Saturday, March 1, 2025

Chicago Indie Critics Award Winners

BEST INDEPENDENT FILM
The Substance
Producers: Coralie Fargeat, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner

BEST STUDIO FILM
Dune: Part Two
Producers: Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe, and Denis Villeneuve

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Flow
Producers: Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža, Ron Dyens, and Gregory Zalcman

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Director and Producers: Robert Ford, Lizzie Gillett, Ian Bonhôte, Connor Schell, and Libby Geist

BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Wild Robot
Director and Producer: Chris Sanders and Jeff Hermann

BEST DIRECTOR
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Substance – Coralie Fargeat

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes

BEST ACTOR
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist

BEST ACTRESS
Demi Moore – The Substance

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 
(TIE) Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing and Guy Pearce – The Brutalist

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Margaret Qualley – The Substance

BEST ENSEMBLE
Sing Sing
Casting Director: Greg Kwedar

BEST BREAKOUT PERFORMER
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing

BEST BREAKOUT ARTIST
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance

SIGHT UNSEEN PERFORMANCE
Lupita Nyong’o – The Wild Robot

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN 
(TIE) The Brutalist – Judy Becker and Nosferatu – Craig Lathrop

BEST EDITING
Challengers – Marco Costa

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Nosferatu – Linda Muir

BEST MAKEUP
The Substance – Pierre-Olivier Persin

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Dune: Part Two – Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, and Gerd Nefzer

BEST STUNTS
Monkey Man
Stunt Coordinator: Udeh Nans

BEST SOUND
Dune: Part Two – Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett, and Doug Hemphill

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Compress/Repress” – Challengers
Songwriters: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Luca Guadagnino

THE IMPACT AWARD
Given to individual or group who has made a positive impact on local Chicago cinema
Kyle Cubr – Programmer, Music Box Theatre

No comments:

Post a Comment