Days after the international journalists who comprise the Golden Globes Foundation endorsed their picks for the best of the year in film, the Critics Choice Association has done the same with the group’s annual Critics Choice Awards film nominations.
As revealed on Thursday, “Wicked” and “Conclave” tied for the most nominations this year with 11 apiece. Close behind with 10 nominations each was the films “Dune: Part Two” and “Emilia Perez.” The full nominees list is below.
“Conclave” was nominated Best Picture and Best Acting Ensemble, with Ralph Fiennes (Best Actor) and Isabella Rossellini (Best Supporting Actress) up for individual acting nominations. Director Edward Berger was nominated for Best Director, while Peter Straughan received recognition in the group’s Best Adapted Screenplay category. Other nominations included Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Editing, Best Costume Design, and Best Score.
“Wicked” surfaced in many of the same categories, including Best Picture, Best Director for Jon M. Chu, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Adapted Screenplay for Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, and Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, and Best Costume Design. Other nominations for “Wicked” included Cynthia Erivo (Best Actress), Ariana Grande (Best Supporting Actress), Best Hair and Makeup, and Best Visual Effects.
“Conclave,” “Wicked,” “Dune: Part Two,” and “Emilia Perez” all received Best Picture nominations. Rounding out the group’s field of 10 were “A Complete Unknown,” “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” “Nickel Boys,” “Sing Sing,” and “The Substance.” Notably missing from that list of contenders is expected Oscar Best Picture nominee “A Real Pain.”
Berger and Chu were joined in the Best Director field by six other filmmakers, likely meaning there were some ties to stretch the field (which is traditionally six nominees). The other filmmakers nominated for Best Director this year included Jacques Audiard (“Emilia Perez”), Sean Baker (“Anora”), Brady Corbet (“The Brutalist”), Coralie Fargeat (“The Substance”), RaMell Ross (“Nickel Boys’), and Denis Villeneuve (“Dune: Part Two”).
Even with six nominees in the acting categories, some snubs of note were still missing from the year’s Critics Choice Award nominees list. In Best Actor, Sebastian Stan failed to receive nominations for either “The Apprentice” or “A Different Man.” Jesse Eisenberg was also left off for “A Real Pain.” The Best Actor field consists of the expected Oscar favorites – Fiennes, plus Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”), Timothee Chalamet (“A Complete Unknown”), Daniel Craig (“Queer”), and Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”) – plus Hugh Grant for “Heretic.”
In Best Actress, Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”), Saoirse Ronan (“The Outrun”), and Amy Adams (“Nightbitch”) were snubbed. That field of six includes Erivo, Karla Sofia Gascon (“Emilia Perez”), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (“Hard Truths”), Angelina Jolie (“Maria”), Mikey Madison (“Anora”), and Demi Moore (“The Substance”).
Best Supporting Actor was chalk, with Yura Borisov (“Anora”), Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”), Clarence Maclin (“Sing Sing”), Edward Norton (“A Complete Unknown”), Guy Pearce (“The Brutalist”), and Denzel Washington (“Gladiator II”) earning nominations. It is widely expected the Oscars will nominate five of those six actors.
Best Supporting Actress, however, remains the year’s most unpredictable race. The Critics Choice Awards nominated both Danielle Deadwyler (“The Piano Lesson”) and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (“Nickel Boys”) days after the Golden Globes snubbed each actress. The other four nominees included Globe nominees Grande, Margaret Qualley (“The Substance”), Isabella Rossellini (“Conclave”), and Zoe Saldaña (“Emilia Pérez”). Two notable absences here were Felicity Jones for “The Brutalist,” who is widely expected to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress according to the odds, and Selena Gomez for “Emilia Perez.” Other snubs include Ronan for “Blitz” and Monica Barbaro for “A Complete Unknown.”
“This year brought us an incredible wealth of storytelling and performances, leading to indescribably close races for nominations,” said CCA CEO Joey Berlin. “We are honored to be able to celebrate our landmark 30th year of the Critics Choice Awards with this talented group of nominees and are thrilled to bring viewers our best show yet. Knowing how close the balloting for nominations was, we anticipate an exciting evening of high drama on January 12.”
The 2025 Critics Choice Awards take place on Sunday, January 12, 2025, beginning at 7:00 p.m. ET and will air this year on the E! network. Chelsea Handler is the host.
