The 2024 Gold Digger Awards Nominations
The Gold Diggers are back, honouring the cinematic achievements of 2024!! As usual, our voting body membership is malleable, shifting and adapting year-to-year. Our voting body consists of film critics, film journalists, podcasters, festival programmers, film students and film professors. While selecting our panelists, we here at Gold Diggers prioritize diversity, and our panel represents a mixture of high-minded thinkers from diverse walks of life, with various tastes and identities.
This year, our voting body membership is as followed:
1. Claudio Alves, Senior Columnist / Film Critic , The Film Experience / Magazine HD, International Cinema Society
2. Alfie Amaya, Freelance Writer, High on Films
3. Drew Choiniere, Cinephile
4. The Cinescape, Freelance Film Critic
5. Cameron Clark, Film Scholar , Fisk University
6. Cyrus Cohen, Festival Worker, Tribeca Festival
7. Scott Cole, Contributor, Music City Drive-In
8. Harris Dang, Film Critic, The AU Review /Impulse Gamer /In the Own League
9. Mat Daniel, PhD Graduate, University of Canterbury
10. Seth Eelen, Editor-In-Chief. Of into:screens
11. Victor Escobar, Associate Producer, Ancient Aliens
12. Jorge Espinoza, Film Critic, La Estatuilla
13. Conrado Falco, Cinephile / Podcaster
14. John Lynn Fernandez, Freelance Critic, ICS Member
15. The Film Mufti, Cinephile
16. Eduardo Gomes, Cinephile
17. Patrick Gratton, Editor-In-Chief, Gold Digger / Director’s Guild of Canada
18. Joshua Gynther, Cinephile
19. Samuel Haines, Vice-President, Goodwin & Associates
20. Robert Hamer, Associated Writer, Awards Radar
21. Julian Janssen, Film Critic, Obviously Reviews
22. Ankit Jhunjhunwala, Freelance Critic.
23. Adam Klay, Cinephile
24. Shadan Larki, Writer, InSession Film
25. Ray Lewis, Cinephile
26. Keith MacDonald, Cinephile
27. Kenny Miles, Writer, We Live Entertainment / Pollster, Cinemascore
28. Kip Mooney, Staff Writer, College Movie Reviews
29. Joey Moser, Writer, The Contenders
30. Tyler Roberto Ortiz, Critic, Loud and Clear Reviews
31. Josh Parham, Contributor, AwardsWatch / Next Best Picture
32. Marc Rob, Podcaster, We Should Do This Again Sometime
33. Róge Stack, Filmmaker
34. Zita Short, Film Critic, In Session Film
35. Ronaldo Sosa, Cinephile
36. Amanda Spears, Freelance. Awards Radar / Gold Derby
37. Nick Taylor, Contributor, The Film Experience
38. Tomas Trussow, Creator, The Lonely Film Critic
39. Mladen Vukčević, Film Writer
40. Robin Write, Editor-In-Chief, Filmotomy
(Please Note All Stats referred to in this summary, solely refer to the 2018, 2020, 2023 and 2024 Gold Digger Awards, and do not refer to our Mid-Year Awards.)
After a contentious and competitive race, Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, the French female-led body horror film, following an aging aerobics star who creates a rejuvenate doppelganger using the titular substance, triumphed with eleven nominations. On one hand it’s a genre film, on another hand, it’s a provocative distillation on the trials of aging in Hollywood. Its nominations include Best Director for Fargeat, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress nominations for its stars Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, Best Editing, Best Production Design, while also missing in Best Original Screenplay.
Brady Corbet’s third feature film, the 210+ minute epic The Brutalist, trails with ten nominations. The film follows Holocaust survivor Hungarian architect László Tóth who immigrated to America, rebuilding his life and career underneath the wings (and underneath the thump) of industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr. Tóth embarks on a decade long struggle to erect a brutalist-style community center. Our voters were dazzled by the innovation of its 15 minute intermission, the VistaVision visuals and the heart pumping musical score. The Film, Corbet’s direction, the aforementioned cinematography and score were all nominated, as were Adrien Brody for Best Leading Actor as Tóth and Guy Pearce for Best Supporting Actor as Van Buren Sr.
