Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2021

Belfast

• The Green Knight
• The Power of the Dog
• tick, tick... BOOM!
• West Side Story

Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog

• Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
• David Lowery – The Green Knight
• Steven Spielberg – West Side Story
• Denis Villeneuve – Dune

Andrew Garfield – tick, tick... BOOM! as Jonathan Larson

• Nicolas Cage – Pig as Robin Feld
• Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog as Phil Burbank
• Will Smith – King Richard as Richard Williams
• Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth as Lord Macbeth

Kristen Stewart – Spencer as Diana, Princess of Wales

• Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter as Leda Caruso
• Lady Gaga – House of Gucci as Patrizia Reggiani
• Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos as Lucille Ball
• Tessa Thompson – Passing as Irene Redfield

Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog as Peter Gordon

• Jamie Dornan – Belfast as Pa
• Ciarán Hinds – Belfast as Pop
• Troy Kotsur – CODA as Frank Rossi
• Jesse Plemons – The Power of the Dog as George Burbank

Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard as Oracene "Brandy" Price

• Caitríona Balfe – Belfast as Ma
• Ariana DeBose – West Side Story as Anita
• Ann Dowd – Mass as Linda
• Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog as Rose Gordon

Belfast – Kenneth Branagh

• C'mon C'mon – Mike Mills
• King Richard – Zach Baylin
• Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson
• Mass – Fran Kranz

The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion

• CODA – Sian Heder
• Dune – Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts, and Denis Villeneuve
• tick, tick... BOOM! – Steven Levenson
• West Side Story – Tony Kushner

The Mitchells vs. the Machines

• Encanto
• Flee
• Luca
• Raya and the Last Dragon

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

• The First Wave
• Flee
• The Rescue
• Val

Drive My Car

• A Hero
• Lamb
• Titane
• The Worst Person in the World

Dune – Greig Fraser

• Belfast – Haris Zambarloukos
• The Green Knight – Andrew Droz Palermo
• The Power of the Dog – Ari Wegner
• The Tragedy of Macbeth – Bruno Delbonnel

tick, tick... BOOM! – Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum

• Belfast – Úna Ní Dhonghaíle
• Dune – Joe Walker
• The French Dispatch – Andrew Weisblum
• The Power of the Dog – Peter Sciberras

Dune – Hans Zimmer

• Cyrano – Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner
• The French Dispatch – Alexandre Desplat
• The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood
• Spencer – Jonny Greenwood

Dune – Patrice Vermette (production designer); Richard Roberts and Zsuzsanna Sipos (set decorators)

• Belfast – Jim Clay (production designer); Claire Nia Richards (set decorator)
• The French Dispatch – Adam Stockhausen (production designer); Rena DeAngelo (set decorator)
• Nightmare Alley – Tamara Deverell (production designer); Shane Vieau (set decorator)
• West Side Story – Adam Stockhausen (production designer); Rena DeAngelo (set decorator)

Mass

• Belfast
• The French Dispatch
• The Harder They Fall
• The Power of the Dog

Woody Norman – C'mon C'mon as Jesse

• Jude Hill – Belfast as Buddy
• Emilia Jones – CODA as Ruby Rossi
• Saniyya Sidney – King Richard as Venus Williams
• Rachel Zegler – West Side Story as María Vasquez

Awkwafina – Raya and the Last Dragon as Sisu

• Stephanie Beatriz – Encanto as Mirabel Madrigal
• Abbi Jacobson – The Mitchells vs. the Machines as Katie Mitchell
• Kelly Marie Tran – Raya and the Last Dragon as Raya
• Jacob Tremblay – Luca as Luca Parugo