‘The Power of the Dog’ dominates San Francisco Film Critics awards with 8 wins

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The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) have revealed their 2021 awards for film and Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog dominated the group’s wins with a stunning eight awards from its nine nominations, missing only best cinematography. The film won Best Picture, Director and Adapted Screenplay for Campion, Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, Supporting Actor for Kodi Smit-McPhee, Supporting Actress for Kirsten Dunst, Film Editing, and Original Score.

Olivia Colman was named Best Actress for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter, Best Cinematography went to The Tragedy of Macbeth and Nightmare Alley won Best Production Design. Encanto won Best Animated Feature with an honorable mention going to Flee.

The Marlon Riggs to Bay Area goes to a filmmaker(s) or individual(s) who represents courage and innovation in the world of cinema and this year the recipient was Berkeley resident Rita Moreno. She had a phenomenal year with her documentary Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It and returning to West Side Story in a new capacity. 

Here is the complete list of winners.

Best Picture: The Power of the Dog

Best Director: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog

Best Original Screenplay: C’mon Cmon, Mike Mills

Best Adapted Screenplay: The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion

Best Actor: Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog

Best Actress: Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter

Best Supporting Actor: Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog

Best Supporting Actress: Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog

Best Animated Feature: Encanto

Honorable Mention: Flee

Best International Feature Film: Drive My Car

Best Documentary Feature: Summer of Soul

Best Cinematography: The Tragedy of Macbeth, Bruno Delbonnel

Best Production Design: Nightmare Alley, Tamara Deverell

Best Film Editing: The Power of the Dog, Peter Sciberras

Best Original Score: The Power of the Dog, Jonny Greenwood

Special Citation for Independent Cinema (Tied)

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Marlon Riggs Award

(The Marlon Riggs to Bay Area goes to a filmmaker(s) or individual(s) who represents courage and innovation in the world of cinema)

Rita Moreno

Photo: Kirsty Griffin/Netflix

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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