2024 New York Film Critics Circle Awards winner list: Updating live

Awards season remains in a New York state of mind. One day after the Gotham Awards kicked off the annual Oscar race in earnest by bestowing unexpected wins to “A Different Man” and “Sing Sing” stars Colman Domingo and Clarence Maclin, the New York Film Critics Circle will announce its 2024 winners this morning.

This is the 90th anniversary of the group, which counts several top critical minds – including Indiewire’s David Ehlrich (this year’s vice chair) and Kate Erbland, New York Magazine’s duo of Alison Wilmore and Bilge Ebiri, The Atlantic’s David Sims (this year’s chair), and Time’s Stephanie Zacharek  – among its members. Typically, the New York critics lean a bit more highbrow than members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, as evidenced by past Best Picture winners “Tar,” “Drive My Car,” “First Cow,” and “Roma.” But the group has made room for some mainstream winner picks in recent years, usually in the acting categories. Surprising winners since 2018 have included Regina Hall (“Support the Girls,” 2018), Lupita Nyong’o (“Us,” 2019), and Lady Gaga (“House of Gucci,” 2021) in the Best Actress category, and Maria Bakalova (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” 2020) and Keke Palmer (“Nope,” 2022) in the Best Supporting Actress field.

Last year, the New York Film Critics Circle selected “Killers of the Flower Moon” as Best Picture, Christopher Nolan as Best Director for “Oppenheimer,” Franz Rogowski as Best Actor for “Passages,” Lily Gladstone as Best Actress for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Charles Melton as Best Supporting Actor for “May December,” and Da’Vine Joy Randolph as Best Supporting Actress for “The Holdovers.” Nolan and Randolph later became Oscar winners, while “Killers of the Flower Moon” and Gladstone landed Oscar nominations.

Since 2003, only three New York Film Critics Circle winners for Best Film failed to garner an Oscar nomination for Best Picture: “United 93,” “Carol,” and “First Cow.” In that same stretch, four New York Film Critics Circle winners for Best Film also won Best Picture: “Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” “No Country for Old Men,” “The Hurt Locker,” and “The Artist.” The group hasn’t matched the Best Picture winner in 12 years but arguably picked the runner-up film a couple of times (“La La Land,” “Roma”).

Check out the updated winners list below. The New York Film Critics Circle will celebrate its winners at a dinner on January 8, 2025.

BEST PICTURE

BEST DIRECTOR

BEST ACTRESS

BEST ACTOR

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

BEST SCREENPLAY

BEST ANIMATED FILM

BEST NONFICTION FILM

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

BEST FIRST FILM

Below, is the full list of New York Film Critics Circle members as of December.

David Sims (CHAIR)
The Atlantic

David Ehrlich (VICE CHAIR)
IndieWire

Stephen Garrett (GENERAL MANAGER)
Freelance

MEMBERS:

Sam Adams
Slate

Siddhant Adlakha
Freelance

Melissa Anderson
4Columns

Michael Atkinson
Freelance

Jason Bailey
The Playlist

Richard Brody
The New Yorker

Dwight Brown
NNPA Syndication

Monica Castillo
Freelance

Kameron Austin Collins
Rolling Stone

Bilge Ebiri
New York Magazine

Kate Erbland 
IndieWire

David Fear
Rolling Stone

Graham Fuller
Freelance

Owen Gleiberman
Variety

Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

Leah Greenblatt
Freelance

Steven D. Greydanus
The National Catholic Register

Rafer Guzman
Newsday

Lovia Gyarkye
The Hollywood Reporter

Jordan Hoffman
Freelance

Caryn James
BBC

Tomris Laffly 
Freelance

Richard Lawson
Vanity Fair

Violet Lucca
Freelance

Soraya Nadia McDonald
Andscape

Farran Nehme
Freelance

Sheila O’Malley
Rogerebert.com

Rex Reed
New York Observer

David Rooney
The Hollywood Reporter

Nick Schager
The Daily Beast

Matt Singer
ScreenCrush

Kyle Smith
The Wall Street Journal

Dana Stevens
Slate

Amy Taubin
Artforum

Peter Travers
ABC

Keith Uhlich
Freelance

Elizabeth Weitzman
The Wrap

Kelli Weston
Freelance

Stephen Whitty
Freelance

Alison Willmore
New York Magazine

Stephanie Zacharek
Time Magazine

Esther Zuckerman
Freelance