23rd SFBAFCC Awards
December 15, 2024
Best Picture:
TBA
Best Animated Feature:
TBA
Best Documentary Feature:
TBA
Best International Feature Film:
TBA
The 23rd San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2024, will be given on December 15, 2024. [1] Nominations were announced on December 13, 2024. The Brutalist led the nominations with nine, followed by Conclave with seven and Anora with six. [2]
These are the nominees for the 23rd SFFCC Awards. Winners will be listed at the top of each list:
Marianne Raigipcien Jean-Baptiste is an English actress. She is known for her role in the 1996 film Secrets & Lies, for which she received acclaim and earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award in the same category. Jean-Baptiste is also known for her role as Vivian Johnson on the television series Without a Trace from 2002 to 2009, and has since starred in television shows such as Blindspot (2015–2016) and Homecoming (2018).
The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC), formerly known as San Francisco Film Critics Circle, was founded in 2002 as an organization of film journalists and critics from San Francisco, California based publications.
The San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Feature is an award given by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle to honor an outstanding animated film.
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Danielle Deadwyler is an American actress. She began her career appearing on Atlanta stage, including in the 2009 production of For Colored Girls, and made her screen debut in the 2012 drama film A Cross to Bear. Deadwyler appeared in the primetime soap opera The Haves and the Have Nots (2015–2017), the drama series P-Valley (2020), and the miniseries Station Eleven (2021–2022) and From Scratch (2022).
Mikaela Madison Rosberg is an American actress. She began her career acting in short films and received recognition for her role as a sullen teenager in the FX comedy series Better Things (2016–2022). She then played Susan Atkins in Quentin Tarantino's period drama film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and Amber Freeman in the horror film Scream (2022). Madison gained praise for playing the titular character in Sean Baker's romantic drama film Anora (2024), earning a nomination for a Golden Globe Award.
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The 19th San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2020, were given on January 18, 2021.
The 20th San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2021, were given on January 10, 2022. The nominations were announced on January 7, 2022, with The Power of the Dog leading the nominations with nine. The film also received the most awards, with eight wins, including Best Picture.
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The 22nd San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2023, were given on January 9, 2024. The nominations were announced on January 5, 2024, with Oppenheimer leading the nominations with ten. The film also received the most awards with three wins, including Best Picture; The Zone of Interest also won three awards, including Best Director and Best International Feature Film.
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