Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast took Best Picture honors, and Branagh won for Best Director and Best Screenplay, in the Phoenix Film Critic’s Society’s 2021 awards. The film also captured awards for Ciaran Hinds for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and for Jude Hill for Best Performance by a Youth. With five wins, Belfast tied with Dune for the most honored film of the year.

Additionally, Paolo Sorrentino’s Italian coming-of-age drama The Hand of God won for Best Foreign Language Film, and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s concert movie Summer of Soul was honored for Best Documentary.

Every year PFCS honors a film they feel didn’t get the audiences it deserved with the “Overlooked Film of the Year” award. This year it went to Mass.

Winners of Phoenix Film Critic’s Society’s 2021 awards

PFCS TOP TEN (in alphabetical order)

Belfast
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Licorice Pizza
Mass
Nightmare Alley
No Time To Die
Spencer
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

BEST PICTURE
Belfast

BEST DIRECTOR
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Kristen Stewart, Spencer

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Ciaran Hinds, Belfast

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story

BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING
Mass

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Belfast

BEST SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM OTHER MATERIAL
The Power of the Dog

THE OVERLOOKED FILM OF THE YEAR
Mass

BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Mitchells vs. the Machines

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Hand of God

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Summer of Soul

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
No Time To Die, No Time To Die

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Dune

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dune

BEST FILM EDITING
Dune

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Nightmare Alley

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Dune

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Dune

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A YOUTH
Jude Hill, Belfast