8th Astra Film Awards

8th Astra Film Awards
Date	December 8, 2024
Site	Taglyan Complex, Los Angeles
Hosted by	Loni Love
Official website	theastras.com
Highlights
Most nominations	The Substance / Wicked (8)
Television coverage
Network	KNEKT Television Network YouTube (@TheAstraAwards)

The 8th Astra Film Awards, presented by the Hollywood Creative Alliance, are scheduled to take place on December 8, 2024, at the Taglyan Complex in Los Angeles. The nominations were announced on November 25, 2024.

The body horror The Substance and the musical fantasy Wicked led the nominations with eight each, followed by Emilia Pérez with seven and Anora with six.

The nominees for the Creative Arts Awards were announced on the same day as the Film Award nominees, with its winners also scheduled to be announced on December 8. Both ceremonies will be recorded and streamed live on KNEKT.tv and YouTube. Comedian Loni Love will host the Astra Film Awards while actor and comedian Peter Kim will host the Astra Creative Arts Awards.

Ceremony information

This is the second ceremony following the rebranding to The Astra Awards by the Hollywood Creative Alliance. For the genre categories, "Best Performance in a Horror or Thriller" was introduced while "Best Action Feature" was expanded to include science fiction, "Best Comedy Feature" was expanded to include musicals, and "Best Horror Feature" was expanded to include thrillers.

Three international-centric categories ("Best International Filmmaker", "Best International Actor", and "Best International Actress") were all discontinued, following their debut at the previous ceremony.

Winners and nominees

Winners will be listed first and highlighted with boldface.

Best Picture Anora A Real Pain Challengers Conclave Dune: Part Two Emilia Pérez Sing Sing The Brutalist The Substance Wicked	Best Director Sean Baker – Anora Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez Brady Corbet – The Brutalist Coralie Fargeat – The Substance Jon M. Chu – Wicked
Best Original Screenplay A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg Anora – Sean Baker Challengers – Justin Kuritzkes Saturday Night – Gil Kenan and Jason Reitman The Brutalist – Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold The Substance – Coralie Fargeat	Best Adapted Screenplay Conclave – Peter Straughan Dune: Part Two – Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts Hit Man – Glen Powell and Richard Linklater Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes Sing Sing – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar Wicked – Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox
Best Actor Adrien Brody – The Brutalist as László Tóth Colman Domingo – Sing Sing as Divine G Glen Powell – Hit Man as Gary Johnson Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain as David Kaplan Ralph Fiennes – Conclave as Thomas Lawrence Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown as Bob Dylan	Best Actress Angelina Jolie – Maria as Maria Callas Cynthia Erivo – Wicked as Elphaba Thropp Demi Moore – The Substance as Elisabeth Sparkle Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez as Emilia Pérez Mikey Madison – Anora as Anora "Ani" Mikheeva Naomi Scott – Smile 2 as Skye Riley
Best Supporting Actor Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing as Himself Denzel Washington – Gladiator II as Macrinus Guy Pearce – The Brutalist as Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr. Jonathan Bailey – Wicked as Fiyero Tigelaar Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain as Benji Kaplan Yura Borisov – Anora as Igor	Best Supporting Actress Ariana Grande – Wicked as Galinda Upland Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys as Hattie Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson as Berniece Charles Margaret Qualley – The Substance as Sue Selena Gomez – Emilia Pérez as Jessi Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez as Rita Mora Castro
Best Animated Feature Flow Inside Out 2 Memoir of a Snail The Wild Robot Transformers One Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl	Best Voice Over Performance Amy Poehler – Inside Out 2 as Joy Brian Tyree Henry – Transformers One as D-16 / Megatron Lupita Nyong'o – The Wild Robot as Roz / Rummage Maya Hawke – Inside Out 2 as Anxiety Owen Teague – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes as Noa Pedro Pascal – The Wild Robot as Fink
Best Horror or Thriller Feature Alien: Romulus Heretic Longlegs Nosferatu Smile 2 The Substance	Best Performance in a Horror or Thriller Bill Skarsgård – Nosferatu as Count Orlok Demi Moore – The Substance as Elisabeth Sparkle Hugh Grant – Heretic as Mr. Reed Lupita Nyong'o – A Quiet Place: Day One as Samira Margaret Qualley – The Substance as Sue Naomi Scott – Smile 2 as Skye Riley
Best Action or Science Fiction Feature Civil War Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Monkey Man The Fall Guy Twisters	Best Comedy or Musical Anora A Real Pain Challengers Deadpool & Wolverine Saturday Night Wicked
Best Documentary Feature Black Box Diaries Daughters Music by John Williams Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story The Remarkable Life of Ibelin Will & Harper	Best International Feature All We Imagine as Light Emilia Pérez Flow I'm Still Here Kneecap The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Best Indie Feature Hundreds of Beavers Late Night with the Devil Strange Darling The Apprentice The Last Showgirl Thelma	Best First Feature Anna Kendrick – Woman of the Hour Dev Patel – Monkey Man Kelsey Mann – Inside Out 2 Malcolm Washington – The Piano Lesson Sean Wang – Dìdi Zoë Kravitz – Blink Twice
Best Cast Ensemble Conclave Dune: Part Two Emilia Pérez Gladiator II Saturday Night Wicked

Honorary awards

• Artisan Icon Award – Colleen Atwood
• Artisan Achievement Award – Kris Bowers
• Artisan Breakthrough Award – Giovanni Ribisi

Films with multiple nominations

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
8	The Substance
	Wicked
7	Emilia Pérez
6	Anora
5	The Brutalist
	A Real Pain
4	Conclave
	Dune: Part Two
	Inside Out 2
	Sing Sing
3	Challengers
	Saturday Night
	Smile 2
	The Wild Robot
2	Flow
	Gladiator II
	Heretic
	Hit Man
	Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
	Monkey Man
	Nickel Boys
	Nosferatu
	The Piano Lesson
	Transformers One

See also

• 4th Astra TV Awards
• 3rd Astra Creative Arts Awards
• 7th Astra Midseason Movie Awards

External links

• Official website