Tuesday, August 12, 2025

2021 Tyler's Choice Awards

(Boldface = winner)

Best Picture

  • Belfast (Kenneth Branagh, Laura Berwick, Becca Kovacik & Tamar Thomas)
  • CODA (Fabrice Gianfermi, Philippe Rousselet & Patrick Wachsberger)
  • Dune (Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve, Cale Boyter & Joe Caracciolo Jr.)
  • The Power of the Dog (Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Jane Campion & Roger Frappier)
  • Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (David Dinerstein, Robert Fyvolent & Joseph Patel)
  • West Side Story (Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger & Kevin McCollum)
    (Honourable Mentions: Drive My Car, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, Tick, Tick... Boom!)

Best Director

  • Kenneth Branagh - Belfast
  • Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog
  • Guillermo del Toro - Nightmare Alley
  • Steven Spielberg - West Side Story
  • Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson - Summer of Soul
  • Denis Villeneuve - Dune
    (Honourable Mentions: Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza, Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Drive My Car, Sian Heder - CODA, David Lowery - The Green Knight, Lin-Manuel Miranda - Tick, Tick... Boom!)

Best Lead Actor

  • Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog
  • Peter Dinklage - Cyrano
  • Andrew Garfield - Tick, Tick... Boom!
  • Will Smith - King Richard
  • Denzel Washington - The Tragedy of Macbeth
    (Honourable Mentions: Nicolas Cage - Pig, Timothée Chalamet - Dune, Leonardo DiCaprio - Don't Look Up, Oscar Isaac - The Card Counter, Hidetoshi Nishijima - Drive My Car)

Best Lead Actress

  • Jessica Chastain - The Eyes of Tammy Faye
  • Penélope Cruz - Parallel Mothers
  • Lady Gaga - House of Gucci
  • Nicole Kidman - Being the Ricardos
  • Kristen Stewart - Spencer
    (Honourable Mentions: Olivia Colman - The Lost Daughter, Emilia Jones - CODA, Renate Reinsve - The Worst Person in the World, Tessa Thompson - Passing, Rachel Zegler - West Side Story)

Best Supporting Actor

  • Ciarán Hinds - Belfast
  • Troy Kotsur - CODA
  • Jared Leto - House of Gucci
  • J.K. Simmons - Being the Ricardos
  • Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Power of the Dog
    (Honourable Mentions: Bradley Cooper - Licorice Pizza, Colman Domingo - Zola, Jamie Dorman - Belfast, Jesse Plemons - The Power of the Dog, Jeffrey Wright - The French Dispatch)

Best Supporting Actress

  • Ariana DeBose - West Side Story
  • Judi Dench - Belfast
  • Ann Dowd - Mass
  • Kirsten Dunst - The Power of the Dog
  • Marlee Matlin - CODA
  • Ruth Negga - Passing
    (Honourable Mentions: Caitríona Balfe - Belfast, Jessie Buckley - The Lost Daughter, Aunjanue Ellis - King Richard, Rita Moreno - West Side Story)

Best Original Screenplay

  • Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
  • Don't Look Up (Adam McKay & David Sirota)
  • The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugo Guiness & Jason Schwartzman)
  • Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  • Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
    (Honourable Mentions: Being the Ricardos, King Richard, Mass, The Mitchells vs. The Machines, Pig)

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • CODA (Sian Heder; based on the film "La Famille Bélier" written by Victoria Bedos, Thomas Bidegain, Stanislas Carré de Malberg & Éric Lartigau)
  • Dune (Eric Roth, Denis Villeneuve & Jon Spaihts; based on the novel by Frank Herbert)
  • The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion; based on the novel by Thomas Savage)
  • Tick, Tick... Boom! (Steven Levenson; based on the stage musical by Jonathan Larson)
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen; based on the play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare)
    (Honourable Mentions: Drive My Car, The Lost Daughter, Nightmare Alley, No Time to Die, West Side Story)

