The Beast took the top prizes at the Florida Film Critics Circle 2024 awards, winning Best Picture in addition to Best Director for Bertrand Bonello and Best Actress for Léa Seydoux.
Other performance awards including Best Actor went to Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain; Best Supporting Actor went to Jeremy Strong for The Apprentice, Best Supporting Actress went to Zoe Saldaña for Emilia Pérez; and Best Ensemble went to the cast of Conclave.
Top film honors went to Hundreds of Beavers for Best First Feature, Flow won Best Animated Film, Best International Film Winner went to All We Imagine As Light, and Best Documentary went to Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.
The Golden Orange awarded to outstanding contributions to film by a Floridian, went to Monica Sorelle’s Mountains, a Miami-based feature that paints a loving and critical portrait of what it’s like to live there.
Full list of winners and nominees for the 2024 Florida Film Critics Circle awards:
Best Picture
Winner: The Beast
Nominees: Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, Hundreds of Beavers
Best Director
Winner: Bertrand Bonello (The Beast)
Nominees: Sean Baker (Anora), Luca Guadagnino (Challengers), Payal Kapadia (All We Imagine As Light), RaMell Ross (Nickel Boys)
Best Actor
Winner: Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)
Nominees: Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Daniel Craig (Queer), Josh O’Connor (Challengers), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave)
Best Actress
Winner: Léa Seydoux (The Beast)
Nominees: Carol Kane (Between the Temples), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths), Mikey Madison (Anora), Nicole Kidman (Babygirl)
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice)
Nominees: Yura Borisov (Anora), Willem Dafoe (Kinds of Kindness), Adam Pearson (A Different Man), Denzel Washington (Gladiator II)
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)
Nominees: Anna Baryshnikov (Love Lies Bleeding), Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Nickel Boys), Isabella Rosellini (Conclave), Margaret Qualley (Substance)
Breakout Performance
Winner: Mikey Madison (Anora)
Nominees: Brigette Lundy-Paine (I Saw The TV Glow), Katy M. O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding), Mikey Madison (Anora), Ryland Brickson Cole Tews (Hundreds of Beavers), Zoe Zigler (Janet Planet)
Best Ensemble
Winner: Conclave
Nominees: All We Imagine As Light, Anora, Challengers, Saturday Night
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: I Saw The TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun)
Nominees: Anora (Sean Baker), A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg), Challengers (Justin Kuritzkes), Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Queer (Justin Kuritzkes)
Nominees: The Beast (Bertrand Bonello, Benjamin Charbit & Guillaume Bréaud), Conclave (Peter Straughan), Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve & Jon Spaihts), Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes)
Best First Feature
Winner: Hundreds of Beavers
Nominees: Janet Planet, The People’s Joker, Stress Positions, Tuesday
Best Animated Film
Winner: Flow
Nominees: The Colors Within, Inside Out 2, Memoir of a Snail, The Wild Robot
Best International Film
Winner: All We Imagine As Light
Nominees: Do Not Expect Too Much From The End of the World, Emilia Perez I’m Still Here, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Best Documentary
Winner: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Nominees: Daughters, No Other Land, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, Will & Harper
Best Original Score
Winner: Challengers (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross)
Nominees: The Brutalist (Daniel Blumberg), Challengers (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross), Conclave (Volker Bertelmann), Dune: Part 2 (Hans Zimmer), Flow (Gints Zilbalodis & Rihards Zalupe)
Best Art Direction / Production Design
Winner: Dune: Part Two
Nominees: The Beast, The Brutalist, Conclave, Maria
Best Visual Effects
Winner: Dune: Part Two
Nominees: Hundreds of Beavers, Tuesday, The Substance, Wicked
Best Cinematography
Winner: The Brutalist (Lol Crawley)
Nominees: Challengers (Sayombhu Mukdeeprom), Conclave (Stéphane Fontaine), Dune: Part Two (Greig Fraser), Nickel Boys (Jomo Fray)
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