Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog has claimed Best Motion Picture at The 3rd Annual DiscussingFilm Critic Awards. Campion also claimed the prize for Best Adapted Screenplay. Elsewhere, Julia Ducournau’s Titane was named Best International Film, while Ducournau scored Best Director, Agathe Rousselle won Best Debut Performance, and Vincent Lindon took home Best Supporting Actor. Fran Kranz’s Mass scored four awards for Best Independent Film, Best Original Screenplay and Best Debut Feature Film for Kranz, and Best Film Ensemble.
Now in its third year, the DiscussingFilm Critic Awards celebrates the most noteworthy films of the year as voted by a diverse range of highly established film critics, awards pundits, and influential voices from around the globe, including journalists from notable outlets such as The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Empire, The Wrap, Little White Lies, The Independent, and more.
Full list of winners and runners-up below.
BEST MOTION PICTURE
C’mon C’mon
Dune (RUNNER UP)
The Green Knight
Mass
Petite Maman
The Power of the Dog (WINNER)
Spencer
Tick, Tick… Boom!
Titane
West Side Story
BEST DIRECTOR
Denis Villeneuve, Dune
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog (RUNNER UP)
Pablo Larraín, Spencer
Julia Ducournau, Titane (WINNER)
Steven Spielberg, West Side Story
BEST ACTOR
Joaquin Phoenix, C’mon, C’mon
Will Smith, King Richard
Nicolas Cage, Pig
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog (RUNNER UP)
Andrew Garfield, Tick, Tick…BOOM! (WINNER)
BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Kristen Stewart, Spencer (WINNER)
Agathe Rousselle, Titane (RUNNER UP)
Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Troy Kotsur, CODA
Jason Isaacs, Mass
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog (RUNNER UP)
Robin de Jesus, Tick, Tick… BOOM!
Vincent Lindon, Titane (WINNER)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Aunjanue Ellis Ellis, King Richard
Ann Dowd, Mass (RUNNER UP)
Ruth Negga, Passing
Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story (WINNER)
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Drive My Car (RUNNER UP)
Flee
Petite Maman
Titane (WINNER)
The Worst Person in the World
BEST FILM ENSEMBLE
The French Dispatch
The Harder They Fall (RUNNER UP)
Mass (WINNER)
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Mike Mills, C’mon C’mon
Zach Baylin, King Richard
Fran Kranz, Mass (WINNER)
Steven Knight, Spencer
Julia Ducournau, Titane (RUNNER UP)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Sian Heder, CODA
Jon Spaihts & Denis Villeneuve & Eric Roth, Dune (RUNNER UP)
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Rebecca Hall, Passing
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog (WINNER)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Greig Fraser, Dune
Andrew Doz Palermo, The Green Knight
Ari Wegner, The Power of the Dog
Claire Mathon, Spencer (WINNER)
Bruno Delbonnel, The Tragedy of Macbeth (RUNNER UP)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Hans Zimmer, Dune (WINNER)
Alexandre Desplat, The French Dispatch
Daniel Hart, The Green Knight
Jonny Greenwood, The Power of the Dog
Jonny Greenwood, Spencer (RUNNER UP)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Jenny Beavan, Cruella (WINNER)
Jacqueline West, Bob Morgan, Dune
Milena Canonero, The French Dispatch
Odile Dicks-Mireaux, Last Night in Soho
Jacqueline Durran, Spencer (RUNNER UP)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Patrice Vermette, Dune (RUNNER UP)
Adam Stockhausen, The French Dispatch
Tamara Deverell, Nightmare Alley (WINNER)
Guy Hendrix Dyas, Spencer
Adam Stockhausen, West Side Story
BEST FILM EDITING
Joe Walker, Dune (RUNNER UP)
Hank Corwin, Don’t Look Up
Peter Sciberras, The Power of the Dog
Sebastian Sepulveda, Spencer (WINNER)
Myron Kerstein, Andrew Weisblum, Tick, Tick… BOOM!
BEST SOUND
A Quiet Place Part II
Dune (WINNER)
The Harder They Fall (RUNNER UP)
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
BEST USE OF MUSIC
“Everlasting Love”, Belfast
“Downtown”, Last Night in Soho (RUNNER UP)
“Happy House”, Last Night in Soho
“You’re My World”, Last Night in Soho
“All I Need is a Miracle”, Spencer (WINNER)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“So May We Start,” Annette (WINNER)
“Just Look Up”, Don’t Look Up
“Guns Go Bang”, The Harder They Fall
“Be Alive”, King Richard
“No Time to Die”, No Time to Die (RUNNER UP)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Dune (WINNER)
Eternals
Godzilla vs. Kong
Shang-Chi and the Legend of The Ten Rings (RUNNER UP)
The Suicide Squad
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Belle
Encanto
Flee (RUNNER UP)
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (WINNER)
BEST INDEPENDENT FILM
CODA
C’mon C’mon
The Green Knight
Mass (WINNER)
Shiva Baby (RUNNER UP)
BEST DEBUT FEATURE FILM
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Fran Kranz, Mass (WINNER)
Rebecca Hall, Passing (RUNNER UP)
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tick, Tick… BOOM!
Emma Seligman, Shiva Baby
BEST DEBUT PERFORMANCE
Jude Hill, Belfast
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza (RUNNER UP)
Rachel Sennott, Shiva Baby
Agathe Rousselle, Titane (WINNER)
Rachel Zegler, West Side Story
