‘Wicked’ Leads 2024 Astra Film and Creative Arts Awards Nominations with 20

The Hollywood Creative Alliance has announced the nominees for the 2024 Astra Film Awards and Astra Creative Arts Awards where Universal Pictures’ Wicked led with a record-breaking tally. The film received 20 nominations including Best Picture, Best Actress for Cynthia Erivo, Best Supporting Actress for Ariana Grande, Best Supporting Actor for Jonathan Bailey and Best Director for Jon M. Chu.

The organization will host two ceremonies – a luncheon and dinner – on Sunday, December 8, 2024 at the Taglyan Complex in Los Angeles. Both ceremonies will be recorded and streamed on KNEKT.tv and YouTube.

Actor, Comedian and Writer Peter Kim will host the Astra Creative Arts Awards and 2x Emmy and NAACP winning Comedian Loni Love will host the Astra Film Awards. Select categories from this summer’s postponed Astra TV Awards will be presented in conjunction with the two ceremonies. 

Coming in second place, with a total of 16 nominations, was Warner Bros’ Dune: Part Two. The Denis Villeneuve sequel nominations included Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Cast Ensemble, amongst many others categories. 

Netflix’s Emilia Pérez came in third with 11 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Karla Sofía Gascón, dual Best Supporting Actress nominations for Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña and Best Cast Ensemble. The film won the Best Actress award at Cannes earlier this year with Adriana Paz.

Other top nominated films include Amazon MGM’s Challengers with 9, Paramount Pictures’ Gladiator II with 9, A24’s The Brutalist with 8, Neon’s Anora with 7, Focus Features’ Conclave with 7, Dreamworks’ The Wild Robot with 5, and Searchlight’s A Real Pain with 5.

Additionally, the Hollywood Creative Alliance announced last week that Costume Designer Colleen Atwood would be the recipient of the Inaugural Artisan Icon Award, Composer Kris Bowers will be honored with the Artisan Achievement Award, and Cinematographer Giovanni Ribisi will receive the Artisan Breakthrough Award at the Astra Creative Arts Awards ceremony.

Here is the complete list of nominations.

Best Picture 

• Anora
• The Brutalist 
• Challengers
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• A Real Pain
• Sing Sing
• The Substance 
• Wicked

Best Comedy or Musical

• Anora
• A Real Pain
• Challengers
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Saturday Night
• Wicked

Best Actor

• Adrien Brody – The Brutalist 
• Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
• Glen Powell – Hit Man
• Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
• Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
• Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown

Best Actress

• Angelina Jolie – Maria
• Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
• Demi Moore – The Substance 
• Karla Sofia Gascon – Emilia Pérez
• Mikey Madison – Anora
• Naomi Scott – Smile 2

Best Supporting Actor 

• Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
• Denzel Washington – Gladiator II
• Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
• Jonathan Bailey – Wicked 
• Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
• Yura Borisov – Anora

Best Supporting Actress

• Ariana Grande – Wicked
• Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys
• Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson
• Margaret Qualley – The Substance
• Selena Gomez – Emilia Pérez
• Zoe Saldana – Emilia Pérez

Best Original Screenplay

• Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
• Sean Baker – Anora
• Justin Kuritzkes – Challengers
• Gil Kenan and Jason Reitman – Saturday Night
• Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold – The Brutalist
• Coralie Fargeat – The Substance

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Peter Straughan – Conclave
• Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts – Dune: Part Two
• Glen Powell and Richard Linklater – Hit Man
• RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes – Nickel Boys
• Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar – Sing Sing
• Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox – Wicked

Best Director

• Sean Baker – Anora
• Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two
• Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
• Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
• Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
• Jon M. Chu – Wicked

Best Cast Ensemble

• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Gladiator II
• Saturday Night
• Wicked

Best International Feature

• All We Imagine As Light
• Emilia Pérez
• Flow
• I’m Still Here
• Kneecap
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Best Documentary Feature

• Black Box Diaries
• Daughters
• Music by John Williams
• Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
• The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
• Will & Harper

Best First Feature

• Anna Kendrick – Woman of the Hour
• Dev Patel – Monkey Man
• Kelsey Mann – Inside Out 2
• Malcolm Washington – The Piano Lesson
• Sean Wang – Dìdi
• Zoë Kravitz – Blink Twice 

