Chicago Indie Critics (CIC) have announced their nominees for their 2024 Windie Awards. The winners will be announced on January 18th, 2025. Here are the nominees.
BEST INDEPENDENT FILM
BEST STUDIO FILM
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
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
Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
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
Conclave – Suzie Davies and Roberta Federico
Nosferatu – Craig Lathrop
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 NOMINATIONS BY THE NUMBERS:
11: Nosferatu, The Substance
10: The Brutalist, Dune: Part Two
8: The Wild Robot
7: Nickel Boys, Sing Sing, Wicked
5: Anora
4: Challengers, Conclave
3: A Complete Unknown, I Saw the TV Glow, Civil War
2: A Different Man, Emilia Pérez, Flow, Inside Out 2, Memoirs of a Snail, Monkey Man, A Real Pain
1: All We Imagine as Light, The Apprentice, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Daughters, Deadpool & Wolverine, The Fall Guy, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Hard Truths, Heretic, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Kneecap, The Last Showgirl, Maria, Music by John Williams, Nightbitch, The Piano Lesson, The People’s Joker, Rebel Ridge, Saturday Night, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Strange Darling, Sugarcane, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story. Twisters, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Will & Harper
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Adam Patla
Adam grew up less than 3 minutes away from a movie theater so he was always destined to love all things film. He studied Broadcast & Cinematic Arts at Central Michigan University before working as a talent agent in the…
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