Critics Awards (Film)

2024 Columbus Film Critics Association (CFCA) Nominations

Erik Anderson December 29, 2024

The Columbus Film Critics Association (CFCA) has announced the nominees for its 23rd annual awards where Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist leads with 10, followed by Dune: Part Two, Nosferatu and The Substance with eight, followed by Anora, Conclave and Nickel Boys with seven.

Winners will be announced on January 2nd, 2025. Here is the complete list of nominations.

Best Film

Anora
The Brutalist
Challengers
Civil War
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Love Lies Bleeding
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
Sing Sing
The Substance

Best Director

Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Robert Eggers, Nosferatu
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys
Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two

Best Lead Performance

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Lily-Rose Depp, Nosferatu
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked: Part I
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Sebastian Stan, A Different Man

Best Supporting Performance

Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Nickel Boys
Ariana Grande-Butera, Wicked: Part I
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Margaret Qualley, The Substance
Zoe Saldana, Emilia Pérez
Bill Skarsgård, Nosferatu
Stanley Tucci, Conclave
Denzel Washington, Gladiator II

Best Ensemble

Anora
Challengers
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
The Piano Lesson
Sing Sing
Wicked: Part I

Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)

Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown and Dune: Part Two
Nicholas Hoult, The Garfield Movie, Juror #2, Nosferatu, and The Order
Cailee Spaeny, Alien: Romulus and Civil War
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice and A Different Man
Zendaya, Challengers and Dune: Part Two

Breakthrough Film Artist

Brady Corbet, The Brutalist – (for directing and screenwriting)
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance – (for directing, film editing, and screenwriting)
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing – (for acting)
Mikey Madison, Anora – (for acting)
Dev Patel, Monkey Man – (for acting, directing, producing, and screenwriting)

Best Cinematography

Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu
Lol Crawley, The Brutalist
Greig Fraser, Dune: Part Two
Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys
Benjamin Kracun, The Substance

Best Film Editing

Sean Baker, Anora
Marco Costa, Challengers
Jerome Eltabet, Coralie Fargeat, and Valentin Féron, The Substance
Nick Emerson, Conclave
Dávid Jancsó, The Brutalist
Nicholas Monsour, Nickel Boys

Best Adapted Screenplay

Robert Eggers, Nosferatu
RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes, Nickel Boys
Chris Sanders, The Wild Robot
Peter Straughan, Conclave
Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, Dune: Part Two

Best Original Screenplay

Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Justin Kuritzkes, Challengers

Best Score

Volker Bertelmann, Conclave
Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist
Kris Bowers, The Wild Robot
Robin Carolan, Nosferatu
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers
Hans Zimmer, Dune: Part Two

Best Documentary

Daughters
No Other Land
Sugarcane
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Will & Harper

Best Foreign Language Film

All We Imagine as Light
Emilia Pérez
Evil Does Not Exist (Aku wa sonzai shinai)
Kneecap
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Dane-ye anjir-e ma’abed)

Best Animated Film

Flow (Straume)
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

Frank Gabrenya Award for Best Comedy

Babes
Hit Man
My Old Ass
A Real Pain
Saturday Night
Thelma

Best Overlooked Film

Didi
His Three Daughters
Hundreds of Beavers
The Last Stop in Yuma County
Snack Shack
Thelma

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.