Anora Named Best Picture by Georgia Film Critics Association

Sean Baker’s Anora has been named Best Picture by the Georgia Film Critics Association. The film also picked up wins for Best Actress for Mikey Madison and Best Original Screenplay.

Winners in bold below.

Best Picture

Anora
The Brutalist
Challengers
Conclave
Dune: Part Two (runner-up)
Flow
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing
The Substance
Wicked

Best Director

Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist (runner-up)
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys
Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two

Best Actor

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave (runner-up)
Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight

Best Actress

Lily-Rose Depp, Nosferatu
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths (runner-up)
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance

Best Supporting Actor

Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist (runner-up)
Denzel Washington, Gladiator II

Best Supporting Actress

Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Nickel Boys
Ariana Grande, Wicked (runner-up)
Katy O’Brian, Love Lies Bleeding
Margaret Qualley, The Substance
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Best Original Screenplay

Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist (runner-up)
Justin Kuritzkes, Challengers
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, & Alex David, September 5
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

Best Adapted Screenplay

Peter Straughan, Conclave (runner-up)
Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, Dune: Part Two
RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, Nickel Boys
Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley, Sing Sing
Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, Wicked

Best Animated Film

Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot (runner-up)

Best Documentary Film

No Other Land
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Sugarcane (runner-up)
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Will & Harper

Best International Film

All We Imagine as Light (runner-up)
Flow
Kneecap
Red Rooms
The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Best Ensemble

Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Saturday Night
Sing Sing (runner-up)
Wicked

Best Cinematography

Lol Crawley, The Brutalist
Greig Fraser, Dune: Part Two
Đinh Duy Hưng, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys
Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu (runner-up)

Best Production Design

Judy Becker and Patricia Cuccia, The Brutalist
Patrice Vermette and Shane Vieau, Dune: Part Two (runner-up)
Colin Gibson and Katie Sharrock, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Craig Lathrop, Nosferatu
Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales, Wicked

Best Original Score

Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers
Volker Bertelmann, Conclave
Hans Zimmer, Dune: Part Two (runner-up)
Kris Bowers, The Wild Robot

Best Original Song

“Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma” from Twisters
“Compress/Repress” from Challengers
“El Mal” from Emilia Pérez
“Kiss the Sky” from The Wild Robot (runner-up)
“Sick in the Head” from Kneecap

Breakthrough Award

Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
Mikey Madison, Anora (runner-up)
Katy O’Brian, Love Lies Bleeding
RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys
Maisy Stella, My Old Ass

Oglethorpe Award for Excellence in Georgia Cinema

Civil War (Alex Garland) (runner-up)
Color Book (David Fortune)
The Forge (Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick)
The Idea of You (Michael Showalter, Robinne Lee, Jennifer Westfeldt)
Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood, Jonathan A. Abrams)
Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World (short; Julio Palacio, Makayla Cain)
The Piano Lesson (Malcolm Washington, Virgil Williams, August Wilson)
The Preakness (short; Akshay Bhatia)
Saturday Night (Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan)
The South Got Something to Say (Ryon Horne, Tyson Horne, Ernie Suggs, DeAsia Paige)


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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.

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