Precursor: 17th Austin Critics Nominations (2021)

It’s rather surprising to see that a technical marvel like Dune could consistently bring in fewer nominations than the more intimate The Power of the Dog, but this is the dynamic we’ve seen play out for most of the year. Not a lot of oddities here with the stronger than normal performance by non-English language films that other critics groups seem focused on.

Nominations Tallies

(9) The Power of the Dog
(8) Dune, Licorice Pizza
(5) The Green Knight
(4) Mass, Pig, Titane, West Side Story
(3) Drive My Car, Encanto, The French Dispatch, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, The Tragedy of Macbeth

The Nominations

Best Film

Dune
The Green Knight
Licorice Pizza
Pig
The Power of the Dog

Best Animated Film

Belle
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
David Lowery – The Green Knight
Denis Villeneuve – Dune

Best Actor

Nicolas Cage – Pig
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield – tick, tick…BOOM!
Simon Rex – Red Rocket
Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best Actress

Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Penelope Cruz – Parallel Mothers
Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza
Kristen Stewart – Spencer
Agathe Rousselle – Titane

Best Supporting Actor

Bradley Cooper – Licorice Pizza
Colman Domingo – Zola
Vincent Lindon – Titane
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog
Jeffrey Wright – The French Dispatch

Best Supporting Actress

Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Ann Dowd – Mass
Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog
Kathryn Hunter – The Tragedy of Macbeth
Ruth Negga – Passing

Best Original Screenplay

C’mon C’mon
The French Dispatch
Licorice Pizza
Mass
Pig

Best Adapted Screenplay

CODA
Drive My Car
Dune
The Green Knight
The Power of the Dog

Best Original Score

Candyman
Dune
The Green Knight
The Power of the Dog
Spencer

Best Editing

Dune
The Last Duel
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Best Cinematography

Dune
The Green Knight
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story

Best Foreign Language Film

Drive My Car
Lamb
Parallel Mothers
Titane
The Worst Person in the World

Best Documentary

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

Best First Film

Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter
Rebecca Hall – Passing
Fran Kranz – Mass
Michael Samoski – Pig
Emma Seligman – Shiva Baby

Best Ensemble

Dune
The French Dispatch
The Harder They Fall
Licorice Pizza
Mass

Best Voice Acting/Animated/Digital Performance

Stephanie Beatriz – Encanto
Abbi Jacobson – The Mitchells vs. the Machines
John Leguizamo – Encanto
Danny McBride – The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Kaho Nakamura – Belle