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.

This morning, across their social media channels, The Seattle Film Critics Society (counting a couple The SunBreak contributors among its membership) announced nominations for the 2024 SFCS Awards, honoring the year’s best in film. At the top of the nominations heap: Brady Corbet’s VistaVision festival stunner The Brutalist (releasing later this month) and two desert-set blockbusters Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel Dune: Part Two and George Miller’s post-apocalyptic prequel 

The winners will be announced on December 16th.