2023 StLFCA Award Winners

Keith NoakesDecember 18, 2023n/a7 min

Read the complete list of winners for the 2023 St. Louis Film Critics Association awards, recognizing the best in film this past year.

BEST FILM
Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-Up: Barbie

BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Runner-Up: Greta Gerwig – Barbie

BEST ACTOR
Winner: Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Runner-Up: Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers

BEST ACTRESS
Winner: Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Runner-Up: Margot Robbie – Barbie

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Winner: Ryan Gosling – Barbie
Runner-Up: Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer & Charles Melton – May December tie

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Winner: Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Runner-Up: Rachel McAdams – 
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret

BEST ENSEMBLE
Winner: The Holdovers
Runner-Up: Barbie & Oppenheimer tie

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-Up: American Fiction

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner: Barbie
Runner-Up: The Holdovers

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-Up: Asteroid City & Killers of the Flower Moon & Maestro tie

BEST EDITING
Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-Up: The Killer

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Winner: Barbie
Runner-Up: Poor Things

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Winner: Barbie
Runner-Up: Poor Things

BEST MUSIC SCORE
Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-Up: Killers of the Flower Moon & May December tie

BEST MUSIC SOUNDTRACK
Winner: Barbie
Runner-Up: The Killer

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Winner: The Creator
Runner-Up: Oppenheimer

BEST STUNTS
Winner: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Runner-Up: John Wick: Chapter 4

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
Winner: Anatomy of a Fall
Runner-Up: The Zone of Interest

BEST ACTION MOVIE
Winner: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One& John Wick: Chapter 4 tie

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Winner: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
Runner-Up: The Boy and the Heron

BEST COMEDY
Winner: The Holdovers
Runner-Up: Barbie

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Winner: American Symphony & Still A Michael J. Fox Movie tie

BEST HORROR
Winner: Talk to Me
Runner-Up: Skinamarink

BEST SCENE
Winner: Barbie – Gloria (America Ferrara)’s monologue on impossible standards for women
Runner-Up: John Wick: Chapter 4 

still courtesy of Universal Pictures


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