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The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) announces its 2024 awards. Anora leads the way, winning 5 awards from its 7 nominations – including Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress (Mikey Madison), and Best Supporting Actor (Yura Borisov). Madison was also one of five recipients of this year’s Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Award.
Other acting award winners include Colman Domingo as Best Actor for Sing Sing, which also won Best Ensemble, and Margaret Qualley as Best Supporting Actress for The Substance.
The Brutalist, which garnered a standout 10 nominations, secured wins for Best Cinematography and Best Original Score. Other major awards include The Substance for Best Editing, and The Wild Robot winning Best Animated Feature. Will & Harper was awarded Best Documentary, while The Seed of a Sacred Fig won Best International Film. Arkasha Stevenson was the recipient of our Best First Film Award for The First Omen.
Our Best Austin Film Award winner was Sing Sing (dir. Grew Kwedar) which, in addition to the aforementioned acting wins, also picked up an award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
The full list of winners, including the AFCA Best Austin Film and AFCA Top Ten Films of 2024, is included below.
AFCA Top 10 Films of 2024
- Anora
- The Brutalist
- The Substance
- Sing Sing
- Love Lies Bleeding
- Nickel Boys
- Dune: Part Two
- Nosferatu
- Conclave
- Wicked
Best Film: Anora
Best Director: Sean Baker, Anora
Best Actress: Mikey Madison, Anora
Best Actor: Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Best Supporting Actress: Margaret Qualley, The Substance
Best Supporting Actor: Yura Borisov, Anora
Best Ensemble: Sing Sing
Best Original Screenplay: Sean Baker, Anora
Best Adapted Screenplay: Greg Kwedar & Clint Bentley, Sing Sing
Best Cinematography: Lol Crawley, The Brutalist
Best Editing: Coralie Fargeat, Jérôme Eltabet, & Valentin Feron, The Substance
Best Original Score: Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist
Best International Film: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Best Documentary: Will & Harper
Best Animated Film: The Wild Robot
Best Voice Acting/Animated/Digital Performance: Lupita Nyong’o, The Wild Robot
Best Stuntwork: The Fall Guy
Best First Film: Arkasha Stevenson, The First Omen
The Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Award:
- Vera Drew, The People’s Joker
- Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, Sing Sing
- Mikey Madison, Anora
- Katy O’Brian, Love Lies Bleeding
- Aaron Pierre, Rebel Ridge
He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
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