The remaining eight nominated films nominated in our Best Feature Film Categories include a mixture of award season maintains and international titles. Oscar Winning Sean Baker’s Anora received five nominations, while Baker missed out in the Best Direction category and its Oscar winning star Mickey Madison just fell out of our Best Actress Lineup. RaMell’s Ross’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Nickel received four nominations including Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Acting Newcomer for Brandon Wilson and Best Cinematography.
Last summer’s Mid-Year Awards Best Feature Film winner Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast, an adaptation of Henry James’ The Beast In the Jungle, is attempting to reprise it’s success with six nomination, including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design and Best Leading Actress for Léa Seydoux. Seydoux is competition against the aforementioned Demi Moore, her fellow Best Actress Oscar nominee Fernando Torres, for her performance as Eunice Paiva, the wife of a former Brazilian politician trying to save her family in a fascist military occupied Rio de Janeiro, in Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here, Nicole Kidman, as a corporate CEO who explores her sexual desires through an affair with one of her interns, in Helina Reijn’s Babygirl and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Jean-Baptiste is the third of the five Best Actress nominees leading a Best Feature Film nominee. Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths is a domestic drama centered around the Deacon family and its ill-mannered matriarch Pansy in the days leading up to Mother’s Day. Pansy struggles to overcome her lifelong depression and multi-generational anger. The tight nit ensemble, featuring not only the Deacon clan but those caught within Pansy’s raging rampage, was nominated for Best Ensemble Film. Michele Austin, as Pansy’s sister Chantelle, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, and Mike Leigh’s script was nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World received a sole Best Feature Film nomination. The Romanian film comedy satirizes the film and television industry as it follows production assistant Angela (Ilinca Manolache) as she spends her day driving around Bucharest doing odd jobs for her employer while also flooding social media with videos of her as her right winged alter ego Bobita, a caricature of Andrew Tate. The film reaches its climax with a forty-minute unbroken shot: Angela and her production company are hired by a trades company to film a safety video, where they coerce a family recently afflicted by a paralyzing at-work accident into relinquishing blame to their employers for the poor work conditions. Radu Jude’s film is the second film ever to receive a sole Best Feature Film nominee after João Dumans and Affonso Uchoa’s Araby back in 2018. On the flip side, Dennis Villeneuve’s Science Fiction blockbuster sequel Dune: Part Two received the most nominations this year for a non-Best Feature Film nominee with eight nominations. The film dominated our group’s technical categories, including Production Design, Visual Effects and both of our Sound Categories, while also nabbing a Best Ensemble Cast and a Best Choreography nomination.
Let’s say there was a venn diagram between our Best Feature Film and Best International Film, this year, Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light is the film overlapping both circles, receiving nominations in both categories. The film is a romantic drama centering on two Indian nurses in Mumbai navigating their romantic desires in a culture that represses dreams. Ranabir Das’ luscious visuals gives the film its dreamlike quality, as the film follows hearts breaking, mending and finally meeting. The film managed to get a total of three nominations, with Kapadia also landing a Best Direction nomination. The other nominees in the International Film category are Mati Diop’s Dahomey, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist, Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow and the aforementioned I’m Still Here. Other international titles, including Magnus von Horn’s The Girl With a Needle, Phạm Thiên Ân’s Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell and Lois Patiño’s Samsara, managed to grab nominations elsewhere despite falling short on the International Film Ballot.
2024 also marked a banner year for Trans Cinema and trans filmmakers. Jane Schoenbrun became the first trans woman to be nominated for Best Direction for I Saw the TV Glow, a trans 90s TV nostalgia-fest following Maddy and Owen, who grow up to realize that their favourite childhood television series resemble their lives. The film received six nominations, including Best Feature Film, Best Original Screenplay and a duo of Best Original Song nominations for Claw Machine and Starburned and Sunkissed. Another trans filmmaker, the multi hyphenate director-actress-editor-screenwriter-songwriter Vera Drew, received dual nominations in both Best Directorial Debut and Best Acting Newcomer for her breakout hit The People’s Joker. The shoestring micro-budget indie, is a queer retelling of the Batman DC Comics mythos, through the prevue of a trans Joker coming of age in the indie standup comedy scene. Lastly, Josh Greenbaum’s Will & Harper, starring Saturday Night Live veteran Will Ferrell and former SNL writer Harper Steele as they embark on a cross country road trip, Harper’s first post-transitioning, landed in our Best Non-Fiction Film Category. Other non-fiction films in this category include the aforementioned Dahomey, Angela Patton and Nathalie Rae’s Daughters, Yuval Abraham and Bassel Adra and Hamden Ballal and Rachel Star’s No Other Land and Johan Grimonprez’s Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat.
