The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle

The 2021 SFBAFCC Awards — Winners & Nominees

Best Picture

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

Best Director

• Denis Villeneuve — Dune
• Jane Campion — The Power of the Dog — WINNER
• 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 — WINNER
• 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 — WINNER
• 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 — WINNER
• Troy Kotsur — CODA

Best Supporting Actress

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

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 — WINNER

Best Original Screenplay

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

Best Cinematography

• Dune — Greig 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 — WINNER
• West Side Story — Janusz Kamiński

Best Production Design

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

Best Original Score

• Dune — Hans Zimmer
• The French Dispatch — Alexandre Desplat
• The Green Knight — Daniel Hart
• The Power of the Dog — Jonny Greenwood — WINNER
• Spencer — Jonny Greenwood

Best Editing

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

Best Animated Feature

• Belle
• Encanto — WINNER
• Flee (Honorable Mention)
• Luca
• The Mitchells vs. The Machines

Best International Feature Film

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

Best Documentary Feature

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