The Joe Wright musical Cyrano was named Best Picture of 2021 by the Detroit Film Critics Society, with titular star Peter Dinklage winning Best Actor.
The film was not nominated for Best Director or Best Adapted Screenplay, which were won by Lin-Manuel Miranda for tick, tick…BOOM! and Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog, respectively.
Jessica Chastain was named Best Actress for The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Jon Bernthal was named Best Supporting Actor for King Richard and Ariana DeBose won Best Supporting Actress for West Side Story.
The group found itself with two ties: in Breakthrough for Woody Norman, Actor (C’mon C’mon) & Emma Seligman, Writer/Director (Shiva Baby) and in Documentary where both Flee and Summer of Soul prevailed.
Here is the full list of nominees and winners.
BEST PICTURE
BEST DIRECTOR
BEST ACTOR
BEST ACTRESS
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
BEST ENSEMBLE
BREAKTHROUGH
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BEST DOCUMENTARY
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
BEST USE OF MUSIC/SOUND
The Detroit Film Critics Society members for the 2021-2022 season, in alphabetical order, are: Nate Adams – The Clinton Local, George Elkind – Metro Times, Between the Lines; Becky Fixel – Week99er; Michelle Kisner – spoilerfreemoviesleuth.com; Greg Russell – WDIV-TV Detroit and Movie Show Plus; Tom Santilli – WXYZ and Movie Show Plus; Perry Seibert – WLBY-The Lucy Ann Lance show; John Serba – Decider; MontiLee Stormer – moviereelist.com; Lee Thomas – Critic Lee Speaking and Fox 2; Mike Tyrkus – CinemaNerdz.com; Carl Wheeler – thereelgodfather.com.
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