2024 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Nominations

The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle unveiled its 2024 nominations today, with 35 films getting represented across 16 categories. 

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist leads with nine mentions, including Best Film, Director, Best Actor (Adrien Brody) and Supporting Actor (Guy Pearce). Sean Baker’s Anora was next with seven, Best Film, Director, Best Actress (Mikey Madison) and Supporting Actor (Yura Borisov) among them.

Rounding out the Best Film nominees are three films that earned four nominations apiece: RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys, Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths and Greg Kwedar’s Sing Sing.

Nominees in 15 of the categories are determined by the entire group through a balloting process. The Special Citation for Independent Cinema Award nominees are selected first by a committee of members, and then the overall group votes to select the winners, which will be announced on December 15. 

The 2024 SFBAFCC nominations are:

Best Film

Anora

The Brutalist

Hard Truths

Nickel Boys

Sing Sing

Best Director

Anora, Sean Baker

The Brutalist, Brady Corbet

Hard Truths, Mike Leigh

Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross

The Substance, Coralie Fargeat

Best Actress

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths

Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez

Angelina Jolie, Maria

Mikey Madison, Anora

Demi Moore, The Substance

Best Actor

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist

Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown

Daniel Craig, Queer

Colman Domingo, Sing Sing

Ralph Fiennes, Conclave

Best Supporting Actress

Joan Chen, Dìdi (弟弟)

Carol Kane, Between the Temples

Isabella Rossellini, Conclave

Ariana Grande, Wicked

Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Best Supporting Actor

Yura Borisov, Anora

Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing

Guy Pearce, The Brutalist

Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

Best International Feature Film

All We Imagine as Light

Emilia Pérez

I’m Still Here

Kneecap

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Best Documentary Feature

Daughters

No Other Land

Sugarcane

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Will & Harper

Best Animated Feature

Flow

Inside Out 2

Memoir of a Snail

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

Best Original Screenplay

Anora, Sean Baker

The Brutalist, Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold

Hard Truths, Mike Leigh

A Real Pain, Jesse Eisenberg

The Substance, Coralie Fargeat

Best Adapted Screenplay

Conclave, Peter Straughan

Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts

Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard

Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes

Sing Sing, Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield

Best Cinematography

The Brutalist, Lol Crawley

Conclave, Stéphane Fontaine

Dune: Part Two, Greig Fraser

Nickel Boys, Jomo Fray

Nosferatu, Jarin Blaschke

Best Editing

Anora, Sean Baker

The Brutalist , Dávid Jancsó

Challengers, Marco Costa

Conclave, Nick Emerson

September 5, Hansjörg Weißbrich

Best Original Score

The Brutalist, Daniel Blumberg

Challengers, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Conclave, Volker Bertelmann

Emilia Pérez, Clément Ducol, Camille

The Wild Robot, Kris Bowers

Best Production Design

The Brutalist, Judy Becker

Conclave, Suzie Davies, Roberta Federico

Dune: Part Two, Zsuzsanna Sipos, Shane Vieau, Patrice Vermette

Nosferatu, Craig Lathrop

Wicked, Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales

Special Citation for Independent Cinema

Exhibiting Forgiveness

Femme

The Secret Art of Taking Flight

Founded in 2002, the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle is comprised of critics from the nine Bay Area counties, and Sacramento and Santa Cruz counties.