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Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2024
The 20th Austin Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking for 2024 in film, 2024, were announced on January 6, 2025. The nominations were announced on December 27, 2024. Brady Corbet's epic drama ''The Brutalist'' led the nominations with ten, followed by ''Dune: Part Two'' with eight, and ''Anora'' and ''The Substance'' with seven each. Unlike previous editions of the awards were five nominees while one winner was presented for the Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award; this year, the award went to all five top nominees. ''Anora'' received the most awards with five, including Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Film, Best Film, followed by ''Sing Sing (2023 film), Sing Sing'' with four. Winners and nominees The winners are listed first and in bold. References External links Official website {{Austin Film Critics Association 2024 in Texas 2024 film awards Austin Film Critics Association Awards, 2024 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Film Critics Association
The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) is an organization of professional film critics from Austin, Texas, United States. Each year, the AFCA votes on their end-of-year awards for films released in the same calendar year. A special award, the Austin Film Award, is given each year to the best film made in Austin or by an Austin-area director. History The Austin Film Critics Association was founded in 2005 by local film critics Cole Dabney and Robert "Bobby" McCurdy while attending Bowie High School in Austin. The organization grew in its first eight years, expanding from three members in 2005 to 25 members in 2013. On January 12, 2007, after only one year in existence, ''Entertainment Weekly'' called the AFCA "wildly contrarian" for naming Elliot Page Best Actress for his role in '' Hard Candy'' over Helen Mirren for her performance in '' The Queen'', as Mirren had swept the category so far during the award season. The association chose to name the group's Breakthrough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Qualley At Berlinale 2025 (cropped)
Margaret is a feminine given name, which means "pearl". It is of Latin origin, via Ancient Greek and ultimately from Old Iranian. It has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became less popular between the 16th and 18th century, but became more common again after this period, becoming the second-most popular female name in the United States in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but was still the ninth-most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the 1990 census. Margaret has many diminutive forms in many languages, including Daisy, Greta, Gretchen, Maggie, Madge, Maisie, Marge, Margie, Margo, Margot, Marnie, Meg, Megan, Molly, Peggy, and Rita. Etymology Margaret is derived via French () and Latin () from (), via Persian ''murwārīd'', meaning "pearl". Margarita (given name) traces the etymology further as مروارید, ''morvārīd'' in modern Persian, derived from So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrien Brody
Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's war drama '' The Pianist'' (2002) becoming the youngest actor to win the award at age 29. Brody received a second win in the same category for his role as Hungarian brutalist architect László Tóth in Brady Corbet's period epic ''The Brutalist'' (2024). He has received several other accolades, including a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award with nominations for a Laurence Olivier Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2025, ''Time'' magazine listed him as one of the world's 100 most influential people. Adrien Brody's other films credits include ''King of the Hill'' (1993), '' The Thin Red Line'' (1998), ''Summer of Sam'' (1999), '' The Village'' (2004), ''King Kong'' (2005), '' Hollywoodland'' (2006), ''Cadillac Records'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colman Domingo
Colman Jason Domingo (born November 28, 1969) is an American actor, playwright, and director. Prominent Colman Domingo on screen and stage, on both screen and stage since the 2010s, Domingo has received List of awards and nominations received by Colman Domingo, various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Awards, Primetime Emmy Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards and two Tony Awards. ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine named him one of the Time 100, 100 most influential people in the world in 2024. Domingo's early Broadway (theatre), Broadway roles include the 2005 play ''Well (play), Well'' and the 2008 musical ''Passing Strange''. He gained acclaim for his role as Mr. Bones in the Broadway musical ''The Scottsboro Boys (musical), The Scottsboro Boys'' (2011), for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He reprised the role in the 2014 West End theatre, West End production, receiving a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Villeneuve
Denis Villeneuve Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, OAL (; ; born October 3, 1967) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has received seven Canadian Screen Awards as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Villeneuve's films have grossed more than $1.8 billion worldwide. Villeneuve began his career in Cinema of Quebec, Quebec cinema, directing four French-language dramas: ''August 32nd on Earth'' (1998); ''Maelström (film), Maelström'' (2000); ''Polytechnique (film), Polytechnique'' (2009), a dramatization of the École Polytechnique massacre, 1989 École Polytechnique massacre; and ''Incendies'' (2010). The last of these gained him international prominence and earned an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film nomination. He subsequently expanded into English-language films, directing the thrillers ''Prisoners (2013 film), Prisoners'' (2013), ''Enemy (2013 film), Enemy'' (2013), and ''Sicario (2015 film), Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Glass
Rose Glass (born 1990) is an English film director and screenwriter. She made her feature film debut with the 2019 psychological horror film '' Saint Maud'', which was nominated for two awards at the 74th British Academy Film Awards. In 2020, Glass was named Best Debut Director at the British Independent Film Awards. Her second feature film '' Love Lies Bleeding'' had its premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in January 2024. Early life Glass was born in London, England, and grew up in Essex. She attended New Hall School and later the London College of Communication before working as a runner on film sets alongside directing and writing her own shorts. After graduating, she made a short film called ''Storm House'', and later submitted the film in an application to the National Film and Television School. She graduated from the National Film and Television School in 2014, where she made the short film ''Room 55''. During her years at both schools, she had written and direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coralie Fargeat
