The Greater Western New York Film Critics Association Announces 2024 Film Awards Nominees

The Greater Western New York Film Critics Association (GWNYFCA), a collective of WNY film critics from in and around the Buffalo and Rochester metropolitan areas, has just announced its seventh annual film awards nominees for 2024. Forty-two (42) different titles are represented on the ballot.

The film critics group consists of members in traditional print media (newspapers and magazines) and online media (websites and podcasts), including Awards Radar’s Steven Prusakowski. In an era of aggregate sites, the GWNYFCA aspires to give the region a voice within the ever-changing international cinematic landscape.

Beyond our ten Best Picture nominees are five nominees (or six in the case of a fifth-place tie) for fifteen other categories that highlight the best work in front of and behind the camera. Potential titles/artists were restricted to those films released as first-run theatrical or streaming in the United States during the 2024 calendar year.

Visit their website for a full account of this year’s nominees. Leading the way are THE BRUTALIST (8 nominations), ANORA (7 nominations), CHALLENGERS, and NICKEL BOYS (6 nominations each).

The 2024 GWNYFCA Film Awards Nominees:

Best Picture:

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• Challengers
• Dune: Part Two
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• I Saw the TV Glow
• Nickel Boys
• No Other Land
• Nosferatu
• A Real Pain

Best Foreign Language Film:

• All We Imagine as Light (India)
• Evil Does Not Exist (Japan)
• Kneecap (Ireland)
• No Other Land (Palestine)
• Red Rooms (Canada)

Best Animated Film:

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

Best Documentary:

• Daughters
• No Other Land
• The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
• Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
• Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Best Director:

• Sean Baker, Anora
• Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
• Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
• Luca Guadagnino, Challengers
• RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys

Lead Actor:

• Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
• Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
• Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
• Hugh Grant, Heretic
• Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight

Lead Actress:

• Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
• Mikey Madison, Anora
• Demi Moore, The Substance
• Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

Supporting Actor:

• Yura Borisov, Anora
• Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
• Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
• Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
• Guy Pearce, The Brutalist

Supporting Actress:

• Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
• Joan Chen, Dìdi
• Ariana Grande-Butera, Wicked
• Natasha Lyonne, His Three Daughters
• Margaret Qualley, The Substance

Original Screenplay:

• Anora (Sean Baker)
• The Brutalist (Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold)
• Challengers (Justin Kuritzkes)
• A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)
• A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg)

Adapted Screenplay:

• Conclave (Peter Straughan)
• Hit Man (Richard Linklater & Glen Powell)
• Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes)
• Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader)
• Sing Sing (Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar / story by Kwedar, Bentley, Clarence Maclin & John Whitfield)

Best Cinematography:

• The Brutalist (Lol Crawley)
• Challengers (Sayombhu Mukdeeprom)
• Dune: Part Two (Greig Fraser)
• Nickel Boys (Jomo Fray)
• Nosferatu (Jarin Blaschke)

Best Editing:

• The Brutalist (David Jancso)
• Challengers (Marco Costa)
• Dune: Part Two (Joe Walker)
• Nickel Boys (Nicholas Monsour)
• Saturday Night (Nathan Orloff & Shane Reid)

Best Original Score:

• The Brutalist (Daniel Blumberg)
• Challengers (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross)
• Conclave (Volker Bertelman)
• Nosferatu (Robin Carolan)
• The Wild Robot (Kris Bowers)

Breakthrough Performance:

• Yura Borisov, Anora
• Lily Collias, Good One
• Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
• Mikey Madison, Anora
• Izaac Wang, Dìdi

Breakthrough Director:

• India Donaldson, Good One
• Vera Drew, The People’s Joker
• Josh Margolin, Thelma
• RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys
• Aaron Schimberg, A Different Man