Founded 28 years ago, the CCA is “now the largest critics organization in the U.S. and Canada with more than 580 members.”
Last year, the group embraced “Barbie” with both hands, giving the Greta Gerwig film a record 18 total nominations. But when it came time to pick its winners, the Critics Choice Association went with the expected Oscars favorite, “Oppenheimer.” Christopher Nolan’s eventual Best Picture Oscar winner won eight awards from the Critics Choice Association this year, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.. While Cillian Murphy won Best Actor at the Oscars, he lost at the CCAs to Paul Giamatti (“The Holdovers”). Other acting winners this year included eventual Oscar winners Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Holdovers”) and Emma Stone (“Poor Things”).
See the full nominees list here:
BEST PICTURE
A Complete Unknown
Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing
The Substance
Wicked
BEST ACTOR
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig – Queer
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
Hugh Grant – Heretic
BEST ACTRESS
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
Angelina Jolie – Maria
Mikey Madison – Anora
Demi Moore – The Substance
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Yura Borisov – Anora
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys
Ariana Grande – Wicked
Margaret Qualley – The Substance
Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez
BEST YOUNG ACTOR / ACTRESS
Alyla Browne – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Elliott Heffernan – Blitz
Maisy Stella – My Old Ass
Izaac Wang – Didi
Alisha Weir – Abigail
Zoe Ziegler – Janet Planet
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Anora
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Saturday Night
Sing Sing
Wicked
BEST DIRECTOR
Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker – Anora
Edward Berger – Conclave
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Jon M. Chu – Wicked
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Sean Baker – Anora
Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David – September 5
Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold – The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
Justin Kuritzkes – Challengers
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox – Wicked
Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley – Sing Sing
RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes – Nickel Boys
Peter Straughan – Conclave
Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts – Dune: Part Two
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jarin Blaschke – Nosferatu
Alice Brooks – Wicked
Lol Crawley – The Brutalist
Stéphane Fontaine – Conclave
Greig Fraser – Dune: Part Two
Jomo Fray – Nickel Boys
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Judy Becker, Patricia Cuccia – The Brutalist
Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales – Wicked
Suzie Davies – Conclave
Craig Lathrop – Nosferatu
Arthur Max, Jille Azis, Elli Griff – Gladiator II
Patrice Vermette, Shane Vieau – Dune: Part Two
BEST EDITING
Sean Baker – Anora
Marco Costa – Challengers
Nick Emerson – Conclave
David Jancso – The Brutalist
Joe Walker – Dune: Part Two
Hansjörg Weißbrich – September 5
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Lisy Christl – Conclave
Linda Muir – Nosferatu
Massimo Cantini Parrini – Maria
Paul Tazewell – Wicked
Jacqueline West – Dune: Part Two
Janty Yates, Dave Crossman – Gladiator II
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
Christine Blundell, Lesa Warrener, Neal Scanlan – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Hair and Makeup Team – Dune: Part Two
Hair and Makeup Team – The Substance
Frances Hannon, Sarah Nuth, Laura Blount – Wicked
Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton, David White – Nosferatu
Mike Marino, Sarah Graalman, Aaron Saucier – A Different Man
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Mark Bakowski, Pietro Ponti, Nikki Penny, Neil Corbould – Gladiator II
Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, Paul Corbould, David Shirk – Wicked
Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, Gerd Nefzer – Dune: Part Two
Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft, Peter Stubbs – Better Man
Visual Effects Team – The Substance
Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story, Rodney Burke – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
BEST COMEDY
A Real Pain
Deadpool & Wolverine
Hit Man
My Old Ass
Saturday Night
Thelma
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
All We Imagine as Light
Emilia Pérez
Flow
I’m Still Here
Kneecap
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
BEST SONG
“Beautiful That Way” – The Last Showgirl – Miley Cyrus
“Compress / Repress” – Challengers – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
“El Mal” – Emilia Pérez – Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Camille
“Harper and Will Go West” – Will & Harper – Kristen Wiig
“Kiss the Sky” – The Wild Robot – Maren Morris
“Mi Camino” – Emilia Pérez – Selena Gomez
BEST SCORE
Volker Bertelmann – Conclave
Daniel Blumberg – The Brutalist
Kris Bowers – The Wild Robot
Clément Ducol & Camille – Emilia Pérez
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Challengers
Hans Zimmer – Dune: Part Two
