We join our colleagues in
@nyfcc.bsky.social,
@lafilmcritics.bsky.social and
@bsfc.bsky.social in condemning the attack on NO OTHER LAND co-director Hamdan Ballal.
This concludes our 59th annual voting meeting. Thank you for following along, and congratulations to all our winners.
Best Nonfiction Film: NO OTHER LAND (70 points)
Runners-up:
DAHOMEY (50 points)
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT (24 points)
Best Film Not in the English Language: ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (44 points)
Runners-up:
DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (41 points)
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (28 points)
Best Director: Payal Kapadia, ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (49 points)
Runners-up:
RaMell Ross, NICKEL BOYS (42 points)
Sean Baker, ANORA (33 points)
Best Picture: NICKEL BOYS (47 points)
Runners-up:
ANORA and ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (34 points)
Best Screenplay: Jesse Eisenberg, A REAL PAIN (47 points)
Runners-up:
Radu Jude, DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (46 points)
Sean Baker, ANORA (45 points)
Best Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin, A REAL PAIN (52 points)
Runners-up:
Guy Pearce, THE BRUTALIST (50 points)
Edward Norton, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, and Adam Pearson, A DIFFERENT MAN (41 points)
Best Actor: Colman Domingo, SING SING ( 60 points)
Runners-up:
Adrien Brody, THE BRUTALIST (51 points)
Ralph Fiennes, CONCLAVE (45 points)
Best Cinematography: Jomo Fray, NICKEL BOYS (80 points)
Runners-up:
Lol Crawley, THE BRUTALIST (38 points)
Jarin Blaschke, NOSFERATU (21 points)
Best Supporting Actress: Michele Austin, HARD TRUTHS (55 points)
Runners-up:
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, NICKEL BOYS, and Natasha Lyonne, HIS THREE DAUGHTERS (39 points)
Best Actress: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, HARD TRUTHS (79 points)
Runners-up:
Mikey Madison, ANORA (35 points)
Ilinca Manolache, DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (32 points)
Special Citation for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution: NO OTHER LAND
Best Experimental Film: THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE
Film Heritage Award: To Save and Project: The MoMa International Festival of Film Preservation, for more than two decades of superb restorations and diverse programming from all over the world, in collaboration with archives, foundations, studios and other organizations.
Film Heritage Award: IndieCollect, which, since its founding in 2010 by Sandra Schulberg, has met the challenge of preserving independent films with a rare sense of artistic responsibility.
Film Heritage Award: Scott Eyman, for his outstanding books on film artists and epochal shifts in moviemaking, most recently with “Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided” (2023), a revelatory study of the nexus of American politics and American pop culture.
The National Society of Film Critics’ 59th annual voting meeting is about to begin. Follow this account for live winner announcements, category by category.
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We will be voting on our awards for 2024's best achievements in film on Saturday, Jan. 4. Please follow us here for the winner and runner-up announcements, category by category.
