Annual StLFCA Awards
Each year, the St. Louis Film Critics Association bestows awards on those films that exhibit excellence in particular categories. The 2024 nominees are listed below.
Eligible films are those that opened in the greater St. Louis area or had an online premiere during the 2024 calendar year – including those film that were given awards-qualifying runs in 2023, but were not available to all StLFCA members until 2024. Films slated for release in early in 2025 are also eligible if a press screening, DVD screener, or screening link was provided to all StLFCA members.
Lists of winners from previous years are linked at the bottom of the page.
2024 StLFCA Annual Award Winners
[Winners were announced December 15, 2024.]
BEST FILM: Dune: Part Two
BEST DIRECTOR: Denis Villeneuve - Dune: Part Two
BEST ACTOR: Colman Domingo - Sing Sing
BEST ACTRESS: Mikey Madison - Anora
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Kieran Culkin - A Real Pain
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor - Nickel Boys
BEST ENSEMBLE: Saturday Night
BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE: Lupita Nyong’o - The Wild Robot
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Peter Straughan - Conclave; based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan - Saturday Night
BEST EDITING: Nicholas Monsour - Nickel Boys
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jarin Blaschke - Nosferatu
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: Beatrice Brentnerova, Paul Ghirardani, Craig Lathrop - Nosferatu
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Paul Tazewell - Wicked
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Dune: Part Two - Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, Gerd Nefzer
BEST STUNTS: The Fall Guy
BEST SCORE: Daniel Blumberg - The Brutalist
BEST SOUNDTRACK: A Complete Unknown
BEST ACTION FILM: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
BEST COMEDY FILM: Hundreds of Beavers
BEST HORROR FILM: Nosferatu
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: The Wild Robot
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: No Other Land
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE: The Seed of The Sacred Fig
BEST FIRST FEATURE: RaMell Ross - Nickel Boys
BEST SCENE: Civil War – “What kind of American are you?”
Complete List of Nominations
[Nominees were announced December 9, 2024.]
BEST FILM
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
September 5
Sing Sing
Wicked
BEST DIRECTOR
Edward Berger - Conclave
Brady Corbet - The Brutalist
Mohammad Rasoulof - The Seed of the Sacred Fig
RaMell Ross - Nickel Boys
Denis Villeneuve - Dune: Part Two
BEST ACTOR
Adrien Brody - The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet - A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig - Queer
Colman Domingo - Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes - Conclave
Hugh Grant - Heretic
BEST ACTRESS
Pamela Anderson - The Last Showgirl
Cynthia Erivo - Wicked
Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Hard Truths
Mikey Madison - Anora
Demi Moore - The Substance
Saoirse Ronan - The Outrun
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Kieran Culkin - A Real Pain
Clarence Maclin - Sing Sing
Guy Pearce - The Brutalist
Stanley Tucci - Conclave
Denzel Washington - Gladiator II
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Monica Barbaro - A Complete Unknown
Danielle Deadwyler - The Piano Lesson
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor - Nickel Boys
Ariana Grande - Wicked
Zoe Saldan - Emilia Perez
BEST ENSEMBLE
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Saturday Night
Sing Sing
Wicked
BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE
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
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Peter Straughan - Conclave
Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts - Dune: Part Two
RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes - Nickel Boys
Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield - Sing Sing
Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox - Wicked”
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Sean Baker - Anora
Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold - The Brutalist
Mike Leigh - Hard Truths
Jesse Eisenberg - A Real Pain
Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan - Saturday Night
Mohammad Rasoulo - The Seed of the Sacred Fig
BEST EDITING
Dávid Jancsó - The Brutalist
Joe Walker - Dune: Part Two
Nicholas Monsour - Nickel Boys
Nathan Orloff, Shane Reid - Saturday Night
Hansjörg Weißbrich - September 5
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Lol Crawley - The Brutalist
Greig Fraser - Dune: Part Two
Edward Lachman - Maria
Jarin Blaschke - Nosferatu
Jomo Fray - Nickel Boys
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Judy Becker - The Brutalist
Suzie Davies, Roberta Federico - Conclave
Zsuzsanna Sipos, Shane Vieau, Patrice Vermette - Dune: Part Two
Beatrice Brentnerova, Paul Ghirardani, Craig Lathrop - Nosferatu
Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales - Wicked
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Jacqueline West - Dune: Part Two
Casey Harris - Hundreds of Beavers
Massimo Cantini Parrini - Maria
Linda Muir - Nosferatu
Paul Tazewell - Wicked
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Alien: Romulus – Eric Barba, Shane Mahan, Nelson Sepulveda
Dune: Part Two - Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, Gerd Nefzer
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - Andrew Jackson, Dan Bethell, Eric Whipp, Andy Williams
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – Erik Winquist, Danielle Immerman, Paul Story
Nosferatu - Angela Barso, Lisa Wakeley
BEST STUNTS
Deadpool & Wolverine
The Fall Guy
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Gladiator II
Monkey Man
BEST SCORE
Daniel Blumberg - The Brutalist
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Challengers
Volker Bertelmann - Conclave
Hans Zimmer - Dune: Part 2
Kris Bowers - The Wild Robot
BEST SOUNDTRACK
A Complete Unknown
Deadpool & Wolverine
I Saw the TV Glow
Maria
Wicked
BEST ACTION FILM
Deadpool & Wolverine
Dune: Part Two
The Fall Guy
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Monkey Man
BEST COMEDY FILM
Deadpool & Wolverine
The Fall Guy
Hundreds of Beavers
A Real Pain
Saturday Night
BEST HORROR FILM
Heretic
I Saw the TV Glow
Late Night with the Devil
Longlegs
Nosferatu
The Substance
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Daughters
Music by John Williams
No Other Land
Sugarcane
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Will & Harper
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
All We Imagine as Light
Dahomey
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Emilia Perez
The Seed of The Sacred Fig
BEST FIRST FEATURE
Annie Baker - Janet Planet
Anna Kendrick - Woman of the Hour
Josh Margolin - Thelma
Dev Patel - Monkey Man
RaMell Ross - Nickel Boys
Malcolm Washington - The Piano Lesson
BEST SCENE
Civil War – “What kind of American are you?”
Dune: Part Two – Riding the Sandworm
The Substance – New Year’s Eve performance
Furiosa – War Rig battle
His Three Daughters – Dad’s Chair