The Utah Film Critics Association is pleased to announce our nominees for excellence in filmmaking for 2024.

The Brutalist took the lead with nine nominations including Best Picture, Best Achievement in Directing for Brady Corbet, Best Lead Performance Male for Adrian Brody, Best Supporting Performance Male for Guy Pearce, Best Supporting Performance Female for Felicity Jones, Best Cinematography for Lol Crawley, Best Original Score for Daniel Blumberg, Best Screenplay, and Best Editing.

Conclave and Dune: Part Two each received six nominations and will face off in Best Picture, Best Achievement in Directing, and Best Cinematography.

The Substance and Nosferatu tied for third place with five nominations apiece.

The Utah Film Critics Association will meet on January 11, 2025 to vote and decide the winners.

Below is the full list of nominees.

Best Picture

• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• The Substance
• Tuesday
• The Wild Robot

Best Achievement in Direction

• Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
• Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two
• Edward Berger, Conclave
• Sean Baker, Anora
• Tim Fehlbaum, September 5

Best Lead Performance, Male

• Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
• Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
• Daniel Craig, Queer
• Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
• Timothee Chalamet, A Complete Unknown

Best Lead Performance, Female

• Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
• Demi Moore, The Substance
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tuesday
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
• Mikey Madison, Anora

Best Supporting Performance, Male

• Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
• Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
• Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
• Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
• Stanley Tucci, Conclave

Best Supporting Performance, Female

• Ariana Grande, Wicked
• Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
• Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
• Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
• Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Best Ensemble Cast

• Conclave
• His Three Daughters
• September 5
• Sing Sing
• Wicked

Vice/Martin Award for Performance in a Science-Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror Film

• Bill Skarsgård, Nosferatu
• David Jonsson, Alien: Romulus
• Demi Moore, The Substance
• Hugh Grant, Heretic
• Lily-Rose Depp, Nosferatu

Best Screenplay

• The Brutalist
• His Three Daughters
• A Real Pain
• September 5
• Tuesday

Best Cinematography

• Greig Fraser, Dune: Part Two
• Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu
• Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys
• Lol Crawley, The Brutalist
• Stéphane Fontaine, Conclave

Best Original Score

• Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist
• Hans Zimmer, Dune: Part Two
• Kris Bowers, The Wild Robot
• Robin Carolan, Nosferatu
• Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers

Best Film Editing

• The Brutalist
• Dune: Part Two
• Nickel Boys
• September 5
• The Substance

Best Visual Effects

• Better Man
• Dune: Part Two
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Nosferatu
• The Substance

Best Documentary Feature

• The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
• Skywalkers: A Love Story
• Sugarcane
• Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
• Will & Harper

Best Animated Feature

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

Best Non-English Feature

• All We Imagine as Light
• Emelia Pérez
• Flow
• I’m Still Here
• Red Rooms