Yesterday, the National Society of Film Critics announced their picks for the best of 2024. It was a good day for Nickel Boys.
Best Picture
Winner: NICKEL BOYS (47 points)
Runners-up: ANORA & ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (34 points)
Best Director
Winner: Payal Kapadia, ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (49 points)
Runners-up: RaMell Ross, NICKEL BOYS (42 points) Sean Baker, ANORA (33 points)
Best Actress
Winner: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, HARD TRUTHS (79 points)
Runners-up: Mikey Madison, ANORA (35 points) Ilinca Manolache, DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (32 points)
Best Actor
Winner: Colman Domingo, SING SING (60 points)
Runners-up: Adrien Brody, THE BRUTALIST (51 points), and Ralph Fiennes, CONCLAVE (45 points)
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Michele Austin, HARD TRUTHS (55 points)
Runners-up: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, NICKEL BOYS, and Natasha Lyonne, HIS THREE DAUGHTERS (39 points)
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Kieran Culkin, A REAL PAIN (52 points)
Runners-up: Guy Pearce, THE BRUTALIST (50 points), Edward Norton, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, and Adam Pearson, A DIFFERENT MAN (41 points, tie)
Best Screenplay
Winner: Jesse Eisenberg, A REAL PAIN (47 points)
Runners-up: Radu Jude, DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (46 points), and Sean Baker, ANORA (45 points)
Best Cinematography
Winner: Jomo Fray, NICKEL BOYS (80 points)
Runners-up: Lol Crawley, THE BRUTALIST (38 points), and Jarin Blaschke, NOSFERATU (21 points)
Best Nonfiction Film
Winner: NO OTHER LAND (70 points)
Runners-up: DAHOMEY (50 points) SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT (24 points)
Best Film Not In The English Language
Winner: ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (44 points)
Runners-up: DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (41 points) THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (28 points)
Best Experimental Film: THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE
Film Heritage Award: Scott Eyman, for his outstanding books on film artists and epochal shifts in moviemaking, most recently with “Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided,” a revelatory study of the nexus of American politics and American pop culture.
Film Heritage Award: IndieCollect, which, since its founding in 2010 by Sandra Schulberg, has met the challenge of preserving independent films with a rare sense of artistic responsibility.
Film Heritage Award: To Save and Project: The MoMa International Festival of Film preservation, for more than two decades of superb restorations and diverse programming from all over the world, in collaboration with archives, foundations, studios, and other organizations.
Special Citation for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution: NO OTHER LAND
Through the Shattered Lens 