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2021 National Society of Film Critics Awards

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56th NSFC Awards

January 8, 2022

Best Film:
Drive My Car

The 56th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 8 January 2022, honored the best in film for 2021.[1] Japanese film Drive My Car won the most awards with four, including Best Film and Best Director.[2]

Winners

Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Best Director winner and Best Screenplay co-winner
Hidetoshi Nishijima, Best Actor winner
Penélope Cruz, Best Actress winner
Ruth Negga, Best Supporting Actress winner

Winners are listed in boldface along with the runner-up positions and counts from the final round:

Best Picture

  1. Drive My Car (48)
  2. Petite Maman (25)
  3. The Power of the Dog (23)

Best Director

  1. Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (46)
  2. Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog (36)
  3. Celine Sciamma – Petite Maman (28)

Best Actor

  1. Hidetoshi Nishijima – Drive My Car (63)
  2. Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog (44)
  3. Simon Rex – Red Rocket (30)

Best Actress

  1. Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers (55)
  2. Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World (42)
  3. Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza (32)

Best Supporting Actor

  1. Anders Danielsen Lie – The Worst Person in the World (54)
  2. Vincent Lindon – Titane (33)
  3. Mike Faist – West Side Story / Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog (26)

Best Supporting Actress

  1. Ruth Negga – Passing (46)
  2. Ariana DeBose – West Side Story (22)
  3. Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter (21)

Best Screenplay

  1. Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe – Drive My Car (46)
  2. Pedro Almodóvar – Parallel Mothers (22)
  3. Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza (20)

Best Cinematography

  1. Andrew Droz Palermo – The Green Knight (52)
  2. Ari Wegner – The Power of the Dog (40)
  3. Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – Memoria (35)

Best Non-Fiction Film

  1. Flee (41)
  2. Procession / The Velvet Underground (28)

Film Heritage Award

  • Maya Cade for the Black Film Archive, which expands knowledge of and access to Black films made between 1915 and 1979, and includes her critical essays that define the project and consider the films in relation to each other and to the cinema overall.
  • The late Bertrand Tavernier and Peter Bogdanovich, distinguished critic-filmmakers who never lost their passion for other people's movies and film history.

Special Citation for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution

  • Jean-Gabriel Périot's documentary Returning to Reims, which draws on Didier Eribon's 2009 memoir about his French hometown and the inequities of class and education that shaped him and his family.

Dedication

The awards were dedicated to Morris Dickstein and Michael Wilmington, two esteemed colleagues and longtime members of the society, as well as to Liz Weis, who served as executive director of the National Society of Film Critics for 47 years.

References

  1. ^ White, Abbey (January 8, 2022). "National Society of Film Critics 2022 Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
  2. ^ Pond, Steve (January 8, 2022). "'Drive My Car' Wins Best Picture Award From National Society of Film Critics". The Wrap. Retrieved January 8, 2022.

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