By this time next year, I will have a better name for these awards (maybe the Maxies? Don’t love it…). For now, this exercise is meant to highlight the movies and performances that I loved the most. This is all personal taste, but I do take advantage to award those that I believe to be most deserving. I take this probably too seriously, but isn’t that the point of all of this? Below are my top level awards for the films released in 2024 (winners in bold). By this time next year, we’ll get the budget to expand these awards and hopefully get Conan to host:
Best Supporting Actor:
Austin Butler (Dune: Part Two)
Chris Hemsworth (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga)
Guy Pearce (The Brutalist)
Tom Hardy (The Bikeriders)
Yura Borisov (Anora)
What can I say? The nose plays.
Best Supporting Actress:
Adria Arjona (Hit Man)
Carol Duarte (La Chimera)
Julianne Nicholson (Janet Planet)
Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown)
Rebecca Ferguson (Dune: Part Two)
One of the greatest dance scenes this decade.
Best Actor:
Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)
Josh Hartnett (Trap)
Josh O’Connor (Challengers)
Sebastian Stan (A Different Man)
Timothee Chalamet (Dune: Part Two)
Like watching a balloon slowly fall from the ceiling that pulls out a needle and pops itself. Sebastian Stan has the juice.
Best Actress:
Anya Taylor-Joy (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga)
Demi Moore (The Substance)
Lea Drucker (Last Summer)
Lea Seydoux (The Beast)
Mikey Madison (Anora)
Nobody screams better than Seydoux in this; a truly magnificent performance.
Best Director:
Brady Corbet (The Brutalist)
Denis Villenueve (Dune: Part Two)
George Miller (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga)
Luca Guadagnino (Challengers)
RaMell Ross (Nickel Boys)
Denis fully delivers on his Empire Strikes Back. Cannot wait to see this story conclude.
Best Picture:
10. La Chimera
9. Nosferatu
8. Hundreds of Beavers
7. Nickel Boys
6. Anora
5. Challengers
4. The Brutalist
3. Dune: Part Two
2. A Different Man
1. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
What already feels like the footnote on Fury Road‘s legacy, I will be here waiting when this masterpiece is rightfully reclaimed. A story about being lost in anger in a world we don’t understand that’s foresight will only age well. Also, nobody is doing action filmmaking like Dr. Miller.
Lost at the Movies 