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Late Night with the Devil leads with nominations for the 2024 Australian Film Critics Association Awards
The nominees for the 2024 Australian Film Critics Association (AFCA) awards have been announced with Cameron Cairnes & Colin Cairnes shocking up a storm with eight nominations across the board for their horror smash hit Late Night with the Devil, including nominations for Best Australian Film, Best Australian Director, and nominations in all four acting categories.
The Cairnes brothers are followed closely by George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail, with both films receiving seven nominations each, including Best Australian Film and Best Director.
Rounding out the Best Australian Film and Best Australian Director categories are Jack Clark & Jim Weir’s Birdeater and Michael Gracey’s Better Man, both receiving a total of six nominations each.
The upcoming AFCA Awards will celebrate the finest and best of Australian and international cinema that was released in Australia in 2024.
Other Australian films nominated at the 2024 AFCA Awards include David Vincent Smith’s He Ain’t Heavy, with the Western Australian drama receiving three acting nominations and a nod for David’s script, while Robert Connolly’s Force of Nature: The Dry 2 received two nominations for Anna Torv and cinematographer Andrew Commis, while elsewhere In the Room Where He Waits and The Rooster each received singular nominations for acting.
Nominees for the Best International Film includes the recent Oscar winner Anora, Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers, Alex Garland’s Civil War, Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man, and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance.
The five films nominated for Best International Film Not in the English Language are All We Imagine as Light, Anatomy of a Fall, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, and The Zone of Interest. The Best International Documentary category will see Black Box Diaries, No Other Land, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, Ryuchi Sakamoto: Opus, and Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story compete for the award.
The AFCA Awards also celebrates the fine work of the AFCA members through the writing and broadcast awards. The awards include:
- Ivan Hutchinson Award for best long-form writing on an Australian film
- Award for best review of an individual Australian film
- Award for best review of an individual non-Australian film
- Jim Murphy Broadcast award for best radio show or podcast
And as of the upcoming awards ceremony, we are proud to announce, in collaboration with Cinemaniacs, The Lee Gambin Award for Repertory Film Criticism: Cultural Coverage of a Film Made Prior to 1995.
The Cinemaniacs board shared the below statement about the introduction of this new award honouring the great Lee Gambin:
“On behalf of Melbourne’s Cinemaniacs film collective, we are deeply moved that the Australian Film Critics Association have honoured our founder, friend, and champion Lee Gambin with an award in his name. The Lee Gambin Award will celebrate and nurture Australian criticism of movies made before 1995, with winners exhibiting the same passion, respect, and dignity that marked Lee’s work.
“This is his legacy, and we are thrilled to see it honoured in this way.”
We are also proud to announce that the Ivan Hutchinson Award for best long-form writing on Australian or International cinema will expand to include long-form articles and long-form interview pieces, alongside the long-form reviews that the award has previously recognised. This shift seeks to honour writing that is not exclusively in the form of a review or critical analysis, with the intention of recognising the breadth of film writing that takes place within AFCA that both comments on the film industry and engages with the practitioners who bring it to life.
We are also pleased to continue to support and champion the work of critical analysis that takes place in the broadcast sphere with the Jim Murphy Broadcast award for best radio show or podcast.
The 2024 AFCA Awards will be held on 22 March 2025, with winners announced the following day.
For more details regarding the Australian Film Critics Association and the AFCA Awards, please visit Auscritic.com.
For the full list of nominees, read below:
Best Australian Film
Better Man
Birdeater
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Late Night with the Devil
Memoir of a Snail
Best Australian Documentary
The Hardest Line: The Story of Midnight Oil
A Horse Named Winx
Left Write Hook
Otto By Otto
Porcelain War
Best Australian Director
Michael Gracey – Better Man
Jack Clark & Jim Weir – Birdeater
George Miller – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Cameron Cairnes & Colin Cairnes – Late Night with the Devil
Adam Elliot – Memoir of a Snail
Best Actor
Mackenzie Fearnley – Birdeater
Chris Hemsworth – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Sam Corlett – He Ain’t Heavy
Daniel Monks – In the Room Where He Waits
David Dastmalchian – Late Night with the Devil
Kodi Smit-McPhee – Memoir of a Snail
Best Actress
Shabana Azeez – Birdeater
Anna Torv – Force of Nature: The Dry 2
Anya Taylor-Joy – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Leila George – He Ain’t Heavy
Laura Gordon – Late Night with the Devil
Sarah Snook – Memoir of a Snail
Best Supporting Actor
Damon Herriman – Better Man
Ben Hunter – Birdeater
Tom Burke – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Ian Bliss – Late Night with the Devil
Hugo Weaving – The Rooster
Best Supporting Actress
Alison Steadman – Better Man
Kate Mulvany – Better Man
Greta Scacchi – He Ain’t Heavy
Ingrid Torelli – Late Night with the Devil
Jacki Weaver – Memoir of a Snail
Best Screenplay
Jack Clark & Jim Weir – Birdeater
George Miller & Nick Lathouris – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
David Vincent Smith – He Ain’t Heavy
Cameron Cairnes & Colin Cairnes – Late Night with the Devil
Adam Elliot – Memoir of a Snail
Best Cinematography
Erik Wilson – Better Man
Andrew Commis – Force of Nature: The Dry 2
Simon Duggan – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Matthew Temple – Late Night with the Devil
Gerald Thompson – Memoir of a Snail
Best International Film
Anora
Challengers
Civil War
A Different Man
The Substance
Best International Film Not in the English Language
All We Imagine as Light
Anatomy of a Fall
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
The Zone of Interest
Best International Documentary
Black Box Diaries
No Other Land
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Ryuchi Sakamoto: Opus
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story