This morning, across their social media channels, The Seattle Film Critics Society (counting a couple The SunBreak contributors among its membership) announced winners for the 2024 SFCS Awards, honoring the year’s best in film. At the top of the nominations heap: a pleasantly surprising win for Coralie Fargeat’s satirical body horror sensation The Substance. Sean Baker’s sex-worker cinderella to cross-country chaos comedy Anora took home the most awards; Dementus from Furiosa was crowned the Villain of the Year; and on the local front Rainier: A Beer Odyssey was named the best Pacific Northwest Finally, film and local programmers/directors/filmmakers/champions of short filmmaking here and afar, Megan Leonard and Carlos A.F. Lopez, were honored with a well-deserved Special Citation for their tireless efforts.
Full press release online; with the list of winners below (along with links to our previous coverage)
| Picture | The Substance – Coralie Fargeat |
| Director | Sean Baker – Anora |
| Lead Actor | Colman Domingo – Sing Sing |
| Lead Actress | Mikey Madison – Anora |
| Supporting Actor | Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing |
| Supporting Actress | Margaret Qualley – The Substance |
| Ensemble | Anora – Sean Baker (Casting Director) |
| Pacific Northwest Film | Rainier: A Beer Odyssey – Isaac Olsen |
| International Film | Evil Does Not Exist – Ryûsuke Hamaguchi |
| Documentary Film | No Other Land – Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor |
| Animated Film | The Wild Robot – Chris Sanders |
| Cinematography | Nickel Boys – Jomo Fray |
| Editing | Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – Eliot Knapman and Margaret Sixel |
| Screenplay | Anora – Sean Baker |
| Production Design | The Brutalist – Judy Becker (Production Designer), Patricia Cuccia (Set Decorator) |
| Costume Design | Wicked – Paul Tazewell |
| Original Score | Challengers – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross |
| Action Choreography | Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – Tim Wong (Stunt Coordinator) | Richard Norton (Fight Choreographer) |
| Visual Effects | Dune: Part Two – Paul Lambert, Stephen James, and Rhys Salcombe |
| Youth Performance | Izaac Wang – Dìdi (弟弟) |
| Villain of the Year | Dementus – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (as portrayed by Chris Hemsworth) |