It’s awards season and that means the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association (GWNYFCA) has picked its deserving honorees from the past year’s films. 

The GWNYFCA (try saying that fast) is a a collective of film critics from the Buffalo and Rochester metropolitan regions. The group has just announced its seventh annual film awards winners. Here’s what the group had to say:

Our members consist of critics in traditional print media (newspapers and magazines) and online media (websites and podcasts). In an era of aggregate sites, we aspire to give our region a voice within the ever-changing international cinematic landscape.

Please see below for a full account of this year’s winners. Leading the way are CHALLENGERS (4 wins, including Best Picture) and SING SING (3 wins).

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The 2024 GWNYFCA Film Awards Winners:

Best Picture:

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• Challengers – WINNER
• Dune: Part Two
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• I Saw the TV Glow
• Nickel Boys
• No Other Land
• Nosferatu
• A Real Pain

Best Foreign Language Film:

• All We Imagine as Light (India)
• Evil Does Not Exist (Japan)
• Kneecap (Ireland)
• No Other Land (Palestine) – WINNER
• Red Rooms (Canada)

Best Animated Film:

• Flow
• Inside Out 2
• Memoir of a Snail
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• The Wild Robot – WINNER

Best Documentary:

• Daughters
• No Other Land – WINNER
• The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
• Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
• Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Best Director:

• Sean Baker, Anora
• Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
• Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
• Luca Guadagnino, Challengers – WINNER
• RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys

Lead Actor:

• Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
• Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
• Colman Domingo, Sing Sing – WINNER
• Hugh Grant, Heretic
• Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight

Lead Actress:

• Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths – WINNER
• Mikey Madison, Anora
• Demi Moore, The Substance
• Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

Supporting Actor:

• Yura Borisov, Anora
• Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain – WINNER
• Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
• Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
• Guy Pearce, The Brutalist

Supporting Actress:

• Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
• Joan Chen, Dìdi
• Ariana Grande-Butera, Wicked
• Natasha Lyonne, His Three Daughters – WINNER
• Margaret Qualley, The Substance

Original Screenplay:

• Anora (Sean Baker)
• The Brutalist (Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold)
• Challengers (Justin Kuritzkes)
• A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)
• A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg) – WINNER

Adapted Screenplay:

• Conclave (Peter Straughan)
• Hit Man (Richard Linklater & Glen Powell)
• Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes)
• Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader)
• Sing Sing (Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar / story by Kwedar, Bentley, Clarence Maclin & John Whitfield) – WINNER

Best Cinematography:

• The Brutalist (Lol Crawley)
• Challengers (Sayombhu Mukdeeprom)
• Dune: Part Two (Greig Fraser)
• Nickel Boys (Jomo Fray)
• Nosferatu (Jarin Blaschke) – WINNER

Best Editing:

• The Brutalist (David Jancso)
• Challengers (Marco Costa) – WINNER
• Dune: Part Two (Joe Walker)
• Nickel Boys (Nicholas Monsour)
• Saturday Night (Nathan Orloff & Shane Reid)

Best Original Score:

• The Brutalist (Daniel Blumberg)
• Challengers (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross) – WINNER
• Conclave (Volker Bertelman)
• Nosferatu (Robin Carolan)
• The Wild Robot (Kris Bowers)

Breakthrough Performance:

• Yura Borisov, Anora
• Lily Collias, Good One
• Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing – WINNER
• Mikey Madison, Anora
• Izaac Wang, Dìdi

Breakthrough Director:

• India Donaldson, Good One
• Vera Drew, The People’s Joker
• Josh Margolin, Thelma
• RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys – WINNER
• Aaron Schimberg, A Different Man

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You can find out more about the GWNYFCA HERE.