2024 Online Association of Female Film Critics (OAFFC) Winners: ‘The Substance” Dominates

Coralie Fargeat’s savagely funny and surreal body horror The Substance was the big winner at the 2024 Online Association of Female Film Critics (OAFFC) awards, snagging six prizes, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Female Lead (Demi Moore) and Best Supporting Female (Margaret Qualley). The film led the nominations with nine, including the group’s signature category, The Rosie (named for the iconic Rosie the Riveter), which celebrates the film that “best promotes women, their voices, and the female experience through cinema.”

For the first time in the OAFFC’s eight year history, there was a tie in the Best Film category. The Substance shared its win with Sean Baker’s sex worker dramedy Anora, which also won the Breakthrough Performance award for its titular star Mikey Madison.

Conclave and A Real Pain were other multiple winners with the papal thriller earning wins for Best Adapted Screenplay (in a tie with Nickel Boys) and Best Ensemble and Jesse Eisenberg’s comedy snagging Best Supporting Male for Kieran Culkin and Best Original Screenplay for Eisenberg.

BEST FILM (tie)

Anora – WINNER
The Brutalist
Conclave
Nickel Boys
The Substance – WINNER

BEST DIRECTOR

Sean Baker, “Anora”
Edward Berger, “Conclave”
Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”
Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance” – WINNER
RaMell Ross, “Nickel Boys”

BEST MALE LEAD

Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
Timothée Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”
Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing” – WINNER
Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”
Hugh Grant, “Heretic”

BEST FEMALE LEAD

Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked”
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “Hard Truths”
Mikey Madison, “Anora”
Demi Moore, “The Substance” – WINNER
Zendaya, “Challengers”

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

Yura Borisov, “Anora”
Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain” – WINNER
Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, “Sing Sing”
Stanley Tucci, “Conclave”
Denzel Washington, “Gladiator II”

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

Jamie Lee Curtis, “The Last Showgirl”
Danielle Deadwyler, “The Piano Lesson”
Margaret Qualley, “The Substance” – WINNER
Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

Anora
Challengers
Conclave – WINNER
The Piano Lesson
Sing Sing

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

A Real Pain – WINNER
Anora
Challengers
His Three Daughters
The Substance

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (tie)

Conclave – WINNER
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys – WINNER
Sing Sing
Wicked

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Black Box Diaries
Daughters
No Other Land – WINNER
Sugarcane
Will & Harper

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Flow – WINNER
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
The Wild Robot
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

All We Imagine As Light – WINNER
Dahomey
Flow
The Girl With the Needle
The Seed of the Sacred Fig

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Brutalist (Lol Crawley)
Conclave (Stéphane Fontaine)
Dune: Part Two (Greig Fraser)
Nickel Boys (Jomo Fray)
Nosferatu (Jarin Blaschke) – WINNER

BEST EDITING

The Brutalist
Challengers – WINNER
Conclave
Nickel Boys
The Substance

BEST STUNTS

Dune: Part Two
The Fall Guy
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – WINNER
Gladiator II
Monkey Man

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Dune: Part Two – WINNER
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
The Substance
Wicked

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Dune: Part Two
Maria
Nosferatu
Wicked – WINNER

BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER

Vera Drew, “The People’s Joker”
Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance” – WINNER
Zoë Kravitz, “Blink Twice”
Malcolm Washington, “The Piano Lesson”
Dev Patel, “Monkey Man”

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

Nykiya Adams, “Bird”
Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, “Sing Sing”
Mikey Madison, “Anora” – WINNER
Katy O’Brian, “Love Lies Bleeding”
Maisy Stella, “My Old Ass”

THE ROSIE
The OAFFC’s signature award (named for the iconic Rosie the Riveter) celebrates the film that “best promotes women, their voices, and the female experience through cinema.”

His Three Daughters
The Last Showgirl
Nightbitch
The Substance – WINNER