Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2024

20th Austin Film Critics Association Awards
20th Austin Film Critics Association Awards
Date	January 6, 2025
Location	Austin, Texas
Presented by	Austin Film Critics Association
Website	austinfilmcritics.org

The 20th Austin Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking for 2024, will be announced on January 6, 2025. The nominations were announced on December 27, 2024.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Brady Corbet's epic drama The Brutalist led the nominations with ten, followed by Dune: Part Two with eight, and Anora and The Substance with seven each. Unlike previous editions of the awards were five nominees while one winner was presented for the Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award; this year, the award will go to all five top nominees.

Nominees

The winners will be listed first and in bold.

Best Film	Best Director
Anora The Brutalist Dune: Part Two Conclave Love Lies Bleeding Nosferatu Nickel Boys The Substance Sing Sing Wicked	Sean Baker – Anora Brady Corbet – The Brutalist Coralie Fargeat – The Substance Rose Glass – Love Lies Bleeding Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two
Best Actor	Best Actress
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist as László Tóth Daniel Craig – Queer as William Lee Colman Domingo – Sing Sing as John "Divine G" Whitfield Ralph Fiennes – Conclave as Thomas Cardinal Lawrence Hugh Grant – Heretic as Mr. Reed	Pamela Anderson – The Last Showgirl as Shelly Gardner Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths as Pansy Deacon Nicole Kidman – Babygirl as Romy Mathis Mikey Madison – Anora as Anora "Ani" Mikheeva Demi Moore – The Substance as Elisabeth Sparkle
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Yura Borisov – Anora as Igor Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain as Benji Kaplan Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing as Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin Guy Pearce – The Brutalist as Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr. Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice as Roy Cohn	Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson as Berniece Ariana Grande – Wicked as Galinda Upland Felicity Jones – The Brutalist as Erzsébet Tóth Katy O'Brian – Love Lies Bleeding as Jacqueline "Jackie" Cleaver Margaret Qualley – The Substance as Sue
Best Adapted Screenplay	Best Original Screenplay
Conclave – Peter Straughan Dune: Part Two – Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes Sing Sing – Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley Wicked – Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox	Anora – Sean Baker The Brutalist – Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold Challengers – Justin Kuritzkes A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg The Substance – Coralie Fargeat
Best Animated Film	Best Documentary
Flow Inside Out 2 Memoir of a Snail Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl The Wild Robot	Dahomey No Other Land The Remarkable Life of Ibelin Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story Will & Harper
Best International Film	Best First Film
Emilia Pérez Flow I'm Still Here Kneecap The Seed of the Sacred Fig	Blink Twice – Zoë Kravitz Dìdi – Sean Wang The First Omen – Arkasha Stevenson The People's Joker – Vera Drew Thelma – Josh Margolin
Best Cinematography	Best Editing
The Brutalist – Lol Crawley Dune: Part Two – Greig Fraser Nickel Boys – Jomo Fray Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke The Substance – Benjamin Kračun	Anora – Sean Baker The Brutalist – Dávid Jancsó Dune: Part Two – Joe Walker September 5 – Hansjörg Weißbrich The Substance – Coralie Fargeat, Jérôme Eltabet, and Valentin Féron
Best Original Score	Best Ensemble
The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg Challengers – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Dune: Part Two – Hans Zimmer Nosferatu – Robin Carolan The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers	Anora The Brutalist Conclave Dune: Part Two Sing Sing
Best Stunt Work	Best Voice Acting/Animated/Digital Performance
Dune: Part Two The Fall Guy Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Kill Monkey Man	Kevin Durand – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes as Proximus Caesar Lupita Nyong'o – The Wild Robot as Roz Amy Poehler – Inside Out 2 as Joy Sarah Snook – Memoir of a Snail as Grace Pudel Robbie Williams and Jonno Davies – Better Man as Robbie Williams and young Robbie Williams
The Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award	Best Austin Film 2024
To be announced	The Bikeriders (dir. Jeff Nichols) Fugitive Dreams (dir. Jason Neulander) Hit Man (dir. Richard Linklater) Sasquatch Sunset (dir. Nathan and David Zellner) Sing Sing (dir. Greg Kwedar)
Special Honorary Award
To be announced

References

^ Anderson, Erik (December 27, 2024). "2024 Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) Nominations". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 27, 2024.
^ Neglia, Matt (December 27, 2024). "The 2024 Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) Nominations". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 27, 2024.
^ Partridge, Jon (December 27, 2024). "2024 Austin Film Critics Association Award Nominations". Austin Film Critics Association. Retrieved December 27, 2024.

External links

Official website

[1] Anderson, Erik (December 27, 2024). "2024 Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) Nominations". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 27, 2024.

[2] Neglia, Matt (December 27, 2024). "The 2024 Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) Nominations". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 27, 2024.

[3] Partridge, Jon (December 27, 2024). "2024 Austin Film Critics Association Award Nominations". Austin Film Critics Association. Retrieved December 27, 2024.

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