2021 Seattle Film Critics Society Awards

Best Picture of the Year

• Drive My Car (Janus Films)
  • CODA (Apple TV+)
  • Dune (Warner Bros.)
  • The Green Knight (A24)
  • In the Heights (Warner Bros.)
  • Licorice Pizza (MGM / United Artists Releasing)
  • Pig (Neon)
  • The Power of the Dog (Netflix)
  • Titane (Neon)
  • West Side Story (20th Century Studios)

Best Director

• Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
  • Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
  • Julia Ducournau – Titane
  • David Lowery – The Green Knight
  • Denis Villeneuve – Dune

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Nicolas Cage – Pig as Robin "Rob" Feld
  • Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog as Phil Burbank
  • Andrew Garfield – tick, tick... BOOM!asJonathan Larson
  • Dev Patel – The Green Knight as Sir Gawain
  • Simon Rex – Red Rocket as Mikey Davies/Saber

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Kristen Stewart – SpencerasDiana, Princess of Wales
  • Lady Gaga – House of GucciasPatrizia Reggiani
  • Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza as Alana Kane
  • Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World as Julie
  • Agathe Rousselle – Titane as Alexia / Adrien

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog as Peter Gordon
  • Colman Domingo – Zola as Abegunde "X" Olawale
  • Troy Kotsur – CODA as Frank Rossi
  • Vincent Lindon – Titane as Vincent
  • Jeffrey Wright – The French Dispatch as Roebuck Wright

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Ariana DeBose – West Side Story as Anita
  • Ann Dowd – Mass as Linda
  • Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog as Rose Gordon
  • Aunjanue Ellis – King RichardasOracene "Brandy" Price
  • Ruth Negga – Passing as Clare Bellew

Best Ensemble Cast

• Mass – Henry Russell Bergstein and Allison Estrin (casting directors)
  • Dune – Jina Jay and Francine Maisler (casting directors)
  • In the Heights – Tiffany Little Canfield and Bernard Telsey (casting directors)
  • Licorice Pizza – Cassandra Kulukundis (casting director)
  • The Power of the Dog – Nikki Barrett, Tina Cleary, Carmen Cuba, and Nina Gold (casting directors)

Best Action Choreography

• In the Heights
  • No Time to Die
  • Nobody
  • Raging Fire
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Best Screenplay

• Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe
  • The Green Knight – David Lowery
  • Mass – Fran Kranz
  • Pig – Michael Sarnoski
  • The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion

Best Animated Feature

• Flee (Neon) – Jonas Poher Rasmussen (director)
  • Encanto (Walt Disney Pictures) – Jared Bush and Byron Howard (directors); Charise Castro Smith (co-director)
  • Luca (Walt Disney Pictures) – Enrico Casarosa (director)
  • The Mitchells vs. the Machines (Netflix) – Mike Rianda (director); Jeff Rowe (co-director)
  • Raya and the Last Dragon (Walt Disney Pictures) – Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada (directors); Paul Briggs and John Ripa (co-directors)

Best Documentary Feature

• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Hulu) – Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson (director)
  • Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry (Apple TV+) – R. J. Cutler (director)
  • Flee (Neon) – Jonas Poher Rasmussen (director)
  • The Rescue (National Geographic Documentary Films / Greenwich Entertainment) – Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (directors)
  • Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (Severin Films) – Kier-La Janisse (director)

Best Film Not in the English Language

• Drive My Car (Janus Films) – Ryusuke Hamaguchi (director)
  • Flee (Neon) – Jonas Poher Rasmussen (director)
  • The Hand of God (Netflix) – Paolo Sorrentino (director)
  • Titane (Neon) – Julia Ducournau (director)
  • The Worst Person in the World (Neon) – Joachim Trier (director)

Best Cinematography

• The Green Knight – Andrew Droz Palermo
  • Dune – Greig Fraser
  • The Power of the Dog – Ari Wegner
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth – Bruno Delbonnel
  • West Side Story – Janusz Kamiński

Best Costume Design

• The Green Knight – Malgosia Turzanska
  • Cruella – Jenny Beavan
  • Dune – Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan
  • House of Gucci – Janty Yates
  • Spencer – Jacqueline Durran

Best Film Editing

• Dune – Joe Walker
  • Drive My Car – Azusa Yamazaki
  • The Power of the Dog – Peter Sciberras
  • Titane – Jean-Christophe Bouzy
  • West Side Story – Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar

Best Original Score

• Dune – Hans Zimmer
  • The French Dispatch – Alexandre Desplat
  • The Green Knight – Daniel Hart
  • The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood
  • Spencer – Jonny Greenwood

Best Production Design

• The Green Knight – Jade Healy (Production Design); Jenny Oman (Set Decoration)
  • Dune – Patrice Vermette (Production Design); Zsuzsanna Sipos (Set Decoration)
  • The French Dispatch – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Rena DeAngelo (Set Decoration)
  • Nightmare Alley – Tamara Deverell (Production Design); Shane Vieau (Set Decoration)
  • West Side Story – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Rena DeAngelo (Set Decoration)

Best Visual Effects

• Dune – Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor, and Gerd Nefzer
  • The Green Knight – Eric Saindon and Michael Cozens
  • The Matrix Resurrections – Dan Glass, Huw J. Evans, Tom Debenham, and J. D. Schwalm
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings – Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker, and Dan Oliver
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home – Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein, and Dan Sudick

Best Youth Performance

• Emilia Jones – CODA as Ruby Rossi
  • Jude Hill – Belfast as Buddy
  • Cooper Hoffman – Licorice Pizza as Gary Valentine
  • Woody Norman – C'mon C'mon as Jesse
  • Joséphine Sanz – Petite Maman as Nelly

Best Villain

• Phil Burbank – The Power of the Dog (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch)
  • Rufus Buck – The Harder They Fall (portrayed by Idris Elba)
  • Baron Vladimir Harkonnen – Dune (portrayed by Stellan Skarsgård)
  • Norman Osborn / Green Goblin – Spider-Man: No Way Home (portrayed by Willem Dafoe)
  • Xu Wenwu – Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (portrayed by Tony Leung)