Chicago Indie Critics (CIC) have announced their winners for their 2024 Windie Awards. The winners are…
BEST INDEPENDENT FILM
BEST STUDIO FILM
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Flow**
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story**
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Flow
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
BEST DIRECTOR
Sean Baker – Anora
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance**
Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Anora – Sean Baker
The Brutalist – Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
I Saw the TV Glow – Jane Schoenbrun
The Substance – Coralie Fargeat**
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Dune: Part Two – Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts
Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes**
Sing Sing – Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, and John “Divine G” Whitfield
The Wild Robot – Chris Sanders
BEST ACTOR
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist**
Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice
BEST ACTRESS
Lily-Rose Depp – Nosferatu
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
Mikey Madison – Anora
Demi Moore – The Substance**
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing** (TIE)
Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist** (TIE)
Bill Skarsgård – Nosferatu
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson
Aunjunue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys
Ariana Grande-Butera – Wicked
Margaret Qualley – The Substance**
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez
BEST ENSEMBLE
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Sing Sing
Wicked
BEST BREAKOUT PERFORMER
Yura Borisov – Anora
Vera Drew – The People’s Joker
Willa Fitzgerald – Strange Darling
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing**
Adam Pearson – A Different Man
BEST BREAKOUT ARTIST
Daniel Blumberg – The Brutalist
Kris Bowers – The Wild Robot
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance**
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
SIGHT UNSEEN PERFORMANCE
Daveed Diggs – Nickel Boys
Maya Hawke – Inside Out 2
Lupita Nyong’o – The Wild Robot**
Pedro Pascal – The Wild Robot
Sarah Snook – Memoirs of a Snail
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Brutalist – Lol Crawley
Dune: Part Two – Greig Fraser
Nickel Boys – Jomo Fray
Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke**
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Brutalist – Judy Becker** (TIE)
Conclave – Suzie Davies and Roberta Federico
Nosferatu – Craig Lathrop** (TIE)
The Substance – Stanislas Reydellet, Cécilia Blom
Wicked – Nathan Crowley
BEST EDITING
The Brutalist – Dávid Jancsó
Challengers – Marco Costa**
Dune: Part Two – Joe Walker
Nickel Boys – Nicholas Monsour
Nosferatu – Louise Ford
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Conclave – Lisy Christl
Dune: Part Two – Jacqueline West
Nosferatu – Linda Muir**
The Substance – Emmanuelle Youchnovski
Wicked – Paul Tazewell
BEST MAKEUP
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – Christine Blundell, Lesa Warrener, and Neal Scanlan
A Different Man – Mike Marino, Sarah Graalman, and Aaron Saucier
Nosferatu – Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton, and David White
The Substance – Pierre-Olivier Persin**
Wicked – Frances Hannon, Sarah Nuth, and Laura Blount
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Civil War – David Simpson, J.D. Schwalm, Christian Zeh, and Freddy Salazar
Dune: Part Two – Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, and Gerd Nefzer
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story, and Rodney Burke**
Nosferatu – Angela Barson
Twisters – Ben Snow, Florian Witzel, and Bill Georgiou
BEST STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Colin Follenweider and Liang Yang
Dune: Part Two
Stunt Coordinator: Roger Yuan
Stunt Coordinators: Keir Beck and Chris O’Hara
Stunt Coordinators: Guy Norris and Tim Wong
Monkey Man**
Stunt Coordinator: Udeh Nans
BEST SOUND
Civil War – Glenn Freemantle
Dune: Part Two – Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett, and Doug Hemphill**
Nosferatu – Robin Carolan
The Substance – Valérie Deloof and Victor Fleurant
The Wild Robot – Randy Thom, Gary A. Rizzo, Leff Lefferts, and Brian Chumney
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg
Challengers – Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor
Nosferatu – Robin Carolan
The Substance – Benjamin “Raffertie” Stefanski
The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers**
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Beautiful That Way” – The Last Showgirl
Songwriters: Andrew Wyatt, Lykke Li, and Miley Cyrus
“Compress/Repress” – Challengers**
Songwriters: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Luca Guadagnino
“Kiss the Sky” – The Wild Robot
Songwriters: Delacey, Jordan Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Maren Morris, Michael Pollack, and Ali Tamposi
“Like a Bird” – Sing Sing
Songwriters: Abraham Alexander, Brandon Marcel, and Adrian Quesada
“Starburned and Unkissed” – I Saw the TV Glow
Songwriter: Caroline Polachek
THE IMPACT AWARD
Given to individual or group who has made a positive impact on local Chicago cinema
Emma Greenleaf and Nick Edelberg – Facets Anime Club
Kyle Cubr – Programmer, Music Box Theatre**
Mimi Plauche – Artistic Director of the Cinema/Chicago
Morgan Harris – Acacia Consulting Group
Ramona Slick – Programmer, Music Box Theatre
WINDIE AWARD WINNERS BY THE NUMBERS:
7: The Substance
3: The Brutalist, Dune: Part Two, Nosferatu, Sing Sing The Wild Robot
2: Challengers
1: Flow, Monkey Man, Nickel Boys, Super/Man
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