The ballots have been counted for the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association’s seventh annual end-of-year Film Awards. We’ve chosen the below films as our collective favorites after engaging in a weighted scale voting process for Best Picture and fifteen other major categories. Potential titles/artists were restricted to those films released first-run theatrically/streaming in the United States during the 2024 calendar year.
Leading the way are CHALLENGER (4 wins, including Best Picture) and SING SING (3 wins).
The 2024 GWNYFCA Film Awards Winners:
BEST PICTURE:
- Anora
- The Brutalist
- Challengers – **WINNER**
- Dune: Part Two
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- I Saw the TV Glow
- Nickel Boys
- No Other Land
- Nosferatu
- A Real Pain
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
- All We Imagine as Light (India)
- Evil Does Not Exist (Japan)
- Kneecap (Ireland)
- No Other Land (Palestine) – **WINNER**
- Red Rooms (Canada)
BEST ANIMATED FILM:
- Flow
- Inside Out 2
- Memoir of a Snail
- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- The Wild Robot – **WINNER**
BEST DOCUMENTARY:
- Daughters
- No Other Land – **WINNER**
- The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
- Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
- Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
BEST DIRECTOR:
- Sean Baker, Anora
- Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
- Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
- Luca Guadagnino, Challengers – **WINNER**
- RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys
LEAD ACTOR:
- Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
- Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
- Colman Domingo, Sing Sing – **WINNER**
- Hugh Grant, Heretic
- Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight
LEAD ACTRESS:
- Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths – **WINNER**
- Mikey Madison, Anora
- Demi Moore, The Substance
- Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
SUPPORTING ACTOR:
- Yura Borisov, Anora
- Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain – **WINNER**
- Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
- Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
- Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
- Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
- Joan Chen, Dìdi
- Ariana Grande, Wicked
- Natasha Lyonne, His Three Daughters – **WINNER**
- Margaret Qualley, The Substance
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
- Anora (Sean Baker)
- The Brutalist (Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold)
- Challengers (Justin Kuritzkes)
- A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)
- A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg) – **WINNER**
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
- Conclave (Peter Straughan)
- Hit Man (Richard Linklater & Glen Powell)
- Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes)
- Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader)
- Sing Sing (Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar / story by Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley, Clarence Maclin & John Whitfield) – **WINNER**
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
- The Brutalist (Lol Crawley)
- Challengers (Sayombhu Mukdeeprom)
- Dune: Part Two (Greig Fraser)
- Nickel Boys (Jomo Fray)
- Nosferatu (Jarin Blaschke) – **WINNER**
BEST EDITING:
- The Brutalist (David Jancso)
- Challengers (Marco Costa) – **WINNER**
- Dune: Part Two (Joe Walker)
- Nickel Boys (Nicholas Monsour)
- Saturday Night (Nathan Orloff & Shane Reid)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
- The Brutalist (Daniel Blumberg)
- Challengers (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross) – **WINNER**
- Conclave (Volker Bertelman)
- Nosferatu (Robin Carolan)
- The Wild Robot (Kris Bowers)
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE:
- Yura Borisov, Anora
- Lily Collias, Good One
- Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing – **WINNER**
- Mikey Madison, Anora
- Izaac Wang, Dìdi
BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR:
- India Donaldson, Good One
- Vera Drew, The People’s Joker
- Josh Margolin, Thelma
- RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys – **WINNER**
- Aaron Schimberg, A Different Man
Greater WNY Film Critics Association
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