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Critics' Choice 2024 Winners & Nominees

The 29th Critics' Choice Awards (2024) took place on January 14, 2024 (Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA, USA). Oppenheimer won Best Picture and 3 more awards. Every winner and nominee in all 21 categories is below.

All 21 categories Most wins
categories
21
nominations
128
films nominated
38
winners
8
Held on
Venue
Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Best Picture
Oppenheimer
Headline winners

Critics' Choice 2024: The Winners

Oppenheimer won Best Picture against 9 other nominees. Christopher Nolan (Best Director), Paul Giamatti (Best Actor) and Emma Stone (Best Actress) took the main individual prizes.

Oppenheimer (2023) movie poster Best Picture

Best Picture

Oppenheimer

2023 · Biography, Drama, History · Echo Score 83 · $976M worldwide

4 wins from 13 nominations at the 29th Critics' Choice Awards (2024)

  • Best Director
  • Best Supporting Actor
  • Best Score

Drawing from Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s biography, American Prometheus, this film explores the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant theoretical physicist who spearheaded the Manhattan Project's development of the first nuclear weapons. His work ushered in the Atomic Age, forever changing the world and grappling with the profound moral and political implications of his creation.

About Oppenheimer
Scoreboard

Critics' Choice 2024: Which Films Won the Most

Oppenheimer won 4 awards from 13 nominations. 4 films won at least once, while Killers of the Flower Moon went home empty-handed from 12 nominations. Green is wins, blue is nominations.

  1. Oppenheimer (2023) movie poster
    Oppenheimer 4 / 13
    2023 · Biography, Drama · 4 wins from 13 nominations
  2. The Holdovers (2023) movie poster
    The Holdovers 2 / 8
    2023 · Comedy, Drama · 2 wins from 8 nominations
  3. Barbie (2023) movie poster
    Barbie 1 / 16
    2023 · Adventure, Drama · 1 win from 16 nominations
  4. Poor Things (2023) movie poster
    Poor Things 1 / 13
    2023 · Comedy, Drama · 1 win from 13 nominations
  5. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) movie poster
    Killers of the Flower Moon 0 / 12
    2023 · Crime, Drama · 0 wins from 12 nominations
  6. Maestro (2023) movie poster
    Maestro 0 / 8
    2023 · Biography, Drama · 0 wins from 8 nominations
  7. American Fiction (2023) movie poster
    American Fiction 0 / 5
    2023 · Comedy, Drama · 0 wins from 5 nominations
  8. The Color Purple (2023) movie poster
    The Color Purple 0 / 5
    2023 · Drama, Musical · 0 wins from 5 nominations
  9. Past Lives (2023) movie poster
    Past Lives 0 / 3
    2023 · Drama, Romance · 0 wins from 3 nominations
  10. Saltburn (2023) movie poster
    Saltburn 0 / 3
    2023 · Comedy, Drama · 0 wins from 3 nominations
Full results

All 21 Critics' Choice 2024 Categories: Winners & Nominees

21 categories and 128 nominations; Best Picture had the most nominees (10). The winner of each comes first, on a green row. Search for a film or a person, show only the winners, or jump straight to a category.

21 categories · 128 nominations

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Movie marathon

The Critics' Choice 2024 Best Picture Marathon

All 10 Best Picture nominees at the 29th Critics' Choice Awards (2024), back to back: 23 hours 13 minutes.

Total running time 23h 13m 23 hours 13 minutes All 10 films
Longest
Killers of the Flower Moon 3h 26m
Shortest
Past Lives 1h 46m
By genre

The Genres Behind the Critics' Choice 2024 Winners

Drama led with 118 nominations across 30 films and won 8. A film with several genres counts for each one.

  1. Drama 8 wins · 118 nominations · 7%
  2. Comedy 4 wins · 65 nominations · 6%
  3. Romance 2 wins · 46 nominations · 4%
  4. Adventure 1 win · 36 nominations · 3%
  5. History 4 wins · 32 nominations · 13%
  6. Fantasy 1 win · 29 nominations · 3%
  7. Biography 4 wins · 26 nominations · 15%
  8. Thriller 0 wins · 26 nominations · 0%
  9. Sci-Fi 1 win · 24 nominations · 4%
  10. Crime 0 wins · 16 nominations · 0%
2024 season

How the Rest of the 2024 Awards Season Voted

The other 14 ceremonies of 2024, with the winner of each top prize. Oppenheimer also won the top prize at 5 of them.

All 2024 awards
Earlier years

Previous Critics' Choice Ceremonies

The 6 ceremonies before this one, with the winner of each top prize. The Critics' Choice page has every year back to 1996.

Every Critics' Choice ceremony

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Critics' Choice 2024: Questions & Answers

The top prize, the film that won the most, the most-nominated film, the individual winners and the date of the 29th Critics' Choice Awards (2024), answered from the results on this page.

Who won Best Picture at the 29th Critics' Choice Awards (2024)?

Oppenheimer (2023) won Best Picture. The other nominees were American Fiction, Barbie, The Color Purple, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Past Lives, Poor Things and Saltburn.

About Oppenheimer

Which film won the most awards at the 29th Critics' Choice Awards (2024)?

Oppenheimer (2023) won the most: 4 awards from 13 nominations. The Holdovers was next with 2 wins.

Which film had the most nominations at the 29th Critics' Choice Awards (2024)?

Barbie (2023) led with 16 nominations and won one of them.

Who won the acting and directing awards at the 29th Critics' Choice Awards (2024)?

Best Director: Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer. Best Actor: Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers. Best Actress: Emma Stone for Poor Things. Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer. Best Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers.

When was the 29th Critics' Choice Awards (2024)?

The 29th Critics' Choice Awards (2024) took place on January 14, 2024 (Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA, USA). The database has 21 categories and 128 nominations for it.