This year’s winners and runners-up for the annual Indiana Film Journalists (IFJA) have been named this morning. While The Substance and The Brutalist dominated multiple categories, there were a handful of surprises among the winners, and the 16-year-old organization made some eclectic choices in their top ten films of the year.
Here is the complete list of winners, runners-up, and the organization’s special award for excellence displayed by Indiana filmmakers, or films concerning the Hoosier state.
Best Picture
Winner: The Substance
Runner-up: The Brutalist
Top Ten Films of 2024: (listed alphabetically)
The Brutalist
Civil War
Conclave
A Different Man
I Saw the TV Glow
Mars Express
Nickel Boys
A Real Pain
Sing Sing
The Substance
Best Animated Film
Winner: Mars Express
Runner-up: The Wild Robot
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: Mars Express
Runner-up: Aattam
Best Documentary Film
Winner: Daughters
Runner-up: No Other Land
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
Runner-up: Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, Nickel Boys
Runner-up: Peter Straughan, Conclave
Best Director
Winner: Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Runner-up: Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Best Lead Performance
Winner: Demi Moore, The Substance
Runner-up: Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Best Supporting Performance
Winner: Margaret Qualley, The Substance
Runner-up: Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Best Vocal/Motion Capture Performance
Winner: Lupita Nyong’o, The Wild Robot
Runner-up: Jonno Davies (motion-capture) and Robbie Williams (voice), Better Man
Best Ensemble Acting
Winner: His Three Daughters
Runner-up: Sing Sing
Best Musical Score
Winner: Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist
Runner-up: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers
Breakout of the Year
Winner: Vera Drew (director / co-writer / editor / performer), The People’s Joker
Runner-up: Mikey Madison, Anora
Best Cinematography
Winner: Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu
Runner-up: Lol Crawley, The Brutalist
Best Editing
Winner: Jérôme Eltabet, Coralie Fargeat and Valentin Feron, The Substance
Runner-up: Dávid Jancsó, The Brutalist
Best Stunt/Movement Choreography
Winner: Guy Norris (action designer / supervising stunt coordinator / second-unit director), Tim Wong (stunt coordinator), Harland Norris (assistant stunt coordinator), Karl Van Moorsel (sequence coordinator) and Michael Roughan (stunt rigging coordinator), Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Runner-up: Runner-Up: Ashley Wallen (dance choreographer), Nicholas Daines (stunt coordinator), Slavisa Ivanovic (stunt coordinator), Tim Wong (fight choreographer) and Spencer Susser (second-unit director), Better Man
Best Special Effects
Winner: Bryan Jones (visual effects supervisor), Pierre Procoudine-Gorsky (visual effects producer) and Jean Miel (special effects supervisor), The Substance
Runner-up: Mike Cheslik (visual effects) and Jerry Kurek (assistant effects artist), Hundreds of Beavers
Original Vision Award
Winner: Hundreds of Beavers
Runner-up: The Substance
The Edward Johnson-Ott Hoosier Award*
Michael Husain (writer / director), The Waiting Game
*As a special honor, no runner-up is named for the Hoosier Award. It is named after founding IFJA member and longtime NUVO Newsweekly critic Edward Johnson-Ott.
Established in 2009 by a dedicated group of Indiana journalists, the Indiana Film Journalists Association (IFJA) endeavors to promote quality film criticism in the Hoosier state and support Indiana’s growing film industry.
For more information, visit http://indianafilmjournalists.com.
So glad to see Mars Express recognized. Still can't believe how I almost missed out on that sci-fi gem.