2023 WAFCA Award Winners

Keith NoakesDecember 11, 2023n/a3 min

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

Best Feature
American Fiction (MGM)

Best Director
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer

Best Actor
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer

Best Actress
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Supporting Actor
Charles Melton – May December

Best Supporting Actress
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

Best Adapted Screenplay
American Fiction (MGM) – Cord Jefferson (based on “Erasure” by Percival Everett)

Best Original Screenplay
Past Lives (A24) – Celine Song

Best Animated Feature
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)

Best Documentary
American Symphony (Netflix) – Matthew Heineman (director, producer), Lauren Domino, Joedan Okun (producers)

Best International/Foreign Language Film
Anatomy of a Fall (France) – dir. Justine Triet

Best Voice Performance
Shameik Moore – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)

Best Youth Performance
Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers

Best Acting Ensemble
Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)

Best Production Design
Barbie (Warner Bros.) – Sarah Greenwood (production designer), Katie Spencer (set decorator)

Best Cinematography
Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures) – Hoyte van Hoytema

Best Editing
Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures) – Jennifer Lame

Best Original Score
Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)

still courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures


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