2023 UFCA Award Winners

Keith NoakesJanuary 8, 2024n/a5 min

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

Best Picture

Winner: Past Lives

Runner-up: Poor Things

Best Achievement in Directing

Winner: Celine Song – Past Lives

Runner-up: Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things

Best Lead Performance, Male

Winner: Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers

Runner-up: Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

Best Lead Performance, Female

Winner: Emma Stone – Poor Things

Runner-up: Greta Lee – Past Lives & Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon tie

Best Supporting Performance, Male

Winner: Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers

Runner-up: Charles Melton – May December

Best Supporting Performance, Female

Winner: Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

Runner-up: Sandra Hüller – The Zone of Interest

Best Ensemble Cast

Winner: The Iron Claw

Runner-up: The Holdovers

Vice/Martin Award for Performance in a Science-Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror Film

Winner: Iman Vellani – The Marvels

Runner-up: Nicolas Cage – Renfield

Best Original Screenplay

Winner: Celine Song – Past Lives

Runner-up: Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach – Barbie

Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner: Kelly Fremon Craig – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Runner-up: Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer & Cord Jefferson – American Fiction tie

Best Cinematography

Winner: Poor Things – Robbie Ryan

Runner-up: Oppenheimer – Hoyte van Hoytema

Best Original Score

Winner: Killers of the Flower Moon

Runner-up: Poor Things

Best Film Editing

Winner: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Runner-up: The Holdovers & Oppenheimer tie

Best Visual Effects

Winner: Godzilla Minus One

Runner-up: The Creator & Poor Things tie

Best Documentary Feature

Winner: Still: The Michael J. Fox Story

Runner-up: The Mission

Best Animated Feature

Winner: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Runner-up: Robot Dreams

Best Non-English Feature

Winner: The Zone of Interest

Runner-up: Godzilla Minus One

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