The Films of 2024. The 25th annual FiLM BiTCH Awards
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AND THE NOMINEES ARE...
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Best Actress in a Limited Performance
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| Kathy Burke "Beryl" BLITZ |
Greta Lee "Dalia" PROBLEMISTA |
Lea Seydoux "Lady Fenring" DUNE PART TWO |
Sharon Washington Parole Board SING SING |
Denalda Williams |
| Creepily amoral and intimidating as a looting opportunist with criminal plans for little George. | So vivid with backstory as a dead artist's apprentice that we were desperate for a spin-off movie. |
Mesmerizingly seductive but still cut from the same cunningly intelligent Bene Gesserit cloth | In the film's best scene her jaded inscrutability is an asset. Is she sympathetic, hostile, or neutral? | Wonderfully wry as a hairdresser spilling the t for our leading lady. |
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Finalists: It's easy to imagine Benedikte Hansen, playing "Jørge's Mother" in The Girl With the Needle, as being as evil in different circumstances as the film's considerably less wealthy antagonist; You root for Katharine Gallagher's independent "Charlie" though you know she's doomed in Woman of the Hour Semi-Finalists: Stella Gonet is a compelling editor "Anne" in Sebastian; Kristin Chenoweth gives hilarious cameo as a "Wiz-O-Mania Star" in Wicked; River Ramirez is wonderful as "Estefani, Bank of America" in Problemista - this film is chalkful of fun small roles; Valeria Golina as po-faced "Yakinthi Callas" gets to Maria like few can; Stephanie Hsu is good fun as resistant ally "Alma Milan" in The Fall Guy |
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| Leigh Gill "Mickey Davis" BLITZ |
Tracy Letts "Herb Sargent" SATURDAY NIGHT |
Larry Owens "Craigslist" PROBLEMISTA |
Jesse Plemons (uncredited) CIVIL WAR |
Jason Schwartzmann |
| So much charisma that you believe that he can hold these hopeless rooms enraptured to become a local legend. | One of our most reliable character actors. It's great cathartic fun to watch him eviscerate Chevy Chase's assholery. | So committed to the absurdity of transactional want, he's absolutely hilarious, making the most of this genius joke. | Terrifying in an all too plausible way, his snapshot of the mundanity of evil is its own kind of war photojournalism. | Tasked with a thankless job he's smart enough to play it with a trace of mercy-killing and deja vu. He's had this convo before. |
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Finalist: Jacek Koman trembling and pitiable as drunk "Wozniack" in Conclave Semi Finalists: Joe Chrest is winningly slow to convince in "Senator Vanning" in Fly Me to the Moon; Christian Erickson gives freaky moment as "Man at Diner" in The Substance; Chris Evans reprises "Johnny Storm" with foul mouthed silliness in Deadpool & Wolverine, Gene Jones has foghorn leghorn fun with "Senator Hopp" in Fly Me to the Moon; Quinn Beswick is one half of a comic nursing duo as "Colin" in Thelma; and Edward Hamilton Clark can't believe his luck as "Fred" in The Substance |
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Best Vocal Only or MoCap Performance
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| Jonno Davies "Robbie Williams" BETTER MAN |
Maya Hawke |
Jacki Weaver |
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| If this were live-action his fully realized work would have been in conversation given awards bodies insatiable love for this genre. | What a gift to play the best new character. Hawke is a natural voice-actor given the unique timbre of her sound. | Pinky gets many of the best lines in Memoir and Weaver, such a pro, seizes them with ecccentricity and joyful verve. | ||
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Finalists: Ayo Edebiri "Envy" in Inside Out 2; and Shohreh Agdashloo as "Dragon" in Damsel Semi Finalists: Owen Teague as "Noa" in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Peter Dinklage as "Dr Dillamont" in Wicked, Isabella Rossellini as "Narrator" in Problemista, Sarah Snook as "Grace" in Memoir of a Snail, Lupita Nyong'o as "Roz" in Wild Robot, Daniel Betts as "Rook" (with Ian Holm referencing) in Alien Romulus, and Bill Nighy as "Longneck" Wild Robot |
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Best Juvenile Performance (Under 18) |
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| Raul Dial "Fahad" DIDI |
Rachele Potrich "Ada" VERMIGLIO |
Izaac Wang "Chris" DIDI |
Alisha Weir "Nancy Gooding" WICKED LITTLE LETTERS |
Zoe Zeigler "Lacy" JANET PLANET |
| Authentic and fun as Didi's best soon-to-be estranged friend. You feel the specific ways in which the rift is wounding for both of them. | Vivid and awkwardly endearing as the sexually confused, guilt-ridden, and frequently ignored middle daughter. | He gives fantastically three-dimensional angst as a typical teenager who hurts and yearns in specific (but universal) ways. | Memorable as the potty-mouthed fatherless daughter. (Weir also starred in Abigail this year.) | Imagine carrying a film on your shoulders at the very awkward age of 12 and so much odd bird interiority to the camera without it feeling like acting. |
