Announcing The 2024 Geek Vibes Nation Critics Choice Awards Nominees

Geek Vibes Nation is proud to announce the nominees for the 2024 edition of the Geek Vibes Nation Critics Choice Awards. Now in its second year, the GVN CCAs are a recognition of achievement over the previous year in film determined by the critics and writers at Geek Vibes Nation. Our wide variety of categories recognize achievement both above and below the line, highlighting the work of both on-screen and off-screen talent. Organized by Editor-in-Chief Cainan Myracle and Senior Critic Larry Fried, nominations were held throughout December and January. The final winners will be announced at a later date in February.

Make your voice heard by voting in the 2024 GVN Critics Choice Audience Award.

This year, we are excited to be recognizing over 50 films across 30 categories. Despite the variety, one title stood above the rest: Barbie. Greta Gerwig’s megahit leads with 17 nominations, including Best Picture. This ties the film with last year’s leader, Everything Everywhere All at Once, which took home 11 wins including the aforementioned top prize. Trailing close behind is its Barbenheimer counterpart, Oppenheimer. Christopher Nolan’s biographical behemoth contends with a strong 13 nominations, also including Best Picture.

Other heavily decorated films include the Emma Stone-led Poor Things and Martin Scorsese’s Osage crime epic Killers of the Flower Moon, both of which landed in the double digits at 12 and 10 nominations respectively. Films leading in the single digits include Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (8), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (7), The Holdovers, and Past Lives (both at 5). Though not as widely recognized, our body of critics were also eager to spotlight films that have gone overlooked throughout awards season, including Best Picture nominees The Iron Claw and Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Last year, we strove to nominate a diverse array of talent. This year continues that trend. Three of our Best Picture nominees are directed by women and four of our ten nominated screenplays were either written or co-written by women. In addition, nine performers of color are recognized across each of our six performance-based categories, including our unique “Best Vocal of Motion Capture Performance” award. 

Along with diversity in race and gender, GVN continues to highlight diversity in genre with our four special Genre Achievement categories for Comedy, Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy, and Horror. Nominated films include Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Talk To Me, The Creator, Bottoms, John Wick: Chapter 4, and more.

GVN readers are encouraged to once again participate in this year’s vote for the Audience Award, our elusive 30th category, presented to a film that has captured our fans’ attention. You can click on this link to cast your ballot, with the winner announced alongside the rest of the mainline categories.

The GVN CCA voting body consists of the over 30 critics currently contributing to Geek Vibes Nation. Each voter was given access to a secure, private voting link through which they nominated films and talent using a personalized write-in ballot. These ballots were then tabulated through a preferential voting system.

See below for the full list of categories and nominees:

Best Picture

American Fiction

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Barbie

The Holdovers

The Iron Claw

Killers of the Flower Moon

Oppenheimer

Past Lives

Poor Things

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Director

Greta Gerwig, Barbie

Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things

Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon

Celine Song, Past Lives

Best Actor

Zac Efron, The Iron Claw

Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers

Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer

Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers

Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Best Actress

Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon

Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall

Greta Lee, Past Lives

Margot Robbie, Barbie

Emma Stone, Poor Things

 

Best Supporting Actor

Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction

Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon

Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer

Ryan Gosling, Barbie

Glenn Howerton, BlackBerry

Best Supporting Actress

Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer

Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple

Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Julianne Moore, May December

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

 

Best Breakthrough Performance

Abby Ryder Fortson, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Milo Machado-Graner, Anatomy of a Fall

Charles Melton, May December

Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers

Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla

 

Best Vocal or Motion Capture Performance

Jack Black, The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Oscar Isaac, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Shameik Moore, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Robert Pattinson, The Boy and the Heron

Hailee Steinfeld, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Ensemble

Barbie

The Color Purple

The Iron Claw

Oppenheimer

They Cloned Tyrone

 

Best Original Screenplay

Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall

Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, Asteroid City

David Hemingson, The Holdovers

Celine Song, Past Lives

Emerald Fennell, Saltburn

Best Adapted Screenplay

Cord Jefferson, American Fiction (based on “Erasure” by Percival Everett)

Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie (based on “Barbie” by Mattel)

Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon (based on the book by David Grann)

Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (based on the book by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin)

Tony McNamara, Poor Things (based on the book by Alasdair Gray)

