2023 DFCA Award Winners

Keith NoakesJanuary 7, 20247 min

Read the complete list of winners of the 5th Annual DiscussingFilm Critic Awards, recognizing the best in film this past year.

BEST PICTURE

Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Past Lives

BEST DIRECTOR

Winner: Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Jonathan Glazer – The Zone Of Interest

BEST ACTRESS

Winner: Lily Gladstone – Killers Of The Flower Moon
Runner-up: Emma Stone – Poor Things

BEST ACTOR

Winner: Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Andrew Scott – All Of Us Strangers

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Winner: Charles Melton – May December
Runner-up: Ryan Gosling – Barbie

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Winner: Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Runner-up: Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

Winner: Anatomy Of A Fall
Runner-up: Godzilla Minus One

BEST ENSEMBLE

Winner: The Color Purple
Runner-up: Oppenheimer

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Winner: May December
Runner-up: Anatomy Of A Fall

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-up: All Of Us Strangers

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Poor Things

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Winner: Barbie
Runner-up: Poor Things

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Winner: Barbie
Runner-up: Poor Things

BEST FILM EDITING

Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Killers Of The Flower Moon

BEST SOUND

Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-up: The Zone Of Interest

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Winner: Poor Things
Runner-up: Barbie

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Winner: “I’m Just Ken” – Barbie
Runner-up: “What Was I Made For” – Barbie

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Winner: Godzilla Minus One
Runner-up: The Creator

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Winner: Beyond Utopia
Runner-up: 20 Days in Mariupol

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Winner: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
Runner-up: The Boy And The Heron

BEST DEBUT FEATURE

Winner: Past Lives
Runner-up: American Fiction

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

Winner: Charles Melton – May December
Runner-up: Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers

BEST STUNT ENSEMBLE

Winner: John Wick: Chapter 4
Runner-up: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

BEST INDEPENDENT FILM

Winner: Past Lives
Runner-up: A Thousand And One

BEST COMEDY

Winner: Barbie
Runner-up: Poor Things

BEST HORROR FILM

Winner: Talk To Me
Runner-up: Evil Dead Rise

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