Monday, 16 December 2024

For your consideration: my Critics' Circle votes 2024

 

Director of the Year
1. Steve McQueen, Blitz
2. Marco Bellocchio, Kidnapped
3. George Miller, Furiosa: a Mad Max Saga
4. Hirokazu Kore-eda, Monster
5. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Evil Does Not Exist

(Honourable mentions: Clint Eastwood, Juror #2; Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow; Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine as Light; Blessy, Aaduveejitham/The Goat Life.)



Screenwriter of the Year
1. Yūji Sakamoto, Monster
2. Marco Bellocchio and Susanna Nicchiarelli, Kidnapped
3. Rich Peppiatt and Kneecap, Kneecap
4. Peter Straughan, Conclave
5. Aaron Schimberg, A Different Man

(Honourable mentions: Azazel Jacobs, His Three Daughters; Jonathan A. Abrams, Juror #2; Victor Erice and Michel Gaztambide, Close Your Eyes; Deepu Pradeep, Guruvayoor Ambalanadayil; Ava DuVernay, Origin.)



Actress of the Year
1. Kristen Stewart, Love Lies Bleeding
2. Maisy Stella, My Old Ass
3. Lily Gladstone, Fancy Dance
4. Kani Kusruti, All We Imagine as Light
5. Amy Adams, Nightbitch

(Honourable mentions: Mikey Madison, Anora; Carrie Coon, His Three Daughters; Elizabeth Olsen, His Three Daughters; Natasha Lyonne, His Three Daughters; Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Origin; Cynthia Erivo, Drift and Wicked: Part 1.)



Actor of the Year
1. Sebastian Stan, A Different Man and The Apprentice
2. Cillian Murphy, Small Things Like These
3. Fahadh Faasil, Aavesham
4. Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
5. Hugh Grant, Heretic

(Honourable mentions: Prithviraj Sukumaran, The Goat Life and Guruvayoor Ambalanadayil; Glen Powell, Hit Man; Ralph Fiennes, Conclave; Basil Joseph, Guruvayoor Ambalanadayil; Fausto Russo Alesi, Kidnapped.)



Supporting Actress of the Year
1. Joan Chen, Didi
2. Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
3. Zarina Wahab, Mr. & Mrs. Mahi
4. Emily Watson, Small Things Like These
5. Aubrey Plaza, My Old Ass

(Honourable mentions: Simone Kirby, Kneecap; Isabel Deroy-Olson, Fancy Dance; Alia Shawkat, Drift; Kathryn Newton, Abigail.)



Supporting Actor of the Year
1. Adam Pearson, A Different Man
2. Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
3. Paul Raci, Sing Sing
4. Jay O. Sanders, His Three Daughters
5. Fahadh Faasil, Vettaiyan and Pushpa 2 - The Rule

(Honourable mentions: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain; Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice; Jesse Plemons, Civil War and Kinds of Kindness; Dan Stevens, Abigail; Ravi Kishan, Laapataa Ladies.)



Breakthrough Performance of the Year
1. Maisy Stella, My Old Ass
2. Aaron Pierre, Rebel Ridge
3. Nitanshi Goel, Laapataa Ladies
4. Kani Kusruti, All We Imagine as Light
5. Katy O'Brian, Love Lies Bleeding

(Honourable mentions: Mikey Madison, Anora; Eka Chavleishvili, Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry; Alyla Browne, Furiosa: a Mad Max Saga; Alisha Weir, Abigail.)



Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker
1. Rich Peppiatt, director, Kneecap
2. Dev Patel, director, Monkey Man
4. Rachel Ramsay, co-director, Copa 71
5. Toby L., director, Blur: To the End

(Honourable mention: Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls, Grand Theft Hamlet.)



British/Irish Performer of the Year
1. Cillian Murphy, Small Things Like These
2. Hugh Grant, Heretic
3. James McAvoy, Speak No Evil
4. Dev Patel, Monkey Man
5. Aaron Pierre, Rebel Ridge

(Honourable mentions: Cynthia Erivo, Drift and Wicked: Part 1; Adam Pearson, A Different Man; Dan Stevens, Abigail.)



Young British/Irish Performer of the Year
1. Elliott Heffernan, Blitz
2. Alisha Weir, Abigail
3. Dan Hough, Speak No Evil
4. Zara Devlin, Small Things Like These
5. Liadán Dunlea, Small Things Like These


Nominations for the 45th London Critics' Circle Film Awards will be announced this Thursday, with the ceremony following on February 2, 2025; my top 20 films of 2024 list will run on this site at the end of the month.

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