San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards 2024

23rd SFBAFCC Awards

December 15, 2024

Best Picture:
Anora

Best Animated Feature:
Flow

Best Documentary Feature:
Sugarcane

Best International Feature Film:
The Seed of the Sacred Fig

The 23rd San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2024, were given on December 15, 2024.^[1] The nominations were announced on December 13, 2024, with The Brutalist leading the nominations with nine, followed by Conclave with seven and Anora with six.^[2]

Anora and The Brutalist received the most awards with four wins each; the former won Best Picture.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Winners and nominees

These are the nominees for the 23rd SFBAFCC Awards. Winners are listed at the top of each list:

Best Picture	Best Director
Anora The Brutalist Hard Truths Nickel Boys Sing Sing	Brady Corbet – The Brutalist Sean Baker – Anora Coralie Fargeat – The Substance Mike Leigh – Hard Truths RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Colman Domingo – Sing Sing* as John "Divine G" Whitfield** Adrien Brody – The Brutalist as László Tóth Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown as Bob Dylan Daniel Craig – Queer as William Lee Ralph Fiennes – Conclave as Thomas Cardinal Lawrence	*Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths* as Pansy Deacon** Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez as Emilia Pérez / Juan "Manitas" Del Monte Angelina Jolie – Maria as Maria Callas 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	*Joan Chen – Dìdi* as Chungsing Wang** Ariana Grande – Wicked as Galinda Upland Carol Kane – Between the Temples as Carla Kessler Isabella Rossellini – Conclave as Sister Agnes Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez as Rita Mora Castro
Best Adapted Screenplay	Best Original Screenplay
Sing Sing – Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, and John "Divine G" Whitfield Conclave – Peter Straughan Dune: Part Two – Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes	Anora – Sean Baker The Brutalist – Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold Hard Truths – Mike Leigh A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg The Substance – Coralie Fargeat
Best Animated Feature	Best Documentary Feature
Flow Inside Out 2 Memoir of a Snail Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl The Wild Robot	Sugarcane Daughters No Other Land Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story Will & Harper
Best International Feature Film	Best Cinematography
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany) All We Imagine as Light (India) Emilia Pérez (France) I'm Still Here (Brazil) Kneecap (Ireland)	The Brutalist – Lol Crawley Conclave – Stéphane Fontaine Dune: Part Two – Greig Fraser Nickel Boys – Jomo Fray Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke
Best Film Editing	Best Original Score
Anora – Sean Baker The Brutalist – Dávid Jancsó Challengers – Marco Costa Conclave – Nick Emerson September 5 – Hansjörg Weißbrich	The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg Challengers – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Conclave – Volker Bertelmann Emilia Pérez – Clément Ducol and Camille The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers
Best Production Design
The Brutalist – Judy Becker Conclave – Suzie Davies and Roberta Federico Dune: Part Two – Zsuzsanna Sipos, Shane Vieau, and Patrice Vermette Nosferatu – Craig Lathrop Wicked – Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales

Special awards

Special Citation for Independent Cinema

Femme

Marlon Riggs Award

San Quentin Film Festival (Rahsaan "New York" Thomas and Cori Thomas)

References

^ Anderson, Erik (December 13, 2024). "2024 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Nominations". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
^ Neglia, Matt (December 13, 2024). "The 2024 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Nominations". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
^ Anderson, Erik (December 15, 2024). "2024 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Winners: 'Anora', 'The Brutalist', 'Sing Sing' Earn Top Awards". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
^ Neglia, Matt (December 15, 2024). "The 2024 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Winners". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
^ Chronicle Staff (December 15, 2024). "Bay Area critics pick 'Anora' as Best Picture of 2024, Colman Domingo as Best Actor". SF Chronicle Datebook. Retrieved December 15, 2024.

External links

Official website

[1] Anderson, Erik (December 13, 2024). "2024 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Nominations". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 14, 2024.

[2] Neglia, Matt (December 13, 2024). "The 2024 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Nominations". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 14, 2024.

[3] Anderson, Erik (December 15, 2024). "2024 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Winners: 'Anora', 'The Brutalist', 'Sing Sing' Earn Top Awards". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 15, 2024.

[4] Neglia, Matt (December 15, 2024). "The 2024 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Winners". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 15, 2024.

[5] Chronicle Staff (December 15, 2024). "Bay Area critics pick 'Anora' as Best Picture of 2024, Colman Domingo as Best Actor". SF Chronicle Datebook. Retrieved December 15, 2024.

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