‘The Power of the Dog’ leads San Francisco Film Critics nominations

The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) have revealed their 2021 film awards nominees and Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog leads the pack with nine nominations.

Next closest was Dune with six while Drive My Car and West Side Story tied with five apiece. Rounding out the Best Picture nominees, Licorice Pizza and The Green Knight both earned four nominations.

Up for Best Actor is Andrew Garfield for tick, tick…BOOM!, Benedict Cumberbatch for The Power of the Dog, Denzel Washington for The Tragedy of Macbeth, Hidetoshi Nishijima for Drive My Car, Nicolas Cage for Pig and Will Smith for King Richard. Best Actress nominees are Jessica Chastain for The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Kristen Stewart for Spencer, Olivia Colman for The Lost Daughter, Penélope Cruz for Parallel Mothers and Tessa Thompson for Passing.

Winners will be announced Monday, January 10, at 9am PT.

Best Picture

• Drive My Car
• The Green Knight
• Licorice Pizza
• The Power of the Dog
• West Side Story

Best Director

• Denis Villeneuve, Dune
• Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
• Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
• Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
• Steven Spielberg, West Side Story

Best Original Screenplay

• Being the Ricardos, Aaron Sorkin
• Belfast, Kenneth Branagh
• C’mon Cmon, Mike Mills
• Don’t Look Up, Adam McKay, David Sirota
• Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Drive My Car, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe
• Dune, Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth
• The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal
• Passing, Rebecca Hall
• The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion

Best Actor

• Andrew Garfield, tick, tick … Boom!
• Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
• Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth
• Hidetoshi Nishijima, Drive My Car
• Nicolas Cage, Pig
• Will Smith, King Richard

Best Actress

• Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• Kristen Stewart, Spencer
• Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
• Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
• Tessa Thomson, Passing

Best Supporting Actor

• Bradley Cooper, Licorice Pizza
• Cirián Hinds, Belfast
• J.K. Simmons, Being the Ricardos
• Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog
• Troy Kotsur, CODA

Best Supporting Actress

• Arianna DeBose, West Side Story
• Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
• Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
• Marlee Matlin, CODA
• Ruth Negga, Passing

Best Animated Feature

• Belle
• Encanto
• Flee
• Luca
• The Mitchells vs. The Machines

Best Foreign Language Film

• A Hero
• Drive My Car
• Flee
• Parallel Mothers
• The Worst Person in the World

Best Documentary Feature

• Flee
• Procession
• The Rescue
• Summer of Soul
• The Velvet Underground

Best Cinematography

• Dune, Greg Fraser
• The French Dispatch, Robert Yeoman
• The Green Knight, Andrew Droz Palermo
• Nightmare Alley, Dan Laustsen
• The Power of the Dog, Ari Wegner
• The Tragedy of Macbeth, Bruno Delbonnel
• West Side Story, Janusz Kaminski

Best Production Design

• Dune, Patrice Vermette
• The French Dispatch, Adam Stockhausen
• The Green Knight, Jade Healy
• Nightmare Alley, Tamara Deverell
• The Tragedy of Macbeth, Stefan Dechant

Best Film Editing

• Belfast, Úna Ní Dhonghaíle
• Dune, Joe Walker
• Licorice Pizza, Andy Jurgensen
• The Power of the Dog, Peter Sciberras
• West Side Story, Sarah Broshar, Michael Kahn

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

Special Citation for Independent Cinema

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