The Chicago Film Critics Association awarded Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist the top honor of Best Picture of the year. Nickel Boys, however, received the most honors, with four total wins including Best Director along with Breakthrough Filmmaker Award for RaMell Ross, Best Best Adapted Screenplay for Ross with Joslyn Barnes, and Best Cinematography.

Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers and Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain both earned two wins with Best Editing and Best Original Score for Challengers, and Best Supporting Actor for Kieran Culkin and Best Original Screenplay for Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain.

Other awards went to Adrien Brody for Best Actor for his role in The Brutalist; Marianne Jean-Baptiste won Best Actress honors for Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, Natasha Lyonne won Best Supporting Actress for His Three Daughters; No Other Land won Best Documentary; Flow won Best Animated Film; and All We Imagine as Light won for Best Foreign Language Film.

2024 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards winners

BEST PICTURE: The Brutalist
BEST DIRECTOR: RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys
BEST ACTOR: Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
BEST ACTRESS: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Natasha Lyonne, His Three Daughters
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: A Real Pain by Jesse Eisenberg
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Nickel Boys by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: All We Imagine as Light
BEST DOCUMENTARY: No Other Land
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Flow
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nickel Boys, Jomo Fray
BEST EDITING: Challengers, Marco Costa
BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN: Nosferatu
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Jenny Beavan
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Challengers, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS: The Substance
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER: Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
MILOS STEHLIK BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER AWARD: RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys