Midnight Critics Circle Award Winners

Best Picture

Marty Supreme 

            Runner-up: It Was Just an Accident

Best Director

Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident

            Runner-up: Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme

Best Actor

Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme

            Runner-up: Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon

Best Actress

Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You 

            Runner-up: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet

Best Supporting Actor

Josh O’Connor, Wake Up Dead Man 

            Runner-up: Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Actress

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value

            Runner-up: Mariam Afshari, It Was Just an Accident

Best Original Screenplay

Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident

            Runner-up: Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme

Best Adapted Screenplay

Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

            Runner-up: Park Chan-wook, Don McKellar, Lee Kyoung-mi, Lee Ja-hye – No Other Choice

Best Animated Film

Zootopia 2

            Runner-up: Dog Man

Best Documentary Film

Pavements

            Runner-up: Apocalypse in the Tropics

Best International Film

It Was Just an Accident

            Runner-up: Sentimental Value

Best Ensemble

Sentimental Value

            Runner-up: It Was Just an Accident

Best Casting

Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident

            Runner-up: Jennifer Venditti, Marty Supreme

Best Cinematography

Dong Jingsong, Resurrection

            Runner-up: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners

Best Editing

Andy Jurgensen, One Battle After Another

            Runner-up: Kim Sang-bum and Kim Ho-bin, No Other Choice

Best Production Design

Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau, Frankenstein

            Runner-up: Tu Nan and Liu Qiang, Resurrection

Best Costume Design

Kate Hawley, Frankenstein

            Runner-up: Lindsay Pugh, Hedda

Best Makeup/Hairstyling

28 Years Later

            Runner-up: Frankenstein

Best Original Score

Ludwig Göransson, Sinners

            Runner-up: Daniel Lopatin, Marty Supreme

Best Original Song

“I Lied to You” from Sinners

            Runner-up: “Clothed by the Sun” from The Testament of Ann Lee

Best Sound

Sirāt

            Runner-up: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Best Visual Effects

Avatar: Fire and Ash 

            Runner-up: Mickey 17

Best Choreography and Stunts

Splitsville

            Runner-up: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Best First Feature

Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby

            Runner-up: Aimee Kuge, Cannibal Mukbang

Best Breakthrough Performance

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value

            Runner-up: Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby

Lifetime Achievement

Jafar Panahi

Midnight Diamond 

(recognizes under-appreciated but quality films that are looked down upon and mocked due to their less serious nature)

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