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)