2023 DFCC Award Winners

Keith NoakesDecember 21, 2023n/a5 min

Read the complete list of winners for the 2023 Dublin Film Critics Circle awards, recognizing the best in film this past year. winners are presented in a ranked list for each category

Best Film
Past Lives
Anatomy of a Fall
Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
May December
Tár
Barbie
Close/EO (tie)
The Eight Mountains/Passages (tie)
Priscilla

Best Director
Celine Song – Past Lives
Justine Triet – Anatomy of a Fall
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon
Todd Field – Tár
Alice Diop – Saint Omer
Greta Gerwig – Barbie
Lukas Dhont – Close
Jerzy Skolimowski – EO
Bradley Cooper – Maestro

Best Actor
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Franz Rogowski – Passages
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Joaquin Phoenix – Beau Is Afraid
Denis Ménochet – The Beasts
Luca Marinelli – The Eight Mountains
Barry Keoghan – Saltburn
Milo Machado Graner – Anatomy of a Fall
Chares Melton – May December
Ryan Gosling – Barbie

Best Actress
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Carey Mulligan – Maestro
Cate Blanchett – Tár
Sandra Huller – Anatomy of a Fall
Julianne Moore – May December
Natalie Portman – May December
Tilda Swinton – The Eternal Daughter
Annette Bening – Nyad
Adèle Exarchopoulos – Passages
Sydney Sweeney – Reality

Best Documentary
The Deepest Breath
406 Days
Still: A Michael J Fox Movie
Kokomo City
In the Shadow of Beirut
Stolen
So This Is Christmas
Little Richard: I Am Everything
I Dream in Photos
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Best Irish Film
Lakelands
The Deepest Breath
Lola
My Sailor, My Love
Ballywalter

Best Screenplay
Justine Triet & Arthur Harari – Anatomy of a Fall
Isabel Peña & Rodrigo Sorogoyen – The Beasts
Samy Burch – May December
Aki Kaurismäki – Fallen Leaves
Paul Schrader – Master Gardener

Best Cinematography
Rodrigo Prieto – Killers of the Flower Moon
Hoyte van Hoytema – Oppenheimer
Mark Jenkin – Enys Men
Ruben Impens – The Eight Mountains
Thomas Favel – Return to Seoul

International Breakthrough
Raine Allen-Miller – Rye Lane

Irish Breakthrough
Orén Kinlan – Flora and Son

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