Winners and nominees for the Seattle Film Critics Society 2021 Awards
| WINNER | NOMINEES |
|---|---|
| BEST PICTURE Drive My Car (dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)  | ☐ CODA (Apple TV+) ☐ Dune (Warner Bros.) ☐ The Green Knight (A24) ☐ In the Heights (Warner Bros.) ☐ Licorice Pizza (MGM/United Artists Releasing) ☐ Pig (NEON) ☐ The Power of the Dog (Netflix) ☐ Titane (NEON) ☐ West Side Story (20th Century Studios) |
| BEST DIRECTOR Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car | ☐ Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog ☐ Julia Ducournau – Titane ☐ David Lowery – The Green Knight ☐ Denis Villeneuve – Dune |
| BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Nicolas Cage – Pig  | ☐ Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog ☐ Andrew Garfield – tick, tick…BOOM! ☐ Dev Patel – The Green Knight ☐ Simon Rex – Red Rocket |
| BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE Kristen Stewart – Spencer  | ☐ Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza ☐ Lady Gaga – House of Gucci ☐ Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World ☐ Agathe Rousselle – Titane |
| BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog  | ☐ Colman Domingo – Zola ☐ Troy Kotsur – CODA ☐ Vincent Lindon – Titane ☐ Jeffrey Wright – The French Dispatch |
| BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Ariana DeBose – West Side Story  | ☐ Ann Dowd – Mass ☐ Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog ☐ Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard ☐ Ruth Negga – Passing |
| BEST ENSEMBLE CAST Mass – Henry Russell Bergstein, Allison Estrin, casting directors  | ☐ Dune – Jina Jay, Francine Maisler, casting directors ☐ In the Heights – Tiffany Little Canfield, Bernard Telsey, casting directors ☐ Licorice Pizza – Cassandra Kulukundis, casting director ☐ The Power of the Dog – Nikki Barrett, Tina Cleary, Carmen Cuba, Nina Gold, casting directors |
| BEST ACTION CHOREOGRAPHY In the Heights  | ☐ No Time to Die ☐ Nobody ☐ Raging Fire ☐ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings |
| BEST SCREENPLAY Drive My Car – Ryûsuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe | ☐ The Green Knight – David Lowery ☐ Mass – Fran Kranz ☐ Pig – Michael Sarnoski ☐ The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion |
| BEST ANIMATED FEATURE Flee (NEON) – Jonas Poher Rasmussen, director  | ☐ Encanto (Walt Disney Pictures) – Jared Bush, Byron Howard, director; Charise Castro Smith, co-director ☐ Luca (Walt Disney Pictures) – Enrico Casarosa, director ☐ The Mitchells vs. The Machines (Netflix) – Michael Rianda, director; Jeff Rowe, co-director ☐ Raya and the Last Dragon (Walt Disney Pictures) – Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, director; Paul Briggs, John Ripa, co-director |
| BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Flee (NEON) – Jonas Poher Rasmussen, director | ☐ Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry (Apple TV+) – R.J. Cutler, director ☐ The Rescue (National Geographic Documentary Films/Greenwich Entertainment) – Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, directors ☐ Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Hulu) – Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, director ☐ Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (Severin Films) – Kier-La Janisse, director |
| BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Drive My Car (Janus Films) – Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, director | ☐ Flee (NEON) – Jonas Poher Rasmussen, director ☐ The Hand of God (Netflix) – Paolo Sorrentino, director ☐ Titane (NEON) – Julia Ducournau, director ☐ The Worst Person in the World (NEON) – Joachim Trier, director |
| BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY The Green Knight – Andrew Droz Palermo  | ☐ Dune – Greig Fraser ☐ The Power of the Dog – Ari Wegner ☐ The Tragedy of Macbeth – Bruno Delbonnel ☐ West Side Story – Janusz Kaminski |
| BEST COSTUME DESIGN The Green Knight – Malgosia Turzanska | ☐ Cruella – Jenny Beavan ☐ Dune – Jacqueline West, Robert Morgan ☐ House of Gucci – Janty Yates ☐ Spencer – Jacqueline Durran |
| BEST FILM EDITING Dune – Joe Walker  | ☐ Drive My Car – Azusa Yamazaki ☐ The Power of the Dog – Peter Sciberras ☐ Titane – Jean-Christophe Bouzy ☐ West Side Story – Michael Kahn, Sarah Broshar |
| BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Dune – Hans Zimmer | ☐ The French Dispatch – Alexandre Desplat ☐ The Green Knight – Daniel Hart ☐ The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood ☐ Spencer – Jonny Greenwood |
| BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN The Green Knight – Jade Healy (Production Design); Jenny Oman (Set Decorator) | ☐ Dune – Patrice Vermette (Production Design); Zsuzsanna Sipos (Set Decoration) ☐ The French Dispatch – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Rena DeAngelo (Set Decoration) ☐ Nightmare Alley – Tamara Deverell (Production Design); Shane Vieau (Set Decoration) ☐ West Side Story – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Rena DeAngelo (Set Decoration) |
| BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Dune – Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brain Connor, Gerd Nefzer ☐ | ☐ The Green Knight – Eric Saindon, Michael Cozens ☐ The Matrix Resurrections – Dan Glass, Huw J. Evans, Tom Debenham, J.D. Schwalm ☐ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings – Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Walker, Dan Oliver ☐ Spider-Man: No Way Home – Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein, Dan Sudick |
| BEST YOUTH PERFORMANCE Emilia Jones – CODA  | ☐ Jude Hill – Belfast ☐ Cooper Hoffman – Licorice Pizza ☐ Woody Norman – C’mon C’mon ☐ Joséphine Sanz – Petite Maman |
| VILLAIN OF THE YEAR Phil Burbank – The Power of the Dog – portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch | ☐ Baron Vladimir Harkonnen – Dune – portrayed by Stellan Skarsgård ☐ The Green Goblin/Norman Osborn – Spider-Man: No Way Home – portrayed by Willem Dafoe ☐ Rufus Buck – The Harder They Fall – portrayed by Idris Elba ☐ Xu Wenwu – Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings – portrayed by Tony Leung |