The Power of the Dog Named Best Narrative Film by North Carolina Film Critics Association

Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog has been named Best Narrative Film by the North Carolina Film Critics Association. The film picked up six awards in total including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Campion, Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, and Best Supporting Actor for Kodi Smit-McPhee.

Winners in bold below.

Best Narrative Film

Drive My Car
Dune
The French Dispatch
The Green Knight
Licorice Pizza
Mass
Pig
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
The Worst Person in the World

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
David Lowery, The Green Knight
Steven Spielberg, West Side Story
Denis Villeneuve, Dune

Best Actor

Nicolas Cage, Pig
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield, tick, tick… BOOM!
Dev Patel, The Green Knight
Will Smith, King Richard

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World
Kristen Stewart, Spencer

Best Supporting Actor

Jason Isaacs, Mass
Woody Norman, C’mon C’mon
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog
Alex Wolff, Pig
Jeffrey Wright, The French Dispatch

Best Supporting Actress

Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Ann Dowd, Mass
Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
Ruth Negga, Passing

Best Vocal Performance in Animation or Mixed Media

Stephanie Beatriz, Encanto
Abbi Jacobson, The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Danny McBride, The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Kelly Marie Tran, Raya and the Last Dragon
Jacob Tremblay, Luca

Best Acting Ensemble

Dune
The French Dispatch
Licorice Pizza
Mass
The Power of the Dog

Best Original Screenplay

C’mon C’mon
The French Dispatch
Licorice Pizza
Mass
Pig

Best Adapted Screenplay

Drive My Car
Dune
The Green Knight
Passing
The Power of the Dog

Best Animated Film

Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon

Best Documentary Film

Flee
The Sparks Brothers
Summer of Soul
Val
The Velvet Underground

Best Foreign Language Film

Drive My Car
A Hero
Riders of Justice
Titane
The Worst Person in the World

Best Cinematography

Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story

Best Editing

Dune
The French Dispatch
The Last Duel
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Best Production Design

Dune
The French Dispatch
The Green Knight
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story

Best Costume Design

Cruella
Dune
Last Night in Soho
Nightmare Alley
Spencer

Best Hair & Make-Up

Cruella
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
Nightmare Alley

Best Score

Don’t Look Up
Dune
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
Spencer

Best Original Song

“Every Letter” from Cyrano
“Guns Go Bang” from The Harder They Fall
“Just Look Up” from Don’t Look Up
“No Time to Die” from No Time to Die
“So May We Start” from Annette

Best Sound Design

Dune
Nightmare Alley
No Time to Die
tick, tick… BOOM!
West Side Story

Best Special Effects

Dune
The Green Knight
The Matrix Resurrections
Spider-Man: No Way Home
The Suicide Squad

Best Stunt Coordination

Black Widow
The Matrix Resurrections
No Time to Die
Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home

Best Directorial Debut

Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Rebecca Hall, Passing
Fran Kranz, Mass
Lin-Manuel Miranda, tick, tick… BOOM!
Michael Sarnoski, Pig

Best Breakthrough Performance

Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
Cooper Hoffman, Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones, CODA
Woody Norman, C’mon C’mon
Rachel Zegler, West Side Story

Ken Hanke Memorial Tar Heel Award

Anthony Mackie (Falcon and the Winter Soldier; Synchronic; Outside the Wire; The Woman in the Window) – Studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story; Schmigadoon) – From Raleigh, North Carolina
Brian Tyree Henry (Eternals; The Woman in the Window; Godzilla vs. Kong) – From Fayetteville, North Carolina
Jonathan Majors (The Harder They Fall, Loki) – Studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Stephen McKinley Henderson (Dune; Bruised) – Studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts

Lifetime Achievement for Screenwriting

The Coen Brothers: Raising ArizonaBarton FinkFargoThe Big LebowskiO Brother, Where Are Thou?The Ballad of Buster Scruggs


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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.