Challengers led the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association’s seventh annual end-of-year Film Awards, with 4 awards including Best Picture, Best Director for Luca Guadagnino, Best Editing, and Best Original Score.
Sing Sing Followed with 3 awards including Lead Actor for Colman Domingo, Adapted Screenplay, and Breakthrough performance for Clarence Maclin.
Other award winners include Marianne Jean-Baptiste won Lead Actress for her performance in Hard Truths, Kieran Culkin won Supporting Actor for his performance in A Real Pain, and Natasha Lyonne won Supporting Actress for her performance in His Three Daughters.
2024 Greater Western New York Film Critics Association Awards Winners Full List
BEST PICTURE
Challengers – WINNER
Anora
The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
I Saw the TV Glow
Nickel Boys
No Other Land
Nosferatu
A Real Pain
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
No Other Land (Palestine) – WINNER
All We Imagine as Light (India)
Evil Does Not Exist (Japan)
Kneecap (Ireland)
Red Rooms (Canada)
BEST ANIMATED FILM:
The Wild Robot – WINNER
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
BEST DOCUMENTARY
No Other Land – WINNER
Daughters
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
BEST DIRECTOR:
Luca Guadagnino, Challengers – WINNER
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys
LEAD ACTOR
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing – WINNER
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Hugh Grant, Heretic
Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight
LEAD ACTRESS
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths – WINNER
Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain – WINNER
Yura Borisov, Anora
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Natasha Lyonne, His Three Daughters – WINNER
Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
Joan Chen, Dìdi
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Margaret Qualley, The Substance
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg) – WINNER
Anora (Sean Baker)
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold)
Challengers (Justin Kuritzkes)
A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Sing Sing (Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar / story by Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley, Clarence Maclin & John Whitfield) – WINNER
Conclave (Peter Straughan)
Hit Man (Richard Linklater & Glen Powell)
Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes)
Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Nosferatu (Jarin Blaschke) – WINNER
The Brutalist (Lol Crawley)
Challengers (Sayombhu Mukdeeprom)
Dune: Part Two (Greig Fraser)
Nickel Boys (Jomo Fray)
BEST EDITING
Challengers (Marco Costa) – WINNER
The Brutalist (David Jancso)
Dune: Part Two (Joe Walker)
Nickel Boys (Nicholas Monsour)
Saturday Night (Nathan Orloff & Shane Reid)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Challengers (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross) – WINNER
The Brutalist (Daniel Blumberg)
Conclave (Volker Bertelman)
Nosferatu (Robin Carolan)
The Wild Robot (Kris Bowers)
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing – WINNER
Yura Borisov, Anora
Lily Collias, Good One
Mikey Madison, Anora
Izaac Wang, Dìdi
BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR
RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys – WINNER
India Donaldson, Good One
Vera Drew, The People’s Joker
Josh Margolin, Thelma
Aaron Schimberg, A Different Man