DC, Los Angeles, and Boston Film Critics Announce Their Picks for Best of 2024

Today was Super Sunday for critics awards, with DC, Los Angeles, and Boston announcing their picks for the best in film for 2024. The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association, a group of which I'm a proud voting member, has selected Jon M. Chu's outstanding musical "Wicked" as Best Feature, while also giving the film Best Production Design. The rest of the awards were pretty spread out with several films winning a pair of awards: "The Brutalist" (Best Director and Best Original Score), "Anora" (Best Actress and Best Editing), Conclave (Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Acting Ensemble), "A Real Pain" (Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor), and "The Wild Robot" (Best Animated Feature and Best Voice Performance).

Both the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the Boston Society of Film Critics have selected "Anora" as the best film of 2024, with the former also giving it one of their Best Leading Performance awards and the latter also giving it Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Original Screenplay.

Please see below for a complete list of today's winners:

Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association

Best Feature: Wicked

Best Director: Brady Corbet, The Brutalist

Best Actor: Colman Domingo, Sing Sing

Best Actress: Mikey Madison, Anora

Best Supporting Actor: Kirean Culkin, A Real Pain

Best Supporting Actress: Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson

Best Acting Ensemble: Conclave

Best Original Screenplay: Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain

Best Adapted Screenplay: Peter Straughan, Conclave

Best Editing (Tie): Sean Baker, Anora & Joe Walker, Dune: Part Two

Best Cinematography: Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu

Best Production Design: Nathan Crowley, Wicked

Best Original Score (Tie): Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist & Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers

Best Animated Feature: The Wild Robot

Best International Film: Emilia Perez

Best Documentary: Super/Man: The Christopher Reeeve Story

Best Stunts: Chris O’Hara, The Fall Guy

Best Voice Actor: Lupita Nyong'o, The Wild Robot

Best Youth Performance: Elliott Heffernan, Blitz

Best Motion Capture: Owen Teague, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC: Civil War

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Best Picture

Anora

Runner-Up: The Brutalist

Best Director

Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Runner-up: Sean Baker, Anora

Best Leading Performances

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths and Mikey Madison, Anora

Runners-up: Demi Moore, The Substance and Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

Best Supporting Performances

Yura Borisov, Anora and Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

Runners-up: Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing and Adam Pearson, A Different Man

Best Screenplay

Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain

Runner-up: Sean Baker, Anora

Best Cinematography

Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys

Runner-up: Lol Crawley, The Brutalist

Best Editing

Tie: Nicholas Monsour, Nickel Boys; and Hansjörg Weißbrich, September 5

Best Production Design

Judy Becker, The Brutalist

Runner-up: Adam Stockhausen, Blitz

Best Music Score

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers

Runner-up: Eiko Ishibashi, Evil Does Not Exist

Best Animation

Flow

Runner-up: Chicken for Linda

Best Foreign Language

All We Imagine As Light

Runner-up: The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

No Other Land

Runner-up: Dahomey

Boston Society of Film Critics

Best Film – “Anora”

Best Director – Sean Baker, “Anora”

Best Actor – Timothée Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”

Best Actress – Mikey Madison, “Anora”

Best Supporting Actor – Edward Norton, “A Complete Unknown” 

Best Supporting Actress – Danielle Deadwyler, “The Piano Lesson”

Best Original Screenplay – Sean Baker, “Anora”

Best Ensemble Cast – “Sing Sing”

Best Adapted Screenplay – RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, “Nickel Boys” 

Best Film Editing (awarded in memory of Karen Schmeer) – Marco Costa, “Challengers”

Best Cinematography – Lol Crawley “The Brutalist” 

Best Documentary (awarded in memory of Lucia Small) – “No Other Land”

Best Animated Film – “Flow”

Best New Filmmaker (awarded in memory of David Brudnoy) – Annie Baker, “Janet Planet”

Best Original Score – Daniel Blumberg, “The Brutalist” 

Best Non-English Language Film – “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World”

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