Utah Film Critics Association (UFCA) winners: ‘The Power of the Dog’ leads with four, ‘CODA’ wins two
The Power of the Dog has topped the Utah Film Critics Association’s best of 2021 list with wins for Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor and Score.
CODA, which was the runner-up for Best Picture, won Best Actress for Emilia Jones and Best Adapted Screenplay for director Siân Heder. Troy Kotsur was also the supporting actor runner-up.
Flee was a double winner in Best Non-English Language Film and Best Animated Feature as well as the runner-up for Best Documentary Feature.
Here is the complete list of winners and runners-up.
Best Picture: THE POWER OF THE DOG. Runner-up: CODA
Achievement in Directing: Jane Campion, THE POWER OF THE DOG
Runner-up: Steven Spielberg, WEST SIDE STORY
Lead Performance, Male: Nicolas Cage, PIG
Runner-up: Andrew Garfield, tick, tick … BOOM!
Lead Performance, Female: Emilia Jones, CODA
Runner-up: Olivia Colman, THE LOST DAUGHTER
Supporting Performance, Male: Kodi Smit-McPhee, THE POWER OF THE DOG
Runner-up: Troy Kotsur, CODA
Supporting Performance, Female: Ann Dowd, MASS
Runner-up: Ariana DeBose, WEST SIDE STORY
Best Adapted Screenplay: Siân Heder, CODA
Runner-up: Maggie Gyllenhaal, THE LOST DAUGHTER
Best Original Screenplay: Michael Rianda & Jeff Rowe, THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES
Runner-up: Fran Kranz, MASS
Best Cinematography: Andrew Droz Palermo, THE GREEN KNIGHT
Runner-up: Bruno Delbonnel, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
Best Score: Jonny Greenwood, THE POWER OF THE DOG
Runner-up: Bo Burnham, BO BURNHAM: INSIDE
Best Non-English Language Feature: FLEE
Runner-up: A HERO
Best Animated Feature: FLEE
Runner-up: THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES
Best Documentary Feature: THE FIRST WAVE
Runner-up: FLEE
Vice/Martin Award for Performance in a Fantasy, Horror or Science-Fiction Film: Tony Leung, SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS
Runner-up: Dev Patel, THE GREEN KNIGHT
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