• 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

Past StLFCA Annual Award Winners