2021 Greater Western New York Film Critics Nominees

Best Picture

C’mon C’mon
CODA
Dune
The Green Knight
Judas and the Black Messiah
The Last Duel
Licorice Pizza
Pig
The Power of the Dog
Spencer


Best Director

Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Pablo Larraín, Spencer
Ridley Scott, The Last Duel
Michael Sarnoski, Pig
Denis Villeneuve, Dune


Best Lead Actor

Nicolas Cage, Pig
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield, tick, tick … BOOM!
Joaquin Phoenix, C’mon C’mon
Will Smith, King Richard


Best Lead Actress

Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Jodie Comer, The Last Duel
Emilia Jones, CODA
Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World
Kristen Stewart, Spencer


Best Supporting Actor

Robin de Jesús, tick, tick … BOOM!
Mike Faist, West Side Story
Jason Isaacs, Mass
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Troy Kotsur, CODA


Best Supporting Actress

Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Ann Dowd, Mass
Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
Ruth Negga, Passing


Best Original Screenplay

Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Will Berson & Shaka King (story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenneth Lucas & Keith Lucas), Judas and the Black Messiah
Julia Ducournau, Titane
Fran Kranz, Mass
Mike Mills, C’mon C’mon


Best Adapted Screenplay

Ben Affleck, Matt Damon & Nicole Holofcener, The Last Duel
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Rebecca Hall, Passing
Tony Kushner, West Side Story


Best Animated Film

Belle
The Boss Baby: Family Business
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines


Best Documentary

Flee
No Ordinary Man
Procession
The Sparks Brothers
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)


Best Foreign Language Film

Drive My Car
Flee
Parallel Mothers
Titane
The Worst Person in the World


Best Cinematography

Bruno Delbonnel, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Andrew Droz Palermo, The Green Knight
Greig Fraser, Dune
Claire Mathon, Spencer
Ari Wegner, The Power of the Dog


Best Editing

Peter Sciberras, The Power of the Dog
Sebastián Sepúlveda, Spencer
Claire Simpson, The Last Duel
Joe Walker, Dune
Andrew Weisblum, The French Dispatch


Best Score

Carter Burwell, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Jonny Greenwood, The Power of the Dog
Jonny Greenwood, Spencer
Alberto Iglesias, Parallel Mothers
Hans Zimmer, Dune


Breakthrough Performance

Mike Faist, West Side Story
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones, CODA
Agathe Rousselle, Titane
Rachel Sennott, Shiva Baby


Breakthrough Director

Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Rebecca Hall, Passing
Fran Kranz, Mass
Michael Sarnoski, Pig
Emma Seligman, Shiva Baby