The Power of the Dog Declared Best Film by Philadelphia Film Critics Circle

Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog has been declared Best Film by the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle. The film also won Best Director and Best Screenplay for Campion, Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, Best Supporting Actor for Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Best Soundtrack. Full list of winners and runners-up below.

Best Film
The Power of the Dog
Runner-up: Nightmare Alley

Best Foreign Film
Titane
Runner-up: Flee

Best Documentary
Summer of Soul
Runner-up: Flee

Best Director
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Runner-up: Guillermo del Toro – Nightmare Alley

Best Actress
Kristen Stewart – Spencer
Runner-up: Agathe Rousselle – Titane

​Best Actor
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
Runner-up: Bradley Cooper – Nightmare Alley

Best Supporting Actress
Ruth Negga – Passing
​Runner-up: Ariana DeBose – West Side Story

​Best Supporting Actor
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog
Runner-up: Colman Domingo – Zola

Best Animated Film
Flee
Runner-up: Raya and the Last Dragon

Best Cinematography
Nightmare Alley
Runner-up: Dune

Best Breakthrough Performance
Agathe Rousselle – Titane
Runner-up: Ariana DeBose – West Side Story

Best Directorial Debut
Rebecca Hall – Passing
Runner-up: Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter

Best Screenplay
The Power of the Dog
Runners-up: The French Dispatch, The Last Duel, Zola

Best Soundtrack
The Power of the Dog
Runner-up: Summer of Soul

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.