Soundtrack to a Coup D’etat is now the third non-fiction film to get an Best Editing nomination after Garett Bradley’s Time in 2020 and Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s De humani corporis fabrica in 2023. Last year’s Best Leading Actor winner Cillian Murphy, for his role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, is now the second actor to receive two individual acting nominations, for his performance in Tim Mielants’ Small Things Like These, an adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novel about a coal merchant who slowly discovers the abuse at the hands of a local Magdalene asylum. He follows in Olivia Colman’s footsteps who got Lead Actress nominations for Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite in 2018 and Florian Zeller’s The Father in 2020.
While completely snubbed by the Academy, Luca Guadagnino 2024 films Challengers and Queer received a combined total of eleven nominations, with Challengers getting seven and Queer getting four. Challengers’ Josh O’Connor won Best Leading Actor at our 2024 Mid-Year Awards, while strangely landing in the Best Supporting Actor field at our end of year awards.
Sean Baker leads with the most nominations for an individual this year with four, for casting, editing, producer and screenwriting Anora. Wes Anderson still holds the record for the most individual nominations in a single year when he got six nominations in 2023, Mr. Anderson has seven nominations total. Emma Stone achieved a hat trick of sorts, getting three nominations this year for three separate films: producing Best Feature Film Nominee I Saw the TV Glow, and Best Directorial Debut nominee Julio Torres’ Problemista, and for taking part in the Ensemble Cast nominee Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness..
A total of sixty-eight films were nominated by the 2024 Gold Diggers voting body, with thirty-eight of those films garnering only one nomination. US-backed cinema received the most nominations of any country, though a total of thirty-eight countries produced films that received at least one nomination. Films by A24 collectively earned thirty-nine nominations, while Janus Films and MUBI each got fifteen citations for their catalogues.
Our winners will be announced on Tuesday March 26th . Our full nominations are as follows:
1. Best Feature Film:
All We Imagine As Light (Janus Films / Sideshow) – Julien Graff & Thomas Hakim (Producers)
Anora (Neon) – Sean Baker & Alex Coco & Samantha Quan (Producers)
The Beast (Janus Films / Sideshow) -- Bertrand Bonello & Justin Taurand (Producers)
The Brutalist (A24) – Brady Corbet & Nick Gordon & D.J. Gugenheim & Andrew Lauren & Trevor Matthews & Andrew Morrison & Brian Young (Producers)
Challengers (MGM / United Artists) – Luca Guadagnino & Rachel O’ Connor & Amy Pascal & Zendeya (Producers)
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (MUBI) – Radu Jude & Adrian Sitaru & Ada Solomon (Producers)
Hard Truths (Bleecker Street Media) – Georgina Lowe (Producer)
I Saw the TV Glow (A24) -- Ali Herting & Luca Intill & David McCary & Emma Stone & Sarah Winshall (Producers)
Nickel Boys (Amazon MGM Studios) – Joslyn Barnes & Dede Gardner & Jeremy Kleiner & David Levine (Producer)
The Substance (MUBI) -- Tim Bevan & Coralie Fargeat & Eric Fellner (Producers)
2. Best Body of Work
Hong Sangsoo, Cinematographer-Composer-Director-Editor-Producer-Screenwriter, In Our Day & A Traveler’s Needs
Nicholas Hoult, Actor, The Garfield Movie & Juror #2 & Nosferatu & The Order
George MacKay, Actor, The Beast & The End & Femme
Jason Schwartzman, Actor-Executive Producer, Between the Temples & The Last Showgirl & Megalopolis & Queer
Tilda Swinton, Actor-Producer, The End & Problemista & The Room Next Door
3. Best Directing
Bertrand Bonello, The Beast
