2024 Indiana Film Journalists Association (IFJA) Winners: ‘The Substance’ Dominates with Six Wins Including Best Film, Director, Lead and Supporting Performance

The Indiana Film Journalist Association (IFJA) have named Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance the best film of 2024, also awarding Fargeat their Best Director prize and stars Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley earned wins for Best Lead Performance and Best Supporting Performance. The film also picked up wins for its editing and special effects, bringing its total to six awards.

The Brutalist was a winner for original screenplay and musical score, while Nickel Boys won adapted screenplay, Nosferatu picked up the cinematography win and His Three Daughters won the ensemble acting award.

Here is the complete list of winners, runners-up and finalists.

Best Film: The Substance (runner-up: The Brutalist)
– (other finalists: Civil War, Conclave, A Different Man, I Saw the TV Glow, Mars Express, Nickel Boys, A Real Pain, and Sing Sing)

Best Director: Coralie Fargeat, The Substance (runner-up: Brady Corbet, The Brutalist)

Best Lead Performance: Demi Moore, The Substance (RU: Adrien Brody, The Brutalist)
Best Supporting Performance: Margaret Qualley, The Substance (RU: Guy Pearce, The Brutalist)

Best Original Screenplay: Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist (runner-up: Coralie Fargeat, The Substance)
Best Adapted Screenplay: RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, Nickel Boys (runner-up: Peter Straughan, Conclave)

Best Animated Film: Mars Express (runner-up: The Wild Robot)
Best Documentary: Daughters (runner-up: No Other Land)
Best Foreign Language Film: Mars Express (runner-up: Aattam)

Best Ensemble Acting: His Three Daughters (runner-up: Sing Sing)

Best Vocal / Motion-Capture Performance: Lupita Nyong’o, The Wild Robot (runner-up: Jonno Davies and Robbie Williams, Better Man)

Best Cinematography: Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu (runner-up: Lol Crawley, The Brutalist)
Best Editing: Jérôme Eltabet, Coralie Fargeat and Valentin Feron, The Substance (runner-up: Dávid Jancsó, The Brutalist)
Best Musical Score: Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist (runner-up: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers)

Best Stunt / Movement Choreography: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (runner-up: Better Man)
Best Special Effects: The Substance (runner-up: Hundreds of Beavers)

Breakout of the Year: Vera Drew, The People’s Joker (runner-up: Mikey Madison, Anora)

Original Vision: Hundreds of Beavers (runner-up: The Substance)

Edward Johnson-Ott Hoosier Award: Michael Husain (director / writer), The Waiting Game

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