“The Brutalist,” an epic story of immigration and capitalism starring Adrien Brody, is the best film of 2024, the Chicago Film Critics Association has declared.
The group announced its award winners Wednesday, also choosing Brody for its best actor prize for his work as an immigrant architect accumulating power in postwar America. “The Brutalist,” from director Brady Corbet, opens Jan. 10 in Chicago.
Named best actress was Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who plays a woman defined by her prickly personality in “Hard Truths” (another Jan. 10 opener).
The movie with the most wins is “Nickel Boys,” the Colson Whitehead adaptation that claimed a best director award and a breakthrough filmmaker award for RaMell Ross along with citations for cinematography and adapted screenplay. “Nickel Boys” opens Jan. 3.
Supporting actor awards went to Kieran Culkin for “A Real Pain” (also the original screenplay winner) and Natasha Lyonne for “His Three Daughters.”
Here are awards in the remaining categories:
- Editing: “Challengers”
- Original score: “Challengers”
- Documentary: “No Other Land”
- Animated film: “Flow”
- Foreign language film: “All We Imagine as Light”
- Art direction/production design: “Nosferatu”
- Costume design: “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”
- Visual effects: “The Substance”
- Most promising performer: Clarence Maclin of “Sing Sing”