The Online Film Critics Society — of which I am a member — has announced the winners of its 2024 awards. Links here go to my reviews, with reviews to come for more of those I haven’t yet reviewed. (I have a lot of writing to do!)
And the nominees and winners are:
Best Picture
Anora | WINNER
The Brutalist
Challengers
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
I Saw the TV Glow
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked
Best Animated Feature
Flow | WINNER
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Best Directing
Sean Baker – Anora
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance | WINNER
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two
Best Actor
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave | WINNER
Sebastian Stan – A Different Man
Best Actress
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
Mikey Madison – Anora | WINNER
Demi Moore – The Substance
Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here
Best Supporting Actor
Yura Borisov – Anora
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain | WINNER
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Best Supporting Actress
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys
Ariana Grande-Butera – Wicked
Margaret Qualley – The Substance | WINNER
Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez
Best Original Screenplay
Anora | WINNER
The Brutalist
Challengers
A Real Pain
The Substance
Best Adapted Screenplay
Conclave | WINNER
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
Sing Sing
Best Editing
Anora
Challengers | WINNER
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Best Cinematography
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two | WINNER
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
Best Original Score
The Brutalist
Challengers | WINNER
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
The Wild Robot
Best Production Design
The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two | WINNER
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Nosferatu
Wicked
Best Costume Design
Conclave
Dune: Part Two | WINNER
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Nosferatu
Wicked
Best Visual Effects
Dune: Part Two | WINNER
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
The Substance
Wicked
Best Debut Feature
Annie Baker – Janet Planet
India Donaldson – Good One
Vera Drew – The People’s Joker | WINNER
Anna Kendrick – Woman of the Hour
Josh Margolin – Thelma
Best Film Not in the English Language
All We Imagine as Light | WINNER
Emilia Pérez
Flow
I’m Still Here
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Best Documentary
Dahomey | WINNER
Daughters
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane
Will & Harper
Technical Achievement Awards (all are winners)
Choreography – Wicked
Makeup and/or Hairstyling – A Different Man
Makeup and/or Hairstyling – The Substance
Sound – Dune: Part Two
Stunts – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Lifetime Achievement Awards (all are winners)
Rick Baker
David Cronenberg
Clint Eastwood
Elaine May
Christine Vachon
Special Achievement Awards (all are winners)
Ava DuVernay, for brilliant work of her own and for supporting a new generation of female filmmakers
Barbara Crampton, super supporter of indie first time filmmakers
Nicolas Cage, for his infinite capacity to constantly surprise everyone
Non-U.S. Releases (all are winners)
Acting (Sophie Fiennes, United Kingdom)
The Adamant Girl (PS Vinothraj, India)
Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan)
Direct Action (Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell, France)
Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story (Luck Razanajaona, Madagascar)
Dying (Matthias Glasner, Germany)
I’m Not Everything I Want To Be (Klára Tasovská, Czech Republic)
The Moon is Upsidex Down (Loren Taylor, New Zealand)
The Other Way Around (Jonas Trueba, Spain)
Subject: Filmmaking (Jörg Adolph & Edgar Reitz, Germany)
