CODA Leads Detroit Film Critics Society Nominations

Sian Heder’s CODA leads the way at the Detroit Film Critics Society nominations with five nods including Best Picture. Reinaldo Marcus Green’s King Richard and Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up each earned four nominations. The winners will be announced on Monday, December 6, 2021.

Full list of nominations below.

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, Don’t Look Up

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


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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.