Mass directed by Fran Kranz
Mass directed by Fran Kranz

Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog dominated the 15th annual Houston Film Critics Society awards winning Best Picture, along with Best Director, Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, Best Supporting Actor for Kodi Smit-McPhee, Best Original Score and Best Screenplay.

Fran Kranz’s Mass also won multiple honors including Best Ensemble and Best Supporting Actress for Ann Dowd.

Other top honors including the Texas Independent Film Award went to Red Rocket, Best Foreign Language Feature went to Drive My Car and Best Documentary Feature went to Summer of Soul.

Winners of 2021 Houston Film Critics Society Awards

Here is the full list of winners of 2021 Houston Film Critics Society Awards

Best Picture
Belfast
CODA
Don’t Look Up
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Parallel Mothers
The Power of the Dog – WINNER
tick, tick … Boom
The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog – WINNER
Guillermo del Toro, Nightmare Alley
Denis Villeneuve, Dune

Best Actor
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog – WINNER
Peter Dinklage, Cyrano
Andrew Garfield, tick,tick…BOOM!
Will Smith, King Richard
Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye – WINNER
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Penelope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones, CODA
Kristen Stewart, Spencer

Best Supporting Actor
Andrew Garfield, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Ciarán Hinds, Belfast
Troy Kotsur, CODA
J.K. Simmons, Being the Ricardos
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog – WINNER

Best Supporting Actress
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Ann Dowd, Mass – WINNER
Kirsten Dunst, The Power of Dog
Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard

Best Ensemble Cast
Belfast
CODA
Mass – WINNER
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog

Best Screenplay
Belfast
CODA
Don’t Look Up
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog – WINNER

Best Animated Feature
Encanto
Flee
Luca
Raya and the Last Dragon
The Mitchells vs. the Machines – WINNER

Best Cinematography
Dune – WINNER
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story”

Best Documentary Feature
Flee
The Rescue
The Sparks Brothers
Summer of Soul – WINNER
Val

Best Foreign Language Feature
Drive My Car – WINNER
Flee
Parallel Mothers
Riders of Justice
The Worst Person in the World

Best Original Score
Dune
The French Dispatch
The Harder They Fall
The Power of the Dog – WINNER
Spencer

Best Original Song
“Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto
“Guns Go Bang” from The Harder They Fall
“Just Look Up” from Don’t Look Up
“No Time to Die” from No Time to Die
“Wherever I Fall – Pt. 1” from Cyrano – WINNER

Best Visual Effects
Dune – WINNER
The Matrix Resurrections
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Best Stunt Coordination
Black Widow
The Matrix Resurrections
No Time to Die – WINNER
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home

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