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Paval Kapaldia, All We Imagine As Light
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow
4. Best International Film
All We Imagine As Light [പ്രഭയായ് നിനച്ചതെല്ലാം] (France / India / Netherlands / Luxembourg / Italy / Switzerland) – Julien Graff & Thomas Hakim (Producers)
Dahomey (France / Senegal / Benin /Singapore) -- – Mati Diop & Judith Lou Lévy & Eve Robin (Producers)
Evil Does Not Exist [Aku wa sonzai shinai] (Japan) -- Satoshi Takada (Producer)
Flow [Straume] (Latvia / Belgium / France) -- Ron Dyens & Matiss Kaza & Gregory Zalcman & Gints Zilbalodis (Producers)
I’m Still Here [Ainda Estou Aqui] (Brazil / France) – Maria Carlota Bruno & Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre & Rodrigo Teixeira (Producers)
5. Best Animated Film:
Flow – Ron Dyens & Matiss Kaza & Gregory Zalcman & Gints Zilbalodis (Producers)
Mars Express – Marc Jousset & Guillaume Natas & Florent Steiner (Co-Producers)
Memoir of a Snail – Adam Elliott & Liz Kearney (Producers)
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Richard Beek (Producer)
The Wild Robot -- Jeff Hermann (Producer)
6. Best Non-Fiction Film:
Dahomey – Mati Diop & Judith Lou Lévy & Eve Robin (Producers)
Daughters – Justin Benoliel & Sam Bisbee & Laura Choi & James Cunningham & Kathryn Everett & Mindy Goldberg & Victor Kamwendo & Lisa Mazzotta (Producers)
No Other Land – Yuval Abraham & Basel Adra & Hamden Ballal & Fabien Greenberg & Bård Kjøge Rønning & Rachel Szor (Producers)
Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat -- Rémi Grellety & Daan Millius & Sara Skrodzka (Producers)
Will & Harper -- Jessica Elbaum & Will Ferrell & Josh Greenbaum & Chris Leggett & Rafael Marmor (Producers)
7. Best Short Film
Chime – Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Director); Misaki Kawamura & Hideyuki Okamoto & Miyuki Tanaka (Producers)
I’m Not a Robot – Victoria Warmerdam (Director); Trent (Producer)
In the Shadow of the Cypress – Hossein Molayemi & Shirin Sohani (Directors-Producers)
Incident – Bill Morrison (Director-Producer); Jamie Kalven (Producer)
ME -- Don Hertzfeldt (Director-Producer)
8. Best Directorial Debut
The First Omen – Arkasha Stevensen (Director); David S. Goyer & Keith Levine (Producers)
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell -- Phạm Thiên Ân (Director); Jeremy Chua & Tran Van Thi (Producers)
Janet Planet – Annie Baker (Director-Producer); Andrew Goldman & Dan Janvey & Derrick Tseng (Producers)
The People’s Joker – Vera Drew (Director); Joey Lyons (Producer)
Problemista -- Julio Torres (Director-Producer); Ali Herting & David McCary & Emma Stone (Producers)
9. Best Ensemble Cast:
Anora
Sean Baker (Casting Director); Anton Bitter, Yura Borisov, Darya Ekamasova, Mark Eydelshteyn, Karren Karagulian, Mickey Madison, Vlad Mamai, Luna Sofía Miranda, Lindsay Normington, Brittney Rodriguez, Ella Rubin, Aleksey Serebryakov, Maria Tichinskaya, Vache Tovmasyan, Atyyom Trubnikov, Emily Weider, Paul Weisman (Cast)
Dune Part Two
Francine Maisler (Casting Director); Javier Bardem, David Baustista, Tara Breathnach, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Imola Gáspár, Alison Halsttead, Akiko Hitomi, Giusi Merli, Babs Olusanmokun, Florence Pugh, Charlotte Rampling, Léa Seydoux, Stellan Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy, Kait Tenison, Christopher Walken, Souhheila Yacoub, Zendeya (Cast)
Hard Truths
Nina Gold (Casting Director); Naana Agyei-Ampadu, Michele Austin, Alice Bailey Johnson, Tuwaine Barrett, Gary Beadle, Ruby Bentall, Sophia Brown, Diveen Henry, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jonathan Livingstone, Syrus Lowe. Jo Martin, Bryony Miller, Ashna Rabhery, Samantha Spiro, Hiral Versani, David Webber, Diana Yekinni (Cast
