2024 Washington Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) Awards: ‘Wicked’ Wins Best Feature

The Washington Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) have unveiled its winners for the 2024 WAFCA Awards, celebrating outstanding achievements in cinema where Wicked won Best Feature.

The Broadway smash musical adaptation also won production design among its eight nominations.

The Brutalist led with 10 nominations and won two, Best Director for Brady Corbet and for Original Score (in a tie with Challengers).

Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Mikey Madison (Anora), Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain) and Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson) were the individual acting winners with Conclave taking the ensemble award. Other acting wins went to Lupita Nyong’o for her voice performance in The Wild Robot, Elliot Heffernan for youth performance in Blitz and Owen Teague for motion capture performance in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

Here is the complete list of winners.

Best Feature
“Anora” (Neon)
“Conclave” (Focus Features)
“Sing Sing” (A24)
“The Brutalist” (A24)
“Wicked” (Universal Pictures) – WINNER

Best Director
Brady Corbet – “The Brutalist” – WINNER
Denis Villeneuve – “Dune: Part Two”
Edward Berger – “Conclave”
Jon M. Chu – “Wicked”
Sean Baker – “Anora”

Best Actor
Adrien Brody – “The Brutalist”
Colman Domingo – “Sing Sing” – WINNER
Daniel Craig – “Queer”
Ralph Fiennes – “Conclave”
Timothée Chalamet – “A Complete Unknown”

Best Actress
Cynthia Erivo – “Wicked”
Demi Moore – “The Substance”
Karla Sofia Gascon – “Emilia Perez”
Marianne Jean–Baptiste – “Hard Truths”
Mikey Madison – “Anora” – WINNER

Best Supporting Actor
Clarence Maclin – “Sing Sing”
Denzel Washington – “Gladiator II”
Guy Pearce – “The Brutalist”
Keiran Culkin – “A Real Pain” – WINNER
Yura Borisov – “Anora”

Best Supporting Actress
Ariana Grande – “Wicked”
Aunjanue Ellis–Taylor – “Nickel Boys”
Danielle Deadwyler – “The Piano Lesson” – WINNER
Isabella Rossellini – “Conclave”
Zoe Saldana – “Emilia Perez”

Best Acting Ensemble
“Anora”
“Conclave” – WINNER
“Dune: Part Two”
“Sing Sing”
“The Brutalist”
“Wicked”

Best Voice Performance

Amy Poehler – “Inside Out 2”
Auli’i Cravalho – “Moana 2”
Brian Tyree Henry – “Transformers One”
Lupita Nyong’o – “The Wild Robot” – WINNER
Maya Hawke – “Inside Out 2”

Best Youth Performance
Alisha Weir – “Abigail”
Alyla Browne – “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”
Elliott Heffernan – “Blitz” – WINNER
Ian Foreman – “Exhibiting Forgiveness”
Isabel DeRoy–Olson – “Fancy Dance”
Izaac Wang – “Didi”
Zoe Ziegler – “Janet Planet”

Best Adapted Screenplay
“Conclave” – written for the screen by Peter Straughan – WINNER
“Dune: Part Two” – written for the screen by Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts
“Nickel Boys” – written for the screen by RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes
“Sing Sing” – written for the screen by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar
“Wicked” – written for the screen by Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox

Best Original Screenplay
“Anora” – Sean Baker
“A Real Pain” – Jesse Eisenberg – WINNER
“Challengers” – Justin Kuritzkes
“The Brutalist” – Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold
“The Substance” – Coralie Fargeat

Best International Film
“Dahomey”
“Emilia Pérez” – WINNER
“Flow”
“I’m Still Here”
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”

Best Documentary
“Dahomey”
“Daughters”
“Music by John Williams”
“No Other Land”
“Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” – WINNER
“Will & Harper”

Best Animated Feature
“Flow”
“Inside Out 2”
“Memoir of a Snail”
“The Wild Robot” – WINNER
“Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”

Best Original Score (tie)
“Blitz” – Hans Zimmer
“Challengers” – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – WINNER
“Conclave” – Volker Bertelmann
“Nosferatu” – Robin Carolan
“The Brutalist” – Daniel Blumberg – WINNER
“The Wild Robot” – Kris Bowers

Best Editing (tie)
“Anora” – WINNER
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two” – WINNER
“The Brutalist”
“Wicked”

Best Cinematography
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Nickel Boys”
“Nosferatu” – WINNER
“The Brutalist”

Best Production Design

“Dune: Part Two”
“Gladiator II”
“Nosferatu”
“The Brutalist”
“Wicked” – WINNER

The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC
“Civil War” – WINNER
“Daughters”
“Shirley”
“Stopping the Steal”

Best Motion Capture
Eka Darville – “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
Jonno Davies – “Better Man”
Kevin Durand – “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
Owen Teague – “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” – WINNER
Peter Macon – “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”

Best Stunts
“Deadpool and Wolverine”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”
“Gladiator II”
“The Fall Guy” – WINNER

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