The Detroit Film Critics Society is pleased to announce the Best of 2021 nominees in thirteen categories. The winners will be announced on Monday, December 6, 2021. The Detroit Film Critics Society was founded in the Spring of 2007 and consists of a group of 12 film critics who write or broadcast in the metro-Detroit area.
To determine this year’s nominees, each critic submitted their top five (5) picks in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, and Breakthrough in any category, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay, Best Documentary, Best Animated Feature, and the Best Use of Music/Sound. From these submissions, each entry was assigned a point value and the top five entries in each category have been placed on the final ballot (below).
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The Nominations for 2021
as picked by the Detroit Film Critics Society
(in alphabetical order)
BEST PICTURE
- Belfast
- CODA
- Cyrano
- Don’t Look Up
- King Richard
BEST DIRECTOR
- Sean Baker, Red Rocket
- Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
- David Lowery, The Green Knight
- Adam McKay, The Trial of the Chicago 7
- Lin-Manuel Miranda, tick, tick…BOOM!
BEST ACTOR
- Nicolas Cage, Pig
- Peter Dinklage, Cyrano
- Andrew Garfield, tick, tick…BOOM!
- Oscar Isaac, The Card Counter
- Will Smith, King Richard
BEST ACTRESS
- 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
- 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
- Ariana Dabose, 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
- CODA
- Don’t Look Up
- The French Dispatch
- The Harder They Fall
- House of Gucci
BREAKTHROUGH
- Alana Haim, Actress (Licorice Pizza)
- Emilia Jones, Actress (CODA)
- Woody Norman, Actor (C’Mon C’Mon)
- Agathe Rouselle, Actress (Titane)
- Emma Seligman, Writer/Director (Shiva Baby)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
- Sian Heder, CODA
- Quira Alegria Hudes, In the Heights
- Steven Levenson, tick, tick…BOOM!
- David Lowery, The Green Knight
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- Pedo Almodóvar, Parallel Mothers
- Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
- Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch
- Adam McKay, Don’t Look Up
- Jeymes Samuel, Boaz Yakin, The Harder They Fall
BEST DOCUMENTARY
- Flee
- Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
- The Sparks Brothers
- Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
- Summer of Soul
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
- Belle
- Cryptozoo
- Encanto
- Flee
- Luca
- The Mitchells vs. the Machines
BEST USE OF MUSIC/SOUND
- Cyrano
- In the Heights
- Last Night in Soho
- 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