2021 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Ballot

Best Picture
1. Drive My Car
2. Memoria
3. Days

Best Director
1. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Memoria
2. Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, Drive My Car
3. Tsai Ming-liang, Days

Best Actor
1. Nishijima Hidetoshi, Drive My Car
2. Lee Kang-sheng, Days
3. Adam Driver, Annette

Best Actress
1. Tilda Swinton, Memoria
2. Miura Tōko, Drive My Car
3. Léa Seydoux, France

Best Supporting Actor
1. Elkin Díaz, Memoria
2. Okada Masaki, Drive My Car
3. Mike Faist, West Side Story

Best Supporting Actress
1. Park Yu-rim, Drive My Car
2. Urabe Fusako, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
3. Kirishima Reika, Drive My Car

Best Screenplay
1. Hamaguchi Ryūsuke & Oe Takamasa, Drive My Car
2. Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
3. Hong Sang-soo, The Woman Who Ran

Best Cinematography
1. Anders Edström, The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
2. Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Memoria
3. Janusz Kamiński, West Side Story

Best Production Design
1. Stefan Dechant, The Tragedy of Macbeth
2. Ataka Norifumi, Wife of a Spy
3. Adam Stockhausen, The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

Best Editing
1. Alexandre Koberidze, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
2. C.W. Winter, The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
3. Ōbayashi Nobuhiko & Sanbongi Hisaki, Labyrinth of Cinema

Best Music Score
1. Ishibashi Eiko, Drive My Car
2. Giorgi Koberidze, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
3. Jason Lytle, The Witches of the Orient

Best Film Not in the English Language
1. Memoria
2. Days
3. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
1. Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream
2. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
3. Procession

Best Animation
1. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time

New Generation Award
1. Alexandre Koberidze, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
2. Déa Kulumbegashvili, Beginning
3. Alana Haim & Cooper Hoffman, Licorice Pizza

Career Achievement
1. Paul Vecchiali
2. Nakadai Tatsuya
3. Claire Denis

The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award
1. C.W. Winter & Anders Edström’s The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
2. Frank Beauvais’s Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream
3. Sky Hopinka’s małni — towards the ocean, towards the shore