EXCLUSIVE: Sean Baker’s latest Anora has won Best Picture at this year’s Online Film Critics Society Awards. Scroll down for the full list of winners.
Anora also won Best Actress for star Mikey Madison and Best Screenplay while Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance also took home three awards for Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress for Margaret Qualley alongside a Technical Achievement Award for Makeup/Hairstyling.
Comprised of nearly 300 voting members from around the world, the Online Film Critics Society was founded in 1997. Members include writers from outlets such as Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Slant, Paste Magazine, AARP, and Sight & Sound.
In addition to the 2024 top film honors, the Online Film Critics Society hands out Special Achievement and Lifetime Achievement Awards. This year the body honors Ava DuVernay with a Special Achievement Award for her “brilliant work and for supporting a new generation of female filmmakers.” This year’s other honorees are Barbara Crampton and Nicolas Cage. Earning Lifetime Achievement Award are 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. Among those titles are Acting by Sophie Fiennes and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud.
Check out the full winners below.
2024 Online Film Critics Association awards winners:
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)