IFSCA Awards 2024-2025 | Winners

Yesterday, on March 1st, 2025, the International Film Society Critics Association (IFSCA / @IFSCritics on Twitter), of which I am a voting member, announced their full list of winners for the ongoing 2024-2025 awards season. Like any other film critics association, their awards celebrate the best films of the past year. Below you can read the full list of winners and runners up.

BEST FIRST FEATURE
Dev Patel – Monkey Man
Mike Cheslik – Hundreds of Beavers
Molly Manning Walker – How to Have Sex
Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine As Light — Runner-Up
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys — WINNER
Sean Wang – Didi

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Flow — Runner-Up
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Robot Dreams
The Wild Robot — WINNER
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Black Box Diaries
Dahomey
Daughters
No Other Land — WINNER
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story — Runner-Up
Will & Harper

BEST ACTION FILM
Civil War
Deadpool & Wolverine
Dune Part Two — WINNER
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga — Runner-Up
Monkey Man
The Fall Guy

BEST HORROR / SCIENCE FICTION FILM
Dune Part Two — Runner-Up
Heretic
I Saw the TV Glow
Nosferatu
The Substance — WINNER
The Wild Robot

BEST COMEDY / MUSICAL FEATURE
A Different Man
Anora — WINNER
Challengers — Runner-Up
Hit Man
The Substance
Wicked

BEST STUNTS / CHOREOGRAPHY
Dune Part Two
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga — WINNER
Monkey Man
The Fall Guy — Runner-Up
The Substance 
Wicked

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Conclave
Dune Part Two
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Nosferatu — Runner-Up
Wicked — WINNER

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Conclave
Dune Part Two
Nosferatu — Runner-Up
The Brutalist — WINNER
The Substance
Wicked

BEST MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING
A Different Man
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Dune Part Two
Nosferatu — Runner-Up
The Substance — WINNER
Wicked

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Alien Romulus
Dune Part Two — WINNER
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes — Runner-Up
Nosferatu
The Substance

BEST SOUND DESIGN
Challengers — Runner-Up
Civil War
Dune Part Two — WINNER
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Nosferatu
The Substance

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Challengers — WINNER
Conclave
Dune Part Two
Nosferatu
The Brutalist — Runner-Up
The Wild Robot

BEST FILM EDITING
Anora
Challengers — WINNER
Conclave
Dune Part Two
The Brutalist — Runner-Up
The Substance

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Challengers
Conclave
Dune Part Two — Runner-Up
Nickel Boys — WINNER
Nosferatu
The Substance

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Compress/Repress” – Challengers — WINNER
“El Mal” – Emilia Perez
“Harper and Will Go West” – Will & Harper
“Kiss the Sky” – The Wild Robot — Runner-Up
“Like A Bird” – Sing Sing
“Sick in the Head” – Kneecap

BEST YOUNG / YOUTH PERFORMANCE
Alisha Weir – Abigail
Alyla Browne – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Izaac Wang – Didi
Maisy Stella – My Old Ass — Runner-Up
Mia McKenna Bruce – How to Have Sex — WINNER
Nykiya Adams – Bird

BODY OF WORK
Glen Powell – Hit Man – Twisters
Margaret Qualley – The Substance – Drive- Away Dolls – Kinds of Kindness 
Nicholas Hoult – The Order – Juror #2 – Nosferatu – The Garfield Movie — Runner-Up
Sebastian Stan – A Different Man – The Apprentice — WINNER
Timothee Chalamet – Dune Part Two – A Complete Unknown
Willem Dafoe – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice — Kinds of Kindness — Saturday Night — Nosferatu

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Anora
Challengers
Conclave — WINNER
Dune Part Two
Sing Sing — Runner-Up
The Brutalist

EXCEEDING (ONE-INCH) BARRIERS
All We Imagine as Light
Flow — Runner-Up
I’m Still Here — WINNER
No Other Land
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
The Substance

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Conclave — WINNER
Dune Part Two
Hit Man
Nickel Boys — Runner-Up
Nosferatu
Sing Sing

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
A Different Man
Anora — Runner-Up
A Real Pain
Challengers
The Brutalist
The Substance — WINNER

BEST DIRECTOR
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist — WINNER
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance — Runner-Up
Denis Villeneuve – Dune Part Two
Luca Guadagnino – Challengers
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
Sean Baker – Anora

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Adam Pearson – A Different Man
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing — Runner-Up (Tie)
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist — WINNER
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain — Runner-Up (Tie)
Yura Borisov – Anora

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Ariana Grande-Butera – Wicked — Runner-Up (Tie)
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys
Felicity Jones – The Brutalist — Runner-Up (Tie)
Margaret Qualley – The Substance — WINNER
Monica Barbaro – A Complete Unknown
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Perez

BEST LEAD ACTOR
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist — Runner-Up (Tie)
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing — WINNER
Daniel Craig – Queer
Hugh Grant – Heretic
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave — Runner-Up (Tie)
Sebastian Stan – A Different Man

BEST LEAD ACTRESS
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Demi Moore – The Substance — WINNER
Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here — Runner-Up (Tie)
Lily-Rose Depp – Nosferatu
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
Mikey Madison – Anora — Runner-Up (Tie)

BEST PICTURE
Anora — 3rd
Challengers
Conclave
Dune Part Two — 2nd
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
Sing Sing
The Brutalist — WINNER
The Substance
Wicked

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– Article Written by Jeffrey Rex Bertelsen.