2024 Crash/Cut Film Awards

Brought to you by the U of C Film Society!

Welcome to the fourth annual Crash/Cut film awards — voted by YOU! 2023 was a fantastic year for cinema, and after weeks of nominations and voting, the results are in! Keep reading to check out the winners. 

A massive thanks to all the wonderful members that participated. Here's to another year of great movies! 

MUSIC AWARDS

Best Original Song​

Camp Isn't Home
Theatre Camp

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​Other Nominees: 
Here to Stay - Tim Hecker (Infinity Pool)
I'm Just Ken - Ryan Gosling (Barbie)
What Was I Made For? - Billie Eilish (Barbie)

Best Original Score

Past Lives
Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen

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​Other Nominees:
BlackBerry (Jay McCarrol)
Oppenheimer (Ludwig Göransson)
Poor Things (Jerskin Fendrix)

TECHNICAL AWARDS

Best Cinematography

Poor Things
​Robbie Ryan

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​Other Nominees: 
Asteroid City (Robert Yeoman)
​Saltburn (Linus Sandgren)

​Best Sound

Priscilla
Nelson Ferreira

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​Other Nominees:
Oppenheimer (Richard King)

Best Editing

Anatomy of a Fall
Lauren Sénéchal

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​Other Nominees:
BlackBerry (Curtis Lobb)
Oppenheimer (Jennifer Lame)

Best Visual Effects

Oppenheimer 


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​​Other Nominees: 
​Asteroid City

Best Stunts/Choreography

John Wick: Chapter 4

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​Other Nominees: 
Asteroid City
Barbie
​The Killer

Best Production Design

Poor Things
Shona Heath and James Price

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​Other Nominees:
Priscilla (Tamara Deverell)
Barbie (Sarah Greenwood)

Best Costume Design

Poor Things
​Holly Waddington 

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​Other Nominees:
Asteroid City (Milena Canonero)
Barbie (Jacqueline Durran)
Priscilla (Stacey Battat)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Poor Things
Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier, and Josh Weston

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Other Nominees:
​Barbie (Ivana Primorac)

WRITING AWARDS

Best Original Screenplay

May December
Screenplay by Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik



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​Other Nominees:
Past Lives (Celine Song)

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Best Adapted Screenplay

Poor Things
Written by Tony McNamara 
Based on the novel Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer (1992) by Alasdair Gray


​Other Nominees:
Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin)
​BlackBerry (Matt Johnson, Matthew Miller, Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff) 

PERFORMANCE AWARDS

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Cillian Murphy 
Oppenheimer


​Other Nominees:
Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers)
Glenn Howerton (BlackBerry)
Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Lily Gladstone
​Killers of the Flower Moon


​Other Nominees:
Emma Stone (Poor Things)
Greta Lee (Past Lives)
Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Charles Melton 
​May December


​Other Nominees:
Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things)
Paul Mescal (All of Us Strangers)
​Swann Arlaud (Anatomy of a Fall)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Da'Vine Joy Randolph
The Holdovers


​Other Nominees:
Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple)
Ayo Edebiri (The Sweet East)
Rosamund Pike (Saltburn)

Best Ensemble

Bottoms


Other Nominees: 
Barbie
Saltburn
​Theatre Camp

BEST SHORTS

Best Live Action Short Film

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Wes Anderson

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Other Nominees: 
The Breakthrough (Daniel Sinclair)
The Swan (Wes Anderson)

Ninety-Five Senses

Our Uniform 

Best Animated Short Film

TIE: 
Ninety-Five Senses (Jerusha Hess and Jared Hess)
Our Uniform (Yegane Moghaddam)

The ABCs of Book Banning 

The Barber of Little Rock 

Best Documentary Short Film

TIE:
​The ABCs of Book Banning (Trish Adlesic, Sheila Nevins, and Nazenet Habtezghi)
​The Barber of Little Rock (John Hoffman and Christine Turner)

BEST PICTURES

Apolonia, Apolonia

Chasing Chasing Amy

Best Documentary Feature Film

TIE:
Apolonia, Apolonia (Lea Glob)
Chasing Chasing Amy (Sav Rodgers)

Best Animated Feature Film

Best International Feature Film

The Boy and the Heron 
​Hayao Miyazaki 


​Other Nominees:
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson)
Toopy and Binoo: The Movie (Raymond Lebrun and Dominique Jolin)

Perfect Days
Wim Wenders


​Other Nominees:
Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
Monster (Hirokazu Koreeda)
Passages (Ira Sachs)

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet 


​Other Nominees: 
Past Lives (Celine Song)
Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
May December (Todd Haynes)

Best Director

Celine Song
Past Lives

​Other Nominees: 
Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall)
Sofia Coppola (Priscilla)
​Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things)