The Utah Film Critics Association have revealed the winners for the best in filmmaking for 2024. There were no clean sweeps this year as The Wild Robot, The Substance, Sing Sing, and September 5 all earned two awards each.
The Wild Robot took home the big win with Best Picture as well as Best Animated Feature. Demi Moore’s work in The Substance was recognized for Best Lead Performance, Female, and the film also picked up Best Visual Effects. For Sing Sing, Colman Domingo received Best Lead Performance, Male, and Clarence Maclin Best Supporting Performance, Male. September 5 also grabbed an acting win with Best Ensemble Cast as well as Best Film Editing.
Danielle Deadwyler earned the win for Best Supporting Performance, Female for her work in The Piano Lesson and Brady Corbet won the Best Director award for The Brutalist.
Here is the complete list of winners and runners-up.
Best Picture
Winner: The Wild Robot
Runner-up: The Substance
Best Achievement in Directing
Winner: Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Runner-up: Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two
Best Lead Performance, Male
Winner: Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Runner-up: Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Best Lead Performance, Female
Winner: Demi Moore, The Substance
Runners-up: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
Best Supporting Performance, Male
Winner: Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
Runner-up: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Best Supporting Performance, Female
Winner: Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
Runner-up: Ariana Grande-Butera, Wicked
Best Ensemble Cast
Winner: September 5
Runner-up: His Three Daughters
Vice/Martin Award for Performance in a Science-Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror Film
Winner: David Jonsson, Alien: Romulus
Runner-up: Demi Moore, The Substance
Best Screenplay
Winner: His Three Daughters
Runner-up: A Real Pain
Best Cinematography
Winner: Nickel Boys
Runner-up: Nosferatu
Best Original Score
Winner: Challengers
Runner-up: Nosferatu
Best Film Editing
Winner: September 5
Runners-up: Nickel Boys and The Substance (Tie)
Best Visual Effects
Winner: The Substance
Runners-up: Better Man
Best Documentary Feature
Winner: The Remarkable Life of Ibelin and Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (Tie)
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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.