Kinds of Kindness
Dixie Chassey (Casting Director); Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, Tessa Bourgeois, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Ja’Quan Monroe-Henderson, Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley, Hunter Schafer, Emma Stone (Cast)
Sing Sing
Brent Buell, Pedro Cotto, Colman Domingo, Mosi Eagle, David Giraudy, Patrick Griffin, Sean Dino Johnson, Clarence Maclin, Dario Peña, Paul Raci, Sean San Jose, Johnny Simmons, Miguel Valentin, Jon-Adrien Velazquez, Sharon Washington, John Divine G. Whitfield, James Williams (Cast)
10. Best Leading Actress
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
Demi Moore, The Substance
Léa Seydoux, The Beast
Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
11. Best Leading Actor
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Daniel Craig, Queer
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Cillian Murphy, Small Things Like These
Sebastian Stan, A Different Man
12. Best Supporting Actress
Michele Austin, Hard Truths
Joan Chen, Dìdi
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Sophie Okonedo, Janet Planet
Margaret Qualley, The Substance
13. Best Supporting Actor
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
Josh O’Connor, Challengers
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Adam Pearson, A Different Man
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
14. Best Vocal Performance
Kevin Durand, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Maya Hawke, Inside Out 2
Lupita Nyong’o, The Wild Robot
Sarah Snook, Memoir of a Snail
Jonno Davies & Robbie Williams, Better Man
15. Best Acting Newcomer
Lily Colias, Good One
Vera Drew, The People’s Joker
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
Brandon Wilson, Nickel Boys
Zoe Ziegler, Janet Planet
16. Best Choreography
Better Man -- Ashley Wallen (Dance Choreographer); Amy Cater (Intimacy Coordinator); Nicholas Daines & Isaac Hamon & Slavisa Ivanovic & Chris Weir (Stunt Coordinators); Tim Wong (Fight Coordinator)
Dune Part Two – Joseph Baddelem & Henry King Jr. & Domonkos Pardanyi (Stunt Coordinators); Roger Yuan (Stunt Coordinators - Fight Coordinator); Vi-Dan Tran (Fight Coordinator); Jenefer Odell (Intimacy Coordinator); Benjamin Millepied (Sandwalk Choreographer)
The Fall Guy – Keir Beck (Stunt Coordinator); Jonathan Eusebio & Sunny Sun (Fight Coordinators); Caroline Kaspar (Intimacy Coordinator);
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga -- Guy Norris & Mark Teale & Tim Wong (Stunt Coordinators); Yasca Sinigaglia & Jacob Tomuri & Karl Van Moorsel (Stunt Sequence Coordinators); Richard Norton (Fight Choreographer- Fight Coordinator); Caroline Kaspar (Intimacy Coordinator);
Wicked: Part 1 – Christopher Scott (Dance Choreographer); Wayne Cilento (Stage Choreographer); & Peter Francis (Choreography Coordinator); Yarit Dor (Lead Intimacy Coordinator); Jo McLaren (Stunt Coordinator)
17. Best Original Screenplay
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
Justin Kuritzkes, Challengers
Mike Leigh, Hard Truths
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow
18. Best Adapted Screenplay
Bertrand Bonello, The Beast, adapted from the short story The Beast In the Jungle by Henry James
Peter Straughan, Conclave, adapted from the novel of the same name by Robert Harris
Joslyn Barnes & RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys, adapted from the novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Justin Kuritzkes, Queer, adapted from the Novel of the same name by William S. Burroughs
Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar, Sing Sing, adapted from the magazine article The Sing Sing Follies by John H. Richardson & adapted from the play Breakin’ The Mummy’s Code by Brent Buell.
