20th San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards (2021)

Best Picture

	The Power of the Dog
	Drive My Car
	The Green Knight
	Licorice Pizza
	West Side Story

Best Director

	Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog
	Maggie Gyllenhaal - The Lost Daughter
	Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Drive My Car
	Steven Spielberg - West Side Story
	Denis Villeneuve - Dune

Best Actor

	Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog as Phil Burbank
	Nicolas Cage - Pig as Robin "Rob" Feld
	Andrew Garfield - tick, tick... BOOM! as Jonathan Larson
	Hidetoshi Nishijima - Drive My Car as Yūsuke Kafuku
	Will Smith - King Richard as Richard Williams
	Denzel Washington - The Tragedy of Macbeth as Lord Macbeth

Best Actress

	Olivia Colman - The Lost Daughter as Leda Caruso
	Jessica Chastain - The Eyes of Tammy Faye as Tammy Faye Bakker
	Penélope Cruz - Parallel Mothers as Janis Martinez
	Kristen Stewart - Spencer as Diana, Princess of Wales
	Tessa Thompson - Passing as Irene "Reenie" Redfield

Best Supporting Actor

	Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Power of the Dog as Peter Gordon
	Bradley Cooper - Licorice Pizza as Jon Peters
	Ciarán Hinds - Belfast as Pop
	Troy Kotsur - CODA as Frank Rossi
	J. K. Simmons - Being the Ricardos as William Frawley

Best Supporting Actress

	Kirsten Dunst - The Power of the Dog as Rose Gordon
	Jessie Buckley - The Lost Daughter as Young Leda Caruso
	Ariana DeBose - West Side Story as Anita
	Marlee Matlin - CODA as Jackie Rossi
	Ruth Negga - Passing as Clare Bellew

Best Adapted Screenplay

	Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog
	Maggie Gyllenhaal - The Lost Daughter
	Rebecca Hall - Passing
	Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe - Drive My Car
	Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts, and Denis Villeneuve - Dune

Best Original Screenplay

	Mike Mills - C'mon C'mon
	Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza
	Kenneth Branagh - Belfast
	Adam McKay and David Sirota - Don't Look Up
	Aaron Sorkin - Being the Ricardos

Best Film Editing

	Peter Sciberras - The Power of the Dog
	Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn - West Side Story
	Úna Ní Dhonghaíle - Belfast
	Andy Jurgensen - Licorice Pizza
	Joe Walker - Dune

Best Cinematography

	Bruno Delbonnel - The Tragedy of Macbeth
	Greig Fraser - Dune
	Janusz Kamiński - West Side Story
	Dan Laustsen - Nightmare Alley
	Andrew Droz Palermo - The Green Knight
	Ari Wegner - The Power of the Dog
	Robert Yeoman - The French Dispatch

Best Production Design

	Tamara Deverell - Nightmare Alley
	Stefan Dechant - The Tragedy of Macbeth
	Jade Healy - The Green Knight
	Adam Stockhausen - The French Dispatch
	Patrice Vermette - Dune

Best Original Score

	Jonny Greenwood - The Power of the Dog
	Alexandre Desplat - The French Dispatch
	Jonny Greenwood - Spencer
	Daniel Hart - The Green Knight
	Hans Zimmer - Dune

Best Foreign Language Film

	Drive My Car
	Flee
	A Hero
	Parallel Mothers
	The Worst Person in the World

Best Documentary Feature

	Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
	Flee
	Procession
	The Rescue
	The Velvet Underground

Best Animated Feature

	Encanto
	Belle
	Flee (Honorable Mention)
	Luca
	The Mitchells vs. the Machines