Anora named OFCS Best Picture

Full list of winners announced

by Jennie Kermode

Celebration time for Anora
Celebration time for Anora

The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) has given its biggest prize of the year to Anora, the Sean Baker film about a sex worker which peaked early this awards season before a slump, but which might now be re-establishing itself as a contender. Unlike most awards bodies, the OFCS provides information on the order of votes, so it's possible to see that The Substance, for which Coralie Fargeat won Best Directing, came second in the Best Picture race, followed by The Brutalist. Despite getting eight nominations, the latter proved unlucky and didn't get any awards at all.

Those awards in full:

Best Picture

Best Animated Feature

Best Directing

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Original Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Editing

Best Cinematography

Best Original Score

Best Production Design

Best Costume Design

Best Visual Effects

Best Début Feature

Best Film Not in the English Language

Best Documentary

Technical Achievement Awards:

Lifetime Achievement Awards:

  • Rick Baker
  • David Cronenberg
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Elaine May
  • Christine Vachon

Best Non-US Release

  • Acting (Sophie Fiennes, UK)
  • The Adamant Girl (PS Vinothraj, India)
  • Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan)
  • Direct Action (Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell, France)
  • Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story (Luck Razanajaona, Madagascar)
  • Dying (Matthias Glasner, Germany)
  • I’m Not Everything I Want To Be (Klára Tasovská, Czech Republic)
  • The Moon is Upside Down (Loren Taylor, New Zealand)
  • The Other Way Around (Jonas Trueba, Spain)
  • Subject: Filmmaking (Jörg Adolph & Edgar Reitz, Germany)

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