CODA Named Best Picture by Hollywood Critics Association

CODA has been named Best Picture by the Hollywood Critics Association at the 5th Annual HCA Film Awards. The film also picked up wins for Best Supporting Actor for Troy Kotsur, Best Indie Film, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Siân Heder.

Elsewhere, Kristen Stewart (Spencer) and Andrew Garfield (tick, tick… BOOM!) collected Best Actress and Actor, respectively, while Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) continued her run of success with another win for Best Supporting Actress. tick, tick… BOOM! was named Best Comedy or Musical, while Lin-Manuel Miranda was awarded Best First Feature.

In previously announced awards, Nicolas Cage was the recipient of this year’s Acting Achievement Award, Guillermo del Toro was presented the Filmmaking Achievement Award, Kenneth Branagh received the Excellence in Artistry Award, Aunjanue Ellis was bestowed the Inspire Award, Simu Liu was presented the Gamechanger Award, Natalie Morales received the Filmmaker on the Rise Award, cinematographers Greig Fraser and Alice Brooks were honoured with the Artisans Achievement and the Artisan on the Rise Award, respectively, King Richard‘s Saniyya Sidney was awarded the Star on the Rise Award, Belfast‘s Jude Hill was presented the Newcomer Award, and Javier Bardem received the inaugural International Icon Award.

Winners in bold below.

BEST PICTURE

Being the Ricardos

Belfast

CODA

Dune

King Richard

Last Night in Soho

Licorice Pizza

Spencer

The Power of The Dog

tick, tick …Boom!

BEST ACTOR

Andrew Garfield, tick, tick …BOOM!

Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of The Dog

Nicolas Cage, Pig

Peter Dinklage, Cyrano

Will Smith, King Richard

BEST ACTRESS

Emilia Jones, CODA

Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Kristen Stewart, Spencer

Lady Gaga, House of Gucci

Nicole Kidman, Being the Ricardos

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Ciarán Hinds, Belfast

Jamie Dornan, Belfast

Jason Isaacs, Mass

Robin de Jesús, tick, tick …BOOM!

Troy Kotsur, CODA

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Ariana DeBose, West Side Story

Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard

Caitriona Balfe, Belfast

Marlee Matlin, CODA

Ruth Negga, Passing

BEST CAST ENSEMBLE

Belfast

CODA

Don’t Look Up

King Richard

The Harder They Fall

BEST DIRECTOR

Denis Villeneuve, Dune (tie)

Guillermo del Toro, Nightmare Alley

Jane Campion, The Power of The Dog (tie)

Kenneth Branagh, Belfast

Lin-Manuel Miranda, tick, tick…BOOM!

Pablo Larraín, Spencer

Rebecca Hall, Passing

Reinaldo Marcus Green, King Richard

Siân Heder, CODA

Steven Spielberg, West Side Story

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Aaron Sorkin, Being the Ricardos

Edgar Wright and Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Last Night in Soho

Fran Kranz, Mass

Kenneth Branagh, Belfast

Zach Baylin, King Richard

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Jane Campion, The Power of The Dog

Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter

Rebecca Hall, Passing

Siân Heder, CODA

Steven Levenson, tick, tick …BOOM!

BEST ANIMATED OR VSX PERFORMANCE

Abbi Jacobson, The Mitchells vs. The Machines

Sylvester Stallone, The Suicide Squad

Stephanie Beatriz, Encanto

Jacob Tremblay, Luca

John Leguizamo, Encanto

BEST ACTION FILM

No Time to Die

Nobody

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

The Harder They Fall

The Suicide Squad

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Encanto

Flee

Luca

The Mitchells vs. The Machines

Raya and The Last Dragon

BEST COMEDY OR MUSICAL

Cyrano

Free Guy

In the Heights

tick, tick…BOOM!

West Side Story

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Flee

Summer of Soul

The Rescue

The Sparks Brothers

Val

BEST HORROR

A Quiet Place Part II

Fear Street Trilogy

Last Night in Soho

Malignant

The Night House

BEST INDIE FILM

CODA

Mass

Pig

Shiva Baby

Spencer

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

A Hero

Drive My Car

Flee

Titane

The Worst Person in the World

BEST FIRST FEATURE

Rebecca Hall, Passing

Lin-Manuel Miranda, tick, tick…BOOM!

Fran Kranz, Mass

Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter

Michael Sarnoski, Pig

BEST SHORT FILM

Blush

Far From The Tree

Nona

Robin Robin

Us Again

BEST SCORE

Alexandre Desplat, The French Dispatch

Hans Zimmer, Dune

Jonny Greenwood, Spencer

Jonny Greenwood, The Power of The Dog

Steven Price, Last Night in Soho

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Be Alive” sung by Beyonce from King Richard

“No Time to Die” sung by Billie Eilish from No Time to Die

“Beyond the Shore” sung by Emilia Jones from CODA

“Down to Joy” sung by Van Morrison from Belfast

“Every Letter” sung by Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. from Cyrano

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Andrew Droz Palermo, The Green Knight

Ari Wegner, The Power of The Dog

Claire Mathon, Spencer

Greig Fraser, Dune

Janusz Kamiński, West Side Story

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Adam Stockhausen, The French Dispatch

Guy Hendrix Dyas, Spencer

Marcus Rowland, Last Night in Soho

Patrice Vermette, Dune

Tamara Deverell, Nightmare Alley

BEST FILM EDITING

Andrew Weisblum and Myron I. Kerstein, tick, tick …BOOM!

Joe Walker, Dune

Pamela Martin, King Richard

Paul Machliss, Last Night in Soho

Úna Ní Dhonghaíle, Belfast

BEST STUNTS

Black Widow

Dune

No Time to Die

Nobody

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Bob Morgan and Jacqueline West, Dune

Jacqueline Durran, Spencer

Janty Yates, House of Gucci

Jenny Beavan, Cruella

Odile Dicks-Mireaux, Last Night in Soho

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP

Ana Lozano, David Craig Forrest, Kim Santantonio, Kyra Panchenko, Michael Ornelaz, Teressa Hill, Yvonne DePatis Kupka, Being the Ricardos

Carolyn Cousins and Nadia Stacey, Cruella

Donald Mowat, Eva Von Bahr, and Love Larson, Dune

Frederic Aspiras, Jana Carboni, Giuliano Mariano, Göran Lundström, & Sarah Nicole Tanno, House of Gucci

Justin Raleigh, Linda Dowds, and Stephanie Ingram, The Eyes of Tammy Faye

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Brian Connor, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert, and Tristan Myles, Dune

Daniele Bigi, Matt Aitken, Neil Corbould, and Stephane Ceretti, Eternals

Bryan Grill, Dan Sudick, Nikos Kalaitzidis, and Swen Gillberg, Free Guy

Christopher Townsend, Dan Oliver, Joe Farrell, and Sean Walker, Shang Chi And The Legend of Ten Rings

Dan Sudick, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, and Kelvin McIlwain, The Suicide Squad


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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.