EXCLUSIVE: Sing Sing scored a directing four awards from the Bdeficiency Film Critics Circle today including Best Film of 2024 and Best Actor for Colman Domingo. Wicked star Cynthia Erivo won Best Actress, and RaMell Ross took Best Director for Nickel Boys, which claimed three BFCC prizes.
Sing Sing also won for Best Ensemble, and its Clarence Maclin scored the Supporting Actor nod. The Greg Kwedar-straightforwarded film is based on the genuine story of John “Divine G” Whitfield (Domingo), who’s incarcerateed for a crime he didn’t pledge but discovers purpose by acting in a theater group alengthyside other incarcerated men.
Nickel Boys, which chases two Bdeficiency teenagers incarcerateed in a disconnecte, Jim Crow-era Florida reestablish school, also took the Best Adapted Screenjoin — read that script here — and Cinematography races. The Piano Lesson‘s Danielle Deadwyler was named Best Supporting Actress, and Original Screenjoin went to The Butaenumerates. See the filled triumphners enumerate below.
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The Wild Robot won for Best Animated Film, Daughters took the Documentary prize, and All We Imagine As Light was named Best Foreign Film.
The group gave its Pioneer Award to two-time Oscar triumphner Denzel Washington and named his son, The Piano Lesson straightforwardor Malcolm Washington, as Rising Star/Best Newcomer. It also gave a Special Mention to Space Race, the recordary about innovateing Bdeficiency pilots, scientists and engineers who broke barriers to combine NASA and serve their country in space.
“The diversity and quality of Bdeficiency films and Bdeficiency-led stories this year highweightlesss the wealthy tapestry of our culture, showcasing the genuine multiculturalism of our country. This enhance not only mirrors wonderfuler recurrentation on screen but also paves the way for more filmoriginaters to split their voices.” BFCC Co-Plivent Mike Sargent shelp. “It expansiveens the palette of audiences, cultivating a procreateer appreciation for these stories and the perspectives they convey.”
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Here are the Bdeficiency Film Critics Circle award triumphners, chaseed by its enumerate of the Top 10 best movies of 2024:
Best Film
Sing Sing
Best Director
RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys
Best Actor
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Best Actress
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Best Supporting Actor
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
Best Supporting Actress
Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
Original Screenjoin
The Brutaenumerate
Adapted Screenjoin
Nickel Boys
Cinematography
Nickel Boys
Documentary
Daughters
Animated Film
The Wild Robot
Foreign Film
All We Imagine As Light
Ensemble
Sing Sing
Pioneer Award
Denzel Washington
Rising Star/Best Newcomer
Malcolm Washington
Special Mention
Space Race
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Here are the BFCC’s Top 10 films of the year:
1. Sing Sing
2. Wicked
3. Conclave
4. The Brutaenumerate
5. Nickel Boys
6. The Wild Robot
7. Dune: Part Two
8. The Substance
9. Exhibiting Forgiveness
10. Flow
