St. Louis Film Critics Association announce their 2024 award winners
Here are our picks for the best movie work of the year, including Best Scene.
Confession: I wasn’t a big fan of Dune, Part One or Part Two. Many others were big fans of the films. Easier to admire than love, the Timothee Chalamet-Zendaya train, powered by a stellar supporting cast and shepherded by Denis Villenueve, the novel-adapted desert-laden tale scored a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes and garnered many Critics Choice Awards nominations. In other words, I am on a small hill in my casual shrug with the juggernaut.
The rest of the St. Louis Film Critics Association disagreed with me on this film and many others, which is one of the best parts about film criticism. Indifference over art is a common factor if you dip toes in the most versatile of waters. Find out what the rest of the ballot looked like for the 2024 S.L.F.C. awards. Which actor gave a wonderful performance in a single scene that stands as the most notable moment from a very good Alex Garland movie? Did Colman Domingo get some love? Do a bunch of beavers make us laugh? Scroll down to the bottom and get some answers.
Full List of Awards and Runners-Up
Best Film: Dune: Part Two
Runner-up: Anora
*NOTE: Javier Barden remains my favorite thing about Part Two.
Best Director: Denis Villeneuve “Dune: Part Two”
Runner-up: Mohammad Rasoulof “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
Best Actor: Colman Domingo “Sing Sing” !!!!!
Runner-up: Adrien Brody “The Brutalist”
Best Actress: Mikey Madison “Anora”
Runner-Up: Marianne Jean-Baptiste “Hard Truths”
Best Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin “A Real Pain”
Runner-Up: Denzel Washington “Gladiator II”
Best Supporting Actress: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor “Nickel Boys”
Runner-Up: Ariana Grande “Wicked”
Best Ensemble: “Saturday Night”
Runner-Up: “Conclave”
Best Adapted Screenplay: Peter Straughan, “Conclave”
Runner-Up: Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts “Dune: Part Two”
Best Original Screenplay: Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan “Saturday Night”
Runner-Up: Mike Leigh “Hard Truths”
Best Cinematography: Jarin Blaschke, “Nosferatu”
Runner-Up: Greig Fraser “Dune: Part Two”
Best Editing: Nicholas Monsour, “Nickel Boys”
Runner-Up: Hansjörg Weißbrich, “September 5”
Best Production Design: Beatrice Brentnerova, Paul Ghirardani, Craig Lathrop, “Nosferatu”
Runner-Up: Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales, “Wicked”
Best Costume Design: Paul Tazewell “Wicked”
Runner-Up: Linda Muir “Nosferatu”
Best Music Score: Daniel Blumberg “The Brutalist”
Runner-Up: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, “Challengers”
Best Music Soundtrack: “A Complete Unknown”
Runner-Up: “Wicked”
Best Visual Effects: “Dune: Part Two”
Runner-Up: “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
Best Stunts: “The Fall Guy”
Runner-Up: “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”
Best Action Movie: “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”
Runner-Up: “Dune: Part Two”
Best Comedy: “Hundreds of Beavers”
Runner-Up: “Deadpool & Wolverine”
Best Horror: “Nosferatu”
Runner-Up: “The Substance”
Best Animated Feature: “The Wild Robot”
Runner-Up: “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
Best Vocal Performance: Lupita Nyong’o “The Wild Robot”
Runner-Up: Maya Hawke “Inside Out 2”
Best Documentary Feature: “No Other Land”
Runner-Up: “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story”
Best International Feature: “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
Runner-Up: “Don’t Expect Too Much from the End of the World”
Best First Feature: RaMell Ross, “Nickel Boys”
Runner-Up: Malcolm Washington “The Piano Lesson”
Best Scene: “Civil War” – “What kind of American are you?”
Runner-Up: “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” - The war rig battle