Washington for Wicked

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande
in Wicked.
Credit: Giles Keyte / Universal Pictures

The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association voted Wicked Best Picture during its annual voting meeting to chose the top cinema efforts of 2024. The musical based on the still-running Broadway hit about the early days of the witches of Oz also won Best Picture from the National Board of Review and is a front-runner for the upcoming Oscar noms. Mikey Madison of Anora was named Best Actress. She also won top honors from the LA and Boston critics. Coleman Domingo of Sing Sing, who already won at the Gotham Awards, took Best Actor. Best Supporting Actor Kieran Culkin of A Real Pain continued his winning ways, having previous taken the NBR, NY Film Critics Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics. Danielle Deadwyler of The Piano Lesson was voted Best Supporting Actress. 

A complete list of winners and nominees follows:

Best Feature
“Anora” (Neon)
“Conclave” (Focus Features)
“Sing Sing” (A24)
“The Brutalist” (A24)
“Wicked” (Universal Pictures) – WINNER

Best Director
Brady Corbet – “The Brutalist” – WINNER
Denis Villeneuve – “Dune: Part Two”
Edward Berger – “Conclave”
Jon M. Chu – “Wicked”
Sean Baker – “Anora”

Best Actor
Adrien Brody – “The Brutalist”
Colman Domingo – “Sing Sing” – WINNER
Daniel Craig – “Queer”
Ralph Fiennes – “Conclave”
Timothée Chalamet – “A Complete Unknown”

Best Actress
Cynthia Erivo – “Wicked”
Demi Moore – “The Substance”
Karla Sofia Gascon – “Emilia Perez”
Marianne Jean–Baptiste – “Hard Truths”
Mikey Madison – “Anora” – WINNER

Best Supporting Actor
Clarence Maclin – “Sing Sing”
Denzel Washington – “Gladiator II”
Guy Pearce – “The Brutalist”
Keiran Culkin – “A Real Pain” – WINNER
Yura Borisov – “Anora”

Best Supporting Actress
Ariana Grande – “Wicked”
Aunjanue Ellis–Taylor – “Nickel Boys”
Danielle Deadwyler – “The Piano Lesson” – WINNER
Isabella Rossellini – “Conclave”
Zoe Saldana – “Emilia Perez”

Best Acting Ensemble
“Anora”
“Conclave” – WINNER
“Dune: Part Two”
“Sing Sing”
“The Brutalist”
“Wicked”

Best Voice Performance

Amy Poehler – “Inside Out 2”
Auli’i Cravalho – “Moana 2”
Brian Tyree Henry – “Transformers One”
Lupita Nyong’o – “The Wild Robot” – WINNER
Maya Hawke – “Inside Out 2”

Best Youth Performance
Alisha Weir – “Abigail”
Alyla Browne – “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”
Elliott Heffernan – “Blitz” – WINNER
Ian Foreman – “Exhibiting Forgiveness”
Isabel DeRoy–Olson – “Fancy Dance”
Izaac Wang – “Didi”
Zoe Ziegler – “Janet Planet”

Best Adapted Screenplay
“Conclave” – written for the screen by Peter Straughan – WINNER
“Dune: Part Two” – written for the screen by Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts
“Nickel Boys” – written for the screen by RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes
“Sing Sing” – written for the screen by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar
“Wicked” – written for the screen by Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox

Best Original Screenplay
“Anora” – Sean Baker
“A Real Pain” – Jesse Eisenberg – WINNER
“Challengers” – Justin Kuritzkes
“The Brutalist” – Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold
“The Substance” – Coralie Fargeat

Best International Film
“Dahomey”
“Emilia Pérez” – WINNER
“Flow”
“I’m Still Here”
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”

Best Documentary
“Dahomey”
“Daughters”
“Music by John Williams”
“No Other Land”
“Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” – WINNER
“Will & Harper”

Best Animated Feature
“Flow”
“Inside Out 2”
“Memoir of a Snail”
“The Wild Robot” – WINNER
“Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”

Best Original Score (tie)
“Blitz” – Hans Zimmer
“Challengers” – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – WINNER
“Conclave” – Volker Bertelmann
“Nosferatu” – Robin Carolan
“The Brutalist” – Daniel Blumberg – WINNER
“The Wild Robot” – Kris Bowers

Best Editing (tie)
“Anora” – WINNER
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two” – WINNER
“The Brutalist”
“Wicked”

Best Cinematography
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Nickel Boys”
“Nosferatu” – WINNER
“The Brutalist”

Best Production Design

“Dune: Part Two”
“Gladiator II”
“Nosferatu”
“The Brutalist”
“Wicked” – WINNER

The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC
“Civil War” – WINNER
“Daughters”
“Shirley”
“Stopping the Steal”

Best Motion Capture
Eka Darville – “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
Jonno Davies – “Better Man”
Kevin Durand – “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
Owen Teague – “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” – WINNER
Peter Macon – “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”

Best Stunts
“Deadpool and Wolverine”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”
“Gladiator II”
“The Fall Guy” – WINNER