New York Film Critics Circle Awards: The Brutalist To All We Imagine As Light, Check Out Full Winners List

Brady Corbet’s 3 1/2-hour postwar epic The Brutalist won best film from the New York Film Critics Circle on Tuesday, while its lead, Adrien Brody, also won best actor.

Also, filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light has won the Best International at the New York Film Critics Circle.

This is the 90th anniversary of NYFCC whose members include Indiewire’s David Ehlrich (2024 vice chair) and Kate Erbland, New York Magazine’s Alison Wilmore and Bilge Ebiri, The Atlantic’s David Sims (2024 chair), and Time’s Stephanie Zacharek.

Checkout full winners list here:

Best Film: The Brutalist

Best Director: RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys

Best Actor: Adrien Brody, The Brutalist

Best Actress: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths

Best Screenplay: Sean Baker, Anora

Best Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

Best Supporting Actress: Carol Kane, Between the Temples

Best Animated Film: Flow

Best Cinematography: Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys

Best First Film: Janet Planet

Best International Film: All We Imagine as Light

Best Nonfiction Film: No Other Land

Special Award: To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation

Student Prizes: Alexander Swift (Undergraduate, Vassar) and Drew Smith (Graduate, NYU)

Coming back to All We Imagine as Light, it stars Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, and Chhaya Kadam. The film is an official Indo-French co-production between Petit Chaos from France and Chalk & Cheese and Another Birth from India.

The film follows Prabha, a troubled nurse who receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband, and Anu, her young roommate seeking intimacy with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to confront their desires. Earlier this year, the film’ won the prestigious Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.