The 26th Annual OFTA Film Award Nominees

This past Sunday, the Online Film & Television Association (OFTA) announced the nominees for the 26th Annual OFTA Film Awards.

Please note: I am an OFTA member, so some of my picks might appear here. You can read what I nominated here.

So, without further ado, here is what OFTA nominated. As with all nominees and winners articles, review links will be included.

Best Picture (listed in preferential order)

  1. Belfast

  2. CODA

  3. Drive My Car

  4. Dune: Part One

  5. Licorice Pizza

  6. The Power of the Dog

  7. Spencer

  8. tick, tick...BOOM!

  9. Titane

  10. West Side Story

Best Animated Feature (listed in alphabetical order)

  • Encanto

  • Flee

  • Luca

  • The Mitchells vs. the Machines

  • Raya and the Last Dragon

Best Actor

  • Nicolas Cage – Pig

  • Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog

  • Andrew Garfield – tick, tick…BOOM!

  • Will Smith – King Richard

  • Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best Actress

  • Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye

  • Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter

  • Penelope Cruz – Parallel Mothers

  • Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World

  • Kristen Stewart – Spencer

Best Supporting Actor

  • Mike Faist – West Side Story

  • Ciaran Hinds – Belfast

  • Jason Isaacs – Mass

  • Troy Kotsur – CODA

  • Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog

Best Supporting Actress

  • Ariana DeBose – West Side Story

  • Ann Dowd – Mass

  • Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog

  • Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard

  • Ruth Negga – Passing

Best Youth Performance

  • Jude Hill – Belfast

  • Cooper Hoffman – Licorice Pizza

  • Emilia Jones – CODA

  • Woody Norman – C’mon C’mon

  • Saniyya Sidney – King Richard

Best Breakthrough Performance: Male

  • David Alvarez – West Side Story

  • Robin de Jesus – tick, tick…BOOM!

  • Mike Faist – West Side Story

  • Troy Kotsur – CODA

  • Anthony Ramos – In the Heights

Best Breakthrough Performance: Female

  • Jodie Comer – The Last Duel

  • Ariana DeBose – West Side Story

  • Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza

  • Emilia Jones – CODA

  • Rachel Zegler – West Side Story

Best Voice-Over Performance

  • Stephanie Beatriz – Encanto

  • Jack Dylan Grazer – Luca

  • Abbi Jacobson – The Mitchells vs. the Machines

  • Kelly Marie Tran – Raya and the Last Dragon

  • Jacob Tremblay – Luca

Best Ensemble

  • Belfast

  • Dune: Part One

  • The Harder They Fall

  • Mass

  • The Power of the Dog

Best Casting

  • CODA

  • Dune: Part One

  • Mass

  • Nightmare Alley

  • The Power of the Dog

Best Director

  • Kenneth Branagh – Belfast

  • Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog

  • Julia Ducouranu – Titane

  • Steven Spielberg – West Side Story

  • Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part One

Best Feature Debut

  • Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter

  • Rebecca Hall – Passing

  • Fran Kranz – Mass

  • Lin-Manuel Miranda – tick, tick…BOOM!

  • Michael Sarnoski – Pig

Best Original Screenplay

  • Belfast

  • Don’t Look Up

  • Licorice Pizza

  • Mass

  • Pig

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • CODA

  • Drive My Car

  • Dune: Part One

  • Passing

  • The Power of the Dog

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Drive My Car

  • Flee

  • Parallel Mothers

  • Titane

  • The Worst Person in the World

Best Documentary

  • Flee

  • Procession

  • The Rescue

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

  • Val

Best Original Score

Best Original Song

  • Beyond the Shore – CODA

  • Guns Go Bang – The Harder They Fall

  • No Time to Die – No Time to Die

  • So May We Start – Annette

  • We Don’t Talk About Bruno – Encanto

Best Adapted Song

  • 30/90 – tick, tick…BOOM!

  • 96,000 – In the Heights

  • America – West Side Story

  • Both Sides Now – CODA

  • Downtown – Last Night in Soho

Best Film Editing

  • Belfast

  • Dune: Part One

  • The Power of the Dog

  • tick, tick…BOOM!

  • West Side Story

Best Cinematography

  • Dune: Part One

  • The Power of the Dog

  • Spencer

  • The Tragedy of Macbeth

  • West Side Story

Best Production Design

  • Dune: Part One

  • The French Dispatch

  • Last Night in Soho

  • Nightmare Alley

  • West Side Story

Best Costume Design

  • Cruella

  • Dune: Part One

  • House of Gucci

  • Spencer

  • West Side Story

Best Makeup and Hair

Best Sound

Best Sound Effects

  • Dune: Part One

  • The Matrix Resurrections

  • No Time to Die

  • A Quiet Place Part II

  • Spider-Man: No Way Home

Best Visual Effects

  • Dune: Part One

  • Eternals

  • The Matrix Resurrections

  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

  • Spider-Man: No Way Home

Best Stunt Coordination

  • Dune: Part One

  • The Matrix Resurrections

  • No Time to Die

  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

  • Spider-Man: No Way Home

Best Titles Sequence

  • Black Widow

  • Don’t Look Up – Closing Credits

  • The French Dispatch

  • The Harder They Fall

  • No Time to Die – Opening Credits

Most Cinematic Moment

  • Annette – The Prison Farewell

  • CODA – Her Dad Hears Her Singing

  • Dune: Part One – Arrival on Arrakis

  • Dune: Part One – The Sandworm First Appears

  • In the Heights – 96,000

Best Movie Trailer

  • Dune: Part One – Trailer #1

  • Dune: Part One – Final Trailer

  • Last Night in Soho – Trailer #1

  • Licorice Pizza – Trailer #1

  • The Matrix Resurrections – Trailer #1

Best Movie Poster

  • Dune: Part One

  • The French Dispatch

  • Last Night in Soho

  • Parallel Mothers

  • Spencer

Nominated Movie Posters

Nominated Movie Trailers

What do you think of the nominees? What have you seen? What haven't you seen? What do you think got snubbed? Let me know in the comments below!

Until next time!

Thanks to Thomas Stoneham-Judge from Movies For Reel, Shane Conto, Joseph Davis, David Walters, Ambula Bula, and Matthew Simpson for supporting Austin B Media on Patreon!

Austin Belzer

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