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