Brady Corbett’s “The Brutalist” was the big film for the Chicago Film Critics Association this year, topping the nominations with 9 nominations, including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor and Original Screenplay. The film, which was also named the best film of 2024 by this site’s critics, many of whom are at CFCA, will be released on December 20. This was followed by Coralie Farge’s “The Substance” for the CFCAs, which had a very impressive performance and received nominations for Best Film, Director, Actress, Supporting Actress and Original Screenplay. Other major nominees this year include “Anora,” “Nickel Boys” and “Wicked” with six each; “Dune: Part Two,” “Nosferatu,” and “Sing Sing” with five each; and “Challengers” and “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” with four each. The full list is below. CFCA will announce the winners tomorrow night.
best picture
Anora
brutalist
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
I saw the glow of the TV
nickel boy
Substance
best director
Shawn Baker, Anora
Brady Corbett, Brutalist
Coralie Fargate, substance
Remmell Ross, Nickel Boys
Jane Schonbrunn, I saw the glow of the TV
best Actor
Adrien Brody, Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, a complete unknown
colman domingo, sing sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight
best Actress
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, The Hard Truth
Mickey Madison, Anora
demi moore, substance
Léa Seydoux, The Beast
Best Supporting Actor
Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, a real pain
Clarence McLean, Sing Sing
Guy Pearce, Brutalist
Adam Pearson, a different man
best Supporting Actress
Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
Ariana Grande-Butera, Wicked
Natasha Lyonne, her three daughters
Margaret Qualley, The Substance
Zoe Saldana, Emilia Perez
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Beast by Bertrand Bonello, Guillaume Braud, and Benjamin Charbit
Conclave by Peter Straughan
Nickel Boys by Remmell Ross and Jocelyn Barnes
Nosferatu by Robert Eggers
Sing Sing by Clint Bentley and Greg Quader
Best Original Screenplay
Anora by Shawn Baker
Brutalist by Brady Corbett and Mona Fastvold
Challengers by Justin Curtizkes
A Real Pain by Jesse Eisenberg
Matter by Coralie Farguet
Best Animated Film
Flow
inside out 2
memoir of a snail
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Foul
wild robot
best documentary
dahomey
daughters
no other land
Coup soundtrack
Sugarcane
Best Foreign Language Film
We imagine everything as light
Emilia Perez
evil does not exist
red room
sacred fig seed
Best Art Direction/Production Design
brutalist
Dune: Part 2
Nosferatu
Substance
Wicked
Best Cinematography
Brutalist, lol Crowley
Challengers, Sayombhu Mukdiprom
Dune: Part Two, Greg Fraser
Nickel Boys, Jomo Frey
Nosferatu, Jarin Blaschke
best costume design
Dune: Part Two, Jacqueline West
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Jenny Beavan
Maria, Massimo Cantini Parrini
Nosferatu, Linda Muir
Wicked, Paul Tazewell
best editing
Anora, Shawn Baker
brutalist, david janson
Challengers, Marco Costa
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Eliot Knapman and Margaret Sixel
Nickel Boys, Nicholas Monsour
best original score
Brutalist, Daniel Blumberg
The Challengers, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Dune: Part 2, Hans Zimmer
Nosferatu, Robin Carolan
Wicked, John Powell and Stephen Schwartz
The Wild Robot, Chris Bowers
Best use of visual effects
Dune: Part 2
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
hundreds of otters
Substance
Wicked
Miloš Stahlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award
Mike Cheslick, Hundreds of Beavers
Vera Drew, The People’s Joker
Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine as Light
Greg Quader, Sing Sing
Remmell Ross, Nickel Boys
most promising artist
Lily Kolyas, Good One
Carla Sofia Gascón, Emilia Perez
Bridget Lundy-Paine, I saw the glow of the TV
Clarence McLean, Sing Sing
Adam Pearson, a different man