2021–2022 Film Awards and Nominees

The following women have received awards or nominations for their work in cinema throughout the 2021–2022 awards season. List updated regularly.

April 2 & May 6, 2022: 33rd GLAAD Media Awards

• Outstanding Film – Wide Release: Eternals – Chloé Zhao, director
• Outstanding Film – Limited Release: Parallel Mothers – Esther García, producer
• Outstanding Documentary: Changing the Game – Clare Tucker, producer

[Full list of winners, including for television and other categories, available here.]

March 27, 2022: 94th Academy Awards

• Directing: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
• Lead Actress: Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
• Adapted Screenplay: Siân Heder, CODA
• Animated Feature: Encanto – Yvett Merino
• Original Song: “No Time to Die,” No Time to Die – Billie Eilish
• Production Design: Dune – Zsuzsanna Sipos
• Costume Design: Cruella – Jenny Beavan
• Makeup & Hairstyling: The Eyes of Tammy Faye – Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram

March 20, 2022: Writers Guild Awards

• Adapted Screenplay: CODA, Siân Heder

[Full list of winners, including for television and other categories, available here.]

March 20, 2022: 36th American Society of Cinematographers’ Awards

• Documentary: Faya Dayi, Jessica Beshir

[Full list of winners, including for television categories, available here.]

March 19, 2022: 33rd Producers Guild Awards

• Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures: Encanto – Yvett Merino

[Full list of winners, including for television categories, available here.]

March 19, 2022: 58th Cinema Audio Society Awards

• Motion Pictures – Documentary: Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) – Emily Strong, production mixer

March 15, 2022: National Board of Review Awards

• Best Film: Licorice Pizza – Sara Murphy, producer
• Best Actress: Rachel Zegler, West Side Story
• Best Supporting Actress: Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
• Breakthrough Performance: Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
• Best Animated Feature: Encanto – Yvett Merino, producer
• Best Ensemble: The Harder They Fall – Zazie Beetz, Regina King, Danielle Deadwyler
• NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Flee – Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Charlotte De La Gournerie, producers
• Top Films
  • Belfast – Laura Berwick, Becca Kovacik, Tamar Thomas, producers
  • Dune – Mary Parent, producer
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth – Frances McDormand, producer
  • West Side Story – Kristie Macosko Krieger, producer
• Top Foreign Language Films
  • Lamb – Zuzanna Hencz, Sara Nassim, Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska, producers
  • Lingui, The Sacred Bonds – Florence Stern, producer
  • Titane – Julia Ducournau, director
  • The Worst Person in the World – Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, producer
• Top Documentaries
  • Ascension – Jessica Kingdon, director/producer; Kira Simon-Kennedy, producer
  • Attica – Traci A. Curry, director/producer
  • Flee – Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Charlotte De La Gournerie, producers
  • The Rescue – Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, director/producer
  • Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain – Caitrin Rogers, producer
• Top Independent Films
  • The Card Counter – Lauren Mann, producer
  • C’mon C’mon – Chelsea Barnard, Lila Yacoub, Andrea Longacre-White, producers
  • CODA – Siân Heder, director
  • The Green Knight – Theresa Steele Page, producer
  • Holler – Nicole Riegel, director; Rachel Gould, Katie McNeill, Christy Spitzer Thornton, producers
  • Jockey – Nancy Schafer, producer
  • Pig – Vanessa Block, Dimitra Tsingou, Dori A. Rath, producers
  • Shiva Baby – Emma Seligman, director; Katie Schiller, Lizzie Shapiro, producers
  • The Souvenir Part II – Joanna Hogg, director/producer; Emma Norton, producer

March 13, 2022: BAFTA Film Awards

• Best Film: The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian
• Outstanding British Film: Belfast – Laura Berwick, Becca Kovacik, Tamar Thomas
• Animated Film: Encanto – Yvett Merino
• Director: The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion
• Adapted Screenplay: CODA, Siân Heder
• Leading Actress: Joanna Scanlan, After Love
• Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
• Casting: West Side Story – Cindy Tolan
• Production Design: Dune – Zsuzsanna Sipos
• Costume Design: Cruella, Jenny Beavan
• Make Up & Hair: The Eyes of Tammy Faye – Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram
• British Short Film: The Black Cop – Cherish Oteka
• EE Rising Star Award: Lashana Lynch

