The Year in Film: 2024

Best Picture

1. Anora
2. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
3. His Three Daughters
4. Hard Truths
5. Nickel Boys
6. Last Summer
7. Daughters
8. I Saw the TV Glow
9. Good One
10. Flow

Honorable mentions: Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, Nosferatu, The Girl with the Needle, Sing Sing, The Settlers, Red Rooms, Memoir of a Snail, Matt and Mara, Robot Dreams, The Bikeriders, Dìdi, The Beast, Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, Kinds of Kindness, and The Room Next Door

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Best Director

1. Sean Baker (Anora)
2. RaMell Ross (Nickel Boys)
3. Radu Jude (Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World)
4. Denis Villeneuve (Dune: Part Two)
5. Phạm Thiên Ân (Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell)

Honorable mentions: Brady Corbet (The Brutalist), Robert Eggers (Nosferatu), Gints Zilbalodis (Flow), Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow), and Magnus von Horn (The Girl with the Needle)

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Best Actor

1. Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)
2. Mads Mikkelsen (The Promised Land)
3. Colman Domingo (Sing Sing)
4. Andre Holland (Exhibiting Forgiveness)
5. Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice)

Honorable mentions: Ralph Fiennes (Conclave), Franz Rogowski (Disco Boy), Jesse Plemons (Kinds of Kindness), Justice Smith (I Saw the TV Glow), and Hitoshi Omika (Evil Does Not Exist)

Best Actress

1. Mikey Madison (Anora)
2. Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths)
3. Saoirse Ronan (The Outrun)
4. Natasha Lyonne (His Three Daughters)
5. Renate Reinsve (Armand)

Honorable mentions: Carrie Coon (His Three Daughters), Ilinca Manolache (Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World), Tilda Swinton (The Room Next Door), and Vicky Krieps (The Dead Don’t Hurt), and Kani Kusruti (All We Imagine as Light)

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Best Supporting Actor

1. Guy Pearce (The Brutalist)
2. Yura Borisov (Anora)
3. Paapa Essiedu (The Outrun)
4. Adam Pearson (A Different Man)
5. Willem Dafoe (Nosferatu)

Honorable mentions: Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice), Samuel L. Jackson (The Piano Lesson), Barry Keoghan (Bird), Jason Schwartzman (Queer), and Endre Hellestveit (Armand)

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Best Supporting Actress

1. Michele Austin (Hard Truths)
2. Trine Dyrholm (The Girl with the Needle)
3. Tilda Swinton (Problemista)
4. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Nickel Boys)
5. Tara Mallen (Ghostlight)

Honorable mentions: Laurie Babin (Red Rooms), Ellen Dorrit Petersen (Armand), Brigette Lundy-Paine (I Saw the TV Glow), Nina Hoss (Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World), and Saoirse Ronan (Blitz)

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Best Original Screenplay

1. Anora
2. His Three Daughters
3. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
4. Hard Truths
5. I Saw the TV Glow

Honorable mentions: Good One, Dìdi, Evil Does Not Exist, The Settlers, and Armand

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Nickel Boys
2. Last Summer
3. Conclave
4. Sing Sing
5. The Beast

Honorable mentions: The Outrun, The Bikeriders, The Room Next Door, Hit Man, and I’m Still Here

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Best Cinematography

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
3. The Brutalist
4. Nosferatu
5. Furiosa

Honorable mentions: The Girl with the Needle, Nickel Boys, Challengers, Emilia Pérez, and Io Capitano

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Best Film Editing

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Furiosa
3. Civil War
4. Emelia Pérez
5. Anora

Honorable mentions: Monkey Man, The Brutalist, Nosferatu, The Girl with the Needle, Disco Boy

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Best Score

1. The Brutalist
2. Nosferatu
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Disco Boy
5. We Live in Time

Honorable mentions: Emilia Pérez, Furiosa, Red Rooms, Flow, and Blitz

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Best Song

1. “Las Damas que Pasan” (Emilia Pérez)
2. “Claw Machine” (I Saw the TV Glow)
3. “Moonlight” (I Saw the TV Glow)
4. “Para” (Emilia Pérez)
5. “Mi Camino” (Emilia Pérez)

Honorable mentions: “Photograph” (I Saw the TV Glow), “Huele a Fraude” (Problemista), “Starburned and Unkissed” (I Saw the TV Glow), “Green” (I Saw the TV Glow), and “Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl” (I Saw the TV Glow)

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Best Production Design

1. The Brutalist
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Nosferatu
4. Furiosa
5. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Honorable mentions: Conclave, The Girl with the Needle, Maria, Gladiator 2, and Wicked: Part I

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Best Costume Design

1. Nosferatu
2. Maria
3. The Substance
4. Dune: Part Two
5. Furiosa

Honorable mentions:Jeanne du Barry, Anora, Emilia Pérez, Wicked: Part I, and Challengers

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Best Makeup & Hairstyling

1. The Substance
2. Nosferatu
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Furiosa
5. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Honorable mentions: Maria, Deadpool & Wolverine, The Apprentice, Jeanne du Barry, and Wicked: Part I

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Best Sound

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Furiosa
3. Monkey Man
4. Nosferatu
5. The Brutalist

Honorable mentions: Challengers, Gladiator 2, Wicked: Part I, Twisters, and A Quiet Place: Day One

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Best Visual Effects

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Furiosa
3. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
4. Alien: Romulus
5. Gladiator 2

Honorable mentions: Nosferatu, Twisters, Deadpool & Wolverine, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and Venom: The Last Dance

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Worst Film of the Year

Borderlands

Dishonorable mentions: Aggro Dr1ft, Down Low, Y2K, Blackout, Refuge, The Deliverance, The People’s Joker, DogMan, and Poolman