AWARDS: Our 2023 Winners

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GWNYFCA critics (l-r) Jordan Canahai, Adam Lubitow, Matt Marshall, David Palmer, and Matthew Passantino at the Dryden Theatre during our first in-person awards announcement on January 6, 2024; photo by Matt DeTurck.

The ballots have been counted for the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association’s sixth annual end-of-year Film Awards. We’ve chosen the below films as our collective favorites after engaging in a weighted scale voting process for Best Picture and fifteen other major categories. Potential titles/artists were restricted to those films released first-run theatrically/streaming in the United States during the 2023 calendar year.

Leading the way are OPPENHEIMER (4 wins) and PAST LIVES (3 wins, including Best Picture).

The 2023 GWNYFCA Film Awards Winners:

BEST PICTURE:

(L – R) Teo Yoo and Greta Lee in PAST LIVES; courtesy of A24.

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

BEST ANIMATED FILM:

BEST DOCUMENTARY:

BEST DIRECTOR:

  • Greta Gerwig, Barbie
  • Todd Haynes, May December
  • Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer – **WINNER**
  • Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Celine Song, Past Lives
L to R: Robert Downey Jr is Lewis Strauss and Cillian Murphy is J. Robert Oppenheimer in OPPENHEIMER, written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. Photo by Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures.

LEAD ACTOR:

  • Bradley Cooper, Maestro
  • Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers – **WINNER**
  • Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
  • Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers
  • Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

LEAD ACTRESS:

  • Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon – **WINNER**
  • Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
  • Greta Lee, Past Lives
  • Natalie Portman, May December
  • Emma Stone, Poor Things

SUPPORTING ACTOR:

  • Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
  • Ryan Gosling, Barbie
  • Charles Melton, May December – **WINNER**
  • Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
  • Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

A scene from THE ZONE OF INTEREST; courtesy of A24.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

  • Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet and Arthur Harari)
  • Barbie (Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach)
  • The Holdovers (David Hemingson)
  • May December (Samy Burch / story by Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik)
  • Past Lives (Celine Song) – **WINNER**

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

  • All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)
  • Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (Kelly Fremon Craig)
  • Killers of the Flower Moon (Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese)
  • Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan) – **WINNER**
  • Poor Things (Tony McNamara)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

  • The Iron Claw (Mátyás Erdély)
  • Killers of the Flower Moon (Rodrigo Prieto)
  • Maestro (Matthew Libatique)
  • Oppenheimer (Hoyte Van Hoytema) – **WINNER**
  • Poor Things (Robbie Ryan)

BEST EDITING:

  • Barbie (Nick Houy)
  • Killers of the Flower Moon (Thelma Schoonmaker)
  • Oppenheimer (Jennifer Lame) – **WINNER**
  • Past Lives (Keith Fraase)
  • Poor Things (Yorgos Mavropsaridis)

BEST SCORE:

  • The Killer (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross)
  • Killers of the Flower Moon (Robbie Robertson) – **WINNER**
  • Oppenheimer (Ludwig Göransson)
  • Poor Things (Jerskin Fendrix)
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Daniel Pemberton)
A scene from THE BOY AND THE HERON; courtesy of GKIDS.

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE:

  • Abby Ryder Fortson, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
  • Charles Melton, May December – **WINNER**
  • Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers
  • Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla
  • Teo Yoo, Past Lives

BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR:

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