THE HAWAII FILM CRITICS SOCIETY 2021 LIST

THE HAWAII FILM CRITICS SOCIETY 2021 LIST:

BEST PICTURE:

Last Night in Soho 

BEST DIRECTOR:

Guillermo del Toro, Nightmare Alley

BEST ACTOR:

Nicolas Cage, Pig 

BEST ACTRESS:

Kristen Stewart, Spencer 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Troy Kotsur, CODA 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Marlee Matlin, CODA

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Kenneth Branagh, Belfast 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Sian Heder, CODA (based on the motion picture “La Famille Belier”)

BEST ART DIRECTION:

Patrice Vermette, Dune 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

Janty Yates, House of Gucci

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Greig Fraser, Dune

BEST EDITING:

Paul Machliss, Last Night in Soho

BEST ANIMATED FILM

The Mitchells vs The Machines, dir. Michael Rianda and Jeff Rowe

BEST DOCUMENTARY:

Summer of Soul, dir. Questlove

BEST MAKE-UP:

Cruella 

BEST SOUND:

Last Night in Soho 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Jeymes Samuel, The Harder They Fall 

BEST SONG:

“No Time to Die,” No Time to Die

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

Spider-Man: No Way Home

BEST STUNT WORK:

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 

BEST NEW FILMMAKER:

Michael Sarnoski, Pig

BEST FIRST FILM:

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tick, Tick…Boom!

BEST OVERLOOKED FILM:

CODA, dir. Sian Heder

BEST VOCAL/MOTION CAPTURE PERFORMANCE

Kelly Marie Tran, Raya and the Last Dragon

BEST HORROR FILM:

Last Night in Soho, dir. Edgar Wright

BEST COMIC BOOK MOVIE:

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, dir. Destin Daniel Cretton

BEST SCI-FI FILM:

Dune, dir. Denis Villeneuve

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

The Hand of God, dir. Paolo Sorrentino (Italy) 

BEST HAWAIIAN FILM

Our Makawao, dir. Robert Stone, Matt Yamashita (Maui) 

WORST FILM OF 2020:

Space Jam: A New Legacy