The Power of the Dog Declared Best Picture by Kansas City Film Critics Circle

Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog has been declared Best Film by the Kansas City Film Critics Circle. The film also picked up Best Director for Campion and Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch. Olivia Colman took out Best Actress for The Lost Daughter, Ciarán Hinds was named Best Supporting Actor for Belfast, and Ann Dowd scored Best Supporting Actress for Mass.

Winners in bold below.

Best Film 

  • Belfast 
  • Cyrano 
  • Dune 
  • The Green Knight 
  • Licorice Pizza 
  • Pig 
  • The Power of the Dog 
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home 
  • The Tragedy Of Macbeth 
  • West Side Story (runner-up)

Best Director 

  • Kenneth Branagh – Belfast 
  • Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog 
  • Joel Coen – The Tragedy of Macbeth 
  • Steven Spielberg – West Side Story (runner-up)
  • Denis Villeneuve – Dune 

Best Actor 

  • Nicolas Cage – Pig 
  • Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog 
  • Peter Dinklage – Cyrano 
  • Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick…Boom! (runner-up)
  • Will Smith – King Richard 

Best Actress 

  • Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter 
  • Lady Gaga – House of Gucci 
  • Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza 
  • Frances McDormand – The Tragedy of Macbeth 
  • Kirsten Stewart – Spencer (runner-up)

Best Supporting Actor 

  • Bradley Cooper – Licorice Pizza 
  • Mike Faist – West Side Story 
  • Ciaran Hinds – Belfast 
  • Troy Kotsur – Coda 
  • Kodi Smit-Mcphee – The Power of the Dog (runner-up)

Best Supporting Actress (There Was A Tie For Fifth In This Category) 

  • Ariana Debose – West Side Story (runner-up)
  • Ann Dowd – Mass 
  • Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog 
  • Gabby Hoffmann – C’mon, C’mon 
  • Regina King – The Harder They Fall 
  • Ruth Negga – Passing 

Best Original Screenplay (There Was A Tie For Fifth In This Category) 

  • Being The Ricardos 
  • Belfast 
  • C’mon C’mon 
  • The French Dispatch (runner-up)
  • Licorice Pizza 
  • Mass 

Best Adapted Screenplay (There Was A Tie For Fifth In This Category) 

  • Drive My Car (runner-up)
  • Dune 
  • The Green Knight 
  • The Power of the Dog 
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth 
  • West Side Story 

Best Cinematography 

  • Belfast 
  • Dune (runner-up)
  • The Power Of The Dog 
  • The Tragedy Of Macbeth 
  • West Side Story 

Best Animated Feature 

  • Encanto 
  • Flee (runner-up)
  • Luca 
  • The Mitchells Vs the Machines 
  • Raya and the Last Dragon 

Best Foreign Film 

  • Drive My Car 
  • Flee 
  • The Hand of God 
  • Petite Maman 
  • The Worst Person In The World (runner-up)

Best Documentary (There Was A Tie For Fifth In This Category) 

  • A Cop Movie 
  • Flee 
  • Procession (runner-up)
  • The Rescue 
  • The Sparks Brothers 
  • Summer of Soul 

Vince Kohler Award for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Film

  • Dune (runner-up)
  • The Green Knight 
  • Malignant 
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home 
  • Werewolves Within 

Tom Poe Award for Best LGBT Film

  • Benedetta 
  • Flee 
  • Passing 
  • Parallel Mothers 
  • The Power of the Dog (runner-up)

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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.