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Finalists: any of the kids in Universal Language; and Elliot Heffernan as "George" in Blitz Semi Finalists: Ava Knox Martin as "Erena" in The Girl With the Needle, and Thomas Aitch as "Tommy" in Blitz; Ana Thaler as "Flavia" in Vermiglio; Hannah Love Lanier as "Charles" in Road House, Alylah Brown as "Furiosa" in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga |
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Breakthrough PerformerThis is not strictly an *acting* award. The basic criteria is being a) early in movie career and b) making us immediately want to see them in something else soon! (Note: Actors are not eligible for this category if they are nominated in one of the four traditional acting categories) |
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| Monica Barbaro A COMPLETE UNKNOWN |
Willa Fitzgerald STRANGE DARLING |
Anna Garcia FLY ME TO THE MOON |
David Jonnson ALIEN: ROMULUS |
Joseph Quinn A QUIET PLACE DAY ONE |/ GLADIATOR II |
| Given her pipes, beauty, and tough and tetchy emotionality, we can't wait to see what else she can do. A true musical or a meatier dramatic role next, please. | Her emotional shifts have a kind of surreal vibrational frequency which suggests she can pivot to serve other unique auteur-driven pieces, too. | Confident, witty, and so appealing as Scarlett Johansson's loyal sharp assistant that we must immediately see her in a bigger role. How about as the lead in a romcom? | The linchpin performer he almost makes you forget you're watching yet another variation on an Aliens trope: the android who you can't be sure is friend or foe. | Stranger Things lifted his profile, but with this one-two punch we have range! These two roles suggest that he can either carry films or fill in underwritten roles. Or both. |
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Finalists: Autumn Best in Woman of the Hour (film debut); Drew Starkey in Queer; Emma Laird in The Brutalist Semi Finalists: Katy O'Brien in Love Lies Bleeding; Ingrid Tortelli the Late Night with the Devil (film debut); Clarence Maclin in Sing Sing; Carlos Diez in Conclave (film debut) |
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Best Ensemble Performance |
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| ANORA | A COMPLETE UNKNOWN | CONCLAVE | SING SING | THELMA |
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Madison All rising to the comedic surface demands and in the key roles the dramatic undertows |
Chalamet A believable mosaic of key folk figures and a whole scene of stable or ever-changing dynamics |
Fiennes All keyed in hard to the film's unique tone mixing hierarchal melodrama with broadly outlined individuality |
Domingo A feat of mixing non-professionals and professionals so effortlessly for heady ideas about systemic failure and artistic healing |
Squibb One of the year's most delectable groups with everyone clearly having a ball and carrying their own frantic light-comedy weight. |
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Finalists: Saturday Night, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, and The Brutalist Semi-Finalists: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Housekeeping for Beginners, September 5, and All That We Imagine As Light |
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Best Casting |
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ANORA Sean Baker |
THE BRUTALIST |
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN |
DIDI Nafisa Kaptownwala & Natalie Lin |
SATURDAY NIGHT |
| Baker has always had a gift for casting professionals and non-actors and scrambling them together. |
These can't have been easy roles to cast but so many fine choices as pin connections for a complex structure | From top to bottom, fine choices -- with musical chops, too ! -- for a well rounded cast | For the central discovery, an ensemble of naturals novices, and a perfect role for Joan Chen | Superb balancing of the needs of look and vibes and rising star or character actor appeal |
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Finalists: Francine Maisler for Civil War; Nina Gold for Blitz; and SimoneBar, Nancy Foy, and Lucinda Syson for September 5 Semi Finalists: Jamie Ember for Thelma; Jessica Kelly for A Real Pain; Unknown for Sing Sing; and Carmen Cuba & Stephanie Gorin for The Apprentice |
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Best Stunts / Stunt Teams
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DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE |
DUNE PART TWO | THE FALL GUY | FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA | GLADIATOR II |
| Superhero costumes are perfect disguises for skilled stuntmen woring through brutal physical unkillable chaos. | Mixing intimate hand to hand kill or be killed drama, with large scale battles, sandy ambushes, and giant worm riding. | Best stunts for a film about stuntmen makes sense but wasn't a given. Bless SAG for awarding the excellence-in-execution here. | While Furiosa was a pale prequel to the genius of Fury Road, the hard working stunt team were hardly to blame. Difficult well realized work. | Sadistic well choregoraphed battles with humans and CGI animals alike, the arena scenes were highlights. |
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Finalists: Road House, Alien Romulus, Semi Finalists: Blitz, The Thicket, Unstoppable, Strange Darling, and Twisters |
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The Films of 2024. The 25th annual FiLM BiTCH Awards
PICTURE | ACTING | VISUALS | AURALS | EXTRAS - YOU ARE HERE | SPECIAL | SCENES