Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2024

The 37th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards were presented to recognize the best in film of 2024.^[1] The nominations were announced on December 10, 2024.^[1][2] The Brutalist received the most nominations with nine, followed by The Substance with seven.^[1] Meanwhile, Anora, Nickel Boys and Wicked each received six nominations.^[2]

37th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Date	December 11, 2024
Site	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Highlights
Best Picture	The Brutalist
Most awards	Nickel Boys (4)
Most nominations	The Brutalist (9)
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The winners were subsequently announced on December 11, 2024.^[3] Nickel Boys won the most awards with four wins, including three for RaMell Ross—namely Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (the latter along with co-writer Joslyn Barnes).^[4] However, The Brutalist won Best Film, as well as Best Actor for Adrien Brody.^[5] A Real Pain also received two: Best Supporting Actor (Kieran Culkin) and Best Original Screenplay (Jesse Eisenberg).^[6] Best Actress went to Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths), while Best Supporting Actress went to Natasha Lyonne (His Three Daughters).^[5][6]

RaMell Ross, Best Director & Breakthrough Filmmaker winner, + Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner

Adrien Brody, Best Actor winner

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Best Actress winner

Kieran Culkin, Best Supporting Actor winner

Natasha Lyonne, Best Supporting Actress winner

Jesse Eisenberg, Best Original Screenplay winner

Joslyn Barnes, Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner

(L–R) Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Best Original Score winners

Clarence Maclin, Most Promising Performer winner

Winners and nominees

The winners and nominees for the 37th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards are as follows:

Awards

Best Film	Best Director
The Brutalist Anora Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga I Saw the TV Glow Nickel Boys The Substance	RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys Sean Baker – Anora Brady Corbet – The Brutalist Coralie Fargeat – The Substance Jane Schoenbrun – I Saw the TV Glow
Best Actor	Best Actress
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist as László Tóth Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown as Bob Dylan Colman Domingo – Sing Sing as John "Divine G" Whitfield Ralph Fiennes – Conclave as Thomas Cardinal Lawrence Keith Kupferer – Ghostlight as Dan Mueller	Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths as Pansy Deacon Cynthia Erivo – Wicked as Elphaba Thropp Mikey Madison – Anora as Anora "Ani" Mikheeva Demi Moore – The Substance as Elisabeth Sparkle Léa Seydoux – The Beast as Gabrielle
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain as Benji Kaplan Yura Borisov – Anora as Igor Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing as Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin Guy Pearce – The Brutalist as Harrison Lee Van Buren, Sr. Adam Pearson – A Different Man as Oswald	Natasha Lyonne – His Three Daughters as Rachel Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson as Berniece Ariana Grande-Butera – Wicked as Galinda Upland Margaret Qualley – The Substance as Sue Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez as Rita Mora Castro
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg Anora – Sean Baker The Brutalist – Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold Challengers – Justin Kuritzkes The Substance – Coralie Fargeat	Nickel Boys – Joslyn Barnes and RaMell Ross The Beast – Bertrand Bonello, Guillaume Bréaud, and Benjamin Charbit Conclave – Peter Straughan Nosferatu – Robert Eggers Sing Sing – Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, and John Whitfield
Best Animated Film	Best Documentary Film
Flow Inside Out 2 Memoir of a Snail Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl The Wild Robot	No Other Land Dahomey Daughters Soundtrack to a Coup d'État Sugarcane
Best Foreign Language Film
All We Imagine as Light (France/India/Italy/Luxembourg/Netherlands) Emilia Pérez (France) Evil Does Not Exist (Japan) Red Rooms (Canada) The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany/USA)
Best Cinematography	Best Original Score
Nickel Boys – Jomo Fray The Brutalist – Lol Crawley Challengers – Sayombhu Mukdeeprom Dune: Part Two – Greig Fraser Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke	Challengers – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg Dune: Part Two – Hans Zimmer Nosferatu – Robin Carolan Wicked – John Powell and Stephen Schwartz The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers
Best Editing	Best Costume Design
Challengers – Marco Costa Anora – Sean Baker The Brutalist – Dávid Jancsó Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – Eliot Knapman and Margaret Sixel Nickel Boys – Nicolas Monsour	Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – Jenny Beavan Dune: Part Two – Jacqueline West Maria – Massimo Cantini Parrini Nosferatu – Linda Muir Wicked – Paul Tazewell
Best Art Direction / Production Design	Best Use of Visual Effects
Nosferatu The Brutalist Dune: Part Two The Substance Wicked	The Substance Dune: Part Two Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Hundreds of Beavers Wicked
Milos Stehlik Award for Breakthrough Filmmaker	Most Promising Performer
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys Mike Cheslik – Hundreds of Beavers Vera Drew – The People's Joker Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light Greg Kwedar – Sing Sing	Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing as Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin Lily Collias – Good One as Sam Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez as Emilia Pérez Brigette Lundy-Paine – I Saw the TV Glow as Maddy Wilson Adam Pearson – A Different Man as Oswald

Awards breakdown

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
9	The Brutalist
7	The Substance
6	Anora
	Nickel Boys
	Wicked
5	Dune: Part Two
	Nosferatu
	Sing Sing
4	Challengers
	Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
3	Emilia Pérez
	I Saw the TV Glow
2	All We Imagine as Light
	The Beast
	Conclave
	A Different Man
	Hundreds of Beavers
	A Real Pain
	The Wild Robot

The following films received multiple wins:

Wins	Film
4	Nickel Boys
2	The Brutalist
	Challengers
	A Real Pain