The Brutalist and Anora are the darlings of the awards season along with Nickel Boys and Sing Sing but Challengers did quite a bit better than expected with this group.

Nominations Tallies

(8) The Brutalist
(7) Anora
(6) Challengers, Nickel Boys
(4) Sing Sing
(3) A Complete Unknown, Dune: Part Two, No Other Land, Nosferatu, A Real Pain, The Substance
(2) Conclave, Dìdi, A Different Man, Good One, The Wild Robot
(1) All We Imagine as Light, Daughters, Evil Does Not Exist, Flow, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Ghostlight, Hard Truths, Heretic, His Three Daughters, Hit Man, I Saw the TV Glow, I’m Still Here, Inside Out 2, Kneecap, The Last Showgirl, Memoir of a Snail, Oh Canada, The People’s Joker, Red Rooms, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, Saturday Night, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, Thelma, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Wicked

The Nominations

Best Picture

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• Challengers
• Dune: Part Two
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• I Saw the TV Glow
• Nickel Boys
• No Other Land
• Nosferatu
• A Real Pain

Best Animated Feature

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

Best Director

Sean Baker – Anora
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
Luca Guadagnino – Challengers
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys

Best Actor

Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Hugh Grant – Heretic
Keith Kupferer – Ghostlight

Best Actress

Pamela Anderson – The Last Showgirl
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
Mikey Madison – Anora
Demi Moore – The Substance
Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here

Best Supporting Actor

Yura Borisov – Anora
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist

Best Supporting Actress

Monica Barbaro – A Complete Unknown
Joan Chen – Dìdi
Ariana Grande-Butera – Wicked
Natasha Lyonne – His Three Daughters
Margaret Qualley – The Substance

Best Original Screenplay

Anora
The Brutalist
Challengers
A Different Man
A Real Pain

Best Adapted Screenplay

Conclave
Hit Man
Nickel Boys
Oh Canada
Sing Sing

Best Original Score

The Brutalist
Challengers
Conclave
Nosferatu
The Wild Robot

Best Editing

The Brutalist
Challengers
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
Saturday Night

Best Cinematography

The Brutalist
Challengers
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu

Best Foreign Film

All We Imagine as Light
Evil Does Not Exist
Kneecap
No Other Land
Red Rooms

Best Documentary Feature

Daughters
No Other Land
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Best Breakthrough Director

India Donaldson – Good One
Vera Drew – The People’s Joker
Josh Margolin – Thelma
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
Aaron Schimberg – A Different Man

Best Breakthrough Performance

Yura Borisov – Anora
Lily Collias – Good One
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
Mikey Madison – Anora
Izaac Wang – Dìdi

Greater Western New York Film Critics Data

First Awards: 2018 (7)