The Pittsburgh Film Critics Association (PFCA) have announced their inaugural winners representing the best in film for 2024. Here are this year’s winners…
BEST PICTURE
Winner: The Substance
Runner-Up: Challengers
BEST LEAD ACTOR
Winner: Colman Domingo — Sing Sing
Runner-Up: Cynthia Erivo — Wicked
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Winner: Ariana Grande — Wicked
Runner-Up: Clarence Maclin — Sing Sing
BEST FEATURED ACTOR
Winner: Jesse Plemmons — Civil War
Runners-Up (Tie): Lamorne Morris — Saturday Night; Isabella Rossellini — Conclave
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Winner: Clarence Maclin — Sing Sing
Runner-Up: Katy O’Brian — Love Lies Bleeding
BEST ANIMATED VOICE PERFORMANCE
Winner: Lupita Nyong’o — The Wild Robot
Runner-Up: Maya Hawke — Inside Out 2
BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Robert Eggers — Nosferatu
Runner-Up: Coralie Fargeat — The Substance
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner: Justin Kuritzkes — Challengers
Runner-Up: Sean Baker — Anora
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Winner: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield — Sing Sing
Runner-Up: Robert Eggers — Nosferatu
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner: Jomo Fray — Nickel Boys
Runner-Up: Jarin Blaschke — Nosferatu
BEST EDITING
Winner: Marco Costa — Challengers
Runner-Up: Jerome Eltabet, Coralie Fargeat, Valentin Feron — The Substance
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Winner: Craig Lathrop — Nosferatu
Runner-Up: Stanislas Reydellet, Cécilia Blom — The Substance
BEST SCORE
Winner: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross — Challengers
Runner-Up: Cristobal Tapia de Veer — Babygirl
BEST SONG
Winner: “Compress/Repress” — Challengers
Runners-Up (Tie): “Starburned and Unkissed” — I Saw the TV Glow; “Harper and Will Go West” — Will & Harper
BEST SOUND DESIGN
Winner: Emmanuelle Villard, Valerie Deloof, Victor Fleurant, Stéphane Thiébaut, Victor Praud — The Substance
Runner-Up: Lisa Pinero, Craig Berkey, Paul Carter — Challengers
BEST HAIR, MAKEUP, & COSTUMES
Winner: Emmanuelle Youchnovski (Costume); Pierre-Olivier Persin (Makeup/Hairstyle) — The Substance
Runner-Up: Linda Muir (Costume); Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton, David White (Makeup/Hairstyle) — Nosferatu
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Winner: The Wild Robot
Runner-Up: Inside Out 2
BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Winners (Tie): The Seed of the Sacred Fig & Flow
BEST STUNT PERFORMANCE & CHOREOGRAPHY
Winner: Keir Beck, Chris O’Hara — The Fall Guy
Runner-Up: Udeh Nans, Brahim Chab — Monkey Man
MISTER ROGERS KINDNESS AWARD – Awarded to someone who best exemplifies this quote from Mister Rogers: “I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers—so many caring people in this world.”
Winner: The entire cast and crew of The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Due to the nature of the film’s subject matter, filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof fled Iran due to persecution, actors Misagh Zare and Soheila Golestani are unable to leave the country, unnamed person/persons smuggled the film out of Iran, and the entire cast and crew who made this film in secret to ensure this necessary story was told.
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