DFCS 2024 Picks

by DFC January 26, 2024 · Film Review

Here are the 2024 Denver Film Critics Society nominees and winners.

Disclaimer: The following films are reviewed and selected by DFCS members, who may or may not be a reviewer on this website.

Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner
Poor Things
Tony McNamara
All of Us Strangers
Andrew Haigh
American Fiction
Cord Jefferson
Killers of the Flower Moon
Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan
Best Animated Film
Winner
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Elemental
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
The Boy and the Heron
Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka (original title)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Best Comedy Film
Winner
Barbie
Winner
Poor Things
American Fiction
Bottoms
The Holdovers
Best Director
Winner
Christopher Nolan
Oppenheimer
Emerald Fennell
Saltburn
Greta Gerwig
Barbie
Martin Scorsese
Killers of the Flower Moon
Yorgos Lanthimos
Poor Things
Best Documentary Film
Winner
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Still (original title)
20 Days in Mariupol
American Symphony
Beyond Utopia
Kokomo City
Best Lead Performance by an Actor, Female
Winner
Emma Stone
Poor Things
Carey Mulligan
Maestro
Greta Lee
Past Lives
Lily Gladstone
Killers of the Flower Moon
Margot Robbie
Barbie
Best Lead Performance by an Actor, Male
Winner
Cillian Murphy
Oppenheimer
Barry Keoghan
Saltburn
Bradley Cooper
Maestro
Jeffrey Wright
American Fiction
Paul Giamatti
The Holdovers
Best Non-English Language Feature
Winner
The Zone of Interest
Tied with Gojira -1.0 (2023)
Anatomy of a Fall
Anatomie d’une chute (original title)
Godzilla Minus One
Gojira -1.0 (original title)
Tied with The Zone of Interest (2023)
Past Lives
The Taste of Things
La passion de Dodin Bouffant (original title)
Best Original Score
Winner
Oppenheimer
Ludwig Göransson
Killers of the Flower Moon
Robbie Robertson
Posthumously.
Poor Things
Jerskin Fendrix
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Daniel Pemberton
The Zone of Interest
Mica Levi
Best Original Screenplay
Winner
Barbie
Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach
May December
Samy Burch
Past Lives
Celine Song
Saltburn
Emerald Fennell
The Holdovers
David Hemingson
Best Original Song
Winner
Barbie
Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell
Song: “What Was I Made For”
Barbie
Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, Dua Lipa, Caroline Ailin
Song: “Dance the Night”
Barbie
Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt
Song: “I’m Just Ken”
Rustin
Lenny Kravitz
Song: “Road to Freedom”
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Metro Boomin, Roisee, A$AP Rocky, Mike Dean, Peter Lee Johnson, Landon Wayne
Song: “Am I Dreaming”
The Colour Purple
The Color Purple (original title)
Halle Bailey, Blu June, Brittany Coney, Morten Ristorp
Song: “Keep It Moving”
Best Picture
Winner
Oppenheimer
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Past Lives
Poor Things
Best Sci-Fi/Horror Film
Winner
Godzilla Minus One
Gojira -1.0 (original title)
Poor Things
Talk to Me
The Creator
They Cloned Tyrone
Best Supporting Performance by an Actor, Female
Winner
Da’Vine Joy Randolph
The Holdovers
Danielle Brooks
The Colour Purple
The Color Purple (original title)
Emily Blunt
Oppenheimer
Rachel McAdams
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Rosamund Pike
Saltburn
Best Supporting Performance by an Actor, Male
Winner
Ryan Gosling
Barbie
Charles Melton
May December
Mark Ruffalo
Poor Things
Robert De Niro
Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr.
Oppenheimer
Best Visual Effects
Winner
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams, Daniel Sudick
Tied with The Creator (2023)
Winner
The Creator
Jay Cooper, Ian Comley, Andrew Roberts, Neil Corbould
Tied with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Godzilla Minus One
Gojira -1.0 (original title)
Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya
Oppenheimer
Andrew Jackson, Giacomo Mineo, Scott R. Fisher, David Drzewiecki
Poor Things
Simon Hughes

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