Precursor: 42nd London Critics Nominations (2021)

There are two things we always note with awards from the London Critics. The first is that their release windows vary slightly from the US in most case (or drastically in some others). Further, they have their own British/Irish slate of categories, which often bolsters the chances of those productions and the home territory advantage can also homegrown films like Belfast, The Lost Daughter and Th Souvenir Part II. Strangely, Belfast didn’t benefit much from that distinction this year than the other two titles did, which makes for an interesting case about the film’s diminishing chances in the wake of the emergent dominance of The Power of the Dog, which easily topped the nomination count with a margin wider than the one niche nomination it received for British cast member Benedict Cumberbatch.

Award Tallies

(9) The Power of the Dog
(6) The Lost Daughter
(5) The Souvenir Part II
(4) After Love, Belfast, Drive My Car, The French Dispatch, West Side Story
(3) Dune, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Passing

The Awards

Best Picture

Belfast
Drive My Car
Dune
Licorice Pizza
The Lost Daughter
Memoria
The Power of the Dog
The Souvenir Part II
Titane
West Side Story

Best Director

Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Ryusake Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
Joanna Hogg – The Souvenir Part II
Celine Sciamma – Petite Maman
Denis Villeneuve – Dune

Best Actor

Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
Adam Driver – Annette
Andrew Garfield – tick – tick… BOOM!
Oscar Isaac – The Card Counter
Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Actress

Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Penelope Cruz – Parallel Mothers
Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World
Joanna Scanlan – After Love
Kristen Stewart – Spencer

Best Supporting Actor

Richard Ayoade – The Souvenir Part II
Ciaran Hinds – Belfast
Jesse Plemons – The Power of the Dog
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog
Jeffrey Wright – The French Dispatch

Best Supporting Actress

Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog
Rirta Moreno – West Side Story
Ruth Negga – Passing

Best Screenplay

Drive My Car
The French Dispatch
Licorice Pizza
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog

Best Foreign-Language Film

Drive My Car
The Hand of God
Petite Maman
Titane
The Worst Person in the World

Best Documentary

Flee
Gunda
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
The Velvet Underground

British / Irish Short Film

Diseased and Disorderly
Espensive Shit
Know the Grass
Play It Safe
Precious Hair & Beauty

Technical Achievements

Cruella – Jenny Beavan, costumes
Dune – Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer, visual effects
Flee – Kenneth Ladekjær, animation
The French Dispatch – Adam Stockhausen, production design
The Green Knight – Andrew Droz Palermo, cinematography
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmão – Hélène Louvart, cinematography
Martin Eden – Fabrizio Federico and Aline Hervé, film editing
No Time to Die – Olivier Schneider, stunts
The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood, music
West Side Story – Justin Peck, choreography

The Dilys Powell Award

TBD

Best British / Irish Film

After Love
Belfast
The Green Knight
Limbo
The Souvenir Part II

Breakthrough British / Irish Filmmaker

Prano Bailey-Bond – Censor
Rebecca Hall – Passing
Aleem Khan – After Love
Marley Morrison – Sweetheart
Ben Sharrock – Limbo

Best British / Irish Actor

Riz Ahmed – Encounter
Adeel Akhtar – Ali & Ava, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, The Nest
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield – The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Mainstream, tick, tick…BOOM!
Stephen Graham – Boiling Point, Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Best British / Irish Actress

Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
Olivia Colman – The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, The Lost Daughter, The Mitchells vs the Machines, Mothering Sunday, Ron’s Gone Wrong
Ruth Negga – Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, Passing
Joanna Scanlan – After Love
Tilda Swinton – The French Dispatch, Memoria, The Souvenir Part II