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2024 Nevada Film Critics Society (NFCS) Winners: ‘The Brutalist’ Dominates with Six

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The Nevada Film Critics Society (NFCS) has announced its 2024 award winners for achievement in film. Taking top honors for Best Film is The Brutalist, a historical drama about a Hungarian born visionary architect who comes to America to to rebuild his life after escaping from the Holocaust. The film also nabbed 5 additional awards including Best Supporting Actor (Guy Pearce), Best Director (Brady Corbet), Best Original Screenplay (Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold), Best Production Design (Judy Becker) and Best Cinematography (Lol Crawley). 

In other major categories, Cynthia Erivo won Best Actress for Wicked and Zoe Saldaña won Best Supporting actress for Emilia Pérez.

Below is the complete list of NFCS’s award winners in each category.

Best Film –  The Brutalist

Best Actor –  Adrian Brody (The Brutalist)

Best Actress – Cynthia Erivo (Wicked)

Best Supporting Actor – Guy Pearce (The Brutalist)

Best Supporting Actress – Zoe Saldana (Emelia Perez)

Best Director – Brady Corbet (The Brutalist)

Best Original Screenplay – Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold (The Brutalist)

Best Adapted Screenplay –  Conclave (Peter Straughan)

Best Documentary – Sugarcane

Best Animated Movie – Flow

Best Production Design – The Brutalist (Judy Becker)

Best Cinematography – The Brutalist (Lol Crawley)

Best Visual Effects – Wicked (Pablo Helman)

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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