Best Cast Ensemble

  • CODA [Deborah Aquila, Tricia Wood & Lisa Zagoria] (Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant, John Fiore, Lonnie Farmer, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Amy Forsyth, Kevin Chapman & Marlee Matlin, et. al.)
  • Don't Look Up [Francine Maisler] (Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothee Chalamet, Ariana Grande & Kid Cudi, et. al.)
  • Dune [Jina Jay & Francine Maisler] (Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgard, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, Jason Momoa & Javier Bardem, et. al.)
  • The French Dispatch [Douglas Aibel & Antoinette Boulat] (Owen Wilson, Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Timothee Chalamet, Bill Murray, Elisabeth Moss, Christoph Waltz & Jeffrey Wright, et. al.)
  • The Harder They Fall [Victoria Thomas] (Jonathan Majors, Idris Elba, Zazie Beetz, Delroy Lindo, Lakeith Stanfield, RJ Cyler, Danielle Deadwyler, Edi Gathegi, Damon Wayans Jr. & Regina King, et. al.)
  • In the Heights [Tiffany Little Canfield & Bernard Telsey] (Anthony Ramos, Leslie Grace, Corey Hawkins, Melissa Barrera, Olga Merediz, Jimmy Smits, Gregory Diaz IV, Stephanie Beatriz, Daphne Rubin-Vega & Lin-Manuel Miranda, et. al.)
    (Honourable Mentions: Belfast, Mass, The Power of the Dog, West Side Story)

Best Young Actor (21 or Under)

  • Jude Hill - Belfast
  • Cooper Hoffman - Licorice Pizza
  • Kaylee Hottle - Godzilla vs. Kong
  • Emilia Jones - CODA
  • Thomasin McKenzie - Last Night in Soho
  • Rachel Zegler - West Side Story
    (Honourable Mentions: Woody Norman - C'mon C'mon, Saniyya Sidney - King Richard, Mason Thomas - The Black Phone, Jacob Tremblay - Luca)

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Drive My Car [Japan] (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
  • Flee [Denmark] (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
  • A Hero [Iran] (Asghar Farhadi)
  • Parallel Mothers [Spain] (Pedro Almodóvar)
  • The Worst Person in the World [Norway] (Joachim Trier)
    (Honourable Mentions: Compartment No. 6, The Hand of God, Petite Maman, Riders of Justice, Titane)

Best Documentary Feature

  • Ascension (Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy & Nathan Truesdell)
  • Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström & Signe Byrge Sørensen)
  • The Rescue (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, John Battsek & P.J. van Sandwijk)
  • Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (Marilyn Argelo, Trevor Crafts, Eileen Scherer Crafts & Lisa Diamond)
  • Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Questlove)
  • The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes, Christine Vachon, Julie Goldman & Christopher Clements)
    (Honourable Mentions: Attica, Julia, The Sparks Brothers, Val)

Best Original Score

  • Dune (Hans Zimmer)
  • The French Dispatch (Alexandre Desplat)
  • The Last Duel (Harry Gregson-Williams)
  • Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias)
  • The Power of the Dog (Jonny Greenwood)
    (Honourable Mentions: Don't Look Up - Nicholas Britell, Encanto - Germaine Franco, King Richard - Kris Bowers, Spencer - Jonny Greenwood, The Tragedy of Macbeth - Carter Burwell)

Best Original Song

  • "Be Alive" - King Richard (Beyoncé Knowles-Carter & Dixson)
  • "Beyond the Shore" - CODA (Nick Baxter, Sian Heder, Marius de Vries & Matt Dahan)
  • "Dos Oruguitas" - Encanto (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
  • "Guns Go Bang" - The Harder They Fall (Jeymes Samuel, Kid Cudi & Jay-Z)
  • "No Time to Die" - No Time to Die (Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell)
    (Honourable Mentions: "Down to Joy" - Belfast, "Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)" - Respect, "Just Look Up" - Don't Look Up, "We Don't Talk About Bruno" - Encanto, "Your Song Saved My Life" - Sing 2)