March 13, 2022: 27th Critics Choice Awards

• Best Picture: The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, director, producer; Tanya Seghatchian, producer
• Best Director: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
• Best Adapted Screenplay: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
• Best Actress: Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• Best Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
• Best Acting Ensemble: Belfast – Caitríona Balfe, Judi Dench
• Best Cinematography: Ari Wegner, The Power of the Dog
• Best Production Design: Dune, Zsuzsanna Sipos
• Best Editing: West Side Story, Sarah Broshar
• Best Costume Design: Cruella, Jenny Beavan
• Best Hair and Makeup: The Eyes of Tammy Faye – Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram
• Best Comedy: Licorice Pizza – Sara Murphy, producer
• Best Song: “No Time to Die,” No Time to Die – Billie Eilish

[Full list of winners, including for television categories, available here.]

March 13, 2022: 69th Motion Picture Sound Editors’ Golden Reel Awards

• Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Animation: Raya and the Last Dragon – Nia Hansen, sound designer; Shelley Roden MPSE, foley artist
• Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Documentary: The Rescue – Deborah Wallach, supervising sound editor
• Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Foreign Language Feature: Cliff Walkers – Zhao Nan MPSE, supervising sound editor; Ann Scibelli, Zio’ou Olivia Zhang MPSE, sound editors
• Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Dialogue / ADR: Nightmare Alley – Jill Purdy MPSE, supervising sound editor, supervising dialogue editor, supervising ADR editor
• Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Effects / Foley: Dune – Sandra Fox, foley artist
• Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Student Film (Verna Fields Award): Build Me Up – Wong Hui Grace, supervising sound editor

[Full list of winners, including for television and other categories, available here.]

March 12, 2022: 74th Directors Guild Awards

• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film: The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion
• Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director: The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal

Full list of winners, including for television categories, here.

March 12, 2022: 49th Annie Awards

• Independent Feature: Flee – Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Charlotte de La Gournerie, producers
• Voice Acting, Feature: Abbi Jacobson, The Mitchells vs. The Machines
• Character Design, Feature: The Mitchells vs. The Machines, Lindsey Olivares
• Production Design, Feature: The Mitchells vs. The Machines, Lindsey Olivares
• Music, Feature: Encanto, Germaine Franco’
• Student Film: Night of the Living Dread – Ida Melum, director; Danielle Goff, producer
• Winsor McCay Award: Lillian Schwartz

[Full list of winners, including for television and other categories, available here.]

March 11, 2022: AFI Awards

• Movies of the Year
  • CODA – Siân Heder, director
  • Dune – Mary Parent, producer
  • Licorice Pizza – Sara Murphy, producer
  • The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, director, producer; Tanya Seghatchian, producer
  • tick, tick… BOOM! – Julie Oh, producer
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth – Frances McDormand, producer
  • West Side Story – Krystie Macosko Krieger, producer

For AFI’s television programs of the year, click here.

March 9, 2022: 24th Costume Designers Guild Awards

• Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film: Dune – Jacqueline West
• Excellence in Contemporary Film: Coming 2 America – Ruth E. Carter
• Excellence in Period Film: Cruella – Jenny Beavan

[Full list of winners, including for television and other categories, available here.]

March 8: 2022: 3rd Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards

• Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film: Encanto, Germaine Franco
• Outstanding Original Song for a Musical/Comedy: “Just Look Up” from Don’t Look Up, Ariana Grande, Taura Stinson
• Outstanding Original Song for a Drama/Documentary: “No Time to Die” from No Time to Die, Billie Eilish

[Full list of winners, including for television and other categories, available here.]

March 8, 2022: Visual Effects Society Awards

• Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature: Encanto, Mirabel Madrigal – Kelly McClanahan, Mary Twohig
• Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature: Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Mirror Dimension – Claire Le Teuff
• Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature: Encanto, Antonio’s Room – Camille Andre
• Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project: Dune, Royal Ornithopter – Anna Yamazoe, Rachael Dunk
• Outstanding Effects Simulation in an Animated Feature: Raya and the Last Dragon – Le Joyce Tong
• Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project: Green – Camille Poiriez, Arielle Cohen, Eloise Thibault

[Full list of winners, including for television and other categories, available here.]

