The North Carolina Film Critics Association announced the winners for the tenth annual awards for achievements in film with The Power of the Dog leading the pack with six awards, including narrative film, director, actor, supporting actor, adapted screenplay, and cinematography.

The NCFCA consists of fifty-five film critics living and/or working in North Carolina.

Winners of 2022 North Carolina Film Critics Awards

BEST NARRATIVE FILM

**The Power of the Dog** – Winner

Drive My Car
Dune
The French Dispatch
The Green Knight
Licorice Pizza
Mass
Pig
West Side Story
The Worst Person in the World

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

**Summer of Soul (… Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)** – Winner

Flee
The Sparks Brothers
Val
The Velvet Underground

BEST ANIMATED FILM

**The Mitchells vs. The Machines** – Winner

Encanto
Flee
Luca
Raya and the Last Dragon

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

**Drive My Car** – Winner

A Hero
Riders of Justice
Titane
The Worst Person in the World

BEST DIRECTOR

**Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)** – Winner

David Lowery (The Green Knight)
Denis Villeneuve (Dune)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

**Ari Wegner (The Power of the Dog)** – Winner

Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story

BEST ACTOR

**Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)** – Winner

Andrew Garfield (tick, tick… BOOM!)
Dev Patel (The Green Knight)
Nicolas Cage (Pig)
Will Smith (King Richard)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

**Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)** – Winner

Alex Wolff (Pig)
Jason Isaacs (Mass)
Jeffrey Wright (The French Dispatch)
Woody Norman (C’mon C’mon)

BEST ACTRESS

**Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)** – Winner

Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza)
Kristen Stewart (Spencer)
Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

**Ann Dowd (Mass)** – Winner

Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
Ruth Negga (Passing)

BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE IN ANIMATION OR MIXED MEDIA

**Stephanie Beatriz (Encanto)** – Winner

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)

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

**Mass** – Winner

Dune
The French Dispatch
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

**Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)** – Winner

C’mon C’mon
The French Dispatch
Mass
Pig

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

**Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)** – Winner

Drive My Car
Dune
The Green Knight
Passing

BEST EDITING

**Andrew Weisblum (The French Dispatch)** – Winner

Dune
The Last Duel
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

**Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor, and Gerd Nefzer (Dune)** – Winner

The Green Knight
The Matrix Resurrections
Spider-Man: No Way Home
The Suicide Squad

BEST STUNT COORDINATION

**Andy Cheng, Peng Zhang, Bradley James Allan, Christopher Clark Cowan, Mark Ginther, Guillermo Grispo, Isaac Hamon, Lu Junchang, Yasca Sinigaglia, Kyle Woods (Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings)** – Winner

Black Widow
The Matrix Resurrections
No Time To Die
Spider-Man: No Way Home

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

**Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan (Dune)** – Winner

Cruella
Last Night in Soho
Nightmare Alley
Spencer

BEST HAIR & MAKE-UP

**Nadia Stacey and Carolyn Cousins (Cruella)** – Winner

Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
Nightmare Alley

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

**Patrice Vermette, Richard Roberts, and Zuzsanna Sipos (Dune)** – Winner

The French Dispatch
The Green Knight
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story

BEST SCORE

**Hans Zimmer (Dune)** – Winner

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

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

**No Time To Die by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell (No Time To Die)** – Winner

Every Letter (Cyrano)
Guns Go Bang (The Harder They Fall)
Just Look Up (Don’t Look Up)
So May We Start (Annette)

BEST SOUND DESIGN

**Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, and Ron Bartlett (Dune)** – Winner

Nightmare Alley
No Time To Die
tick, tick… BOOM!
West Side Story

BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT

**Michael Sarnoski (Pig)** – Winner

Fran Kranz (Mass)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (tick, tick… BOOM!)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter)
Rebecca Hall (Passing)

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

**Alana Haim(Licorice Pizza)** – Winner

Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza)
Emilia Jones(CODA)
Woody Norman (C’Mon C’Mon)
Rachel Zegler(West Side Story)

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR SCREENWRITING

The Coen Brothers: Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Are Thou?, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

KEN HANKE MEMORIAL TAR HEEL AWARD

**Jonathan Majors (The Harder They Fall, Loki) – Studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts** – Winner

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
Stephen McKinley Henderson (Dune; Bruised) – Studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts