Welcome to the Pandora International Film Critics awards for 2021. The36 members of the critics group have had to watch a lot of films to get where we are today. And now, with the arduous – yet exhilarating – preferential ranking system all calculated and finalised, we can reveal the winners in 23 categories.
The Palme d’Or winner, Titane, came away with top honours at the 2021 Pandora International Film Critics awards, with four wins. These included Breakthrough Agathe Rousselle and Directing for Julia Ducournau, as well as Editing and the big prize, International Motion Picture. Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog was pipped at the post with three awards, including English Language Motion Picture, and Fran Kranz won Screenwriting for Mass as one of its three wins.
Two other apparent heavy hitters were Drive My Car – Actor and Screenwriting – and Dune – Sound and Special Effects. Flee was a double winner also with the Documentary and Animated film awards. A couple of popular wins for Cruella too in the technical categories.
Sadly, even with 11 nominations going into the night’s awards, Spencer in the end came away with zero wins. That said, there was a fairly decent spread of winners coming away with a single win, with The Lost Daughter, The French Dispatch, The Worst Person In The World, Passing and No Time to Die.
Check out the full winners here:
ANNA KARINA AWARD FOR WORLD CINEMA ICON
Pedro Almodóvar
Continues to prove he is one of the most gifted screenwriters and filmmakers when presenting narratives from the female perspective.
ENSEMBLE CAST
CODA
Dune
The French Dispatch
The Harder They Fall
Mass
SONG COMPOSING
“Be Alive” (King Richard)
“Beyond the Shore” (CODA)
“Dos Oruguitas” (Encanto)
“No Time to Die” (No Time to Die)
“So May We Start” (Annette)
ACTING BREAKTHROUGH
Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza)
Emilia Jones (CODA)
Woody Norman (C’mon C’mon)
Agathe Rousselle (Titane)
Rachel Sennett (Shiva Baby)
Rachel Zegler (West Side Story)
EDITING
Dune
The Power of the Dog
Spencer
Titane
West Side Story
ACTOR LEAD
Nicolas Cage (Pig)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
Andrew Garfield (tick, tick… BOOM!)
Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Car)
Dev Patel (The Green Knight)
SOUND DESIGN
Dune
The Green Knight
No Time to Die
Spencer
tick, tick… BOOM!
West Side Story
FILMMAKING BREAKTHROUGH
Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter)
Rebecca Hall (Passing)
Fran Kranz (Mass)
Michael Sarnoski (Pig)
Emma Seligman (Shiva Baby)
SCORE COMPOSING
Alexandre Desplat (The French Dispatch)
Jonny Greenwood (The Power of the Dog)
Jonny Greenwood (Spencer)
Daniel Hart (The Green Knight)
Hans Zimmer (Dune)
ACTRESS LEAD
Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)
Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person In The World)
Kristen Stewart (Spencer)
Tessa Thompson (Passing)
SET DESIGN
Dune
The French Dispatch
Nightmare Alley
Spencer
West Side Story
DOCUMENTARY MOTION PICTURE
Flee
The Rescue
The Sparks Brothers
Summer of Soul
Val
COSTUME DESIGN
Cruella
Dune
The Green Knight
Spencer
West Side Story
ANIMATED MOTION PICTURE
Belle
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Dune
Godzilla vs. Kong
The Matrix Resurrections
No Time To Die
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
ENGLISH LANGUAGE MOTION PICTURE
Dune
The French Dispatch
The Green Knight
Mass
Pig
Passing
The Power of the Dog
Spencer
HAIR & MAKEUP
Cruella
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
The Green Knight
Spencer
ACTRESS SUPPORT
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
Ann Dowd (Mass)
Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)
Ruth Negga (Passing)
Martha Plimpton (Mass)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dune
The Green Knight
The Power of the Dog
Spencer
The Tragedy of Macbeth
ACTOR SUPPORT
Anders Danielsen Lie (The Worst Person in the World)
Colman Domingo (Zola)
Jason Isaacs (Mass)
Troy Kostur (CODA)
Vincent Lindon (Titane)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)
SCREENWRITING ADAPTED
Sian Heder (CODA)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe (Drive My Car)
Maggie Gyllenhaa (The Lost Daughter)
Rebecca Hall (Passing)
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
SCREENWRITING ORIGINAL
Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
Fran Kranz (Mass)
Pedro Almodóvar (Parallel Mothers)
Steven Knight (Spencer)
Julia Ducournau (Titane)
Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier (The Worst Person in the World)
DIRECTING
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
Julia Ducournau (Titane)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)
Pablo Larraín (Spencer)
Denis Villeneuve (Dune)
INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE
A Hero
Drive My Car
Flee
The Hand of God
Identifying Features
Lamb
Parallel Mothers
Petite Maman
Titane
The Worst Person in the World
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