Belfast Named Best Film by Iowa Film Critics Association

Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast has been named Best Film by the Iowa Film Critics Association. The film also picked up a win for Caitriona Balfe for Best Supporting Actress. Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog scored three awards for Best Director for Campion, Best Supporting Actor for Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Best Score for Jonny Greenwood.

Full list of winners and runners-up below.

Film

“Belfast”
Runners up: “Dune” and “Power of the Dog”

Animated Film

“Encanto”
Runners up: “Flee” and “Raya and the Last Dragon”

Documentary

“Summer of Soul”
Runners up: “Flee” and “The Rescue”

Director

Jane Campion, “The Power of the Dog”
Runners up: Kenneth Branagh, “Belfast,” and Denis Villeneuve, “Dune”

Actor

Andrew Garfield, “Tick Tick … Boom”
Runners up: Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Power of the Dog,” and Will Smith, “King Richard”

Actress

Lady Gaga, “House of Gucci”
Runners up: Olivia Colman, “The Lost Daughter,” and Kristen Stewart, “Spencer”

Supporting Actor 

Kodi Smit-McPhee, “The Power of the Dog”
Runners up: Jamie Dornan, “Belfast,” and Ciaran Hinds, “Belfast”

Supporting Actress

Caitriona Balfe, “Belfast”
Runners up: Ariana DeBose, “West Side Story,” and Kirsten Dunst, “The Power of the Dog”

Song

“Guns Go Bang,” “The Harder They Fall”
Runners up: “Down to Joy,” “Belfast,” and “No Time to Die,” “No Time to Die”

Score

Jonny Greenwood, “The Power of the Dog”
Runners up: Alexandre Desplat, “The French Dispatch,” and Hans Zimmer, “Dune”


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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.