Online Association of Female Film Critics (OAFFC) winners: ‘The Power of the Dog,’ Andrew Garfield, Ariana DeBose and more
Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog was the big winner from the Online Association of Female Film Critics (OAFFC), winning four of its seven nominations, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Kristen Stewart (Spencer) and Andrew Garfield (tick, tick…BOOM!) were named Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively and Agathe Rousselle won Breakthrough Performance for her role in Titane. Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog) won Best Supporting Actor and Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) won Best Supporting Actress. Michael Sarnoski’s Pig was named Best Original Screenplay.
The Rosie, an OAFFC-specific award that “celebrates the film that best promotes women, their voices, and the female experience through cinema,” went to Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter.
Here is the complete list of winners.
Best Film
Belfast
CODA
The Power of the Dog – WINNER
Spencer
The Worst Person in the World
Best Director
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog – WINNER
Julia Ducournau, Titane
Rebecca Hall, Passing
Denis Villeneuve, Dune
Best Male Lead
Nicolas Cage, Pig
Peter Dinklage, Cyrano
Andrew Garfield, tick, tick… BOOM! – WINNER
Joaquin Phoenix, C’mon C’mon
Will Smith, King Richard
Best Female Lead
Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World
Agathe Rousselle, Titane
Kristen Stewart, Spencer – WINNER
Tessa Thompson, Passing
Best Supporting Male
Colman Domingo, Zola
Jason Isaacs, Mass
Troy Kotsur, CODA
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog – WINNER
Jeffrey Wright, The French Dispatch
Best Supporting Female
Caitríona Balfe, Belfast
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story – WINNER
Ann Dowd, Mass
Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
Riley Keough, Zola
Best Original Screenplay
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Julia Ducournau, Titane
Fran Kranz, Mass
Michael Sarnoski, Pig – WINNER
Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt, The Worst Person in the World
Best Adapted Screenplay
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog – WINNER
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Sian Heder, CODA
Steven Levenson, tick, tick… BOOM!
David Lowery, The Green Knight
Best Acting Ensemble
Belfast
The French Dispatch
The Harder They Fall
Mass – WINNER
The Power of the Dog
Best Animated Feature
Belle
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines – WINNER
Raya and the Last Dragon
Best Documentary
Flee – WINNER
Julia
Summer of Soul
The Rescue
Val
Best Cinematography
Bruno Delbonnel, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Greig Fraser, Dune – WINNER
Claire Mathon, Spencer
Andrew Droz Palermo, The Green Knight
Ari Wegner, The Power of the Dog
Breakthrough Filmmaker
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Rebecca Hall, Passing – WINNER
Natalie Morales, Language Lessons
Edson Oda, Nine Days
Emma Seligman, Shiva Baby
Breakthrough Performance
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones, CODA
Woody Norman, C’mon C’mon
Agathe Rousselle, Titane – WINNER
Saniyya Sidney, King Richard
The Rosie
I’m Your Man
The Lost Daughter – WINNER
Passing
Petite Maman
Shiva Baby
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