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‘Nickel Boys’ Leads 2024 Chicago Film Critics Association Honors; ‘Brutalist’ Wins Best Picture

Brady Corbet’s 'The Brutalist' also earns Best Actor for Adrien Brody; 'Challengers' and 'A Real Pain' each win two at ceremony in Chicago tonight.

Clarence Moye by Clarence Moye
December 11, 2024
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The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) today announces their 2024 award winners. Claiming the organization’s top honor as Best Picture of the year is Brady Corbet’s THE BRUTALIST, while NICKEL BOYS earns the most honors of the evening with four total wins. RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s best-selling novel was named winner for Best Director, Best Best Adapted Screenplay (Ross with Joslyn Barnes), Best Cinematography (Jomo Fray) and the Breakthrough Filmmaker Award for Ross’s future career potential.

Elsewhere among the winners, Adrien Brody was named Best Actor for his role in THE BRUTALIST; Marianne Jean-Baptiste earned Best Actress honors for her powerfully vulnerable role in Mike Leigh’s HARD TRUTHS. CHALLENGERS (Luca Guadagnino) and A REAL PAIN (Jesse Eisenberg) both earned two wins; Best Editing (Marco Costa) and Best Original Score (Trent Rezner and Atticus Ross) for the former, and Best Supporting Actor (Kieran Culkin) and Best Original Screenplay (Jesse Eisenberg) for the latter.

Other key category wins include Natasha Lyonne for Best Supporting Actress in HIS THREE DAUGHTERS; NO OTHER LAND for Best Documentary; FLOW for Best Animated Film; and ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT for Best Foreign Language Film.

The full list of 2024 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards winners is as follows:

  • BEST PICTURE: The Brutalist
  • BEST DIRECTOR: RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys
  • BEST ACTOR: Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
  • BEST ACTRESS: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
  • BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
  • BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Natasha Lyonne, His Three Daughters
  • BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: A Real Pain by Jesse Eisenberg
  • BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Nickel Boys by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes
  • BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: All We Imagine as Light
  • BEST DOCUMENTARY: No Other Land
  • BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Flow
  • BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nickel Boys, Jomo Fray
  • BEST EDITING: Challengers, Marco Costa
  • BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN: Nosferatu
  • BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Jenny Beavan
  • BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Challengers, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
  • BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS: The Substance
  • MOST PROMISING PERFORMER: Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
  • MILOS STEHLIK BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER AWARD: RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys

 

About the Chicago Film Critics Association

A 501(c)3 non-profit organization, the Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) was founded in 1990 to support and celebrate quality filmmaking that has something to say about our world, our lives, and our society. Membership includes Chicago-based journalists, broadcasters, critics and media personalities who actively work in the area of film across a wide variety of local, regional and national outlets. The annual Chicago Critics Film Festival presents a selection of recent festival favorites and as-yet-undistributed works from established voices and talented newcomers alike, curated by the CFCA membership. Every December, the CFCA votes on and announces their selections for best films of the year, contributing to the annual national discourse on cinema. Learn more at www.chicagofilmcritics.org.

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Clarence Moye is a proud co-founder of The Contending where he writes about film, television, and occasionally Taylor Swift. Yes, you're allowed to make fun of him for that. He does not care. Under his 10-year run at Awards Daily, Clarence covered the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, the Telluride Film Festival, the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, the Middleburg Film Festival, and much more. Clarence is a member of the Critics Choice Association.

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