2021 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Nominations

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 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 Thompson, 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 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 Animated Feature

Belle
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines


Best Documentary Feature

Flee
Procession
The Rescue
Summer of Soul
The Velvet Underground


Best Foreign Language Film

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


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

Kuessipan
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