Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast took Best Picture honors, and Branagh won for Best Director and Best Screenplay, in the Phoenix Film Critic’s Society’s 2021 awards. The film also captured awards for Ciaran Hinds for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and for Jude Hill for Best Performance by a Youth. With five wins, Belfast tied with Dune for the most honored film of the year.
Additionally, Paolo Sorrentino’s Italian coming-of-age drama The Hand of God won for Best Foreign Language Film, and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s concert movie Summer of Soul was honored for Best Documentary.
Every year PFCS honors a film they feel didn’t get the audiences it deserved with the “Overlooked Film of the Year” award. This year it went to Mass.
Winners of Phoenix Film Critic’s Society’s 2021 awards
PFCS TOP TEN (in alphabetical order)
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Licorice Pizza
Mass
Nightmare Alley
No Time To Die
Spencer
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
BEST PICTURE
Belfast
BEST DIRECTOR
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Kristen Stewart, Spencer
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Ciaran Hinds, Belfast
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING
Mass
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Belfast
BEST SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM OTHER MATERIAL
The Power of the Dog
THE OVERLOOKED FILM OF THE YEAR
Mass
BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Hand of God
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Summer of Soul
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
No Time To Die, No Time To Die
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Dune
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dune
BEST FILM EDITING
Dune
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Nightmare Alley
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Dune
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Dune
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A YOUTH
Jude Hill, Belfast
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