Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2024

The 20th Austin Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking for 2024, were announced on January 6, 2025.^[1][2][3] The nominations were announced on December 27, 2024.^[4][5][6]

Brady Corbet's epic drama The Brutalist led the nominations with ten, followed by Dune: Part Two with eight, and Anora and The Substance with seven each. Unlike previous editions of the awards were five nominees while one winner was presented for the Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award; this year, the award went to all five top nominees.

Anora received the most awards with five, including Best Film, followed by Sing Sing with four.^[1]

The winners are listed first and in bold.

Best Film	Best Director
Anora The Brutalist The Substance Sing Sing Love Lies Bleeding Nickel Boys Dune: Part Two Nosferatu Conclave Wicked	Sean Baker – Anora Brady Corbet – The Brutalist Coralie Fargeat – The Substance Rose Glass – Love Lies Bleeding Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two
Best Actor	Best Actress
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing as John "Divine G" Whitfield Adrien Brody – The Brutalist as László Tóth Daniel Craig – Queer as William Lee Ralph Fiennes – Conclave as Cardinal Thomas Lawrence Hugh Grant – Heretic as Mr. Reed	Mikey Madison – Anora as Anora "Ani" Mikheeva Pamela Anderson – The Last Showgirl as Shelly Gardner Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths as Pansy Deacon Nicole Kidman – Babygirl as Romy Mathis Demi Moore – The Substance as Elisabeth Sparkle
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Yura Borisov – Anora as Igor Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain as Benji Kaplan Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing as Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin Guy Pearce – The Brutalist as Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr. Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice as Roy Cohn	Margaret Qualley – The Substance as Sue Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson as Berniece Ariana Grande – Wicked as Galinda Upland Felicity Jones – The Brutalist as Erzsébet Tóth Katy O'Brian – Love Lies Bleeding as Jacqueline "Jackie" Cleaver
Best Adapted Screenplay	Best Original Screenplay
Sing Sing – Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley Conclave – Peter Straughan Dune: Part Two – Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes Wicked – Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox	Anora – Sean Baker The Brutalist – Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold Challengers – Justin Kuritzkes A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg The Substance – Coralie Fargeat
Best Animated Film	Best Documentary
The Wild Robot Flow Inside Out 2 Memoir of a Snail Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl	Will & Harper Dahomey No Other Land The Remarkable Life of Ibelin Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Best International Film	Best First Film
The Seed of the Sacred Fig Emilia Pérez Flow I'm Still Here Kneecap	The First Omen – Arkasha Stevenson Blink Twice – Zoë Kravitz Dìdi – Sean Wang The People's Joker – Vera Drew Thelma – Josh Margolin
Best Cinematography	Best Editing
The Brutalist – Lol Crawley Dune: Part Two – Greig Fraser Nickel Boys – Jomo Fray Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke The Substance – Benjamin Kračun	The Substance – Coralie Fargeat, Jérôme Eltabet, and Valentin Féron Anora – Sean Baker The Brutalist – Dávid Jancsó Dune: Part Two – Joe Walker September 5 – Hansjörg Weißbrich
Best Original Score	Best Ensemble
The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg Challengers – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Dune: Part Two – Hans Zimmer Nosferatu – Robin Carolan The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers	Sing Sing Anora The Brutalist Conclave Dune: Part Two
Best Stunt Work	Best Voice Acting/Animated/Digital Performance
The Fall Guy Dune: Part Two Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Kill Monkey Man	Lupita Nyong'o – The Wild Robot as Roz / Rummage Kevin Durand – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes as Proximus Caesar Amy Poehler – Inside Out 2 as Joy Sarah Snook – Memoir of a Snail as Grace Pudel Robbie Williams / Jonno Davies – Better Man as Robbie Williams / Young Robbie Williams
The Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award	Best Austin Film 2024
Vera Drew – The People's Joker Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing Mikey Madison – Anora Katy O'Brian – Love Lies Bleeding Aaron Pierre – Rebel Ridge	Sing Sing (dir. Greg Kwedar) The Bikeriders (dir. Jeff Nichols) Fugitive Dreams (dir. Jason Neulander) Hit Man (dir. Richard Linklater) Sasquatch Sunset (dir. Nathan and David Zellner)