19. Best Cinematography
Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu
Lol Crawley, The Brutalist
Michal Dymek, The Girl with the Needle
Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Queer
20. Best Editing
Sean Baker, Anora
Dávid Jancsó, The Brutalist
Marco Costa, Challengers
Rik Chaubet, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Jerome Eltabet & Coralie Fargeat & Valentin Féron, The Substance
21. Best Production Design
The Brutalist -- Judy Becker (Production Designer); Patricia Cuccia & Mercédesz Nagyváradi (Set Decorators)
Dune: Part Two -- Patrice Vermette (Production Designers); Zsuzsanna Sipos & Shane Vieau (Set Decorators);
Nosferatu – Craig Lathrop (Production Designer); Beatrice Brentnerova (Set Decorator)
The Substance -- Stanislas Reydellet (Production Designer); Cécilia Blom & Marion De Villechabrolle & Pierre Strub (Set Decorators)
Wicked: Part 1 – Nathan Crowley (Production Designer); Lee Sabdales (Set Decorator)
22. Best Costume Design
Pauline Jacquard, The Beast
Linda Muir, Nosferatu
Michael O’ Connor, Firebrand
Paul Tazewell, Wicked: Part 1
Jacqueline West, Dune: Part Two
23. Best Makeup & Hairstyling:
The Apprentice – Jason Collins (Makeup Designer for Sebastian Stan); Michelle Côté (Hair Department Head); Colin Penman (Makeup Department Head)
A Different Man -- Aaron Saucer (Hair Department Head); Sarah Graalman (Makeup Department Head); Michael Marino(Makeup Designer for Sebastian Stan);
Dune: Part Two -- Love Larson & Eva Von Bahir (Prosthetics Designers); Megan Norris (Key Hairstylist); Ruth Haney (Key Makeup Artists); Kata Huszár (Crowd Hair & Makeup Supervisor)
Nosferatu -- Suzanne Stokes-Munton (Hair Designer); David White (Prosthetic Makeup Effects Designer); Traci Loader (Makeup Designer)
The Substance -- Pierre Olivier Persin (SPFX Makeup Designer / Supervisor); Marilyn Scarselli (Key Hair Artists); Stephan Guillon (Key Makeup)
24. Best Visual Effects
Better Man – Keith Herft & Will Manning & Luke Millar (Visual Effects Supervisors); Scott MacIntyre & Peter Stubbs (Special Effects Supervisors)
Dune: Part Two – Arnaud Brisebois & Michael Grobe & Stephen James & Paul Lambert & Rhys Salcombe (Visual Effects Supervisors); Franco Galiano & Gerd Nefzer (Special Effects Supervisors)
Hundreds of Beavers – Mike Cheslik (Visual Effects); Brandon Kirkman (Puppet Builder)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – Art Bagdasaryan & Mark Gee & Stephen Unterfrantz & Sean Noel Walker & Erik Winquist (Visual Effects Supervisors); Rodney Burke (Special Effects Supervisor)
The Substance – Bryan Jones & Guillaume Le Gouez & Chevin Shafaghi (Visual Effects Supervisors); Paul Descoings & Pierre Hugueny & Jean Miel & Lola Roiné (Special Effects Supervisor)
25. Best Sound Mixing
Civil War -- Howard Bargroff & Adam Scrivener & Mark Timms (Re-recording Mixers) Glenn Freemantle (Sound Designer)
A Complete Unknown – David Giammarco (Re-recording Mixer / Sound Designer); Paul Massey (Re-recording Mixer)
Dune Part Two – Doug Hemphill (Re-recording Mixer); Richard King & Dave Whitehead (Sound Designers)
Samsara – Xabier Erkizia (Sound Designer)
The Substance -- Valérie Deloof & Victor Fleurant (Sound Designers)
26. Best Sound Effects Editing
Civil War – Glenn Freemantle (Supervising Sound Editor)
Dune: Part Two – Richard King (Supervising Sound Editor)
Flow -- Gurwal Coïc-Gallas (Supervising Sound Editor)
Love Lies Bleeding -- Paul Davies (Supervising Sound Editor)
The Substance -- Valérie Deloof & Victor Fleurant (Sound Editors)
27. Best Original Score
Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Challengers
Eiko Ishibashi, Evil Does Not Exist
