2023 PFCC Award Winners

Read the complete list of winners for the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle awards, recognizing the best in film this past year.

Best Film
Winner: Poor Things
Runner-Up: Oppenheimer

Best Director
Winner: Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things
Runner-Up: Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer

Best Actress
Winner: Emma Stone – Poor Things
Runner-Up: Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon

​Best Actor
Winner: Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Runner-Up: Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
​Runner-Up: Julianne Moore – May December

​Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Runner-Up: Charles Melton – May December

Best Animated Film
Winner: The Boy And The Heron
Runner-Up: Robot Dreams

​Best Foreign Film
Winner: The Boy And The Heron
Runner-Up: Anatomy Of A Fall

Best Documentary
Winner: 20 Days In Mariupol
Runner-Up: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Best Cinematography
Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-Up: Poor Things

Best Breakthrough Performance
Winner: Charles Melton – May December
Runner-Up: Abby Ryder Fortson – Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret

Best Directorial Debut
Winner: Celine Song – Past Lives
Runner-Up: Cord Jefferson – American Fiction

Best Screenplay
Winner: Poor Things
Runner-Up: Oppenheimer

Best Score/Soundtrack
Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-Up: Poor Things

Best Ensemble
Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-Up: Poor Things

Cheesesteak Award – for a film meant to recognize a blockbuster that’s hard to ignore
Winner: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Runner-Up: Godzilla Minus One

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