Rotten Tomatoes Awards: Best Movies & TV Winners of 2024

by | January 16, 2025 | Comments

And the Golden Tomato goes to…

It’s been our annual tradition to hand out trophies for the best-reviewed movies and TV series of the year, with winners of the past five years including Oppenheimer, The Last of Us, Top Gun: Maverick, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and House of the Dragon.

For our 26th edition of the Rotten Tomatoes Awards, let’s celebrate 2024’s best in film and TV, acclaimed works that have taken us to sand-swept planets, the dazzling land of Oz, feudal Japan, the Gotham City underworld, and inside and outside the vaults of post-apocalyptic America.

Rotten Tomatoes Awards winner are determined using an adjusted formula, a weighted ranking whose factors include a movie or show’s Tomatometer rating, and its number of critics reviews. Learn more in the How It Works section at the end.

In total this year, there are 30 categories, plus our all-new Fan Favorite Movies, created through our audience-driven Popcornmeter and Verified Hot ratings left all throughout 2024. And, finally, there’s Golden Year, a look back on stars who have made the most impact through their works.

BEST MOVIES & TV OF 2024

Best Movies of 2024
1. Dune: Part Two – WINNER

The nominees (in alphabetical order)
2. Anora​
3. Challengers
4. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga​
5. Hit Man
6. Inside Out 2
7. Love Lies Bleeding
8. The Substance
9. Wicked
10. The Wild Robot

Best Wide Release Movies of 2024
1. Dune: Part 2 – WINNER

The nominees
2. Anora​
3. Challengers
4. Conclave
5. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga​
6. Inside Out 2
7. Love Lies Bleeding
8. The Substance
9. Wicked
10. The Wild Robot

Best Limited Release Movies of of 2024
1. All We Imagine As Light – WINNER

The nominees
2. The Brutalist​
3. A Different Man
4. Ghostlight
5. Girls Will Be Girls​
6. Good One
7. Nowhere Special
8. The Promised Land
9. Robot Dreams
10. Sing Sing

Best Streaming Movies of 2024
1. Hit Man – WINNER

The nominees
2. Fancy Dance​
3. His Three Daughters
4. The Imaginary
5. Música
6. Orion and the Dark
7. The Piano Lesson
8. Rebel Ridge
9. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
10. Woman of the Hour

Best TV Series of 2024
1. Shōgun – WINNER

The nominees
2. Arcane: League of Legends: Season 2​​
3. Baby Reindeer​
4. Fallout​
5. Mr. & Mrs. Smith​
6. Pachinko: Season 2
7. The Penguin​
8. Slow Horses: Season 4
9. True Detective: Night Country
10. X-Men ’97​

Best New Series of 2024
1. Shōgun – WINNER

The nominees
2. Batman: Caped Crusader​​
3. Black Doves
4. English Teacher
5. Fallout​
6. Matlock
7. Mr. & Mrs Smith​
8. Nobody Wants This
9. Supacell
10. X-Men ’97​

Best Returning Series of 2024
1. Slow Horses: Season 4 – WINNER

The nominees
2. Arcane: League of Legends: Season 2​​
3. Colin From Accounts: Season 2
4. Evil​: Season 4
5. Girls5eva: Season 3
6. Hacks: Season 3
7. Heartstopper: Season 3
8. Industry: Season 3
9. Pachinko: Season 2
10. Somebody Somewhere: Season 3

Best Anthology or Limited Series of 2024
1. The Penguin​ – WINNER

The nominees
2. Baby Reindeer​
3. Fantasmas​
4. Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist​
5. Mary & George
6. One Day
7. Ripley​
8. Say Nothing
9. The Sympathizer
10. True Detective: Night Country

Fan Favorite Movies
1. Wicked – WINNER

The nominees
2. Bad Boys: Ride or Die​
3. Deadpool & Wolverine​
4. Dune: Part Two
5. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
6. Inside Out 2
7. It Ends With Us
8. Reagan
9. Twisters
10. The Wild Robot
BEST MOVIES BY GENRE

Best Action & Adventure Movies
1. Monkey Man – WINNER

The nominees (in alphabetical order)
2. Deadpool & Wolverine​
3. The Fall Guy
4. Rebel Ridge
5. Twisters

