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Online Film Critics Society Names Their 2024 Award Winners

This week, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) announced their winners of their top film honors of 2024. Film Obsessive Editor-in-Chief Don Shanahan is a long-standing member of the OFCS. Anora, directed by Sean Baker won Best Picture, Best Actress for star Mikey Madison and Best Screenplay. Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance also took home three OFSC awards for Best Director, Best Supporting Actress for Margaret Qualley and a Technical Achievement Award for Makeup &/or Hairstyling. Meanwhile, Conclave won Best Actor for Ralph Fiennes and Best Adapted Screenplay.

The logo of the Online Film Critics Society
Image courtesy of the OFCS

The Online Film Critics Society awards annually honor a broad list of films and creators from around the globe, including box office blockbusters and independent gems alike, for a total of more than 30 films nominated across eighteen categories. In addition to the 2024 top film honors, the OFCS recognized the work and contributions of several professionals and organizations with their annual Special Achievement and Lifetime Achievement Awards. OFCS members are invited to nominate recipients of both awards, for achievements they deem worthy of these recognitions.

Receiving this year’s Special Achievement Award is Ava DuVernay, for brilliant work of her own and for supporting a new generation of female filmmakers. Barbara Crampton, super supporter of indie first time filmmakers; and Nicolas Cage, for his infinite capacity to constantly surprise everyone. Earning Lifetime Achievement Award recognition are industry titans Rick Baker, David Cronenberg, Clint Eastwood, Elaine May and Christine Vachon. The OFCS also recognizes a slate of ten international films as the best releases outside the U.S. in 2024.

A complete list of winners and special awards for their 29th annual event is below:

Best Picture: Anora

Best Animated Feature: Flow

Best Director: Coralie Fargeat – The Substance

Best Actor: Ralph Fiennes – Conclave

Best Actress: Mikey Madison – Anora

Best Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain

Best Supporting Actress: Margaret Qualley – The Substance

Best Original Screenplay: Anora

Best Adapted Screenplay: Conclave

Best Editing: Challengers

Best Cinematography: Dune: Part Two

Best Original Score: Challengers

Best Production Design: Dune: Part Two

Best Costume Design: Dune: Part Two

Best Visual Effects: Dune: Part Two

Best Debut Feature: Vera Drew – The People’s Joker

Best Film Not in the English Language: All We Imagine as Light

Best Documentary Feature: Dahomey

Top Ten (Ranked):

1. Anora

2. The Substance

3. The Brutalist

4. Challengers

5. Nickel Boys

6. Conclave

7. Dune: Part Two

8. Nosferatu

9. I Saw the TV Glow

10. Wicked

SPECIAL AWARDS

Technical Achievement Awards:

Choreography – Wicked

Makeup &/or Hairstyling – A Different Man

Makeup &/or Hairstyling – The Substance

Sound – Dune: Part Two

Stunts – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Lifetime Achievement Awards:

Rick Baker

David Cronenberg

Clint Eastwood

Elaine May

Christine Vachon

Special Achievement Awards:

Ava DuVernay, for brilliant work of her own and for supporting a new generation of female filmmakers.

Barbara Crampton, super supporter of indie first time filmmakers.

Nicolas Cage, for his infinite capacity to constantly surprise everyone.

Best Non-U.S. Release:

Acting (Sophie Fiennes, United Kingdom)

The Adamant Girl (PS Vinothraj, India)

Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan)

Direct Action (Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell, France)

Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story (Luck Razanajaona, Madagascar)

Dying (Matthias Glasner, Germany)

I’m Not Everything I Want To Be (Klára Tasovská, Czech Republic)

The Moon is Upside Down (Loren Taylor, New Zealand)

The Other Way Around (Jonas Trueba, Spain)

Subject: Filmmaking (Jörg Adolph & Edgar Reitz, Germany)


About the Online Film Critics Society

Founded in 1997, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) is a professional association for online film journalists, historians, and scholars with a mission to further the growth of an informed film audience, to promote awareness of the Internet as a source of news and commentary, to provide a forum for the OFCS members to communicate and discuss ideas about journalism and cinema, and to encourage a high standard of journalism across the online media. The OFCS consists of nearly 300 members around the world; nearly one third of the organization’s membership are based outside of the United States. The Online Film Critics Society explores the nature of film from historical, sociological, political, emotional, technical, and other perspectives and appreciates film as a medium for art and a mode of entertainment. Learn more at www.ofcs.org

Written by Don Shanahan

DON SHANAHAN is a Chicago-based Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic writing here on Film Obsessive as the Editor-in-Chief and Content Supervisor for the film department. He also writes for his own website, Every Movie Has a Lesson. Don is one of the hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast on the Ruminations Radio Network and sponsored by Film Obsessive. As a school teacher by day, Don writes his movie reviews with life lessons in mind, from the serious to the farcical. He is a proud director and one of the founders of the Chicago Indie Critics and a voting member of the nationally-recognized Critics Choice Association, Hollywood Creative Alliance, Online Film Critics Society, North American Film Critics Association, International Film Society Critics Association, Internet Film Critics Society, Online Film and TV Association, and the Celebrity Movie Awards.

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