The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle awarded Licorice Pizza the honor of best picture of 2021, but The Power of the Dog was the big winner with six awards including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay honors for Jane Campion, Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, Best Supporting Actor for Kodi Smit-McPhee and Best Supporting Actress for Kirsten Dunst

Winners and runners-up of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle 2021 Awards

Best Picture: Licorice Pizza

2. The Power of the Dog
3. West Side Story
4. The Green Knight
5. Summer of Soul
6. The French Dispatch
7. Tick, Tick…Boom!
8. C’mon C’mon
9. Dune
10. Nightmare Alley / Pig / Red Rocket

Best Director: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Runner–up: Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza

Best Actor: Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Runner–up: Andrew Garfield, Tick, Tick…Boom!

Best Actress: Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
Runner–up: Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Best Supporting Actor: Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog
Runner–up: Ciarán Hinds, Belfast

Best Supporting Actress: Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
Runner–up: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story

Best Original Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Runner–up: Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch

Best Adapted Screenplay: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Runner–up: Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve & Eric Roth, Dune

Best Animated Film: The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Runner–up: Encanto

Best Documentary: Summer of Soul
Runner–up: The First Wave

Best Foreign-Language Film: Drive My Car
Runner–up: The Worst Person in the World

Best Ensemble: The French Dispatch
Runners–up: Licorice Pizza and The Power of the Dog

Best Cinematography: Grieg Fraser, Dune
Runner–up: Ari Werner, The Power of the Dog

Best Score: Jonny Greenwood, The Power of the Dog
Runner–up: Hans Zimmer, Dune

Best First Feature: Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Runner–up: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tick, Tick…Boom!

Best Body of Work: Lin-Manuel Miranda (Tick, Tick…Boom, Encanto, In the Heights, Vivo)
Runner–up: Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick…Boom, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Spider-Man: No Way Home)

Most Disappointing Film: Don’t Look Up
Runners–up: Halloween Kills and Spencer