Critics have spoken — again! The votes have been tallied and the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) is delighted to announce the winners of its 25th annual film awards.
THE POWER OF THE DOG directed by Jane Campion, and currently streaming on Netflix, came the big winner, taking home a host of awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Actress. in a supporting role. The OFCS is made up of nearly 300 film critics from around the world.
THE POWER OF THE DOG exclude DUNE – who were tied with nine nods, respectively, followed by eight nominations for WEST SIDE STORY. by Ryusuke Hamaguchi DRIVE MY CAR won Best Non-English Language Film, while THE MITCHELLS AGAINST. MACHINES won the prize for best animated film. Questlove’s SUMMER OF THE SOUL was Best Documentary Feature.
“As an international member of the organization, I am extremely proud to see such incredible enthusiasm for the nominations from our members and the wider online film community,” said Richard Gray, member of the steering committee of the ‘OFCS and editor of The Reel Bits*. . “The selection of this year’s winners shows that even during difficult times around the world, moviegoers continue to seek out good stories, whether in theaters or at home. We hope people see themselves reflected in this list – or even discover something new in the process.
(Full disclosure again: it’s me!)
And so, without further ado, here is the list of OFCS winners:
BEST PICTURE
1. The power of the dog
2. Drive my car
3. Licorice Pizza
4. Dunes
5. The Green Knight
6. Pig
7. The worst person in the world
8. Titanium
9. West Side History
10. Belfort
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Encanto
To run away
Lucas
The Mitchells vs. the Machines – WINNER!
Raya and the last dragon
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog – WINNER!
Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
Steven Spielberg – West Side History
Denis Villeneuve – Dune
BEST LEADING ACTOR
Nicolas Cage – Pig
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog – WINNER!
Andrew Garfield – tick, tick… BOOM!
Oscar Isaac – The Card Counter
Hidetoshi Nishijima – Drive My Car
BEST LEADING ACTRESS
Olivia Colman – The Lost Girl – WINNER!
Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza
Renate Reinsve – Worst person in the world
Agathe Roussel – Titanium
Kristen Stewart – Spencer
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mike Faist – West Side History
Ciaran Hinds – Belfast
Troy Kotsur – CODA
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog – WINNER!
Jeffrey Wright – The French Dispatch
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Ann Dowd – Mass
Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog – WINNER!
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard
Ruth Negga – Pass
BEST ORIGINAL SCENARIO
Belfast
A hero
Licorice Pizza
Mass
Pig – WINNER!
BEST SUITABLE SCENARIO
drive my car
Dunes
The lost girl
Who passed
The power of the dog – WINNER!
BEST FILM EDITING
Belfast
Dunes
Licorice Pizza
The power of the dog – WINNER!
West Side Story
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dunes
The green knight
The power of the dog – WINNER!
Macbeth’s Tragedy
West Side Story
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Dunes
Encanto
The French Dispatch
The power of the dog – WINNER!
spencer
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Dunes
The French Dispatch – WINNER!
The green knight
alley of nightmares
West Side Story
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Cruel
Dunes – WINNER!
The French Dispatch
spencer
West Side Story
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Dunes – WINNER!
The green knight
The Matrix Resurrections
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Coming Home
BEST FIRST FILM
Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Girl – WINNER!
Rebecca Hall – Pass
Fran Kranz – Mass
Michael Sarnoski – Pig
Emma Seligman – Baby Shiva
BEST FILM NOT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Drive My Car – WINNER!
To run away
A hero
Titanium
The worst person in the world
BEST DOCUMENTARY
To run away
Procession
The rescue
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Couldn’t Be Televised) – WINNER!
The Velvet Underground
BEST NON-US RELEASE:
1970 – Poland
Banking job – UK
Blessing – UK
The Girl and the Spider – Switzerland
The medium – Thailand
Ninjababy – Norway
Little Mom – France
Pleasure – Sweden
The newspapers of Tsugua – Portugal
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash – Indonesia
LIFETIME EXCELLENCE AWARD
John Charpentier
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Sheila Nevins
Paul Schrader
John Williams
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
IATSE Workers, for bringing attention to labor issues in the film industry and fighting for better standards
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) to provide worldwide access to classic films, including silent films.
The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) is a leading non-profit organization dedicated