Richards Zalupe & Gints Zilbalodis, Flow
Raffertie, The Substance
28. Best Original Song
Challengers “Compress/Repress” –Music & Lyrics by Luca Guadagnino & Trent Resnor & Atticus Ross
I Saw the TV Glow “Claw Machine” – Music & Lyrics by Haley Dahl
I Saw the TV Glow “Starburned and Unkissed” – Music & Lyrics by Caroline Polachek & Alexander Guy Cook
Kneecap “Sick In the Head” – Music & Lyrics by Móglaí Bap & Mo Chara & DJ Próvai & Adrian Louis Richard Mcleod & Toddla T
The Wild Robot “Kiss the Sky” – Music & Lyrics by Delaney & Jordan Johnson & Stefan Johnson & Maren Morris & Michael Pollack & Ali Tamposi
29. Best Use of Music
Anora – Matthew Hearon-Smith (Music Supervisor)
Babygirl – Meghan Currier (Music Supervisor)
Better Man – Jordan Carroll (Music Supervisor / Executive Music Producer); Justin Goldner & Hal Rosenfeld (Music Arrangers); Jason Hill & Chris Read & Dan Romer & Freddy Scott (Music Producers); Robbie Williams (Executive Producer); Batu Sener (Music Composer)
Challengers -- Robin Urdang (Music Supervisor); Jacob Moreno (Score Engineer)
I Saw the TV Glow ---- Jessica Berndt & Chris Swanson (Music Supervisors)
Nomination Summary:
Per Film:
The Substance – 11
The Brutalist– 10
Dune: Part Two – 8
Challengers --7
The Beast – 6
I Saw the TV Glow – 6
Anora -- 5
Hard Truths – 5
Nosferatu -- 5
Sing Sing – 5
Flow – 4
Nickel Boys – 4
Queer – 4
All We Imagine as Light –3
A Different Man – 3
Janet Planet -- 3
Wicked: Part 1 —3
The Wild Robot – 3
The Apprentice -- 2
Babygirl – 2
Civil War – 2
Dahomey -- 2
The End – 2
Evil Does Not Exist – 2
I’m Still Here – 2
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – 2
Memoirs of a Snail – 2
The People’s Joker – 2
Problemista – 2
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat – 2
Between the Temples – 1
A Complete Unknown – 1
Chime – 1
Conclave –1
Daughters – 1
Dìdi – 1
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World – 1
The Fall Guy -- 1
Femme – 1
Firebrand – 1
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – 1
The First Omen – 1
The Garfield Movie – 1
The Girl With a Needle –1
Good One – 1
Hundreds of Beavers – 1
I’m Not a Robot – 1
In Our Day – 1
In the Shadow of the Cypress – 1
Incident – 1
Inside Out 2 – 1
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell – 1
Juror #2 – 1
Kinds of Kindness – 1
Kneecap – 1
Love Lies Bleeding – 1
The Last Showgirl – 1
Mars Express – 1
ME – 1
Megalopolis – 1
No Other Land—1
The Order – 1
The Room Next Door – 1
Samsara – 1
Small Things Like These – 1
A Traveler’s Needs – 1
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – 1
Will & Harper—1
Per Distributor:
A24 – 39
Janus Films / Sideshow -- 15
MUBI – 15
Amazon MGM Studios – 11
Warner Bros. – 10
Neon – 7
United Artists --7
Universal Pictures -- 7
Focus Features – 6
Bleeker Street Media – 5
Sony Pictures Classics – 5
Walt Disney Studios – 4
Netflix – 3
Altered Innocence – 2
Briarcliff Entertainment -- 2
The Cinema Guild – 2
IFC Films – 2
Kino Lorber – 2
Lionsgate – 2
Roadside Attractions – 2
Searchlight Pictures -- 2
Utopia – 2
FilmHub -- 1
GKIDS – 1
Metrograph Pictures – 1
The New Yorker – 1
Sony Pictures Releasing –1
Vertical Entertainment –1
Per Country:
USA – 115
UK -- 57
Italy --34
France – 26
Canada -- 24
Hungary – 15
Japan – 10
Belgium – 9
Netherlands – 8
Spain – 8
United Arab Emirates – 8
Ireland – 7
Denmark -- 6
Australia – 4
Iceland – 4
Latvia – 4
Luxembourg – 4
India – 3
Signapore -- 3
Switzerland – 3
Finland – 2
Benin – 2
Brazil -- 2
Germany -- 2
Senegal – 2
South Korea – 2
Croatia – 1
Greece – 1
Hong Kong –1
Iran – 1
Poland – 1
Romania – 1
Norway –1
Occupied Palestinian Territory – 1
Serbia – 1
Sweden – 1
Vietnam—1