‘Anora’ Wins Best Picture At Online Film Critics Society Awards, Ava DuVernay Among Honorees

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Baker’s latest Anora has won Best Picture at this year’s Online Film Critics Society Awards. Scroll down for the full list of winners.

Anora also won Best Actress for star Mikey Madison and Best Screenplay while Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance also took home three awards for Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress for Margaret Qualley alongside a Technical Achievement Award for Makeup/Hairstyling.

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Comprised of nearly 300 voting members from around the world, the Online Film Critics Society was founded in 1997. Members include writers from outlets such as Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Slant, Paste Magazine, AARP, and Sight & Sound. 

In addition to the 2024 top film honors, the Online Film Critics Society hands out Special Achievement and Lifetime Achievement Awards. This year the body honors Ava DuVernay with a Special Achievement Award for her “brilliant work and for supporting a new generation of female filmmakers.” This year’s other honorees are Barbara Crampton and Nicolas Cage. Earning Lifetime Achievement Award are Rick Baker, David Cronenberg, Clint Eastwood, Elaine May, and Christine Vachon.

The OFCS also recognizes a slate of ten international films as the best releases outside the U.S. in 2024. Among those titles are Acting by Sophie Fiennes and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud.

Check out the full winners below.

2024 Online Film Critics Association awards winners:

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Best Picture

Anora

Best Animated Feature:

Flow

Best Director:

Coralie Fargeat – The Substance

Best Actor:

Ralph Fiennes – Conclave

Best Actress:

Mikey Madison – Anora

Best Supporting Actor:

Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain

Best Supporting Actress:

Margaret Qualley – The Substance

Best Original Screenplay:

Anora

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Conclave

Best Editing:

Challengers

Best Cinematography:

Dune: Part Two

Best Original Score:

Challengers

Best Production Design:

Dune: Part Two

Best Costume Design:

Dune: Part Two

Best Visual Effects:

Dune: Part Two

Best Debut Feature:

Vera Drew – The People’s Joker

Best Film Not in the English Language

All We Imagine as Light

Best Documentary Feature:

Dahomey

Top Ten (Ranked):

1. Anora

2. The Substance

3. The Brutalist

4. Challengers

5. Nickel Boys

6. Conclave

7. Dune: Part Two

8. Nosferatu

9. I Saw the TV Glow

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10. Wicked

SPECIAL AWARDS

Technical Achievement Awards:

Choreography – Wicked

Makeup &/or Hairstyling – A Different Man

Makeup &/or Hairstyling – The Substance

Sound – Dune: Part Two

Stunts – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Lifetime Achievement Awards:

Rick Baker

David Cronenberg

Clint Eastwood

Elaine May

Christine Vachon

Special Achievement Awards:

Ava DuVernay, for brilliant work of her own and for supporting a new generation of female filmmakers.

Barbara Crampton, super supporter of indie first time filmmakers.

Nicolas Cage, for his infinite capacity to constantly surprise everyone.

Best Non-U.S. Release:

Acting (Sophie Fiennes, United Kingdom)

The Adamant Girl (PS Vinothraj, India)

Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan)

Direct Action (Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell, France)

Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story (Luck Razanajaona, Madagascar)

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Dying (Matthias Glasner, Germany)

I’m Not Everything I Want To Be (Klára Tasovská, Czech Republic)

The Moon is Upside Down (Loren Taylor, New Zealand)

The Other Way Around (Jonas Trueba, Spain)

Subject: Filmmaking (Jörg Adolph & Edgar Reitz, Germany)

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