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2024 North Texas Film Critics Association (NTFCA) Winners: ‘Anora’ is Best Picture

Erik Anderson December 30, 2024

Anora was the big winner from the 2024 North Texas Film Critics Association (NTFCA), earning the group’s awards for Best Picture, Best Actress (Mikey Madison) and Best Screenplay (Sean Baker).

Denis Villeneuve was named Best Director for Dune: Part Two, Timothée Chalamet nabbed Best Actor for A Complete Unknown, while supporting wins went to Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain and Zoe Saldaña for Emilia Pérez. The Brutalist came in with the most nominations (7) but went home empty-handed.

Here is the complete list of winners.

Best Picture

Anora – WINNER
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Sing Sing

Best Director

Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys
Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two – WINNER

Best Actor

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown – WINNER
Daniel Craig, Queer
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave

Best Actress

Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Mikey Madison, Anora – WINNER
Demi Moore, The Substance
Anya Taylor-Joy, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Best Supporting Actor

Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain – WINNER
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist

Best Supporting Actress

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Nickel Boys
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez – WINNER

Best Screenplay

Sean Baker, Anora – WINNER
Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, Nickel Boys
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

Best Animated Film

Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Transformers One
The Wild Robot – WINNER

Best Documentary

Daughters
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Sugarcane
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story – WINNER
Will & Harper

Best Foreign Language Film

All We Imagine as Light
Flow
I’m Still Here
Kneecap
The Seed of the Sacred Fig – WINNER

Best Cinematography

Lol Crawley, The Brutalist
Stéphane Fontaine, Conclave
Greig Fraser, Dune: Part Two
John Mathieson, Gladiator II
Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys
Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu – WINNER

Best Newcomer

Marissa Bode, Wicked
Vera Drew, The People’s Joker
Ethan Herisse, Nickel Boys
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing – WINNER
Aaron Pierre, Rebel Ridge

Gary Murray Award for Best Ensemble

Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Saturday Night – WINNER
Sing Sing
Wicked

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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.

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