2024 Denver Film Critics Society Awards Winners
Dune: Part Two, The Substance, Challengers (Warner Bros. Pictures, Mubi, MGM)

Dune: Part Two took home four awards including the top honor of Best Film at the Denver Film Critics Society awards.

The Substance and Challengers followed closely with three awards. The Substance won Best Horror film, Best Director for Coralie Fargeat, and Best Lead Performance by an Actor, Female for Demi Moore. Challengers won Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Song and Best Original Score.

Other performance awards including Best Lead Performance by an Actor, Male went to Colman Domingo for Sing Sing which also nabbed Best Ensemble, Best Supporting Performance by an Actor, Female went to Ariana Grande for Wicked, and Best Supporting Performance by an Actor, Male went to Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain.

Top film awards went to ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor! for Best Documentary Feature, Anora won Best Comedy and All We Imagine as Light won Best Non-English Language Feature.

Winners of 2024 Denver Film Critics Society Awards

Best Film

Winner: Dune: Part Two

Anora
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing
The Substance

Best Director

Winner: Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Luca Guadagnino, Challengers
Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two

Best Cinematography

Winner: Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu

Lol Crawley, The Brutalist
Stéphane Fontane, Conclave
Greig Fraser, Dune: Part Two
Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys

Best Lead Performance by an Actor, Female

Winner: Demi Moore, The Substance

Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
Mikey Madison, Anora
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez

Best Lead Performance by an Actor, Male

Winner: Colman Domingo, Sing Sing

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, A Different Man

Best Supporting Performance by an Actor, Female

Winner: Ariana Grande, Wicked

Katy O’Brian, Love Lies Bleeding
Margaret Qualley, The Substance
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Best Supporting Performance by an Actor, Male

Winner: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

Yura Borisov, Anora
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Denzel Washington, Gladiator II

Best Ensemble

Winner: Sing Sing

Anora
Dune: Part Two
Conclave
Wicked

Best Non-Live Action Performance

Winner: Lupita Nyong’o, The Wild Robot

Jonno Davies, Better Man
Maya Hawke, Inside Out 2
Pedro Pascal, The Wild Robot
Amy Poehler, Inside Out 2

Best Stunts

Winner: Monkey Man

Dune: Part Two
The Fall Guy
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Gladiator II

Best Sci-Fi

Winner: Dune: Part Two

Alien: Romulus
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
The Substance

Best Horror

Winner: The Substance

Heretic
I Saw the TV Glow
Longlegs
Nosferatu

Best Animated Film

Winner: The Wild Robot

Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Best Comedy

Winner: Anora

Deadpool & Wolverine
The Fall Guy
Saturday Night
Thelma

Best Visual Effects

Winner: Dune: Part Two

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
The Substance
Wicked

Best Sound

Winner: Nosferatu

Alien: Romulus
Dune: Part Two
The Substance
Wicked

Best Original Screenplay

Winner: Challengers

Anora
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
The Substance

Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner: Dune: Part Two

Conclave
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing
Wicked

Best Documentary Feature

Winner: ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!

No Other Land
Sugarcane
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Will & Harper

Best Original Song

Winner: “Compress/Repress,” Challengers

“El Mal,” Emilia Pérez
“Harper and Will Go West,” Will & Harper
“Kiss the Sky,” The Wild Robot
“Like a Bird,” Sing Sing

Best Original Score

Winner: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers

Volker Bertelmann, Conclave
Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist
Kris Bowers, The Wild Robot
Robin Carolan, Nosferatu
Hans Zimmer, Dune: Part Two

Best Non-English Language Feature

Winner: All We Imagine as Light

Emilia Pérez
Flow
Kneecap
The Seed of the Sacred Fig

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