McBride – The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Kelly Marie Tran – Raya and the Last Dragon
Jacob Tremblay – Luca

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

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

Lifetime Achievement Award for Screenwriting

The Coen Brothers

Ken Hanke Memorial Tar Heel Award

.Ariana DeBose (West Side Story; Schmigadoon) – From Raleigh, North Carolina
.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
.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