March 6, 2022: 37th Film Independent Spirit Awards

• Best Feature: The Lost Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal, director, producer; Osnat Handelsman-Keren, Talia Kleinhendler, producers
• Best Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
• Best First Feature: 7 Days – Liz Cardenas, Mel Eslyn, producers
• Best Female Lead: Taylour Paige, Zola
• Best Supporting Female: Ruth Negga, Passing
• Best Screenplay:The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal
• Best First Screenplay: Pig – Story by Vanessa Block
• Best Editing: Zola, Joi McMillon
• Truer Than Fiction Award: Faya Dayi – Jessica Beshir
• John Cassavetes Award: Shiva Baby – Emma Seligman, director, producer, writer; Katie Schiller, Lizzie Shapiro, producers
• Producers Award: Lizzie Shapiro
• Robert Altman Award – The Director, Cast, and Casting Director of Mass, including casting by Allison Estrin and actors Martha Plimpton, Ann Dowd, Michelle N. Carter, and Breeda Wool

[Full list of winners, including for television series, available here.]

March 5, 2022: 26th Art Directors Guild Awards

• Period Feature Film: Nightmare Alley, Tamara Deverell
• Animated Feature Film: Encanto, Lorelay Bové

[Full list of winners, including for television categories, available here.]

March 5, 2022: 72nd ACE Eddie Awards

• Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic): King Richard, Pamela Martin

[Full list of winners, including for television and other categories, available here.]

March 4, 2022: 37th International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards

• Best Feature: Flee – Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Charlotte De La Gournerie, producers
• Best Cinematography: Faya Dayi, Jessica Beshir
• Pioneer Award: Jean Tsien
• Courage Under Fire Award: Rintu Thomas, Writing With Fire
• Pare Lorentz Award: The First Wave – Jenna Millman, Leslie Norville, producers
  • Honorable Mention: Tigre Gente – Elizabeth Unger, director/producer; Joanna Natasegara, producer
• Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award: Cecilia Aldarondo
• David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award: Seahorse – Nele Dehnenkamp, director/producer; Chirstine Duttlinger, producer

[Full list of winners, including for episodic and other categories, available here.]

March 2, 2022: 13th African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) Awards

• Best Actress: Jennifer Hudson, Respect
• Best Supporting Actress: Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
• Breakout Actor: Saniyya Sidney, King Richard
• Best Ensemble: The Harder They Fall –
• Best Independent Feature: Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America – Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler, directors/producers; Vanessa Hope, producer
• The Stanley Kramer Award for Social Justice: Attica Co-Director Traci Curry
• Building Change Award: Roxanne Avent-Taylor, The Hidden Empire Film Group

February 27, 2022: 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards

• Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role: Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
• Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture: CODA – Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin
• Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture: No Time to Die
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Helen Mirren

[Full list of winners, including for television series, available here.]

February 26, 2022: NAACP Image Awards

• Entertainer of the Year: Jennifer Hudson
• Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Jennifer Hudson, Respect
• Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Regina King, The Harder They Fall
• Outstanding Independent Motion Picture: CODA – Siân Heder, director
• Outstanding Documentary (Film): Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power – Abby Ginzberg, director; Joslyn Rose Lyons, producer
• Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture: The Harder They Fall – Zazie Beetz, Regina King, Danielle Deadwyler
• Outstanding Animated Motion Picture: Encanto – Charise Castro-Smith, co-director; Yvett Merino, producer
• Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance – Motion Picture: Letitia Wright, Sing 2
• Outstanding Short-Form (Live Action): When the Sun Sets – Phumi Morare, director; Christine H. Cho, producer

[Full list of winners, including for television and other categories, available here.]

February 26, 2022: 34th USC Libraries Scripter Awards

Film Adaptation: The Lost Daughter by Maggie Gyllenhaal, based on the novel by Elena Ferrante

February 6, 2022: London Critics’ Circle Film Awards

• Film of the Year: The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, director, producer; Tanya Seghatchian, producer
• Director of the Year: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
• Actress of the Year: Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
• Supporting Actress of the Year: Ruth Negga, Passing
• British/Irish Actress of the Year (for Body of Work): Tilda Swinton, Memoria, The Souvenir: Part II, The French Dispatch
• The Attenborough Award: British/Irish Film of the Year: The Souvenir: Part II – Joanna Hogg, director, producer; Emma Norton, producer
• The Philip French Award: Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker: Rebecca Hall, Passing

[Full list of nominees, including for television series, available here.]

