2024 Georgia Film Critics Association (GAFCA) Winners

Sean Baker’s Anora was the big winner with the Georgia Film Critics Association (GAFCA), taking Best Picture, Best Actress (Mikey Madison) and Best Original Screenplay.

Denis Villeneuve (Dune: Part Two) was the winner for Best Director, while Colman Domingo (Sing Sing) was the group’s Best Actor winner, and Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain) and Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson) took home the supporting acting prizes.

Challengers was a double winner for Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor in Original Score and Original Song (“Compress/Repress”). Flow was also a double winner, for Animated Film and International Film.

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

Best Picture 

• Anora
  
• The Brutalist
• Challengers
• Conclave”
• Dune: Part Two” – RUNNER UP
• Flow
• Nickel Boys
• Sing Sing
• The Substance
• Wicked

Best Director 

• Anora – Sean Baker
  
• The Brutalist – Brady Corbet – RUNNER UP
• Dune: Part Two – Denis Villeneuve
• Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross
• The Substance – Coralie Fargeat

Best Actor 

• Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)
• Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown)
• Colman Domingo (Sing Sing)
• Ralph Fiennes (Conclave) – RUNNER UP
• Keith Kupferer (Ghostlight)

Best Actress 

• Lily-Rose Depp (Nosferatu)
• Cynthia Erivo (Wicked)
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) – RUNNER UP
• Mikey Madison (Anora)
• Demi Moore (The Substance)

Best Supporting Actor 

• Yura Borisov (Anora)
• Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)
• Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing)
• Guy Pearce (The Brutalist) – RUNNER UP
• Denzel Washington (Gladiator II)

Best Supporting Actress 

• Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson)
• Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Nickel Boys)
• Ariana Grande-Butera (Wicked) – RUNNER UP
• Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding)
• Margaret Qualley (The Substance)
• Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)

Best Original Screenplay 

• Anora – Sean Baker
• The Brutalist – Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold – RUNNER UP
• Challengers – Justin Kuritzkes
• A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Mohammad Rasoulof
• September 5 – Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David
• The Substance – Coralie Fargeat

Best Adapted Screenplay 

• Conclave – Peter Straughan – RUNNER UP
• Dune: Part Two – Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts
• Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes
• Sing Sing – Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley
• Wicked – Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox

Best Cinematography 

• The Brutalist – Lol Crawley
• Dune: Part Two – Greig Fraser
• Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell – Đinh Duy Hưng
• Nickel Boys”- Jomo Fray
• Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke – RUNNER UP

Best Production Design 

• The Brutalist – Judy Becker, Patricia Cuccia
• Dune: Part Two – Patrice Vermette, Shane Vieau – RUNNER UP
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – Colin Gibson, Katie Sharrock
• Nosferatu – Craig Lathrop
• Wicked – Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales

Best Original Score 

• The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg
• Challengers – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
• Conclave – Volker Bertelmann
• Dune: Part Two – Hans Zimmer – RUNNER UP
• The Wild Robot”- Kris Bowers

Best Original Song 

• “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma” – Jessi Alexander, Luke Combs, Jonathan Singleton (Twisters)
• “Compress/Repress” – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross (Challengers)
• “El Mal” – Clément Ducol, Camille, Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez)
• “Kiss the Sky” – Delacey, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Maren Morris, Michael Pollack, Ali Tamposi (The Wild Robot) – RUNNER UP
• “Sick in the Head” – Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara, DJ Próvaí, Adrian Louis Richard Mcleod, Toddla T (Kneecap)

Best Ensemble 

• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Saturday Night
• Sing Sing – RUNNER UP
• Wicked

Best International Film 

• All We Imagine as Light – RUNNER UP
• Flow
• Kneecap
• Red Rooms
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Best Animated Film 

• Flow
• Inside Out 2
• Memoir of a Snail
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• The Wild Robot – RUNNER UP

Best Documentary Film 

• No Other Land
• The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
• Sugarcane – RUNNER UP
• Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
• Will & Harper

Breakthrough Award 

• Clarence Maclin
• Mikey Madison – RUNNER UP
• Katy O’Brian
• RaMell Ross
• Maisy Stella

Oglethorpe Award for Excellence in Georgia Cinema

• Civil War”(Alex Garland) – RUNNER UP
• Color Book (David Fortune)
• The Forge (Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick)
• The Idea of You (Michael Showalter, Robinne Lee, Jennifer Westfeldt)
• Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood, Jonathan A. Abrams)
• Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World (short; Julio Palacio, Makayla Cain)
• The Piano Lesson (Malcolm Washington, Virgil Williams, August Wilson)
• The Preakness (short; Akshay Bhatia)
• Saturday Night”(Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan)
• The South Got Something to Say (Ryon Horne, Tyson Horne, Ernie Suggs, DeAsia Paige)

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