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Posted December 7, 2021 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Detroit Film Critics Name “Cyrano” Best Picture

The Detroit Film Critics Society (DFCS) is pleased to announce the best of 2021 nominees and winners in thirteen categories. The DFCS was founded in Spring 2007 and currently consists of a group of twelve film critics from Michigan who write or broadcast in the metro-Detroit area.

Cyrano posterEach critic submitted their top five picks in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, Best Breakthrough (in any category), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay, Best Documentary, Best Animated Feature, and Best Use of Music/Sound. From these submissions, each entry was given a point value and the top five in each category have been placed on the final ballot.

Cyrano had a total of four nominations and two wins in the categories of Best Picture and Best Actor for Peter Dinklage. King Richard also received four nominations and finished with one win for Jon Bernthal as Best Supporting Actor. Tick, tick…BOOM! garnered four nominations as well earning one win for director Lin-Manuel Miranda. Jessica Chastain took the Best Actress award for her transforming performance in The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Two categories ended in a tie as Flee and Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) tied for Best Documentary while Best Breakthrough went to both Woody Norman, for his performance in C’mon C’mon as well as Emma Seligman, for her efforts as the writer and director of Shiva Baby. The full list of results can be found below.

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The Best of 2021
as picked by the Detroit Film Critics Society
(nominees are listed in alphabetical order)

BEST PICTURE

  • Winner: Cyrano
  • Belfast
  • CODA
  • Don’t Look Up
  • King Richard

BEST DIRECTOR

  • Winner: Lin-Manuel Miranda, tick, tick…BOOM!
  • Sean Baker, Red Rocket
  • Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
  • David Lowery, The Green Knight
  • Adam McKay, Don’t Look Up

BEST ACTOR

  • Winner: Peter Dinklage, Cyrano
  • Nicolas Cage, Pig
  • Andrew Garfield, tick, tick…BOOM!
  • Oscar Isaac, The Card Counter
  • Will Smith, King Richard

BEST ACTRESS

  • Winner: Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
  • Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
  • Jennifer Hudson, Respect
  • Nicole Kidman, Being the Ricardos
  • Kristen Stewart, Spencer

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  • Winner: Jon Bernthal, King Richard
  • Troy Kotsur, CODA
  • Jared Leto, House of Gucci
  • Ray Liotta, The Many Saints of Newark
  • Kodi Smith-McPhee, The Power of the Dog

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  • Winner: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
  • Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
  • Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
  • Rita Moreno, West Side Story
  • Diana Rigg, Last Night in Soho

BEST ENSEMBLE

  • Winner: The French Dispatch
  • CODA
  • Don’t Look Up
  • The Harder They Fall
  • House of Gucci

BEST BREAKTHROUGH

  • Winners: Woody Norman, Actor (C’mon C’mon) / Emma Seligman, Writer/Director (Shiva Baby)
  • Alana Haim, Actress (Licorice Pizza)
  • Emilia Jones, Actress (CODA)
  • Agathe Rouselle, Actress (Titane)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  • Winner: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
  • Sian Heder, CODA
  • Quira Alegría Hudes, In the Heights
  • Steven Levenson, tick, tick…BOOM!
  • David Lowery, The Green Knight

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  • Winner: Adam McKay, Don’t Look Up
  • Pedro Almodóvar, Parallel Mothers
  • Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
  • Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch
  • Jeymes Samuel, Boaz Yakin, The Harder They Fall

BEST DOCUMENTARY

  • Winners: Flee / Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
  • Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
  • The Sparks Brothers
  • Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

  • Winner: The Mitchells vs. the Machines
  • Belle
  • Cryptozoo
  • Encanto
  • Flee
  • Luca

BEST USE OF MUSIC/SOUND

  • Winner: Last Night in Soho
  • Cyrano
  • In the Heights
  • tick, tick…BOOM!
  • West Side Story

About the DFCS: The Detroit Film Critics Society members for the 2021-2022 season, in alphabetical order, are: Nate Adams – The Clinton Local, George Elkind – Metro Times, Between the Lines; Becky Fixel – Week99er; Michelle Kisner – spoilerfreemoviesleuth.com; Greg Russell – WDIV-TV Detroit and Movie Show Plus; Tom Santilli – WXYZ and Movie Show Plus; Perry Seibert – WLBY-The Lucy Ann Lance show; John Serba – Decider; MontiLee Stormer – moviereelist.com; Lee Thomas – Critic Lee Speaking and Fox 2; Mike Tyrkus – CinemaNerdz.com;  Carl Wheeler – thereelgodfather.com.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Ruth Daniels at (248) 910-8796 or ruthfdaniels@gmail.com

More information is available on the website at detroitfilmcritics.com

Mike Tyrkus

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.