Licorice Pizza Declared Best Picture by Oklahoma Film Critics Circle

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza has been declared Best Picture by the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. Anderson also picked up Best Original Screenplay while Alana Haim took out Best Actress. Elsewhere, Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog collected five awards for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Campion, Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, Best Supporting Actor for Kodi Smit-McPhee, Best Supporting Actress for Kirsten Dunst, and Best Score for Jonny Greenwood.

Full list of winners and runners-up below.

Best Picture
Licorice Pizza

Top 10 Films
1. Licorice Pizza
2. The Power of the Dog
3. West Side Story
4. The Green Knight
5. Summer of Soul
6. The French Dispatch
7. Tick, Tick…Boom!
8. C’mon C’mon
9. Dune
10. Nightmare Alley / Pig / Red Rocket (TIE)

Best Director
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Runner-Up: Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza

Best Actress
Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza
​Runner-Up: Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Best Actor
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
​Runner-Up: Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick…Boom!

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog
​Runner-Up: Ariana DeBose – West Side Story

Best Supporting Actor
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog
Runner-Up: Ciaran Hinds – Belfast

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion
​Runner-Up: Dune – Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve & Eric Roth

Best Original Screenplay
Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson
​Runner-Up: The French Dispatch – Wes Anderson

Best Animated Film
The Mitchells vs the Machines
​Runner-Up: Encanto

Best Documentary
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
​Runner-Up: The First Wave

Best Foreign Language Film
Drive My Car (Japan)
​Runner-Up: The Worst Person in the World (Norway)

Best First Feature
The Lost Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal
​Runner-Up: Tick, Tick…Boom! – Lin-Manuel Miranda

Best Ensemble
The French Dispatch
​Runners-Up: Licorice Pizza & The Power of the Dog (TIE)

Best Cinematography
Dune – Greig Fraser
​Runner-Up: The Power of the Dog – Ari Wegner

Best Score
The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood
​Runner-Up: Dune – Hans Zimmer

Best Body of Work
Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Tick, Tick…Boom!,” “Encanto,” “In the Heights” & “Vivo”)
​Runner-Up: Andrew Garfield (“Tick, Tick…Boom!,” “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” & “Spider-Man: No Way Home”)

Most Disappointing Film
Don’t Look Up
​Runners-Up: Halloween Kills & Spencer (TIE)


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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.