Detroit Film Critics Name Cyrano Best Picture

The Detroit Film Critics Society (DFCS) is pleased to announce the top 2021 nominees and winners in thirteen categories. The DFCS was founded in the spring of 2007 and currently consists of a group of twelve Michigan film critics who write or broadcast in the Metro Detroit area.

Each review submitted their top five picks in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, Best Breakthrough (across all categories) , Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay, Best Documentary, Best Animated Feature, and Best Use of Music / Sound. From these submissions, each entry received a point value and the top five in each category were placed on the final ballot.

Cyrano had a total of four nominations and two wins in the Best Picture and Best Actor categories for Peter Dinklage. king richard also received four nominations and ended with a victory for Jon Bernthal as best supporting actor. Tick, tick… BOOM! also won four nominations, earning a victory for director Lin-Manuel Miranda. Jessica Chastain won the Best Actress award for her transformative performance in Tammy Faye’s eyes. Two categories ended tied as To flee and Summer of Soul (… Or, when the revolution couldn’t be televised) tied for Best Documentary while Best Breakthrough went to Woody Norman, for his performance in go! Go on as well as Emma Seligman, for her efforts as a writer and director of baby shiva. The full list of results is available below.

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The best of 2021
as chosen by the Detroit Film Critics Society
(the nominees are listed in alphabetical order)

BEST PICTURE

• Winner: Cyrano
• Belfast
• CODA
• Do not seek
• king richard

BEST DIRECTOR

• Winner: Lin-Manuel Miranda, tick, tick… BOOM!
• Sean Baker, Red rocket
• Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
• David Lowery, The green knight
• Adam McKay, Do not seek

BEST ACTOR

• Winner: Peter Dinklage, Cyrano
• Nicolas Cage, Pig
• Andrew Garfield, tick, tick… BOOM!
• Oscar Isaac, The card counter
• Will Smith, king richard

BEST ACTRESS

• Winner: Jessica Chastain, Tammy Faye’s eyes
• Alana Chaim, Licorice Pizza
• Jennifer Hudson, The respect
• Nicole Kidman, Being the Ricardos
• Kristen Stewart, Spencer

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Winner: Jon Bernthal, king richard
• Troy Kotsur, CODA
• Jared Leto, Gucci House
• Ray Liotta, The Many Saints of Newark
• Kodi Smith-McPhee, The power of the dog

BEST ACTRESS IN A SECOND ROLE

• Winner: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
• Kirsten Dunst, The power of the dog
• Aunjanue Ellis, king richard
• Rita Moreno, West Side Story
• Diana Rigg, Last night in Soho

BEST SET

• Winner: The French dispatch
• CODA
• Do not seek
• The more they fall
• Gucci House

BEST BREAKTHROUGH

• Winners: Woody Norman, actor (go! Go on) / Emma Seligman, writer / director (baby shiva)
• Alana Haim, actress (Licorice Pizza)
• Emilia Jones, actress (CODA)
• Agathe Rouselle, actress (Titanium)

BEST FITTED SCREENPLAY

• Winner: Jane Campion, The power of the dog
• Sian Heder, CODA
• Quira Alegria Hudes, In the heights
• Steven Levenson, tick, tick… BOOM!
• David Lowery, The green knight

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Winner: Adam McKay, Do not seek
• Pedro Almodovar, Parallel mothers
• Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
• Wes Anderson, The French dispatch
• Jeymes Samuel, Boaz Yakin, The more they fall

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• Winners: To flee / Summer of Soul (… Or, when the revolution couldn’t be televised)
• Roadrunner: a film about Anthony Bourdain
• The Sparks Brothers
• Street gang: how we got to Sesame Street

BETTER ANIMATION OPERATION

• Winner: The Mitchells vs. the Machines
• Beautiful
• Cryptozoo
• Encanto
• To flee
• Luca

BETTER USE OF MUSIC / SOUND

• Winner: Last night in Soho
• Cyrano
• In the heights
• tick, tick… BOOM!
• West Side Story

About DFCS: The members of the Detroit Film Critics Society for the 2021-2022 season, in alphabetical order, are: Nate Adams – The Clinton Local, George Elkind – Metro timetable, Between the lines; Becky Fixel – Week99er; Michelle Kisner – spoilerfreemoviesleuth.com; Greg Russell – WDIV-TV Detroit and Film Show More; Tom Santilli – W X Y Z and Film Show More; Perry Seibert – WLBY-The Lucy Ann Lance Show; Jean Serba – Decision maker; MontiLee Stormer – moviereelist.com; Lee Thomas – Critic Lee speaking and Fox 2; Mike Tyrkus – CinemaNerdz.com; Carl wheeler – yelgodfather.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Ruth Daniels at (248) 910-8796 or [email protected]

More information is available on the website at detroitfilmcritics.com