2024 Southeastern Film Critics Association (SFCA) Winners: ‘Anora’ and ‘The Brutalist’

Best Film: Anora

2. The Brutalist
3. Conclave
4. Dune: Part Two
5. Challengers
6. Nickel Boys
7. Sing Sing
8. Wicked
9. The Substance
10. A Complete Unknown
11. I Saw the TV Glow

Best Director: Brady Corbet, The Brutalist (runner-up: Sean Baker, Anora)

Best Actor: Adrien Brody, The Brutalist (runner-up: Colman Domingo, Sing Sing)
Best Actress: Mikey Madison, Anora (runner-up: Demi Moore, The Substance)
Best Supporting Actor: Guy Pearce, The Brutalist (runner-up: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain)
Best Supporting Actress: Ariana Grande-Butera, Wicked (runner-up: Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez)

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

Best Animated Film: The Wild Robot (runner-up: Flow)
Best Documentary: Sugarcane (runner-up: Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story)
Best Foreign-Language Film: Emilia Pérez (runner-up: The Seed of the Sacred Fig)

Best Ensemble: Conclave (runner-up: Sing Sing)

Best Cinematography: Greig Fraser, Dune: Part Two (runner-up: Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu)
Best Score: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers (runner-up: Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist)

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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.

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