Precursor: 26th Online Film & Television Nominations (2021)

The OFTA released a set of nominees that looks like a lot of other lists. There are some notable surprises along the way, but mostly Nominations we’ve seen regularly before. Dune, West Side Story, and CODA had a huge day. The Power of the Dog, Mass, tick, tick…BOOM!, and Spencer had a solid day. Meanwhile, Licorice Pizza and King Richard had a not so good day.

Nominations Tallies

(17) Dune
(14) West Side Story
(11) The Power of the Dog
(10) CODA
(7) Belfast
(6) Mass, tick, tick…BOOM!
(5) No Time to Die, Spencer
(4) Licorice Pizza, Spider-Man: No Way Home
(3) Drive My Car, Encanto, Flee, The French Dispatch, The Harder They Fall, In the Heights, King Richard, Luca, The Matrix Resurrections, Passing, Pig, Titane

The Nominations

Best Picture

Belfast
CODA
Drive My Car
Dune
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog
Spencer
tick, tick…BOOM!
Titane
West Side Story

Best Animated Feature

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

Best Director

Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Julia Ducouranu – Titane
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!
Will Smith – King Richard
Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Penelope Cruz – Parallel Mothers
Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World
Kristen Stewart – Spencer

Best Supporting Actor

Mike Faist – West Side Story
Ciaran Hinds – Belfast
Jason Isaacs – Mass
Troy Kotsur – CODA
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog

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

Belfast
Don’t Look Up
Licorice Pizza
Mass
Pig

Best Adapted Screenplay

CODA
Drive My Car
Dune
Passing
The Power of the Dog

Best Original Score

Dune
The French Dispatch
The Green Knight
The Power of the Dog
Spencer

Best Original Song

Beyond the Shore – CODA
Guns Go Bang – The Harder They Fall
No Time to Die – No Time to Die
So May We Start – Annette
We Don’t Talk About Bruno – Encanto

Best Editing

Belfast
Dune
The Power of the Dog
tick, tick…BOOM!
West Side Story

Best Cinematography

Dune
The Power of the Dog
Spencer
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story

Best Production Design

Dune
The French Dispatch
Last Night in Soho
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story

Best Costume Design

Cruella
Dune
House of Gucci
Spencer
West Side Story

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

Cruella
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
The Suicide Squad

Best Sound

Dune
No Time to Die
A Quiet Place Part II
Spider-Man: No Way Home
West Side Story

Best Sound Effects

Dune
The Matrix Resurrections
No Time to Die
A Quiet Place Part II
Spider-Man: No Way Home

Best Visual Effects

Dune
Eternals
The Matrix Resurrections
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home

Best Foreign Language Film

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

Best Documentary Feature

Flee
Procession
The Rescue
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Val

Best Feature Debut

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

Best Ensemble

Belfast
Dune
The Harder They Fall
Mass
The Power of the Dog

Best Voice-Over Performance

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