The 2024 Random Awards! Celebrating the Best Movies, Moments, Swimming Pools and Performances of 2024

The 2024 Random Awards are here! It’s been a fun year for cinema and I had a great time putting together a plethora of random awards that will hopefully put a smile on your face and introduce you to some cool movies. Enjoy!

Before you get to the awards, here are my favorite films of 2024. I included them in my list because they feature excellent acting, memorable moments, and feel like the creators genuinely loved creating them. 

Best Bike Riding During a Zombie Apocalypse Award – MadS 

Watching Laurie Pavy cruising around town while turning into a zombie is one of my favorite 2024 moments.

Best Town Meeting Award – Evil Does Not Exist

Evil Does Not Exist is one of my favorite 2024 films and the town meeting scene is a big reason why. Watch it!

Best Hoarding of Snail Memorabilia Award – Memoir of a Snail

I haven’t been able to shake Memoir of a Snail from my thoughts and I’ve actually considered starting a snail collection. 

Best Gooey and Squishy Noises Award – The Substance

The sound editing, sound mixers and foley artists got put to work while making and editing The Substance. There’s an absurd amount of squishy noises. 

Most Badass Actor Award – One-Percent Warrior

One-Percent Warrior is a cheeky and meta film about an actor who uses a fighting method called “Wave” to destroy dozens of unlucky villains. Watch it!

Best Concrete Award – The Brutalist

The Brutalist might be the most ambitious films of 2024 and I love all of its big ideas and architecture. 

Best Online Poker Award – Red Rooms

You will never watch a more stressful game of online poker in your life.

Best Wrestling Match Inside a Hotel Room – Babygirl

Nicole Kidman is a force of nature in Babygirl and it’s fun watching her engage in an odd wrestling match with Harris Dickinson inside a dirty hotel room.

Best Usage of Monopoly Board Games Award – Heretic

Hugh Grant’s Monopoly monologue is hilarious and brilliant. I’m happy he got nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance in Heretic.

Best Placement of Rocks Award – A Real Pain

When it comes to placing rocks near doorsteps, A Real Pain wins the 2024 award.

Best Quiet Performance of the Year Award – Small Things Like These

I’d love to see Cillian Murphy win all the awards for his quiet and perfectly calibrated performance in Small Things Like These.

Best Usage of Sharks in a Movie not About Sharks Award – Gladiator II

Sharks! Catapults! Front kicks! Gladiator II was made for me.

Best Hug Award – The Nickel Boys

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is excellent in The Nickel Boys, and she gives a very memorable hug. Watch it!

Best Local Store Clerk Award – Longlegs

With a little bit of screen time, Beatrix Perkins steals Longlegs from Nicolas Cage. 

Best Breakfast Award – Strange Darling

Lots of butter, eggs, and about 14 other ingredients. According to writer/director, JT Mollner, the breakfast is a representation for the happiness, indulgence and contentment that a couple of side characters feel. Their happiness doesn’t last long, but the breakfast will live on forever. 

Best Action Movie Bicycle Riding – Rebel Ridge

I got tired watching Aaron Pierre ride a bicycle during Rebel Ridge. The guy put in a lot of work to make sure his character could pedal for hours. 

Best Line About Looking At a Person’s Face Award – My Old Ass

My Old Ass hits hard and it features one of the best endings of 2024.

Best Vampire Dancing Award – Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

There’s a moment in Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person there is wonderful. Sara Montpetit played the moment perfectly and she put a huge smile on my face. 

Best Outburst About Animal Poop Award – Hard Truths

I hope that Marianne Jean-Baptiste receives awards recognition because she’s perfect in Hard Truths. 

Best Performance of Romeo and Juliet – Ghostlight

Watch Ghostlight! The ending will wreck you (in a good way). 

Best Awkward Scene Inside a Parked Car Award – Between the Temples

I don’t want to spoil anything, just know that Jason Schwartzmen has a wonderfully awkward experience in a car that’s parked in a cemetery. 

Best Voss Drinking Award – Smile 2

Some may chalk it up to product placement, but the drinking of Voss water in Smile 2 is actually necessary for the plot. Trust me. 

Best Survivor Survivor Award – Blink Twice

Adria Arjona is the MVP of Blink Twice and it’s fun watching her reality show hardened character survive some extreme real world (not the reality show) stuff. 

Best Vending Machine Award – Despicable Me 4

The vending machine bit in Despicable Me 4 is always funny. I’ve watched it at least eight times and it always makes me laugh.

Best Friendship Award – Sing Sing

Colman Domingo and Clarence Maclin have excellent chemistry together and they make Sing Sing a memorable watch. 

Best Dan Stevens Accent  Award- Tie – Cuckoo, Abigail, Godzilla x Kong

Listen to the MFF podcast episode where we pit all of Dan Stevens’ 2024 characters against each other. Also, the onions bit in Abigail is beautiful

Best Deep Blue Sea Reference Award – Jackpot

Bless you Paul Feig for including a Deep Blue Sea gag in Jackpot.

Best Decapitation in the First Five Minutes of a 2024 Film Award – The Shadow Strays

The Timo Tjahanto directed The Shadow Strays is a gloriously violent exploration of what happens when an absolute badass goes on a killing spree to save a kid. It’s on Netflix, stop what you are doing and watch it now. 

