Dune: Part Two Leads Minnesota Film Critics Alliance Nominations

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two leads this year’s nominations from the Minnesota Film Critics Alliance with 12 nods including Best Picture. Elsewhere, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist scored 10 nominations, while Challengers and Conclave earned nine nods each.

Full list of nominations below. Winners will be announced on January 10.

Best Picture

The Brutalist

Challengers

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

The Substance

Best Director

Sean Baker – Anora

Brady Corbet – The Brutalist

Coralie Fargeat – The Substance

Luca Guadagnino – Challengers

Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two

Best Actor

Adrien Brody as László Tóth – The Brutalist

Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan – A Complete Unknown

Daniel Craig as William Lee – Queer

Colman Domingo as John “Divine G” Whitfield – Sing Sing

Ralph Fiennes as Thomas Cardinal Lawrence – Conclave

Best Actress

Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba Thropp – Wicked

Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Pansy – Hard Truths

Mikey Madison as Anora “Ani” Mikheeva – Anora

Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle – The Substance

Zendaya as Tashi Duncan – Challengers

Best Supporting Actor

Yura Borisov as Igor – Anora

Kieran Culkin as Benji Kaplan – A Real Pain

Clarence Maclin as Himself – Sing Sing

Edward Norton as Pete Seeger – A Complete Unknown

Guy Pearce as Harrison Lee Van Buren – The Brutalist

Best Supporting Actress

Ariana Grande as Galinda Upland – Wicked

Felicity Jones as Erzsébet Tóth – The Brutalist

Margaret Qualley as Sue – The Substance

Isabella Rossellini as Sister Agnes – Conclave

Zoe Saldaña as Rita Mora Castro – Emilia Pérez

Best Ensemble

Challengers

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Saturday Night

Sing Sing

Best Adapted Screenplay

Conclave – Peter Straughan

Dune: Part Two – Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts

Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes

Sing Sing – Clint Bently, Greg Kwedar

Wicked – Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox

Best Original Screenplay

Anora – Sean Baker

The Brutalist – Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold

Challengers – Justin Kurtizkes

A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg

The Substance – Coralie Fargeat

Best Film Editing

The Brutalist

Challengers

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Best Cinematography

The Brutalist

Challengers

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Nosferatu

Best Music

The Brutalist

Challengers

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Wicked

Best Costume Design

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Nosferatu

Wicked

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

A Different Man

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Nosferatu

The Substance

Wicked

Best Production Design

The Brutalist

Dune: Part Two

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Nosferatu

Wicked

Best Sound

Challengers

A Complete Unknown

Dune: Part Two

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

The Substance

Best Special Effects

Alien: Romulus

Dune: Part Two

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

The Substance

Best Stunt Choreography

Deadpool & Wolverine

Dune: Part Two

The Fall Guy

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Gladiator II

Best International Feature

The Beast – France, Canada

Emilia Pérez – France

Evil Does Not Exist – Japan

Flow – Belgium, France, Latvia

The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Iran, Germany, France

Best Animated Feature

Flow

Inside Out 2

Memoir of a Snail

Transformers One

The Wild Robot


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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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