Critics’ Choice Awards 2024: Ariana Grande’s Wicked leads the race with 11 awards
Ariana Grande-starrer Wicked and Ralph Fiennes’ Conclave have both earned 11 nominations for the Critics’ Choice Awards 2024. Take a look at the full nomination list here.

Conclave and Wicked lead this year’s Critics’ Choice Awards nominations, with 11 nominations each.
Celebrating its 30th year, the CCA revealed the three major categories live on NBC’s Today Show, including the 10 films competing for Best Picture: A Complete Unknown, Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, Dune: Part Too, Emilia Perez, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing, Substance, and Wicked.
Meanwhile, Payal Kapadia’s Indo-French film, All We Imagine as Light has earned a nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The film had earlier won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.
Here is the full nomination list:
best picture
a complete unknown
Anora
brutalist
conclave
Dune: Part 2
Emilia Perez
nickel boy
sing Sing
Substance
Wicked
best Actor
Adrien Brody – Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet – a complete unknown
Daniel Craig – Queer
colman domingo – sing sing
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
Hugh Grant – Heretic
best Actress
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Carla Sofa Gascon – Emilia Perez
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – The Hard Truth
Angelina Jolie – Maria
Mickey Madison – Anora
demi moore – substance
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– Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
– Carla Sofa Gascon – Emilia Perez
– Marianne Jean-Baptiste – The Hard Truth
– Angelina Jolie – Maria
– Mickey Madison – Anora
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Best Supporting Actor
Yura Borisov – Anora
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
Clarence Macklin – Sing Sing
Edward Norton – a complete unknown
Guy Pearce – Brutalist
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II
best Supporting Actress
Danielle Deadwyler – Piano Lessons
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys
Ariana Grande – Wicked
Margaret Qualley – Matter
Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
Zoe Saldana – Emilia Perez
Best Young Actor/Actress
Alila Brown – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Elliot Heffernan – Blitz
Aunt Stella – My Old Ass
Izaak Wang – Sister
Alisha Weir – Abigail
Zoe Ziegler – Janet Planet
Best Acting Ensemble
Anora
conclave
Emilia Perez
Saturday night
sing Sing
Wicked
best director
Jacques Audiard – Emilia Perez
Shawn Baker – Anora
Edward Berger – Conclave
Brady Corbett – Brutalist
Jon M. Chu – Wicked
Coralie Farget – Matter
Remmell Ross – Nickel Boys
Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two
Best Original Screenplay
Shawn Baker – Anora
Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David – September 5
Brady Corbett, Mona Fastvold – The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
Coralie Farget – Matter
Justin Kuritzkes – Challengers
congratulations to #Critics’ Choice Nominated for Best Picture:
– a complete unknown
– Anora
– brutalist
conclave
– Dune: Part 2
– Emilia Perez
– Nickel Boys
– sing Sing
– Substance
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Best Adapted Screenplay
Jacques Audiard – Emilia Perez
Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox – Wicked
Greg Quader, Clint Bentley – Sing Sing
Remmell Ross and Jocelyn Barnes – Nickel Boys
Peter Straughan – Conclave
Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts – Dune: Part Two
Best Cinematography
Jaren Blaschke – Nosferatu
Alice Brooks – Wicked
Lol Crowley – Brutalist
Stephan Fontaine – Conclave
Greg Fraser – Dune: Part Two
Jomo Frey – Nickel Boys
best production design
Judy Baker, Patricia Cuccia – Brutalist
Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandells – Wicked
Suzie Davis – Conclave
Craig Lathrop – Nosferatu
Arthur Max, Jill Aziz, Eli Griffey – Gladiator II
Patrice Vermette, Shane View – Dune: Part Two
best editing
Shawn Baker – Anora
Marco Costa – Challengers
Nick Emerson – Conclave
David Janso – Brutalist
Joe Walker – Dune: Part Two
Hansjörg Weibrich – 5 September
best costume design
Lisi Crystal – Conclave
Linda Muir – Nosferatu
Massimo Cantini Parini – Maria
Paul Tazewell – Wicked
Jacqueline West – Dune: Part Two
Janty Yates, Dave Crossman – Gladiator II
best hair and makeup
Christine Blundell, Lesa Warrener, Neal Scanlan – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Hair and Makeup Team – Dune: Part Two
Hair and Makeup Team – Substance
Frances Hannon, Sarah Knuth, Laura Blount – Wicked
Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Manton, David White – Nosferatu
Mike Marino, Sarah Grelleman, Aaron Saucier – A Different Man
best visual effects
Mark Bukowski, Pietro Ponti, Nikki Penny, Neil Corbould – Gladiator II
Pablo Helman, Jonathan Faulkner, Paul Corbould, David Shirk – Wicked
Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, Gerd Nefzer – Dune: Part Two
Luke Miller, David Clayton, Keith Harft, Peter Stubbs – Better Man
Visual Effects Team – Substance
Eric Winquist, Stefan Unterfranz, Paul Story, Rodney Burke – Empire of the Planet of the Apes
Best Animated Feature
Flow
inside out 2
memoir of a snail
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Foul
wild robot
best comedy
a real pain
deadpool and wolverine
hit it friend
my old ass
Saturday night
Thelma
Best Foreign Language Film
We imagine everything as light
Emilia Perez
Flow
i’m still here
knees
sacred fig seed
best song
“Beautiful That Way” – The Last Showgirl – Miley Cyrus
“Compression/Suppression” – The Challengers – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
“El Mal” – Emilia Perez – Zoe Saldana, Carla Sofa Gascón, Camille
“Harper & Will Go West” – Will & Harper – Kristen Wiig
“Kiss the Sky” – The Wild Robot – Maren Morris
“Mi Camino” – Emilia Perez – Selena Gomez
best score
Volker Bertelmann – Conclave
Daniel Blumberg – Brutalist
Chris Bowers – The Wild Robot
Clement Ducol and Camille – Emilia Perez
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Challengers
Hans Zimmer – Dune: Part Two
The Critics’ Choice Awards will be telecast live in India on January 13 at 5:30 am IST on Lionsgate Play.