The Power of the Dog Declared Best Picture by San Diego Film Critics Society

Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog has been declared Best Picture by the San Diego Film Critics Society. Campion also picked up wins for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Elsewhere, Caitríona Balfe scored her first win of the season for Belfast in a tie with Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers) for Best Actress. It’s a curious decision, given Balfe is being campaigned in the supporting category.

Winners in bold below.

Best Picture

BELFAST (runner-up)
CODA
DUNE
MASS
THE POWER OF THE DOG

Best Director

Kenneth Branagh, BELFAST (runner-up)
Jane Campion, THE POWER OF THE DOG
Guillermo del Toro, NIGHTMARE ALLEY
Maggie Gyllenhaal, THE LOST DAUGHTER
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)
Jude Hill, BELFAST

Best Actress

Caitríona Balfe, BELFAST (tie)
Olivia Colman, THE LOST DAUGHTER
Penelope Cruz, PARALLEL MOTHERS (tie)
Emilia Jones, CODA
Kristen Stewart, SPENCER

Best Supporting Actor

Ben Affleck, THE TENDER BAR (runner-up)
Ciarán Hinds, BELFAST
Jason Isaacs, MASS
Troy Kotsur, CODA
Kodi Smit-McPhee, THE POWER OF THE DOG

Best Supporting Actress

Cate Blanchett, NIGHTMARE ALLEY
Arian DeBose, WEST SIDE STORY (runner-up)
Ann Dowd, MASS
Ruth Negga, PASSING
Martha Plimpton, MASS

Best Comedic Performance

Bradley Cooper, LICORICE PIZZA
Leonardo DiCaprio, DON’T LOOK UP
Jamie Dornan, BARB AND STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR
David Harbour, BLACK WIDOW (runner-up)
Simon Rex, RED ROCKET

Best Youth Performance (Performers under the age of 16)

Mckenna Grace, GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE (runner-up)
Jude Hill, BELFAST
Daniel Ranieri, THE TENDER BAR
Saniyya Sidney, KING RICHARD (runner-up)
Demi Singleton, KING RICHARD

Best Original Screenplay

Pedro Almodovar, PARALLEL MOTHERS
Kenneth Branagh, BELFAST (runner-up)
Fran Kranz, MASS
Adam McKay, DON’T LOOK UP (runner-up)
Michael Sarnoski, PIG

Best Adapted Screenplay

Jane Campion, THE POWER OF THE DOG
Joel Coen, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
Guillermo del Toro, Kim Morgan, NIGHTMARE ALLEY (runner-up)
Rebecca Hall, PASSING
Sian Heder, CODA

Best Documentary

FLEE (runner-up)
MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY
SUMMER OF SOUL
VAL
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

Best Animated Film

ENCANTO
FLEE (runner-up)
LUCA
THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES
RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON

Best Foreign Language Film

DRIVE MY CAR
I’M YOUR MAN (runner-up)
LAMB
PARALLEL MOTHERS
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

Best Editing

Úna Ní Dhonghalle, BELFAST (runner-up)
Paula Huidobro, CODA
Myron Kerstein, IN THE HEIGHTS
Joshua L. Pearson, SUMMER OF SOUL
Joe Walker, DUNE

Best Cinematography

Alice Brooks, IN THE HEIGHTS
Bruno Delbonnel, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (runner-up)
Greig Fraser, DUNE
Dan Laustsen, NIGHTMARE ALLEY
Ari Wegner, THE POWER OF THE DOG

Best Production Design

Jim Clay, BELFAST
Tamara Deverell, NIGHTMARE ALLEY
Grant Major, THE POWER OF THE DOG
Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo, THE FRENCH DISPATCH (runner-up)
Patrice Vermette, Richard Roberts, Zsuzsanna Sipos, DUNE

Best Visual Effects

DUNE
THE GREEN KNIGHT
NIGHTMARE ALLEY
SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS
SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME

Best Costumes

Jenny Beavan, CRUELLA
Odile Dicks-Mireaux, LAST NIGHT IN SOHO
Antionette Messam, THE HARDER THEY FALL (runner-up)
Jacqueline West, Bob Morgan, DUNE
Janty Yates, HOUSE OF GUCCI

Best Sound Design

Malte Bieler, Brandon Jones, A QUIET PLACE PART II (runner-up)
Simon Chase, James Mather, BELFAST (runner-up)
Theo Green, Dave Whitehead, DUNE
Nathan Robitaille, NIGHTMARE ALLEY
Dave Whitehead, THE POWER OF THE DOG (runner-up)

Best Use of Music

BELFAST
CRUELLA
IN THE HEIGHTS
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO
WEST SIDE STORY

Breakthrough Artist

Alana Haim, LICORICE PIZZA
Jude Hill, BELFAST (runner-up)
Emilia Jones, CODA
Fran Kranz, MASS
Anthony Ramos, IN THE HEIGHTS

Best Ensemble

DON’T LOOK UP
DUNE
THE HARDER THEY FALL
IN THE HEIGHTS
MASS

Body of Work

Jonny Greenwood, Composer (LICORICE PIZZA, THE POWER OF THE DOG, SPENCER)


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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.