January 9, 2022: 79th Golden Globe Awards

• Best Motion Picture, Drama: The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, director, producer; Tanya Seghatchian, producer
• Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy: West Side Story – Kristie Macosko Krieger, producer
• Best Director, Motion Picture: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
• Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama: Nicole Kidman, Being the Ricardos
• Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy: Rachel Zegler, West Side Story
• Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
• Best Motion Picture, Animated: Encanto – Yvett Merino, producer
• Best Original Song, Motion Picture: “No Time to Die,” No Time to Die, Billie Eilish

[Full list of winners, including for television series, available here.]

January 8, 2022: National Society of Film Critics Awards

• Best Actress: Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
• Best Supporting Actress: Ruth Negga, Passing
• Best Nonfiction Film: Flee – Monica Hellstrøm, Signe Byrge Sørensen, producers

January 7, 2022: 22nd AFI Awards

• AFI Movies of the Year
  • CODA – Siân Heder, director
  • Dune – Mary Parent, producer
  • Licorice Pizza – Sara Murphy, producer
  • The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, director, producer; Tanya Seghatchian, producer
  • tick, tick… BOOM! – Julie Oh, producer
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth – Frances McDormand, producer
  • West Side Story – Kristie Macosko Krieger, producer
• AFI Special Award
  • Belfast – Laura Berwick, Becca Kovacik, Tamar Thomas, producers

[Full list of winners, including for television series, available here.]

December 15, 2021: Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

• Best Picture: The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, director, producer; Tanya Seghatchian, producer
• Best Director: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
• Best Actress: Kristen Stewart, Spencer
• Best Supporting Actress: Ruth Negga, Passing
• Best Adapted Screenplay: The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion
• Best Animated Film: Flee – Monica Hellstrøm, Signe Byrge Sørensen, producers
• Best Art Direction/Production Design: The French Dispatch – Rena DeAngelo, set decorator
• Best Cinematography: The Power of the Dog, Ari Wegner
• Best Costume Design: Spencer, Jacqueline Durran
• Most Promising Performer: Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza

November 29, 2021: 31st Gotham Awards

• Best Feature: The Lost Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal, director; Osnat Handelsman Keren, Talia Kleinhendler, Maggie Gyllenhaal, producers
• Best Documentary Feature: Flee – Monica Hellstrøm, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Charlotte De La Gournerie, producers
• Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award: Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
• Best Screenplay: The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal
• Outstanding Lead Performance: Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter (tie)
• Breakthrough Performer: Emilia Jones, CODA
• Director’s Tribute: Jane Campion
• Performer Tribute: Kristen Stewart
• Ensemble Tribute: the cast of The Harder They Fall, including Zazie Beetz, Danielle Deadwyler, and Regina King
• Icon Tribute: Kathleen Collins

[Full list of winners, including for television series, available here.]

September 18, 2021: 46th Toronto International Film Festival Awards

• People’s Choice Documentary Award: The Rescue, E. Chai Vasarhelyi
• People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award: Titane, Julia Ducournau
• TIFF Tribute Actor Awards: Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• Special Tribute Award: Dionne Warwick, Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over
• TIFF Emerging Talent Award: Danis Goulet, Night Raiders
• Platform Prize: Yuni, Kamila Andini
• Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media: Alanis Obomsawin
• Shawn Mendes Foundation Changemaker Award: Scarborough, Shasha Nakhai
• Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film: Ste. Anne, Rhayne Vermette
• Amplify Voices Award: A Night of Knowing Nothing, Payal Kapadia
• TIFF Variety Artisan Award: Cinematographer Ari Wegner, The Power of the Dog
• IMDbPro Short Cuts Share Her Journey Award: Astel, Ramata-Toulaye Sy

September 11, 2021: 78th Venice International Film Festival Awards

• Golden Lion: Happening, Audrey Diwan
• Silver Lion for Best Director: The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion
• Best Actress: Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
• Best Screenplay: The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal