Personal Ballot for 2024, List Version

Picture

All We Imagine as Light, prods. Julien Graff & Thomas Hakim
Close Your Eyes, prods. José Alba, Odile Antonio-Baez, Agustin Bossi, Pablo Bossi & co.
Samsara, prod. Leire Apellaniz
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, prods. Mohammad Rasoulof, Rozita Hendijanian, Amin Sadraei, Jean-Christophe Simon, and Mani Tilgner
Flow, prods. Ron Dyens, Matiss Kaza, Gregory Zalcman & Gints Zilbalodis
Dahomey, prods. Mati Diop, Judith Lou Lévy & Eve Robin
The People’s Joker, prod. Joey Lyons & I Saw the TV Glow, prods. Ali Herting, Sam Intili, Dave McCary, Emma Stone & Sarah Winshall
The Brutalist, prods. Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, D.J. Gugenheim, and Brady Corbet
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, prods. Jeremy Chua & Tran Van Thi
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, prods. Johan Grimonprez, Rémi Grellety & Daan Milius

Runners-Up: Strange Darling, Last Summer, Do Not Expect too Much from the End of the World, Small Things Like These, Love Lies Bleeding, Universal Language, Nickel Boys, The Wild Robot, Pictures of Ghosts, The Beast, Hard Truths, Good One, Mars Express, Vermiglio.

Director

All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia
The Brutalist, Brady Corbet
Close Your Eyes, Victor Erice
Flow, Gintz Zibaladis^
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rousalef

Runners-Up: Lois Patiño (Samsara)*, Vera Drew (The People’s Joker), Mati Diop (Dahomey), Phan Thien Anh (Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell), Catherine Breillat (Last Summer), JT Mollner (Strange Darling), Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow), Rose Glass (Love Lies Bleeding), Gintz Zibalodis (Flow), Radu Jude (Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World), RaMell Ross (Nickel Boys), Bertrand Bonello (The Beast), Coralie Forget (The Substance), Maura Delpro (Vermiglio), Rosin Mbakam (Mambar Pierrette), Rachel Morrison (The Fire Inside), Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Evil Does Not Exist).

Documentary Film

Dahomey, dir. Mati Drop
No Other Land, dirs. Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ball, and Rachel Szor
Pictures of Ghosts, dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus, dir. Neo Sora
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, dir. Johan Grimonprez

Runners-Up: Queendom, Daughters, Bye Bye Tiberias, Lypsinka: Toxic Femininity, Apolonia Apolonia, Witches, Sugarcane, Union.

International Film (Not in Best Picture)

Afternoons of Solitude, dir. Albert Serra, Spain^
From Ground Zero, various directors, Palestine
Grand Tour, dir. Miguel Gomes, Portugal
Pepe, dir. Nelson Carlos se los Santos Arias, Dominican Republic
Universal Language, dir. Matthew Rankin, Canada

Runners-Up: Caught by the Tides*, Cloud, Vermiglio, Queendom, Bye Bye Tiberias, The Girl With the Needle, bluish, The Ballad of Suzanne Cesare.

Animated Film

Flow, dir. Gints Zilbalodis
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle, dir. Susume Mitsunaka
Look Back, dir. Kiyotaka Oshiyama
Mars Express, dir. Jérémie Périn
The Wild Robot, dir. Chris Sanders

Runners-Up: The Missing, Transformers: One, The Concierge.

Ensemble

Between the Temples, Kate Antognini
Close Your Eyes, Pablo Ini and Pilar Moya
Hard Truths, Nina Gold
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rousalef
Sing Sing, Rita Powers

Runners-Up: Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, 20,000 Species of Bees, Didi, Yannick, Big Boys, The Wild Robot, Exhibiting Forgiveness, His Three Daughters, Drive-Away Dolls, Christmas Eve at Miller’s Point, The People’s Joker, A Real Pain, Nightbitch, Babygirl, Love Lies Bleeding, Ghostlight, National Anthem, I’m Still Here.

Leading Actress

Good One, Lily Collias
Hard Truths, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Problemista, Tilda Swinton
Red Rooms, Juliette Gariepy
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Soheila Golestanhi^

Runners-Up: Lea Drucker (Last Summer), Ariana Grande (Wicked), Demi Moore (The Substance), Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Sofia Otero (20,000 Species of Bees), Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson), Lea Seydoux (The Beast)*, Amy Adams (Nightbitch), Nicole Kidman (Babygirl), Carol Kane (Between the Temples), Ilinca Manolache (Do Not Expect too Much from the End of the World), Tilda Swinton (The Room Next Door), Ryan Destiny (The Fire Inside), Vera Drew (The People’s Joker), Julianne Moore (The Room Next Door), Natasha Lyonne (His Three Daughters), Fernanda Torres (I’m Still Here), Willa Fitzgerald (Strange Darling), Moses Ingram (The End), Lupita Nyong’o (The Wild Robot), Kristen Stewart (Love Lies Bleeding), Katy O’Brien (Love Lies Bleeding), Tilda Swinton (The End), Vic Carmen Sonne (The Girl With the Needle), Mia McKenna-Bruce (How to Have Sex), Preeti Panigrahi (Girls Will Be Girls).

Leading Actor

The Brutalist, Adrien Brody
Exhibiting Forgiveness, John Earl Jelks
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Missagh Zareh
Sing Sing, Colman Domingo
Small Things Like These, Cillian Murphy

Runners-Up: Daniel Craig (Queer), Isaac Kranser (Big Boys), Izaac Wang (Didi), Jack Haven (I Saw the TV Glow), André Holland (Exhibiting Forgiveness), Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing), Sebastian Stan (A Different Man), Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice), Manolo Solo (Close Your Eyes), Josh O’Connor (Challengers), Josh Hartnett (Trap), Jason Schwartzman (Between the Temples), Keith Kupferer (Ghostlight), Raphael Quenard (Yannick), Brian Tyree Henry (The Fire Inside), Seydoux Starr (Io Capitano), George MacKay (The Beast)*, Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain), Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain), Nicholas Hoult (Juror #2), Kyle Gallner (Strange Darling), Charlie Plummer (National Anthem), Carlo Aquino (The Missing), George MacKay (Femme), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Femme), George MacKay (The End).

Supporting Actress

20,000 Species of Bees, Ane Gabarain
Didi, Joan Chen
Girls Will Be Girls, Kane Kusruti
Hard Truths, Michele Austin
Love Lies Bleeding, Anna Baryshnikov

Runners-Up: Aunjanue Ellis-Tayloe (Exhibiting Forgiveness), Ana Torrent (Close Your Eyes), Trine Dyrholm (The Girl With the Needle), Sophie Okonedo (Janet Planet), Aubrey Plaza (My Old Ass), Renee Soutendjik (Sweet Dreams), Dolly de Leon (Between the Temples), Chhaya Kadam (All We Imagine as Light), Laurie Babin (Red Rooms), Aubrey Plaza (Megalopolis), Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown), Maria Dizzia (Christmas Eve at Miller’s Point), Dolly de Leon (Ghostlight), Katia Patrescu (Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World), Barbara Ronchi (Kidnapped), Shirley Wang (Didi), Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Nickel Boys), Madeline Weinstein (Between the Temples), S. Epatha Merkerson (We Grown Now), Sophie Wilde (Babygirl), Jennifer Grey (A Real Pain), Julia Forte (Coma), Lynne Downey (The People’s Joker), Adriana Paz (Emilia Perez).

Supporting Actor

Anora, Mark Eydelshteyn
Close Your Eyes, Jose Coronado^
A Different Man, Adam Pearson
Longlegs, Nicolas Cage
The Piano Lesson, Ray Fisher

Runners-Up: Samuel L. Jackson (The Piano Lesson), Barry Keoghan (Bird), Craig Tate (Nickel Boys), Scott Cohen (The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed), Michael Potts (The Piano Lesson), Pio Marmai (Yannick), Raul Dial (Didi), Babak Tafti (The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed), Jonathan Bailey (Wicked), Josep Maria Pau (Close Your Eyes), Ryuji Kosaka (Evil Does Not Exist), Nathan Faustyn (The People’s Joker), Blair Underwood (Longlegs), Colman Domingo (Drive-Away Dolls), Issako Sawadogo (Io Capitano), Harris Dicksin (Babygirl), Corey Hawkins (The Piano Lesson), Jovan Adepo (His Three Daughters), Cedric Yarbrough (Juror #2), J.K. Simmons (Juror #2), Antonio Banderas (Babygirl), Guy Pearce (The Brutalist), Ovidiu Pirson (Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World), Selton Mello (I’m Still Here), Ed Harris (Love Lies Bleeding), Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown), Jay O. Saunders (His Three Daughters), Paolo Pieroban (Kidnapped), Joe Alwyn (The Brutalist).

Original Screenplay

All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia, Himanushu Pajapati, Robin Joy, and Naseem Azad
Close Your Eyes, Michel Gaztambide and Victor Erice
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, Radu Jude
Juror #2, Jonathan Abrams
Strange Darling, JT Mollner

Runners-Up: The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Good One, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, Bye Bye Tiberias, Janet Planet, I Saw the TV Glow, Problemista, Evil Does Not Exist, Hard Truths, Mambar Pierrette, The Fire Inside, Christmas Eve at Miller’s Point, Yannick, Trap, His Three Daughters, Anora, A Different Man.