Best Animated Feature

• Flow
• Inside Out 2
• Memoir of a Snail
• The Wild Robot
• Transformers One
• Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Best Voice Over Performance

• Amy Poehler – Inside Out 2
• Brian Tyree Henry – Transformers One
• Lupita Nyong’o – The Wild Robot
• Maya Hawke – Inside Out 2
• Owen Teague – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 
• Pedro Pascal – The Wild Robot

Best Horror or Thriller Feature

• Alien: Romulus
• Heretic
• Longlegs
• Nosferatu
• Smile 2
• The Substance

Best Performance in a Horror or Thriller

• Bill Skarsgård – Nosferatu
• Demi Moore – The Substance 
• Hugh Grant – Heretic
• Lupita Nyong’o – A Quiet Place: Day One
• Margaret Qualley – The Substance
• Naomi Scott – Smile 2

Best Action or Science Fiction Feature

• Civil War
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Monkey Man
• The Fall Guy
• Twisters

Best Indie Feature

• Hundreds of Beavers
• Late Night with the Devil 
• Strange Darling
• The Apprentice
• The Last Showgirl
• Thelma

Astra Creative Arts Awards Categories:

Best Casting

• Barbara Giordani, Nina Gold, Francesco Vedovati and Martin Ware – Conclave
• Francine Maisler – Dune: Part Two
• Christel Baras and Carla Hool – Emilia Pérez
• John Papsidera – Saturday Night
• Laure Cochener and Léa Moszkowicz – The Substance
• Tiffany Little Canfield and Bernard Telsey – Wicked

Best Cinematography

• Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – Challengers
• Greig Fraser – Dune: Part Two
• Jomo Fray – Nickel Boys
• Jarin Blaschke – Nosferatu
• Lol Crawley – The Brutalist
• Alice Brooks – Wicked

Best Costume Design

• Colleen Atwood – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• Jacqueline West – Dune: Part Two
• Jenny Beavan – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• David Crossman and Janty Yates – Gladiator II
• Linda Muir – Nosferatu
• Paul Tazewell – Wicked

Best Film Editing

• Sean Baker – Anora
• Marco Costa – Challengers
• Nick Emerson – Conclave
• Joe Walker – Dune: Part Two
• Nathan Orloff and Shane Reid – Saturday Night
• Myron Kerstein – Wicked

Best Makeup and Hairstyling 

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• Dune: Part Two
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Nosferatu
• The Substance
• Wicked

Best Marketing Campaign 

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – Warner Bros. Pictures 
• Challengers – Amazon MGM Studios 
• Dune: Part Two – Warner Bros. Pictures 
• Gladiator II – Paramount Pictures 
• The Fall Guy – Universal Pictures 
• Wicked – Universal Pictures 

Best Original Score

• Clément Ducol & Camille – Emilia Pérez
• Daniel Blumberg – The Brutalist 
• Hans Zimmer – Dune: Part Two
• Kris Bowers – The Wild Robot
• John Powell and Stephen Schwartz – Wicked
• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Challengers

Best Original Song

• “Compress/Regress” from Challengers performed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross 
• “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez performed by Camille, Karla Sofía Gascón, and Zoe Saldaña 
• “Harper and Will Go West” from Will & Harper performed by Kristen Wiig
• “Kiss the Sky” from The Wild Robot performed by Maren Morris
• “Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez performed by Selena Gomez 
• Piece by Piece from Piece by Piece performed by Pharrell Williams 

Best Production Design

• Suzie Davies – Conclave
• Patrice Vermette and Shane Vieau – Dune: Part Two
• Arthur Max, Jille Azis and Elli Griff – Gladiator II
• Craig Lathrop – Nosferatu
• Judy Becker – The Brutalist
• Nathan Crowley & Lee Sandales – Wicked

Best Sound

• A Quiet Place: Day One
• Challengers
• Dune: Part Two
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Gladiator II
• Wicked

Best Stunts

• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Dune: Part Two
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Gladiator II
• The Fall Guy
• Wicked

Best Stunt Coordinator 

• George Cottle – Deadpool & Wolverine
• Lee Morrison – Dune: Part Two
• Guy Norris – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Nikki Berwick – Gladiator II
• Chris O’Hara – The Fall Guy
• Jo McLaren – Wicked

Best Visual Effects

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• Dune: Part Two 
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Gladiator II
• Twisters 
• Wicked

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