Midnight Critics Circle (MCC) Awards: ‘Marty Supreme’ Wins Best Picture

Marty Supreme has won Best Picture from the Midnight Critics Circle (MCC) with star Timothée Chalamet also taking the Best Actor prize.

It Was Just an Accident was a triple winner, with Best Director and Original Screenplay for Jafar Panahi and Best International Film. Panahi was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award from the group.

Josh O’Connor (Wake Up Dead Man) and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value) picked up supporting acting wins while Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You) collected another for Best Actress.

Here is the complete list of winners and runners-up from the Midnight Critics Circle.

Best Picture: Marty Supreme (Runner-up: It Was Just an Accident)

Best Director: Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident (Runner-up: Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme)

Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme (Runner-up: Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon)

Best Actress: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Runner-up: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet)

Best Supporting Actor: Josh O’Connor, Wake Up Dead Man (Runner-up: Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value)

Best Supporting Actress: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value (Runner-up: Mariam Afshari, It Was Just an Accident)

Best Original Screenplay: Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident (Runner-up: Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme)

Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another (Runner-up: Park Chan-wook, Don McKellar, Lee Kyoung-mi, Lee Ja-hye – No Other Choice)

Best Animated Film: Zootopia 2 (Runner-up: Dog Man)

Best Documentary Film: Pavements (Runner-up: Apocalypse in the Tropics)

Best International Film: It Was Just an Accident (Runner-up: Sentimental Value)

Best Ensemble: Sentimental Value (Runner-up: It Was Just an Accident)

Best Casting: Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident (Runner-up: Jennifer Venditti, Marty Supreme)

Best Cinematography: Dong Jingsong, Resurrection (Runner-up: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners)

Best Editing: Andy Jurgensen, One Battle After Another (Runner-up: Kim Sang-bum and Kim Ho-bin, No Other Choice)

Best Production Design: Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau, Frankenstein (Runner-up: Tu Nan and Liu Qiang, Resurrection)

Best Costume Design: Kate Hawley, Frankenstein (Runner-up: Lindsay Pugh, Hedda)

Best Makeup/Hairstyling: 28 Years Later (Runner-up: Frankenstein)

Best Original Score: Ludwig Göransson, Sinners (Runner-up: Daniel Lopatin, Marty Supreme)

Best Original Song: “I Lied to You” from Sinners (Runner-up: “Clothed by the Sun” from The Testament of Ann Lee)

Best Sound: Sirāt (Runner-up: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)

Best Visual Effects: Avatar: Fire and Ash (Runner-up: Mickey 17)

Best Choreography and Stunts: Splitsville (Runner-up: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning)

Best First Feature: Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby (Runner-up: Aimee Kuge, Cannibal Mukbang)

Best Breakthrough Performance: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value (Runner-up: Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby)

Lifetime Achievement: Jafar Panahi

Midnight Diamond (recognizes under-appreciated but quality films that are looked down upon and mocked due to their less serious nature): Now You See Me, Now You Don’t

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