Every year, I seem to miss the announcement of their nominations and find them when I see their awards announced. Anyway, clear love for major Oscar contenders with extra special attention on Sing Sing. Wicked scored eight nominations but wasn’t in the Best Picture slate. Rather surprising.

Nominations Tallies

(12) Dune: Part Two
(9) Conclave
(8) Sing Sing, Wicked
(5) Anora
(4) The Brutalist, Challengers, The Substance
(3) Alien: Romulus, Dìdi, Nosferatu
(2) Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Blink Twice, A Complete Unknown, The Fall Guy, Gladiator II, Monkey Man, The Piano Lesson, A Real Pain, September 5, The Wild Robot
(1) Abigail, All We Imagine as Light, Blitz, Civil War, Daughters, Deadpool & Wolverine, The Fire Inside, The First Omen, Flow, Ghostlight, The Girl with the Needle, Hard Truths, His Three Daughters, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, The Last Showgirl, Love Lies Bleeding, Memoir of a Snail, Music by John Williams, My Old Ass, Nightbitch, No Other Land, Queer, A Quiet Place: Day One, Speak No Evil, Sugarcane, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Thelma, Transformers One, Vermiglio, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Wicked Little Letters, Will & Harper, Woman of the Hour

Awards Tallies

(3) Sing Sing, Wicked
(2) Anora, Dune: Part Two, September 5
(1) All We Imagine as Light, Blink Twice, A Complete Unknown, Dìdi, The Fall Guy, Flow, Hard Truths, Nosferatu, A Real Pain, The Substance, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, Thelma

The Nominations

Best Picture

Anora (Runner-Up)
Conclave
Challengers
Dune: Part Two
Sing Sing

Best Animated Film

Flow
Memoir of a Snail
Transformers One
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot (Runner-Up)

Best Director

Edwad Berger – Conclave
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
Greg Kwedar – Sing Sing (Runner-Up)
Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two

Best Actor

Adrien Brody – The Brutalist (Runner-Up)
Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig – Queer (Runner-Up)
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave

Best Actress

Amy Adams – Nightbitch (Runner-Up)
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
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Stanley Tucci – Conclave
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II (Runner-Up)

Best Supporting Actress

Jessie Buckley – Wicked Little Letters
Joan Chen – Dìdi (Runner-Up)
Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson
Ariana Grande-Butera – Wicked
Natasha Lyonne – His Three Daughters

Best Original Screenplay

Anora
Challengers (Runner-Up)
Love Lies Bleeding
A Real Pain
The Substance

Best Adapted Screenplay

Conclave
Dune: Part Two (Runner-Up)
The Piano Lesson
Sing Sing
The Wild Robot

Best Editing

Anora
Blink Twice
Challengers (Runner-Up)
Dune: Part Two
September 5

Best Cinematography

Conclave (Runner-Up)
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Sing Sing
Wicked

Best Production Design

The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu (Runner-Up)
Wicked

Best Costume Design

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
The Last Showgirl (Runner-Up)
Wicked

Best Sound Design

Alien: Romulus
Civil War (Runner-Up)
Dune: Part Two
A Quiet Place: Day One
Wicked

Best Visual Effects

Alien: Romulus
Dune: Part Two (Runner-Up)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Runner-Up)
Nosferatu
The Substance

Best Foreign Language Film

All We Imagine as Light
The Girl with the Needle
No Other Land
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Vermiglio

Best Documentary

Daughters (Runner-Up)
Music by John Williams
Sugarcane
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Will & Harper

Best Youth Performance

Elliott Heffernan – Blitz
Katherine Mallen Kupferer – Ghostlight
Alix West Lefler – Speak No Evil (Runner-Up)
Izaac Wang – Dìdi
Alisha Weir – Abigail

Best First Feature

Anna Kendrick – Woman of the Hour
Rachel Morrison – The Fire Inside
Zoë Kravitz – Blink Twice
Dev Patel – Monkey Man
Sean Wang – Dìdi (Runner-Up)

Breakthrough Artist

Nell Tiger Free – The First Omen (Runner-Up)
Mikey Madison – Anora

Best Stunt Choreography

Alien: Romulus
Dune: Part Two
The Fall Guy
Gladiator II
Monkey Man (Runner-Up)

Best Ensemble

Conclave (Runner-Up)
Dune: Part Two
September 5
Sing Sing
Wicked

Best Use of Music

Challengers (Runner-Up)
A Complete Unknown
Dune: Part Two
Sing Sing
Wicked

Best Comedic Performance

Ryan Gosling – The Fall Guy
Michael Keaton – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Runner-Up)
Aubrey Plaza – My Old Ass
June Squibb – Thelma
Channing Tatum – Deadpool & Wolverine

San Diego Film Critics Society Data

First Awards: 1996 (29)