The Power of the Dog Leads Greater Western New York Film Critics Association Nominations

Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog leads this year’s nominations from the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association with seven nods including Best Picture. Pablo Larraín’s Spencer earned six nominations, while Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune tied with five nominations each.

Full list of nominations below. Winners will be announced on December 31.

BEST PICTURE:
C’mon C’mon
CODA
Dune
The Green Knight
Judas and the Black Messiah
The Last Duel
Licorice Pizza
Pig
The Power of the Dog
Spencer

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
Drive My Car (Japan)
Flee (Denmark)
Parallel Mothers (Spain)
Titane (France)
The Worst Person in the World (Norway)

BEST ANIMATED FILM:
Belle
The Boss Baby: Family Business
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs the Machines

BEST DOCUMENTARY:
Flee
No Ordinary Man
Procession
The Sparks Brothers
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

BEST DIRECTOR:
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Pablo Larraín, Spencer
Ridley Scott, The Last Duel
Michael Sarnoski, Pig
Denis Villeneuve, Dune

LEAD ACTOR:
Nicolas Cage, Pig
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield, tick, tick … BOOM!
Joaquin Phoenix, C’mon C’mon
Will Smith, King Richard

LEAD ACTRESS:
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Jodie Comer, The Last Duel
Emilia Jones, CODA
Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World
Kristen Stewart, Spencer

SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Robin de Jesús, tick, tick … BOOM!
Mike Faist, West Side Story
Jason Isaacs, Mass
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Troy Kotsur, CODA

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ariana Debose, West Side Story
Ann Dowd, Mass
Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
Ruth Negga, Passing

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Will Berson & Shaka King (story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenneth Lucas & Keith Lucas), Judas and the Black Messiah
Julia Ducournau, Titane
Fran Kranz, Mass
Mike Mills, C’mon C’mon

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Ben Affleck, Matt Damon & Nicole Holofcener, The Last Duel
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Rebecca Hall, Passing
Tony Kushner, West Side Story

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Bruno Delbonnel, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Andrew Droz Palermo, The Green Knight
Greig Fraser, Dune
Claire Mathon, Spencer
Ari Wegner, The Power of the Dog

BEST EDITING:
Peter Sciberras, The Power of the Dog
Sebastián Sepúlveda, Spencer
Claire Simpson, The Last Duel
Joe Walker, Dune
Andrew Weisblum, The French Dispatch

BEST SCORE:
Carter Burwell, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Jonny Greenwood, The Power of the Dog
Jonny Greenwood, Spencer
Alberto Iglesias, Parallel Mothers
Hans Zimmer, Dune

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE:
Mike Faist, West Side Story
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones, CODA
Agathe Rousselle, Titane
Rachel Sennott, Shiva Baby

BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR:
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Rebecca Hall, Passing
Fran Kranz, Mass
Michael Sarnoski, Pig
Emma Seligman, Shiva Baby

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.