9th Annual Friendly Film Fan Awards Nominees

The Friendly Film Fan Celebrates the Best in Cinema of 2024

​Hello, all, and welcome back to The Friendly Film Fan! Well, it’s finally that time, time to reveal our picks for the most award-worthy films of 2024, and unveil at last the nominees for the 9th Annual Friendly Film Fan Awards! If you've been keeping up with our Instagram throughout the day, then you’re already aware of what this list contains, but for those of you who as of yet have not had a chance to catch up, a brief explainer.
 
The Friendly Film Fan Awards are those awards which are decided upon by us at The Friendly Film Fan, both nominations and winners. We look forward to this so greatly every single year, and we’re so excited to be back presenting what would essentially count as our Oscar picks were we to decide what actually got nominated. For each category, we follow the Oscars rule of selecting five nominees per category except Best Picture, for which we nominate ten films. These nominees will not always match our Top 10 Movies of the previous year due to that list being driven more by what our “favorite” films were, rather than what was the “best” in as objective a sense as one can have. There are sixteen total categories, two of which are not reflected by the Oscars, those being Best Acting Ensemble and Best Stunt Ensemble, with the screenplay category encompassing both adapted and original works, as well as the Best Character Design category functioning as an umbrella over both Costume Design and Makeup & Hairstyling. Some of the cuts we’ve had to make to adhere to this arbitrary rule of five broke our hearts in two, but nevertheless, we persisted, and finalized our nominations as of just last night. So, without further ado, and with great thanks to those of you who have been keeping up with our Instagram annnouncements today, here once more are your 9th Annual Friendly Film Fan Nominees!

​Best Sound Design:

• Blitz
• Civil War
• Dahomey
• Dune: Part Two
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

​Best Visual Effects:

• Alien: Romulus
• Better Man
• Civil War
• Dune: Part Two
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

​Best Screenplay:

• Sean Baker, Anora
• Justin Kuritzkes, Challengers
• Aaron Schimberg, A Different Man
• Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow
• Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, & John “Divine G.” Whitfield, Sing Sing

​Best Score:

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

Best Character Design:

• Jacqueline West & Makeup Team, Dune: Part Two
• Jenny Beavan & Makeup Team, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Janty Yates & David Crossman & Makeup Team, Gladiator II
• Emmanuelle Youchnovski & Makeup Team, The Substance
• Paul Tazewell & Makeup Team, Wicked

​Best Production Design:

• Judy Becker, The Brutalist
• Patrice Vermette, Dune: Part Two
• Arthur Max, Gladiator II
• Craig Lathrop, Nosferatu
• Nathan Crowley, Wicked

​Best Film Editing:

• Marco Costa, Challengers
• Nick Emerson, Conclave
• Joe Walker, Dune: Part Two
• Hansjörg Weißbrich, September 5
• Rik Chaubet, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

​Best Cinematography:

• Lol Crawley, The Brutalist
• Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Challengers
• Greig Fraser, Dune: Part Two
• Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys
• Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu

Best Stunt Ensemble:

• Dune: Part Two
• The Fall Guy
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Kill
• Monkey Man

​Best Acting Ensemble:

• Anora
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Nosferatu
• Sing Sing

Best Supporting Actress:

• Joan Chen, Didi
• Carrie Coon, His Three Daughters
• Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Nickel Boys
• Ariana Grande-Butera, Wicked
• Margaret Qualley, The Substance

​Best Supporting Actor:

• Chris Hemsworth, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
• Josh O’Connor, Challengers
• Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
• Adam Pearson, A Different Man

​Best Actress:

• Lily-Rose Depp, Nosferatu
• Willa Fitzgerald, Strange Darling
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
• Mikey Madison, Anora
• Demi Moore, The Substance

​Best Actor:

• Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
• Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
• Nicholas Hoult, Juror #2
• Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight
• Sebastian Stan, A Different Man

Best Director:

• Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
• Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two
• George Miller, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Robert Eggers, Nosferatu
• Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

Best Picture:

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• Challengers
• A Different Man
• Dune: Part Two
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• I Saw the TV Glow
• Nosferatu
• Sing Sing
• The Substance

What do you think of these nominations? Are you rooting for any particular movies to win? Let us know in the comments section below, and keep an eye out for your Friendly Film Fan Award winners, which we will announce on 2/27! (Time TBD.) Thanks for being with us!
 
- The Friendly Film Fan