By Daniel Barnes

My complete ballot for the 2024 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle awards:

BEST PICTURE

1. Hard Truths
2. Anora
3. Flow
4. Touch
5. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Sean Baker, Anora
2. Mike Leigh, Hard Truths
3. Matteo Garrone, Io Capitano
4. George Miller, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
5. Rose Glass, Love Lies Bleeding

BEST ACTRESS

1. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
2. Mikey Madison, Anora
3. Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
4. Lea Seydoux, The Beast
5. Daisy Ridley, Sometimes I Think About Dying

BEST ACTOR

1. Hugh Grant, Heretic
2. Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness
3. Egil Olafsson, Touch
4. Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
5. Sebastian Stan, A Different Man

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Natasha Lyonne, His Three Daughters
2. Carrie Coon, His Three Daughters
3. Michele Austin, Hard Truths
4. Lady Gaga, Joker: Folie a Deux
5. Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
2. Willem Dafoe, Kinds of Kindness
3. Franz Rogowski, Bird
4. David Webber, Hard Truths
5. Yuri Borisov, Anora

BEST SCREENPLAY, Original

1. Hard Truths
2. Anora
3. Memoir of a Snail
4. His Three Daughters
5. Heretic

BEST SCREENPLAY, Adapted

1. Touch
2. The Beast
3. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
4. Inside Out 2
5. Sometimes I Think About Dying

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

1. The Girl with the Needle
2. Anora
3. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
4. The Count of Monte-Cristo
5. Blitz

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

1. The Count of Monte-Cristo
2. Memoir of a Snail
3. Flow
4. The Room Next Door
5. A Different Man

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

1. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2. The Count of Monte-Cristo
3. Heretic
4. The Beast
5. Joker: Folie a Deux

BEST EDITING

1. Anora
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
3. Io Capitano
4. Hard Truths
5. Touch

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

1. Flow
2. Memoir of a Snail
3. Inside Out 2
4. The Wild Robot
5. Chicken for Linda!

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

1. Io Capitano
2. Touch
3. The Girl with the Needle
4. The Beast
5. The Monk and the Gun

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