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:
- All of Us Strangers
- Asteroid City
- Barbie
- The Holdovers
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- May December
- Oppenheimer
- Past Lives – **WINNER**
- Poor Things
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
- Anatomy of a Fall (French)
- The Boy and the Heron (Japanese)
- Godzilla Minus One (Japanese)
- Perfect Days (Japanese)
- The Zone of Interest (German) – **WINNER**
BEST ANIMATED FILM:
- The Boy and the Heron – **WINNER**
- Elemental
- Nimona
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
BEST DOCUMENTARY:
- Four Daughters
- Kokomo City
- Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
- Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie – **WINNER**
- Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
BEST DIRECTOR:
- Greta Gerwig, Barbie
- Todd Haynes, May December
- Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer – **WINNER**
- Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
- Celine Song, Past Lives
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:
- Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
- America Ferrera, Barbie
- Anne Hathaway, Eileen
- Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
- Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers – **WINNER**
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
- Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall
- Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach, Barbie
- David Hemingson, The Holdovers
- Samy Burch (story by Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik), May December
- Celine Song, Past Lives – **WINNER**
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
- Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
- Kelly Fremon Craig, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
- Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
- Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer – **WINNER**
- Tony McNamara, Poor Things
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
- Mátyás Erdély, The Iron Claw
- Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon
- Matthew Libatique, Maestro
- Hoyte Van Hoytema, Oppenheimer – **WINNER**
- Robbie Ryan, Poor Things
BEST EDITING:
- Nick Houy, Barbie
- Thelma Schoonmaker, Killers of the Flower Moon
- Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer – **WINNER**
- Keith Fraase, Past Lives
- Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Poor Things
BEST SCORE:
- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, The Killer
- Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon – **WINNER**
- Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
- Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
- Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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:
- Daniel Goldhaber, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
- Raven Jackson, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
- Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
- A.V. Rockwell, A Thousand and One
- Celine Song, Past Lives – **WINNER**
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