Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance has been named Best Picture by the Columbus Film Critics Association. The film also picked up wins for Best Director, Best Lead Performance for Demi Moore, and Best Original Screenplay.
Winners in bold below.
Best Film
1. The Substance
2. Nickel Boys
3. Anora
4. Sing Sing
5. Nosferatu
6. Conclave
7. Challengers
8. The Brutalist
9. Civil War
10. Love Lies Bleeding
Best Director
- Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
- Robert Eggers, Nosferatu
- Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
- RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys (runner-up)
- Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two
Best Lead Performance
- Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
- Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
- Lily-Rose Depp, Nosferatu
- Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
- Cynthia Erivo, Wicked: Part I
- Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
- Mikey Madison, Anora (runner-up)
- Demi Moore, The Substance
- Sebastian Stan, A Different Man
Best Supporting Performance
- Yura Borisov, Anora
- Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
- Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson (runner-up)
- Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Nickel Boys
- Ariana Grande-Butera, Wicked: Part I
- Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
- Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
- Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
- Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
- Margaret Qualley, The Substance
- Zoe Saldana, Emilia Pérez
- Bill Skarsgård, Nosferatu
- Stanley Tucci, Conclave
- Denzel Washington, Gladiator II
Best Ensemble
- Anora
- Challengers (runner-up)
- Conclave
- Dune: Part Two
- The Piano Lesson
- Sing Sing
- Wicked: Part I
Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)
- Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown and Dune: Part Two
- Nicholas Hoult, The Garfield Movie, Juror #2, Nosferatu, and The Order (runner-up)
- Cailee Spaeny, Alien: Romulus and Civil War
- Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice and A Different Man
- Zendaya, Challengers and Dune: Part Two
Breakthrough Film Artist
- Brady Corbet, The Brutalist – (for directing and screenwriting)
- Coralie Fargeat, The Substance – (for directing, film editing, and screenwriting) (runner-up)
- Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing – (for acting)
- Mikey Madison, Anora – (for acting)
- Dev Patel, Monkey Man – (for acting, directing, producing, and screenwriting)
Best Cinematography
- Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu
- Lol Crawley, The Brutalist
- Greig Fraser, Dune: Part Two (runner-up)
- Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys
- Benjamin Kracun, The Substance
Best Film Editing
- Sean Baker, Anora
- Marco Costa, Challengers
- Jerome Eltabet, Coralie Fargeat, and Valentin Féron, The Substance (runner-up)
- Nick Emerson, Conclave
- Dávid Jancsó, The Brutalist
- Nicholas Monsour, Nickel Boys
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Robert Eggers, Nosferatu
- RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes, Nickel Boys (runner-up)
- Chris Sanders, The Wild Robot (runner-up)
- Peter Straughan, Conclave
- Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, Dune: Part Two
Best Original Screenplay
- Sean Baker, Anora (runner-up)
- Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
- Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
- Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
- Justin Kuritzkes, Challengers
Best Score
- Volker Bertelmann, Conclave
- Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist
- Kris Bowers, The Wild Robot (runner-up)
- Robin Carolan, Nosferatu
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers
- Hans Zimmer, Dune: Part Two
Best Documentary
- Daughters
- No Other Land
- Sugarcane
- The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
- Will & Harper (runner-up)
Best Foreign Language Film
- All We Imagine as Light (runner-up)
- Emilia Pérez
- Evil Does Not Exist (Aku wa sonzai shinai)
- Kneecap
- The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Dane-ye anjir-e ma’abed)
Best Animated Film
- Flow (Straume)
- Inside Out 2
- Memoir of a Snail (runner-up)
- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- The Wild Robot
Frank Gabrenya Award for Best Comedy
- Babes
- Hit Man
- My Old Ass
- A Real Pain
- Saturday Night (runner-up)
- Thelma
Best Overlooked Film
- Didi
- His Three Daughters
- Hundreds of Beavers (runner-up)
- The Last Stop in Yuma County
- Snack Shack
- Thelma
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