The Substance Named Best Film by Indiana Film Journalists Association

Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance has been named Best Film by the Indiana Film Journalists Association. The film also picked up wins for Best Director for Fargeat, Best Lead Performance for Demi Moore, Best Supporting Performance for Margaret Qualley, Best Editing, and Best Special Effects.

Winners in bold below.

BEST FILM

Anora
The Brutalist (runner-up)
Challengers
Civil War
Conclave
A Different Man
Dune: Part Two
His Three Daughters
I Saw the TV Glow
In a Violent Nature
Longlegs
Mars Express
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
The People’s Joker
A Real Pain
Rebel Ridge
Sing Sing
The Substance
Wicked

BEST DIRECTOR

Brady Corbet, The Brutalist (runner-up)
Robert Eggers, Nosferatu
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Alex Garland, Civil War
Luca Guadagnino, Challengers
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
Jeremy Saulnier, Rebel Ridge
Aaron Schimberg, A Different Man
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist (runner-up)
Daniel Craig, Queer
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Kirsten Dunst, Civil War
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Demi Moore, The Substance
Aaron Pierre, Rebel Ridge
Justice Smith, I Saw the TV Glow

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE

Nicolas Cage, Longlegs
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist (runner-up)
Adam Pearson, A Different Man
Dennis Quaid, The Substance
Margaret Qualley, The Substance
Bill Skarsgård, Nosferatu
Tilda Swinton, Problemista
Denzel Washington, Gladiator II

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
Alex Garland, Civil War
Aaron Schimberg, A Different Man
Azazel Jacobs, His Three Daughters
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow
Julio Torres, Problemista
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Jeremy Saulnier, Rebel Ridge
Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum and Alex David, September 5
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance (runner-up)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Jay Cocks and James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
Peter Straughan, Conclave (runner-up)
Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, Dune: Part Two
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, Nickel Boys
Virgil Williams and Malcolm Washington, The Piano Lesson
Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin and John Whitfield – Sing Sing
Chris Sanders, The Wild Robot

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Flow
Inside Out 2
Look Back
Mars Express
Memoir of a Snail
The Wild Robot (runner-up)

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Daughters
Ennio
Girls State
No Other Land (runner-up)
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
The Sixth
The Speedway Murders
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Aattam (runner-up)
All We Imagine as Light
Emilia Pérez
Evil Does Not Exist
Los Frikis
Look Back
Mars Express
The Seed of the Sacred Fig

BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING

Civil War
Conclave
A Different Man
Dune: Part Two
His Three Daughters
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
A Real Pain
Saturday Night
Sing Sing (runner-up)

BEST VOCAL / MOTION-CAPTURE PERFORMANCE

Tom Hardy, Venom: The Last Dance
Maya Hawke, Inside Out 2
Lupita Nyong’o, The Wild Robot
Pedro Pascal, The Wild Robot
Amy Poehler, Inside Out 2
Sarah Snook, Memoir of a Snail
Owen Teague, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Jonno Davies and Robbie Williams, Better Man (runner-up)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Lol Crawley, The Brutalist (runner-up)
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Challengers
Rob Hardy, Civil War
Greig Fraser, Dune: Part Two
Eric Yue, I Saw the TV Glow
Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys
Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Queer
Benjamin Kračun, The Substance
Dan Mindel, Twisters

BEST EDITING

Sean Baker, Anora
Dávid Jancsó, The Brutalist (runner-up)
Marco Costa, Challengers
Nick Emerson, Conclave
Joe Walker, Dune: Part Two
Nicholas Monsour, Nickel Boys
Louise Ford, Nosferatu
Jeremy Saulnier, Rebel Ridge
Jérôme Eltabet, Coralie Fargeat and Valentin Feron, The Substance
Terilyn A. Shropshire, Twisters

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers (runner-up)
Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow, Civil War
Volker Bertelmann, Conclave
Umberto Smerilli, A Different Man
Alex Somers and Scott Alario, Nickel Boys
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Queer
Raffertie, The Substance
Benjamin Wallfisch, Twisters
Kris Bowers, The Wild Robot

