The 2021 North Carolina Film Critics Association Awards

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 DOCUMENTARY FILM
Flee
The Sparks Brothers
Summer of Soul
Val
The Velvet Underground

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

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Drive My Car
A Hero
Riders of Justice
Titane
The Worst Person in the World

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

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

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

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alex Wolff (Pig)
Jason Isaacs (Mass)
Jeffrey Wright (The French Dispatch)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)
Woody Norman (C'mon C'mon)

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

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)
Ann Dowd (Mass)
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
Ruth Negga (Passing)

BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE IN ANIMATION OR MIXED MEDIA
Abbi Jacobson (The Mitchells vs. The Machines)
Danny McBride (The Mitchells vs. The Machines)
Jacob Tremblay (Luca)
Kelly Marie Tran (Raya and the Last Dragon)
Stephanie Beatriz (Encanto)

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 EDITING
Dune
The French Dispatch
The Last Duel
The Power of the Dog
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 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 PRODUCTION DESIGN
Dune
The French Dispatch
The Green Knight
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story

BEST SCORE
Don’t Look Up
Dune
No Time To Die
The Power of the Dog
Spencer

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Every Letter (Cyrano)
Guns Go Bang (The Harder They Fall)
Just Look Up (Don’t Look Up)
No Time To Die (No Time To Die)
So May We Start (Annette)

BEST SOUND DESIGN
Dune
Nightmare Alley
No Time To Die
tick, tick… BOOM!
West Side Story

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

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