Adapted Screenplay

Last Summer, Catherine Breillat and Pascal Bonitzer
Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes
The People’s Joker, Vera Drew and Bri LaRose
The Room Next Door, Pedro Almodóvar^
Small Things Like These, Enda Walsh

Runners-Up: Kidnapped, Sing Sing, Look Back, Queer, Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle, The Beast*, The Piano Lesson, The Beast in the Jungle, Nightbitch, The Vourdalak, Hit Man, The Wild Robot, Flow, Nosferatu.

Cinematography

All We Imagine as Light, Ranabir Das
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, Dinh Duy Hung
Nickel Boys, Jomo Fray
Samsara, Mauro Herce and Jessica Sarah Rinland
Strange Darling, Giovanni Ribisi

Runners-Up: The Brutalist, Vermiglio, Banel & Adama, Janet Planet, In a Violent Nature, The Girl With the Needle, The Vourdalak, Chronicles of a Wandering Saint, Small Things Like These, Queer, I Saw the TV Glow, Dahomey, The Fire Inside, National Anthem, Sing Sing, Close Your Eyes, Ryuichi Sakamoto / Opus, Anora, No Other Land, The Beast, Trap, La Cocina, Challengers, The Beast in the Jungle.

Editing

All We Imagine as Light, Clement Pinteaux
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, Catalin Cristutiu
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Andrew Bird
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, Rik Chaubet
The Substance, Coralie Fargeat, Jerome Eltabet, and Valentin Feron

Runners-Up: The Brutalist, Last Summer, Universal Language, Dahomey, Nickel Boys, Evil Does Not Exist, Good One, Longlegs, Nightbitch, Ryuichi Sakamoto / Opus, Small Things Like These, Close Your Eyes, Drive-Away Dolls, Frogman, Love Lies Bleeding, The People’s Joker, Samsara, No Other Land, Trap, Yannick, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, Strange Darling, Janet Planet, In a Violent Nature.

Sound Design

Dahomey, Cyril Holtz
I Saw the TV Glow, Tim Korn and Daniel Timmons
Love Lies Bleeding, Andrew Stirk
Janet Planet, Paul Hsu
Samsara, Xabier Erkizia and Luca Rullo

Runners-Up: Small Things Like These, Civil War, Hundreds of Beavers, Flow, Longlegs, Nickel Boys, All We Imagine as Light, In a Violent Nature, Nosferatu, The Wild Robot, Maria, Challengers, Ryuichi Sakamoto / Opus, The Vourdalak, Io Capitano, La Cocina, The Brutalist, Yannick, Frogman, Blitz, Cuckoo, Strange Darling.

Score

The Brutalist, Daniel Blumberg –
The End, Josh Schmidt & Marius de Vries
Evil Does Not Exist, Eiko Ishibashi
Red Rooms, Dominique Plante
The Room Next Door, Alberto Iglesias

Runners-Up: I Saw the TV Glow, Dahomey, Queer, Dune: Part Two, Hundreds of Beavers, All We Imagine as Light, Sing Sing, The Vourdalak, The Wild Robot, The Substance, Babygirl, Flow, Look Back, Strange Darling, Mars Express, Challengers, The Animal Kingdom, Io Capitano, The Beast, Coma, Problemista.

Production Design

The Brutalist, Judy Becker
Close Your Eyes, Maria Jose Diez
Problemista, Jasmine Cho and Kendall Anderson
The Room Next Door, Inbal Weinberg
Universal Language, Louisa Schabas

Runners-Up: The End, We Grown Now, Wicked, I Saw the TV Glow, Longlegs, Sweet Dreams, The Girl With the Needle, The Substance, Queer, Maria, Small Things Like These, Megalopolis, 20,000 Species of Bees, Blitz, The Wild Robot, The Beast, Coma, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The People’s Joker, Abigail, Nosferatu, The Piano Lesson, Civil War, Io Capitano, Mars Express.

Costume Design

Firebrand, Michael O’Connor
Megalopolis, Milena Canonero
Omen, Baloji and Elke Hoste
Problemista, Catherine George
Queer, J.W. Anderson

Runners-Up: Femme, Dune: Part Two, Wicked, Maria, The Brutalist, Babygirl, Nosferatu, The Substance, The Piano Lesson, The End, Challengers, National Anthem, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Beast in the Jungle, Hundreds of Beavers, The Vourdalak, Ghostlight, How to Have Sex, Last Summer, Sing Sing, The Room Next Door, Vermiglio, The Beast, Drive-Away Dolls, The People’s Joker, In a Violent Nature.

