Nickel Boys Wins Best Picture at 2024 DiscussingFilm Global Film Critic Awards

RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys has Best Picture at the 2024 DiscussingFilm Global Film Critic Awards. The film also picked up a win for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Now in its sixth year, the DiscussingFilm Global Film Critic Awards celebrates the most noteworthy films of the year as voted by a diverse range of highly established film critics, awards pundits, and influential voices from around the globe, including journalists from notable outlets such as The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Empire, The Wrap, Little White Lies, The Independent, and Filmotomy’s very own Doug Jamieson.

Winners in bold below.

Best Picture

• Anora (Bronze Award)
• The Brutalist
• Challengers
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• I Saw The TV Glow
• Nickel Boys
• Nosferatu
• Sing Sing
• The Substance (Silver Award)

Best Director

• Sean Baker – Anora
• Brady Corbet – The Brutalist (Bronze Award)
• Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two
• Jane Schoenbrun –  I Saw The TV Glow
• RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys (Silver Award)
• Coralie Fargeat – The Substance

Best Actress

• Lily-Rose Depp – Nosferatu
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths (Bronze Award)
• Angelina Jolie – Maria
• Mikey Madison – Anora
• Demi Moore – The Substance (Silver Award)
• Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here

Best Actor

• Adrien Brody – The Brutalist (Silver Award)
• Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown (Bronze Award)
• Daniel Craig – Queer
• Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
• Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
• Sebastian Stan – A Different Man

Best Supporting Actor

• Yura Borisov – Anora
• Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain (Bronze Award)
• Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
• Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
• Adam Pearson – A Different Man (Silver Award)
• Denzel Washington – Gladiator II

Best Supporting Actress

• Joan Chen – Dìdi
• Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson
• Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys
• Ariana Grande-Butera – Wicked (Silver Award)
• Margaret Qualley – The Substance (Bronze Award)
• Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

Best International Feature

• All We Imagine As Light (Silver Award)
• The Beast
• Dahomey
• Emilia Pérez (Bronze Award)
• Flow
• The Girl With The Needle
• I’m Still Here
• Kneecap
• No Other Land
• The Seed Of The Sacred Fig

Best Ensemble

• Anora
• The Brutalist (Silver Award)
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two (Bronze Award)
• Nosferatu
• Sing Sing

Best Stunt Ensemble

• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Dune: Part Two
• The Fall Guy (Silver Award)
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Gladiator II
• The Shadow Strays (Bronze Award)

Best Original Screenplay

• Anora (Silver Award)
• The Brutalist
• Challengers
• A Real Pain
• I Saw The TV Glow (Bronze Award)
• The Substance

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Conclave (Bronze Award)
• Dune: Part Two
• Nickel Boys
• Nosferatu (Silver Award)
• Queer
• Sing Sing 

Best Cinematography

• The Brutalist (Bronze Award)
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Nosferatu
• Nickel Boys (Silver Award)
• The Substance 

Best Original Score

• The Brutalist (Silver Award)
• Challengers
• Conclave (Bronze Award)
• Dune: Part Two
• Queer
• The Substance

Best Costume Design

• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Gladiator II (Bronze Award)
• María
• Nosferatu
• Wicked (Silver Award)

Best Production Design

• The Brutalist (Bronze Award)
• Dune: Part Two
• Gladiator II
• Nosferatu (Silver Award)
• The Substance 
• Wicked

Best Film Editing

• Anora
• Challengers
• Conclave (Bronze Award)
• I Saw The TV Glow
• Nickel Boys
• The Substance (Silver Award)

Best Sound

• Dune: Part Two (Silver Award)
• Emilia Pérez
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Nosferatu (Bronze Award)
• The Substance
• Wicked 

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• A Different Man (Bronze Award)
• Dune: Part Two
• Nosferatu (Silver Award)
• The Substance
• Wicked

Best Original Song

• “Compress/Repress” – Challengers
• “El Mal” – Emilia Pérez
• “Mi Camino” – Emilia Pérez
• “Starburned And Unkissed” – I Saw The TV Glow (Bronze Award)
• “Kiss The Sky” –  The Wild Robot (Silver Award)
• “Harper And Will Go West” – Will & Harper

Best Visual Effects

• Alien: Romulus (Silver Award)
• Better Man (Bronze Award)
• Dune: Part Two
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Gladiator II
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

 Best Documentary Feature

•  Dahomey
•  Daughters
•  No Other Land
•  Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
•  Will & Harper (Bronze Award)
•  Sugarcane (Silver Award)

 Best Animated Feature

• Chicken For Linda!
• Flow (Silver Award)
• Inside Out 2
• Memoir Of A Snail
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Bronze Award)
• The Wild Robot

Best Independent Feature

• Bird
• Dìdi
• A Different Man
• Exhibiting Forgiveness
• Hundreds Of Beavers (Silver Award)
• Janet Planet
• Late Night With The Devil
• Love Lies Bleeding
• Red Rooms (Bronze Award)
• Strange Darling 

Best Debut Feature

• Dìdi (Bronze Award)
• How To Have Sex (Silver Award)
• Janet Planet
• The First Omen
• The Piano Lesson
• Woman Of The Hour 

Best Breakthrough Performance

• Brandon Wilson – Nickel Boys
• Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing (Bronze Award)
• Juliette Gariépy – Red Rooms
• Katy O’Brian – Love Lies Bleeding
• Lily-Rose Depp – Nosferatu (Silver Award)
• Mikey Madison – Anora

Best Horror Feature

• I Saw The TV Glow
• Late Night With The Devil
• Longlegs (Bronze Award)
• Nosferatu (Silver Award)
• Smile 2
• The Substance

Best Comedy Feature

• Anora
• A Different Man
• Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
• Hit Man (Silver Award)
• Hundreds Of Beavers (Bronze Award)
• A Real Pain