The members of the St Louis Film Critics Association, a professional association of working film critics, have voted and announced the winners of their 2021 annual Award for 2021. Here they are, along with the runners-up.
BEST FILM:
Licorice Pizza
Runner-Up: (tie) Belfast and The Power of the Dog
BEST DIRECTOR:
Jane Campion “The Power of the Dog”
Runner-Up: Kenneth Branagh “Belfast”
BEST ACTOR:
Nicolas Cage “Pig”
Runner-Up: Andrew Garfield “Tick, Tick…Boom!”
BEST ACTRESS:
Kristen Stewart “Spencer”
Runner-Up: (tie)
Jessica Chastain “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” and Olivia Colman “The Lost Daughter”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Kodi Smit-McPhee “The Power of the Dog”
Runner Up: Ciaran Hinds “Belfast”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Ann Dowd “Mass”
Runner-Up: Rita Moreno “West Side Story”
BEST ENSEMBLE:
“Mass”
Runner-Up: “The French Dispatch”
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Fran Kranz “Mass”
Runner-Up: Paul Thomas Anderson “Licorice Pizza”
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Jane Campion “The Power of the Dog”
Runner-Up: (tie)
Sian Heder “CODA, based on the French film “La Famille Belier” and
Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takasama Oe, based on the short story by Haruki Murakami “Drive My Car.”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Ari Wegner “The Power of the Dog”
Runner-Up: (tie)
Bruno Delbonnel “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and Janusz Kaminski “West Side Story”
BEST EDITING:
Paul Machliss “Last Night in Soho”
Runner-Up: (tie)
Úna Ní Dhonghaíle “Belfast” and Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn “West Side Story”
BEST MUSICAL SCORE:
Hans Zimmer “Dune”
Runner-Up: Jonny Greenwood “The Power of the Dog”
BEST MUSIC SOUNDTRACK:
“Cruella”
Runner-Up: “Licorice Pizza”
BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Jenny Beavan “Cruella”
Runner-Up: Jacqueline Durran “Spencer”
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Adam Stockhausen “The French Dispatch”
Runner-Up: Patrice Vermette “Dune”
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
“Dune”
Runner-Up: (tie) “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and “Finch”
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:
“The Mitchells vs. the Machines”
Runner-Up: “Encanto”
BEST ACTION FILM:
“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”
Runner-Up: “No Time to Die”
BEST COMEDY:
“Licorice Pizza”
Runner-Up: “Don’t Look Up”
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
“Flee”
Runner-Up: “Summer of Soul”
BEST HORROR FILM:
“A Quiet Place Part II”
Runner-Up: “Titane”
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:
“Drive My Car”
Runner-Up: “The Hand of God”
BEST SCENE:
Driving truck in reverse in “Licorice Pizza”
Runner-Up: Ellie and Sandi’s first dance with Jack in “Last Night in Soho”