BEST STUNT / MOVEMENT CHOREOGRAPHY

Jeremy Marinas (fight coordinator and choreographer / second-unit director) – The Beekeeper
Ashley Wallen (dance choreographer), Nicholas Daines (stunt coordinator), Slavisa Ivanovic (stunt coordinator), Tim Wong (fight choreographer) and Spencer Susser (second-unit director) – Better Man (runner-up)
Lee Morrison (supervising stunt coordinator), Roger Yuan (fight coordinator / stunt coordinator) and Tanya Lapointe (second-unit director) – Dune: Part Two
Chris O’Hara (stunt coordinator and stunt designer) – The Fall Guy
Guy Norris (action designer / supervising stunt coordinator / second-unit director) and Richard Norton (fight choreographer / coordinator) – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Bren Foster (action designer / fight choreographer) and Jaylan Foster, Jimmy Foster, Nick Harding, Jordan Petersen, Matthew Murgola and Mike Duncan (stunt team) – Life After Fighting
Saifuddin Mubdy (stunt coordinator) and Brahim Chab (fight coordinator) – Monkey Man
Keith Woulard and Cory DeMeyers (stunt coordinators) – Rebel Ridge
Muhammad Irfan (stunt coordinator / fight choreographer) – The Shadow Strays
Christopher Scott (choreographer) and Jo McLaren (stunt coordinator) – Wicked

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

Luke Millar (visual effects supervisor) and Scott MacIntyre (special effects supervisor) – Better Man
Paul Lambert (visual effects production supervisor), Gerd Nefzer (special effects supervisor), Rhys Salcombe (visual effects supervisor) and Stephen James (visual effects supervisor) – Dune: Part Two
Kevin Smith (visual effects supervisor), Kevin Sherwood (visual effects producer), Bruce Bright (special effects supervisor) and Michael Meinardus (special effects supervisor) – Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Mike Cheslik (visual effects) and Jerry Kurek (assistant effects artist) – Hundreds of Beavers (runner-up)
Erik Winquist and Stephen Unterfranz (VFX supervisors), Paul Story (senior animation supervisor) and Rodney Burke (special FX supervisor) – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
David White (prosthetic and makeup effects design), Angela Barson (visual effects supervisor) and Pavel Sagner (special effects supervisor) – Nosferatu (2024)
Bryan Jones (visual effects supervisor), Pierre Procoudine-Gorsky (visual effects producer) and Jean Miel (special effects supervisor) – The Substance
Damien Leone (writer / director), Phil Falcone (producer), Christien Tinsley (design and creation of prosthetics and makeup effects), Brian Van Dorn (Tinsley Studios production coordinator), Ryan Ward (on-set makeup effects department head), Heather Albert (on-set makeup effects artist), Josh Petrino (visual effects supervisor), Declan Boyle (lead visual effects artist), Lincoln Smith (senior visual effects artist), John Caglione, Jr. (Virgin Mary / demon sequence prosthetics supervisor), Jason Baker (Callosum Studios on-set effects supervisor) and Jason Milstein (post-production supervisor and visual effects artist) – Terrifier 3
Ben Snow (visual effects supervisor), Florian Witzel (Industrial Light & Magic visual effects supervisor), Charles Lai (ILM associate visual effects supervisor) and Scott Fisher (special effects supervisor) – Twisters

BREAKOUT OF THE YEAR

Joanna Arnow (director/writer/editor/performer), The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Mike Cheslik (director/co-writer/editor/visual effects), Hundreds of Beavers
Vera Drew (director/co-writer/editor/performer), The People’s Joker
Mikey Madison (performer), Anora (runner-up)
Chris Nash (director/writer), In a Violent Nature
Katy M. O’Brian (performer), Love Lies Bleeding
RaMell Ross (director / co-writer), Nickel Boys
Maisy Stella (performer), My Old Ass
Julio Torres (director/writer/performer), Problemista
Malcolm Washington (director / co-writer), The Piano Lesson

ORIGINAL VISION

Better Man
Emilia Pérez
Hundreds of Beavers
I Saw the TV Glow
In a Violent Nature
The People’s Joker
Problemista
Sasquatch Sunset
The Substance (runner-up)


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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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