
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