Anora Named Best Film by Philadelphia Film Critics Circle

Sean Baker’s Anora has been named Best Film by the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle. The film also won Best Director for Baker, Best Actress and Breakthrough Performance for Mikey Madison, Best Script, and Best Ensemble.

Full list of winners and runners-up below.

BEST FILM

Winner: Anora

Runner-Up: The Brutalist

BEST DIRECTOR

Winner: Sean Baker – Anora

Runner-Up: RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys

BEST ACTRESS

Winner: Mikey Madison – Anora

Runner-Up: Demi Moore – The Substance

BEST ACTOR

Winner: Adrien Brody – The Brutalist

Runner-Up: Hugh Grant – Heretic

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Winner: Margaret Qualley – The Substance

​Runner-Up: Aubrey Plaza – Megalopolis

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Winner: Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain

Runner-Up: Guy Pearce – The Brutalist

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Winner: Memoir of a Snail

Runner-Up: Flow

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Winner: All We Imagine as Light

Runner-Up: The Seed of the Sacred Fig

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Winner: Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Runner-Up: Will & Harper

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Nosferatu

Runner-Up: The Brutalist

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

Mikey Madison – Anora

Runner-Up: Yura Borisov – Anora

BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT

Vera Drew – The People’s Joker

Runner-Up: India Donaldson – Good One

BEST SCRIPT

Anora

Runner-Up: Nickel Boys

Best Score/Soundtrack

The Brutalist

Runner-Up: Dune: Part Two

BEST ENSEMBLE

Anora

Runner-Up: Conclave

CHEESESTEAK AWARD FOR A BLOCKBUSTER THAT’S HARD TO IGNORE

The Fall Guy

Runner-Up: The Beekeeper