The later-announcing groups often feel redundant and much of what’s here certainly feels that way, though it seems Nosferatu is better regarded in Ohio than in most other critic hubs.

Nominations Tallies

(10) The Brutalist
(9) Nosferatu
(8) Dune: Part Two
(7) Anora, Conclave, The Substance
(6) Challengers, Nickel Boys
(5) Sing Sing
(3) A Complete Unknown, A Real Pain, Wicked, The Wild Robot
(2) Civil War, A Different Man, Emilia Pérez, The Piano Lesson, Thelma
(1) Alien: Romulus, All We Imagine as Light, The Apprentice, Babes, Daughters, Dìdi, Evil Does Not Exist, Flow, The Garfield Movie, Gladiator II, Hard Truths, His Three Daughters, Hit Man, Hundreds of Beavers, Inside Out 2, Juror #2, Kneecap, The Last Stop in Yuma County, Love Lies Bleeding, Memoir of a Snail, Monkey Man, My Old Ass, No Other Land, The Order, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, Saturday Night, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Snack Shack, Sugarcane, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Will & Harper

The Nominations

Best Film

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• Challengers
• Civil War
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Love Lies Bleeding
• Nickel Boys
• Nosferatu
• Sing Sing
• The Substance

Best Animated Film

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

Best Director

Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Robert Eggers – Nosferatu
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two

Best Lead Performance

Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Lily-Rose Depp – Nosferatu
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
Mikey Madison – Anora
Demi Moore – The Substance
Sebastian Stan – A Different Man

Best Supporting Performance

Yura Borisov – Anora
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys
Ariana Grande-Butera – Wicked
Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Margaret Qualley – The Substance
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez
Bill Skarsgård – Nosferatu
Stanley Tucci – Conclave
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II

Best Original Screenplay

Anora
The Brutalist
Challengers
A Real Pain
The Substance

Best Adapted Screenplay

Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
The Wild Robot

Best Score

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

Best Film Editing

Anora
The Brutalist
Challengers
Conclave
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu

Best Cinematography

The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
The Substance

Best Foreign Language Film

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

Best Documentary

Daughters
No Other Land
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Sugarcane
Will & Harper

Breakthrough Film Artist

Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
Mikey Madison – Anora
Dev Patel – Monkey Man

Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)

.Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown, Dune: Part Two
.Nicholas Hoult – The Garfield Movie, Juror #2, Nosferatu, The Order
.Cailee Spaney – Alien: Romulus, Civil War
.Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice, A Different Man
.Zendaya – Challengers, Dune: Part Two

Best Ensemble

Anora
Challengers
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
The Piano Lesson
Sing Sing
Wicked

Frank Gabrenya Award for Best Comedy

Babes
Hit Man
My Old Ass
A Real Pain
Saturday Night
Thelma

Best Overlooked Film

Dìdi
His Three Daughters
Hundreds of Beavers
The Last Stop in Yuma County
Snack Shack
Thelma

Columbus Film Critics Association Data

Year Founded: 2002
First Awards: 2002 (22)