2024 Columbus Film Critics Association (COFCA) Winners: ‘The Substance’ Nabs Best Picture, Lead Performance, Director

The 2024 Columbus Film Critics Association (COFCA) have revealed the winners of their 23rd annual awards where Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance was named Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Lead Performance for Demi Moore.

The Wild Robot double winner, with awards for Adapted Screenplay and Animated Film, Kieran Culkin won Best Supporting Performance for A Real Pain while Challengers also scooped up two wins: for Film Editing and Score.

Sebastian Stan was named Actor of the Year for his work in both The Apprentice and A Different Man.

Here is the full list of winners and runners-up.

Best Film: The Substance

2. Nickel Boys
3. Anora
4. Sing Sing
5. Nosferatu
6. Conclave
7. Challengers
8. The Brutalist
9. Civil War
10. Love Lies Bleeding

Best Director: Coralie Fargeat, The Substance (runner-up: RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys)

Best Lead Performance: Demi Moore, The Substance (runner-up: Mikey Madison, Anora)
Best Supporting Performance: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain (runner-up: Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson)

Best Original Screenplay: Coralie Fargeat, The Substance (runner-up: Sean Baker, Anora)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Chris Sanders, The Wild Robot (runner-up: RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, Nickel Boys)

Best Animated Film: The Wild Robot (runner-up: Memoir of a Snail)
Best Documentary: No Other Land (runner-up: Will & Harper)
Best Foreign Language Film: Evil Does Not Exist (runner-up: All We Imagine as Light)

Best Ensemble: Conclave (runner-up: Challengers)

Actor of the Year: Sebastian Stan for The Apprentice and A Different Man (runner-up: Nicholas Hoult for The Garfield Movie, Juror #2, Nosferatu, and The Order)
Breakthrough Film Artist: Mikey Madison, Anora (runner-up: Coralie Fargeat, The Substance)

Best Cinematography: Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu (runner-up: Greig Fraser, Dune: Part Two)
Best Film Editing: Marco Costa, Challengers (runner-up: Jerome Eltabet, Coralie Fargeat, & Valentin Féron, The Substance)
Best Score: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers (runner-up: Kris Bowers, The Wild Robot)

Frank Gabrenya Award for Best Comedy: Hit Man (runner-up: Saturday Night)

Best Overlooked Film: Snack Shack (runner-up: Hundreds of Beavers)

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