Coralie Fargeat (; born 24 November 1976) is a French filmmaker. She gained recognition with her debut feature film, ''Revenge'' (2017), for which she received awards from several independent film festivals. Her follow-up feature, ''The Substance'' (2024), a satirical body horror film, earned her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay as well as three Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. Early life Fargeat was born and raised in Paris. She decided to be a filmmaker when she was 16 or 17 years old. Fargeat studied at Sciences Po before beginning work on film sets. In 2010, Fargeat attended La Fémis, a prestigious cinema school in Paris. She was selected to be in its Atelier Scénario, a year-long screenwriting workshop, which in an interview with Seventh Row said: "...I first arrived with a project that was completely genre. It was about a woman who thinks that she’s being chased and attacked by insects, and she goe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Baker
Sean Baker (born February 26, 1971) is an American filmmaker. He is a director, writer, editor, and producer of Independent film, independent narrative feature films which are most often about the lives of marginalized people, especially immigrants and Sex worker, sex workers. He made his directorial film debut with ''Four Letter Words'' (2000) and co-created the television character ''Greg the Bunny''. Baker has since directed seven feature films: ''Take Out (2004 film), Take Out'' (2004), ''Prince of Broadway (film), Prince of Broadway'' (2008), ''Starlet (film), Starlet'' (2012), ''Tangerine (film), Tangerine'' (2015), ''The Florida Project'' (2017), ''Red Rocket (film), Red Rocket'' (2021), and ''Anora'' (2024). Baker has received Sean Baker#Awards and nominations, several accolades. For ''Anora'', he received the Palme d'Or and, alongside his wife Samantha Quan, the BAFTA Award for Best Casting, British Academy Film Award for Best Casting. At the 97th Academy Awards, Bak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wicked (2024 Film)
''Wicked'' (titled on-screen as ''Wicked: Part I'') is a 2024 American Musical film, musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. The first installment of the two-part Wicked (film franchise), ''Wicked'' film series, it adapts the first act of the Wicked (musical), 2003 stage musical by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire's Wicked (Maguire novel), 1995 novel, itself a reimagining of L. Frank Baum's ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' and its The Wizard of Oz, 1939 film adaptation. The film stars Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba Thropp and Ariana Grande as Glinda#Wicked, Glinda Upland, with Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum in supporting roles. Set in the Land of Oz prior to Dorothy Gale's arrival from Kansas, its plot follows Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and her friendship with her classmate Galinda, who becomes Glinda, Glinda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conclave (film)
''Conclave'' is a 2024 political thriller film directed by Edward Berger and written by Peter Straughan, based on the 2016 novel by Robert Harris. The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Sergio Castellitto, and Isabella Rossellini. In the film, Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Fiennes) organizes a conclave to elect the next pope and finds himself investigating secrets and scandals about the major candidates. After premiering at the 51st Telluride Film Festival on 30 August 2024, ''Conclave'' was released in theaters in the United States by Focus Features on 25 October 2024 and in the United Kingdom by Black Bear UK on 29 November 2024. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances, directing, screenplay, and cinematography. The film has grossed $125.9 million worldwide on a $20 million production budget. The film experienced a resurgence in popularity following the death of Pope Francis in April 2025 and the subsequent conclav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nosferatu (2024 Film)
''Nosferatu'' is a 2024 American Gothic film, Gothic horror film written and directed by Robert Eggers. It is a remake of the film ''Nosferatu, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror'' (1922), which was in turn inspired by Bram Stoker's novel ''Dracula'' (1897). It stars Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, and Willem Dafoe. Development began in 2015, when Eggers planned to make it his second film; he described it as a passion project but eventually opted to delay its production. Skarsgård and Depp were cast in lead roles in September 2022. Filming took place primarily at Barrandov Studios in Prague between February and May 2023. ''Nosferatu'' had its world premiere in Berlin on December 2, 2024, and was theatrically released in the United States by Focus Features and internationally by Universal Pictures on December 25. The film received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success, grossing $181.3 million worldwide on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nickel Boys
''Nickel Boys'' is a 2024 American historical drama film based on the 2019 novel ''The Nickel Boys'' by Colson Whitehead. It was directed by RaMell Ross, who wrote the screenplay with Joslyn Barnes. Starring Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, Jimmie Fails, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, the story follows two African-American boys, Elwood (Herisse) and Turner (Wilson), who are sent to an abusive reform school in 1960s Florida. The film is inspired by the Dozier School for Boys, a now-closed Florida reform school notorious for its abusive treatment of students. The film was shot from a first-person point-of-view, with filming taking place in Louisiana in late 2022. It premiered at the 51st Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2024, and had a limited theatrical release by Amazon MGM Studios on December 13, 2024. It was named one of the top 10 films of 2024 by the American Film Institute and received numerous accolades, including the awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
