Anora won 5 awards at the 2024 Austin Film Critics Association Awards, including Best Film, Best Director along with Best Original Screenplay for Sean Baker, Best Actress for Mikey Madison, and Best Supporting Actor for Yura Borisov. Madison was also one of five recipients of this year’s Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Award.
Other acting award winners include Colman Domingo as Best Actor for Sing Sing, which also won Best Ensemble, and Margaret Qualley as Best Supporting Actress for The Substance.
Other major awards went to Will & Harper for Best Documentary and The Seed of a Sacred Fig won Best International Film. Arkasha Stevenson was the recipient of our Best First Film Award for The First Omen.
Sing Sing directed by Grew Kwedar won the Austin Film Award as well as the Best Adapted Screenplay award.
2024 Austin Film Critics Association Award Winners List
Best Film: Anora
Best Director: Sean Baker, Anora
Best Actress: Mikey Madison, Anora
Best Actor: Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Best Supporting Actress: Margaret Qualley, The Substance
Best Supporting Actor: Yura Borisov, Anora
Best Ensemble: Sing Sing
Best Original Screenplay: Sean Baker, Anora
Best Adapted Screenplay: Greg Kwedar & Clint Bentley, Sing Sing
Best Cinematography: Lol Crawley, The Brutalist
Best Editing: Coralie Fargeat, Jérôme Eltabet, & Valentin Feron, The Substance
Best Original Score: Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist
Best International Film: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Best Documentary: Will & Harper
Best Animated Film: The Wild Robot
Best Voice Acting/Animated/Digital Performance: Lupita Nyong’o, The Wild Robot
Best Stuntwork: The Fall Guy
Best First Film: Arkasha Stevenson, The First Omen
The Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Award:
Vera Drew, The People’s Joker
Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, Sing Sing
Mikey Madison, Anora
Katy O’Brian, Love Lies Bleeding
Aaron Pierre, Rebel Ridge
2024 Austin Film Award Winner
Sing Sing (dir. Greg Kwedar)
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