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2024 Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC) Nominations

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Voting members of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC) have selected nominees in 16 different categories recognizing the best in what cinema had to offer during 2024. Dune: Part Two led the way with eight nominations including Best Film, Best Director (Denis Villeneuve), and Best Cinematography.

Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance received seven nominations including Best Film and Best Actress (Demi Moore). Anora and Wicked followed with five nominations apiece. Timothée Chalamet was nominated twice in the same category – Best Actor for Dune: Part Two and A Complete Unknown.

A new category was added this year – the Buster Keaton Award for the Best Stunt Ensemble Film. A final vote to select award winners will take place on January 4 as part of the 59th Annual James Loutzenhiser Awards.

The KCFCC, the second oldest professional film critic organization in the United States, was founded in 1966 by the late Dr. James Loutzenhiser (1931-2001), who served as the group’s president for over 30 years.

Below is a complete list of the nominees for the 59th Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC).

BEST FILM

“Anora”

“Civil War”

“Conclave”

“Dune: Part Two”

“I Saw the TV Glow”

“Nickel Boys”

“A Real Pain”

“Sing Sing”

“The Substance”

“Wicked”

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR

Sean Baker – “Anora”

Jon M. Chu – “Wicked”

Coralie Fargeat – “The Substance”

RaMell Ross – “Nickel Boys”

Denis Villeneuve – “Dune: Part Two”

BEST ACTOR

Timothée Chalamet – “A Complete Unknown” 

Timothée Chalamet – “Dune: Part Two”

David Dastmalchian – “Late Night with the Devil”

Colman Domingo – “Sing Sing”

Ralph Fiennes – “Conclave”

BEST ACTRESS

Cynthia Erivo – “Wicked”

Karla Sofía Gascón – “Emilia Pérez”

Mikey Madison – “Anora”

Demi Moore – “The Substance”

June Squibb – “Thelma”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Yura Borisov – “Anora”

Kieran Culkin – “A Real Pain”

Chris Hemsworth – “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”

Clarence Maclin – “Sing Sing”

Adam Pearson – “A Different Man”

Jeremy Strong – “The Apprentice”

Denzel Washington – “Gladiator II”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Joan Chen – “Didi”

Danielle Deadwyler – “The Piano Lesson”

Ariana Grande – “Wicked”

Margaret Qualley – “The Substance”

Zoe Saldana – “Emilia Pérez”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

“Anora”

“The Brutalist”

“Civil War”

“A Real Pain”

“The Substance”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

“Conclave”

“Dune: Part Two”

“Nickel Boys”

“Sing Sing”

“The Wild Robot”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

“The Brutalist”

“Civil War”

“Dune: Part Two”

“Gladiator II”

“Nickel Boys”

“Nosferatu”

“Wicked”

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

“Challengers”

“Conclave”

“Dune: Part Two”

“The Substance”

“The Wild Robot”

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

“Flow”

“Inside Out 2”

“Memoir of a Snail”

“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”

“The Wild Robot”

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

“All We Imagine as Light”

“Emilia Pérez”

“Flow”

“I’m Still Here”

“Kneecap”

“Twilight of the Warriors”

BEST DOCUMENTARY

“Dahomey”

“Look Into My Eyes”

“Seeking Mavis Beacon”

“Sugarcane”

“Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story”

“Will & Harper”

VINCE KOEHLER AWARD FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR

“Dune: Part Two”

“I Saw the TV Glow”

“Late Night with the Devil”

“Nosferatu”

“The Substance”

TOM POE AWARD FOR BEST LGBTQ FILM

“I Saw the TV Glow”

“Emilia Pérez”

“Love Lies Bleeding”

“My Old Ass”

“Will & Harper”

“Queer” 

BUSTER KEATON AWARD FOR BEST STUNT ENSEMBLE FILM

“Deadpool & Wolverine”

“Dune: Part Two”

“The Fall Guy”

“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”

“Monkey Man”

Erik Anderson

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), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) 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.

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