‘Nickel Boys’ Wins National Society Of Film Critics’ Best Film — Full Winners List

One year shy of its diamond anniversary, the National Society of Film Critics has announced its winners.

On Saturday, the NSFC held its 59th voting meeting in which they awarded Nickel Boys the Best Film of 2024, with acting honors for Colman Domingo, Kieran Culkin, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin, as well Best Director for All We Imagine as Light‘s Payal Kapadia and Best Screenplay for A Real Pain‘s Jesse Eisenberg.

The organization also bestowed awards to Sing Sing, Hard Truths and No Other Land. Anora, Conclave, The Brutalist, His Three Daughters, Nosferatu, A Complete Unknown and A Different Man were among the runners-up.

Founded in 1966, the NSFC consists of more than 60 members from major publications, using a weighted ballot system to determine its annual winners.

See the National Society of Film Critics’ full list of winners below.

Best Picture

Nickel Boys

Runners-up: Anora, All We Imagine as Light

Best Director

Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine as Light

Runners-up: RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys; Sean Baker, Anora

Best Screenplay

Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain

Runners-up: Radu Jude, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World; Sean Baker, Anora

Best Actor

Colman Domingo, Sing Sing

Runners-up: Adrien Brody, The Brutalist; Ralph Fiennes, Conclave

Best Supporting Actor

Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

Runners-up: Guy Pearce, The Brutalist; Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown; Adam Pearson, A Different Man

Best Actress

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths

Runners-up: Mikey Madison, Anora; Ilinca Manolache, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Best Supporting Actress

Michele Austin, Hard Truths

Runners-up: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Nickel Boys; Natasha Lyonne, His Three Daughters

Best Cinematography

Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys

Runners-up: Lol Crawley, The Brutalist; Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu

Best Film Not in the English Language

All We Imagine as Light

Runners-up: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Best Nonfiction Film

No Other Land

Runners-up: Dahomey, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Special Citation for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution

No Other Land

Best Experimental Film

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

Film Heritage Award

To Save and Project: The MoMa International Festival of Film Preservation

Film Heritage Award

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Film Heritage Award

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