Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2024

37th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
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)
	← 36th; Chicago Film Critics Association Awards; 38th →;

DateDecember 11, 2024

SiteChicago, Illinois, U.S.

Best PictureThe Brutalist

Most awardsNickel Boys (4)

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] Furthermore, Anora, Nickel Boys and Wicked each received six nominations.^[2]

The winners were 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] The Brutalist, however, 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).^[3]^[5]^[6]

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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 Cardinal Thomas 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 Charles Ariana Grande-Butera – Wicked as Galinda "Glinda" 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 – RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes The Beast – Bertrand Bonello, Guillaume Bréaud, and Benjamin Charbit Conclave – Peter Straughan Nosferatu – Robert Eggers Sing Sing – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
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'Etat 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 (France / Germany / Iran)
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 Jack Haven – I Saw the TV Glow as Maddy Wilson Adam Pearson – A Different Man as Oswald

Nominations	Film
9	The Brutalist
7	The Substance
6	Anora
	Nickel Boys
	Wicked
5	Dune: Part Two
	Nosferatu
	Sing Sing
4	Challengers
4	Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
3	Emilia Pérez
3	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

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