The Brutalist Named Best Picture by Portland Critics Association

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist has been named Best Picture by the Portland Critics Association. The film won 10 awards in total including Best Director, Best Lead Performance (Male) for Adrien Brody, Best Supporting Performance (Male) for Guy Pearce, Best Screenplay, and Best Screenplay.

Winners in bold below.

Best Picture

Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two (runner-up)
I Saw the TV Glow
The Substance (runner-up)

Best Director

Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Robert Eggers, Nosferatu
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
George Miller, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (runner-up)
RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys
Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two

Best Lead Performance (Male)

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing (runner-up)
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Sebastian Stan, A Different Man

Best Lead Performance (Female)

Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
Mikey Madison, Anora (runner-up)
Demi Moore, The Substance
June Squibb, Thelma
Maisy Stella, My Old Ass
Anya Taylor-Joy, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Best Supporting Performance (Male)

Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain (runner-up)
Chris Hemsworth, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Denzel Washington, Gladiator II

Best Supporting Performance (Female)

Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Katy O’Brian, Love Lies Bleeding
Margaret Qualley, The Substance (runner-up)
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoë Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Best Screenplay

Sean Baker, Anora (runner-up)
Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
Justin Kuritzkes, Challengers
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow
RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, Nickel Boys
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain

Best Animated Feature

Flow (runner-up)
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Transformers One
Ultraman: Rising
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Best Documentary Feature

Dahomey
Daughters
No Other Land
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (runner-up)
Sugarcane
Will & Harper

Best Film Not in the English Language

About Dry Grasses (runner-up)
All We Imagine as Light
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Emilia Pérez
Evil Does Not Exist
The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Best Ensemble Cast

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

Best Cinematography

Lol Crawley, The Brutalist
Stéphane Fontaine, Conclave
Greig Fraser, Dune: Part Two (runner-up)
Yoshio Kitagawa, Evil Does Not Exist
Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys
Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu

Best Film Editing

Sean Baker, Anora
Dávid Jancsó, The Brutalist
Nick Emerson, Conclave
Joe Walker, Dune: Part Two
Eliot Knapman and Margaret Sixel, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (runner-up)
Coralie Fargeat, Jérôme Eltabet, & Valentin Féron, The Substance

Best Production Design

Judy Becker, The Brutalist
Patrice Vermette, Dune: Part Two
Colin Gibson, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (runner-up)
Craig Lathrop, Nosferatu
Stanislas Reydellet, The Substance
Nathan Crowley, Wicked

Best Costume Design

Kate Forbes, The Brutalist
Jacqueline West, Dune: Part Two (runner-up)
Jenny Beavan, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Linda Muir, Nosferatu
Emmanuelle Youchnovski, The Substance
Paul Tazewell, Wicked

Best Original Score

Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers (runner-up)
Volker Bertelmann, Conclave
Hans Zimmer, Dune: Part Two
Clément Ducol and Camille, Emilia Pérez
Alex Somers and Scott Alario, Nickel Boys

Best Sound Design

Alien: Romulus
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Dune: Part Two
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (runner-up)
Nosferatu

Best Visual Effects

Dune: Part Two
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (runner-up)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked

Best Stunts or Action Choreography

Alien: Romulus
Dune: Part Two
The Fall Guy (runner-up)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Gladiator II
Monkey Man

Best Comedy Feature

Deadpool & Wolverine
A Different Man
Hit Man
A Real Pain (runner-up)
Saturday Night
Thelma

Best Horror Feature

Heretic
I Saw the TV Glow
Longlegs
Nosferatu (runner-up)
Oddity
The Substance

Best Science Fiction Feature

Alien: Romulus
Dune: Part Two
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (runner-up)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Megalopolis
A Quiet Place: Day One

Top 10 Films

1. The Brutalist
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Conclave
4. The Substance
5. Anora
6. I Saw the TV Glow
7. Evil Does Not Exist
8. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
9. Challengers
10. My Old Ass


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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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