2023 NCFCA Award Winners

Keith NoakesJanuary 4, 2024n/a4 min

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

BEST NARRATIVE FILM
Oppenheimer

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Still: A Michael J Fox Movie

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Anatomy Of A Fall

BEST DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Oppenheimer

BEST ACTOR
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer

BEST ACTRESS
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE IN ANIMATION OR MIXED MEDIA
Daniel Kaluuya – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Oppenheimer

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Barbie

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Oppenheimer

BEST EDITING
Oppenheimer

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Godzilla Minus One

BEST STUNT COORDINATION
John Wick: Chapter 4

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Barbie

BEST HAIR & MAKE-UP
Barbie

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Barbie

BEST SCORE
Oppenheimer

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
I’m Just Ken – Barbie

BEST SOUND DESIGN
Oppenheimer

BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT
Celine Song – Past Lives

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: Make-Up Artist
Rick Baker

KEN HANKE MEMORIAL TAR HEEL AWARD
Fantasia Barrino – The Color Purple

still courtesy of Universal Pictures


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