Online Film Critics Society Awards 2021

25th Online Film Critics Society Awards
25th Online Film Critics Society Awards
Date	January 24, 2022
Highlights
Best Picture	The Power of the Dog
Most awards	The Power of the Dog (9)
Most nominations	The Power of the Dog / Dune (9)
	← 24th; Online Film Critics Society Awards; 26th →;

The 25th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 2021, were announced on January 24, 2022.^[1]^[2]^[3] The nominations were announced on January 18, 2022.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Dune and The Power of the Dog led the nominations with nine each, followed by West Side Story with eight. The Power of the Dog also made a clean sweep, winning all nine of its nominations, including Best Picture.

Winners and nominees

Best Picture	Best Director
The Power of the Dog Drive My Car Licorice Pizza Dune The Green Knight Pig The Worst Person in the World Titane West Side Story Belfast	Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car Steven Spielberg – West Side Story Denis Villeneuve – Dune
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog* as Phil Burbank** Nicolas Cage – Pig as Robbie "Rob" Feld Andrew Garfield – tick, tick... BOOM! as Jonathan Larson Oscar Isaac – The Card Counter as William Tell Hidetoshi Nishijima – Drive My Car as Yūsuke Kafuku	*Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter* as Leda Caruso** Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza as Alana Kane Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World as Julie Agathe Rousselle – Titane as Alexia / Adrien Kristen Stewart – Spencer as Diana, Princess of Wales
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog* as Peter Gordon** Mike Faist – West Side Story as Riff Ciarán Hinds – Belfast as Pop Troy Kotsur – CODA as Frank Rossi Jeffrey Wright – The French Dispatch as Roebuck Wright	*Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog* as Rose Gordon** Ariana DeBose – West Side Story as Anita Ann Dowd – Mass as Linda Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard as Oracene "Brandy" Price Ruth Negga – Passing as Clare Bellew
Best Animated Feature	Best Film Not in the English Language
The Mitchells vs. the Machines Encanto Flee Luca Raya and the Last Dragon	Drive My Car (Japan) Flee (Denmark) A Hero (Iran) Titane (France) The Worst Person in the World (Norway)
Best Documentary	Best Debut Feature
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Flee Procession The Rescue The Velvet Underground	Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter Rebecca Hall – Passing Fran Kranz – Mass Michael Sarnoski – Pig Emma Seligman – Shiva Baby
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Michael Sarnoski and Vanessa Block – Pig Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza Kenneth Branagh – Belfast Asghar Farhadi – A Hero Fran Kranz – Mass	Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter Rebecca Hall – Passing Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe – Drive My Car Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts, and Denis Villeneuve – Dune
Best Cinematography	Best Editing
Ari Wegner – The Power of the Dog Bruno Delbonnel – The Tragedy of Macbeth Greig Fraser – Dune Janusz Kamiński – West Side Story Andrew Droz Palermo – The Green Knight	Peter Sciberras – The Power of the Dog Úna Ní Dhonghaíle – Belfast Andy Jurgensen – Licorice Pizza Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar – West Side Story Joe Walker – Dune
Best Costume Design	Best Production Design
Dune Cruella The French Dispatch Spencer West Side Story	The French Dispatch Dune The Green Knight Nightmare Alley West Side Story
Best Original Score	Best Visual Effects
Jonny Greenwood – The Power of the Dog Alexandre Desplat – The French Dispatch Germaine Franco – Encanto Jonny Greenwood – Spencer Hans Zimmer – Dune	Dune The Green Knight The Matrix Resurrections Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Spider-Man: No Way Home

Special awards

Technical Achievement Awards

Dune – Sound Design
In the Heights – Choreography
Memoria – Sound Design
No Time to Die – Stunt Coordination
West Side Story – Choreography

Lifetime Achievement Awards

Special Achievement Awards

Turner Classic Movies (TCM), for providing worldwide access to classic films, including silent films
IATSE Workers, for bringing attention to labor issues in the film industry and fighting for better standards
The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), an important non-profit organization devoted to the preservation of film

Non-U.S. Releases

1970 (Poland)
Bank Job (United Kingdom)
Benediction (United Kingdom)
The Girl and the Spider (Switzerland)
The Medium (Thailand)
Ninjababy (Norway)
Petite Maman (France)
Pleasure (Sweden)
The Tsugua Diaries (Portugal)
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (Indonesia)

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
9	Dune
9	The Power of the Dog
8	West Side Story
5	Drive My Car
5	Licorice Pizza
4	Belfast
	The French Dispatch
	The Green Knight
	Pig
3	Flee
	The Lost Daughter
	Mass
	Passing
	Spencer
	Titane
	The Worst Person in the World
2	Encanto
2	A Hero

Films that received multiple awards
Awards	Film
9	The Power of the Dog
2	Dune
2	The Lost Daughter

References

^ "OFCS Presents: 25th Annual Awards for 2021" (Press release). Online Film Critics Society. January 24, 2022. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
^ Anderson, Erik (January 25, 2022). "Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) winners: 'The Power of the Dog' makes a clean sweep". AwardsWatch. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
^ Neglia, Matt (January 24, 2022). "The 2021 Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) Winners". Next Best Picture. Retrieved January 25, 2022.
^ "OFCS Presents: 25th Annual Nominations for 2021" (Press release). Online Film Critics Society. January 18, 2022. Retrieved January 18, 2022.
^ Anderson, Erik (January 18, 2022). "Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) nominations: 'Dune,' 'The Power of the Dog,' 'West Side Story' lead". AwardsWatch. Retrieved January 18, 2022.
^ Neglia, Matt (January 18, 2022). "The 2021 Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) Nominations". Next Best Picture. Retrieved January 18, 2022.

External links

[1] "OFCS Presents: 25th Annual Awards for 2021" (Press release). Online Film Critics Society. January 24, 2022. Retrieved January 25, 2022.

[2] Anderson, Erik (January 25, 2022). "Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) winners: 'The Power of the Dog' makes a clean sweep". AwardsWatch. Retrieved January 25, 2022.

[3] Neglia, Matt (January 24, 2022). "The 2021 Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) Winners". Next Best Picture. Retrieved January 25, 2022.

[4] "OFCS Presents: 25th Annual Nominations for 2021" (Press release). Online Film Critics Society. January 18, 2022. Retrieved January 18, 2022.

[5] Anderson, Erik (January 18, 2022). "Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) nominations: 'Dune,' 'The Power of the Dog,' 'West Side Story' lead". AwardsWatch. Retrieved January 18, 2022.

[6] Neglia, Matt (January 18, 2022). "The 2021 Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) Nominations". Next Best Picture. Retrieved January 18, 2022.

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