Best Animated Feature

The Boy and the Heron

Elemental

Nimona

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

 

Best Documentary Feature

American Symphony

Beyond Utopia

Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

Stamped from the Beginning

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

 

Best International Feature

Anatomy of a Fall (France)

The Boy and the Heron (Japan)

Godzilla Minus One (Japan)

The Teachers’ Lounge (Germany)

The Zone of Interest (Poland, United Kingdom)

Best Original Score

Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, Barbie

Joe Hisaishi, The Boy and the Heron

Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer

Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things

Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

 

Best Original Song

“Camp Isn’t Home” , Theater Camp

“Dance the Night” by Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, Barbie

“I’m Just Ken” by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, Barbie

“Peaches” by Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond and John Spiker, The Super Mario Bros. Movie

“What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and Finneas, Barbie

 

Best Use of a Pre-Existing Song in a Film

“Dog Days Are Over” by Florence & The Machine, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

“I Will Always Love You” by Dolly Parton, Priscilla

“Maneater” covered by Andrew Barth Feldman, No Hard Feelings

“Murder on the Dancefloor” by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Saltburn

“No Sleep ‘Till Brooklyn,” by The Beastie Boys, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 

Best Cinematography

Rodrigo Prieto, Barbie

Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon

Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer

Shabier Kirchner, Past Lives

Robbie Ryan, Poor Things

 

Best Production Design

Adam Stockhausen and Kris Moran, Asteroid City

Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, Barbie

Jack Fisk and Adam Willis, Killers of the Flower Moon

Ruth De Jong and Claire Kaufman, Oppenheimer

Shona Heath, James Price, and Szusza Mihalek, Poor Things

 

Best Hair and Makeup

Maha Mimo and Clare M. Corsick, Barbie

Alexei Dmitriew and Cassie Russek, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Kazu Hiro, Sian Grigg, Kay Georgiou and Lori McCoy-Bell, Maestro

Nadia Stacey, Mark Couler, and Josh Weston, Poor Things

Jo-Ann MacNeil and Cliona Furey, Priscilla

Best Costume Design

Jacqueline Durran, Barbie

Judianna Makovsky, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Jacqueline West. Killers of the Flower Moon

Holly Waddington, Poor Things

Lindy Hemming, Wonka

 

Best Sound Design

Nina Rice, Ai-Ling Lee, Dan Kenyon, and Kevin O’Connell, Barbie

Manfred Banach, Casey Genton, and Andy Koyama, John Wick: Chapter 4

John Pritchett, Mark Ulano, and Philip Stockton, Killers of the Flower Moon

Richard King, Jason Ruder, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, and Steve Morrow, Maestro

Richard King, Gary A. Rizzo, Kevin O’Connell, and Willie Burton, Oppenheimer

 

Best Editing

Nick Houy, Barbie

Daniel Garber, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Thelma Schoonmaker, Killers of the Flower Moon

Jennifer Lane, Oppenheimer

Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Poor Things

 

Best Visual Effects

Jay Cooper, Ian Comley, Andrew Roberts, and Neil Corbould, The Creator

Kiyoko Shibuya and Takashi Yamazaki, Godzilla Minus One

Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams, and Dan Sudick, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Scott Fisher and Andrew Jackson, Oppenheimer

Michael Lasker, Alan Hawkins, Bret St. Clair, and Pav Grochola, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Stunt Work and Fight Choreography

Wayne Dalgish, Micah Karns, and Heidi Moneymaker, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Chavo Guerrero Jr., The Iron Claw

Stephen Dunlevy, Jeremy Marinas, Koji Kawamoto, and Scott Rogers, John Wick: Chapter 4

Doug Coleman, James Lew, and Allen Robinson, The Killer

Wade Eastwood and Rudolf Vrba, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

Achievement in Comedy

Barbie

Bottoms

No Hard Feelings

Poor Things

Theater Camp

Achievement in Action or Adventure

Fast X

Gran Turismo

John Wick: Chapter 4

The Killer

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

Achievement in Horror

Five Nights at Freddy’s

Scream VI

Talk to Me

Thanksgiving

When Evil Lurks

Achievement in Science Fiction or Fantasy

The Creator

Godzilla Minus One

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Poor Things

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse