2024: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. The Beast (dir: Bertrand Bonello; US Release Date)

2. Good One (dir: India Donaldson)

3. The Brutalist (dir: Brady Corbet)

4. No Other Land (dir: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal)

5. Emilia Pérez (dir: Jacques Audiard)

6. Evil Does Not Exist (dir: Ryusuke Hamaguchi; US Release Date)

7. Kinds of Kindness (dir: Yorgos Lanthimos)

8. Anora (dir: Sean Baker)

9. Daughters (dir: Angela Patton and Natalie Rae)

10. Civil War (dir: Alex Garland)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): All We Imagine As Light (dir: Babygirl (dir: Halina Reijn), Challengers (dir: Luca Guadagnino), La Chimera (dir: Alice Rohrwacher), A Complete Unknown (dir: James Mangold), Dune: Part Two (dir: Denis Villeneuve), The End (dir: Joshua Oppenheimer), The Fire Inside (dir: Rachel Morrison), Furiosa (dir: George Miller), Horizon: Chapter One (dir: Kevin Costner), I’m Still Here (dir: Walter Salles), I Saw the TV Glow (dir: Jane Schoenbrun), Inside Out 2 (dir: Kelsey Mann), Janet Planet (dir: Annie Baker), Juror #2 (dir: Clint Eastwood), Maria (dir: Pablo Larrain), Nickel Boys (dir: RaMell Ross), Nosferatu (dir: Robert Eggers), The Outrun (dir: Nora Fingscheidt), Problemista (dir: Julio Torres), A Real Pain (dir: Jesse Eisenberg), September 5 (dir: Tim Fehlbaum), The Substance (dir: Coralie Fargeat), and The Teacher’s Lounge (dir: İlker Çatak)

Best Film of the Year: The Beast
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Producers: Bertrand Bonello, Justin Taurand
US Distributor: Janus Films

Best Director:
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
2. Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Evil Does Not Exist
3. India Donaldson, Good One
4. Bertrand Bonello, The Beast
5. Alex Garland, Civil War

Best Lead Performance:
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Josh O’Connor, Challengers AND La Chimera

3. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
4. Mikey Madison, Anora
5. George MacKay, The Beast AND The End
6. Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
7. Soheila Golestani, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
8. Lily-Rose Depp, Nosferatu
9. Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness
10. Saoirse Ronan, The Outrun

Best Supporting Performance:
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

3. Tilda Swinton, Problemista
4. David Jonsson, Alien: Romulus
5. Denzel Washington, Gladiator II
6. Brigette Lundy-Paine, I Saw the TV Glow
7. Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
8. Danny McCarthy, Good One
9. Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
10. Mahsa Rostami, The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Best Original Screenplay
Kinds of Kindness — Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou
2. Evil Does Not Exist — Ryusuke Hamaguchi
3. The Brutalist — Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
4. Anora — Sean Baker
5. Good One — India Donaldson

Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Beast — Bertrand Bonello, Guillaume Bréaud, and Benjamin Charbit
2. Inside Out 2 — Meg LeFauve, Dave Holstein and Kelsey Mann
3. The Outrun — Nora Fingscheidt and Daisy Lewis
4. I’m Still Here — Murilo Hauser, Walter Salles, and Heitor Lorega
5. The Room Next Door — Pedro Almodóvar

Best Cinematography
The Brutalist — Lol Crowley
2. La Chimera — Hélène Louvart
3. Queer — Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
4. Maria — Ed Lachman
5. The Substance — Benjamin Kračun

Best Original Score
The Substance — Raffertie
2. The Brutalist — Daniel Blumberg
3. Challengers — Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
4. Nosferatu — Robin Carolan
5. Saturday Night — Jon Batiste

Best Film Editing
Civil War — Jake Roberts
2. Challengers — Marco Costa
3. The Substance — Valentin Féron
4. The Brutalist — Dávid Jancsó
5. Anora — Sean Baker

Best Production Design
Maria — Guy Hendrix Dyas, Heather Loeffler, and Sandro Piccarozzi
2. Wicked — Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales
3. The Brutalist — Judy Becker and Patricia Cuccia
4. Nosferatu — Craig Lathrop, Beatrice Brentnerova, and Sophie Hervieu
5. Queer — Stefano Baisi and Lisa Scoppa

Best Costume Design
Maria — Massimo Cantini Parrini
2. Dune: Part Two — Jacqueline West
3. Wicked — Paul Tazewell
4. Nosferatu — Linda Muir
5. The Brutalist — Kate Forbes

Best Visual Effects
Hundreds of Beavers
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Twisters
4. Better Man
5. Civil War

Best Sound
Civil War
2. Challengers
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Emilia Peréz
5. Blitz

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
The Substance
2. Saturday Night
3. Nosferatu
4. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
5. Problemista

Best Documentary Feature
No Other Land — Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor
2. Daughters
3. Will & Harper

Best Animated Feature
Inside Out 2
2. Flow
3. Robot Dreams

Best Limited Series
Say Nothing — Joshua Zetumer (creator), Michael Lennox, Anthony Byrne, Mary Nighy, and Alice Seabright (directors)

Best Documentary Series
Ren Faire — Lance Oppenheim

Best First Feature:
India Donaldson, Good One

Best Ensemble Cast:
The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Best First Feature: Lily Collias (pictured) in India Donaldson’s Good One

Best Ensemble: The Seed of the Sacred Fig (directed by Mohammad Rasoulof) starring (in alphabetical order) Reza Akhlanghirad, Niousha Akhshi, Soheila Golestani, Setareh Maleki (pictured, right), Mahsa Rostami (pictured, left) and Misagh Zare (pictured, center)

RECAP

W I N S :

The Brutalist — 4,
The Beast — 2, Civil War — 2, Maria — 2, The Substance — 2, Challengers – 1, La Chimera — 1, Emilia Pérez — 1, Good One — 1, Hundreds of Beavers — 1, Inside Out 2 — 1, Kinds of Kindness – 1, No Other Land — 1, Ren Faire — 1, Say Nothing — 1, The Seed of the Sacred Fig — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

The Brutalist — 11,
Civil War — 5, Good One — 5, Nosferatu — 5, Anora — 4, The Beast — 4, Challengers — 4, The Substance — 4, Dune Part Two — 3, Emilia Pérez — 3, Evil Does Not Exist — 3, Kinds of Kindness — 3, Maria — 3, The Seed of the Sacred Fig — 3, La Chimera — 2, Daughters — 2, I’m Still Here — 2, Inside Out 2 — 2, No Other Land — 2, The Outrun — 2, Problemista — 2, Queer — 2, Saturday Night — 2, Wicked — 2

the year-end project:
2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s