2024 National Society of Film Critics Awards

The 59th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on January 4, 2025, honored the best in film for 2024.^[1][2][3]

RaMell Ross's Nickel Boys, Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine as Light, Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain, and the documentary film No Other Land all received the most awards with two wins each.^[4] The former film was named Best Picture, while Kapadia won Best Director.^[5]

Winners are listed in boldface along with the runner-up positions and counts from the final round:

1. Nickel Boys (47)
2. Anora / All We Imagine as Light (34) (TIE)

1. Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light (49)
2. RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys (42)
3. Sean Baker – Anora (33)

1. Colman Domingo – Sing Sing (60)
2. Adrien Brody – The Brutalist (51)
3. Ralph Fiennes – Conclave (45)

1. Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths (79)
2. Mikey Madison – Anora (35)
3. Ilinca Manolache – Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (32)

1. Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain (52)
2. Guy Pearce – The Brutalist (50)
3. Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown / Adam Pearson – A Different Man (41) (TIE)

1. Michele Austin – Hard Truths (55)
2. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys / Natasha Lyonne – His Three Daughters (39) (TIE)

1. Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain (47)
2. Radu Jude – Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (46)
3. Sean Baker – Anora (45)

1. Jomo Fray – Nickel Boys (80)
2. Lol Crawley – The Brutalist (38)
3. Jarin Blaschke – Nosferatu (21)

1. All We Imagine as Light (44)
2. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (41)
3. The Seed of the Sacred Fig (28)

1. No Other Land (70)
2. Dahomey (50)
3. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (24)

• Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

• Scott Eyman, "for his outstanding books on film artists and epochal shifts in moviemaking, most recently with Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided (2023), a revelatory study on the nexus of American politics and American pop culture."
• IndieCollect, "which, since its founding in 2010 by Sandra Schulberg, has met the challenge of preserving independent films with a rare sense of artistic responsibility."
• To Save and Project: The MoMa International Festival of Film Preservation, "for more than two decades of superb restorations and diverse programming from all over the world, in collaboration with archives, foundations, studios and other organizations."

• Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor's No Other Land

• Official website