Florida’s film critics have tried very hard to do some unique things. Their list strikes me as trying too hard. They avoided some baity films but their back-ups were unusual and not in an intriguing way. This is perhaps one of their most alarmingly batty lists.

Award Tallies

(3) The Beast
(2) Dune: Part Two
(1) All We Imagine as Light, Anora, The Apprentice, The Brutalist, Challengers, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, Hundreds of Beavers, I Saw the TV Glow, Mountains, Queer, A Real Pain, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Nominations Tallies

(8) Conclave
(7) Anora
(6) Challengers
(5) The Beast, The Brutalist, Dune: Part Two
(4) Hundreds of Beavers, Nickel Boys
(3) All We Imagine as Light
(2) Emilia Pérez, I Saw the TV Glow, Janet Planet, Love Lies Bleeding, Queer, A Real Pain, The Substance, Tuesday
(1) The Apprentice, Babygirl, Between the Temples, Daughters, A Different Man, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Evil Does Not Exist, Flow, Gladiator II, Hard Truths, I’m Still Here, Kinds of Kindness, Maria, Mountains, No Other Land, Saturday Night, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, Stress Positions, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, The People’s Joker, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Wicked, Will & Harper

The Nominations & Awards

Best Picture

Anora
The Beast
The Brutalist
Conclave
Hundreds of Beavers

Best Director

Sean Baker – Anora
Bertrand Bonello – The Beast
Luca Guadagnino – Challengers
Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys

Best Actor

Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Daniel Craig – Queer
Josh O’Connor – Challengers
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave

Best Actress

Carol Kane – Between the Temples
Léa Seydoux – The Beast
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
Mikey Madison – Anora
Nicole Kidman – Babygirl

Best Supporting Actor

Yura Borisov – Anora
Willem Dafoe – Kinds of Kindness
Adam Pearson – A Different Man
Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II

Best Supporting Actress

Anna Baryshnikov – Love Lies Bleeding
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys
Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
Margaret Qualley – The Substance
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

Best Original Script

Anora
Challengers
Evil Does Not Exist
I Saw the TV Glow
A Real Pain

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Beast
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
Queer

Best Score/Soundtrack

The Brutalist
Challengers
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Flow

Best Cinematography

The Brutalist
Challengers
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys

Best Artistic Direction/Production Design

The Beast
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Maria

Best Visual Effects

Dune: Part Two
Hundreds of Beavers
The Substance
Tuesday
Wicked

Best International Film

All We Imagine as Light
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Best Documentary

Daughters
No Other Land
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Will & Harper

Best First Movie

Hundreds of Beavers
Janet Planet
The People’s Joker
Stress Positions
Tuesday

Best Breakthrough Performance

Brigette Lundy-Paine – I Saw the TV Glow
Katy O’Brian – Love Lies Bleeding
Mikey Madison – Anora
Ryland Brickson Cole Tews – Hundreds of Beavers
Zoe Zigler – Janet Planet

Best Cast

All We Imagine as Light
Anora
Conclave
Challengers
Saturday Night

Golden Orange

Mountains

Florida Film Critics Circle Data

First Awards: 1997 (28)