56th National Society of Film Critics Awards (2021)

Best Picture

	1. Drive My Car
	2. Petite Maman
	3. The Power of the Dog

Best Director

	1. Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
	2. Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog
	3. Céline Sciamma - Petite Maman

Best Actor

	1. Hidetoshi Nishijima - Drive My Car
	2. Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog
	3. Simon Rex - Red Rocket

Best Actress

	1. Penélope Cruz - Parallel Mothers
	2. Renate Reinsve - The Worst Person in the World
	3. Alana Haim - Licorice Pizza

Best Supporting Actor

	1. Anders Danielsen Lie - The Worst Person in the World
	2. Vincent Lindon - Titane
	3. Mike Faist - West Side Story / Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Power of the Dog (TIE)

Best Supporting Actress

	1. Ruth Negga - Passing
	2. Ariana DeBose - West Side Story
	3. Jessie Buckley - The Lost Daughter

Best Screenplay

	1. Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe - Drive My Car
	2. Pedro Almodóvar - Parallel Mothers
	3. Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza

Best Cinematography

	1. Andrew Droz Palermo - The Green Knight
	2. Ari Wegner - The Power of the Dog
	3. Sayombhu Mukdeeprom - Memoria

Best Foreign Language Film

Not awarded because the year's Best Picture was a foreign language film: Drive My Car (Japan)

Best Non-Fiction Film

	1. Flee
	2. Procession / The Velvet Underground (TIE)