2023 GAFCA Award Winners

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

Best Picture

Winner: “Oppenheimer”
Runner-Up: “Past Lives”

Best Director

Winner: “Oppenheimer” – Christopher Nolan
Runner-Up: “Barbie” – Greta Gerwig & “Killers of the Flower Moon” – Martin Scorsese tie

Best Actor

Winner: Cillian Murphy (“Oppenheimer”)
Runner-Up: Jeffrey Wright (“American Fiction”)

Best Actress

Winner: Lily Gladstone (“Killers of the Flower Moon”)
Runner-Up: Emma Stone (“Poor Things”)

Best Supporting Actor

Winner: Robert Downey, Jr. (“Oppenheimer”)
Runner-Up: Charles Melton (“May December”)

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Holdovers”)
Runner-Up: Emily Blunt (“Oppenheimer”)

Best Original Screenplay

Winner: “The Holdovers” – David Hemingson
Runner-Up: “Past Lives” – Celine Song

Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner: “Oppenheimer” – Christopher Nolan
Runner-Up: “American Fiction” – Cord Jefferson

Best Cinematography

Winner: “Oppenheimer” – Hoyte Van Hoytema
Runner-Up: “Killers of the Flower Moon” – Rodrigo Prieto

Best Production Design

Winner: “Barbie” – Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
Runner-Up: “Poor Things” – James Price, Shona Heath, Szusza Mihalek

Best Original Score

Winner: “Oppenheimer” – Ludwig Göransson
Runner-Up: “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” – Daniel Pemberton

Best Original Song

Winner: “What Was I Made For?” – Billie Eillish, Finneas O’Connell (“Barbie”)
Runner-Up: “I’m Just Ken” – Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt (“Barbie”)

Best Ensemble

Winner: “Oppenheimer”
Runner-Up: “The Holdovers”

Best International Film

Winner: “Godzilla Minus One”
Runner-Up: “Anatomy of a Fall”

Best Animated Film

Winner: “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
Runner-Up: “The Boy and the Heron”

Best Documentary Film

Winner: “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie”
Runner-Up: “Beyond Utopia”

Breakthrough Award

Winner: Dominic Sessa
Runner-Up: Ayo Edebiri & Charles Melton tie

Oglethorpe Award for Excellence in Georgia Cinema

Winner: “May December” (Todd Haynes, Samy Burch)
Runner-Up: “Origin” (Ava DuVernay)

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