Kneecap, Rich Peppiat’s comedy following the west Belfast hip-hop trio won the award for Best British Independent Film at the 2024 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA). The film won seven BIFAs in total, including Best Debut Screenwriter for Peppiatt and Best Joint Lead for trio Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and JJ Ó Dochartaigh along with the four craft awards.
Emilia Pérez dominated at the 37th European Film Awards winning the top prize of best European Film, along with Director and Screenwriter honors for Jacques Audiard, Actress award for Karla Sofía Gascón, along with Editing award for Juliette Welfling.
The Michigan Movie Critics Guild unveiled its nominees for the best films and performances of 2024 lead by Anora, The Brutalist and Wicked, all tied for the most nominations, with six each. All 3 films received nominations for best picture, acting and directing.
The Seattle Film Critics Society unveiled nominations for the 2024 SFCS Awards, honoring the year’s best in film.
Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light took the top spot on Sight and Sound, the BFI’s international film magazine, Best Films of the Year poll 2024.
Originally making its world-premiere at the 2021 Locarno Film Festival, Aurélie Saada’s debut feature film Rose won the festival’s Variety Piazza Grande Award. The film follows an elderly widow as she tries to discover herself after her husband’s death with the help of her children.
Better Man, the Robbie Williams-inspired biopic drama received a record-breaking 16 nominations in the film categories for Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) 2025 AACTA Awards.
Kicking off December, a vast selection of movies is hitting theaters. Steffen Haars and Nick Frost’s family-thriller-comedy Get Away follows a family vacation in Sweden gone wrong. Amy Adams turns into a canine in Nightbitch. Justin Kurzel brings action to theaters with The Order starring Jude Law while Kyle Mooney brings back the early 2000s with Y2K. Marisa Crespo and Moisés Romera’s You Are Not Me turns family drama into horror. Jharrel Jerome is one-legged wrestler Anthony Robles in Unstoppable. Christmas trip turns into heartbreak in H. Nelson Tracey’s drama Breakup Season. Shea Whigham and Carrie Coon attempt to escape mobsters in Lake George. Magnus von Horn’s period drama captures post-WW1 Copenhagen in The Girl With the Needle. Lillah Halla’s Power Alley follows a teenage volleyball player and her struggle for women’s rights in Brazil. Ralph Fiennes is Odysseus in Uberto Pasolini’s The Return. Joshua Oppenheimer’s apocalyptic musical The End stars Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon, and documentary Sabbath Queen follows the story of a gay rabbi.
No Other Land won the top prize of Best Feature Documentary at the 40th IDA Documentary Awards along with Best Director for Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor. The documentary was also honored with the Courage Under Fire Award.
Academy Award-winning director Julia Reichert (American Factory, Union Maids), who passed away in 2022, reflects on her life as a filmmaker and activist in the new Netflix documentary Julia’s Stepping Stones. Narrated by Reichert herself and created with her longtime collaborator and husband, Steve Bognar, the film traces her journey from a working-class upbringing to becoming an Oscar and Emmy-winning artist.
The American Film Institute (AFI) has revealed the AFI Awards 2024 honorees comprised of the 10 outstanding motion pictures and 10 outstanding television programs deemed culturally and artistically representative of this year’s most significant achievements in the art of the moving image.
Based on the true story of a deep-sea diving accident in 2012, Last Breath is a new drama/thriller film from director Alex Parkinson, who previously directed a documentary on the same subject under the same title in 2019. The film follows a team as they attempt a daring rescue of a team member whose umbilical cable was severed, leaving him trapped under the deep sea.