2nd Michigan Critics Guild Nominations (2024)

Michigan’s movie critics (who may well have taken over after the disappearance of the Detroit Film Critics Society, have picked Anora, The Brutalist, and Wicked in most categories with The Substance also doing surprisingly well.

Nominations Tallies

(6) Anora, The Brutalist, Wicked
(5) The Substance
(3) Nosferatu
(2) Dune: Part Two, Piece by Piece, Saturday Night, Sing Sing, Transformers One
(1) Babygirl, Challengers, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Daughters, Deadpool & Wolverine, Dear Santa, A Different Man, Emilia Pérez, The Fall Guy, The Fire Inside, Flow, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Gladiator II, Heretic, His Three Daughters, Hundreds of Beavers, I Saw the TV Glow, IF, Inside Out 2, Juror #2, Kill, Lisa Frankenstein, Metalopolis, Monkey Man, Music by John Williams, My Old Ass, Nightbitch, No Other Land, Queer, A Real Pain, Red One, Road House, Strange Darling, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, The Wild Robot, Will & Harper

The Nominations

Best Picture

Anora
The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
The Substance
Wicked

Best Animated Feature

Flow
Inside Out 2
Piece by Piece
Transformers One
The Wild Robot

Best Director

Sean Baker – Anora
Jon M. Chu – Wicked
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Robert Eggers – Nosferatu
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance

Best Actor

Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig – Queer
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Hugh Grant – Heretic

Best Actress

Amy Adams – Nightbitch
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Nicole Kidman – Babygirl
Mikey Madison – Anora
Demi Moore – The Substance

Best Supporting Actor

Yura Borisov – Anora
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Adam Pearson – A Different Man
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II

Best Supporting Actress

Ariana Grande-Butera – Wicked
Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
Natasha Lyonne – His Three Daughters
Margaret Qualley – The Substance
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

Best Screenplay

Anora
The Brutalist
Challengers
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked

Best Documentary

Daughters
Music by John Williams
No Other Land
Piece by Piece
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Will & Harper

Breakthrough

Mikey Madison – Anora
Giovanni Ribisi – Strange Darling
Jane Schoenbrun – I Saw the TV Glow
Maisy Stella – My Old Ass
Zelda Williams – Lisa Frankenstein

Best Ensemble

Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Saturday Night
Wicked

Best Use of Music

Deadpool & Wolverine
The Fall Guy
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Kill
Monkey Man
Road House

MMCG Award for Film Excellence

Francis Ford Coppola – Megalopolis
The Fire Inside
Hundreds of Beavers
Keegan-Michael Key – IF, Transformers One, Dear Santa
J.K. Simmons – Saturday Night, Red One, Juror #2