2024 Florida Film Critics Circle (FFCC) Winners: ‘The Beast’ Named Best Picture, Director; Kieran Culkin is Best Actor for ‘A Real Pain’
They do things a little bit different down in Florida.
Bucking several critic trends this season, the Florida Film Critics Circle (FFCC) have named Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast the best film of 2024, also awarding the sci-fi epic about the dangers of AI Best Director and Best Actress to Léa Seydoux.
But where they really went out on their own was nominating Carol Kane as Best Actress for Between the Temples (she won NYFCC in supporting) and Josh O’Connor in lead for Challengers and giving the Best Actor win to Supporting Actor Oscar frontrunner Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain.
Here is the complete list of winners and nominees from the Florida Film Critics Circle.
BEST PICTURE: The Beast [nominees: Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, Hundreds of Beavers]
BEST ACTOR: Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain) [Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Daniel Craig (Queer), Josh O’Connor (Challengers), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave)]
BEST ACTRESS: Léa Seydoux (The Beast) [nominees: Carol Kane (Between the Temples), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths), Mikey Madison (Anora), Nicole Kidman (Babygirl)]
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice) [nominees: Yura Borisov (Anora), Willem Dafoe (Kinds of Kindness), Adam Pearson (A Different Man), Denzel Washington (Gladiator II)]
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez) [nominees: Anna Baryshnikov (Love Lies Bleeding), Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Nickel Boys), Isabella Rosellini (Conclave), Margaret Qualley (Substance)]
BEST ENSEMBLE: Conclave [nominees: All We Imagine As Light, Anora, Challengers, Saturday Night]
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: I Saw The TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun) [nominees: Anora (Sean Baker), A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg) ,Challengers (Justin Kuritzkes) ,Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)]
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Queer (Justin Kuritzkes) [nominees: The Beast (Bertrand Bonello, Benjamin Charbit & Guillaume Bréaud) Conclave (Peter Straughan) Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve & Jon Spaihts) Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes)]
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: The Brutalist (Lol Crawley) [nominees: Challengers (Sayombhu Mukdeeprom), Conclave (Stéphane Fontaine), Dune: Part Two (Greig Fraser), Nickel Boys (Jomo Fray)]
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