Best Sound Design

  • Dune (Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill & Mac Ruth)
  • The Last Duel (Oliver Tarney, Paul Massey, David Giammarco, Daniel Birch & Stéphane Bucher)
  • No Time to Die (Oliver Tarney, Paul Massey, Mark Taylor & Simon Hayes) 
  • Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Emily Strong, Paul Hsu, Rob Fernandez & Paul Massey)
  • West Side Story (Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson, Tod A. Maitland & Shawn Murphy)
    (Honourable Mentions: Encanto, The Power of the Dog, A Quiet Place: Part II, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Tick, Tick... Boom!)
Best Animated Feature
  • Belle (Mamoru Hosada, Yuichiro Saito & Genki Kawamura)
  • Encanto (Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino & Clark Spencer)
  • Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström & Signe Byrge Sørensen)
  • Luca (Enrico Casarosa & Andrew Warren)
  • The Mitchells vs. The Machines (Michael Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller & Kurt Albrecht)
    (Honourable Mentions: Cryptozoo, Raya and the Last Dragon, Ron's Gone Wrong, Sing 2, Vivo)

Best Voice-Over Performance

  • Stephanie Beatriz - Encanto for voicing Mirabel
  • Zach Galifianakis - Ron's Gone Wrong for voicing Ron
  • Abbi Jacobson - The Mitchells vs. The Machines for voicing Katie Mitchell
  • Kelly Marie Tran - Raya and the Last Dragon for voicing Raya
  • Jacob Tremblay - Luca for voicing Luca Paguro
    (Honourable Mentions: Jack Dylan Grazer - Luca, Ralph Ineson - The Green Knight, John Leguizamo - Encanto, Danny McBride - The Mitchells vs. The Machines, Sylvester Stallone - The Suicide Squad)

Best Cinematography

  • Dune (Greig Fraser)
  • Nightmare Alley (Dan Lautsen)
  • The Power of the Dog (Ari Wegner)
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth (Bruno Delbonnel)
  • West Side Story (Janusz Kamiński)
    (Honourable Mentions: Belfast - Haris Zambarloukos, The Green Knight - Andrew Droz Palermo, In the Height - Alice Brooks, No Time to Die - Linus Sandgren, Spencer - Claire Mathon)

Best Film Editing

  • Don't Look Up (Hank Corwin)
  • Dune (Joe Walker)
  • King Richard (Pamela Martin)
  • Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Joshua L. Pearson)
  • Tick, Tick... Boom! (Andrew Weisblum & Myron Kerstein)
    (Honourable Mentions: Belfast - Úna Ní Dhonghaíle, CODA - Geraud Brisson, Last Night in Soho - Paul Machliss, The Power of the Dog - Peter Sciberras, West Side Story - Michael Kahn & Sarah Broshar)

Best Production Design

  • Dune (Patrice Vermette, Richard Roberts & Zsuzsanna Sipos)
  • The French Dispatch (Adam Stockhausen & Rena DeAngelo)
  • Nightmare Alley (Tamara Deverell & Shane Vieau)
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth (Stefan Dechant & Nancy Haigh)
  • West Side Story (Adam Stockhausen & Rena DeAngelo)
    (Honourable Mentions: Belfast, Cyrano, Encanto, The Power of the Dog, Spencer)

Best Costume Design

  • Cruella (Jenny Beavan)
  • Dune (Jacqueline West & Robert Morgan)
  • House of Gucci (Janty Yates)
  • Spencer (Jacqueline Durran)
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth (Mary Zophres)
    (Honourable Mentions: Cyrano, The French Dispatch, Last Night in Soho, Nightmare Alley, West Side Story)

Best Makeup or Hair

  • Dune (Donald Mowat, Love Larson & Eva von Dahr)
  • House of Gucci (Jana Carboni, Stefania Pellegrini & Göran Lundström)
  • The Last Duel (Daniel Lawson Johnston & Alexis Continente)
  • Nightmare Alley (Mike Hill, Megan Many & Sean Sansom)
  • West Side Story (Judy Chin & Kay Georgiou)
    (Honourable Mentions: Coming 2 America, Cruella, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, No Time to Die, The Suicide Squad)

Best Visual Effects

  • Dune (Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor & Gerd Nefzer)
  • Ghostbusters: Afterlife (Sheena Duggal, Alessandro Ongano, Pier Lefebvre & Raul Perez)
  • Godzilla vs. Kong (John Desjardins, Bryan Hirota, Brendan Seals & Michael Meinardus)
  • The Matrix: Resurrections (Dan Glass, Huw J Evans, Tom Debenham & J.D. Schwalm)
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Walker & Dan Oliver)
    (Honourable Mentions: Free Guy, No Time to Die, A Quiet Place Part II, Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Tomorrow War)

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