Makeup & Hairstyling

The Animal Kingdom, Eric Ducron, Frédéric Lainé, Sarah Pariset, and Brogan Sharp
A Different Man, Sarah Graalman, Michael Marino, David Presto, and Aaron Saucier
Longlegs, Sheila Erdmann & Pamela Warden
The People’s Joker, Jake Bennett and Vera Drew
The Substance, Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon, and Marilyne Scarselli

Runners-Up: In a Violent Nature, Love Lies Bleeding, Nosferatu, The Apprentice, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Femme, Challengers, Wicked, The Vourdalak, I Saw the TV Glow, Hit Man, Anora, How to Have Sex, Abigail, Stopmotion.

Visual Effects

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Jabin Dickens, Xavia Matin Bernasconi, Llyod Finnemore, Andy Williams & co.
Hundreds of Beavers, Mike Chesik and Brandon Kirkham
The People’s Joker, Jake Myers and Jasperi Wirtanen
Stopmotion, Dan Martin, Daniel Karlsson & Andy Biddle
The Vourdalak, Franck Limon-Duparcmeur, Rodrigue Bath and Lisa Girardeau

Runners-Up: Dune: Part Two, Megalopolis, I Saw the TV Glow, The Substance, Wicked, The Animal Kingdom.

Song

I Saw the TV Glow, “Claw Machine”, Haley Dahl
I Saw the TV Glow, “Starburned and Unkissed”, Caroline Polachek
The People’s Joker, “Natman & Robyn”, WOW OK^
Problemista, “Huelle a Fraude”, OHYUNG & STEFA and Julio Torres
Trap, “Release”, Saleyka Shyamalan

Runners-Up: Megalopolis “My Pledge”*, Trap “Where Did She Go?”, Trap “Save Me”, The End “We Kept Our Distance”, The End “The Mirror”, Strange Darling “Better the Devil”, Sing Sing “Like a Bird”, Exhibiting Forgiveness “Bricks”, The Wild Robot “Kiss the Sky”, The Piano Lesson “Gumbo Head”.

Nominated Films:

5 – All We Imagine as Light, The Brutalist, Close Your Eyes, The Seed of the Sacred Fig.
4 – I Saw the TV Glow, The People’s Joker, Problemista, Samsara.
3 – The Beast, Dahomey, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.
2 – A Different Man, Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, Flow, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, Longlegs, Love Lies Bleeding, Megalopolis, Nickel Boys, Red Rooms, The Room Next Door, Strange Darling, The Substance, Universal Language.
1 – The Animal Kingdom, Anora, Caught by the Tides, The End, Exhibiting Forgiveness, Firebrand, From Ground Zero, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Good One, Grand Tour, HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle, Hundreds of Beavers, Look Back, Mars Express, Omen, Pepe, The Piano Lesson, Queer, Stopmotion, Trap, The Vourdalak, The Wild Robot.

Best Films With No Nominations:

The Apprentice, The Beast in the Jungle, Big Boys, Bird, Bye Bye Tiberias, Coma, Daughters, Drive-Away Dolls, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, Frogman, The Girl With the Needle, In a Violent Nature, In the Summers, Io Capitano, Kidnapped, Mambar Pierrette, The Missing, Queendom, Sweet Dreams, We Grown Now, Wicked: Part One.

Still 2 C:

April, The Bikeriders, The Breaking Ice, Carnage for Christmas, Carry On, Castration Movie Pt. 1, Collective Monologue, The Colors Within, Crossing, Daaaaaali!, The Deliverance, Elton John: Never Too Late, Frida, Ghost Trail, Gladiator II, Green Border, Here (Zemeckis), Housekeeping for Beginners, The Human Surge 3, The Idea of You, Inshallah a Boy, Inside Out 2, Joker: Folie a Deux, Limbo, Maxxxine, Memoirs of a Snail, Moana 2, Monkey Man, Motel Destino, Music, My First Film, Nowhere Special, Oh Canada, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, The Order, Red Island, Rumours, Satranic Panic, She is Conann, The Shrouds, The Six Triple Eight, Sometimes I Think About Dying, Suburban Fury, Sujo, T Blockers, Teaches of Peaches, Terrifier 3, A Traveler’s Needs, Tumbbad, Viet and Nam, Will & Harper, Woman of the Hour, Youth (Hard Times), Youth (Homecoming).

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