2021 SLFCA AWARD WINNERS (and Runners-Up)

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”