Hey everyone, here is an important update to our InSession Film Awards (Staff Picks), as we now have our winners! It was a heated battle, with no less than 5 categories being decided by less than 10 points (we use a weighted, ranking system), and 2 categories separated by a single point! We all had a great time with this and we hope you appreciate the winners. Sight unseen, I would happily put our winners up against the Academy’s any day!
Without further ado, here are the winners for the InSession Film Awards as picked by our writers and staff! Winners in bold!
Best Picture
- The Power of the Dog
- Dune
- The Green Knight
- Drive My Car
- The Worst Person in the World
- Cmon Cmon
- Pig
- Flee
- In The Heights
- Belfast
- Mass
- CODA
- tick, tick…BOOM!
- Petite Maman
- Titane
- Licorice Pizza
- West Side Story
- The Lost Daughter
- Parallel Mothers
- Luca
Best Actor
- Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
- Andrew Garfield, tick, tick…BOOM!
- Nicolas Cage, Pig
- Hidetoshi Nishijima, Drive My Car
- Peter Dinklage, Cyrano
Best Actress
- Kristen Stewart, Spencer
- Jodie Comer, The Last Duel
- Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
- Renata Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World
- Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Best Actor Supporting Role
- Jason Isaacs, Mass
- Anders Danielson Lie, The Worst Person in the World
- Troy Kotsur, CODA
- Kodi Smith-McPhee, The Power of the Dog
- Colman Domingo, Zola
Best Actress Supporting Role
- Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
- Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
- Martha Plimpton, Mass
- Ann Dowd, Mass
- Ruth Negga, Passing
Best Director
- Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
- Denis Villenueve, Dune
- Julia Ducournau, Titane
- Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
- David Lowery, The Green Knight
- Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Best Original Screenplay
- Fran Kranz, Mass
- Edson Oda, Nine Days
- Mike Mills, C’mon C’mon
- Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt, The Worst Person in the World
- Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
- Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe, Drive My Car
- David Lowery, The Green Knight
- Jon Spaihts, Denis Villenueve, and Eric Roth, Dune
- Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Best Cinematography
- Ari Wegner, The Power of the Dog
- Andrew Droz Palermo, The Green Knight
- Greig Fraser, Dune
- Claire Mathon, Spencer
- Bruno Delbonnel, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Best Documentary
- Flee
- Summer of Soul
- The Sparks Brothers
- The Rescue
- Procession
Best Foreign Language Film
- Drive My Car
- The Worst Person in the World
- Flee
- Petite Maman
- Titane
Best Animated Movie
- Flee
- The Mitchells vs. The Machines
- Luca
- Encanto
- The Summit of the Gods
Best Original Score
- Hans Zimmer, Dune
- Jonny Greenwood, The Power of the Dog
- Jonny Greenwood, Spencer
- Daniel Hart, The Green Knight
- Alexandre Desplat, The French Dispatch
Best Use of Song (Original or Pre-Existing)
- “Bye, Bye, Bye” by N’Sync, Red Rocket
- “All I Need Is A Miracle” by Mike and the Mechanics, Spencer
- “No Time To Die” by Billie Eilish, No Time To Die
- “So May We Start” by Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, Annette
- “Life on Mars?” by David Bowie, Licorice Pizza
Best Opening/Closing Credits Sequence or Scene
- No Time To Die
- Drive My Car
- Annette
- The Green Knight
- Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar
Best Overlooked Movie
- Nine Days
- Mass
- The Last Duel
- Jockey
- The Killing of Two Lovers
Best Surprise Movie
- Pig
- The Mitchells vs. The Machines
- The Green Knight
- Malignant
- The Matrix Resurrections
Best Surprise Actor/Actress
- Simon Rex, Red Rocket
- Troy Kotsur, CODA
- Emilia Jones, CODA
- Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
- Renata Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World
Best Movie Discovery
- Lauren Hadaway – Director The Novice
- Edson Oda – Director and Writer, Nine Days
- Woody Norman – Actor, Cmon Cmon
- Renata Reinsve – Actress, The Worst Person in the World
- Agatha Rouselle – Actress, Titane
