‘Flow’ & ‘Dune: Part Two’ Win OFCS Awards for Animation & VFX

The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS | ofcs.org) announced winners of their film honors of 2024, as well as technical awards, Special Achievement and Lifetime Achievement honors for industry leaders and icons, and the organization’s top 10 non-US released films of the year.

Awards season darling Flow, directed by Latvian auteur Gints Zilbalodis, took the prize for Best Animated Feature. The indie import was up against Pixar’s Inside Out 2, Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail, Netflix/Aardman’s Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl and DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot. Flow had also been nominated for Best Film Not in the English Language, which went to All We Imagine as Light. The Wild Robot was also nominated for Best Original Score, which was awarded to Challengers.

One of the most-nominated titles, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros. Pictures) was awarded Best Visual Effects, beating out Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Warner), Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Studios), The Substance (Mubi) and Wicked (Universal Pictures). The second installment in the Frank Herbert adaptation also won Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, the Technical Achievement award for Sound and ranked in the Top Ten Films of 2024 per OFCS (No. 7).

Anora, directed by Sean Baker, won Best Picture, Best Actress for Mikey Madison and Best Screenplay; Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance takes home awards for Best Director, Best Supporting Actress for Margaret Qualley and a Technical Achievement Award for Makeup &/or Hairstyling; Conclave also received multiple awards and Dahomey won Best Documentary.