2024 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Winners: ‘Anora,’ ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Sing Sing’ Earn Top Awards
The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle unveiled its 2024 winners today, with Sean Baker’s Anora earning wins for Best Film, Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing.
Sing Sing was the runner-up for Best Film and won Best Actor for Colman Domingo and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, which led nominations with 9, won four awards: Best Director, Best Score, Best Production Design and Best Cinematography.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste triumphed in Best Actress for Hard Truths, while the supporting wins went to Yura Borisov for Anora and Joan Chen for Dìdi.
Nominees in 15 of the categories are determined by the entire group through a balloting process. Winner voting takes place in two phases post-nominations with the top two nomination vote getters being finalists and what is voted on by the org in the final vote.
The Marlon Riggs Award (awarded to Bay Area filmmaker(s) or individual(s) who represents courage and innovation in the world of cinema) went to the inaugural San Quentin Film Festival (Rahsaan “New York” Thomas, Cori Thomas). Femme was the winner of the Special Citation Award for Independent Cinema.
The 2024 SFBAFCC winners and runners-up are:
Best Film
Anora – WINNER
The Brutalist
Hard Truths
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing – runner-up
Best Director
Anora, Sean Baker – runner-up
The Brutalist, Brady Corbet – WINNER
Hard Truths, Mike Leigh
Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross
The Substance, Coralie Fargeat
Best Actress
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths – WINNER
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Angelina Jolie, Maria
Mikey Madison, Anora – runner-up
Demi Moore, The Substance
Best Actor
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist – runner-up
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig, Queer
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing – WINNER
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Best Supporting Actress
Joan Chen, Dìdi (弟弟) – WINNER
Carol Kane, Between the Temples
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez – runner-up
Best Supporting Actor
Yura Borisov, Anora – WINNER
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain – runner-up
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Best International Feature Film
All We Imagine as Light
Emilia Pérez – runner-up
I’m Still Here
Kneecap
The Seed of the Sacred Fig – WINNER
Best Documentary Feature
Daughters
No Other Land
Sugarcane – WINNER
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Will & Harper – runner-up
Best Animated Feature
Flow – WINNER
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot – runner-up
Best Original Screenplay
Anora, Sean Baker – WINNER
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 – runner-up
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 – WINNER
Best Cinematography
The Brutalist, Lol Crawley – WINNER
Conclave, Stéphane Fontaine
Dune: Part Two, Greig Fraser
Nickel Boys, Jomo Fray
Nosferatu, Jarin Blaschke – runner-up
Best Editing
Anora, Sean Baker – WINNER
The Brutalist, Dávid Jancsó – runner-up
Challengers, Marco Costa
Conclave, Nick Emerson
September 5, Hansjörg Weißbrich
Best Original Score
The Brutalist, Daniel Blumberg – WINNER
Challengers, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Conclave, Volker Bertelman – runner-up
Emilia Pérez, Clément Ducol, Camille
The Wild Robot, Kris Bowers
Best Production Design
The Brutalist, Judy Becker – WINNER
Conclave, Suzie Davies, Roberta Federico
Dune: Part Two, Zsuzsanna Sipos, Shane Vieau, Patrice Vermette
Nosferatu, Craig Lathrop – runner-up
Wicked, Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales
Special Citation for Independent Cinema
Exhibiting Forgiveness
Femme – WINNER
The Secret Art of Taking Flight
Marlon Riggs Award (awarded to Bay Area filmmaker(s) or individual(s) who represents courage and innovation in the world of cinema): San Quentin Film Festival (Rahsaan “New York” Thomas, Cori Thomas)
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