Best Animated Movies
1. The Wild Robot – WINNER

The nominees
2. Flow
3. Inside Out 2
4. Memoir of a Snail
5. Robot Dreams

Best Comedy Movies
1. Hit Man – WINNER

The nominees
2. Hundreds of Beavers
3. My Old Ass
4. Kneecap
5. Thelma

Best Documentaries
1. Will & Harper – WINNER

The nominees
2. Dahomey
3. Daughters
4. Jim Henson: Idea Man
5. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Best Drama Movies
1. A Real Pain – WINNER

The nominees
2. All We Imagine As Light
3. Ghostlight
4. His Three Daughters
5. Sing Sing

Best Fantasy Movies
1. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – WINNER

The nominees
2. Problemista
3. Timestalker
4. Tuesday
5. The Vourdalak

Best Horror Movies
1. The Substance – WINNER

The nominees
2. A Quiet Place: Day One
3. Heretic
4. Late Night with the Devil
5. Longlegs

Best Music Movies
1. Wicked – WINNER

The nominees
2. Beatles ’64
3. The Greatest Night in Pop
4. I Am: Celine Dion
5. Music by John Williams

Best Mystery & Thriller Movies
1. Conclave – WINNER

The nominees
2. A Different Man
3. Civil War
4. Love Lies Bleeding
5. Strange Darling

Best International Movies
1. All We Imagine As Light – WINNER

The nominees
2. Kneecap
3. Oddity
4. The Promised Land
5. Robot Dreams

Best Romance Movies
1. Anora – WINNER

The nominees
2. Girls Will Be Girls
3. Música
4. The Idea of You
5. We Live in Time

Best Sports Movies
1. Challengers – WINNER

The nominees
2. Backspot
3. The Beautiful Game
4. The Fire Inside
5. Young Woman and the Sea

BEST TV BY GENRE

Best Animated Series
1. X-Men ’97 – WINNER

The nominees (in alphabetical order)
2. Arcane: Leage of Legends: Season 2
3. Batman: Caped Crusader
4. Creature Commandos
5. Terminator Zero

Best Comedy Series
1. Hacks: Season 3 – WINNER

The nominees
2. English Teacher
3. Girls5Eva: Season 3
4. Only Murders in the Building: Season 4
5. Shrinking: Season 2

Best Drama Series
1. Shōgun – WINNER

The nominees
2. Baby Reindeer
3. Industry: Season 3
4. Matlock
5. Pachinko: Season 2

Best Fantasy Series
1. Dead Boy Detectvies – WINNER

The nominees
2. Agatha All Along
3. House of the Dragon: Season 2
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 2
5. Renegade Nell

Best Horror Series
1. Evil: Season 4 – WINNER

The nominees
2. Hysteria!
3. Interview with the Vampire: Season 2
4. Teacup
5. The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

Best Mystery & Thriller Series
1. The Penguin – WINNER

The nominees
2. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
3. Ripley
4. Slow Horses: Season 4
5. True Detective: Night Country

Best Romance Series
1. Heartstopper: Season 3 – WINNER

The nominees
2. Colin from Accounts: Season 2
3. My Lady Jane
4. Nobody Wants This
5. One Day

Best Sci-Fi Series
1. Fallout – WINNER

The nominees
2. The Boys: Season 4
3. Doctor Who
4. Silo: Season 2
5. Supacell

How it works

  • The movie and TV rankings represent the most up-to-date Tomatometer & Popcornmeter scores as of December 31, 2024.
  • The winners and nominees are determined by an adjusted score formula, which is a weighted ranking that compensates for the variation in the number of reviews when comparing movies or TV shows within a specified time frame.
  • Limited releases are defined as opening in fewer than 600 theaters at initial release, or as virtual cinema. Platform releases, or movies initially released in fewer than 600 theaters that later expand before December 31, are categorized as Wide Release.
  • International releases are defined as non-English language films.
  • To qualify, a movie must be released in the United States between January 1 and December 31, 2024, and be Certified Fresh on the Tomatometer, and for the Fan Favorite Movie category, Verified Hot on the Popcornmeter.
  • All eligible seasons and TV movies must have premiered or ended in the 2024 calendar year, and have a minimum of 20 reviews from different critics for the season or its episodes. All contenders need to have at least 5 reviews by Top Critics.

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