‘Challengers’, ‘Nosferatu’, Coralie Fargeat Winners at the Pandora International Film Critics Awards

The time has come – the Pandora International Film Critics have voted for their winners for the best in film 2024. The awards were announced across social media – X / Twitter and BlueSky earlier this evening.

Payal Kapadia’s acclaimed All We Imagine As Light took the top prize International Motion Picture. Coralie Fargeat continues to shake up the awards season with a Directing prize for The Substance, which also snagged the Hair & Make-Up award. Also with two awards were The Brutalist, taking English-Language Film and Acting Lead for Adrien Brody; and RaMell Ross a double winner for Screenwriting Adapted and Breakthrough Filmmaking for Nickel Boys.

They were not the highest tallies on the night for wins, with Challengers managing four wins – Editing, Score Composing, Song Composing, and Actor Support for Josh O’Connor. Then there was Nosferatu with three awards, for Set Design, Costume Design, and Cinematography. Pleasant surprises also came in the form of winners Katy O’Brian who took the Actress Support award for Love Lies Bleeding, and Jane Schoenbrun taking Screenwriting Original for I Saw the TV Glow.

Check out the full list of winners below.

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INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE

• All We Imagine As Light
• Dahomey
• Evil Does Not Exist
• The Girl with the Needle
• Grand Tour
• I’m Still Here
• Kneecap
• No Other Land
• Red Rooms
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig

DOCUMENTARY MOTION PICTURE

• Dahomey
• Daughters
• No Other Land
• Sugarcane
• Will & Harper

ANIMATED MOTION PICTURE

• Flow
• Inside Out 2
• Memoir of a Snail
• Transformers One
• The Wild Robot

ENGLISH LANGUAGE MOTION PICTURE

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• Challengers
• Conclave
• A Different Man
• Hard Truths
• Nickel Boys
• Nosferatu
• The Substance

EDITING

• Anora
• Challengers
• Conclave
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Nickel Boys
• The Substance

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• All We Imagine As Light
• The Brutalist
• Dune: Part II
• The Girl with the Needle
• Grand Tour
• Nickel Boys
• Nosferatu
• The Substance

SET DESIGN

• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Nosferatu
• The Substance
• Wicked

COSTUME DESIGN

• Dune: Part II
• Maria
• Nosferatu
• The Substance
• Wicked

HAIR & MAKEUP

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• A Different Man
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Nosferatu
• The Substance

SPECIAL EFFECTS

• Alien: Romulus
• Dune: Part II
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• The Substance
• Wicked

SOUND DESIGN

• Blitz
• Dune: Part II
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Nosferatu
• The Substance

SCORE COMPOSING

• Daniel Blumberg (The Brutalist)
• Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross (Challengers)
• Volker Bertelmann (Conclave)
• Robin Carolan (Nosferatu)
• Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross (Queer)
• Raffertie (The Substance)

SONG COMPOSING

• “Beautiful That Way” (The Last Showgirl)
• “Claw Machine” (I Saw the TV Glow)
• “Compress/Regress” (Challengers)
• “El Mal” (Emilia Pérez)
• “Kiss the Sky” (The Wild Robot)
• “Like a Bird” (Sing Sing)
• “Mi Camino” (Emilia Pérez)

SCREENWRITING ADAPTED

• Peter Straughan (Conclave)
• Richard Linklater, Glen Powell (Hit Man)
• RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes (Nickel Boys)
• Robert Eggers (Nosferatu)
• Justin Kuritzkes (Queer)
• Pedro Almodóvar (The Room Next Door)

SCREENWRITING ORIGINAL

• Payal Kapadia (All We Imagine As Light)
• Sean Baker (Anora)
• Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold (The Brutalist)
• Mike Leigh (Hard Truths)
• Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow)
• Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain)
• Mohammad Rasoulof (The Seed of the Sacred Fig)
• Coralie Fargeat (The Substance)

DIRECTING

• Sean Baker (Anora)
• Brady Corbet (The Brutalist)
• Robert Eggers (Nosferatu)
• Coralie Fargeat (The Substance)
• Luca Guadagnino (Challengers)
• Payal Kapadia (All We Imagine As Light)
• Mohammad Rasoulof (The Seed of the Sacred Fig)
• Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow)

FILMMAKING BREAKTHROUGH

• RaMell Ross (Nickel Boys)
• Vera Drew (The People’s Joker)
• Anna Kendrick (Woman of the Hour)
• Annie Baker (Janet Planet)
• Malcolm Washington (The Piano Lesson)

ACTING BREAKTHROUGH

• Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing)
• Ryan Destiny (The Fire Inside)
• Juliette Gariépy (Red Rooms)
• Lily Collias (Good One)
• Nykiya Adams (Bird)

ACTRESS LEAD

• Lily-Rose Depp (Nosferatu)
• Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez)
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths)
• Mikey Madison (Anora)
• Demi Moore (The Substance)
• Fernanda Torres (I’m Still Here)

ACTRESS SUPPORT

• Joan Chen (Didi)
• Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson)
• Brigette Lundy-Paine (I Saw the TV Glow)
• Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding)
• Margaret Qualley (The Substance)
• Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)

ACTOR LEAD

• Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)
• Daniel Craig (Queer)
• Colman Domingo (Sing Sing)
• Ralph Fiennes (Conclave)
• Keith Kupferer (Ghostlight)
• Sebastian Stan (A Different Man)

ACTOR SUPPORT

• Yura Borisov (Anora)
• Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)
• Josh O’Connor (Challengers)
• Adam Pearson (A Different Man)
• Denzel Washington (Gladiator II)

ENSEMBLE CAST

• Anora
• Conclave
• The Brutalist
• Dune: Part II
• Emilia Pérez
• Sing Sing