Update: March 3, 2025
Now that we’ve all caught our collective breath after Sunday night’s festivities, we want to send out huge congratulations to all the winners! A few highlights:
Out of the record 51 nominations for films and talent that joined us at HIFF32, 11 Oscars were granted, which is more than double last year’s haul and includes a record FOUR specifically for ANORA director Sean Baker*, who won in the Editing, Directing, and Original Screenplay categories, in addition to taking home the coveted Best Picture! His dynamite lead actress Mikey Madison also won, for Best Actress.
CONCLAVE screenwriter Peter Straughan won in the Adapted Screenplay category.
I’M STILL HERE—for which we welcomed director Walter Salles and nominee for Best Actress Fernanda Torres at HIFF32—took home the award for Best International Feature. A HIFF win was guaranteed in that category, since we screened all five of the nominees.
HIFF featured both of the films that garnered wins in the Supporting Actor/Actress categories—Kieran Culkin for A REAL PAIN, and Zoe Saldaña for EMILIA PÉREZ, which also took home Best Original Song for “El Mal.”
And finally, for the first time a HIFF film took home the Best Animated Film Oscar—congratulations to FLOW director Gints Zilbalodis!
It was definitely a night to remember, and we’re already looking ahead to HIFF33…
Check out the full list of winners,
*Not since 1953 has one person won four Oscars in one night, when Walt Disney took home prizes for four different films. Baker blew that away with his new record of four Oscars for one film!
EMILIA PÉREZ: most overall nominations (13)
Original Article
Films we featured and guests we welcomed at HIFF32 were as well received by The Academy as they were by our audiences last fall, receiving a record 51 (!) nominations for the 97th Academy Awards on March 2.
Congratulations to the films, filmmakers and actors who joined us last October and received a nomination from The Academy this week! 🥂 🎉 HIFF was proud to screen five of the Best Picture nominees: ANORA, CONCLAVE (HIFF New York Premiere), EMILIA PÉREZ (which led with 13 nominations), I’M STILL HERE, and NICKEL BOYS.
Demi Moore
Guests of HIFF32 who received nominations included Career Achievement in Acting Award recipient Demi Moore (Best Actress nomination for THE SUBSTANCE), Fernanda Torres (Best actress nominations for I’M STILL HERE), Ed Lachman (Best Cinematography, MARIA) and Breakthrough Performer Clarence Maclin (Best Adapted Screenplay, SING SING).
Overall, HIFF screened half of the twenty nominated performances:
Best Actress
• Karla Sofía Gascón, EMILIA PÉREZ
• Mikey Madison, ANORA
• Demi Moore, THE SUBSTANCE
• Fernanda Torres, I’M STILL HERE
Fernanda Torres and Walter Salles
Best Actor
• Colman Domingo, SING SING
• Ralph Fiennes, CONCLAVE
Best Supporting Actor
• Yura Borisov, ANORA
• Kieran Culkin, A REAL PAIN
Best Supporting Actress
• Isabella Rossellini, CONCLAVE
• Zoe Saldaña, EMILIA PÉREZ
Two of the directors of films that screened at HIFF were recognized:
Best Director
• Sean Baker, ANORA
• Jacques Audiard, EMILIA PÉREZ
HIFF screened seven of the ten films for which the screenplay was nominated:
CONCLAVE
Best Adapted Screenplay
• Peter Straughan, CONCLAVE
• Jacques Audiard, EMILIA PÉREZ
• RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, NICKEL BOYS
• Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar; Story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield, SING SING
Best Original Screenplay
• Sean Baker, ANORA
• Jesse Eisenberg, A REAL PAIN
• Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, and Alex David, SEPTEMBER 5
DEATH BY NUMBERS
Director Kim A. Snyder received a nomination for her short documentary DEATH BY NUMBERS, which is a first for a film that had its World Premiere at HIFF!
All HIFF short film nominees include:
Best Documentary Short
• DEATH BY NUMBERS
Best Live Action Short
• THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT
Best Animated Short
• BEAUTIFUL MEN
• WANDER TO WONDER
THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE
All five of the films nominated for Best International Feature screened at HIFF:
• I’M STILL HERE (Brazil)
• THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE (Denmark, US Premiere)
• EMILIA PÉREZ (France)
• THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Germany)
• FLOW (Latvia, HIFF East Coast Premiere, a double nominee; see below)
Two of the five Best Documentary Feature nominees played at HIFF:
• SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT
• PORCELAIN WAR
And finally, we screened two of the Best Animated Feature nominees:
• FLOW
• MEMOIR OF A SNAIL
Congratulations to all the nominees! We will be rooting for these films on March 2. In the meantime, we hope our audiences will seek out any of the films you may have missed… so many of them are still in theaters and/or streaming. Who do you think will win?