Best Possum Family Award – The Wild Robot

I’m a big fan of possums, and it’s nice not seeing them treated like feral maniacs.

Best Letterkenny Cast Appearance Award – Venom: The Last Ride

Watching Rosie (Clark Backo) from Letterkenny ripping it up in a Venom film made me very happy. 

Best Dad Jokes Award – Alien: Romulus

I want a glitchy android like Andy (David Jonsson) who tells cheesy jokes and is incredibly loyal.

Best 2024 Supporting Characters Award – Flow

Flow is one of my favorite films of 2024 and I think it features the best supporting characters of 2024.

Best Hair Work – Arianna Grande – Wicked

Arianna Grande does some A+ hair flipping in Wicked – She’s great.

Here are more random awards from the MFF crew!

Megan Hofmeyer

• Best song I need to hear ‘Funky Crab Legs’ – Moana 2
• Best title card drop – KILL
• Most insane pancake breakfast – Strange Darling
• Ticking fucking time bombs award – Blink Twice 
• Best hand based reactions by a senate – Gladiator 2
• Best use of a Nespresso during a serious discussion – Conclave 
• Best cat feeding – Nosferatu
• Best dancing while laying on the floor – Wicked
• Rock your baby award – My Old Ass
• Best coat – The Beast 

2024 Honorable Mentions:

• Best Regrets: Can’t we just give her back and say sorry?  – Abigail 
• Best Cavil-rine – Deadpool & Wolverine
• Best Acronym Work – Rebel Ridge 
• Hyperacid Award – Venom: The Last Dance
• Stop bleeding everywhere Award – Killers Game
• Best Minionese – antipasto! – Despicable Me 4

Jonny Numb – Follow Jonny on BlueSky

• When the Working Day Is Done, Oscar Winners Just Wanna Have Fun” Award: Cate Blanchett & Jamie Lee Curtis, BORDERLANDS
• Dumbest Movie About a Future We All May Wind Up Inhabiting” Award: CIVIL WAR
• Best Reboot (Sequence): David Jonsson, ALIEN: ROMULUS
• Most Expressive Hair Color: Willa Fitzgerald, STRANGE DARLING
• Fictional Character Who I Wish Really Had a Late-Night Talk Show, Because I Would Totally Watch It” Award: Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian), LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL
• Best Hissing, Snarling, Snapping, and Blood-Smearing: MadS
• Worst Case of Little Kids Playing Dress-Up” Award: SATURDAY NIGHT Best Fan Service: GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE

Zanandi Botes – Follow Zanandi on X.

• Best “Yeets a Guy Into the River” Scene – MadS
• Most Memorable Tattoo Work – I Saw the TV Glow
• Best Spit Bucket Gag – Hundreds of Beavers
• Best Anti-Food Porn – The Substance
• Best Kitchen Scene – The Coffee Table
• Best “This Guy Comes With a Soundtrack” – Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
• Best Android – Alien: Romulus
• Best Onion Scene – Abigail
• Best “Everyone Has a Gun” Scene – The Last Stop in Yuma County
• Best Needle Drop – Deadpool & Wolverine

Aaron Neuwirth – Listen to the Out Now With Aaron and Abe Podcast!

• Best Post-Apocalyptic Musical – The End
• Best Roller-Blading-related Death – Y2K
• Best Car Chase in a Non-Action Movie – The Seed of the Sacred Fig
• Best Capybara – Flow
• Best Ayahuasca Sequence – Queer
• Best Depiction of Lobsters – La Cocina
• Best Documentary to add a Metaphysical Subplot – Dahomey
• Best Library – Wicked
• Best Use of Audio Mixing To Emphasize Blood Sucking – Nosferatu
• Most Dickensian Movie – Blitz
• Best Crime-Comedy/Trans-Positive Musical – Emlia Perez
• Best Desert Fakeout – Heretic
• Best Use of Ben Franklin – Here
• Best Grocery Checkout Line Argument – Hard Truths
• Best Piano Design – The Piano Lesson
• Best Film To Feature a Replacement for Lions and Tigers and Bears by Use of Baboons, Rhinos and Sharks – Gladiator II
• Best Public Pop Star Meltdown – Smile 2
• Best Use of Santa Clause – Terrifier 3
• Best Reason To Head to the Cluuuuuuub – Megalopolis
• Best Truck Purchase – Rebel Ridge
• Best Tribute to Body Swapping Comedies From the 80s – The Substance
• Most Disgusting Newborn – Alien: Romulus
• Best Life-Size Wooden Man – Oddity
• Worst Hat: Kevin Costner – Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1

Joey Lewandowski – Listen to the 2 Fast 2 Forever podcast!

• Best New York Movie: Anora
• Best Superhero Movie: The People’s Joker
• Best Video Game Adaptation: AGGRO DR1FT
• Best Period Piece: Rap World
• Smallest Movie with the Biggest Heart: Sometimes I Think About Dying
• Most Beavers: Hundreds of Beavers
• Best Local Government Meeting on Film: Evil Does Not Exist
• Most Coreys: Coreys
• Best Live Performance in a Theater: Megalopolis
• Most Fast & Furious Movie: Bad Boys: Ride or Die
• Best Journalism in a Movie: Civil War