37th Chicago Critics Nominations (2023)

With a list that looks more high brown than they are used to putting out, The Brutalist was easily the top nominee though The Substance, Anora, Nickel Boys, and Wicked did well nominations-wise. The love for Furiosa ist stronger than expected, especially with its Best Picture nomination and I Saw the TV Glow seems to be the most surprising film doing well this season.

Nominations Tallies

(9) The Brutalist
(7) The Substance
(6) Anora, Nickel Boys, Wicked
(5) Dune: Part Two, Nosferatu, Sing Sing
(4) Challengers, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
(3) Emilia Pérez, I Saw the TV Glow
(2) All We Imagine as Light, The Beast, Conclave, A Different Man, Hundreds of Beavers, A Real Pain, The Wild Robot
(1) A Complete Unknown, Dahomey, Daughters, Evil Does Not Exist, Flow, Ghostlight, Good One, Hard Truths, , His Three Daughters, Inside Out 2, Maria, Memoir of a Snail, , No Other Land, The People’s Joker, The Piano Lesson, Red Rooms, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, Sugarcane, The Seed of Sacred Fig, Wallace & Gromit: Vengance Most Fowl

The Nominations

Best Picture

Anora
The Brutalist
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
I Saw the TV Glow
Nickel Boys
The Substance

Best Animated Film

Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

Best Director

Sean Baker – Anora
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
Jane Schoenbrun – I Saw the TV Glow

Best Actor

Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
Keith Kupferer – Ghostlight

Best Actress

Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
Mikey Madison – Anora
Demi Moore – The Substance
Léa Seydoux – The Beast

Best Supporting Actor

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

Best Supporting Actress

Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson
Ariana Grande-Butera – Wicked
Natasha Lyonne – His Three Daughters
Margaret Qualley – The Substance
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

Best Original Screenplay

Anora
The Brutalist
Challengers
A Real Pain
The Substance

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Beast
Conclave
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
Sing Sing

Best Original Score

The Brutalist
Challengers
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked
The Wild Robot

Best Editing

Anora
The Brutalist
Challengers
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Nickel Boys

Best Cinematography

The Brutalist
Challengers
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu

Best Art Direction/Production Design

The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked

Best Costume Design

Dune: Part Two
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Maria
Nosferatu
Wicked

Best Use of Visual Effects

Dune: Part Two
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Hundreds of Beavers
The Substance
Wicked

Best Foreign Language Film

All We Imagine as Light
Emilia Pérez
Evil Does Not Exist
Red Rooms
The Seed of Sacred Fig

Best Documentary

Dahomey
Daughters
No Other Land
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane

Milos Stehlik Award for Breakthrough Filmmaker

Mike Cheslik – Hundreds of Beavers
Vera Drew – The People’s Joker
Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light
Greg Kwedar – Sing Sing
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys

Most Promising Performer

Lily Collias – Good One
Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez
Brigette Lundy-Paine – I Saw the TV Glow
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
Adam Pearson – A Different Man