2024 Pittsburgh Film Critics Association (PFCA) Winners: ‘The Substance,’ ‘Challengers,’ ‘Sing Sing’ Dominate Inaugural Awards

The Pittsburgh Film Critics Association (PFCA) have announced their inaugural winners representing the best in film for 2024. Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance is their Best Picture winner, with Fargeat the runner-up for Best Director. The film also won Best Sound Design and Best Hair, Makeup and Costumes.

The PFCA employs non-gendered ‘actor’ and ‘performance’ designations for its acting wins in lead, supporting featured and breakthrough categories. Colman Domingo (Sing Sing) is the PFCA winner for Best Actor, Ariana Grande-Butera (Wicked) for Supporting Actor, Jesse Plemons (Civil War) for Featured Actor and Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing) for Breakthrough Performance.

Nosferatu claimed Best Director for Robert Eggers as well as Best Cinematography and Best Production Design while Challengers was the big winner with Original Screenplay, Editing, Score and Song.

Established in 2023, this the first awards announcement by the group. Here is the complete list of winners and runners-up.

BEST PICTURE
Winner: The Substance
Runner-Up: Challengers

BEST LEAD ACTOR
Winner: Colman Domingo — Sing Sing
Runner-Up: Cynthia Erivo — Wicked

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Winner: Ariana Grande — Wicked
Runner-Up: Clarence Maclin — Sing Sing

BEST FEATURED ACTOR
Winner: Jesse Plemmons — Civil War
Runners-Up (Tie): Lamorne Morris — Saturday Night; Isabella Rossellini — Conclave

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Winner: Clarence Maclin — Sing Sing
Runner-Up: Katy O’Brian — Love Lies Bleeding

BEST ANIMATED VOICE PERFORMANCE
Winner: Lupita Nyong’o — The Wild Robot
Runner-Up: Maya Hawke — Inside Out 2

BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Robert Eggers — Nosferatu
Runner-Up: Coralie Fargeat — The Substance

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner: Justin Kuritzkes — Challengers
Runner-Up: Sean Baker — Anora

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Winner: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield — Sing Sing
Runner-Up: Robert Eggers — Nosferatu

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner: Jomo Fray — Nickel Boys
Runner-Up: Jarin Blaschke — Nosferatu

BEST EDITING
Winner: Marco Costa — Challengers
Runner-Up: Jerome Eltabet, Coralie Fargeat, Valentin Feron — The Substance

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Winner: Craig Lathrop — Nosferatu
Runner-Up: Stanislas Reydellet, Cécilia Blom — The Substance

BEST SCORE
Winner: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross — Challengers
Runner-Up: Cristobal Tapia de Veer — Babygirl

BEST SONG
Winner: “Compress/Repress” — Challengers
Runners-Up (Tie): “Starburned and Unkissed” — I Saw the TV Glow; “Harper and Will Go West” — Will & Harper

BEST SOUND DESIGN
Winner: Emmanuelle Villard, Valerie Deloof, Victor Fleurant, Stéphane Thiébaut, Victor Praud — The Substance
Runner-Up: Lisa Pinero, Craig Berkey, Paul Carter — Challengers

BEST HAIR, MAKEUP, & COSTUMES
Winner: Emmanuelle Youchnovski (Costume); Pierre-Olivier Persin (Makeup/Hairstyle) — The Substance
Runner-Up: Linda Muir (Costume); Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton, David White (Makeup/Hairstyle) — Nosferatu

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