Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 2024

29th FFCC Awards

December 20, 2024

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Best Picture:
The Beast

The 29th Florida Film Critics Circle Awards were held on December 20, 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Conclave led the nominations with eight, followed by Anora with seven. The French-Canadian co-produced science fiction drama film The Beast, a loose adaptation of the 1903 novella The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James, won Best Picture as well as Best Director for Bertrand Bonello and Best Actress for Léa Seydoux.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Bertrand Bonello, Best Director winner

Kieran Culkin, Best Actor winner

Léa Seydoux, Best Actress winner

Jeremy Strong, Best Supporting Actor winner

Zoe Saldaña, Best Supporting Actress winner

Jane Schoenbrun, Best Original Screenplay winner

Mikey Madison, Breakout Performance winner

Winners are listed at the top of each list in bold

Best Picture	Best Director
The Beast Anora The Brutalist Conclave Hundreds of Beavers	Bertrand Bonello – The Beast Sean Baker – Anora Luca Guadagnino – Challengers Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
Best Actor	Best Actress
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain as Benji Kaplan Adrien Brody – The Brutalist as László Tóth Daniel Craig – Queer as William Lee Ralph Fiennes – Conclave as Thomas Cardinal Lawrence Josh O'Connor – Challengers as Patrick Zweig	Léa Seydoux – The Beast as Gabrielle Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths as Pansy Deacon Carol Kane – Between the Temples as Carla Kessler Nicole Kidman – Babygirl as Romy Mathis Mikey Madison – Anora as Anora "Ani" Mikheeva
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice as Roy Cohn Yura Borisov – Anora as Igor Willem Dafoe – Kinds of Kindness as Raymond, George, and Omi Adam Pearson – A Different Man as Oswald Denzel Washington – Gladiator II as Macrinus	Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez as Rita Mora Castro Anna Baryshnikov – Love Lies Bleeding as Daisy Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys as Hattie Margaret Qualley – The Substance as Sue Isabella Rossellini – Conclave as Sister Agnes
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
I Saw the TV Glow – Jane Schoenbrun Anora – Sean Baker Challengers – Justin Kuritzkes Evil Does Not Exist – Ryusuke Hamaguchi A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg	Queer – Justin Kuritzkes The Beast – Bertrand Bonello, Benjamin Charbit, and Guillaume Bréaud Conclave – Peter Straughan Dune: Part Two – Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes
Best Animated Film	Best Documentary Film
Flow The Colors Within Inside Out 2 Memoir of a Snail The Wild Robot	Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat Daughters No Other Land Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story Will & Harper
Best International Film	Best Ensemble
All We Imagine as Light Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Emilia Pérez I'm Still Here The Seed of the Sacred Fig	Conclave All We Imagine as Light Anora Challengers Saturday Night
Best Art Direction / Production Design	Best Cinematography
Dune: Part Two The Beast The Brutalist Conclave Maria	The Brutalist – Lol Crawley Challengers – Sayombhu Mukdeeprom Conclave – Stéphane Fontaine Dune: Part Two – Greig Fraser Nickel Boys – Jomo Fray
Best Original Score	Best Visual Effects
Challengers – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg Conclave – Volker Bertelmann Dune: Part Two – Hans Zimmer Flow – Gints Zilbalodis and Rihards Zalupe	Dune: Part Two Hundreds of Beavers The Substance Tuesday Wicked
Best First Feature	Breakout Performance
Hundreds of Beavers – Mike Cheslik Janet Planet – Annie Baker The People's Joker – Vera Drew Stress Positions – Theda Hammel Tuesday – Daina O. Pusić	Mikey Madison – Anora as Anora "Ani" Mikheeva Brigette Lundy-Paine – I Saw the TV Glow as Maddy Wilson Katy O'Brian – Love Lies Bleeding as Jacqueline "Jackie" Cleaver Ryland Brickson Cole Tews – Hundreds of Beavers as Jean Kayak Zoe Zigler – Janet Planet as Lacy
Golden Orange
Mountains (Monica Sorelle)

References

1. "'The Beast' Dominates FFCC Awards with three wins, 'Dune: Part Two' wins two" (Press release). Florida Film Critics Circle. December 22, 2024. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
2. Anderson, Erik (December 20, 2024). "2024 Florida Film Critics Circle (FFCC) Winners: 'The Beast' Named Best Picture, Director; Kieran Culkin is Best Actor for 'A Real Pain'". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
3. Jamieson, Doug (December 20, 2024). "'The Beast' Declared Best Picture by Florida Film Critics Circle". Filmotomy. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
4. Hay, Jessa (December 20, 2024). "2024 Florida Film Critics Circle (FFCC) Winners". Offscreen Central. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
5. Neglia, Matt (December 20, 2024). "The 2024 Florida Film Critics Circle (FFCC) Winners". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
6. "Bertrand Bonello's 'The Beast' Wins Best Film, Director and Actress for Léa Seydoux at Florida Film Critics Circle Awards". VIMooZ. December 22, 2024. Retrieved December 24, 2024.

External links

• Official website