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The Films of 2024. The 25th annual FiLM BiTCH Awards

PICTURE | ACTING | VISUALS | AURALS - you are here | EXTRAS | SPECIAL | SCENES 

 

AND THE NOMINEES ARE... 

 

 
Best Original Score
         

BABYGIRL
Cristobal Tapia de Veer

THE BRUTALIST
Daniel Blumberg

CHALLENGERS
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

A DIFFERENT MAN
Umberto Smerilli

FLOW
Rihards Yupe & Gints Zilbalodis

Runners Up

Finalists: Danny Elfman Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Alberto Iglesias The Room Next Door, and Hans Zimmer  Blitz

Semi Finalists: Ella van der woude for Armand, Robert Ouyang Rusli for Problemista, Daniel Pemberton for Fly Me to the Moon, and Volker Bertelmann for Conclave

 

Best Original Song
Tunes!
         

"Winter Coat"
BLITZ

"Sick in the Head"
KNEECAP

"Beautiful That Way"
THE LAST SHOWGIRL

"Better the Devil"
STRANGE DARLING

"Harper & Will Go West"
WILL & HARPER

Runners Up

Finalists: "El Mal" Emilia Perez, "Closer" and "The Idea of You" of The Idea of You

Semi Finalists: "Huele a Fraude" Problemista, "Mia Camino" Emilia Perez, "Not My Fault" for Mean Girls, "The Idea of You" The Idea of You, "Like a Bird" Sing Sing

 

Best Sound
Think overall soundscape and design / plus creation and editing of sound effects
         

BLITZ

CIVIL WAR

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

THE SUBSTANCE

WICKED

 

Finalists: Dune Part Two,  Challengers, and The Fall Guy
Semi Finalists: The Brutalist, Wild Robot, Nosferatu, and Babygirl

 

NOMINATION TALLIES FOR  (OSCAR-PARALLEL) CATEGORIES*
38 FILMS RECOGNIZED ACROSS 18 CATEGORIES

the film bitch awards have 5 less traditional categories than Oscar as we do not have short film categories,
doc feature, or international feature categories

 

8 noms
THE BRUTALIST

6 noms
THE SUBSTANCE

5 noms
ANORA
WICKED

4 noms
BABYGIRL
BLITZ
A DIFFERENT MAN
FLOW

3 noms
CONCLAVE
PROBLEMISTA

2 noms
BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE 
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
DUNE PART TWO
THE FALL GUY 
THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE
HARD TRUTHS
THE LAST SHOWGIRL
NOSFERATU 
A REAL PAIN
STRANGE DARLING
VERMIGLIO
WILD ROBOT 

1 nom
THE APPRENTICE
A BETTER MAN
CHALLENGERS
CHICKEN FOR LINDA
CIVIL WAR
DIDI
GLADIATOR II
HIT MAN
HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS
KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
KNEECAP
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
SEED OF THE SACRED FIG
SING SING
THE THICKET
WILL & HARPER

 

 

Continue on to "Extra" Categories but we start here below, since it's a music category...

 

Best Adapted Score, Combination Score, or Song Score
Anything that uses a lot of pre-written material (alongside or in place of original music)
*not an Oscar parallel category but makes sense to place it on the sound page*
 A COMPLETE UNKNOWN THE IDEA OF YOU I SAW THE TV GLOW STRANGE DARLING  WICKED 

The songs of Bob Dylan and other 60s folk icons  reinterpreted by the gifted cast.

The boy band "August Moon" (Nicolas Galatzine on vocals) and Various Artists

A curated fictional soundtrack (Various Artists) for the show within the film

Songs by Z Berg, Score by Craig DeLeon, provide an eery marriage of music and film.

A rerecording of the Tony winning song score by Stephen Schwartz featuring the divine voices of Erivo & Grande

 

 Finalists: Kneecap (Kneecap as themselves + incidental mucis by Mikey J),  Saturday Night (Jon Baptiste and Various Artists), 

Semi Finalists: The End (song score by Joshua Schmidt and Marius De Vries with vocals by the cast), Emilia Perez (song score by Camille and Clement Ducol with vocals by the cast)  Vermiglio (a collection of classical music)  Queer (Score by Reznor & Ross + Various Artists), Maria (Maria Callas vocals + various artists)