San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2021

The Power of the Dog

• Runner-Up: Belfast
  • CODA
  • Dune
  • Mass

Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog

• Runner-Up: Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
  • Guillermo del Toro – Nightmare Alley
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter
  • Denis Villeneuve – Dune

Nicolas Cage – Pig as Robin "Rob" Feld

• Runner-Up: Andrew Garfield – tick, tick... BOOM! as Jonathan Larson
  • Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog as Phil Burbank
  • Peter Dinklage – Cyrano as Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Jude Hill – Belfast as Buddy

Caitríona Balfe – Belfast as Ma (TIE)
Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers as Janis Martinez (TIE)

• Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter as Leda Caruso
• Emilia Jones – CODA as Ruby Rossi
• Kristen Stewart – Spencer as Diana, Princess of Wales

Jason Isaacs – Mass as Jay Perry

• Runner-Up: Ben Affleck – The Tender Bar as Charlie Moehringer
  • Ciarán Hinds – Belfast as Pop
  • Troy Kotsur – CODA as Frank Rossi
  • Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog as Peter Gordon

Ruth Negga – Passing as Clare Bellew

• Runner-Up: Ariana DeBose – West Side Story as Anita
  • Cate Blanchett – Nightmare Alley as Dr. Lilith Ritter
  • Ann Dowd – Mass as Linda
  • Martha Plimpton – Mass as Gail Perry

Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog

• Runner-Up: Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan – Nightmare Alley
  • Joel Coen – The Tragedy of Macbeth
  • Rebecca Hall – Passing
  • Sian Heder – CODA

Fran Kranz – Mass

• Runner-Up: Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
• Runner-Up: Adam McKay – Don't Look Up
  • Pedro Almodóvar – Parallel Mothers
  • Michael Sarnoski – Pig

Emilia Jones – CODA

• Runner-Up: Jude Hill – Belfast
  • Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza
  • Fran Kranz – Mass
  • Anthony Ramos – In the Heights

Bradley Cooper – Licorice Pizza as Jon Peters

• Runner-Up: David Harbour – Black Widow as Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian
  • Leonardo DiCaprio – Don't Look Up as Dr. Randall Mindy
  • Jamie Dornan – Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar as Edgar Paget
  • Simon Rex – Red Rocket as Mikey Saber

Luca

• Runner-Up: Flee
  • Encanto
  • The Mitchells vs. the Machines
  • Raya and the Last Dragon

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

• Runner-Up: Flee
  • My Name Is Pauli Murray
  • Val
  • The Velvet Underground

Drive My Car

• Runner-Up: I'm Your Man
  • Lamb
  • Parallel Mothers
  • The Worst Person in the World

Don't Look Up

• Dune
• The Harder They Fall
• In the Heights
• Mass

Greig Fraser – Dune

• Runner-Up: Bruno Delbonnel – The Tragedy of Macbeth
  • Alice Brooks – In the Heights
  • Dan Laustsen – Nightmare Alley
  • Ari Wegner – The Power of the Dog

Myron Kerstein – In the Heights

• Runner-Up: Úna Ní Dhonghaíle – Belfast
  • Geraud Brisson – CODA
  • Joshua L. Pearson – Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
  • Joe Walker – Dune

Jenny Beavan – Cruella

• Runner-Up: Antoinette Messam – The Harder They Fall
  • Odile Dicks-Mireaux – Last Night in Soho
  • Bob Morgan and Jacqueline West – Dune
  • Janty Yates – House of Gucci

Tamara Deverell – Nightmare Alley

• Runner-Up: Rena DeAngelo and Adam Stockhausen – The French Dispatch
  • Jim Clay – Belfast
  • Grant Major – The Power of the Dog
  • Richard Roberts, Zsuzsanna Sipos, and Patrice Vermette – Dune

Theo Green and Dave Whitehead – Dune

• Runner-Up: Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn – A Quiet Place Part II
• Runner-Up: Simon Chase and James Mather – Belfast
• Runner-Up: Dave Whitehead – The Power of the Dog
  • Nathan Robitaille – Nightmare Alley

Dune

• The Green Knight
• Nightmare Alley
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
• Spider-Man: No Way Home

Last Night in Soho

• Runner-Up: Belfast
• Runner-Up: In the Heights
• Runner-Up: West Side Story
  • Cruella

Jude Hill – Belfast as Buddy

• Runner-Up: Mckenna Grace – Ghostbusters: Afterlife as Phoebe Spengler
• Runner-Up: Saniyya Sidney – King Richard as Venus Williams
  • Daniel Ranieri – The Tender Bar as Young JR
  • Demi Singleton – King Richard as Serena Williams

• Jonny Greenwood (Licorice Pizza, The Power of the Dog, and Spencer)