RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys has been named the Best Picture of 2024 by the National Society of Film Critics along with the honor of Best Cinematography for Jomo Fray.
All We Imagine as Light was voted Best Film Not in the English Language along with Best Director for Payal Kapadia.
Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths received acting honors with Marianne Jean-Baptiste winning Best Actress, and her co-star Michele Austin won Best Supporting Actress for their performance in the film.
Other acting honors went to Colman Domingo, winning Best Actor for Sing Sing and Kieran Culkin won Best Supporting Actor for A Real Pain.
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire was named Best Experimental Film, and No Other Land won Best Nonfiction Film, along with Special Citation for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution.
The Society, which is made up of more than 60 of the country’s most prominent movie critics, held its 59th annual awards voting meeting on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025. Critics voted at in-person gatherings in Los Angeles and New York, and also participated virtually from across the country.
Winners and Runners-up of 2024 National Society of Film Critics
BEST PICTURE: “Nickel Boys” (47 points)
Runners-up:
“All We Imagine as Light” and “Anora” (34 points)
BEST DIRECTOR: Payal Kapadia, “All We Imagine as Light” (49 points)
Runners-up:
RaMell Ross, “Nickel Boys” (42 points)
Sean Baker, “Anora” (33 points)
BEST ACTRESS: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “Hard Truths” (79 points)
Runners-up:
Mikey Madison, “Anora” (35 points)
Ilinca Manolache, “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World” (32 points)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Michele Austin, “Hard Truths” (55 points)
Runners-up:
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, “Nickel Boys,” and Natasha Lyonne, “His Three Daughters” (39 points)
BEST ACTOR: Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing” (60 points)
Runners-up:
Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist” (51 points)
Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave” (45 points)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain” (52 points)
Runners-up:
Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist” (50 points)
Edward Norton, “A Complete Unknown,” and Adam Pearson, “A Different Man” (41 points)
BEST SCREENPLAY: Jesse Eisenberg, “A Real Pain” (47 points)
Runners-up:
Radu Jude, “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World” (46 points)
Sean Baker, “Anora” (45 points)
BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: “All We Imagine as Light” (49 points)
Runners-up:
“Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World” (41 points)
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (28 points)
BEST NONFICTION FILM: “No Other Land” (70 points)
Runners-up:
“Dahomey” (51 points)
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (24 points)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jomo Fray, “Nickel Boys” (80 points)
Runners-up:
Lol Crawley, “The Brutalist” (38 points)
Jarin Blaschke, “Nosferatu” (21 points)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: “The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire”
SPECIAL CITATION FOR A FILM AWAITING U.S. DISTRIBUTION: “No Other Land”
FILM HERITAGE AWARDS:
— Scott Eyman, for his outstanding books on film artists and epochal shifts in moviemaking, most recently with “Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided,” a revelatory study of the nexus of American politics and American pop culture.
— IndieCollect, which, since its founding in 2010 by Sandra Schulberg, has met the challenge of preserving independent films with a rare sense of artistic responsibility.
— To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, for more than two decades of superb restorations and diverse programming from all over the world, in collaboration with archives, foundations, studios and other organizations.
