Atlanta Film Critics go for a big slice of ‘Licorice Pizza’

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The Atlanta Film Critics Circle has chosen Licorice Pizza as 2021’s Best Picture, also awarding the film Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Alana Haim, in a tie with Kristen Stewart for Spencer), Best Supporting Actor (Bradley Cooper) and Best Ensemble (in a tie with Mass).

The Power of the Dog‘s Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst were named Best Actor and Supporting Actress, respectively, and Jane Campion won Best Director. The film also won for its cinematography by Ari Wegner.

Best Picture: Licorice Pizza

2. The Power of the Dog
3. The Green Knight
4. Belfast
5. tick, tick… BOOM!
6. Drive My Car
7. Titane
8. West Side Story
9. Flee
10 (tie) Dune & The Worst Person in the World

Best Director: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog

Best Actor: Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Best Actress: Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza & Kristen Stewart, Spencer
Best Supporting Actor: Bradley Cooper, Licorice Pizza
Best Supporting Actress: Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog

Best Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza

Best Ensemble Cast (tie): Licorice Pizza & Mass

Best Animated Film: The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Best Documentary: Flee
Best International Feature: Drive My Car

Best Cinematography: Ari Wegner, The Power of the Dog
Best Score: Hans Zimmer, Dune

Special Award for Best First Feature Film: Lin-Manuel Miranda, tick, tick… BOOM!
Special Award for Best Breakthrough Performance: Agathe Rousselle, Titane

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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