Licorice Pizza Declared Best Picture by Atlanta Film Critics Circle

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza has been declared Best Picture by the Atlanta Film Critics Circle. The film also picked up Best Actress for Alana Haim (who tied with Kristen Stewart for Spencer), Best Supporting Actor for Bradley Cooper, and Best Screenplay. Elsewhere, Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog took out Best Director, Best Lead Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, Best Supporting Actress for Kirsten Dunst, and Best Cinematography.

Full list of winners below.

Best Picture

Licorice Pizza

Top 10 Films

  1. Licorice Pizza
  2. The Power of the Dog
  3. The Green Knight
  4. Belfast
  5. tick, tick… BOOM!
  6. Drive My Car
  7. Titane
  8. West Side Story
  9. Flee
  10. Dune (tie)
    The Worst Person in the World (tie)

Best Director

Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog

Best Lead Actor

Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog

Best Lead Actress (tie)

Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza

Kristen Stewart – Spencer

Best Supporting Actor

Bradley Cooper – Licorice Pizza

Best Supporting Actress

Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog

Best Ensemble Cast (tie)

Licorice Pizza

Mass

Best Screenplay

Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza

Best Documentary

Flee

Best International Film

Drive My Car

Best Animated Film

The Mitchells vs. The Machines

Best Cinematography

Ari Wegner – The Power of the Dog

Best Score

Hans Zimmer – Dune

AFCC Special Award for Best First Feature Film

Lin-Manuel Miranda – tick, tick… BOOM!

AFCC Special Award for Best Breakthrough Performance

Agathe Rousselle – Titane

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.